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missing 19 year old female was found was badly stabbed by 2 killers and left on a road and police werent called until 2 in the morning.

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A 19-year-old woman, who was stabbed multiple times and left for dead on a rural road in a town outside San Francisco, has been credited for fighting "like a soldier" and identifying the two suspects in her killing.

Reports of her condition when discovered early Monday are chilling.

Four men who were carpooling to their jobs at UPS found the bloody woman on lying in the middle of a rural road in Livermore at about 2 a.m. There was so much blood, the men said they could not determine her hair color. A 911 caller reported that the woman was missing an arm.

She was not.

The woman was dumped off the road and crawled about 100 yards to the roadside, Fox 40 reported. Authorities determined the distance by following a trail of blood.

"You could tell it was so bad to where you just had to give her comfort," Richard Loadholt, one of the men who found her, told Fox 40. "Anything else was going to be painful."

Loadholt said the men comforted her while another driver called 911.

The victim was airlifted to Eden Hospital where she died about two hours later, KRON4 reported. She managed to give police a "compelling" account of who killed her before dying and authorities arrested a man and woman-both 19-in Modesto, The San Francisco Chronicle report said.

"I've been around a long time, and I can only think of two to three times that I'm aware of in our agency that we've been able to get a dying declaration like that," Sgt. Ray Kelly of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office told The Chronicle. "A dying declaration is a very compelling piece of evidence that's recognized in the court to be very credible and reliable information."

A motive for the killing is under investigation.

"This victim really tried to survive, and she fought and she fought," Kelly said. "The last thing, we believe, that she was able to do was to point us in the direction of the people that killed her. And that's pretty remarkable."

Edmund DeMarche is a news editor for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @EDeMarche.

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California woman, 19, fatally stabbed, left for dead, ID's suspects on death bed

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A 19-year-old woman, who was stabbed multiple times and left for dead on a rural road in a town outside San Francisco, has been credited for fighting "like a soldier" and identifying the two suspects in her killing. Reports of her condition when discovered early Monday are chilling.

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Heather Holland, a second-grade teacher at Ikard Elementary School in Weatherford, Texas, died following complications of flu

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A Texas mother-of-two died Sunday from flu complications after reportedly deciding that the $116 medication to treat the virus was too costly.

Heather Holland, a second grade teacher at Ikard Elementary School in Weatherford, Texas, died following complications of flu, leaving behind her husband Frank Holland and two children, a daughter, 10, and a son, 7.

She reportedly started to fell sick a week ago and was going to pick up flu medication. Her husband said she decided not to purchase the medication because she thought the $116 price tag was too high, according to The Weatherford Democrat.

"She wouldn't go get medicine because she's a mama. Mama's are tough. She just kept going. She had a job; she had kids," Holland's pastor, Clark Bosher, told Fox 2. "I think any mom does that. I don't think she is being irresponsible. I don't think she thought she was that sick. It happened so quick."

The husband picked up the drugs himself on Thursday after finding out she skipped on them, but it was too late and she ended up in the intensive care unit at a hospital on Friday.

"Friday night, things escalated and she ended up in the ICU," he told the outlet. "The doctors got the blood cultures back and they had to put her on dialysis early Saturday."

She died Sunday morning. "I have to be strong for the kids but it's still surreal, it hasn't all set in," Frank Holland said. "We've been together a long time, over half my life. She's my best friend, my soulmate, my everything."

He described her as a passionate teacher who "loved helping people, helping the kids, and the kids loved her." On the school's website page, Heather Holland wrote: "I am really enjoying my kiddos. We are working hard on reading, writing and learning to quickly compose and decompose numbers."
TRAGIC FACES OF THE DEADLY US FLU OUTBREAK
This season's deadly flu season has reportedly taken the lives of hundreds of Americans across the country.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acting Director Dr. Anne Schuchat said the center has seen "increased influenza-like activity, more hospitalizations and tragically, more flu-associated deaths in children and adults."

Over 60 children have died from the virus this season and there are no signs the spread of the flu will soon to cease. The state of Louisiana, is on track to having some 1,000 flu-related deaths this season, according to medical officials.

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Texas mom dies from flu after skipping on meds deemed too costly: report

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A Texas mother-of-two died Sunday from flu complications after reportedly deciding that the $116 medication to treat the virus was too costly. Heather Holland, a second grade teacher at Ikard Elementary School in Weatherford, Texas, died following complications of flu, leaving behind her husband Frank Holland and two children, a daughter, 10, and a son, 7.

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Man abducted at gunpoint, bound and set on fire in car.

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A man was abducted at gunpoint, bound inside his car and doused with gasoline before being lit on fire by three attackers early Monday morning in Philadelphia.

Police said the assailants grabbed the 33-year-old man Sunday night at Benner Street and Harbison Avenue in Wissinoming. They bound his hands and put him in his 2006 Pontiac, FOX29 reported.

Several hours later, the attackers drove to Westford Road where the victim was doused with gasoline and set on fire.

The man was transported to Temple University Hospital and listed in critical condition with burns on his sides and legs.

Capt. Mark Burgmann said the three men drove around in the Pontiac for several hours, using the victim's phone to contact his family and demand a ransom.

"We did learn that a family did begin to receive messages from our victim's phone, from the people that abducted him demanding $10,000," he said, according to Philly.com.

Neighbors said the man was able to call out for help and called 911.

"His hands were tied and he was saying they kidnapped him and they were trying to kill him," Dave Kinchen told FOX29. "I was kind of scared."

Police classified the incident as a robbery and abduction and said the investigation is ongoing.
Lucia I. Suarez Sang is a Reporter for FoxNews.com. Follow her on Twitter @luciasuarezsang

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A man was abducted at gunpoint, bound inside his car and doused with gasoline before being lit on fire by three attackers early Monday morning in Philadelphia. Police said the assailants grabbed the 33-year-old man Sunday night at Benner Street and Harbison Avenue in Wissinoming.

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Success for Harvard medical students from DACA could mean their parents get deported.

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It's a dream that started as a girl in her parents' tiny studio apartment in Santa Ana, California, while she did her homework at the kitchen table. She remembers her mom coming home, covered in mud from picking strawberries, screaming at her siblings to keep it down -- so little Blanca could study.

Today, her dream is within reach, but it could mean the ultimate betrayal: She gets to stay in the United States legally and practice medicine, while her parents get deported to Mexico.

"It would be difficult to go on," Morales says as she breaks down in tears.

Morales and three fellow Harvard Medical School peers -- Dalia Larios, Alma Oñate and Anthony Tucker-Bartley -- have become the poster children for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program as the immigration debate grips legislators in Washington.

While there seems to be some consensus that DACA recipients should be allowed to stay and perhaps given a path to citizenship as suggested by President Donald Trump, the students worry what might be taken away from -- or worse what might happen to -- other undocumented immigrants, including their own families. They fear that immigration horse-trading could see their future in the United States exchanged for a border wall or more stringent deportation policy for others. The survival of DACA -- and their dreams -- could put a target on the backs of their loved ones.

Before President Barack Obama created the DACA protection, Morales remembers the motto of immigration activism was "undocumented and afraid." Undocumented immigrants attended rallies but didn't tell their individual stories for fear of deportation.

Larios remembers how her family and others shared tips about which streets law enforcement was on to avoid being detained. Oñate remembers being 8 years old and hiding in the bathroom with her sister if she thought the police were coming. All four students say they found safety between the pages of books, while their parents worked two or three jobs as landscapers, appliance technicians or caregivers.

"My parents would say, 'Despite what is going on around you, the thing that you can control is your education,' " Tucker-Bartley remembers. "It will determine your future."

White coat as suit of armor

When DACA was announced in 2012, each of the four was hesitant to register their personal details with a government that could deport them. But, like 800,000 other people brought into the United States by their parents, they did sign up. The program gave them permission to get drivers' licenses, enroll in college or take jobs legally. And, says Morales, a new motto of immigration activism was born: "undocumented and unafraid."

For Morales, DACA gave her the courage to chase her dream and win a place at the nation's top medical school, as ranked by US News & World Report. She'd graduated college seven years earlier and done a variety of jobs, including as a Mary Kay beauty consultant to make ends meet. Throughout it all, she says, she had the unwavering support and encouragement of her mother, who developed a respiratory illness that Morales feels is linked to her work in the fields, and her father, who once sacrificed a week's worth of groceries to buy her a calculator for calculus class.

Life got a little easier under DACA and then again at Harvard Medical School, where university President Drew Faust publicly opposed Trump's decision last year to end DACA and Harvard Law School scholars offered to help undocumented students.

Morales and her fellow medical students found themselves in white coats that doubled as suits of armor, and with a megaphone to boot.

"That's why I think it's important for us, having this privilege of the white coat and the Ivy League schooling behind us, to talk about these issues," said Oñate, who crossed the border with her family in a desperate attempt to find a doctor who could save her sister's eyesight.

Out of the shadows, to an ivory tower

The four wrote an open letter published by Boston public radio station WBUR asking to be valued as humans, for the good they have done and will do.

But they fear that their successes and potential could become a bargaining chip, that anything that is given to them could be taken away from others as the immigration debate plays out.

And that could directly affect their families, including Oñate's older sister who did not qualify for DACA, and her parents, no matter what positive impact they are having.

"It puts me against my parents," Oñate says.

And that seems especially cruel -- for each of the four says that without the work ethic and passion instilled in them by their parents, they would never have made it to Harvard or accomplish their dreams of helping others.

Each says he or she would rather not accept a path to US citizenship if the same option was denied their parents.

Morales, who says she still carries the calculator her father bought her in high school, can barely fathom politicians deciding that she could stay, but her parents must go.

"They haven't met my parents," Morales says between deep sobs and pauses. "They haven't seen all the work that they have put in, every sacrifice they've made."

So she hopes that any immigration changes that come to her benefit will not be to the detriment of others.

For while she is resolute that she would go back to the Mexico she left as a young girl with her parents, she thinks a different path would be encouraged by those same people whose lifetime of sacrifice and selflessness, she says, guided her out of the shadows and into theivory tower of Harvard.

"We are old, just take it" is what Morales thinks her parents would say. "Follow your dream."

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It's a dream that started as a girl in her parents' tiny studio apartment in Santa Ana, California, while she did her homework at the kitchen table. She remembers her mom coming home, covered in mud from picking strawberries, screaming at her siblings to keep it down -- so little Blanca could study.

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some believe that Trae Young is another waking stephen curry. Trae was jus 10 when Steph got drafted. But he racked Steph every step of the way and now look where he is.

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Developed WARP rating and SCHOENE system

It comes as little surprise to anyone who has watched Trae Young that Oklahoma's phenomenal freshman point guard modeled his game in part after two-time NBA MVP Stephen Curry.

"I would record every game," Young recently told the Wall Street Journal. "I'd watch before I went to bed or the next day. I watched how he played, how the Warriors moved without the ball and how Steph got everyone involved and still created for himself. I loved watching Steph's game."

Young was 10 when Curry was drafted by the Golden State Warriors in 2009 and was wrapping up his sophomore year in high school when Curry won his first of two MVPs and led the Warriors to the first of two championships -- so far -- in 2015. And now, having developed shooting range and ballhandling skills beyond where Curry was at the same age, Young is a contender for NCAA Player of the Year awards and a likely high lottery pick if he declares for the NBA draft.

The success Young has enjoyed, and the example Curry has provided, raises a question: Are there more Curry clones coming in future years?

How Curry has changed thinking in the NBA

One of the most fascinating articles about the NBA in recent memory came from my former colleague Tom Haberstroh, who suggested in an ESPN Insider article on the eve of the 2013-14 season that Curry should attempt 10 3-pointers a game.

At that time, the notion of Curry or any player shooting so many 3s seemed fanciful. While he had set a new league record by making 272 3-pointers the previous season, Curry had attempted just 7.7 per game. No player in NBA history had attempted more than the 8.7 Baron Davis attempted in the 2003-04 campaign, when he made them at a below-average 32.1 percent clip.

Moreover, the trend in recent seasons had actually been toward the league leader attempting fewer 3-pointers per game. In 2010-11, Curry's teammate Dorell Wright had topped all NBA players by averaging 6.3 attempts per game -- a rate that would rank outside the league's top 25 today.

As it turned out, Haberstroh was a little ahead of his time. Curry's 3-point attempts increased only marginally to 7.9 per game in 2013-14, albeit in fewer minutes. It wasn't until two seasons later, after winning MVP, that Curry fully unleashed his full 3-point arsenal. In 2015-16, Curry zoomed past double-digit 3-point attempts, averaging an incredible 11.2 per game ... and becoming the first player in NBA history to be voted MVP unanimously.

Curry's success helped pave the way for other stars to shoot 3s more frequently. This season, his 10.0 3-point attempts per game rank second in the league behind MVP favorite James Harden of the Houston Rockets, who is attempting 10.7 per game. Each of the past two seasons, both Harden and teammate Eric Gordon have attempted more 3s per game than any player in league history before Curry.

Certainly, some of this can be traced to the league-wide growth in 3-point attempts, which long predates Curry, as well as factors unique to each situation. The marriage of Mike D'Antoni's 3-happy offense with Harden's and Gordon's skills has been crucial. Still, given the dramatic and nature of the increase practically overnight, it's hard not to credit Curry's influence.

Curry changing the college game?

Because of the shorter 3-point line and larger gaps between teams, the NCAA hasn't needed to follow the NBA's lead when it comes to embracing the 3. After all, while Young's 10.5 3-point attempts per game would put him third in NBA history behind Curry and Harden, they rank a blasé 43rd among Division I players since 1992-93, according to Basketball-Reference.com.

However, one specific area of Curry's game that has been responsible for the growth of 3-point attempts in the NBA does seem to have trickled down to the college level: players shooting 3s off the dribble. I investigated the rising importance of the pull-up 3 during last year's playoffs, and college players and coaches seem to have taken notice, too.

The website Hoop-Math.com has used play-by-play data to track assisted and unassisted field goals at the college level back through 2011-12. The leaderboard of unassisted 3s is dominated by the past two seasons, and Young has an excellent chance to post the highest total in that span.

Consider Young an outlier among this group. He's the only player to have this kind of success on pull-up 3s in a major conference, one of two players taller than 6-foot on the list (Spight, a transfer from Arizona State, is the other) and the only freshman. (Clemons, a sophomore last season when he ranked second in the NCAA, is the other underclassman.)

All of that explains why Young is a likely lottery pick and none of the other pull-up 3 specialists were no more than fringe NBA prospects at best.

More Traes (and treys) on the way?

During the ABC broadcast of Warriors- Cleveland Cavaliers on Christmas Day 2015, ESPN's Mark Jackson famously worried whether Curry's success might have a negative impact on young players.

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"Understand what I'm saying when I say this," Jackson said. "To a degree, he's hurt the game. And what I mean by that is I go into these high school gyms, I watch these kids, and the first thing they do is run to the 3-point line. You are not Steph Curry. Work on the other aspects of your game. People think that he's just a knock-down shooter. That's not why he's the MVP. He's a complete basketball player."

While Jackson's fear that young players could take the wrong lessons from Curry was reasonable, Young seems to have drawn all the right conclusions. Now the question is what other players might follow the same template.

As Jackson further noted, every great player has been emulated by the next generation, which led to decades of searching for "the next Michael Jordan." The difference with Curry is that his success is much less dependent on extraordinary size or athleticism. Put another way, there are only so many 6-foot-6, high-flying wings or 7-footers in the world. The pool of 6-foot-3 players with the potential to follow in Curry's footsteps is much larger.

It would be a mistake to trivialize the hand-eye coordination, balance and work ethic necessary to match Curry's shooting skill. Young has pretty good genes in his own right. Though not as accomplished as Dell Curry, himself one of the greatest 3-point shooters in NBA history, Rayford Young averaged 17.8 points per game as a senior at Texas Tech before playing overseas and was a 38 percent career shooter from the college 3.

Given those challenges, I doubt there's any danger of Curry clones overrunning the NBA anytime soon. However, I suspect Young isn't the last of his kind. After all, a world in which it's perfectly normal for an NBA player to shoot 10 3-pointers a game will soon be all young prospects have ever known.

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7:47 AM ET Kevin PeltonESPN Staff Writer Close Co-author, Pro Basketball Prospectus series Formerly a consultant with the Indiana Pacers Developed WARP rating and SCHOENE system It comes as little surprise to anyone who has watched Trae Young that Oklahoma's phenomenal freshman point guard modeled his game in part after two-time NBA MVP Stephen Curry.

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Russia plane crash may have been caused by speed-indicator failure due to icing

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The crash of a Russian airliner that plummeted out of the sky minutes after takeoff from a Moscow airport may have been caused by the pilots failing to activate heating equipment before takeoff leading to the plane's sensors being iced over, investigators said Tuesday.

Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee said in a preliminary report the crash of Saratov Airlines Flight 703 that killed all 71 people on board Sunday occurred after the pilots saw varying data on the plane's two air speed indicators, which could have been caused by icing, according to Russian news agency Interfax.

Pilots did not turn on the heating unit for the plane's pressure measurement equipment prior to takeoff, which could have caused the flawed speed data, according to investigators.

"In all other flights on the chart recorder (15 more flights), the heating of the receiver was switched on before take-off" the preliminary report said, according to the TASS news agency.

Shortly after takeoff from Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, the pilots put the An-148 regional jet on autopilot but had to take manual controls back when they saw varying speed data.
SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE CAPTURES MOMENT RUSSIAN PLANE CRASHED, KILLING 71
The flight was only in the air for six minutes before it plummeted into a snowy field and exploded into a giant fireball, killing all 65 passengers and six crew members.

Hundreds of emergency workers have been rummaging through knee-deep snow since Sunday searching for victims' remains and plane debris.

Experts have managed to recover data from both the plane's flight data and cockpit conversation recorders.

So far, more than 1,400 fragments of body parts and about 500 fragments of aircraft have been found at the crash site, according to Interfax.
RUSSIA PLANE CRASH PROMPTS LOOK AT THE SAFEST AIRLINES
The crash has reignited questions about the twin-engine plane, which has a spotty safety record, with one previous crash and several other major incidents in which pilots have struggled to land safely.

President Trump offered his condolences to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday for the plane crash, with Trump assuring Putin the U.S. is "standing by to assist Russian authorities in their investigation."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Travis Fedschun is a reporter for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @travfed

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The crash of a Russian airliner that plummeted out of the sky minutes after takeoff from a Moscow airport may have been caused by the pilots failing to activate heating equipment before takeoff leading to the plane's sensors being iced over, investigators said Tuesday.

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lady gives child acid in his drink to cure autsism , after reading something online that it can cure.

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INDIANAPOLIS - An Indianapolis father accused his wife of feeding their child bleach to help cure her autism, according to a recent police report.

The report says the mother was putting drops of hydrochloric acid and a "water purifying solution" made with chlorine - which combine to form bleach - in her child's drink, according to WXIN. The man says his wife told him she read about the mixture online in a Facebook group. The mother reportedly identified the mixture as the "Miracle Mineral Solution."

The Department of Child Services is currently investigating the case and has removed the child from the home, police said.

MMS claims to be a cure-all for anything ranging from cancer to hepatitis, and even aids. However, health officials, including the FDA, have warned the product could be deadly, and the so-called "purifying" element is sodium chlorite.

"Sodium chlorite is an industrial chemical used as a pesticide and for hydraulic fracking and wastewater treatment," the FDA said after a Washington state man was found guilty in 2015 on multiple counts for selling MMS. "Sodium chlorite cannot be sold for human consumption and suppliers of the chemical include a warning sheet stating that it can cause potentially fatal side effects if swallowed."

Officials at the Applied Behavioral Center for Autism say it's common for parents to search for home remedies to cure autism.

"Taking things into their own hands is something that many parents have done out of desperation, out of hope," president and founder Sherry Quinn said.

Behavioral Center Clinical Director Kelly Goudreau added that it's natural for parents to want to find a cure for their child's autism and it's common for them to look towards "home remedies." However, she adds that it's important to remember that there is no "cure" for autism, and that any treatment that is administered should be one that is backed by research and scientific evidence.

"It's a diagnosis that's going to stay with them. The goal is how can we make them more independent, how can we make them the most successful they can be with that diagnosis," she said.

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Mother accused of feeding child acid, chlorine in attempt to cure autism

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INDIANAPOLIS - An Indianapolis father accused his wife of feeding their child bleach to help cure her autism, according to a recent police report. The report says the mother was putting drops of hydrochloric acid and a "water purifying solution" made with chlorine - which combine to form bleach - in her child's drink, according to WXIN.

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Amazon lays off hundreds of employees

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Amazon is laying off hundreds of employees, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.

The majority of the layoffs are affecting the company's Seattle headquarters, but some global teams may be affected as well, according to the source.

The process of notifying employees has already started, the source said.

The affected departments are more mature areas of Amazon's business, such as its online retail operations.

Amazon confirmed the layoffs in a statement sent to CNN.

"As part of our annual planning process, we are making headcount adjustments across the company - small reductions in a couple of places and aggressive hiring in many others," the statement read. "For affected employees, we work to find roles in the areas where we are hiring."

It appears the company isn't looking to reduce its overall headcount. It currently has 3,900 open corporate job listings in Seattle and 12,000 open positions worldwide, which point to the company's "aggressive" hiring plans. Amazon says it added 130,000 jobs in the past year, which doesn't include its $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods.

At the end of 2017, Amazon employed 560,000 people worldwide.

Related: 5 ways Amazon has already changed Whole Foods

The news, first reported on Monday by The Seattle Times, comes at a time when Amazon is publicly searching for a location to build its second headquarters.

HQ2 will cost a minimum of $5 billion to construct and operate, and will create as many as 50,000 jobs, according to the company.

Amazon reported a profit of nearly $2 billion in its latest quarter from the holiday shopping season. The results were the largest in its history and the first time it topped $1 billion in a quarter.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos touted the success of its voice-assistant software Alexa.

"We don't see positive surprises of this magnitude very often - expect us to double down," Bezos said in a statement at the time.

CNNMoney (New York) First published February 12, 2018: 4:55 PM ET

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Military Impersonator who landed at tech company used helicopter to impress women.

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A man who dressed in an Army uniform and had a chartered helicopter land at the headquarters of a major tech company in North Carolina did it all to impress a woman, a federal agent testified in court on Monday.

Christian Desgroux, 57, appeared before a federal magistrate in Raleigh on charges of pretending to be a military officer, which carries a maximum of three years in prison. The judge ordered Desgroux to remain in jail until his trial, according to WRAL.

The bizarre incident took place Nov. 6, when Desgroux charted the helicopter in Charlotte and told the pilot he had authorization to land at the headquarters of SAS, Department of Homeland Security Agent Tony Bell said.

When the 57-year-old jumped out of the helicopter in battle-dress uniform with combat patches, Desgroux saluted the company's security officers who "actually saluted him back," and told them he had come to take the woman for a classified briefing at Fort Bragg that was authorized by President Trump, according to Bell.

The woman said she knew Desgroux for about 20 years and had recently been having marital problems. She was expecting him that day as the two were to discuss a patent for some product he was developing, but expected him to drive to the company, according to The News & Observer.

"She had no idea he was flying a helicopter to pick her up."
- Department of Homeland Security Agent Tony Bell

The pair took off in the helicopter and flew for 30 minutes around Raleigh before the woman had to get back to work. Bell told the courtroom the woman told him she assumed Desgroux was trying to impress her and start a romantic relationship.

"She said they did nothing," Bell said. "They flew around for 30 minutes. She had no idea he was flying a helicopter to pick her up."
NORTH CAROLINA MAN CLAIMED TO BE ARMY GENERAL, FLEW HELICOPTER TO TECH COMPANY, FEDS SAY
But the November flight wasn't the first time Desgroux chartered a helicopter to impress a woman, according to Bell. He made another trip to Jacksonville earlier in 2017, where he had the pilot land at a KOA Kampground so he could briefly meet a woman there while wearing an Army uniform.

He told the pilot during that excursion he wanted to land a helicopter on an aircraft carrier in Norfolk, and he had previously flown Apache helicopters during the Gulf War, the federal agent told the court.

Desgroux, a native of Chile who became a U.S. citizen in 2016 and now works as a car mechanic out of his garage, also faces several state charges for previous allegations. Those include misdemeanor assault on his stepdaughter and violating a protective order taken out by an estranged wife, The News & Observer reported.

The 57-year-old's defense attorney, Andrew McCoppin, told the court that, before those charges in the past year, the most trouble his client had been in amounted to traffic violations, according to the Associated Press.

"It appears that a number of things have snowballed to where we are today," McCoppin said.

Federal Magistrate Judge Robert T. Numbers said Monday the circumstances warrant continued detention for Desgroux.

"The defendant has engaged in substantial dishonesty," Numbers said, adding he reported having considerable income, along with a sea plane and yacht

SAS, a privately held technology company, is among the largest in the state, with 14,000 employees worldwide and more than $3 billion in revenue in 2017.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Travis Fedschun is a reporter for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @travfed

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A man who dressed in an Army uniform and had a chartered helicopter land at the headquarters of a major tech company in North Carolina did it all to impress a woman, a federal agent testified in court on Monday.

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Lincoln Coleman, the former NFL running back who helped the Dallas Cowboys win the Super Bowl in 1994, has been reported missing since Friday, Dallas police said.

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Lincoln Coleman, the former NFL running back who helped the Dallas Cowboys win the Super Bowl in 1994, has been reported missing since Friday, Dallas police said.

Coleman, 48, was last seen in Dallas driving a silver SUV with a Florida license plate. The 6-foot-1-inch former NFL player was described as having a "diminished mental capacity and may be in need of medical assistance." The Dallas Police Department has asked for the public's help in locating Coleman.
CHLOE KIM, 17-YEAR-OLD TEAM USA STAR, WINS HALFPIPE GOLD
Coleman, who helped lead the Dallas Cowboys to victory in Super Bowl XXVIII against the Buffalo Bills, only played 18 games in his NFL career.

The former running back was battling a substance abuse problem and remained unsigned after the Super Bowl-winning season, ESPN reported.

He signed with the Atlanta Falcons in 1995 but never played a game. He played four years in the Arena Football League after leaving the NFL, then coached high school football in Michigan and Texas.
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However, Coleman sought treatment in Florida for six years for cocaine and alcohol addictions. After his treatment, he moved to Dallas and launched a non-profit program to help other people with substance abuse issues.

This is not the first time the former pro-football player has been reported missing.

In May 2017, Coleman's mother, who he lived with, alerted police that her son had vanished. Coleman went back home after he saw his photo on local television stations. He told reporters he was living at a homeless shelter and was going through some troubles.

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Lincoln Coleman, the former NFL running back who helped the Dallas Cowboys win the Super Bowl in 1994, has been reported missing since Friday, Dallas police said. Coleman, 48, was last seen in Dallas driving a silver SUV with a Florida license plate.

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An Oregon woman with a rare eye infection that resulted in 14 tiny worms being removed may be the first human to have contracted a parasitic infection spread by flies, a scientific report released Monday said.

Abby Beckley, 26, had the worms removed from her left eye in August 2016, scientists said in a report published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Beckley was diagnosed with Thelazia gulosa - a type of eye worm usually seen in cattle in the northern U.S. and southern Canada, but never before in humans. Scientists said the disease is spread by "face flies" that feed on the tears that lubricate the eyeball.

Beckley had been horseback riding and fishing in Gold Beach, Ore., a coastal, cattle-farming area. After a week of battling an irritated eye, she pulled out a worm.

"So I pulled my eye kind of down like this and I looked in that bottom little crevice and I was like something looks wrong, maybe I have a piece of fuzz stuck there," Beckley told Fox 12. "So I went like this, in like a picking motion, and I felt something in between my fingers and I pulled it out and I looked at my finger and it was a moving worm."

Dr. Erin Bonura, an assistant professor of medicine at the Oregon Health & Science University, told Fox 12 that she asked her to keep pulling out the worms because if doctors prescribed medication, the worms would die in the eye and wouldn't be removed.

The worms were translucent and no longer than a half-inch. Beckley had no additional worms in her eye and had no additional symptoms after the worms were removed.

"When I was going through it, it was like, there were parts of it that were so strangely comical," she told the station. "But then there were parts of it that just felt like I was living in a nightmare."

Eye worms are seen in several kinds of animals, including cats and dogs. They can be spread by different kinds of flies.

Richard Bradbury of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the lead author of the study, said two other types of Thelazia eye worm infections have been seen in people before, but none like what Beckley experienced.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Ryan Gaydos is an editor for Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @RyanGaydos.

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An Oregon woman with a rare eye infection that resulted in 14 tiny worms being removed may be the first human to have contracted a parasitic infection spread by flies, a scientific report released Monday said.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement granted Jesus Armando Berrones-Balderas a one-year stay of deportation on a humanitarian basis.

Berrones, 30, told CNN's Don Lemon on "CNN Tonight" that he felt "happy" upon hearing the news that he would be able to stay in the United States and obtain a work permit.

His lawyer, Garrett Wilkes told Lemon that Berrones had regular check-ins with ICE every six months until December, when he was told that he would be deported in January.

Wilkes said he filed the necessary paperwork for a stay of removal, but "last Thursday, the 8th, ICE informed me it was being denied."

"We couldn't get any feedback as to why it was being denied. The only response we were getting was no comment," he said.

Berrones, who lives in Arizona with his pregnant wife and five children, was eventually forced to seek refuge in a Phoenix church in order to avoid deportation.

Wilkes added that through multiple communications with ICE and the Mexican consulate, they were able to provide additional documentation, which they believed led to the reversal of their decision to not deport Berrones.

"In an exercise of discretion, ICE has granted Jesus Armando Berrones-Balderas a one-year stay of removal on humanitarian grounds," ICE said in a statement Monday. "ICE issued a previous one-year stay in June 2016. Berrones-Balderas, who has received a final order of removal, remains enrolled in the agency's Alternatives to Detention program, which requires him to regularly check-in with the local ICE office."

Berrones was brought to the United States when was a baby by his parents from Mexico in 1989, according to reports.

Lemon asked Wilkes why Berrones was not elgible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which provided undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as children protection from deportation.

"The main reason is because of two removals that he has from the country," Wilkes said. "Even though he's graduated from high school, he's lived here his whole life, those two removals that happened after he turned 18 is what keeps him from benefiting from that."

Berrones' story has gained national attention primarily because his 5-year-old son is battling leukemia.

He told Lemon that his son welcomes the news of his stay.

"He's actually happy because he knows now that I'm going to be able to go home now and be with my whole family at home," said Berrones.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement granted Jesus Armando Berrones-Balderas a one-year stay of deportation on a humanitarian basis. Berrones, 30, told CNN's Don Lemon on "CNN Tonight" that he felt "happy" upon hearing the news that he would be able to stay in the United States and obtain a work permit.

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After another dry spell, California and much of the Southwest is finally getting some much-needed rain and snow.

The storm system in the Southwest is expecting to continuing spinning through Wednesday morning before it moves offshore. Another system is expected to bring additional precipitation into the Pacific Northwest.

This new storm system will move south through the Rockies and merge with another in the Southwest, bringing substantial rain to the areas including Phoenix and Albuquerque.

Southern Arizona and parts of New Mexico are expected to get the heaviest rainfalls, with more than 1 inch possible. California, over the next few days, may only see a quarter of an inch as it remains unusually warm. Parts of the Rockies should see quite a bit of snow.

Much of the Upper Midwest and far Northeast is again experiencing frigid conditions this morning.

A February thaw appears to be on the way from the Great Lakes to the Midwest by Wednesday or Thursday. Temperatures in snowy Chicago and Minneapolis could reach the 40s tomorrow, about 10 to 15 degrees above normal.

By Thursday, a core of warm are will move into the South and Northeast, pushing highs in some parts into the upper 60s or 70s and the mid-50s in New York and Boston.

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Southwest storm bringing snow to Rockies, rain to Arizona, New Mexico

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After another dry spell, California and much of the Southwest is finally getting some much-needed rain and snow. The storm system in the Southwest is expecting to continuing spinning through Wednesday morning before it moves offshore. Another system is expected to bring additional precipitation into the Pacific Northwest.

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A man was shot over a German Shepherd's weight

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A Missouri father of four, who just buried his newborn daughter, was shot dead during an argument over a dog's weight.

Scott Beary, 43, was shot Wednesday at Show-Me's restaurant in Florissant, police said in a press release.

The 54-year-old male suspect was detained and later released from custody while prosecutors determine whether to file criminal charges.

Beary and a co-worker had stopped at the restaurant for lunch after finishing their construction shift, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

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At some point, a conversation with other patrons inside the restaurant escalated.

It all began harmlessly enough.

"It was all playful; like you'd expect to go to a place and have a nice lunch," witness Carl Leavy told Fox 2.

Beary was chatting with his co-worker along with two other men at the bar, including the man who would later kill him.

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Beary even exchanged numbers with his killer, with the suspect saying he would use Beary's construction services, Leavy tells the Post-Dispatch.

The conversation turned to the size of a German shepherd owned by the gunman's friend, who claimed the dog was 290 pounds.

Beary allegedly made a comment about his own weight being 325 pounds and he couldn't imagine a dog that size.

The dog owner soon left, along with the gunman.

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The gunman returned a few minutes later and Leavy says he appeared agitated and "didn't seem the same," he told the Post-Dispatch.

Seeing a potential conflict arising, the bartender tried to get the gunman to leave and gave him his bar tab. At this point nobody knew the man was armed.

Leavy told the outlet that Beary was leaving at the same time as the suspect and as he left he put his hand on the gunman's shoulder and said "no hard feelings."

As Beary was walking out the door, the gunman allegedly called him a "fat (expletive)", according to Leavy.

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Beary turned around and confronted the gunman, asked him why he would made that comment and then punched the suspect in the head, knocking him into bar stools, Leavy claims.

Seconds later, multiple gunshots were heard.

Beary was shot multiple times in the torso and another man, Ryan Jacobsmeyer, 37, was shot in an extremity, police say.

After the shooting, the bartender separated them and took the gun away from the suspect while others went to try and help the gunshot victims.

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Officers arrived on scene and detained the shooter.

Because the shooter has yet to be charged, police were forced to release him from custody after 24 hours due to Missouri law.

St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch said at a news conference on Friday that he is still weighing evidence in the case and has not made a decision on charges, Fox 2 reports.

McCulloch says laws regarding stand-your-ground and self-defense could make the decision more difficult.

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"We took everything under advisement so we have time to go through everything thoroughly and to check it against the various statutes that come into play on this, not just the homicide statutes but defense statutes, self defense, stand your ground, everything that plays into that, which in this situation has certainly complicated things," McCulloch said.

Included in the prosecutor's review are statements from about 20 witnesses and hours of surveillance video from different angles at the restaurant.

McCulloch said the shooter "may end up charged at some point and he may not." A decision could come by the end of the week

Beary had three teenage children, ages 16, 15 and 13. Shortly before his death, his wife delivered a premature daughter, Jocelyn, who died five days before Beary was killed. The funeral for the child was Feb 2. He had recently spent months in Texas and Florida to help with hurricane cleanup, family told the Post-Dispatch.
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A Missouri father of four, who just buried his newborn daughter, was shot dead during an argument over a dog's weight. Scott Beary, 43, was shot Wednesday at Show-Me's restaurant in Florissant, police said in a press release. The 54-year-old male suspect was detained and later released from custody while prosecutors determine whether to file criminal charges.

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Deadly plane crash caused by pilots error on heat in Russia.

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Human error may be to blame for the crash of a Russian plane that killed 71 people, Russian investigators said Tuesday, noting that the plane's pilots failed to turn on the heating unit for its measuring equipment, resulting in flawed speed data.

After studying An-148's flight data recorder, the Interstate Aviation Committee said that Sunday's crash near Moscow occurred after the pilots saw varying data on the plane's two air speed indicators.

The flawed readings came because the pilots failed to turn on the heating unit for the plane's pressure measurement equipment prior to takeoff, the committee said.

The pilots put the An-148 on autopilot after taking off from Moscow's Domodedovo Airport but took manual controls back when they saw conflicting speed data, with one indicator showing the plane's speed at zero.

The pilots performed a series of maneuvers and eventually took the plane into a dive at 30-35 degrees. It plummeted into a snowy field six minutes after takeoff, killing all 65 passengers and six crew onboard.

The committee said it's continuing to study the data, but noted that "erroneous data on the pilots' speed indicators may have been a factor that triggered the special flight situation."

It emphasized that the flawed speed data resulted from the "icing of pressure measurement instruments that had their heating systems turned off."

Earlier reports indicated that the plane's captain had chosen not to have the plane undergo a de-icing treatment before takeoff. The crew decides whether to have the plane sprayed by de-icing liquid, depending on weather conditions and the state of the plane.

The An-148 model itself has a very spotty safety record, with one previous crash and a string of major incidents in which pilots struggled to land safely. The carrier, Saratov Airlines, has grounded several other An-148s in its fleet pending the crash investigation.

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Human error may be to blame for the crash of a Russian plane that killed 71 people, Russian investigators said Tuesday, noting that the plane's pilots failed to turn on the heating unit for its measuring equipment, resulting in flawed speed data. After studying An-148's flight data...

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Suspected poacher eaten by lions near Krugar National Park in South Africa. They ate his body and left his head and few remains.

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A suspected big cat poacher has been eaten by lions near the Kruger National Park in South Africa, police say.

The animals left little behind, but some body parts were found over the weekend at a game park near Hoedspruit.

"It seems the victim was poaching in the game park when he was attacked and killed by lions," Limpopo police spokesman Moatshe Ngoepe told AFP.

"They ate his body, nearly all of it, and just left his head and some remains."

Police have not yet established the victim's identity. A loaded hunting rifle and ammunition were found next to the body, South African website Eyewitness News reports.

Lion poaching has been on the rise in Limpopo province in recent years.

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The big cats' body parts are sometimes used in traditional medicine, both within Africa and beyond.

Wildlife charity the Born Free Foundation says lion bones and other body parts are increasingly sought-after in South East Asia, where they are sometimes used as a substitute for tiger bones.

In January 2017, three male lions were found poisoned in Limpopo with their paws and heads cut off.

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A 19-year-old woman, who was stabbed multiple times and left for dead on a rural road in a town outside San Francisco, has been credited for fighting "like a soldier" and identifying the two suspects in her killing.

Reports of her condition when discovered early Monday are chilling.

Four men who were carpooling to their jobs at UPS found the bloody woman on lying in the middle of a rural road in Livermore at about 2 a.m. There was so much blood, the men said they could not determine her hair color. A 911 caller reported that the woman was missing an arm.

She was not.

The woman was dumped off the road and crawled about 100 yards to the roadside, Fox 40 reported. Authorities determined the distance by following a trail of blood.

"You could tell it was so bad to where you just had to give her comfort," Richard Loadholt, one of the men who found her, told Fox 40. "Anything else was going to be painful."

Loadholt said the men comforted her while another driver called 911.

The victim was airlifted to Eden Hospital where she died about two hours later, KRON4 reported. She managed to give police a "compelling" account of who killed her before dying and authorities arrested a man and woman-both 19-in Modesto, The San Francisco Chronicle report said.

"I've been around a long time, and I can only think of two to three times that I'm aware of in our agency that we've been able to get a dying declaration like that," Sgt. Ray Kelly of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office told The Chronicle. "A dying declaration is a very compelling piece of evidence that's recognized in the court to be very credible and reliable information."

A motive for the killing is under investigation.

"This victim really tried to survive, and she fought and she fought," Kelly said. "The last thing, we believe, that she was able to do was to point us in the direction of the people that killed her. And that's pretty remarkable."

Edmund DeMarche is a news editor for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @EDeMarche.

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A 19-year-old woman, who was stabbed multiple times and left for dead on a rural road in a town outside San Francisco, has been credited for fighting "like a soldier" and identifying the two suspects in her killing. Reports of her condition when discovered early Monday are chilling.

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Emily Sweeney's luge crash stuns Olympic crowds

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Sweeney was on curve No. 12 in her final run of the event when she bounced around the track and crashed.

Sweeney was conscious and she eventually got up and walked off the ice under her own power, though she was moving gingerly. She was taken to the Olympic Village clinic for evaluation, said USA Luge.

Sweeney, 24, had difficulties in curves 8 and 9 before she crashed, according to a tweet sent out by USA Luge shortly after the accident.

"Emily was picked up and brought to the finish building where an initial examination was given by the medical staff," the tweet said. "It was determined that, while feeling bruised and sore, she was OK."

Sweeney had no broken bones, a representative from the International Luge Federation told CNN, adding that she walked and gave interviews after her luge crash.

Sweeney said the big curves on the track just got away from her.

"I know I caught a good amount of air going in to (turn) 12, and I just couldn't stop it," Sweeney told NBC after the accident. "There's a lot of pressures in these big curves, and unfortunately I was not taking them correctly, so it was pretty rough."

She said she felt sore and stiff after her big spill.

"I'm going to go get an X-ray on my back after this, but I wanted to have the last word," she said. "So, thanks for all the support, guys. Yeah, it's a bummer, for sure, and I know I'm better than that, but here we are. It happens."

After a brief delay, the competition resumed.

Sweeney is competing in her first Olympics after missing out on a spot in the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. She's a junior world champion, and her older sister Megan is a former Olympic luger.

Sweeney, who is also a member of the National Guard, missed out on a spot on the 2010 Winter Olympics team after losing a special race-off -- to her big sister.

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Sweeney was on curve No. 12 in her final run of the event when she bounced around the track and crashed. Sweeney was conscious and she eventually got up and walked off the ice under her own power, though she was moving gingerly. She was taken to the Olympic Village clinic for evaluation, said USA Luge.