11 year old beaten to death by moms boyfriend

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/11-year-old-beaten-death-9-hours-mom-boyfriend-vacuuming-police-article-1.1021689

Donovan McKee and 11-year-old Pittsburgh boy had suffered nine hours of extreme abuse from his mother's boyfriend before dying from his injuries. This all happened because the boy had failed to vacuum the apartment. 29-year-old Anthony Bush had viciously beat the young boy for not cleaning up the apartment. He disciplined the child by beating him with different items that he found around his apartment. Police said he used serval wooden sticks to beat the child with. The wood had spilt and Bush made him pick up the pictures. Bush had even used a needle and thread to close a gash he had made in McKee's knee. His mother had come home at around 11:40, when she then called authorities to report that her boyfriend for beating her son and he was unresponsive, according to police reports. When authorities arrived they found the child had suffered a head wound and no pulse. The boy was showing some signs of life and was rushed to the hospital, but he later died. A five year old child was also in the house but was uhharmed. Bush is being charged with homicide and child endangerment. http://www.wtae.com/news/30439433/detail.html

School over run by raccoons

Woodlands Middle School in South Florida has been overrun by raccoons that have reportedly been urinating in the school ceilings. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/florida-school-overrun-raccoons-reportedly-urinates-student-ceiling-article-1.1023367u
A student said " you can hear them in class running from upstairs, It's freaky". Another student reported that something wet had started to drip down onto his backpack and then eventually on to him. The principal reported that the critter are only confined to a small part of the building, and the students are out of harms way. The Palm Beach County Health Department inspectors has confirmed that there is an infestation. The inspectors were complained to while on campus that the raccoons had been living in the building. They discovered the raccoons and gave the middle school a unsatisfactory grade. They are not sure how long the raccoons have been living in the school. http://www.cbs12.com/articles/school-4738833-raccoons-local.html

The school has a roofing company to seal up the buildings and traps will be set to remove the raccoons that are remaing safely.

15-year old girl weighed 70 pounds

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/15-year-old-girl-weighed-70-lbs-suffered-erial-child-torture-dad-stepmom-police-article-1.1023619

Melinda Darabek-Chritton and step-brother Joshua Drabek and dad Chad Chritton are facing charges of child abuse for locking their 15-year old daughter away in their basement and starving her as well. The teenage girl had been discovering stumbling down the street February 6. Police reports say she was barefoot and she was in pajamas. Mike Vega said " The girl started talking about how her step-mother had just thrown her down the stairs and she escaped out the window looking for help".  Vega then called the police. Police reports say she was "dramatically underweight", she had weigh just 70 pounds. A doctor who specializes in child abuse had examined the teen Friday. He said the girl had suffered from "serial child torture with prolonged exposure to definite starvation".  She was forced to live in the basement and an alarm would set off if she tried to open the door. Also there was no bathroom and she was given very little to eat. She was also unable to attend school.

Her father and step-mom are being charged with child abuse and neglect. Her brother had been arrested on probation violation. They are being held on 20,000 to 25,000 bond. 

elderly women missing

72-year-old Margarete Scheibe was found dead buried underneath plies of trash that had been filling her home. Authorities are not sure how she died or even how long she had been buried under all the trash in her home. The police had visited her home when they began getting reports of a terrible stench. They neighbors had referred to her house as the "stinky house".  Police said that the trash had reached the ceiling in some parts of Scheibe home.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/margaret-scheibe-elderly-woman-body-found-trash-filled-home-worth-garbage-20120215

Garbage had even poured out of several windows in the house. Two cars were located in the driveway and were also filled with garbage, Also large amounts of stray cats had been spotted around the property. Neighbor William Pallardy told NBC 5 News "I didn't know her that well, but it was pretty nasty". The stench had reportedly been so bad that officers had wore hazardous mask. Scheibe had lived with her 42- year-old son. He was taken into custody on Tuesday but has not yet been charged with her death. Scheibe decomposing body was not discovered until Tuesday. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/elderly-woman-month-found-dead-buried-beneath-piles-trash-home-police-article-1.1022974

Twin finds his sister dead

Victor Barahona and his sister Nubia were left bound by their wrist and ankles in a bathtub. Their stepdad put in the tub with bleach and ice water. Stepdad, Jorge Barahorma once glued Victors eyes shut and made him eat a cockroach. More than once the dad wrapped a plastic bag around the son's head and chocked him until he was almost unconscious. On other occicsons he wouldpour hot sauce into the boys eyes, nose and mouth. Nubia body had been soaked in chemicals and was decomposing. She was found in Jorge Barahona's pickup truck. Her twin brother Victor was aslo found there badly injured Their step-father was found near by passed out.The twins had been tortured , beated and starved. Victor said "him and his sister were often bound with tape, rope, or wire". Investergator Garcia reported that the boy stutters when he talks, he can't finish sentences, and he doesn't want to talk about what his sister went though. Jorge and Carmen Barahona are facing the deathg penalty for their outragous treatment of their helpless twins. The parents are being charged with toruring, beating, and starving their children. He has large scars on his head from the beating with a mop handle. Also he has a one on his lip where his dad punched him in his lip. The boy is now moving to Texas with his uncle.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/boy-recounts-horrific-tale-florida-dad-killed-twin-sister-abused-article-1.1019123

teenager stabs grandma 93 times..

19 year old, Jasper Aristotle Smiddie's stab his grandmother nearly 100 times. Smiddie's was angry with his uncle and wanted to make him suffer. Smiddie's had originally planned on killing his uncle. The teen shot his grandmother in the head with a crossbow. Smiddie told police " Well, I'll kill my grandmother instead, so my uncle has to live with the death of his mother forever". Police say it is still unclear why Smiddie hated his uncle so much. Gloria Helfrich was 67 years old and her grandson Jasper lived with her and his uncle.


According to police reports Smiddie confronted her in her bedroom on tuesday. First he shot her in the head with a crossbow and then he repeatedly stabbed her, authorities said. Sheriff Gray Judd said " Gloria was stabbed 93 times: 58 stab wounds in the back, 34 in the head and one in the face". Smiddie came back into the room and hit her in the head with a pipe wrench. According to Fox 35 news, Smiddie did not flee the house, he instead locked the door to his grandmothers room and waited for his uncle to return home. Smiddie and his uncle ate dinner and watched movies when he came home, his uncle was unaware that his mother was dead in her bedroom upstairs. Early Wednesday morning the teenage boy fled his house and called his father to confess. Smiddies father then called the police and the body was soon discovered. Hours later Smiddie was arrested at his girlfriends house for first degree murder. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/florida-teen-stabs-grandma-93-times-uncle-suffer-police-article-1.1019710

Girl survives rabies without vaccinations

Precious Reynolds fro Willow Creek, California, is eight years old who got rabies from a feral cat. Reynolds was treated by pediatrictions at the University of California Children's Hospital. The hospital reported she is the thid person in the United States to recover rom the vius without any abtivial inoculations. Reynolds got the disease in April but they were unaware she had the disease, that's why she was never treated. It is believed that she got it from a feral cat that she had come across at her elementary schoo in Humboldt County. The infected animal had never been found. Preciou's was tested in early May after she was taken to the doctors for flu-like symptoms. Her grandmother said the symptoms gew verry seious and had begun to resemble polio. When she arrived at the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit the nurses thought her chances were very slim. Krystle Realyvasquez said "none of us thought she would leave the PICU, what she did was unbelievable". Precious spent two weeks in intensive care unit undergoing teatments. She was also placed into a drug-induced coma as she received antivial medications. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43377860/ns/health-infectious_diseases/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/43395952#null

200 Cheerleaders Sick

In Everett, Washington, nearly 200 cheerleaders reported getting sick after they had attended the State Cheerleading Championships at the Comcast Arena. Washington state health officals are investigating the cheerleaders who attended the competition after they began reporting vomiting or diarrhea on that Sunday and Monday. Kate Lynch, spokeswomen for the State Department of Health reported " at least 19 squads are repoting high numbers of illnesse". The health officials said they learned about the the outbreak, which symptoms are similar to the flu. The illness is found norovirus, rotavirus or ood-borne illness. 1,200 cheerleaders from 45 different high schools had participated in the competition.
More then half the squad from Seattle's Ballard High School had becoe sick.  Michelle Whelam, assistant cheerleading coach is not letting the girls use any pom-poms , signs or flags from the competition until every thing is fully disinfected.
http://vitals.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/09/10367192-nearly-200-sick-at-cheerleading-competition

Rhino Killed by Accident

The rhino nicknamed Spencer went into convulsions and diedafter being shot with a tranquilizer dart. Tv repoters and photographers were invited to document the procdured to inset a poison capsule into his horn. They were on a private reserve near the capital. Veterinarians were called to sedate the rhinos, their horns were being treated with dye and an insecticide and a tracking identification to be inserted. Spencer was in his mid 20's. He could not be revived after he was sedated because of his old age. Spencer was a part of the Rhino Rescue Project. Spencer had a reaction to the anesthesia. Poison capsules are inserted into the Rhino's horns so when they are removed by hunters, they would be less valuable. The conservation groups in some cases remove the horns to keep poachers away from the nearly exticnt animals. Rhino horns are similar to hair or fingernails and will grow back after several months. In South Africa there were more than 20,000 rhinos. Last year in South Africa about 448 rhinos were killed by poachers.
http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/09/10364240-rhino-dies-in-anti-poaching-demo-by-conservationists

6-organ transplant

A  9-year-old Maine girl is finally home from a Boston hospital. She is now very healthy, active and with high hopes. She has new stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, and part of an esophagus. Her esophagus had to be replaced because it was being choked by a huge tumor.
Alannah lives at her family's farmhouse outside Portland. Alannah Shevenell said Thursday that "she's glad to be feeling well again and able to go sledding, make a snowman, work on her scrapbooks and give her grandmother a little good-humored sass". She also said the best part is just simply being back home.
It was 2008 when Alannah, who was then  5, began running a fever and losing weight while her stomach swelled. Doctors discovered the tumor that year and twice attempted to remove it. The tumor had spread from one organ to another. Alannah family was told their was only a 50 percent chance she'd live through the operation. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/46245005/ns/today-today_health/

Facebook Stocks

A Wisconsin woman is charged with theft tying to make a profit from Facebook. She was selling stocks through facebook. In a people's complaint on Thursday, prosecutors said Marianne Oleson told friends she recieved $1 million in stock because her daughter was a friend of Facebook's founder, and conviced several people to buy Facebook stock over a four-month period.
The Oshkosh woman is being charged with about 31 counts of theft, forgery and making misleading statements.
Facebook made plans on Wednesday for the biggest-ever Internet IPO. Facebook said it was seeking to raise $5 billion, but its estimated it could tap the investors for almost $10 billion.
The complaints against Ms.Oleson said one of the people that she was accused of selling fake stock was a contractor who had done work at her house in September. Oleson paid the contractor for the work with $13,980 worth of fake Facebook stock, reported the contractor.
The contractor, who also paid $10,000 in cash to the woman for extra stock, grew a suspicious when he found she lied about her name and various occisons referring to the transaction, the contractor said.

Dad kills son for singing

William Oller, Sr., 70, was sent to jail after shooting son William Jr., 50, at their home in Shingletown, Califorina.According to the police reports, from Jan. 26, Oller Jr. had been singing a Kenny Chesney country song for karaoke when his fatther Oller Sr. left the home shortly, saying "I'm gonna shut you up." He returned with a handgun and fired it multiple times at his son. Oller Sr. had luckly only shot him him in the arm. Oller Jr. was taken to the hospital, but at least one bullet remains in his shoulder. Oller Sr. was also treated for a gunshot wound and then taken to jail.Oller Sr. had recently suffered a stroke. Oller Jr blames the stroke and his fathers old age for the accident. His father had even coched his son on his singing. Oller Jr does not want his father to remian in jail. He says " he need to spend his last days with his family , not in jail."
http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/03/10310088-dad-shoots-son-for-singing-kenny-chesney-song