BOSTON – Beautiful Charlotte is a happy, smiley, 14-month-old baby. She lights up watching Cocomelon on TV. Mom Emily says she’s always like this; a dream come true. But protecting this precious
THE BRONX (WABC) — A car chase that spanned two boroughs ended with a police-involved shooting Saturday night.
Police say this shooting happened in the Grand Concourse section at 161 Street and Summit Avenue, but the incident actually started when they received a call about a car being broken into in Manhattan.
Officers arrived at the initial scene at 149 Street and Convent Avenue in Hamilton Heights to check out the car break-in.
Once they were working that scene, they saw a car driving recklessly close by, officials said.
Police started to chase that reckless driver and ended in the Bronx, where they arrested one of the people in that car.
Officials say another suspect fled into a marshy area near the Major Deegan Expressway. A few minutes later, the suspect pointed a weapon and police.
“At this time, members of the 3-0 Precinct engage this person in an exchange of gunfire. After this exchange of gunfire, the individual runs into the marsh area right here next to the Major Deegan and a second gunfire exchange occurs,” NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said.
The police chief said the suspect was shot in the head and leg. The 39-year-old is known to the police and is in critical condition at a local hospital.
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RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — Hundreds of students in Palm Beach County will receive free, new school supplies next week thanks to the annual Tools for Schools program.
For the 20th year, Red Apple Supplies, the Education Foundation of Palm Beach County‘s free teacher resource store, partnered with Publix Super Markets to distribute more than $201,000 essential school supplies to teachers from 120 Title I district schools.
Teachers and principals drove up to the Red Apple supply store in Riviera Beach as early as 8 a.m. to receive the supplies from volunteers, forming a line long enough to wrap around the building and continue down the street.
Volunteers loaded cars up with supplies while others served hot chocolate and sweets.
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— The School District of Palm Beach County (@pbcsd) December 3, 2022
Education Foundation Chairman Jim Moore also served as a disc jockey for the event while a barbershop quartet serenaded drivers while they waited for the supplies. Santa Claus even paid a visit to the event.
Palm Beach County Superintendent Michael Burke said the event is especially needed with one in five district students at the poverty level.
“This goes a long way to make sure kids have the supplies they need to stay in the classroom,” Burke said.
Dwayne Dennard, the principal of Pahokee middle and high schools, seconded Burke’s words, emphasizing the need for supplies.
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Dennard said 99% of the students in his two schools are on a free or reduced meal program, indicating a significant financial need.
“Without these supplies, a lot of our kids cannot reach their full potential,” Dennard said. “There are some kids that we lost because we didn’t have these types of supplies. It’s a great opportunity for parents and students with the way inflation is now.”
The supplies distributed included everything from notebooks to headphones and more.
Burke said the supplies will be distributed to students in school next week.
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Eagles fans woke up bright and early Sunday morning to tailgate ahead of the game, some of fans celebrating a lot more than the best team in football.
“The first time I cried was the ’80 Super Bowl when the Raiders beat us,” said Dan McAlee, who has been an Eagles fan since he was six years old.
This game became one of his all time favorites before the team even took the field. The Vietnam veteran’s entire family surprised him for his 70th birthday.
“I went to help the bus driver move his truck off the highway and they were all on board. I got on there and there they all were,” he said.
In a sea of thousands of Eagles fans, Dan wasn’t the only one celebrating his big day with a tailgate.
“I turned 30 today, so it’s a good day. All my friends and family are here having a great time,” said Rob D’Adrea from Northeast Philadelphia. He boarded a bus to the stadiums with 75 of his closest friends and family, bringing plenty of games and lots of good food.
“We have smoked jerk chicken, we have smoked pull pork here, baked mac and cheese,” he said showing off their spread, which is, of course, the center of any good Eagles tailgate.
“We got the breakfast sandwiches, bacon egg and cheese, pork roll egg and cheese. We got the tater tots, and the mimosas. Most important part, the mimosas,” said Courtney Bartkowski from Ewing, New Jersey.
She and her friends started the day off right. Eagles fans far and wide wanted to show Tennessee why Philadelphia is the best football city.
“This is a city like no other. Everybody has a great time when they come to Philly,” said Shelley Holt from Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
It helps Eagles fans are cheering on the number one team in football. It’s the gift that keeps on giving for lifelong fans like Dan.
“I think this is the best team that I’ve seen in a long, long time,” he said.
Dan’s actual birthday isn’t until January. Now that he’s had his party he is hoping for one more present; an Eagles trip to the Super Bowl.
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BOSTON – Beautiful Charlotte is a happy, smiley, 14-month-old baby. She lights up watching Cocomelon on TV. Mom Emily says she’s always like this; a dream come true. But protecting this precious baby from rampant RSV this season has been a nightmare for the mother.
“I’m literally traumatized. There’s not a time that goes by I don’t think about that. It’s so scary,” said Emily Sauro, emotionally.
Charlotte was only seven weeks old last October, when the respiratory virus brought them to the emergency department. Emily knew what to look for after her older son suffered RSV in the past. With Charlotte, the mother said they were about to be discharged, when her baby stopped breathing.
“I just remember looking down and seeing her like that and screaming. Then there were just a million people everywhere,” she recalled.
Charlotte spent two and a half weeks in the pediatric ICU at UMass Memorial Medical Center.
“They’re hooked up to a million machines. That breathing sounds like taking their last breath, it’s the only way I can describe it,” Emily said sadly.
In the year since, Charlotte still requires a nebulizer treatment or inhaler twice daily. She can’t go to daycare, and the family still takes a lot of precautions at their home in Grafton.
“When your newborn is not breathing in your arms, it feels like forever,” the mother added.
As cases surge heading into the holidays, she urges new parents to stay vigilant. Be the squeaky wheel if you suspect something isn’t right. No one knows your baby like you.
Emily said, “It can be all OK one second and furthest thing from it the next.”
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(LEX 18) — For two decades, the depths of Lake Cumberland have contained a mystery. Sitting somewhere at the bottom of the lake has been a helicopter that crashed in 2002, which lead to no deaths.
After years of searches by multiple parties, the helicopter was found and brought to shore this week.
MYSTERY SOLVED: A helicopter emerged from Lake Cumberland today after spending 20 years 100 feet underwater. Everyone got out safe when it crashed, but the wreckage site remained a mystery.
I’ll have how a determined group of locals solved that mystery tonight @ 11 on @LEX18News pic.twitter.com/yibQf1P7Rm
— Ricky Sayer (@RickyReports) September 14, 2022
“It was a crazy idea [I had] as a child, it became a feasible idea 5 years ago.”
Alex Ashley was 10 years old when the helicopter crashed during a Poker Run in 2002. He organized the effort to find and recover the helicopter, which was being used to film the event from above.
To find it, Helm turned to his now friend, Landon Helm, who watched the crash.
“I said they are all looking in the wrong spot,” Helm said he told Ashley, referring to other search teams. “This is where I saw it go down.”
Ashley purchased a boat already equipped with specialized sonar equipment. He spent 18 hours scanning the lakebed. After the equipment picked up something last week, he brought in the team of Jerry Stephens, Chris Money, and Matt McDaniel. They are firefighters in Nicholasville and they helped by scuba diving to find the helicopter.
“It was surreal definitely,” Money said “I had to touch it a couple of times to known it was real.”
One of them brought something special back up to shore for Alex.
“They brought the pilots headset up, it was amazing, it was cool” he said.
Slowly, using barrels filled with air to lift the helicopter, they started bringing it to shore Tuesday.
“It’s pretty cool you know I was one of the last people to see it go down and one of the first to see it come up,” Helm said.
By sundown, the helicopter was out of the water. Ashley said he may place it in one if his businesses.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) – Pramiti is 16 years old. She lost her mother to cancer two years ago and her father to a heart attack this spring. She’s lived in the UK since she was a young child but has no other relatives near her.
After her parent’s death, her aunt and uncle in Charlotte jumped into action.
They wanted to give her stability after her life was shaken so badly. But after pursuing many avenues, they have no clear answer on how to get their underage niece home.
“The trauma this child has gone through in the last five years, I don’t think many of us go through in a lifetime,” Pramiti’s uncle, Aun Kallikadivil said.
When Pramiti’s parents passed, she reached out to her uncle Arun and his wife Sushila. They were selected as Pramiti’s legal guardians.
Their first idea was to adopt her but because she is 16, US immigration law won’t allow it.
“She is really wanting to be with us and more than once she has stated I feel comfortable with one of you being around me,” Arun said.
Arun said after consulting more than 30 immigration lawyers across the country, the family tried to get Pramiti a student visa. Because she doesn’t have extended family in the UK, the consulate determined the teen didn’t have strong enough ties to bring her back.
It became an immigration issue.
“It took a lot of convincing to say we will uproot you and then we are saying you know maybe not because someone with authority has determined you can not,” Arun said.
Now Sushila is in the UK with the 16-year-old trying to figure out what to do next.
Sushila, a US resident, is on a countdown. She can only stay for six months before it becomes a whole new immigration problem.
“Our situation is we are feeling helpless and we don’t know what to do,” Arun said.
Arun reached out to WBTV and we started making calls trying to find an immigration lawyer with a fresh idea.
“It’s very important for families to be united,” Mercer Cauley said. He’s a board-certified immigration specialist here in Charlotte
Cauley said he’s seen several of these cases, especially after the conflict in Ukraine began. He suggests the family pursues humanitarian parole. It’s a document that would allow Pramiti into the US for a predetermined amount of time for humanitarian reasons. In this case, the forced separation of Arun and Sushila and the financial hardship of the situation.
“It allows them to come into the country, they do not have status but they are allowed to be here and live,” Cauley said.
It’s a glimpse of hope, one more thing they can pursue as they try to bring Pramiti home.
“She is emotionally distraught, she is putting on a brave face but she is 16. She is a child,” Arun said.
Pramiti made a second attempt to obtain a student visa on Monday, but she was denied a second time.
Arun has also started a Change.org petition to try and bring awareness to the issues his family is facing and in hopes he can make this journey easier for the next family who has to take it.
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CONYERS, Ga. — A man was shot to death over what Rockdale County investigators say was a misplaced DoorDash order.
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Deputies responded to a shooting call at Tall Oaks Apartments around 1:11 a.m.
The sheriff’s office says 20-year-old Fernando Solomon had an order from DoorDash, but it was mistakenly delivered to the home next door. When Soloman went to retrieve the food, investigators say he was shot.
Zaire Cortell Watson, 22, is facing charges of murder, aggravated assault and felony murder in connection with the shooting.
The home at 347 Tall Oaks Drive has a Ring camera. The incident report says Watson’s father saw the victim on video at the door and then called his son, who was inside.
The police report says Watson admitted to shooting Soloman after he saw the victim reach into his pocket. It goes on to say Watson’s father came to the scene “trying to understand why we detained his son.”
The victim’s father was also on the scene, according to the report, and said he came home to find his son had been shot.
Channel 2′s Bryan Mims knocked on both doors Wednesday, but nobody answered.
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Sandra Jackson-Lett, who works across the street, called the shooting shameful and described it as “a delivery gone bad.”
“I’m like, ‘Oh, my gosh!’ That was horrible for someone to lose their life simply by ordering food, so it was very shocking,” she said. “And I just give my condolences to the young man that lost his life.”
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Raleigh, N.C. — After 23 years, a beloved grocery store employee worked his final shift at the Glenwood Village Harris Teeter Tuesday.
When the community found out Tim McCloud was leaving, they decided to hold a fundraiser to show him how much he’s meant to them over the years – and ended up giving him a life-changing sendoff.
Just about every day for more than two decades McCloud made the commute from Wilson County to the Harris Teeter on Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh.
Officially, he’s bagging groceries but to his customers, he’s doing much more.
Julie Caviness called McCloud her part-time therapist.
“He’s just incredible. He’s legendary here, I don’t think he even knows it, that’s what makes it so beautiful,” said Caviness. “He does not have a clue what a great impact he’s had within our community.”
In years worth of moments in the checkout line, she’s been able to talk to him about anything – they’ve even cried together,
And he’s watched her children grow up.
Caviness said many of her friends have the same kind of relationship with him.
But two weeks ago, McCloud told her something she wasn’t prepared for.
“He started talking about an opportunity opening up in Wilson, nine minutes from his house,” said Caviness. “I started crying. I was like ‘you can’t leave me.'”
After 23 years, McCloud was transferring to a Harris Teeter closer to home.
“When he told me that, I said ‘how do I help him?'” said Caviness.
Caviness decided on a fundraiser.
She launched a page on GoFundMe, without telling him, with the goal of raising $1000.
The site hit that goal in under an hour.
“I knew he had a fan club, we all talk about Tim and how kind he is. I don’t think I had any clue how big his fan club is,” said Cavines. “So then we hit five. Then my mom’s texting me like every hour, ‘what’s it up to now?’ Then we hit ten. And I’m like, ‘oh wow.'”
By the night of McCloud’s last shift, the GoFundMe had raised nearly $23,000. On Wednesday, over $26,000 had been raised.
McCloud had no idea.
On Tuesday night, Caviness went shopping during McCloud’s final day of work – and asked him to walk her out one last time.
Hundreds of people cheering him on with signs and balloons were waiting for him.
He was overcome with emotion.
And then, the big reveal. They presented McCloud with the results of the GoFundMe.
As the crowd said their goodbyes, McCloud told WRAL News what this final gift will mean to him.
“It’ll help me a whole lot,” said McCloud. “I’m blessed with it, you know.”
McCloud said more than anything he’s going to miss the community he had here in Raleigh.
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