Missouri firefighter responded to a call about a broken-down carnival that left seven people trapped and suspended 40 feet in the air Friday night.
Kirkwood Fire and Rescue posted about the rescue on their Facebook page.
“Last night Kirkwood Fire / Rescue responded to a call for people trapped on a carnival ride in the downtown district. A total of 7 occupants were trapped, some stranded more than 40 feet in the air. Crews, utilizing their training in technical rescue, quickly and efficiently secured the ride and extricated all 7 occupants without injury.
”Firefighters rescued the riders using ropes, technical systems, and an aerial ladder, rescue officials said.
The operation began at around 10 pm and took about 30 minutes, no injuries were reported.
The carnival was part of a fundraiser for the local St Peter Catholic Church.
A broken part is suspected to have caused the ride to malfunction.
Officials claimed a Florida man was convicted guilty of child abuse one year after a waitress’ fast thinking and acute vision protected his assault victim, leading to his initial arrest.
Timothy Lee Wilson, 36, was found guilty of various child abuse charges after being arrested on New Year’s Day 2021, after his waitress, Flaviane Carvalho, feared he was abusing a youngster in his custody, according to WESH.
Wilson was found guilty of three charges of aggravated child abuse with a weapon, four counts of aggravated child abuse, and one act of child neglect on Monday.
“I am relieved knowing that the abuser is paying for his crimes and the boy has a better chance in life,” Carvalho said.
“Justice was served,” Carvalho said of the verdict. “Now he [the victim] is healthy. He’s being loved. It’s clear on his face and the way he’s acting that he’s much better now.”
On New Year’s Day in 2021, Carvalho, a manager at Mrs. Potato Restaurant in Orlando, Florida, was waiting on Wilson and his family when she realized the guy had not ordered any food for an 11-year-old boy at the table. Wilson, the boy’s stepfather, allegedly assured Carvalho that the toddler would eat at home, but that didn’t ease her mind after she spotted scratches and bruises on the boy’s face and arms. As a result, she took action.
“I could see he had a big scratch between his eyebrows,” Carvalho said. “Couple of minutes later, I saw a bruise on the side of his eye. So I felt there was something really wrong.”
Carvalho, who has two children of her own, drew the boy’s attention and immediately delivered him a covert message asking if he needed assistance without alerting the boy’s parents. Carvalho phoned the cops after the boy confirmed his suspicions.
The police labeled the child’s ordeal as “torture” during a press briefing.
“Seeing what that 11-year-old had to go through, it shocks your soul,” police commented.
“I was used like a tool from God to help him,” Carvalho said. “We need to pay attention for the ones that are in need, and step forward to do something to change the situation.”
“The little boy was so brave. He not only saved himself, he saved his little sister by standing up to this man,” she added. “I am so proud of him. He is the hero.”
Officials also stated the youngster was secluded on several occasions, starved as a punishment, hanged upside down, and spent Christmas Day handcuffed to a dolly. He was also required to perform difficult workouts, and if he failed, he was punished.
At the trial, Carvalho testified about the assault and was credited with saving the boy’s life.
“We probably would’ve been talking about a potential homicide investigation if she had not intervened when she did,” said Orlando Police Chief Orlando Rolon.
Kristen Swann, the boy’s mother, was charged with two counts of child negligence after admitting to knowing about the abuse and failing to interfere.
The couple who star in USA Network’s series, Chrisley Knows Best, was convicted on multiple counts of bank fraud and tax evasion by a federal jury in Atlanta.
Sentencing is set for October 6, and the couple faces up to 30 years in prison.
Federal prosecutors charged Todd and Julie Chrisley with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and tax fraud. Julie Chrisley was also charged with wire fraud and obstruction of justice.
Specifically, they are alleged to have defrauded local banks out of at least $30 million in loans. Prosecuting attorney Annalise Peters said the couple actively hid millions they made from Chrisley Knows Best. The reality TV couple is further accused of walking away from more than $20 million they owe by filing bankruptcy. The Chrisleys’ tax evasion is said to extend back as far as 2009, and after the show began in 2014, they are accused of using their 7C’s Productions to evade taxes.
“As today’s outcome shows, when you lie, cheat and steal, justice is blind as to your fame, your fortune, and your position,” said Keri Farley, Special Agent in Charge of FBI Atlanta. “In the end, when driven by greed, the verdict of guilty on all counts for these three defendants proves once again that financial crimes do not pay.”
USA Network renewed Chrisley Knows Best last month for the tenth season. New episodes for season nine will launch on June 23.
The Chrisleys were released on bond, but the judge stipulated the couple must participate in a location monitoring program and home detention and are responsible for “all or part of the costs of the program based upon your ability to pay as determined by the probation officer.”
Far-left Former California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner said that Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon had turned affluent Beverly Hills into a dreary shell of itself.
Jenner claimed on “The Story” that Gascon has simply expedited California’s slide, which she said has been “totally broken” for years due to one-party Democratic dominance.
Jenner mused on the state’s dramatic transformation since Ronald Reagan’s presidency, saying she “certainly hopes” that the recall of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin is a sign that Democrats are “going to the other side.”
“Why? Because you walk down the streets in any major city in California. And what do you see? You see drug use. You see homelessness. You see a system that is absolutely broken by the Democrats,” she said.
People in Los Angeles are purposely dressing down to avoid being a target of crime and recall attempts are becoming a bipartisan issue.
“It’s even reached the wealthy people down here… Beverly Hills has turned into Gotham City because of Gascon’s process that he’s done. And it’s a shame to see – you can’t drive a nice car — First of all, gas is so expensive out here in California, [but] you can’t wear jewelry on Rodeo Drive,” Jenner said. “The whole city has changed so drastically. It’s a shame.”
Jenner criticized Boudin for the city’s Gascon-style fall, blaming him for rampant homelessness, unprosecuted smash-and-grabs all across the city, and the drug issue, during Boudin’s recall vote this week.
Boudin’s parents were former members of the Weather Underground militant group, according to host Martha MacCallum, and his mother, Kathy Boudin, pleaded guilty to murder charges in the infamous 1981 Brinks Robbery at the Nanuet Mall in Clarkstown, N.Y.
Two police officers were shot and murdered while manning a roadblock on NY Route 59, protecting the final NYS Thruway access before the Tappan-Zee Bridge, in the aftermath of the robbery.
The suspected getaway driver, Boudin’s father David Gilbert, was given clemency and paroled in 2021.
“They later said they regretted their actions, and now their son is sort of trying to hang on as district attorney,” MacCallum said.
Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck announced the upcoming release of their new album the day after Johnny Depp won his defamation suit against Amber Heard.
Beck announced the upcoming release date during a June 2 performance with Depp in Gateshead, England.
“I met this guy five years ago and we’ve never stopped laughing since,” Beck noted. “We actually made an album. I don’t know how it happened. It will be out in July.”
The two have recently performed numerous times in the U.K. Depp joined Beck at a concert in Sheffield on May 29. They later performed at Robert Albert Hall in London—where Kate Moss was spotted just six days after she testified in Depp’s defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard.
During the tour, Depp has joined Beck on the guitar for covers of classic hits such as Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” and Jimi Hendrix’s “Little Wing” They also performed their 2020 collaboration titled “Isolation,” a remake ofJohn Lennon’s 1970s song.
Officers say the semi-driver was traveling at a high speed when he lost control and rolled his semi at the I-44-244 split in West Tulsa.
While the driver was not hurt, the same can not be said for the cattle.
“We’ve had a few injured cattle that have had to be put down…obviously couldn’t walk, had broken legs…just miserable from the wreck,” Cpt. Jerrod Hart with TPD said.
The uninjured cattle took off running in different directions.
Cattle were running up and down the highway, in Tulsa neighborhoods, and even the golf course, according to police.
Oklahoma Highway Patrol called Tulsa police to help wrangle the cattle.
Cpt. Jerrod Hart says they located the cows in places they shouldn’t be.
“We have had some residents call in and say they’ve trapped a few in their backyard,” Hart said. “We are writing down those locations and once we get the ones that are loose in the roads that could cause injuries we’ll start to those locations and corral those and get those located.”
Officers say there were several wrecks caused by cattle on the highway.
OHP called in cowboys from Checotah and Wagoner to help herd the cattle, and Hart says he’s grateful they made the long drive.
“The cowboys are a tremendous help they can move quicker with the horses quicker than we can in cars and obviously they have more ropes and tools are their disposal to get them in,” Hart said.
CNN’s Edward-Isaac Dovere shed light on a “deeper dysfunction among White House aides.” The report began by mentioning White House staffers keep an eye on which media outlets cover Biden, particularly his speeches live, “realizing a number of times that the answer was none.”
One anonymous White House aide said, “You are thinking… why are we doing this?”
The report also noted a “dysfunction calcified among aides who largely started working together only through Zoom screens and still struggle to get in rhythm” at the White House.
“They’re still finding it hard to grasp how much their political standing has changed over the last year, and there’s a divide between most of the White House staff and the inner circle who have been around Biden for longer than most of the rest of that staff has been alive,” Dovere said.
CNN claimed Biden is “still trying to calibrate himself to the office” despite being president for well over one year he “can’t see a way to address” crises “while also being the looser, happier, more sympathetic, lovingly Onion-parody inspiring, aviator-wearing, vanilla chip cone-licking guy — an image that was the core of why he got elected in the first place.”
Another aide said, “[Biden] has to speak to very serious things… and you can’t do that getting ice cream.”
Dovere then fired shots at Biden and his team by writing, “The President is a 79-year-old man who still thinks in terms of newspaper front pages and primetime TV programs, surrounded by not-quite-as-senior aides in senior positions with the same late 1990s media diet. Lifelong habits don’t tend to fade when people get to their desks in the West Wing.”
An Indiana woman has been arrested for murder after she tracked her boyfriend to a bar where she caught him having drinks with another woman.
Authorities said 26-year-old Gaylyn Morris used an Apple AirTag tracking device to locate her boyfriend, Andre Smith, also 26.
Morris confronted Smith and a woman at Tilly’s Pub in Indianapolis on Friday where she threatened to beat the woman while wielding an empty wine bottle.
As Smith got in between the two women, management asked all three of them to leave the bar.
Witnesses said that Morris, “pulled forward and clipped the victim, and he went down, at which time…she backed over him and then pulled forward and hit him for the third time,” according to an affidavit.
After Morris drove over Smith, she got out of her car and went after the other woman before police officers got to the scene and intervened around 12:30 a.m. Friday.
Smith’s body was found under Morris’ car outside the bar. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
A witness said Morris told everyone in the bar that she had located Smith using an AirTag device because she suspected that he was cheating on her.
Morris is facing a preliminary charge of murder; final charges have not yet been determined.
AirTags are coin-sized devices that use Bluetooth technology; they were designed to help users locate lost items such as keys and wallets
GoFundMe has shut down several fraudulent campaigns set up under the pretense of raising funds for Amber Heard to pay $10.35 million in damages to Johnny Depp following this past week’s ruling on his defamation case against his ex-wife.
Kimberly Moore, who claimed that she knew Heard’s legal team, started a campaign trying to raise $1 million for her.
“The trial was a disgrace. I believe Amber and social media protected the abuser,” the campaign’s page read. “The judgment exceeds her net worth. It’s so sad that he was able to get away with the abuse. The judgment furthers that abuse. If you can, please help her.”
GoFundMe said its policy is to remove any campaigns that have not “been authorized by the recipient of the funds.”
Depp sued Heard for defamation in response to her 2018 Washington Post op-ed accusing him of domestic violence with Heard filing a countersuit shortly after. A lengthy, publicly broadcast trial ended with Heard required to pay $15 million to Depp and Depp required to pay $2 million to Heard for statements made by his attorney.
Heard is to pay $10.35 million per Virginia state law regarding punitive damages. Heard’s attorney, Elaine Bredehoft. said Thursday that they plan to appeal, as Heard can “absolutely not” pay the damages.
Pizza Hut is gettings some harsh reactions from conservatives and other social media warriors for including a book about “drag kids” in its “Book It!” reading incentive program.
“Pizza Hut has gone full woke, now we must make them full broke,” conservative author Brigitte Gabriel said on social media.
According to the “Book It!” website, the book “Big Wig,” is represented as a “wonderful read-aloud” book that “celebrates the universal childhood experience of dressing up and the confidence that comes with putting on a costume,” and describes it as a picture book that “celebrates drag kids.”
“In the spirit of Julián Is a Mermaid, this irrepressible picture book celebrates drag kids, individuality, and self-confidence from the perspective of a fabulous wig!,” the description reads.
Haters of the children’s book pounced on Pizza Hut, with some threatening a boycott over the company’s choice to go woke.
Can screwed up adults give children a break and just let them be children …I’m so sick of messed up people/ and companies on a quest to mess children. This is not necessary 👇 bye bye @pizzahuthttps://t.co/r6baWn7ksK
