Luxury High-Rise Discriminates Against Low-Income Residents With 'Poor Door'

posted by Jenny Erikson 1 hour ago in In The News

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It's amazing how government bureaucracy and over-regulation can seriously screw things up for the people forced to live under the laws designed to "protect" them. For example, one law in New York City having to do with affordable housing has led one developer to legal create what many are calling a "poor door."

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration is under fire for approving a building for mixed-use residence -- about 20 percent of the 33-story skyscraper will be low-income housing, while the rest will rent or sell for market value. The problem? The affordable units will be grouped together in one area, and will have its own separate entrance. Talk about separate but equal.

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Women's Brush With Death on Railroad Bridge Captured in Chilling Video (WATCH)

posted by Jenny Erikson 9 hours ago in In The News

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There are certain rules that should just never be broken, no matter how safe you think you are. Never look down the barrel of a gun is a good one. In fact, just always assume a gun is loaded. Another is to never cross a bridge of railroad tracks.

Two Indiana women were caught on film earlier this month on an 80-foot-high railroad bridge by the camera of a freight train racing toward them. Panicked, they duck under the train as the whistle blows. Miraculously, neither woman was seriously injured, and both walked away from the scene.

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Scared 5-Year-Old Left Alone Leads Police to Find Mom in VERY Compromising Situation

posted by Lisa Fogarty 9 hours ago in In The News

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When you're a mom, it's only natural that you may at times pine for the days when you were wild, carefree, and free of parental responsibilities. But, at the end of the day, you know you owe it to your kids to be responsible, so maybe you kick back with a glass (or three) of wine instead.

Here's what you don't do -- what you never, ever do -- leave your two young children in your apartment alone so you can have a threesome with your guy pal and another woman. In a hot tub. In your apartment complex -- like, outside, where everyone can see you. Yep, that's what Arizona mom Gina Marie Rayner reportedly did, and would have continued to do, had her 5-year-old son not attracted attention by roaming around the building and calling, "Mommy, mommy."

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8-Year-Old Boy Shot While Sleeping Soundly in His Bed

posted by Kiri Blakeley 11 hours ago in In The News

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We hear this story too many times. A child, sleeping soundly in bed, and suddenly his or her life is cut short. This tragic situation has happened yet again, this time in Detroit. An 8-year-old boy, Jakari Pearson, was sleeping at home when a bullet tore through the house and hit him. He has died. Family reportedly suspect the gunman may be the former partner of the boy's mom.

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Murdered 14-Year-Old Sends Horrifying Text Right Before Her Death

posted by Kiri Blakeley 12 hours ago in In The News

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Did a teenage girl send out a text message to her boyfriend telling him that she was about to be murdered? This might be the tragic case with 14-year-old April Millsap, who was walking her dog along a bucolic trail in Armada, Michigan, when she apparently sent a text to her boyfriend that read, "OMG ... I think I am being kidnapped." She was later found dead on the trail, her faithful dog guarding her body.

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Thoughtful Flight Attendant Warns Passengers to Flush Drugs Before Landing

posted by Linda Sharps 12 hours ago in In The News

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I love it when a flight attendant goes out of their way to make air travel less intolerable. (Like, for instance, Marty Cobb, the Southwest Airlines employee whose safety speech is so entertaining, it's gone viral on YouTube.) I've had awesome flight attendants tell me what sights to see in the city I'm traveling to, prompt me to order a drink before they put away the cart for good, and offer me extra snack packages, but I can't say I've ever been warned to flush my illegal drugs before landing.

Apparently that's exactly what happened on an Australian Jetstar airline recently, when an attendant issued a public announcement that passengers might want to flush "anything you shouldn’t have” down the toilet, since drug sniffing dogs were waiting at the terminal.

The kicker? The plane was full of "Splendour in the Grass" musical festival-goers, and thus the attendant's warning sparked a mad rush for the lavatories.

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Grandpa Saves Himself, Leaves 3 Young Grandkids Behind in Fire (VIDEO)

posted by Kiri Blakeley 14 hours ago in In The News

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A grandfather is getting tons of heat for leaving his three grandchildren behind when a fire broke out in their apartment and he fled the scene. The grandchildren, ages, 4, 5, and 8, were rescued by firemen, who also found their granddad, 66, standing totally unharmed in the lobby of the Brooklyn building. Said a neighbor: "People here want to hurt him ... They were like, 'How could you leave those kids in the house?'" Spoken like someone who's never been in a fire.

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6 Children Found Starving & Living in Bug-Infested Home With Pigs

posted by Lisa Fogarty 16 hours ago in In The News

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Six South Carolina children -- whose ages range from 1 to 10 years old -- were taken from their home after police discovered they were starving and living in absolute filth in a house that was infested with roaches, fleas, and practically taken over by real-life pigs.

Parents Jarrod Wiggins, 41, and Deanna Boubaries, 22, have been arrested and charged with six counts of child neglect each. Their horrific living situation was uncovered after staff members at a vacation Bible school camp, which the children were attending this summer, noticed they were covered with bug bite marks and devoured plates of food at mealtime. They reportedly told counselors they didn't get much to eat at home.

Police were called and welfare officials visited their home to investigate. Needless to say, they were likely horrified by the deplorable conditions these kids were forced to live in.

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‘Ghost’ at Haunted Theater Moves a Chair Around (WATCH)

posted by Jill Baughman Tuesday at 9:00 PM in In The News

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Say what you will about the supernatural and whether or not you believe, there's an intensely creepy moment of a chair moving on its own in a closed theater -- after a psychic finished up his show there.

It was recorded at Brookside Theatre in Romford, Essex, at around 4 a.m. on Sunday. The theater is located in a former war memorial building. Earlier, people had gathered to attend a show by the medium Roy Roberts. He believes the theater now has a "resident ghost."

"When I saw the footage, I jumped up and said, 'Yes, now we have direct proof!'" Can't really get much better publicity if you're a psychic, can ya? No wonder the dude is so damn excited.

But still, it's something you gotta see to believe.

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Man’s Chilling Facebook Posts Warn of His Killing Spree (VIDEO)

posted by Kiri Blakeley Tuesday at 7:43 PM in In The News

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A husband who discovered his wife was cheating on him reportedly killed her, her boyfriend, and then tried to kill himself, police say. Shaun Hiles of Kentucky reportedly tracked down his wife as she arrived at a home with another man, and when the two tried to flee, chased them down in his truck, rammed them off the road, and then shot them both. Scarily, he seemed to have warned friends on his Facebook page of the carnage to come.