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MEDFORD, Ore. — The Medford Police Department and the FBI are searching for a 2-year-old boy whose parents were involved in an apparent murder-suicide in Montana. Officers are trying to find Aiden Salcido, the son of Daniel Salcido and Hannah Janiak, the FBI said in a news release Friday night. The boy’s parents were found dead Wednesday in Kalispell, Montana, after police stopped them following a chase because they had felony burglary warrants for their arrest. Officers found Janiak dead with a gunshot wound to her head, and Salcido dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the FBI said in a news release. Their child was not in the 1996 GMC Jimmy with Oregon license plates, the FBI said. The Jackson County, Oregon, Sheriff’s Office investigated the couple for a burglary in 2018, the FBI said. Both were convicted of the charges, and Janiak was to begin serving her sentence at the Jackson County Jail on June 11, the FBI said. She did not show up for her sentencing. Felony warrants...

On a day when he already donated $100,000 to charity, Pete Alonso also cashed in for the Mets — fittingly with a home run. Both of Alonso’s grandfathers served in the military. On his mom’s side, a marine, and on his dad’s side, an intelligence agent in the army. So the decision to give a portion of his $1 million earnings for winning the Home Run Derby was an easy one, considering Alonso knew exactly the causes he wanted to support. Alonso presented two separate donations of $50,000 to the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation and the Wounded Warrior Project. The organizations work to support first responders and other servicemen and women. “For me, I just feel fortunate every single day with the opportunity I have. I just feel extremely blessed, that’s one of the reasons why I wanted to donate,” Alonso said during press conference to make the donations official before the Mets beat the Pirates 6-3 at Citi Field on Friday night. “I feel really strongly about people who put t...

As Jeff McNeil rounded the bases in the third inning Friday night after blasting a three-run homer to put the Mets up 3-1 against the Pirates, he thought about how it might help his case for convincing his wife to adopt the puppy he had played with prior to the game. “When I got in the dugout, I said I was getting a puppy,” McNeil said following the Mets’ 6-3 win at Citi Field. “I was pretty happy. How could you not be happy with a puppy in your hands?” The North Shore Animal League America, the world’s largest no-kill animal rescue and adoption organization, put out a pen of puppies at the stadium in the hope of gaining exposure for adoptions. Little did they know McNeil would call dibs on one right then and there. It’s not a done deal yet, although he gave it his best shot by FaceTiming his wife while holding the pup on the field during pregame warmups. He told her how smart the puppy was and that if she just said yes, it was all theirs. Mets manager Mickey Callaway joked about...

MANILA, Philippines — Two strong earthquakes hours apart struck a group of sparsely populated islands in the Luzon Strait in the northern Philippines early Saturday, killing at least eight people, injuring about 60 and causing substantial damage. The quakes collapsed houses built of stone and wood, arousing residents from sleep, said Roldan Esdicul, who heads the Batanes provincial disaster-response office. Footage showed people clearing boulder-size stone bricks to pull out one body from the rubble of a home. “Our bed and everything were swaying from side to side like a hammock,” Esdicul told The Associated Press by cellphone from Basco town, the provincial capital. “We all ran out to safety.” More than 1,000 residents of hard-hit Itbayat island — nearly half of the island’s population of mostly fishermen — were advised not to return to their homes and stay in the town plaza as successive aftershocks shook the region, he said. “The wounded are still being brought in,” Itbayat May...

A 19-year-old American tourist confessed to killing an Italian policeman in central Rome early Friday, according to reports. Carabinieri paramilitary officer Mario Cerciello Rega was stabbed eight times about 3 a.m. while investigating a reported robbery in Rome’s Prati neighborhood, according to Italian state media. Rega was responding to the supposed meet-up spot where two alleged thieves, later identified as 19-year-old men from the US, were to return a bag and phone they had earlier swiped from a drug dealer, in hopes of collecting $112 from the dealer. The two American tourists allegedly stole the property because the victim swindled them out of that sum in the nearby town of Trastevere — a popular tourist spot known for its nightlife. Surveillance footage from the alleged robbery shows the Americans running away with the bag. Following the theft, the victim called the police and told them he’d arranged a meeting with the robbers to retrieve his belongings. Once Rega and an...

Public schools in South Dakota must have the “In God We trust” motto on display at all times now due to a new state law — which is meant to “inspire patriotism.” “Some have plaques. Others have it painted on the wall, maybe in a mural setting,” explained Wade Pogany, executive director of the state’s Associated School Boards. He told reporters this week that educators have already started complying with the new law, which went into effect earlier this month after being approved by Gov. Kristi Noem back in March. The Freedom From Religion Foundation on Thursday blasted the legislation as a “stealth campaign” — meant to force religion onto residents and into state politics. “Our position is that it’s a terrible violation of freedom of conscience to inflict a godly message on a captive audience,” the organization said in a press release. The group is also against the government’s use of the “In God We Trust Motto” on US currency, which started in 1956 and was approved by President E...

DULUTH, Minn. — Authorities in northern Minnesota are searching for a group of Girl Scouts who are reported stranded in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Two of the girls in the group are reported to have been struck by lightning. The St. Louis County Rescue Squad confirmed late Friday its members are searching for five girls on an island on Knife Lake. Members of the Minnesota Army National Guard have been asked to aid the search. Rick Slatten of the rescue squad told the Star Tribune that one of the two may be critically injured. Credit: Source link The post 5 Girl Scouts reported missing in Minnesota wilderness appeared first on Fox USA Live . from Fox USA Live https://ift.tt/2SRPjRn

They’re called “Feel Better Dolls.” In the instructions, buyers are told to take the black rag dolls — which come with red, green, black and yellow hair made of yarn, styled in dreadlocks — and “find a wall to slam” them against. “Whenever things don’t go well and you want to hit the wall and yell, here’s a little ‘feel better doll,’” the instructions read. “Just grab it firmly by the legs…and as you whack the ‘feel good doll’ do not forget to yell I FEEL GOOD, I FEEL GOOD.” The toys were being pulled from shelves in New Jersey this week after sparking outrage among residents and state officials. “This doll is offensive and disturbing on so many levels,” said Assemblywoman Angela McKnight, who represents Bayonne and other areas of Jersey City. “It is clearly made in an inappropriate representation of a black person and instructs people to ‘slam’ and ‘whack’ her,” the official charged in a statement. “Racism has no place in the world and I will not tolerate it, especially not in t...

The US economy slowed between March and June, but still grew at a healthy clip as solid consumer spending offset declining exports and business investments amid a threatened trade war with China. The US gross domestic product dropped to 2.1 percent during the second quarter, down from 3.1 percent during the first three months of the year, the Commerce Department said Friday. While that’s a modest drop from the first quarter, it’s still higher than the 2 percent that analysts had predicted. Among the red flags: Business investment contracted for the first time in more than three years and housing declined for a sixth straight quarter. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell early this month had called out the two sectors as areas of weakness in the economy. They’ll likely give additional cover for the Fed to cut interest rates next Wednesday for the first time in a decade. “The key to future economic growth is business spending. Evidently, businesses do not share the ebullience con...

Veteran mentors in the NFL come in all different shapes, sizes and sounds. For the Giants — to some degree by default because of age — the leader of their secondary, particularly their cornerbacks, is Janoris “Jackrabbit’’ Jenkins. Make no mistake: Jenkins is a supremely-talented cornerback who has shown the ability to wreck a game. He has eight interceptions, two touchdowns and three forced fumbles in his three seasons with the Giants. It’s just that “mentor’’ to the youngsters is an interesting role for a player who during the 2017 season was suspended for failing to report back to work following a bye week and then showed little remorse after he returned from his suspension. But that mess took place on the watch of Ben McAdoo and Jerry Reese, not that of current head coach Pat Shurmur and general manager Dave Gettleman, who before last season, made it clear that Jenkins had a “clean slate’’ with the new regime. Now that Jenkins, in his eighth season at age 30, is staring at a ...

The Rangers’ final arbitration case has been settled, as they came to terms with 24-year-old Russian winger Pavel Buchnevich on a two-year deal worth $3.25 million per year days before his Monday hearing. This now opens the Blueshirts’ window for a contract buyout from Monday until Wednesday at 5 p.m. The most likely buyout candidates would be defensemen Brendan Smith and Kevin Shattenkirk, both of whom have two years left on their deals, which would carry dead cap space for four years. The Rangers remain over the $81.5 salary-cap ceiling, with a 10-percent summer allowance continuing until just before the start of the regular season, Oct. 3. That creates many issues for general manager Jeff Gorton, who must find a way to shed salary. That could very likely start with trading Chris Kreider, who has one more year on his deal at $4.625 million. The club also has two more restricted free agents to sign — defenseman Tony DeAngelo and forward Brendan Lemieux. Credit: Source link The ...

Walter Mosley was already a bestselling novelist whose Easy Rawlins mysteries became movies (“Devil in a Blue Dress”) when director John Singleton called him to brainstorm with his co-creator Eric Amadio. Singleton wanted to do a TV series about the crack epidemic in LA. That series, “Snowfall,” is now in its third season on FX (Wednesdays at 10 p.m.) — with Mosley as a consulting producer. “I knew what was going on in LA. My domicile was in New York, but it was the same thing,” says Mosley, 67. “Me in Harlem, somebody else in Watts. The involvement of the CIA, the police. All that happened without people knowing it. Most Americans believe a policeman wouldn’t jaywalk. You couldn’t be further from the truth.” ‘That is one of the things that crack did. It turned people against each other.’ On “Snowfall,” the tragedy of the crack epidemic is mainly played out in South Central LA, where young Franklin Saint (Damson Idris) becomes a major dealer and bitter enemies with his father fi...

A “city-killer” asteroid whizzed by Earth on Thursday, startling astronomers who didn’t pick up the rock’s trajectory until days before it passed the planet, according to a report. The rock, dubbed Asteroid 2019 OK, passed within 43,500 miles of Earth traveling at a speed of 15 miles a second, the Sydney Morning Herald first reported. The asteroid, which was estimated to be between 187 feet and 427 feet in diameter, was discovered this week by two astronomy teams in Brazil and the US — and confirmed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. It’s the largest rock to pass by Earth this year — and possibly even this decade. “This is one of the closest approaches to Earth by an asteroid that we know of. And it’s a pretty large one,” Michael Brown, an associate professor at Monash University’s school of physics and astronomy told the paper. “It’s impressively close. I don’t think it’s quite sunk in yet. It’s a pretty big deal.” Astronomers generally track asteroids further in advance, but this o...

Authorities in Cyprus believe that three more Israelis may have been involved in a gang rape of a 19-year-old British tourist – and that they may have fled to Israel, according to a report. Police are expected to fly to Israel and request travel agencies to hand over lists of tourists who stayed at the Pambos Napa Rocks Hotel, where the alleged sex assault took place, the Times of Israel reported, citing Channel 12. The Cypriots will work along with Israeli police to collect DNA samples from those Israelis and check them against evidence from the crime scene, according to the report. Meanwhile, a court in Cyprus on Friday remanded seven Israeli teens for an additional six days – a day after five suspects were released from custody. Police said that statements had been taken from 36 witnesses in the probe and that testimonies from 20 additional people will be taken, the Times of Israel reported. The dozen Israelis – between the ages of 15 and 18 — were arrested in the resort town ...

BOSTON — If nothing else, the past week has reinforced the Yankees’ need for starting-pitching help, as each starter was smacked around over the last turn of the rotation. General manager Brian Cashman acknowledged Friday the Yankees have hit “a bad stretch,” but added it wouldn’t force him into making any moves prior to Wednesday’s trade deadline, though he would like to. “We’ve entered this process and the deadline with a pretty good feel of what we’d like to do, what we’re willing to pay for it and also having the built-in discipline of walking away if we don’t find the right matches under those circumstances,’’ Cashman said before the Yankees faced the Red Sox at Fenway Park, a day after Masahiro Tanaka allowed 12 runs. “That’s regardless of what’s happened in the last week.’’ The Yankees still have a comfortable lead in the AL East, which gives Cashman the ability to not force a trade. Nevertheless, they remain open to talks with nearly every team — including the Mets. “I’m f...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office said Friday that he would host a parade – or another type of event – to honor the 9/11 first responders as President Donald Trump prepares to sign a permanent reauthorization of the Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Act into law. “We’re going to work with families, first responders and advocates to determine exactly how they want to be honored and then make that a reality,” de Blasio spokesperson Freddi Goldstein told The Post. “If they want a parade, they’ll get a parade.” Earlier Friday, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) sent a letter to de Blasio requesting a parade for the 9/11 heroes, many of whom are due in D.C. Monday to watch President Trump sign the Victim Compensation Act bill into law. “This is a great idea to honor our 9/11 first responders,” said Avery Cohen, another spokesperson for de Blasio. “We’ll be reaching out to families, first responders and advocates to put on a world class event to honor these heroes.” Maloney had specifi...