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A man who was wrongly accused of murdering 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes last year was found dead in a Texas jail last week in an apparent suicide, according to a report. Robert Paul Cantrell, 49, was found by guards hanging in his Montgomery County Jail cell about 4:20 a.m. on July 23. He was declared dead on scene, authorities said. Cantrell, who is white, has been jailed since his robbery arrest on Dec. 30, 2018 — the same day Barnes, who is black, was killed in a drive-by shooting as her family headed to a Houston Walmart. Shortly after the tragic shooting, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office released a composite sketch based off witness accounts of the suspect in Barnes’ murder — depicting a white man with blue eyes. The case immediately drew the attention of online activist Shaun King, who on Jan. 1 tweeted “URGENT. ALL HANDS ON DECK. A 40 y/o white man w/ a beard in a red pickup truck pulled up on 7 y/o Jazmine Barnes and her family near a Houston @Walmartand shot and killed he...

Jamison Crowder had been one of the best Jets since the start of training camp, quickly developing a rapport with Sam Darnold. But he failed to make it through the team’s fifth practice Monday, leaving late in the workout with a left foot injury. The severity is not known, and how the slot receiver hurt the foot is unclear as well. Before walking off under his own power after getting looked at by a trainer, Crowder was having another strong practice, catching a long touchdown pass from Darnold and frequently getting open. He was set to undergo an MRI exam and other tests Monday, but the Jets didn’t have an update on his status. “When a guy goes down, the next guy has to step up,” coach Adam Gase said. “Just keep playing, move some things around, call some different plays, feature other guys. That’s just part of football.” The Jets are top-heavy at wide receiver, with only three established options in Crowder, Robby Anderson and Quincy Enunwa. Second-year pro Deontay Burnett fille...

Warning: Spoilers from ‘The Bachelorette’ season finale below Hannah Brown and pilot Peter Weber will always have their windmill. After eliminating Weber, 27, on part one of “The Bachelorette’s” season finale Monday night, Brown, 24, took a moment to clear the air about their previous tryst in the fantasy suite. “I was a little dishonest about something,” Brown said in front of a studio audience, which also included Weber and host Chris Harrison. “I did say there’s something that Peter and I did twice. It was actually four times.” Brown previously revealed that she and a contestant had sex twice in a windmill, though many speculated Jed Wyatt, 25, to be the suitor in question. The embattled singer-songwriter remains in the competition, in addition to general contractor Tyler Cameron, 26. As for Weber, he also took the opportunity to get some answers from Brown about where their romance went wrong. “I was falling in love with you, but I also was falling for two other guys, too, a...

Camouflaged in fatigues, Santino William Legan cut through a fence at the rear of the Gilroy Garlic Festival to bypass metal detectors, crept inside, raised his AK-47-style rifle and unleashed 60 seconds of hell. Harrowing accounts from both survivors and police revealed Monday how the 19-year-old gunman reduced the beloved annual gathering to a shooting gallery on Sunday, leaving three dead, a dozen injured and thousands traumatized before cops gunned him down. “We were eating and we heard a pop, pop noise, and then we heard it again: pop, pop, pop,” Miquita Price, 42, told The Sacramento Bee of the moment Legan opened fire just after 5:40 p.m. local time. “And then my husband said, ‘It’s shooting,’ and he pushed me down.” On the festival grounds, the smell of gunsmoke mixed with the aroma of the garlic that draws thousands of gourmands to the event yearly, as Legan indiscriminately cut down men, women and children. “He definitely shot off more than 30 rounds,” survivor Julissa C...

WWE legend Jerry “The King” Lawler has filed a $3 million lawsuit against officials and cops in Tennessee, seeking “justice” for the death of his son Brian Christopher — aka Grandmaster Sexay — which they could have prevented, the suit alleges. Brian, 46, took his own life last July while he was locked up at the Hardeman County jail on DUI and evading arrest charges. Cops claimed the former tag team champ was found hanging inside his cell — with his shoe laces wrapped around his neck — in what was ruled as a suicide. Lawler, 69, refused to believe that Brian had killed himself and instead thought that something more sinister had happened to him. He came forward in August 2018 with photos of Brian in the hospital before his death and claimed his injuries were not consistent with a suicide. “Just look at his neck and look at his hand,” Lawler told reporters. “You can see the lines on his neck all the way around here to here and what would be the length of your hand as if he was tryi...

The Fed’s big problem is that the economy isn’t doing badly enough for rate cuts — no matter how much the president begs. Last Friday the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that the economy grew by a 2.1 percent annual rate in the second quarter of 2019. That was better than the 1.8 percent growth that Wall Street economists were expecting. And while 2.1 percent growth is nothing to pound your chest about, it was much better than what the economists at the New York and Atlanta Federal Reserve banks were expecting. So, when the Fed’s policy-making committee meets on Tuesday and Wednesday, they are going to have to explain away the reasonable growth in the second quarter on top of strong annualized growth of 3.1 percent in the first three months of this year. Put the 3.1 percent growth together with the 2.1 percent growth and you have a very reasonable 2.6 percent growth so far this year. Worse for those who want rates cut is the fact that personal consumption is what fueled the...

As Sam Darnold thought back to his up-and-down rookie season, he pinpointed his biggest mistake. It wasn’t lack of accuracy, which in part led to 15 interceptions and a pedestrian .577 completion percentage, or any specific routes he struggled hitting consistently. It wasn’t underestimating the speed of the game or the heightened skill level of the NFL compared to college. It wasn’t physical at all, in fact. “I think looking back on it,” the Jets’ second-year quarterback said Monday, “I would’ve communicated a lot more.” Darnold didn’t ask for help nearly enough, he now believes. He was busy trying to get his feet under him, doing his best to adjust to the new league. While he had mentors such as Josh McCown and Teddy Bridgewater to learn from, veterans he beat out for the starting job, he too often put the onus on himself. A year later, the former third overall pick in the draft — the face of the franchise some believe is the organization’s first true franchise quarterback since...

The Fed meets Tuesday and Wednesday this week with a decision on interest rates coming at 2 p.m. that second day. As of when I’m writing this, the markets think there is a 22-percent chance of a half-percentage point rate cut (50 basis points in banking lingo) and a 78-percent chance of a quarter-percent point (25 basis points) rate reduction. Trump is lobbying for a 50 basis point cut, and markets think there is no chance of rates being held where they are. If the Fed wants to regain its independence, it shouldn’t cut rates. There will be political fallout and Trump will probably attempt to fire Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, but a central bank that’s above politics is worth the turmoil. Credit: Source link The post If the Fed cuts interest rates, things could get ugly appeared first on Fox USA Live . from Fox USA Live https://ift.tt/2ZklafH

Phillies GM Matt Klentak isn’t worried about Jason Vargas threatening a reporter in his clubhouse. After trading for the veteran lefty hurler on Monday, Klentak said the Phillies looked into the June kerfuffle in which Vargas told a Newsday beat reporter he would “knock you the f–k out, bro” following a Mets loss to the Cubs in Chicago. “My first thought was that was so out of character for Jason to be involved in anything like that,” Klentak told reporters of the bizarre incident. “The guy I knew in Anaheim (2013 season), it’s just not who he is. He’s not an overbearing personality at all like that. He’s very popular in the clubhouse with everybody. He’s very likable. On the mound, he’s a very hard worker and good teammate. It just didn’t add up.” The 36-year-old Vargas was fined $10,000 for the incident alongside Mets manager Mickey Callaway, who ignited it by responding to the reporter, “don’t be a smart-ass,” after the reporter said in passing that he would see Callaway tomorro...

Donald Trump just doesn’t seem to understand interest rates. The president went on several tweet rants recently, his latest attempt to bully the Federal Reserve into cutting interest rates more than they probably will this week. “Because of the faulty thought process we have going for us at the Federal Reserve, we pay much higher interest rates than countries that are no match for us economically,” the president tweeted on July 19. “In other words, our interest costs are much higher than other countries, when they should be lower. Correct!” He tweeted something similar yesterday, calling for a half-percentage point rate cut. “We are competing with other countries that know how to play the game against the US,” he said. “That’s actually why the EU was formed … and for China, until now, the US has been ‘easy pickens.’ ” Trump has also said that New York Fed President John Williams was right when he indicated recently that rates should come down fast. The Fed later tried to disavow ...

Wall Street is starting to throw cold water on billionaire Charlie Ergen’s prospects for building the nation’s fourth-largest wireless network — which is bad news for T-Mobile’s planned $26 billion merger with Sprint. Hedge funds, financiers and lawyers hired as Wall Street consultants are starting to poke holes in a deal, announced Friday, to give Ergen’s Dish Network the tools it needs to replace Sprint as the nation’s fourth-largest cellular carrier. Sources digging into the Dish deal — hashed out to win Justice Department approval for the merger — say they are starting to uncover weaknesses that are sure to be seized upon by a group of 13 state attorneys general seeking to block the T-Mobile/Sprint marriage. One issue is T-Mobile’s power to determine how much it will charge Dish to lease its spectrum while Dish builds out its own network, sources said. Also of concern is Ergen’s poor track record of deploying the spectrum he already owns, critics said. The biggest concern, how...

The upstate man accused of killing teenage social media star Bianca Devins and then posting grisly photos of her lifeless body on Instagram pleaded not guilty on Monday. Brandon Clark, 21, had been charged with second-degree murder for allegedly slitting his 17-year-old girlfriend’s throat earlier this month. Oneida County District Attorney Scott McNamara previously said Clark — who met Devins about two months ago on Instagram — flipped out when the influencer kissed another man at a Queens concert July 13. Early the next morning, the couple drove back up to Utica, where Clark allegedly slit Devins’ throat with a large knife. He then posted a photo of her bloody body to Instagram and called 911, prosecutors said. When cops arrived, Clark cut his own throat, then posted a photo of his bleeding neck on the app. On Monday, Devins’ friends and family filled the Oneida County courtroom where Clark, of Bridgewater, pleaded not guilty. Clark’s lawyer, Luke Nebush, cited the ongoing in...

The gun store that sold the AK-47-style rifle used in the California garlic festival shooting had a message for the killer on Monday: “Rot in hell.” “The shooter in CA, I hope you rot in hell,” read a post on the Facebook page for Big Mike’s Guns and Ammo of Fallon, Nev., as it emerged that Santino William Legan purchased the weapon legally just weeks before Sunday’s bloodshed. “We pray for the victims. My heart hurts for all of them.” Legan, 19, fired indiscriminately into a crowd of men, women and children around 5:40 p.m. at the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival, killing three people — including a 6-year-old boy — and wounding a dozen more before he was shot dead by cops. “Good people have been hurt and his goes against everything I believe in,” read a second Facebook post, signed “Mike.” That post revealed more details of Legan’s July 9 purchase of the rifle, which began online. “I did not know this individual,” the post reads. “He ordered the rifle off my internet page. When I ...

Stargazers are in for a treat on Monday night as a double meteor shower will light up the sky, according to a report. As many as 20 to 25 shooting stars will illuminate the darkness from the southern Delta Aquarids and the Alpha Capricornids meteor showers, which peaks late Monday into early Tuesday, Accuweather.com reports. It will be the first meteor shower since the Eta Aquarids in May. Accuweather predicts residents on the East Coast will have a good view of nature’s show with generally clear, cloudless skies. But the site warns that stargazers in big cities — such as New York City — should seek darker locations with less light pollution. Natural light pollution, however, shouldn’t be a concern as Monday night’s dual meteor shower peaks a few nights before the Aug. 1 new moon — a lunar phase where the moon appears to be invisible from earth, the site says. This astronomical display comes on the heels of last week’s meteor scare, where a “city-killer” asteroid whizzed uncomfo...

Capital One Financial Corp said on Monday personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers and credit scores of about 100 million individuals in the United States and 6 million people in Canada were obtained by a hacker who has been arrested. The US credit card issuer said it identified the hack on July 19 and the individual responsible has been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The incident is expected to cost between $100 million and $150 million in 2019, mainly due to customer notifications, credit monitoring and legal support, Capital One said. The hacker did not gain access to credit card account numbers, but about 140,000 social security numbers and 80,000 linked bank account numbers were compromised, Capital One said. About 1 million social insurance numbers of the company’s Canadian credit card customers were also compromised. The hacker was able to ‘exploit’ a ‘configuration vulnerability’ in the company’s infrastructure, it said, adding that...

The 13-year-old girl who was shot and killed at the Gilroy Garlic Festival on Sunday has been identified. Keyla Salazar, of San Jose, was one three people who died at the hands of suspected gunman Santino William Legen during his evening rampage, officials said. She was identified on Monday by the Santa Clara County Coroners Office. A GoFundMe page was set up by friends of the Salazar family to help with their “heartbreaking loss.” The account is being managed by the local South County Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram car dealership, which confirmed their connection to the young girl in a phone call with The Post. “Yes, we’re doing it for the family,” a worker said. The identities of the three victims killed in the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting have now all been made public. Relatives of 6-year-old Stephen Romero, also of San Jose, announced his death late Sunday. New York resident Trevor Irby, 25, was identified by officials from Keuka College, where he worked and graduated in 2017. ...

A skydiver in upstate New York died in a freak accident Saturday when his parachute became tangled during his descent, police said. Richard Cordaro, 68, who had over 45 years of skydiving experience, plummeted into a cornfield in the town of Perry after the malfunction at about 12:05 p.m. on Saturday, authorities said. Cordaro, of Bergen, NY, and three other skydivers flew out of Perry-Warsaw airport with the company Rochester Skydivers. The three other thrill-seekers landed safely, police said. Authorities said Cordaro’s parachute opened properly, but then became tangled. Police who arrived at the scene tried to resuscitate Codaro, but he was declared dead at the scene. Credit: Source link The post Skydiver dies after his parachute becomes tangled in upstate NY appeared first on Fox USA Live . from Fox USA Live https://ift.tt/2OogHYr