Cold air, snow potential to return to northeastern US this weekend

Following mild weather much of this week, colder air will settle over the Northeast and could lead to wet snow in some locations later this weekend.
Temperatures will average 5-10 degrees Fahrenheit above average during most days through Friday. Highs will range from the 40s to the lower 50s in much of New England and the 50s to lower 60s in much of the the mid-Atlantic this week.
However, a pattern change will allow colder air to flow out of Canada and race into the Midwest later this week.
The colder air will then seep into the Northeast on Palm Sunday (March 20) through the days leading up to Easter Sunday (March 27).
As a result, temperatures from later this weekend into much of next week will average near to slightly below normal.
The air will be cold enough to allow wet snow to fall in some locations as a storm may take shape.
A storm could form and become quite strong near the East Coast this Sunday, AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Elliot Abrams said.
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"Since the storm does not exist yet, forecasts based on its strength and movement are speculative at this point," Abrams said.
Should the storm form inland and track northeastward, along or near the coast, drenching rain would occur along the Interstate-95 corridor. This would allow the potential for heavy wet snow or a rain/snow mix over the Appalachians, the eastern end of the Ohio Valley and lower Great Lakes region.
Should the storm form and track 100 miles or so off the coast, the air could get cold enough to allow a rain/snow mix or perhaps a period of wet snow to extend eastward to part of the I-95 corridor.
The latter scenario is much less likely due to anticipated highs in the 30s to lower 40s around the time of the storm.
"In light of the recent warmth this winter, getting it cold enough to snow is a tall task along the coast from Washington, D.C., to Philadelphia, New York City and Boston, this late in the season," according to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Brett Anderson.
Even in the higher elevations, in order for snow to accumulate on roads during the daylight hours, it must fall at a very heavy rate this time of the year. Because of the recent warmth, some of the wet snow will melt as it falls at night, especially on paved areas.
AccuWeather will continue to provide updates on the weekend storm potential, including the chance of snow, wind and coastal flooding concerns through this week.
One to two additional opportunities for wet snow are likely from next week to Easter Sunday weekend as chilly air will remain entrenched

Wrongly Convicted NC Man Darryl Hunt Found Dead in a Car

© Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images Documentary subject Darryl Hunt of the film 'The Trials of Darryl Hunt' arrives at the 22nd Annual Film Independent Spirit Awards held at Santa Monica Beach on February 24, 2007 in Santa Monica, California.

Darryl Hunt, a North Carolina man who spent 19 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, was found dead in a car in Winston-Salem early Sunday, the Charlotte Observer reports.
In 1984 at age 19, Hunt was charged with the rape and murder of a newspaper copy editor. Hunt was later exonerated in February 2004, after DNA evidence led police to Willard Brown, who later confessed to the murder. Hunt was exonerated and pardoned by then-Gov. Mike Easily, and was also awarded a settlement of more than $1.6 million in 2007. Hunt then went on to found the Darryl Hunt Project for Freedom and Justice, which is an advocacy group for those wrongfully convicted.
As the Observer notes, Hunt travelled across his home state with People of Faith Against Death Penalty, and even travelled overseas with the documentary The Trials of Darryl Hunt, to speak about abolishing the death penalty and improving the justice system.
However, Hunt's experiences haunted him, the Observer notes. He was reportedly prone to using ATMs daily, not really just to get money, but so he could create a time-stamped receipt and image of his location.
Early Sunday, officers got a call about a person believed to be dead in a car near Wake Forest University campus, at which time they found Hunt, unresponsive. Hunt, the Observer notes, had recently been diagnosed with cancer, however a cause of death has not been released. 

Woman Dies After Doctors Mistake Cancer For Pregnancy

. A 22-year-old makeup artist from England died after doctors misdiagnosed her terminal tumor as a pregnancy.
Demi Wright, 22, of Colchester England died last month after doctors initially mistook her cancer for pregnancy. The cancer produced the same hormones normally associated with pregnancy, but by the time Wright’s doctors correctly diagnosed the pain in her back as a terminal tumor, known as an adenocarcinoma, it was too late. Wright died three weeks later.
Wright, a makeup artist for Lancome, was admitted to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge last November after experiencing lower back pain. Lab results revealed that she had tested positive for hormones commonly associated with pregnancy and Wright was taken to a maternity ward of the hospital, The Daily Gazette reported. However, further investigation revealed that it was a 12-centimeter tumor, not a developing fetus, that was at the root of her symptoms.
Wright was diagnosed with terminal adenocarcinoma, a type of cancer that forms in the mucus-secreting glands. The cancer had already spread throughout Wright’s body. When the cancer begins in the endometrial tissue in the uterus, as it had with Wright, it is known as a molar pregnancy. According to The American Pregnancy Organization, these pregnancies arise when there is a problem with conception, the moment egg and sperm join together. Molar pregnancies start in the same way as regular pregnancies, and therefore often go undetected for long periods of time.
Helen Webberley, the dedicated GP for Oxford Online Pharmacy, told the Huffington Post that pregnancy tests for molar pregnancies come up positive because the growth in the uterus releases the same hormone that is normally associated with pregnancy.
“It is only when the patient comes for their 12-week scan that a molar pregnancy is detected,” Webberley said.
Treatment for adenocarcinoma varies depending on where it grows in the body, and options include surgery, radiation therapy, or chemotherapy. According to The Cancer Center, the most common course of treatment for adenocarcinoma is a combination of both surgery and chemotherapy. In most cases, the woman makes a full recovery once the cells have been completely removed from her uterus, but in rare cases, such as Wright's, the cancer can be deadly.
Wright’s family remembers the aspiring makeup artist as “bubbly, positive, and cheerful.” Her father, Chris, said she kept her composure even after learning about the devastating diagnosis.
"When we found out the cancer was terminal, she lifted herself up, she patted the bed and said, 'Dad, come and sit here.' She gave me a big hug and said: 'It's going to be okay,'" he told the Daily Gazette. Wright passed away the next day.
In Wright's memory, her family has set up a fundraising page where people can donate to Cancer Research UK, a charity dedicated to one day curing all forms of cancer.

In December, Medical Daily reported on a similarly tragic case. Clare Daly, who is also from England, mistook back pain for a pulled muscle for months, The Liverpool Echo reported. By the time her pain was correctly diagnosed as a melanoma, the cancer was already too far advanced. Daly passed away months later Fresh outbreak of diarrhea has claimed the lives of at least 30 children in Imo state – The absence of potable drinking water has affected majority of the communities in the state An outbreak of diarrhea has reportedly killed 30 children in Imo state. This fresh outbreak is stated to be common in the 637 communities in the state and it is as a result of the absence of potable water. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter According to the report, residents resort to the use of the locally available water for their consumption. The water available most times is sourced from streams and boreholes not certified. READ ALSO: Why Nigeria was ranked low by WHO for immunization The commissioner for Health, Ngozi Njoku said the death toll from the outbreak of the deadly disease had risen to 30 in the last few weeks. She also said the other affected ones were receiving treatment in various hospitals in the state. This was disclosed when she received some representatives from the Nigeria Agip Oil Company Limited. She stated that four children died last month as a result of the infection in Nekede, the Owerri West council area. READ ALSO: 20 children killed by measles in Sokoto state She also mentioned that 65 suspected cases had been reported in the Ikeduru LGA with areas like Owerri West, Owerri North, Orlu, Ohaji/Egbema and Ngor-Okpala recording cases of the dreaded disease in their areas. It should be recalled that some children also died in Sule-Tankarkar local government of Jigawa state. The head of department for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Mallam Mohammed Maisamari confirmed the deaths. An outbreak of measles and whooping cough was said to have killed these children. The affected children were under the age of five.

Read more: https://www.naij.com/764302-tragic-30-children-die-imo.htmlFresh outbreak of diarrhea has claimed the lives of at least 30 children in Imo state – The absence of potable drinking water has affected majority of the communities in the state An outbreak of diarrhea has reportedly killed 30 children in Imo state. This fresh outbreak is stated to be common in the 637 communities in the state and it is as a result of the absence of potable water. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter According to the report, residents resort to the use of the locally available water for their consumption. The water available most times is sourced from streams and boreholes not certified. READ ALSO: Why Nigeria was ranked low by WHO for immunization The commissioner for Health, Ngozi Njoku said the death toll from the outbreak of the deadly disease had risen to 30 in the last few weeks. She also said the other affected ones were receiving treatment in various hospitals in the state. This was disclosed when she received some representatives from the Nigeria Agip Oil Company Limited. She stated that four children died last month as a result of the infection in Nekede, the Owerri West council area. READ ALSO: 20 children killed by measles in Sokoto state She also mentioned that 65 suspected cases had been reported in the Ikeduru LGA with areas like Owerri West, Owerri North, Orlu, Ohaji/Egbema and Ngor-Okpala recording cases of the dreaded disease in their areas. It should be recalled that some children also died in Sule-Tankarkar local government of Jigawa state. The head of department for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Mallam Mohammed Maisamari confirmed the deaths. An outbreak of measles and whooping cough was said to have killed these children. The affected children were under the age of five.

Read more: https://www.naij.com/764302-tragic-30-children-die-imo.htmlFresh outbreak of diarrhea has claimed the lives of at least 30 children in Imo state – The absence of potable drinking water has affected majority of the communities in the state An outbreak of diarrhea has reportedly killed 30 children in Imo state. This fresh outbreak is stated to be common in the 637 communities in the state and it is as a result of the absence of potable water. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter According to the report, residents resort to the use of the locally available water for their consumption. The water available most times is sourced from streams and boreholes not certified. READ ALSO: Why Nigeria was ranked low by WHO for immunization The commissioner for Health, Ngozi Njoku said the death toll from the outbreak of the deadly disease had risen to 30 in the last few weeks. She also said the other affected ones were receiving treatment in various hospitals in the state. This was disclosed when she received some representatives from the Nigeria Agip Oil Company Limited. She stated that four children died last month as a result of the infection in Nekede, the Owerri West council area. READ ALSO: 20 children killed by measles in Sokoto state She also mentioned that 65 suspected cases had been reported in the Ikeduru LGA with areas like Owerri West, Owerri North, Orlu, Ohaji/Egbema and Ngor-Okpala recording cases of the dreaded disease in their areas. It should be recalled that some children also died in Sule-Tankarkar local government of Jigawa state. The head of department for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Mallam Mohammed Maisamari confirmed the deaths. An outbreak of measles and whooping cough was said to have killed these children. The affected children were under the age of five.

Read more: https://www.naij.com/764302-tragic-30-children-die-imo.html Fresh outbreak of diarrhea has claimed the lives of at least 30 children in Imo state – The absence of potable drinking water has affected majority of the communities in the state An outbreak of diarrhea has reportedly killed 30 children in Imo state. This fresh outbreak is stated to be common in the 637 communities in the state and it is as a result of the absence of potable water. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter According to the report, residents resort to the use of the locally available water for their consumption. The water available most times is sourced from streams and boreholes not certified. READ ALSO: Why Nigeria was ranked low by WHO for immunization The commissioner for Health, Ngozi Njoku said the death toll from the outbreak of the deadly disease had risen to 30 in the last few weeks. She also said the other affected ones were receiving treatment in various hospitals in the state. This was disclosed when she received some representatives from the Nigeria Agip Oil Company Limited. She stated that four children died last month as a result of the infection in Nekede, the Owerri West council area. READ ALSO: 20 children killed by measles in Sokoto state She also mentioned that 65 suspected cases had been reported in the Ikeduru LGA with areas like Owerri West, Owerri North, Orlu, Ohaji/Egbema and Ngor-Okpala recording cases of the dreaded disease in their areas. It should be recalled that some children also died in Sule-Tankarkar local government of Jigawa state. The head of department for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Mallam Mohammed Maisamari confirmed the deaths. An outbreak of measles and whooping cough was said to have killed these children. The affected children were under the age of five.

Read more: https://www.naij.com/764302-tragic-30-children-die-imo.html– Fresh outbreak of diarrhea has claimed the lives of at least 30 children in Imo state – The absence of potable drinking water has affected majority of the communities in the state An outbreak of diarrhea has reportedly killed 30 children in Imo state. This fresh outbreak is stated to be common in the 637 communities in the state and it is as a result of the absence of potable water. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter According to the report, residents resort to the use of the locally available water for their consumption. The water available most times is sourced from streams and boreholes not certified. READ ALSO: Why Nigeria was ranked low by WHO for immunization The commissioner for Health, Ngozi Njoku said the death toll from the outbreak of the deadly disease had risen to 30 in the last few weeks. She also said the other affected ones were receiving treatment in various hospitals in the state. This was disclosed when she received some representatives from the Nigeria Agip Oil Company Limited. She stated that four children died last month as a result of the infection in Nekede, the Owerri West council area. READ ALSO: 20 children killed by measles in Sokoto state She also mentioned that 65 suspected cases had been reported in the Ikeduru LGA with areas like Owerri West, Owerri North, Orlu, Ohaji/Egbema and Ngor-Okpala recording cases of the dreaded disease in their areas. It should be recalled that some children also died in Sule-Tankarkar local government of Jigawa state. The head of department for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Mallam Mohammed Maisamari confirmed the deaths. An outbreak of measles and whooping cough was said to have killed these children. The affected children were under the age of five.
Read more: https://www.naij.com/764302-tragic-30-children-die-imo.html– Fresh outbreak of diarrhea has claimed the lives of at least 30 children in Imo state – The absence of potable drinking water has affected majority of the communities in the state An outbreak of diarrhea has reportedly killed 30 children in Imo state. This fresh outbreak is stated to be common in the 637 communities in the state and it is as a result of the absence of potable water. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter According to the report, residents resort to the use of the locally available water for their consumption. The water available most times is sourced from streams and boreholes not certified. READ ALSO: Why Nigeria was ranked low by WHO for immunization The commissioner for Health, Ngozi Njoku said the death toll from the outbreak of the deadly disease had risen to 30 in the last few weeks. She also said the other affected ones were receiving treatment in various hospitals in the state. This was disclosed when she received some representatives from the Nigeria Agip Oil Company Limited. She stated that four children died last month as a result of the infection in Nekede, the Owerri West council area. READ ALSO: 20 children killed by measles in Sokoto state She also mentioned that 65 suspected cases had been reported in the Ikeduru LGA with areas like Owerri West, Owerri North, Orlu, Ohaji/Egbema and Ngor-Okpala recording cases of the dreaded disease in their areas. It should be recalled that some children also died in Sule-Tankarkar local government of Jigawa state. The head of department for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Mallam Mohammed Maisamari confirmed the deaths. An outbreak of measles and whooping cough was said to have killed these children. The affected children were under the age of five.

Read more: https://www.naij.com/764302-tragic-30-children-die-imo.html

– Fresh outbreak of diarrhea has claimed the lives of at least 30 children in Imo state – The absence of potable drinking water has affected majority of the communities in the state An outbreak of diarrhea has reportedly killed 30 children in Imo state. This fresh outbreak is stated to be common in the 637 communities in the state and it is as a result of the absence of potable water. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter According to the report, residents resort to the use of the locally available water for their consumption. The water available most times is sourced from streams and boreholes not certified. READ ALSO: Why Nigeria was ranked low by WHO for immunization The commissioner for Health, Ngozi Njoku said the death toll from the outbreak of the deadly disease had risen to 30 in the last few weeks. She also said the other affected ones were receiving treatment in various hospitals in the state. This was disclosed when she received some representatives from the Nigeria Agip Oil Company Limited. She stated that four children died last month as a result of the infection in Nekede, the Owerri West council area. READ ALSO: 20 children killed by measles in Sokoto state She also mentioned that 65 suspected cases had been reported in the Ikeduru LGA with areas like Owerri West, Owerri North, Orlu, Ohaji/Egbema and Ngor-Okpala recording cases of the dreaded disease in their areas. It should be recalled that some children also died in Sule-Tankarkar local government of Jigawa state. The head of department for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Mallam Mohammed Maisamari confirmed the deaths. An outbreak of measles and whooping cough was said to have killed these children. The affected children were under the age of five.
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My husband’s mother, sisters blinded my left eye during fight – Woman laments

One Olasunkanmi Lawal, a 52-year-old housewife, during a scuffle with her mother-in-law recently, reportedly lost one of her eyes.

Olasunkanmi said her mother-in-law, Aduke Awakan attacked her when she stopped giving her money.

The mother of two told The Punch that the case was reported at the Adeniji Adele Police Station, leading to the arrest of the septuagenarian and her daughters, Bose Showole (39) and Oduntan Enitan (24), who also joined in tormenting her.

The suspects were subsequently charged to court yesterday.

Meanwhile, narrating the incident, Olasunkanmi said,

“My husband and I live in the family house on Isale-Agbede Street, on the Lagos Island area of Lagos State and we have been there since 1989. We have two children.

“However, my mother-in-law started keeping malice with me after I stopped giving her money. I lost my jewellery business due to the demolition of my shop in 2014 and because of that; I could no longer support her.

“On Saturday, January 16, around 4pm, I returned from work and I met her at home. When I greeted her, she shunned me. I was surprised because I never had any disagreement with her.

“Before I knew it, one of her children, Bose (Showole), punched me in the left eye. I fought back. Her grandchild, Enitan, used stone to hit me in the same eye, while the woman herself hit me with a chair. Blood started coming out from the eye.

“I reported the assault at the Adeniji Adele Police Station and from there I was referred to the Lagos Island General Hospital, where the doctors told me I had lost the use of my left eye.

A medical report from the hospital, signed by one J.O. Owuye, said the victim was diagnosed with, “left periorbital swelling, abrusion at anterior chest wall.”

According to reports, the police arrested the 79-year-old, but later released her on bail after the two other suspects, Showole and Enitan, were produced by the family.

The victim, however, accused the Investigating Police Officer, IPO, Ajekigbe Sarah, of taking sides with the suspects, alleging that the IPO deliberately prevented her from completing her statement at the station.

She said, “She stopped me midway and said I should go to the hospital for treatment, but when I returned to finish writing the statement, she said it was no longer necessary. Even the DPO queried her for the action,” she added.

Following the assault and neglect from the police, Olasunkanmi’s father, Alhaji Ahmed Oshodi, called for justice, but the suspect, (victim’s mother-in-law), denied the allegations.

In her statement to the police, she said, “It was about 4pm. I was at home when Olasunkanmi came in and greeted me and I told her not to greet me again.

“Olasunkanmi is the wife of my son. I asked her not to greet me because the previous day, she abused me indirectly and I decided not to reply her greetings again.

“So, when she came in and greeted me, I shunned her, but one of my daughters intervened and that led to an argument which degenerated into a fight between my daughter and my daughter-in-law.

“I don’t know how she got injured in the eye,” she added.

Showole, in her defence, said she intervened because Olasunkanmi who was her brother’s wife, was “abusing my mother and pointing a finger at her.

“I pushed her hand and she slapped me on the face, then we started fighting. She held my clothes and I did the same. I don’t know what happened to her eye,” she said.

Enitan denied involvement in the fight, noting that the fight was between Olasunkanmi and Showole.

The police on Thursday arraigned the trio before a Tinubu Magistrate’s Court on three counts of assault occasioning harm.

The charges read in part, “That you, Aduke Awakan, Bose Shobowale and Oduntan Eniola, on January 16, 2016, did unlawfully assault one Olasunkanmi Lawal, by giving her fist blows and injuring her with a crate of eggs and stone that led to injury in her left eye.”

The police prosecutor, I. Okeke, said the offence was punishable under sections 409, 171 and 170 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011.

The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The Magistrate, Mr. A.A. Adefulire, admitted them to bail in the sum of N20, 000 with two sureties in like sum and adjourned till March 24, 2016 for mention.

Teachers, doctors commence warning strike in Ogun state

 Reports  have it that schools and hospitals in Ogun state have been shut as teachers and doctors have commenced a one-week warning strike over unpaid arrears. Our correspondent in the state reports that activities in the state have been grounded as the governor is yet to pay their salaries arrears among other demands which include shortage of staff, unconducive working environment. The doctors through their chairman and secretary, Dr Oladunni Adetola and Dr Adetonwa Festus, respectively, informed that the association had written series of letters to the state governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, on the need to restructure health facilities and address shortage of staff without getting any response.

Homeless college student shows true grit in her pursuit of a home, degree

CHICAGO — On a frigid winter morning, Latia Crockett-Holder, 23, emerges from her tent beneath a crumbling overpass in her stocking feet.
In the dim viaduct, where the streetlights are out and water drips from melting icicles like stalactites in a cavern, Crockett-Holder pulls two sheets of baby wipes from a box to wash her face. She squirts toothpaste from a small tube directly into her mouth, brushes and spits into the street.
Then Crockett-Holder laces up her boots, slings a book bag over her shoulder and heads off to the No. 148 bus a block away. She has a 10:45 a.m. economics class at MacCormac College in the Loop.
Crockett-Holder is studying criminal justice and dreams of a career in law enforcement.
It’s an unlikely goal for a woman living in the tent city that has sprouted beneath an overpass in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. For the last five months, she’s lived in an overstuffed tent that she shares with her husband and his stepfather. Inside the tent, she wears a headlamp to study.
She’s been saving money from government assistance in an effort to get into an apartment.
“I could get (more) done in the house and not being in the tent doing homework,” she said. “That’s like the hardest thing ever. You’re bunched up in one tent and you can’t stay focused. You hear people outside your tent arguing and you can’t study.”
Young people like Crockett-Holder will be the subject of an upcoming study by the University of Chicago’s Chapin Hall research center. Starting in May, the center plans to conduct a first-of-its-kind count of homeless and runaway young people in more than two dozen communities across the country.
Researchers will attempt to survey homeless people from ages 14 to 24 in urban, suburban and rural communities. The resulting report is expected to produce state and national estimates on the number of homeless young people and, hopefully, serve as a boilerplate for future research and policy, according to Bryan Samuels, executive director of Chapin Hall.
“Part of the beauty of doing it for the first time is that we’ll do it, publish it and make it all available to everybody, so everything behind the estimate can serve as a methodology that others can improve upon over time,” Samuels said.
The Chapin Hall initiative deviates from biennial homeless counts mandated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Those counts are carried out in the last week of January, typically the coldest time of year, with the thought that it’s the best time to get an accurate count of homeless people in shelters.
Last year, researchers counted 6,786 people in shelters and on the streets, nearly 2,000 of them 24 and younger, according to a report from Chicago’s Department of Family & Support Services. The HUD-required counts have “historically focused on adults,” who are more likely to take advantage of shelters and other services during the winter, Samuels said.
Chapin Hall’s Voices of Youth Count will also have a much more sweeping definition of homelessness that will encompass definitions used by HUD, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and the U.S. Department of Education.
In recent years, social service agencies in major cities have added youth-specific counts. After performing its first supplemental youth-specific count last year, DFSS declined to do one this January in the hope that Chicago would be included in the Chapin Hall count.
Crockett-Holder said she has been homeless for much of her life. After a dispute with her family in west suburban Melrose Park, she bounced between homeless shelters, where often a nightly lottery would determine whether she would have a bed. She eventually settled for sleeping under the viaducts of Uptown, often with nothing more than a pillow and blanket.
That’s where DFSS workers found her during the city’s general homeless count in late January. They pleaded with Crockett-Holder to come to a local shelter, but she refused. She told them she was applying for a two-bedroom apartment she thought she could afford and hoped to be moving in on Feb. 5.
“We try to focus on getting them off the streets on a cold night like this,” said Lisa Morrison Butler, the department commissioner. “Our homeless outreach teams, they’re out here three days a week checking in with people and offering them shelter again and again and again. Sometimes they don’t trust us in the beginning. We have to keep coming back and offering them. And, maybe, on the 50th time, they say, ‘Yes.’”
The next day, Crockett-Holder headed off to school. She sat in the back row of her sociology class, scrawling in her notebook as professor Joanne Howard engaged students on the topic of poverty.
“We think poverty can be eradicated,” Howard said. “We also think it will not be eradicated in our lifetimes. We’re a little pessimistic in the room.
“But we think that our primary and secondary groups can assist us. What are some of lessons we learn from them?”
Students came out with a number of answers. “Interaction.” “How to be self-sufficient.” “Emotional development.”
“Dysfunction,” one student said to his classmates’ laughter.
“Well,” Howard continued smiling, “we can’t learn dysfunction.”
“Motivation,” Crockett-Holder said.
“Motivation is a key thing” Howard said.
Howard had learned Crockett-Holder was homeless only about a week earlier when she went to each of her professors with a doctor’s note indicating she was having emotional issues as a result of medication she was taking.
Crockett-Holder went on to divulge she had been suffering from depression because she was homeless. She assured her teachers she’d be better soon, since she expected to be moving into an apartment.
“A number of students, especially first-generation college students, have various hardships,” Howard said in an interview later. “I’ve had students who were autistic, students who were blind, and students with various disabilities and different aspects of mental illness and depression. So Latia is not very different from them. But she has a lot of resilience, and I appreciate that.”
Crockett-Holder interviewed with the manager of the building where she hoped to land an apartment. But the move-in date came and went without a call.
After several weeks of waiting, she was still living in her tent, coming to terms with her disappointment.
“It’s in God’s hands,” she said.
In the middle of one of her recent classes, however, Crockett-Holder was surprised by an email from the building manager. Crockett-Holder and her family are moving into an apartment.
On Sunday night, she enjoyed a few final moments with her tent city neighbors, wearing a beaming smile.
“We’re moving off the streets,” she said.

Heavy rain leads to evacuations, rescues in California

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A woman died in Northern California after being trapped in a car that became submerged in floodwater on a section of highway that was closed amid heavy rain, authorities said Sunday.
The casualty was reported after a storm that rolled across California on Saturday led to the evacuations and rescues in some low lying areas, where thousands of people lost power after powerful winds toppled trees and power lines.
Chia Xiong, 51, of Marysville, was underwater for about 15 minutes Saturday night because it took divers some time to find the vehicle, which plunged into 6 to 8 feet of water, according to fire officials and the California Highway Patrol.
The driver, who was able to get out of the car, was arrested for investigation of driving under the influence and vehicular manslaughter, CHP Officer Jodie Beck said.
Officers who were at a road blockade saw Neng Yang, 55, of Sacramento go around the closure on State Route 70 in Olivehurst, about 35 miles north of Sacramento, and enter the floodwater, Beck said.
Firefighters rescued four people stranded along the Los Angeles River in the Encino area while in Santa Cruz County people living along Soquel Creek and the Upper San Lorenzo River were evacuated because of rising water.
A second winter storm reached the northernmost part of the state Sunday and was expected to spread across California overnight, indicating that March will not be as parched as it was last month. Forecasters warned of strong winds, heavy snow in the mountains and dangerous breaking waves along the coast.
California is not the only place experiencing severe weather. Conditions are especially ripe for tornadoes in the Southeast and Great Plains. Specifically, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, southern Illinois, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina and parts of Virginia.
Back in the Sierras, the Sugar Bowl ski resort near Donner Summit reported 7 inches of new snow at the summit overnight and slopes full of people Saturday.
"When it snows people are anxious to get up here and get to those fresh tracks," said Lloyd Garden, Sugar Bowl's marketing coordinator. "Die-hards love to ski when it's snowing. It's very peaceful, it's quiet and the turns are fresh and great."
Along the coast at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, a wild sea otter sought shelter from stormy seas in the aquarium's Great Tide Pool so she could give birth, and she had her pup in full view of a crowd of visitors and staffers.
"There it is!" someone shouted and a round of applause followed as the single pup came into the world on a large outcropping of rock amid a smattering of rain.
A seven-day total could approach 20 inches of rain in Northern California and up to three inches in the southern end of the state, where rain is expected to arrive Sunday.
Farther north, a 48-hour winter storm warning went into effect in the state's far northwestern and central areas as well as the Sierra Nevada, where snow totals could range from 2 feet to 4 feet at elevations above 8,000 feet. Sierra snow levels will lower to near 4,000 feet by Sunday, forecasters said.
The Sierra snowpack, which normally stores about 30 percent of California's water supply, was only 83 percent of the March 1 average when it was measured earlier this week. That's much better than a year earlier, but after years of drought nearly all the state's major reservoirs hold far less water than average by this time of year, the Department of Water Resources said.
Starting on Monday and continuing into the rest of next week, ample moisture will be pulled in from the Gulf of Mexico ahead of a slow moving cold front, leading to days of rain for a large swath of the central and southern U.S., stretching from the central Gulf Coast up through to the Ohio Valley.
Heavy rainfall and flooding are possible throughout Oklahoma as a storm system makes its way through the state, with the strongest storms capable of producing large hail and damaging wind gusts, forecasters said.
The greatest threat for the heaviest accumulations of rain are northeast Texas into Arkansas and Louisiana and other parts of the lower or middle Mississippi River Valley, where five-day rain rainfall totals could exceed or 7 or 8 inches

France's 'Jungle' migrants watch helplessly as bulldozers destroy their homes

Viciously cold wind and rain helped dampen resistance in the "Jungle" refugee camp in northern France on Tuesday, leaving migrants to watch helplessly as bulldozers continued the gradual destruction of their makeshift homes.
Nureen, a Sudanese migrant with his jacket zipped up tight around his face to fight the biting cold, watched as the debris from demolished homes was scooped up into a dumpster.
His house was next -- he had been told that police would come knocking early on Wednesday morning.
"Unfortunately, we cannot fight the police," he said. "There is nothing for us to do. We will just be left in the cold winter."
Lines of riot police in heavy-duty gear guarded the zone where workers were pulling apart the shacks in this grim shantytown on the edge of the port city of Calais.

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In the southern half of the camp, that has been earmarked for demolition, many of the shelters had the words "Lieu de vie" (roughly translated as "living space") scrawled on their side.
It was a rather desperate reference to the ruling from a French court last week that said "living spaces" could not be destroyed -- a vague order that appears to mean only that churches and mosques will be left untouched.
Thousands are still lodged in the Jungle, all hoping to smuggle aboard lorries to Britain. A small number are still able to buy their way across the Channel despite major upgrades to security around the port.
But few now believe there is any way to stop the slow but unrelenting advance of the bulldozers as they make their way methodically up from the southern tip of the camp.
- 'Solidarity cannot last' -
Activists and charity workers said some of the evictees are moving into the homes of other refugees in the Jungle, whose homes are not yet targeted for destruction.
"People are helping each other for now, but the solidarity cannot last forever," said a charity worker with Caritas France, adding that most will end up shifting to even grimmer camps along the French and Belgian coast.
There have been pockets of resistance to the demolition.
Violent clashes broke out on Monday when migrants and activists threw stones and set fire to shacks, and police responded with tear gas.
The authorities repeatedly blame a British activist group called No Borders for fomenting violence, but many of those working in the Jungle roll their eyes at mention of the group.
Tom Radcliffe, a British volunteer who helped establish Help Refugees and has been living in one of the shacks that was cleared away on Tuesday, dismissed the idea that No Borders is a dangerous source of disorder as "absolute nonsense".
"They are not sinister -- they're kids," he said. "They sometimes do some rather foolish things, giving people inaccurate information. They can be immature because many of them are very young and haven't seen what happens when things go bad."
- Months of work destroyed -
It took months to turn the Jungle into something where people could survive the harsh winter of northern France. Volunteers worked with migrants, providing wood and tarpaulin to create wind-proof shacks to replace the tents that existed here before.
Now all that work is being ripped apart, but few of the camp's residents are interested in the authorities' offer of proper accommodation elsewhere in France.
They fear, with some justification, that they could be deported back to their first point of entry into the European Union -- as required under EU law.
Others have been turned off France by the rough treatment they have experienced.
"If it was just one person telling me about police violence, I would doubt it, but I hear it over and over and over again," said Johannes Martens, a Belgian monk who has been living in the camp for several months.
He said the presence of family and friends in Britain remained a powerful draw to many migrants.
"If you end up in England and your asylum result is rejected, you'll end up in poverty," he said. "But what you have in England that you don't have here is communities surrounding you to support you."
Britain represents hope to the refugees, said Martens, while the events in Calais have left them only with despair.
"Despair is the main feeling," he said. "They don't know where they're going tonight or tomorrow. They are exhausted

NATO commander: ISIS 'spreading like cancer' among refugees

Refugees from the Middle East and north Africa are “masking the movement” of terrorists and criminals, Nato’s top commander told Congress on Tuesday, despite the protests of human rights groups who say that refugees overwhelmingly have no ulterior motive but escape.

In testimony to the Senate armed services committee, US general Philip Breedlove said that the Islamic State terror group is “spreading like a cancer” among refugees. The group’s members are “taking advantage of paths of least resistance, threatening European nations and our own”, he added.

Breedlove also blamed Russia’s bombing campaign in Syria, in support of autocratic leader Bashar al-Assad, for having “wildly exacerbated the problem”.

The airstrikes, nominally against Isis but largely against the various rebel groups arrayed against Assad, have allegedly killed more than 1,000 civilians, including children. Breedlove said these indiscriminate attacks mean to terrorize Syrians and “get them on the road” toward neighboring countries and Europe.

The Kremlin and Assad intend, according to Breedlove, to use migration as a weapon to weaken European unity and infrastructure. The general said that European nationalist groups that oppose immigration also weaken the continent, and could themselves threaten violence.

Since taking command in 2013, Breedlove has pushed for an aggressive refortification of Europe, calling Russia a “long-term existential threat” to the US, and suggested Europe and the US should do more to counter Assad and Isis in Syria.

Pressed by reporters to back up his assertion with statistics, Breedlove said: “I can’t give you a number on the estimate of the flow.”

Breedlove distinguished between “criminality, terrorist and foreign fighters”, and said that he has seen news reports saying as many as 1,500 fighters have returned to Europe.

“I’m not going to talk to you about intelligence,” he said at a news conference, adding that “many [countries] are saying they see planning happening” for a terrorist attack.

Thinktank and congressional estimates of how many foreign fighters have traveled to Syria vary widely, with 1,500 toward the higher end of numbers of fighters reported to have returned to western nations.

Though Breedlove’s remarks on Tuesday echoed fears voiced by many in the wake of Paris terror attacks last November, human rights activists have stressed that nearly all of those attackers were French or Belgian. Only an extraordinarily small minority of refugees even sympathize with terror groups, activists said.

“We are talking about needles in haystacks,” said Bill Frelick, the director of the refugee rights program for Human Rights Watch. “It’s not to say that there aren’t dangerous needles in those haystacks, but overwhelmingly we’re talking about people who are seeking protection and bear no ill will, and I would say in fact bear gratitude to anyone who’s willing to help them.”

Frelick said that Breedlove’s remarks reflected the refugee crisis “through a military prism”.

“It’s important that none of us dismiss security concerns,” he said, “but pushing people back into the fire can create a domino effect, like closed borders in Hungary, Greece, Turkey, that’s potentially every bit as destabilizing as the kinds of fears Gen Breedlove is talking about.

Amnesty International has similarly called for governments not to exacerbate the crisis by blocking refugees. “Giving in to fear in the wake of the atrocious attacks on Paris will not protect anyone,” Amnesty director John Dalhuisen said in the aftermath of the attacks.

A failure to give shelter “would be a cowardly abdication of responsibility and a tragic victory for terror over humanity”, he added.

Counter-terror experts have agreed that although wars in the Middle East and north Africa have increased the flow of weapons into Europe, most terror suspects and perpetrators have been “homegrown” radicals and sympathizers.

There is “a huge reservoir of sympathizers who all have western or European passports and who were born or raised there,” Reinoud Leenders, a professor at the department of war studies at King’s College London, told the Los Angeles Times last year.

More than 4.5 million people have fled the Syrian civil war since it began in 2011, and hundreds of thousands more have fled wars in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan. Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan have taken in most of those refugees, often in sprawling and struggling camps. The UN estimates that more than 300,000 people have tried to flee across the Mediterranean, and that thousands have died in the attempt. Last month, Nato joined regional patrols to combat human and weapons smuggling across the sea.

Only 2,647 Syrian refugees have resettled in the United States since 2011, after passing through an arduous vetting and resettlement program. Of 784,395 refugees accepted into the US since September 11, 2001, only five have been arrested on terrorism charges, according to the State Department and the Migration Policy Institute.

The UK has accepted about 200 people, in contrast to the tens of thousands taken in by Germany and Sweden. The White House has said it hopes to have accepted 10,000 refugees by the end of 2016, and 10 Downing St has said the UK could accept 20,000 over five years. European leaders have been sharply divided about whether to continue accepting refugees, especially after high-profile incidents including sexual assaults in Germany, the destruction of refugee camps in France and the identification of war criminals in the Netherlands.

Conservative leaders in the US have resisted refugee resettlement programs, and several governors have ordered a halt to funding. A federal court overturned one such order on Tuesday, saying it “clearly discriminates” against refugees. And contrary to the claims of several Republican candidates for president, most Syrian refugees are not young men but children aged 17 or younger.

The Creditor The Creditor Man employs juju to recover debt, escapes lynching in Enugu

A 60-year old man who claimed to be from Kogi State narrowly escaped being lynched by mob on Tuesday for allegedly dropping a fetish object described as juju at a stall in Garriki Market, Awkunanaw, Enugu in order to recover a debt owed him.
But for the timely intervention of the Chairman of the Garriki Market, Chief Abraham Okenwa, irate traders would have sent the man (creditor) to the great beyond.
It was gathered that the man was owed over a hundred thousand naira by a woman yam seller, who had repaid a chunk leaving a balance of N17,000.
But when the woman reportedly failed to pay up the balance at the time agreed by both parties, the creditor decided to bring juju to the debtor’s stall so that if she does not pay, some evil might befall her.
Unfortunately for the man, when he was burying the juju, some people saw him and raised the alarm that attracted the mob.
The debtor yam seller, whose name was simply given as Chidi, is said to be a notorious debtor who would not pay her debt and was in the habit of owing a lot of people.
It was while people were beating him for daring to bring juju to the market that the Market Chairman, Okenwa intervened and invited the police.
When journalists visited the Market, a large crowd of traders and passersby surrounded the man who was knelling and holding a can said to be containing the  charm amidst threat from some young men, who had brought old vehicle tyres to set him ablaze.
Okenwa ensured that the man was not harmed before the police whisked him and the  debtor away. “If I had wanted the man killed, I would not have called the police,” Okenwa was heard telling the agitating traders.
Traders who spoke on the development were however divided. Some condemned the action of the man saying that he should have reported the woman to the market union instead of employing fetish means to recover his debt while some sided the man and said he should do everything possible to recover his debt.
The man who was said to be a farmer from Kogi State, it was gathered had called the woman on several occasions but she would not pick her calls thereby forcing him to employ juju to recover the debt.
A trader who would not disclose his name said the man was right to ask for his money but said he should have sought the  assistance of the market union.
Another trader, a woman, condemned the woman outright. “Why would she not pay the man until the man came all the way from Kogi State with juju. I don’t blame him. They should have settled the matter instead taking them to police,” she averred.
“I don’t blame the man. Some people have formed the habit of not paying their debt. I only blame him for not reporting to the market union,” another male trader said.

Texas fears 'brain drain' now that public universities will allow guns on campus

Whenever headhunters called, Frederick Steiner would tell them thanks but no thanks – he was content in his job as dean of the school of architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. Then the state passed a “campus carry” law and recruiters heard a different answer.

Amid fears that the law’s passage is leading to a “brain drain” of academics and will discourage students from applying, Steiner’s is a high profile departure tied to the new statute. One of the university’s most distinguished professors, he will become the dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design in the summer.

“I was very happy in Austin and love the University of Texas and the school of architecture,” he said. But the law, on top of worries over the effect of budget cuts, persuaded him to move to his alma mater.

“I, in a way, felt that public higher education was under assault, and then the campus carry bill came along and required us to allow people with concealed handgun permits to be inside of buildings and it excluded private universities in the state, even though many of the private universities receive various big subsidies,” he said. “In that context, when I was called in the fall by several universities I didn’t say no.”

The law goes into effect on 1 August. It requires public universities in Texas to allow license-holders – who must be aged over 21 and must have undergone background checks and rudimentary training – to carry concealed handguns on most parts of campus. Private universities can opt out and so far all the state’s major institutions have chosen that route.

Driven by passionate campaigns from faculty and students in Austin, the University of Texas, the state’s pre-eminent public university, has led the fightback against the bill, which was passed by Texas’s Republican-dominated legislature last year. The law allows for limited gun-free zones in certain sensitive places such as laboratories containing dangerous chemicals. But last month Gregory Fenves, the university’s president, reluctantly concluded in a report finalising his campus policies that weapons could not be banned from classrooms.

While proponents argue that more guns on campus may enhance personal safety, and would allow the exercise of second amendment rights, critics reject the security claim and say that campus carry will impact free speech because students and faculty will be wary of exchanging controversial ideas and entering into heated debates with people who may be packing a pistol.

“For me it’s not so much intimidation, I’m not so concerned about my personal safety, it’s more a question of appropriateness. When universities began, they basically began in cloisters and monasteries. And it was a refuge for learning. And so I think the deep origins of the western university is a place of safety, a place away from weapons,” Steiner said. “It doesn’t seem to fit an academic environment and I can’t see how it enhances learning in any way – and possibly inhibits it.”

Steiner said that he had spoken with several other faculty members who are concerned about the law and are reconsidering their futures.

“There was a shooting in Ohio at a school not far from where I grew up and where my grandniece goes to school in the same area,” Steiner said. “Gun violence is not an abstract phenomenon in the United States. I think we take it for granted because it’s a daily occurrence in the workplace and other school environments. I think not to be concerned about it would not be a very responsible thing to do.”

As a dean, he added, he would be in an especially awkward situation when the law comes into effect: “It puts me in a position where I’m responsible for partially administrating a law that I don’t believe in and the people I’m responsible for don’t like it either.”

Media studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan echoed that concern. The University of Virginia professor was a finalist for the role of dean at the University of Texas’s college of communication and in many ways would have relished a return to the place where he earned two degrees. “I love the University of Texas with all my heart,” he said. However, when it became clear that guns would be allowed in classrooms, he withdrew from consideration.

“I concluded that if there were a situation in which a faculty member insisted on having no weapons in the classroom and that faculty member were challenged on that, I would have to be in a position where I would have to decide between supporting that faculty member and his or her decision to protect the sanctity and security of the classroom, or to respect the state law. I concluded that I would in every case have to stand with the faculty member and violate state law. And that would mean I would be fired and I would not want to even put myself in a situation where I would have to make that decision,” he said.

Awareness of the risk of mass shootings on campus is particularly acute in Virginia, where a student shot 32 people dead and injured 17 others at Virginia Tech in 2007. Many who were personally touched by the tragedy advocated for tougher gun laws.

Vaidhyanathan believes that major colleges are acutely conscious of the possibility of gun violence and have adopted rapid response plans using law enforcement officers that are the best way to handle incidents. The argument that campus carry will boost safety is nonsense, he said.

“In the absence of any evidence beyond Hollywood movies starring Bruce Willis, we have leaders basically capitulating to fantasy and stupidity in this weird belief that untrained, unprepared individuals can somehow react to the most horrible and sudden of circumstances in a sober and appropriate way,” he said. “For an institution of higher learning to be forced to capitulate to such stupidity is truly shameful.”

Vaidhyanathan remains concerned that such laws tarnish the collegiate atmosphere.

“The legislature of the state of Texas has not only decided that university classrooms should be less safe than they were before, because they’re basically inviting accidents, misjudgments and potential hostility, but they’ve also decided that the classroom is a potential battlefield instead of a place for contemplation and deliberation.”

Court records: Soldier admits shooting wife, police officers

MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — An Army staff sergeant has admitted shooting his wife and three police officers who showed up at his front door, including a rookie officer working her first shift who died from her wounds, according to court records.
Ronald Hamilton, 32, of Woodbridge, is charged with capital murder in Officer Ashley Guindon's shooting death Saturday. He also faces a murder charge in the shooting death of his wife, Crystal Hamilton, 29.
An affidavit filed Monday states that officers arrived at the Hamiltons' home in reference to a 911 domestic dispute call, and were shot with a rifle after Hamilton met the officers at the front door.
The affidavit says that more officers conducted a sweep of the home after Hamilton was brought under control, and they found Crystal Hamilton's body in a bedroom.
"The accused made statements to law enforcement officers stating that he shot his wife and the police officers," according to the affidavit.
Guindon died of rifle wounds to the right arm and torso, medical examiner Nancy Bull said. Crystal Hamilton died of gunshot wounds to the head and torso.
The Hamiltons' 11 year-old son was in the home at the time, and was unharmed. Crystal Hamilton told her son to run away just before she was shot, said Crystal Hamilton's sister, Wendy Howard.
The boy heard the shots but did not see them, Howard told The Associated Press in a phone interview.
"He's trying to come through. He's a strong kid," Howard said.
Howard said she had not been aware of any problems in her sister's marriage until last year, when Hamilton "banned" their mother from the house.
"Because of her stating her concerns for my sister's welfare and also the welfare of my nephew, she was not welcome to come back there anymore, and for her safety I told her I think it would be best if you did not go back there, because at that time we weren't sure of his state of mind," Howard said.
Crystal Hamilton was private about her struggles and did not detail what was going on with her husband, Howard said.
"There was never anything that she personally revealed to me that would have made me concerned," she said.
Hamilton made initial court appearances Monday, appearing via video from the county jail, an orange jumpsuit covering his 6-foot-2, 260-pound frame.
Hamilton said little, except to request a court-appointed attorney. Ed Ungvarsky, the state's capital public defender, was appointed to represent Hamilton.
Ungvarsky told the judge he spoke briefly to Hamilton on Sunday, and said that Hamilton wanted to rescind permission that he had previously given to police to review his medical and military records. He suggested prosecutors should not be allowed to review any documents they may have already obtained.
Commonwealth's Attorney Paul Ebert said after Monday's hearing that any documents obtained by his office before Hamilton rescinded his permission are fair game.
"If they're on my desk, I'll look at them," Ebert said.
Ebert has been the county's top prosecutor for 48 years and has handled numerous high-profile cases, including Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad. He said Guindon's death has been especially tough on the law-enforcement community and the county as a whole.
"It's taken a toll on everybody. There have been very few dry eyes in the police department the last few days," he said.
Ungvarsky declined comment to reporters after the hearing.
The two wounded officers — Jesse Hempen, 31, and David McKeown, 33 — are expected to survive. Police spokesman Jonathan Perok said Hempen is doing relatively well and is expected to make a quicker recovery. McKeown still faces multiple surgeries, Perok said.
Hamilton was ordered held without bond.
Guindon's funeral will be held Tuesday. Prior to joining the police, Guindon served in the Marine Corps Reserves from 2007 until February 2015, a Marine Corps spokesman said. Among her duties was the processing of fallen service members and their personal effects.
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Associated Press reporter Ben Nuckols contributed to this report from Washington

Man sentenced to life in strangling deaths of wife, children

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. — A Detroit-area man will spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance of parole for strangling his wife and two children with a cable.
Timothy Fradeneck was sentenced Tuesday. The 38-year-old pleaded guilty in January, saying he was mentally ill. The plea qualifies him for mental health care in prison.
His wife, Christie, and two children, ages 8 and 2, were found dead last April at their Eastpointe home.
Fradeneck told police he tried to take his own life by ingesting pills and starting a fire, but that he fell asleep before the fire.
His wife's sister, Courtney Zanni, told the court Tuesday that her sister was ready to leave Fradeneck after "he told her he wasn't going to go to work."
© Provided by Associated Press Druzinski sentences him to life in prison without parole in Macomb County Circuit Court Tuesday, March 1, 2016. Fradeneck pleaded guilty to strangling his wife and two… © Provided by Associated Press Clemens, Tuesday, March 1, 2016. Fradeneck pleaded guilty to strangling his wife and two young children to death last year as they slept. (Regina H. Boone/Detroit Free Press via AP) 

West Texas sheriff: Woman, 36, arrested with pink gun, drugs during traffic stop

Sheriff'€™s deputies in West Texas' Brewster County busted a couple with a load of drugs, scales and a pink gun during a routine traffic stop last week.

According to the Sheriff's Office, Deputy Michael Jurado pulled over Krista N. Lujan, 36, and John Danile Hernandez, 22, for a traffic violation on Feb. 25 in the large county that includes part of Big Bend National Park and an international border with Mexico.
After chatting with the pair, the deputy asked for a K9 unit to head over and give their vehicle a once over.Another deputy arrived with the K9, Skooby, who alerted deputies to the possible presence of drugs in the car, the Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook post following the incident.
Authorities searched the vehicle and found seven bags of meth,two bags of heroin, scales and a pink pistol, according toauthorities.
Lujan was charged with unlawfully carrying a weapon, and multiple drug charges, while Hernandez was hit with charges of possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana, according to the Sheriff's Office.
The Sheriff'€™s Office said the case has been handed over to the DEA for investigation and eventual prosecution.
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Goodluck Jonathan's Minister's Son Beats His Wife, Locks Her Up In The Bathroom

Things are happening these days...marriage to some is sweet, but to many others it's either like a field to play games or a battle field to engage in physical fight.
As you read this, Mrs Christina Onwuliri the daughter in-law to Ex-president Goodluck Jonathan’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and later State for Education, has accused her mother in-law, Lady Viola Onwuliri of undue interference in the affairs of her home, whereby posing herself as a decision maker before issues of husband and wife would be carried out.
According to her, the former Minister made herself a mini-god in the lives of her male children, particularly her husband, Chukwuemeka Osmond Eleihe Onwuliri which makes it unbearable for their wives to handle family issues without the widowed former Minister’s interference.
Few years after their marriage, Christina has revealed that it’s been war between her, the former minister and son over her undue and unhealthy interference in the relationship of her children’s marriages.
“Since our marriage was contracted, my mother in-law has continually decided what happens in my home, thereby having undue and unhealthy interference in the relationship with my husband.
“Between 2011 and 2014, while I was living in Port Harcourt with my husband, he physically and mentally abused me. For example, when arguments concerning on way forward in the marriage, he gets infuriated and physically beats me and locks me up in the toilet for as long as he wishes,” she stated.
As informed, the current happenings which has escalated to the very level of the daughter in-law being locked out of her matrimonial home by her husband after being manhandled and abused by him has been a matter of review before the Nigeria Police and Human Right office in Abuja.
Not only that the former Minister influenced the reason to what made her son to lock his fully married wife out from their matrimonial home, she also went further to separate the daughter in-law from her two daughters who are of two and three years old through alleged abduction.
“In another interference of my mother in-law, she said that my husband is not obliged to keep me in Canada where we based or elsewhere in the world. And after this encounter with her, my husband told me we will be visiting Nigeria in February. I had no misgivings about it.
“When we arrived to the family house in Owerri, I noticed the presence of a Catholic priest, a serving Honourable member of the State House of Assembly and few others that I don’t know their names. Later, I noticed that my husband picked up a bag and was leaving without prior information to me. Cautiously, I approached him to know where he was going, but to my greatest surprise, he violently pushed me into a room and locked me up.
“At that point, I saw those men taking my children away without my consent. Then, I started screaming and was helpless but had no option than to start breaking the window panes in the room to get myself out. When they saw I was breaking the glasses, one of the drivers opened the door and I came out shouting for help, and then my children were nowhere to be found.”
She stressed that they equally seized her academic papers, traveling passports, Canadian residential documents alongside her personal belongings. A plan Lady Onwuliri perfectly carried out with the help of the above mentioned cohorts.
Over the failed move by the Nigeria Police to intervene into the matter, she said that the State Commissioner of Police in Imo State withdrew his men from it, even as he tagged it a marital issue that his commission cannot handle.

Sensing foul play in the handling of her case, the troubled wife has called on the Human Right Commission to please thoroughly investigate the matter before it's too late.