Author: Cynthia J. Beck

Health officials say death has occurred due to infection with a rare brain-eating amoeba in southwest Florida. On Thursday, the fatality was confirmed by the Florida Department of Health in Charlotte County. The government organization had previously issued a warning about the Naegleria fowleri illness a month ago. (According to apnews), Florida Department of Health spokesman Jae Williams said in an email- “I can confirm the infection unfortunately resulted in a death, and any additional information on this case is confidential to protect patient privacy.”  Last month, health officials speculated that drinking tap water for sinus rinses may have contributed…

Police officers looking for a missing baby found the remains of a baby close to where the baby’s parents were caught after avoiding authorities for weeks. Constance Marten and Mark Gordon were arrested on suspicion of child neglect and then gross negligence manslaughter after they wouldn’t say where their missing baby was, who hadn’t seen a doctor since it was born in early January. A member of the public told police that Marten, 35, and Gordon, 48, were with their child near Stanmer Villas in Brighton on Monday night. Hundreds of officers searched open ground over a 90 sq mile…

In a statement to the public, the family of a 25-year-old man who died in an officer-involved shooting in Farmington on Wednesday claims that police are refusing to work with them. On March 1, close to the US Postal Service headquarters at 145 East State Street, Chase Linde Allan, 25, was shot numerous times by Farmington police. Allan’s family stated that they learned of his passing via news reports and that authorities have not contacted them about the investigation. According to the statement, “Our family was not properly notified of Chase’s death as next of kin,” the statement reads. Allan…

On Sunday, Elon Musk defended Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams’ racist comments posted to YouTube last week by accusing the American media of racism. Once racist media are now “racist against whites & Asians,” Twitter’s CEO tweeted. White Mr. Adams remarked on the video that black Americans were a “hate group” and that white person should “stay away” from them. As a result, the comic was pulled from several US publications over the weekend. Mr. Musk maintained his claims that “top colleges & high schools in America” were also racist in the same tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1629751544127037440 Since its debut in 1989, Dilbert…

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has urged his lawmakers to avoid causing “another Westminster spectacle” by voting down his revised Brexit agreement. He urged Conservative MPs to allow the DUP “time and space” to consider the deal. Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading arrangements are the focus of the agreement with the EU. Reestablishing Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government will require the Democratic Unionist Party’s backing. Because of dissatisfaction with the status quo in Northern Ireland, the party has been preventing the devolved government from operating by refusing to attend Stormont. Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, leader of the DUP, said the new arrangement addresses his…

A representative for China’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that the United States ban on the Chinese video-sharing app TikTok is a misuse of state authority and a reflection of Washington’s fears. U.S. officials “have been overstretching the concept of national security and abusing state power to suppress other countries’ companies,” Mao Ning said in a daily briefing. “How unsure of itself can the U.S., the world’s top superpower, be to fear a young person’s favorite app to such a degree?” Under instructions released on Monday, the White House ordered all federal agencies to remove TikTok from all government devices…

In Washington state, the woman whose trial testimony helped put Charles Manson and some of his murderous cult members in prison for life has died. A death certificate that TMZ got shows that Linda Kasabian died on January 21 at a hospital in Tacoma and that her body was cremated. No one knew what caused her death. Kasabian was 73. On the certificate, it said that she had changed her last name to “Chiochios” after getting away from the Manson Family to protect her identity. Kasabian was given immunity in exchange for being a key witness for the prosecution in…

The Nigerian Young Professionals Forum (NYPF) has voiced concerns about how the Independent National Electoral Commission will handle the upcoming 2023 elections (INEC). It questioned the commission about what it claimed were widespread instances of result manipulation around the country, an effort to undermine the will of the Nigerian people who turned out in large numbers to vote in Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections. According to the NYPF, INEC has done a terrible job so far. People’s hopes and trust in the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) have gone for naught because the technology is not yet reliable and…

 A shooting killed one person, hurt a police officer, and shut down a neighborhood near Dupo, Illinois, several hours ago. On Sunday night, a friend of the suspect’s family asked the public to pray. Angela Cates said – “I’ve only spoken to her via text.” Cates is talking about her best friend, whose son, according to the police, locked himself in a house on McBride Avenue near Interstate 255, killed one person, shot and hurt a Dupo police officer, and caused chaos for almost a mile of the neighborhood. You may also be interested in reading our other reports on…

In a violent dog attack in a residential area of San Antonio on Friday afternoon, an elderly man was killed and three other people were hurt. Responding firefighters had to fight off the dogs to get to the victims. At about 1:45 p.m. local time, when firefighters were called to a report of a dog bite, they found an elderly man “being dragged by a dog,” San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood told reporters. Hood said – “They could see him completely bloodied before they got off the fire truck.” Hood called the scene “horrific” and said the firefighters had to…