Sunday, December 14, 2014

AMERICAS EARLY BIRD NEWS

‘WE HAVE TO DRAW THE LINE’: Two NYPD lieutenants assaulted as protesters clash with police during march over Eric Garner case

Violence erupts as protesters condemn Eric Garner chokehold death Saturday night While the family of Eric Garner took to Washington, an estimated 27,000 New Yorkers marched in Manhattan in the 'Millions March' rally.

Effigies depicting hangings of blacks found on Cal Berkeley campus amid protests spark outrage

Protesters march through the University of California at Berkeley campus in Berkeley on Dec. 10. Amid national protests decrying police brutality, three effigies of black people were discovered hanging on the Berkeley campus.

Undercover cop pointed gun at Oakland protesters after attack on second officer, witness says

The undercover police officer who aimed his gun at protesters in Oakland was justified, a witness said. The cop who pointed his gun at protesters In Oakland only did so after the crowd attacked his undercover partner, a witness said.

Freak tornado hits Los Angeles as part of Pineapple Express

Stuff was flying everywhere Friday when a low-level tornado hit Los Angeles. Damage was minimal, but a man capturing the funnel cloud on his cell phone was so addled his commentary consisted mostly of him cursing a blue streak. A tornado struck Los Angeles Friday as part of a freakish strike of weather along the West Coast.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JANUARY 16: (L-R) Producer Scott Rudin and Sony Pictures Entertainment Co-Chairman Amy Pascal attend the Sony Pictures Classic 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards Party held at The Beverly Hilton hotel on January 16, 2011 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)

REIGN OVER? Sony exec likely to be fired over leaked nasty emails: source

Woman’s fatal fall from SoHo apartment was accidental, relative says

A police investigator takes pictures and examines a 6th. floor window in 15 Broad Street where an unidentified female jumped or fell to her death. A relative of the 66-year-old woman who died Friday after plummeting from a SoHo apartment building believes it was an accidental fall.

‘It’s ridiculous and so is same-sex marriage’: Pastor uses horse ‘bride’ to protest marriage equality

Pastor Edward James of the Bertha Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi called same-sex marriage a ‘perversion.’ A Mississippi pastor took to protesting the state’s struck down ban on gay marriage with a horse named Charlotte.

Charges dropped against Alabama assistant principal wrongly accused of sexually abusing student

Catherine Bell, a former assistant principal in Pelham, Ala., resigned under pressure and was arrested after a student falsely claimed they had sex. An Alabama educator is picking up the pieces of her life after a student wrongly accused her of sexual abuse.

Sony silences Kevin Hart after executive calls him ‘whore’ in leaked email

A Kevin Hart-stopping move by Sony while promoting 'The Wedding Ringer'

Senate passes $1.1 trillion spending bill, sends measure to Obama

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) talks to reporters after the Senate passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill following a long series of votes, many on procedural matters or to confirm members of the Obama administration, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington December 13, 2014. The U.S. Senate on Saturday passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill that lifts the threat of a government shutdown as Congress attempts to wrap up a two-year legislative session marked by bitter partisanship and few major accomplishments. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) The vote was 56-40 in favor of the measure, which funds nearly the entire government through the Sept. 30 end of the fiscal year.

Tight-knit town of Bladenboro, N.C., becomes center of furor after hanging death of teen

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi The town of Bladenboro covers about two miles of North Carolina real estate, with barely 1,700 residents in the rural outpost.

Obama to welcome home troops in New Jersey to mark end of Afghan war

epa04526691 US President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with his national security and public health teams to receive an update on the Ebola response, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, in Washington, DC, USA, 12 December, 2014. During his remarks, President Obama also addressed the spending bill that the U.S. House of Representatives passed on Thursday night. EPA/DREW ANGERER President Obama will mark the end of America’s combat mission in Afghanistan by welcoming home service members in New Jersey on Monday.

Bette Midler calls in 'sick' to presenting award to Ariana Grande

Four dead, including a father and daughter, in ‘overwhelming’ crash along the Mississippi coast

LOCAL TELEVISION OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT: MISSISSIPPI PRESS OUT; LOCAL TELEVISION OUT WLOX, LOCAL ONLINE OUT; GULFLIVE.COM OUT A tractor-trailer plowed into 11 cars on a highway in Mississippi early Saturday, killing a father and daughter and two young men.

Three Alabama inmates escape from rural jail on foot

Demarcus Woodard, Germayel Culbert and Justin Terrell Gordon escaped from a Choctaw County, Ala., jail early Saturday after assaulting the jailer. Two accused killers and an armed robbery suspect attacked a jailer, then escaped from a prison in rural Alabama, authorities said.

Florida mom forced bed-wetting son to wear dress: cops

Christle Prado (l.) of Winter Garden, Fla., and her live-in landlord Keith Driscoll face child abuse charges after forcing a little boy to wear a dress and makeup, authorities say. A Florida mom and her live-in landlord forced her son to wear a dress as punishment for wetting the bed, authorities said.
New York

Protests delay hospital trip of MTA worker who suffered massive leg injuries on the job

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi A city subway worker suffered massive leg injuries in an accident Saturday at a Brooklyn train station, officials and his family said.

Republican-run Congress won't help Bill de Blasio's goals for New York, insiders say

Mayor Bill de Blasio delivers remarks at the World Aids Day event at the Apollo Theater, Monday, Dec. 01 , 2014, in New York. (Louis Lanzano / for New York Daily News) Mayor de Blasio has touted efforts to build an alliance of Democratic mayors working to push progressive policies Washington ignores.

Top cop who bailed out de Blasio's bishop pal transferred from Brooklyn precinct

Deputy Inspector Kenneth Lehr took heat for case vs. mayor’s pal. The NYPD commander who spared a bishop pal of Mayor de Blasio from spending a night in jail has been transferred.

Raccoon strands PATH riders on New Jersey side of the Hudson

University of Nebraska's Cornhuskers defensive end Jack Gangwish had to kill a raccoon after it bit him while he was trying to take a selfie. WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS PATH riders were stranded on the New Jersey side of the Hudson for several hours Friday after a raccoon tried to eat an electrical line.

PBA president to de Blasio and City Hall: Support not ‘crocodiles tears’

PBA President Patrick Lynch says City Hall should support officers while they are still alive. The head of the largest NYPD union said Saturday that his officers need City Hall’s support while they’re still breathing.
LATEST FROM AROUND NEW YORK

HAMILL Woman behind Brooklyn's Pacific Park development is a success from the ground up

MaryAnne Gilmartin is a rare woman in the construction business who didn’t have family ties to the business. On Monday morning, she breaks ground on 535 Carlton, part of the original Atlantic Yards deal that included Brooklyn's Barclays Center.

'Yes Means Yes' is now norm on N.Y. campuses

Buffalo State College senior Katherine Middleton, sits on a boardwalk near her home as she talks about the "Yes Means Yes" standard during winter-break. Administrative policy may be the new pillow talk on college campuses across New York.

Woman rushed to hospital after water main floods in Queens

"It was so powerful the water shot back and flooded all the back yards and even into the yards a block behind us," Zach Borst said. An elderly woman was hospitalized after a busted water main sent thousands of gallons of water pouring into the street in Queens.

Sen. Chuck Schumer says no to top Democratic spot on the Senate Banking Committee

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., center, the Democratic Policy Committee chairman, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., left, meet with reporters to urge passage of legislation to restore unemployment insurance benefits which expired Dec. 28, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Sen. Chuck Schumer passed up the chance to be the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee.

Angelina: I caught chickenpox, will miss movie events

Pot plants found hanging in 6-year-old’s room: cops

Polk County deputies found pot plants hanging up to dry in a 6-year-old's bedroom during a Thursday grow house raid. This little girl's bedroom was decorated with stuffed animals, pink bedding and marijuana.

Four former Guantanamo prisoners start fresh in Uruguay

Former Guantanamo prison inmate Syrian Ahmed Adnan Ahjam gives a thumbs-up from inside a house in Uruguay on Friday. Four of the men released this week after years of captivity at Guantanamo Bay are starting new lives in Uruguay's capital.

Californians clean up after massive storm system blows through, heads east

Garbage bins form a line between mobile homes after mudslides bury streets in Camarillo, Calif., one the hardest-hit areas during Friday’s storm deluge. The difficult clean-up process began Saturday. Californians cleaned up Saturday from a major storm that soaked the drought-stricken state before moving east to drop rain on the Southwest.

No smiley for Miley! Singer posts odd hospital selfies

CIA lied about torture methods' effectiveness: report

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan. When CIA interrogators were torturing 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at a secret prison in Poland in March 2003, a top CIA analyst asked the interrogators to show Mohammed a photograph of an alleged terrorist named Majid Khan. The interrogators slapped Mohammed, denied him sleep, rehydrated him through his rectum, threatened to kill his children and waterboarded him 183 times. And he offered up details on Khan. (AP Photo, File) The Senate report exposed CIA misrepresentations that seem designed to boost the case for the effectiveness of torture.

Texas dad freed after son killed in washing machine: report

Garland, Texas, police released Joseph Blocker, 28, from jail as they continue to investigate the death of his son. A Texas dad, who was jailed after his 4-year-old’s washing machine death, walked free on Friday as cops vowed to keep investigating.

Suspect arrested in shooting outside of Portland, Ore., high school, handgun found in vehicle

MAGS OUT; TV OUT; LOCAL TELEVISION OUT; LOCAL INTERNET OUT; THE MERCURY OUT; WILLAMETTE WEEK OUT; PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP OUT Authorities say they arrested a 22-year-old man in connection to the shooting near Rosemary Anderson High School.
Sports

Sunday Morning QB: Advice for the Jets ... get Jim Harbaugh!

Woody Johnson knows he needs to make big changes and show Jets fans he’s trying to get things moving in the right direction.

Isola: Losers in the pursuit of Carmelo Anthony are doing just fine

Sometimes the best deals you make are the max players you don’t sign. James Harden is playing like an MVP and has carried the Houston Rockets during Dwight Howard’s 11-game absence.

Madden: Yankees GM Cashman's cool restraint a wise move

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi Yankee legions are understandably frantic after watching 72 total players changing teams at the winter meetings.

Leonard: If Las Vegas can prove fan base, NHL will listen

They could be called the Blackjacks, the Roulettes, or maybe even the Sinners.
In Case You missed it

Busted! From Prince William to Becks, see which stars have wandering eye

Celebrities caught checking out someone else's assets - or getting a look over themselves!

Guess which star was caught driving behind a facial mask?

Watch Cracker Barrel customers give waitress new car

00100 After seeing her jalopy of a car, a Missouri couple decided to leave a new vehicle as a tip for their favorite waitress.

Hacked emails reveal Scott Rudin trashing Angelina Jolie

11251419798, 21334631, Super-producer Scott Rudin bashed Angelina Jolie as a "minimally talented spoiled brat."

NYPD deputy inspector punched by Eric Garner protester

NYPD deputy inspector Andrew Capu was allegedly punched in the head by Jonathan Allen at an otherwise peaceful Eric Garner demonstration. A NYPD deputy inspector was punched in the head by a protester at an otherwise peaceful Eric Garner demonstration

Florida woman attacks twin sister over boyfriend, sex toy: cops

Heidi Creamer was arrested over a fight with her twin sister Holly over "Heidi's boyfriend and a sexual toy (vibrator)". Heidi Creamer, 48, allegedly punched, kicked and scratched her sibling Holly at their Ellenton apartment.
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Hot damn, Pam! Playmate still smolders at age 47

Pam Anderson for Love Magazine as part of a sexy advent calendar for the Christmas season

10 people indicted in $1 million scam for selling bogus airline tickets that left victims stranded at airport

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi Ten people were indicted in a $1 million scam for selling bogus airline tickets to about 200 people, authorities said Friday.

Two U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan, official says

Two American soldiers were killed near Kabul overnight Friday. Enemies attacked their convoy near Bagram Airbase near Kabul, the unnamed official told NBC News Saturday.

NYPD cop accused of cashing stolen checks worth $7,000 — even pulling out his shield during one transaction

These are 81st Precinct police going on patrol or already on patrol in the Bedford Stuyvesant and Bushwick, Brooklyn community. This is the stationhouse on Ralph Avenue. Officer Gerardo Laera, 24, of the 81st Precinct in Brooklyn, was working a second job at a Queens paint store when he stole two checks from a real estate firm, prosecutors say.

Jolie stares down Sony exec after 'spoiled brat' email

Angelina Jolie gives Amy Pascal a death glare after emails leaked from Sony.

Leading conservative politician in France outed as gay: report

Cover of French magazine Closer that outed far-right politician Florian Philippot. He's seen up in the right corner on vacation in Vienna with another man. A leading far-right French politician has been outed as gay by a gossip magazine.

'Somebody is responsible': Minnesota college student falls in creek, freezes to death after night of drinking

Minnesota college student freezes to death after falling in creek, passing out in snow following night out drinking: cops Bemidji State University freshman Sandra Lommen, 20, was walking home when she stumbled off the path and fell in a creek before falling in the snow early Wednesday, police said.

High school girls' basketball coach in 'racial bullying' firestorm after calling black player ‘Buckwheat’

A Texas high school girls’ basketball coach is on leave after he called a black player “Buckwheat” in reference to the “Little Rascals” character. A Texas school district placed a girls’ basketball coach on administrative leave after he repeatedly took racial jabs at black players, calling one teen “Buckwheat” after the 'Little Rascals' character, parents say.

'Housewives' star sued after pit bull allegedly attacks pal

Vermont snow leaves 13,000 without power days after storm

Green Mountain Power crews cuts limbs overhanging powerline on Thursday in Waterbury, Vt.

Top Afghan official among 19 dead in three Taliban attacks

Afghan security forces inspect at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul December 13, 2014.

An earl-y look at season 5 of ‘Downton Abbey’

Hugh Bonneville on what this next season of PBS shown 'Downton Abbey' holds in store for himself and his co-stars

Missing Houston baby located in Mexico after mother’s body found

Anastacia Oaikhena Lambert, 27, of Houston, Texas was found stabbed to death and stuffed inside the of a refrigerator in her apartment. Her 11 month old child, Achilles Lambert (pictured) is currently missing.

Teen fatally shoots himself while on FaceTime with friend

Blake Hannett, 15, died Thursday night after accidentally shooting himself in the head while video chatting with a friend online.
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Great gifts for kids of all ages during the holidays

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Holiday TV gift guide 2014. It doesn't matter what your favorite show is — we've got you covered.

Gamer's delight: There's plenty for everyone to play

Super Smash Bros. is one of the Daily News’ picks for gamers this holiday season. This Christmas and Chanukah, it’s all about the games. About time, right? For the last two years it was a series of new consoles.

PHOTOS Some of the best gifts come in small packages!

Stocking stuffer ideas for kids and adults all in one gallery

PHOTOS From tech rings to touch phone gloves — the gift of gadgets

Fun and useful electronic gifts for the holidays There’s something for all your tech lovers this holiday season!

PHOTOS PUT A SPIN ON GIVING! Festive gifts for Hanukkah, from menorahs to dreidels

Channukah gifts for the season From menorahs to dreidels, check out these festive gifts for the eight-day holiday!
Autos

2016 Toyota Tacoma to debut at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show

Toyota has released this one teaser image of the 2016 Tacoma pickup ahead of the truck's debut in Janaury, during the 2015 Detroit Auto Show. The Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon have crashed Toyota’s party in the long-dormant, but now hotly-contested midsize pickup truck market.
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Holy smokes! Ben lights up while out with wife Jennifer

British cops hunting clown in nightclub restroom assaults

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Ex-Miss NY to Match.com: Tell me who's posing as me

Former Miss New York wants Match.com to give information on person impersonating her on dating website

Woman jailed for yelling ‘f--- the police’ wins $100G

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Greenpeace damages delicate Nazca lines in Peru

Greenpeace activists stand next to massive letters delivering the message "Time for Change: The Future is Renewable" next to the hummingbird geoglyph in Nazca in Peru.

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Creed frontman loses custody of three kids: report

Cop brings donations to granny caught stealing food

Image #: 33706054 Helen Johnson thanks Tarrant Police officer William Stacy with a hug in her kitchen. Tarrant Police officers including Officer William Stacy deliver bags of food to Helen Johnson. Officer Stacy bought the one dozen eggs that Johnson stole from a local store and didn't arrest her. The act to kindness was recorded and Johnson says it changed her life. AL.COM /Landov

New York Lottery hands out $30 million in prizes

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