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Cecilia Levine

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5 Maryland Ministers Accused Of Sex Abuse On Scathing Southern Baptist List Five ministers with ties to Maryland were among hundreds of people with ties to Southern Baptist churches accused of sexual assault. "This table was created as a research tool to discover the scope of sexual abuse of children within the Sothern[sic] Baptist Convention," the 205-page report released last week reads. The Maryland ministers on the list include: Joe Nix Ivey, pastor at Barnesville Baptist Church, Walkersville, MD, pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a girl. OUTCOME: Pleaded guilty to a second-degree sex offense in 2012 and received a four-year prison sentence (20 years with al…

by Cecilia Levine

06/02/2022

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4 NJ Ministers Accused Of Sex Abuse On Lengthy Southern Baptist List Four ministers with ties to New Jersey were among hundreds of people with ties to Southern Baptist churches accused of sexual assault. "This table was created as a research tool to discover the scope of sexual abuse of children within the Sothern[sic] Baptist Convention," the 205-page report released last week reads. The New Jersey ministers on the list include: John Janney Sr: In 1985, the pastor of the Calvary Bible Baptist Church in Bridgeton pleaded guilty of abusing three male foster children. Chavalis T. Williams: In 2003, Williams was fired from the Shiloh Bapt…

by Cecilia Levine

06/02/2022

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Hiker From Netherlands Dies After Mysterious Fall From Appalachian Trail In Virginia A 23-year-old man who came all the way from the Netherlands to hike the Appalachian Trail died after taking a 50-foot fall down a cliff in Virginia. Paul Classen was sitting on the edge of cliffs with his feet on a lower rock, just north of the summit of McAfee Knob on Sunday, May 30, Robyn Urdaibay writes in the Facebook group Appalachian Trail Hikers 2022. "He spontaneously slumped forwards and fell," said Urdaibay, who had been hiking the trail with Classen. "He was totally well, just chilling eating breakfast. We think he must have passed out, but we don’t know why and will never kno…

by Cecilia Levine

06/02/2022

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Scooter-Riding Suspects Sought In Triple Inner Harbor Shooting That Killed Teen Police in Baltimore are seeking a pair seen riding a blue scooter in a Memorial Day Weekend shooting that left one teen dead and two others hurt. The suspects were captured on surveillance heading to the scene at the Inner Harbor (201 E. Pratt Street) on Saturday, May 28, where 17-year-old Neal Mack died, city police said. Neal MackTendea Family Two girls ages 15 and 17 were injured, the younger of whom suffered a non-life-threatening graze wound to her head, authorities said. The suspects were seen riding on the blue scooter before the murder, and were also seen fleeing from the scene…

by Cecilia Levine

06/01/2022

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Teen Girl Sexually Assaulted By Jersey City Man She Met At Light Rail Station: Prosecutor A 36-year-old Jersey City man brought a 14-year-old girl he met at a light rail station back to his home where he sexually assaulted her, authorities said. Cashmere Mudayh met the girl at a light rail station in Jersey City on Monday, April 18, then brought her back to his Fulton Avenue apartment, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. Mudayh was arrested Wednesday, June 1 by members of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit on sexual assault and child endangerment charges. He was taken to the Hudson County Correctional Facility pending his first court a…

by Cecilia Levine

06/01/2022

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Linden Woman Stole $350K In Years-Long Medicaid Fraud Scheme: Prosecutor A 39-year-old Linden woman was arrested on accusations she stole nearly $350,000 through bogus Medicaid claims, authorities said. Leslie K. Lassen filed numerous falsified documents with Medicaid in which she under-reported her household income between January 2015 and December 2019, Union County Prosecutor William A. Daniel announced. In June 2020, the Prosecutor’s Office received a trip from the New Jersey Medicaid Fraud Division pertaining to the theft of Medicaid funds by Lassen, said Assistant Prosecutor Melissa Spagnoli, who is handling the case. Based upon those bogus sub…

by Cecilia Levine

06/01/2022

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Amazon Workers 'Treated Like Machinery' Strike At NJ Facility: Report Some New Jersey Amazon workers upset by an imminent job site closing walked out in solidarity Wednesday, June 1. One Bellmawr worker told Eyewitness News he felt he was being treated like "warehouse machinery," not people. Amazon is reportedly closing the Camden County facility and forcing them to take shifts at a warehouse further away, the outlet said. But an Amazon spokeswoman said that Bellmawr's employees are being offered opportunities to work at five different sites that are as close as nine miles from their current location. "We’ll be closing one of our facilities in Bellmawr and …

by Cecilia Levine

06/01/2022

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CPR Performed On Victim Pulled From Car In Frederick County Pond Firefighters rescued a driver who sent his car careening into a pond in Frederick County Tuesday, May 31, authorities said. The victim was found in his car in the retaining pond behind the CVS at 5414 Rotary Avenue in New Market around 8:45 p.m,, the Frederick County Sheriff's Office said. The Frederick County (MD) Fire & Rescue was assisted by sheriff's deputies in extricating the victim. CPR was performed before he was taken to Frederick Health Hospital in unknown condition.

by Cecilia Levine

05/31/2022

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Young Shark Pinged Near Chesapeake Bay A young shark named Martha was pinged just outside of the Chesapeake Bay last week. The white shark, who measures seven feet and weighs 182 pounds, is being tracked by a nonprofit organization that monitors and tracks sharks called OCEARCH. Her dorsal fin surfaced long enough that it was detected by a satellite around 7:15 on Thursday, May 26 off the coast of Norfolk, OCEARCH's shark tracker shows. Martha was the fourth white shark tagged by OCEARCH's expedition to Martha's Vineyard in 2020.

by Cecilia Levine

05/31/2022

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Massachusetts Woman Five Months Pregnant Killed In Double Murder Details have been released in the Memorial Day Weekend double murder in Pennsylvania involving a woman from Massachusetts. Mamadou Kallie, 23, took his 22-month-old child out of the Toyota Corolla after killing the boy's mother and a woman who was five months pregnant Sunday, May 29, Coatesville, Chester County DA Deb Ryan said. Kallie gave the baby to relatives and then carjacked someone he knew before leading police on a pursuit in a bloodied shirt just before 11 p.m. He was found holding a gun to his head before being arrested in Valley Township in Pennsylvania. He was later ch…

by Nicole Acosta & Cecilia Levine

05/31/2022

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