ATLANTA (CBS46/Gray News) – A university in Georgia fired a professor after police said the man was arrested for the murder of a student early Saturday morning.
The Carrollton Police Department said 47-year-old Richard Sigman is charged with murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.
The charges come after police say 18-year-old Anna Jones showed up to a hospital with a gunshot wound on July 30 just before 12:30 am
Investigators said preliminary information indicates that the former professor and another man got into a verbal argument at a restaurant, WGCL reported.
The man reportedly told police Sigman had threatened to shoot him. When security approached Sigman, they saw he had a weapon and told him to leave.
The investigation indicates Sigman then walked into the parking lot and began shooting into a parked vehicle, hitting Jones, who was inside.
The University of West Georgia President Brendan Kelly released the following statement saying in part:
“On behalf of the university, we wish to convey our deepest condolences to Anna’s family and many friends. We know this news is difficult to process and affects many members of our university community. We ask that you keep Anna’s family, friends, and all who have been touched by this tragedy in your thoughts during this tremendously difficult time.”
According to police, friends of Jones immediately drove her to the hospital where she later died.
Jones had recently graduated from Mount Zion High School, the school’s Facebook page says, and had planned to go to the University of West Georgia.
Ethan Lepard, a friend of Jones, said she was a sweet, caring girl and that he “will miss her forever.”
“There are so many good qualities, no one could list them all,” he said. “She was always so positive, and she was an amazing friend to everyone.”
The university is offering counseling and support services to all students, faculty and staff. Resources can be found at westga.edu/wellness.
Students can also call the UWG Counseling Center 24/7 by dialing 678-839-6428 and selecting option 2.
Anyone with information about this case is asked to contact the Carrollton Police Department at 770-834-4451.
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Sen. Joe Manchin said the Inflation Reduction Act was a surprise to most people on Capitol Hill and across the country because he didn’t want to “disappoint people again.”
“The reason people weren’t brought into this, I didn’t think it would come to fruition,” the West Virginia senator told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” on Sunday: “I didn’t want to disappoint people again,” he added.
Manchin was a key holdout on the Build Back Better Plan — Biden’s social and climate spending bill — for more than a year, causing heavy criticism from his Democratic colleagues and advocates.
“With that, I didn’t want to build any anticipation up,” and then have it “come down,” he told Tapper.
Manchin said a select few officials were aware, such as the President. He said Biden “absolutely” knew the act was being built and “gave approval.”
The bill — which includes prescription drug negotiations, climate change solutions, and tax reforms — would be required to pass a 50-50 Senate split between Republicans and Democrats. However, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an Arizona Democrat, may be a holdout on the legislation.
Manchin declined to say the last time he spoke with Sinema. “We work very close together on so many things,” Manchin said, “and she has so much in this piece of legislation.”
Sinema has not made her thoughts on the plan known to the public. “Hopefully, she will be positive about it,” Manchin said. “But she’ll make her decision. I respect that.”
Sens. Sinema and Manchin did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
A fiend tried to rape a woman as she walked her small dog on a Brooklyn sidewalk Saturday morning, cops say.
Video footage released by the NYPD shows the attacker approaching his 30-year-old victim from behind around 8:30 am near Woodbine Street and Ridgewood Place in Bushwick and place her in a chokehold.
He then wrestles her to the sidewalk behind a parked car.
The woman’s dog can be seen frantically barking as the man gets on top of the woman, footage shows.
Police said the perp continued to strangle the victim and assault her over her clothing before he fled east on Woodbine Street.
“This scumbag literally placed her in a chokehold and pushed her to the ground and almost choked her unconscious,” a police source told The Post on Sunday.
The victim originally turned down medical attention but was later treated at Interfaith Medical Center, police said.
She sustained a cut to her neck and bruising and swelling to both eyes, a police source said.
The victim was walking her dog before the suspect began to attack.NYPDThe man wrestles the woman to the ground attempting to rape her.NYPDThe man strangled the woman in daylight.NYPDI have fled east on Woodbine Street.NYPD
The suspect was described as about 30 years old and 5’8″ with a medium build, police said. He had his black hair in dreads, a mustache and chin hair, police said.
He was last seen wearing a black ball cap with a rose design on the front and also had on a black t-shirt, shorts and sneakers, according to authorities.
Anyone with information can call NYPD’s Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS or for Spanish 1-888-75-PISTA.
Former President Donald Trump slammed the reported plan to exchange a Russian arms dealer for the freedom of WNBA star Brittney Griner and former Marine Paul Whelan during an appearance on the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show on Friday, saying the deal “doesn’t seem like a very good trade.”
Driving the news: It was reported earlier this week that the Biden administration was exchanging Russian national Viktor Bout — currently serving a 25-year prison sentence for supplying weapons to a terrorist organization and conspiring to kill Americans — for Griner and Whelan’s release.
What they’re saying: Trump blamed Griner for her detention, repeatedly saying Griner went to Russia “loaded up with drugs.”
“They’re very vigilant about drugs. They don’t like drugs. And she got caught. And now we’re supposed to get her out,” Trump said.
“We’re supposed to get her out for an absolute killer and one of the biggest arms dealers in the world. Killed many Americans. Killed many people. And he’s gonna get a free card and we’re gonna get her,” Trump said , referring to Bout.
“She knew you don’t go in there loaded up with drugs, and she admitted it. I assume she admitted it without too much force because it is what it is, and it certainly doesn’t seem like a very good trade, it does Item?”
“He’s absolutely one of the worst in the world, and he’s going to be given his freedom because a potentially spoiled person goes into Russia loaded up with drugs,” Trump said.
The big pictures: Griner, who has been imprisoned since February, pleaded guilty earlier this month to drug charges in Russia that carry up to 10 years in prison.
However, Griner said that there was “no attempt” to break the law by bringing vape cartridges containing hashish oil into Russia.
Griner’s lawyers also earlier this month told a Russian court that doctors in the US prescribed Griner medical cannabis two years ago for chronic pain.
Orlando Police are looking for the person who shot into a crowd in downtown Orlando early Sunday morning. Seven people were hurt but are expected to recover. It happened in the area of Wall Street Plaza and South Orange Avenue at around 2 am Police say a large fight broke out as the bars and restaurants were closing. They say that’s when someone pulled out a gun and opened fire hitting seven people.”And seven people, especially in the crossfire is bad. It’s bad,” Martin Carmona, a resident said. “I think it’s just crazy because this block is always shut off. There’s always a lot of cops and stuff, so like so just to know it happened right here is pretty insane.” it’s pretty unreal, but the way things are now it’s not really too surprising I guess,” Nico Zografakis, a resident said. Orlando Police Chief Eric Smith says detectives are actively looking for the person who pulled the trigger and are checking surveillance cameras. “Please, we really need the community’s help on this, so please reach out to us if you have any information in reference to this shooting,” Smith said. Detectives were collecting evidence past sunrise. “It’s very unsettling and definitely could’ve been avoided,” William Solomon, a resident said. Some people who frequently visit downtown Orlando are reconsidering going out when there are large crowds.”Like that’s why I came out so early today. I’m like yo, let me go when it’s dead as opposed to when you feel like a sardine out here because anything can happen,” Solomon said. “Things like this shouldn’t be happening right now. I think we all should try to come together.”Police say six of those that were shot were sent to a nearby hospital. The other one went to the hospital by themselves. Police are asking for the community’s help to find the suspect.
ORLANDO, Fla.—
Orlando Police are looking for the person who shot into a crowd in downtown Orlando early Sunday morning.
Seven people were hurt but are expected to recover.
It happened in the area of Wall Street Plaza and South Orange Avenue at around 2 am
Police say a large fight broke out as the bars and restaurants were closing. They say that’s when someone pulled out a gun and opened fire hitting seven people.
“And seven people, especially in the crossfire is bad. It’s bad,” Martin Carmona, a resident said. “I think it’s just crazy because this block is always shut off. There’s always a lot of cops and stuff, so like so just to know it happened right here is pretty insane.”
“Just the fact that that was even able to happen, it’s pretty unreal, but the way things are now it’s not really too surprising I guess,” Nico Zografakis, a resident said.
Orlando Police Chief Eric Smith says detectives are actively looking for the person who pulled the trigger and are checking surveillance cameras.
“Please, we really need the community’s help on this, so please reach out to us if you have any information in reference to this shooting,” Smith said.
Detectives were collecting evidence past sunrise.
“It’s very unsettling and definitely could’ve been avoided,” William Solomon, a resident said.
Some people who frequently visit downtown Orlando are reconsidering going out when there are large crowds.
“Like that’s why I came out so early today. I’m like me, let me go when it’s dead as opposed to when you feel like a sardine out here because anything can happen,” Solomon said. “Things like this shouldn’t be happening right now. I think we all should try to come together.”
Police say six of those that were shot were sent to a nearby hospital. The other one went to the hospital by themselves.
Police are asking for the community’s help to find the suspect.
Brittney Griner in a Russian jail cell (left), Elon Musk (right)ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (left) and JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images (right)
Elon Musk responded to reports of a US-Russia prisoner exchange to free WNBA player Brittney Griner.
“Maybe free some people in jail for weed here too?” I have tweeted alongside a meme on Sunday.
Griner was imprisoned in Russia after officials found vape cartridges containing hashish oil in her luggage.
Elon Musk tweeted Sunday in response to a US-Russia prisoner exchange offer reportedly made by the Biden administration to free WNBA star Brittney Griner.
The two-time Olympic gold medalist has been detained in Russia since February after Moscow airport officials claimed they found vape cartridges containing hashish oil in her luggage.
“Maybe free some people in jail for weed here too?” Musk wrote in Sunday’s tweet, alongside a meme captioned: “People in the US in jail for weed while the government trades a Russian war criminal to free a woman’s basketball player in jail for weed.”
The Biden administration offered to release Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer known as the “merchant of death,” in exchange for Griner and Paul Whelan, an ex-marine accused of espionage, The New York Times and CNN reported last week.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged last Wednesday that the US made a “substantial proposal” to get the pair of Americans released, but didn’t confirm if Bout was offered up in the negotiations. No deal between Russia and the US has been finalized yet, Reuters reported Thursday.
Sunday’s tweet isn’t the first time Musk has criticized the US justice systems’ persecution of marijuana-related crimes.
“Selling weed literally went from major felony to essential business (open during pandemic) in much of America and yet many are still in prison. Doesn’t make sense, isn’t right,” the Tesla CEO tweeted in 2020.
Two years before, Musk was filmed smoking marijuana during a live interview on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast weeks after telling The New York Times that “weed is not helpful for productivity.”
“There’s a reason for the word ‘stoned,'” he told the outlet. “You just sit there like a stone on weed.”
A Brooklyn woman out walking her dog fought off a stranger who put her in a chokehold and tried to rape her, shocking video released by the NYPD Sunday shows.
The attacker ambushed the 30-year-old victim from behind as she was walking her pooch near Woodbine St. and Ridgewood Place in Bushwick at about 8:25 am Saturday, cops said. He put her in a chokehold and dragged her to the ground, the video shows.
The victim dropped her dog’s leash in the struggle and the startled small canine darted part way down the block.
A would-be rapist put a dog walker into a chokehold and tried to force himself on her on a Brooklyn street. (New York Daily News Handout)
As the attacker held the victim in the chokehold he started humping her over her clothing while she struggled to free herself.
She managed to fight him off, and he ran away east on Woodbine St., police said.
The woman, who suffered neck and face injuries, initially declined medical attention but later went to Interfaith Medical Center, cops said.
In addition to video of the attack, cops on released surveillance images of the suspect taken before the attack and are asking the public’s help identifying him and tracking him down.
Photo of the suspect from a surveillance video provided by the NYPD. (DCPI)
He is described as about 30 and 5-feet-8 with a dark complexion, black hair in dreads, a thin mustache and what appears to be a slight goatee. He was wearing a black baseball hat with a rose design on the front, a black T-shirt, black shorts and black sneakers.
Cops ask anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.
California is battling its worst wildfire this year with more than 51,000 acres burned and evacuations mounting.
Chaotic weather is threatening to make matters worse. Crews battling the McKinney Fire in northern California were bracing for thunderstorms and hot, windy conditions that created the potential for additional fire growth Sunday.
A firetruck drives along California Highway 96 as the McKinney Fire burns in Klamath National Forest, California, July 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
The McKinney Fire was burning out of control in northern California’s Klamath National Forest, with expected thunderstorms a big concern Sunday just south of the Oregon state line, said US Forest Service spokesperson Adrienne Freeman.
“The fuel beds are so dry, and they can just erupt from that lightning,” Freeman said. “These thunder cells come with gusty, erratic winds that can blow fire in every direction.”
WEST WILDFIRES: CREWS MAKE PROGRESS IN IDAHO, CALIFORNIA
The blaze exploded in size to more than 80 square miles just two days after erupting in a largely unpopulated area of Siskiyou County.
The blaze torched trees along California Highway 96, and the scorched remains of a pickup truck sat in a lane of the highway. Thick smoke covered the area and flames burned through hillsides in sight of homes.
A horse grazes in a pasture as the McKinney Fire burns in Klamath National Forest, California, July 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
A second, smaller fire just to the west that was sparked by dry lightning Saturday threatened the tiny town of Seiad. About 400 structures were under threat from the two California fires.
A third fire, which was on the southwest end of the McKinney blaze, prompted evacuation orders for around 500 homes Sunday, said Courtney Kreider, a spokesperson with the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office. The office said crews had been on the scene of the fire since late Saturday but that the fire Sunday morning “became active and escaped its containment line.”
TEXAS FIRE DESTROYS 9 HOMES DAYS AFTER BLAZE SPARKED BY LAWNMOWER BURNED 26 BUILDINGS
As the McKinney fire threatened, some residents chose to stay behind while others heeded orders to leave.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Saturday as the McKinney Fire intensified. The proclamation allows Newsom more flexibility to make emergency response and recovery effort decisions and access federal aid.
A man runs to a truck as a wildfire called the McKinney Fire burns in Klamath National Forest, California, July 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
California law enforcement knocked on doors in the towns of Yreka and Fort Jones to urge residents to get out and safely evacuate their livestock onto trailers. Automated calls were being sent to land phone lines as well because there were areas without cellphone service.
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The Pacific Coast Trail Association urged hikers to get to the nearest town while the US Forest Service closed a 110-mile section of the trail from the Etna Summit to the Mt. Ashland Campground in southern Oregon.
River’s Edge Apple River Campground is stopping tubing operations on Sunday, following a stabbing that left one teen dead and four injured this weekend.
The business posted on their Facebook page they will resume operations on Monday, Aug. 1.
People on the campground told FIVE EYEWITNESS NEWS it was a fun, family weekend turned tragic.
“We’ve been coming here for about 15 years just as a family reunion with my mom’s side,” Monica Anderson, camper, said. Anderson calls tubing on Apple River in Somerset, Wisconsin a family favorite. “We hang out and have family time and go down the river, have some drinks,” she said.
But tubing was cut short on Saturday.
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Anderson and her family were floating by when they saw people gathered on the shore giving CPR.
Soon after, they were evacuated from the water.
“We see CPR going on in two groups and it was bystanders,” she said. “The police then showed up and they had to wade through the water because it was down off and they couldn’t drive right up to it.”
The 911 call came in around 3:45 pm on Saturday reporting several people had been stabbed on the Apple River, north of the Sunrise Bridge, while tubing.
St. Croix County Sheriff’s office arrived on scene and found five people with stab wounds in the chest and torso.
According to the report, deputies, first responders and citizens provided medical care to those injured. All five victims were transported to local hospitals.
One of the victims, a 17-year-old boy from Stillwater, later died. The four others had serious injuries, but are stable, according to the sheriff’s office.
With help from witnesses, authorities found the 52-year-old suspect on the river at the exit point for tubers.
“The sheriff came by in a rush and he was like ‘you need to get out people are being hurt,’” Melanie Lu, camper, said.
Lu was tubing on the river with her family when the stabbing happened.
She said it’s the first time they spent the weekend on Apple River and it may be the last. “It doesn’t feel like it’s safe and it kind of like makes you think like we would want to come back?” Lu said.
Related: Suspect to be named Monday in Apple River stabbing that left 1 dead, 4 injured
When Ivana Trump, Donald Trump’s first wife, was buried last month near the first hole of Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, few immediately guessed that her grave’s location might also serve her ex-husband’s long-held tax planning purposes.
Tax code in New Jersey exempts cemetery land from all taxes, rates, and assessments – and her serious, as such, potentially has advantageous tax implications for a Trump family trust that owns the golf business, in a state where property and land taxes are notoriously high.
According to documents published by ProPublica, the Trump family trust previously sought to designate a nearby property in Hackettstown, New Jersey, as a non-profit cemetery company.
But Ivana Trump, who died earlier this month at 73 after a fall at her home in New York City’s Manhattan, is the first person known to have been buried at the golf course, where Donald Trump and his family spend a lot of time in the summers.
Under New Jersey’s tax code, cemetery companies are not only exempt from real estate taxes, rates, and assessments or personal property taxes, but also business taxes, sales taxes, income taxes, and inheritance taxes, according to Insider.
Brooke Harrington, a professor of sociology at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, tweeted on Saturday that she had looked into claims that Ivana Trump’s resting-place might also benefit her ex-husband’s tax planning from beyond the grave.
“As a tax researcher, I was skeptical of rumors Trump buried his ex-wife in that sad little plot of dirt on his Bedminster, NJ golf course just for tax breaks. So I checked the NJ tax code & folks…it’s a trifecta of tax avoidance. Property, income & sales tax, all eliminated,” Harrington wroteafter opinions accusing Trump of being primarily motivated by the possibility of a tax break began pop up on social media.
Harrington later tweeted the full New Jersey tax code for cemetery land. While there is no stipulation for the amount of human remains necessary in order to qualify for the break, sales of wreaths, larger evergreen arrangements, flowers and other similar items are taxable.
While saying she was surprised about the tax suggestions she also accused Donald Trump of burying his wife in “little more than a pauper’s grave” and as a result disgracing the three children they had together, Ivanka, Don Jr and Eric.
And it is. I was surprised. That’s why I checked and why I posted the thread.
I couldn’t believe her 3 kids–whom she apparently loved & who loved her–would allow their father to treat their mother like this. Burying Ivana in little more than a pauper’s grave disgraces them all.
Previous reports have suggested that her former husband has planned to build different types of cemetery operations at the Bedminster golf course.
Last week it was the venue for the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf tournament and was the focus of protests by some families of victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the US, after Donald Trump previously joined opinions that the kingdom was behind the Al-Qaida plot to hijack passenger jets and crash them into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon.
US public radio station NPR reported in 2012 under the online headline “Fairway to Heaven” that Trump planned to build himself a mausoleum on the property, prompting some local objections. That proposal was later expanded to a cemetery that could contain upwards of a 1,000 possible graves.
That plan was later dropped and replaced with a design for a “10-plot private family cemetery” in the same spot, and refined again into a proposal for a commercial 284-plot cemetery, the station reported.
Ivana Trump was buried in a plot close to the first tee of the golf course, following her funeral in Manhattan on 20 July. Her resting place in Ella is currently marked with a rudimentary wreath of white flowers and an engraved granite stone.
However it is unlikely that the 1.5 acre plot would deliver tax exemptions to the entire Bedminster property – any break only applies so long as the plot is less than 10 acres.
But every break counts, and the former president has previously designated the plot as a farm because some trees on the site are turned into mulch used for flower beds, according to the Washington Post.
Trump’s notions to partially designate the golf course as a cemetery date to at least 2014. Plans then filed with local and state authorities listed a proposal for a pair of graveyards – one for the family, another with 284 plots for sale. The Washington Post noted that buyers, presumably avid golfers, “could pay for a kind of eternal membership” to the club.
But Trump, true to form, had not at that time settled on a course of action. Robert Holtaway, a Bedminster town official, said he had doubts about the cemetery plans. “It never made any sense to me.” But, I added, “we don’t question motives. We’re there as a land-use board”.
Trump already has a plot at All Faiths Cemetery in Jamaica, Queens, close to his mother and father, but plans for his Bedminster mausoleum were suitably grandiose: 19 feet high, in stone, with obelisks, and planted smack in the middle of the course .
Trump has kept silent about his plans for how the “Eternal Donald” will be commemorated in the earthly realm. In 2007, then aged 60, he told the New York Post that the golden course mausoleum was a rational choice.
“It’s never something you like to think about, but it makes sense,” he told the paper’s Page Six column. “This is such a beautiful land, and Bedminster is one of the richest places in the country.”
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