A Southern California girls’ high school basketball team scored more than 150 points than their opponents last week, a historically lopsided win that led to the coach's suspension.

Arroyo Valley High School put away 161 points in their game against Bloomington High on Monday, Jan. 5.

It wasn't Bloomington's first blow-out loss this season -- in fact, they haven't scored more than 23 points in going 0-15 this year -- but they only managed two points in the game, scored in the third quarter, according to MaxPreps.com.

The 161-2 score is the most lopsided girls’ basketball tally in Southern California history, according to the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin.

Arroyo coach Michael Anderson was suspended for two games this week, team parents said. He missed a game Wednesday that the Arroyo Hawks still won handily, 80-19, and will sit out another Friday, while his son coaches the team.

The school didn't say if it had supended Anderson, saying it doesn't comment on personnel issues. Anderson didn't return numberous phone calls.

"People shouldn't feel sorry for my team. They should feel sorry for his team, which isn't learning the game the right way," Bloomington coach Dale Chung told the San Bernardino Sun.

But Arroyo parent Martha Godinez called the suspension outrageous and unfair.

"Our team is good and we can't help (that) our team's good," Godinez said.

The scoreline grew to a sporting scandal, with pundits across the web, and near the schools, weighing in whether the game was unsportsmanlike.

"It's too embarrasing for the school," said Riverside resident Jesus Espinoza.

Administrators at Arroyo Valley have reached out to their counterparts at Bloomington to start "rebuilding and maintaining a mutually respectful relationship," said the San Bernardino City Unified School District in a statement that noted action could still be taken if necessary.

"We want to use that game as a teachable moment for the rest of our athletes...throughout the school district to understand to play with really great sportsmanship," superintendent Maria Garcia said.

A man caught rummaging around a San Marcos home was arrested as he struggled to get the victim’s car to start.

Sheriff’s officials say Jeffrey Carl Michaels, 48, knocked on the door of a home in the 700 block of Avenida Leon at about 11:30 a.m. Friday.

When the resident peered out the window, he did not recognize Michaels, so he did not answer the door.

Shortly after, the victim told deputies he walked from his bedroom and found Michaels searching through his drawers and cabinets. Investigators believe the suspect got inside through the rear sliding glass door.

The man confronted Michaels, who demanded the victim’s keys so he could use his vehicle as a getaway car.

Deputies say the resident gave them up out of fear. As Michaels rushed to the driveway, the man called 911. Within four minutes, a deputy arrived and found Michaels still trying to get the victim’s vehicle started.

Michaels was arrested without incident, deputies say. He has been booked into the Vista Jail on counts of residential burglary, robbery, auto theft and being under the influence of a controlled substance. He also has prior convictions, according to the sheriff’s department.
 

A local doctor who drank so much that he passed out at his medical office, will now be allowed to treat patients again.

Dr. Jason Lane collapsed while working with the Kaiser Zion Medical Group in October 2013, according to a formal accusation filed by the Medical Board of California.

Lane's blood alcohol level was .39, which is almost five times the legal limit, and his colleagues in the emergency room had to treat him for alcohol poisoning, as revealed in the Medical Board’s accusation.

Those documents, obtained by NBC 7 Investigates, also reveal that Dr. Lane drank more than two bottles of wine, the night before he collapsed at work.

Questioned by investigators after that incident, Lane admitted to "binge drinking" in college, and, more recently, drinking more than a bottle of wine every night to help him sleep.

Lane told investigators his alcohol problem worsened when he returned from military service in Afghanistan and diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

But NBC 7 Investigates has now learned that state regulators are giving Lane a second chance with his medical career.

Effective January 15, Lane will be on probation for 10 years, with a long list of restrictions designed to both prevent him from relapsing and protect his patients.

For example, Lane must submit to random testing for drug and alcohol use for the next decade, submit to psychiatric and medical examinations, and meet regularly with a mental health counselor.

The doctor also agreed to participate in a "Twelve Step" alcohol abstinence program, with a sponsor, for the entire 10 years of his probation.

Another doctor will supervise Lane's care of patients, and Lane will not be allowed to supervise physician assistants.

Julie D’Angelo Fellmeth, a professor of public interest law at the University of San Diego and an expert in state regulatory boards, told NBC 7 Investigates that drug and alcohol-addicted doctors pose a significant threat to their patients’ safety.

Fellmeth said she is generally satisfied with the Medical Board’s handling of the Lane case, but cautioned that alcoholics have a very high rate of relapse.

While acknowledging that she is not an expert in addiction treatment, Fellmeth told NBC 7 Investigates: “If I were the Medical Board, I might have added an additional term of probation and that is that he be subject to 'SoberLink" breathalyzer testing. It's immediate, real-time testing, when he's going to be treating patients. And if he has been ingesting any alcohol, somebody will get a real time notice and stop him from practicing."

She also suggested that Lane’s patients should read the accusation against him, and the settlement and discipline, and decide for themselves if they feel comfortable with him as their doctor.

NBC 7 Investigates could not reach Dr. Lane or his attorneys for comment.

But in those Medical Board documents, Doctor Lane insisted he never drank while at work.

Those documents also reveal that the Kaiser Medical Group fired Lane four days after he passed out on the job.

A car crashed into a Pennsylvania YMCA and almost wound up in the pool — shocking swimmers doing laps Friday.

An elderly woman mistook the brake for the accelerator when she slammed her red sedan partially into the pool area of Ridley Area YMCA on South Avenue in Secane around noon, said Ridley Township Police.

The woman wasn’t seriously hurt, police said.

There were swimmers using the pool at the time, said the YMCA. None of the swimmers were hurt but they sure did get a surprise by the gaping hole left in the wall.

“The Y is open, but the pool will be closed for the foreseeable future,” Michael Ranck, president and CEO of the Ridley Area YMCA, told the Delaware County Times.

Mitt Romney is addressing the GOP's winter meeting delegates aboard the USS Midway Museum on the Embarcadero Friday evening, a week after he told donors he would consider another presidential run in 2016.

The early meeting of party leaders looking ahead to the 2016 Republican presidential primary season has been creating nationwide buzz in Coronado this week. But a big question is whether La Jolla's high-profile homeowner could become the party's nominee again.

Romney hinted at another run as he addressed the party’s winter meeting delegates aboard the USS Midway Museum Friday evening, saying he is "giving some serious consideration to the future." 

“In the last few days, the most frequently asked question I get is, ‘What does Ann think about all this?’" Romney joked. "She believes people get better with experience, and heaven knows I have experience running for president.”

His chances of making a third time running for president a success have been the subject of recent poor-mouthing in media outlets and among prospective rivals.

But former California GOP chairman Ron Nehring said the former Massachusetts governor’s doubters shouldn't overlook this: "He has universal name ID across the country. He has a large existing political enterprise of donors, supporters, volunteers, activists. Everybody knows who he is. So obviously he would go into a race with a tremendous number of advantages."

Still, Republican leaders are encouraging a large field of prospects — from household names such as Jeb Bush, Rand Paul and Chris Christie to others less known outside the party, but highly regarded within it.

While the heavy hitters are a ways off from declaring candidacy, nearly two dozen possibilities have been mentioned as prospects, and it can't be said that Romney's considered the front-runner at this stage.

In any case, GOP leadership is risk-averse in considering the sharp downside posed by a third straight loss in presidential sweepstakes.

"We have to elect a Republican president,” Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus told an audience of several hundred party delegates at Hotel del Coronado Friday. "As we move forward in this election cycle, don't ever lose sight of that. It's not about me. It's not about you. It's not about us … 2016 could be a do-or-die moment for our party."

The GOP has seized control of both the House and Senate since Romney lost his 2012 challenge to President Obama.

And party bosses want to make it a clean sweep by taking the White House in 2016, vigorously talking up their chances at the gathering in Coronado.

"The candidates are all speaking at the public events,” said Tony Krvaric, chairman of the Republican Party of San Diego County. “But the real excitement happens behind the scenes where there are private meetings, and people get to kick the tires — if you will — of the candidates and the hopefuls."

So what's the pressure that would be left in "the tires" of a Mitt Romney candidacy for the White House, after he finished 4 points behind President Obama in the 2012 popular vote and 23 percent behind in the Electoral College numbers?

It's something that figures to give party leaders pause.

"This is why those people who want to do away with the primaries and just kind of anoint a candidate — they're wrong,” Nehring told NBC 7. “Because in the course of that primary contest, we get to decide: do we want to have a fresh face? Or do we want to go with a candidate who almost won last time?"

Meantime, a prominent local Democrat who's served as press secretary to congressmen and senators including Robert Kennedy cautions that Romney's credentials shouldn't be discounted.

"I think too many people, in judging him, judge him in just a solely political context,” said George Mitrovich, president of the City Club of San Diego. “Which means they don't like his politics. I don't think you can do that. I would not dismiss him as being the nominee of the Republican Party in 2016."

In an interview Friday, Mitrovich pointed to Richard Nixon's being elected president after losing eight years earlier: "So why are we so quick to think that Romney doesn't matter? Romney matters!"

Nonetheless, fresh online postings Friday raised continued raising concerns about Romney's viability as a prospective nominee.

Reports from Mother Jones magazine cited a former 2012 Romney policy adviser wishing that Romney wouldn’t run again, and a “huge new conflict of interest program” stemming from Romney family business ventures.

There have been earlier references to Romney as “a retread … recycled … yesterday’s news” – some speculating that he might meet the fate of the late Gov. Thomas Dewey (R-NJ), who lost presidential elections twice in the 1940s.

Jewish women demonstrated Friday outside the D.C. courthouse where an Orthodox rabbi accused of secretly videotaping women taking a ritual bath was appearing, as prosecutors sought to scour his computers for more possible victims.

Barry Freundel, 63, is charged with misdemeanor voyeurism involving six women. Prosecutors say Freundel secretly videotaped women as they undressed to prepare for a ritual bath in the National Capital Mikvah in Georgetown.

A group of demonstrators stood in front of D.C. Superior Court to support women the rabbi is accused of recording. Some carried signs reading "#SAFEMIKVEH" and "#NoPleaDeal."

"It's crucial that everyone, Jewish or not, stand up and say, 'These people need to be treated with respect and with dignity,'" said Carly Pildis, 29, one of the organizers of the demonstration. "I'm Jewish, and if you hurt converts, I'm going to come after you."

"I feel violated," said one unidentified woman who stood in front of the courthouse. She said the rabbi was supervising her conversion to Orthodox Judaism and asked her to take a "practice dunk" in the mikvah.

"I'm concerned I was one of the victims, and I'm no longer in the Orthodox conversion process," she said.

She said the experience drove her away from Orthodox Judaism. "It was so shocking."

At the brief hearing Friday, prosecutors asked for a delay to review all the video evidence obtained from computers that police seized from Freundel's home in October. Prosecutors are seeking to identify more victims.

Additionally, lawyers have filed civil lawsuits in federal and local courts to determine if Freundel recorded additional women in the mikvah. A class action lawsuit alleges at least 100 women may have been secretly recorded.

"I can confirm that the women that we represent have been videotaped. Their space was invaded by the rabbi at a time that was a particularly solemn moment where they were communing with God," said Ira Sherman, one of the lawyers involved in the case.

Freundel was the rabbi at the Kesher Israel Orthodox synagogue in Georgetown for 25 years. The synagogue terminated his contract as of Jan. 1.

A new hearing date is set for Feb. 19.

Over the last five months, San Diego-based Navy aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson has played a key role in the fight against ISIS, acting as a launching point for airstrikes from the Persian Gulf, the ship’s commanding officer Capt. Karl Thomas told NBC7.

“We've launched about a little over 1,100 sorties up over the country at this point. We have delivered more than 400 bombs on different targets,” said Thomas in an exclusive interview Friday.

The sophisticated, GPS-guided bombs used in these strikes have changed the way the enemy operates, according to the CO.

“They don't congregate in buildings in large numbers. They don't create convoys. They certainly are careful,” Thomas told NBC 7.

He reports ISIS is no longer moving freely throughout Iraq and no longer gaining ground, trying to hold on to what they have. Even that may be shifting.

“I think it is safe to say that the momentum they brought into Iraq, they no longer have,” said Thomas.

That momentum is being driven back by coalition forces, and Thomas believes the growing support of Arab nations – with their forces flying beside U.S. planes – is sending a message.

While some U.S. air power is being directed toward Syria, most is concentrated in Iraq, where Americans communicate with Iraqi forces and detail where the Vinson’s Air Wing 17 needs to strike.

The mission is about supporting Iraq in its effort to control its borders.

“I think our air power is giving them that tilt in the balance of power to make that happen,” Thomas said.

And the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier– with more than 5,000 sailors and 65 aircraft – is the backbone of that mission.

“It's a great crew. They are certainly firing on all cylinders right now,” the captain said.

Supporting the crew are their families, many of whom live in San Diego. When the sailors aboard the Vinson know they have that support, it allows them to focus on their tasks at hand, according to Thomas. Their part in Operation Inherent Resolve has reached the halfway point.

Officials are asking for the public's help in finding the man who stole drugs from a CVS Pharmacy in La Jolla Tuesday afternoon.

The man walked into the store located on the 7500 block of Eads Avenue around 2 p.m. He approached the pharmacy counter and handed the clerk a demand note. The note said the man was armed with a gun and wanted Roxicodone, a generic name for oxycodone. The employee complied and the thief walked out of the store with the drugs.

The suspect, caught on store surveillance camera, is described to be 25 to 35-years-old, 6 feet 2 inches tall, with a thin build and scruffy beard. He was seen wearing a blue zip-up hooded sweatshirt with a white design, a white t-shirt, a brown beanie, blue jeans, brown work boots and large sunglasses with yellow lenses.

San Diego County Crime Stoppers is offering up to a $1,000 reward to anyone with information that leads to the arrest of the bandit.

Anyone with information on the identity or location of the suspect is asked to call the SDPD’s Robbery Unit at (619) 531-2299 or the Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at (888) 580-8477.

The man accused of running down a San Diego Police officer with a patrol car answered to charges in court Friday.

William Frank Bogard, 25, entered a not guilty plea to charges of assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer, vehicle theft, burglary and two counts of attempted murder on a peace officer. He was ordered to be held on $1 million bail.

The prosecution said Bogard had been "acting strangely" outside a residence in the 3600 block of Main Street in Barrio Logan Tuesday night and the occupants called the police. After leaving for a few minutes, he came back and broke the window of the house, came inside and "threatened to assault and kill" the people inside, they said.

Officer Jeremy Swett was one of the responding officers and was interviewing witnesses when he was struck by his own patrol car, police said.

Prosecutors claim Bogard got into the vehicle and continued accelerating with the officer still on the hood.

Like a scene from an action flick, the Ford Explorer came to rest suspended partly in the air, hanging from a wire on a power pole.

"The police car is standing up on a cable wire," said Felipe Hernandez, a local business owner who witnessed the action. "It's just something from the movies. Unreal."

Swett, a 25-year-veteran officer, fell from the hood of the SUV and suffered what were described as "serious, serious" injuries. He is still at UCSD Medical Center and is expected to survive, according to police.

Bogard suffered a single non-life threatening gunshot wound to the waist by a second officer on the scene. A canine officer helped take Bogard into custody and he was transported to a nearby hospital for treatment.

As to how the suspect gained access to the patrol SUV, an official statement said Swett had gotten out of the patrol vehicle and "stayed near the vehicle as he assisted with the investigation."

Shortly after the incident, NBC 7 learned of a restraining order filed in 2011 by Bogard's mother. In it she writes her son "...has been suffering from bipolar disorder since he was a teenager...is supposed to be on medication, but doesn't take it."

The order also says, "William has threatened me and I fear going home and having William hurt me."

The request was granted, but expired last October.

Bogard is expected back in court for a status hearing Jan. 23. If convicted, he faces 19 years to life in prison.

Newly released 911 calls reveal some seriously irate drivers forced to stop behind protesters on Interstate 5 in November.

The group of students walked onto the northbound I-5 near Nobel Drive to protest a Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of black teen Michael Brown. The two dozen protesters, all in black, formed a line across all lanes just before 7 a.m. on Nov. 26, 2014.

When calls started pouring into California Highway Patrol 911 operators, callers were informative – helpful even.

One man even tried to offer CHP a way to get down to the protesters.

Caller: I was telling you if you guys wanted to get here quicker, if you just take Charmant Drive right where the Mormon temple is, all you do is hop a little 5-foot fence.
911 Operator: Yeah I don’t’ think we’re going to hopping a 5-foot fence though. Do you see any weapons?
Caller: No, but there are some very angry drivers, understandably.

But as people got later and later for work, their calls became less civil.

One person demanded justice.

Caller: I'm watching this craziness on the I-5 north at Nobel Drive. And as a citizen, I demand that they be arrested. They need to be taught a lesson.
Operator: All right, ma’am.
Caller: It ain’t ma’am. It’s sir.
Operator: Oh, I apologize. But we do have officers on the way and we do have San Diego police responding as well.
Caller: And you’re going to arrest them, right? They’re going to be arrested? They’re not going to just let ‘em be walking away. OK, they outta be arrested. As a citizen of California, they should be arrested!
Operator: OK sir, I don’t know. I’m not an officer. I’m an operator…
Caller: Well tell an officer they need to be arrested. If you need to transfer me to a sergeant, but they need to be arrested. This is B.S.! This is anarchy!

Their ire turned toward the operators, not just the pedestrians. Don’t worry. The operators handled it like champs.

Caller: Why are there no police officers on the 5 North?
Operator: The what?
Caller: Why are there no police officers on the 5 North and UTC? Why do we not have any police officers getting stupid people off the freeway and letting us go to work!
Operator: Thank you sir, you have a good day there.
Caller: Get them out here now!

To their relief, lanes were finally reopened about half an hour later, but not before some drivers had built up much ill will for the protesters.

The constant reminder from operators was "stay safe out there," surely praying no one would jump out of their car and attack the demonstrators.

A CHP spokeswoman said this incident was not typical for the department, and officers had to make sure the protesters were safely removed from the highway, which took some time. 

Listen to the full 911 calls below:

A San Diego man on trial for posting sexually explicit photos of women to a website to extort them for money left his victims distraught and desperate to have the photos removed at any cost, a deputy attorney general told jurors on Friday.

“The victims will tell you they were immediately harassed because of the links to their personal information,” Deputy Attorney General Tawnya Austin said. “Their cell phones were blowing up. You’ll see hundreds of emails where they begged for him to take their info down.”

Opening statements were heard in the case of 28-year-old Kevin Bollaert charged with 31 felony counts.

He contends he shouldn’t be held legally responsible for the explicit photos being submitted to his now-defunct site, Yougotposted.com, by ex-boyfriends and ex-husbands in a so-called "revenge porn" case.

In her opening statement, his defense attorney, Emily Rose-Weber, said she doesn’t dispute the facts of the case – that he posted more than 10,000 images of women and asked them to pay hundreds of dollars to have them removed.

What Rose-Weber does dispute, she said, is whether Bollaert should be held liable for them.

“Is it illegal to host a website where bad things happen?” Rose-Weber said. “Is it illegal to hold up a big blank canvas to anyone who wants to paint on it?”

The deputy attorney general contends Bollaert did break the law.

The photographs came from scorned lovers, hacked emails, stolen phones or secretly snapped photos with the victims’ permission and included links to their social media accounts, Austin said.

They were then submitted to Bollaert’s website to be posted at a cost – to the victims. Austin said Bollaert created a second website, ChangeMyReputation.com, where he allegedly charged the women $300 to $350 have their pictures removed.

The women in the photos were immediately harassed and were forced to beg the defendant to remove them, Austin said. They were told they must submit another photo to Bollaert holding a sign with their date or birth.

“This is essentially 21st century blackmail,” Austin said.

Rose-Weber, however, painted a much different picture of the defendant. She described him as an aspiring web developer who wanted to start a business in the tech industry.

She said he noticed that he could make a lot of money in amateur porn. What the prosecution described as extortion, Rose-Weber contends were his terms of using the website.

“Sex sells. That’s an old cliché but it’s as true today as who first said it,” she said.

The so-called “revenge porn” case is the first of its kind, filed by state Attorney General Kamala Harris.

There is now a California law that prohibits posting identifiable nude photos online after a breakup, punishable with a $1,000 fine or six months in jail.

At least one man is dead after a "tragic" incident at a Lakeside home on the Barona Indian Reservation, sheriff's officials said.

Just after noon Friday, deputies received a 911 call from a woman who said her child was dead at a home in the 1500 block of Quincy Canyon Road. Not long after that, a Barona Tribal Enforcement officer received a call to the same address for an attempted suicide.

Once he arrived at the home, the officer found a 32-year-old man, who walked back inside the home after speaking with the officer.

That's when a gunshot rang out, investigators say.

The man's girlfriend soon came out of the house, carrying a shotgun. She dropped the gun as she walked along the dirt road nearby and then hid in some bushes.

A SWAT standoff ensued, with armored SWAT vehicles, fire engines and medical crews lining up on the street outside a home at Dump Road and Quincy Canyon Road. Canine units were also on the scene.

When deputies finally entered the home, they found the woman's boyfriend dead with a gunshot wound to his chest.

'It appears at this time she did shoot him. It's just a matter of determining what caused that or if there was any circumstances behind that," said Sheriff's Lt. John Maryon.

Investigators are unsure if the woman acted in self-defense, and she has not been named as a suspect. She is being detained by detectives.

Deputies searched the home, but they have found no trace of the reportedly deceased child or any other suspects or victims. Investigators are trying to obtain a search warrant so they can scour the property. Officials say that should take several hours.

The woman's aunt confirmed her niece does have a 3-year-old son.

"It's tragic, and if what we believe happened actually happened, it's going to be absolutely devastating," said Maryon.

Barona Charter School was locked down at 1:20 p.m. and students were released to their parents at 2:30 p.m., an hour after normal Friday dismissal time, sheriff's officials said. One student said they were locked down inside their classrooms for ten minutes before being moved to the gym.

Wildcat Canyon Road was reportedly closed at Founders Way and another closure was reported at San Vicente Road. Dump Road was also closed at Wildcat Canyon Road as of this report.

Homicide detectives are investigating.

This is a developing story. Check back here for updates.

At least one Delaware police officer knows how to shake off the stress of the job! A patrol car dashcam caught a nearly 20-year veteran of the force lip-syncing and head bopping to Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off."

The video, posted by the Dover Police Department to YouTube, shows Master Cpl. Jeff Davis enthusiastically singing along to the pop star's hit single -- his performance punctuated by eye rolls and sassy hand gestures.

"My ex-man brought his new girlfriend... But I'm just gonna shake and to the fella over there with the hella good hair, won't you come on over baby we could shake, shake," mouthed clean-shaven Davis as he fluffed his imaginary locks.

The department made the video, which police leaders said is meant to humanize officers, live Friday and it has already been viewed more than 150,000 times.

Watch the full sing-along below. 

Matty Du Plessis, 11, of Quechee, Vermont, hopes to develop his fame as both a serious golfer and a creator of golf-related viral videos.

"My best round is whatever I shoot tomorrow, but my lowest round was 64 so far," Du Plessis told New England Cable News, adding he'd like to one day be a PGA pro.

The homeschooler said he first picked up a club at 2 years old. Today, he said he plays with his dad, Lee, whenever he can, practicing as many as eight hours a day in the summer. Du Plessis said he once played 108 holes of golf in one day.

"I think about what I want to do behind the ball and then hit," he added, describing his approach to each swing.

On the side, Du Plessis puts together golf videos and photos, sharing them on YouTube, Vine, and Instagram, using the handle "MD_18undapar." They include a putt in which he sinks two balls with a single stroke, and another putt in which he makes a stroke between his feet while casually walking across the green.

In a rap video called "Stop, Drop, and Make a 12 Foota," the 11-year-old tells the camera about how he crisscrosses the world making 12-foot putts, even down the aisle of an airplane. "I try to make stuff that'll entertain people, but it's still golf," Du Plessis said.

The young golfer, who practices in the winter at a friend's indoor hitting area in Claremont, New Hampshire, told NECN he is now focusing on one really specific number: 18 under par. He explained he wants to birdie each hole on a course, in order, in a single round of play.

"I don't want to just shoot 18-under-par on one course, one time--shoot it once and then you're done," Du Plessis said. "No. Shoot it many times on all the best courses in the world."

While Du Plessis was demonstrating his drive for NECN, a TrackMan golf device estimated many of his drives at nearly 200 yards. Many were hit straight, or several feet off-center, according to the device's estimates witnessed by NECN.

Even when he makes a bad stroke, which of course does happen, Du Plessis said he tries his best to remain positive about the game that can be frustrating. "You hit a bad shot? Fine," Du Plessis said. "But the more positive you are, the less your misses will become."

Asked if he has ever heard of a PGA pro scoring 18-under-par in a single round of golf, Du Plessis said, "I don't think so; not yet."

And asked if he will be the first, the 11-year-old beamed, "Sure hope so!" 

EDITOR'S NOTE: The details of this story are graphic and may be upsetting for some

A New Jersey mother is accused of burning her newborn baby to death.

Hyphernkemberly Dorvilier, 22, of Pemberton Township, New Jersey, is charged with one count of murder after she allegedly doused her newborn daughter with an accelerant and then set the child on fire.

Pemberton Township Police officers were called to Simontown Road just before 11 p.m. Friday after a resident reported a fire in the roadway. When they arrived, they found the baby girl on fire and quickly doused the flames.

Davis Joseph said he saw Dorvilier set her baby girl on fire.

"She said it was poop," Joseph said. "She said her dog pooped in her car and she was burning the poop on the side of the road."

Joseph told NBC10 he realized moments later however that what was on fire was actually an infant with the umbilical cord still attached.

"My wife heard the baby scream," Joseph said. "And then I slammed the door shut. She tried to run for it. Then I put her to the ground. That's when we saw it was a baby." 

Dorvilier denied the child was hers, according to Joseph.

"It's disheartening, like a nightmare what I saw out there," Joseph said.

The baby was airlifted to Saint Christopher's Hospital in Philadelphia around 11:15 p.m. and was still alive and breathing. She died from her injuries two hours later however.

After investigators determined Dorvilier was responsible for her child's death, she was taken into custody at the scene of the crime. She was lodged in the Burlington County Corrections and Work Release Center in Pemberton Township on $500,000 bail.

"It's a tragedy," said Robert Cannon, a Pemberton resident. "I'm a parent, a newborn too actually. I can't imagine doing that to a newborn or an adult." 

Authorities say Dorvilier could have dropped the infant off at a police station or hospital anonymously as part of New Jersey's safe haven law.

"It's a crazy world," said Mount Holly Fire Company Lieutenant Nick Allen. "I wish she would have taken better action on it, dropped her off at a hospital or fire company, called the state or police department to take care of the baby." 

Strangers created a memorial for the unnamed baby girl with flowers and teddy bears.

An autopsy on the baby will be performed by the Burlington County Medical Examiner. The details on the girl's birth are under investigation.

A deputy police chief who worked at Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks died Saturday from a rare form of blood cancer, the NYPD said.

Deputy Chief Steven Bonano was diagnosed with cancer after serving as one of the first responders to the 9/11 site. The NYPD declined to say whether his cancer was linked to the site.

Bonano, 53, was a 30-year veteran of the force and was awarded the Police Combat Cross, the department's second-highest honor.

Bonano was born in the Bronx and had earned a master's degree at Harvard.

Thousands of protesters and counter-protesters held American flags and signs outside of a Muslim conference in Garland, Texas on Saturday night.

"We're here to stand up for the American way of life from a faction of people who are trying to destroy us," a man protesting the conference said.

The demonstrations began hours before the start of the program at the Curtis Culwell Center, which is operated by the Garland Independent School District.

The conference is titled “Stand With the Prophet Against Terror and Hate” and bills itself as a fundraiser to build a center dedicated to teaching Muslims how to combat negative depictions of their faith.

"They want for people to see that we are kind, peaceful people," a Muslim woman at the conference said. "We're not here to fight, we're not here to argue. We're just here to show that we're Americans too."

Because of safety and protest concerns, the organizers asked for extra security.

“This is one of several cultural and religious-based groups and events that we have there at the center,” Chris Moore, Garland ISD spokesperson told NBC DFW on Friday. “And we’re going to keep that open to them. This is a non-discriminatory facility.”

The conference and protests come a little over a week after Islamic militants stormed the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people, including the magazine's top editor.
 

A total of 51 measles cases have now been reported in the wake of an outbreak linked to Disney theme parks in Anaheim this December, with all but nine cases directly connected to the park, health officials said.

The total rose to 51 after Orange County confirmed that 16 people have come down with the measles there as of Friday afternoon.

The source of six of those cases was unknown, in a sign that the illness's outbreak was more widespread than previously thought, Orange County health officials said -- the sick people hadn't been to Disneyland or been in contact with confirmed cases that were associated with Disney.

The measles outbreak is expected to continue spreading, since the six non-Disney cases "indicates exposure to measles is more widespread throughout the county," the Orange County Health Care Agency said in a press release Friday.

There were 45 cases in California as of Friday night, health officials said, nine of which were unrelated to Disney theme parks.

There were measles cases in the following California counties: San Diego (10), LA (8), Alameda (4), Ventura (3), Riverside (2) and San Bernardino (2). Six other cases related to the Southern California outbreak were confirmed in three U.S. states and Mexico.

Because health agencies have different reporting requirements, up-to-the-minute information can be hard to come by; by Saturday, the OCHCA reported higher numbers in Orange County than the state did.

The extent of the outbreak was tabulated by combining reports from the California Department of Public Health, OCHCA and Associated Press. It was first reported by the Los Angeles Times.

People with measles are contagious for about four days before a characteristic rash appears, along with fever, cough and watery eyes, health authorities say. Anyone who thinks they have measles should call a doctor before seeking help, so they don't expose others to the illness.

The illness was mostly eradicated in the U.S. through vaccines. Authorities think measles comes to the country from overseas -- there were 644 measles infections in 27 U.S states last year, many brought over from an epidemic in the Phillipenes, the Associated Press reported.

NBC4 reporter Matthew Glasser and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

A Native American chief has blasted the pope's decision to canonize a controversial 18th century California missionary.

Pope Francis announced his decision to make Junipero Serra, a Spanish Franciscan friar who founded nine missions in the state, a saint on Thursday.

However he is now a controversial figure to due to his perceived mistreatment of the indiginous people, and it is believed he forced them to convert to Christianity despite resistance.

Anthony Morales, Chief Redblood of the Gabrielino Tongva Band of Mission Indians, said he was "stunned" and "angry" by the move, and is hoping the pontiff will reverse his decision.

"On all the 21 missions along the coast here our people were enslaved, they were beaten, they were tortured, our women were raped. It was forced labor and a forced religion," Morales said. "There's nothing saintly about the... atrocities on our culture, on our people."

Father Serra himself justified the beating of Native Americans, writing in 1780: "That spiritual fathers should punish their sons, the Indians, with blows appears to be as old as the conquest of the Americas; so general in fact that the saints do not seem to be any exception to the rule."

Father Edward Benioff of the LA Archdiocese defended the conduct of the controversial missionary.

"He lived in a very difficult time and he did the best he could under very difficult circumstances," Father Benioff said.

He also said elevating Father Serra to sainthood was a wise decision on the part of the pontiff.

"By canonizing a great missionary he's showing the whole church we're all called to be missionaries," Father Benioff said, "We're all called to share the love of Jesus with the whole world and to go out of our comfort zones and find those people who need hope."

Pope Francis has said he will canonize Father Serra in September, during a scheduled visit to the United States.

The pope's only official stop so far is a visit to Philadelphia for an international Catholic gathering, though he is also expected to attend New York to address the UN, and to visit Washington for a meeting with President Barack Obama.

"In September, God willing, I will canonize Junipero Serra in the United States, who was the evangelizer of the west of the United States," he told reporters on a plane taking him from Sri Lanka to Manila.

The pope said that because Father Serra has been considered a holy man for centuries, he had waived Church rules requiring a second miracle to be attributed to the candidate for sainthood after his beatification, adding that he was "a great evangelizer".

Father Serra was born in Majorca, Spain in 1713, and went to the Americas in the mid-18th century. He led one of the first Franciscan missions in California.

He arrived in San Diego in 1769, spending most of his life there before dying at a mission in Carmel near Monterey in 1784.

Firefighters evacuated animals from a smoking pet store at the base of a Koreatown apartment building Saturday morning, but couldn't save all of them, officials said.

One dog, about 20 birds and 100 fish died amid heavy smoke at Western Pets at 6th Street and Western Avenue, according to Los Angeles Fire Department officials.

Finches, cockatiels, parakeets, parrots and one English bulldog were lost in the fire, Battalion Chief Jamie Moore said.

The 8:20 a.m. fire was confined to the store, the Los Angeles Fire Department tweeted. No injuries to people living above the store were reported in the three-story apartment building, which was being flooded with smoke.

Animals were evacuated by firefighters, according to the tweet.

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*UPDATE: 3923 W 6TH ST* Fire confined to pet store. Sadly, approximately 20 birds, 100 fish, and 1 dog perished in this smoke charged store

— LAFD (@LAFD) January 17, 2015

The fire was put out just before 9 a.m., 36 minutes after it was reported, the department tweeed, but a spokeswoman said animals were still being taken out of the store after the flames were extinguished. Forty-one firefighters battled the blaze.

Fire officials requested animal control workers come help shelter the animals.