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"Jaws of Life" Help Save Trapped Oceanside Dog

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Firefighters were able to save a local dog stuck in a sticky situation Sunday after he wiggled in between storage containers in Oceanside. 

A 12-year-old Rhodesian Ridgeback wedged himself between two storage containers on an elementary school playground around noon Sunday.

A caller reporter their dog, Spike, had run between the containers while playing with kids and got stuck when he tried to get out by walking further between them. Six feet into the gap, the dog got stuck in the space.

The containers, filled with supplies for South Oceanside Elementary School on South Horne Street, were located with less than a foot of space between them.

Oceanside and Carlsbad firefighters helped the owners with freeing the dog after the owners could not get him out with the staff at the Oceanside Unified School District.

“Jaws of Life” from a ladder truck helped save the pup, firefighters said, and moved the containers six inches.

The firefighters turned off their equipment and moved it away to let Spike walk out on his own.

A few moments later, Spike’s tail was slapping the edges of the container as he walked out on his own.



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NTSB Issues Preliminary Report in Ford Plane Crash

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A vintage airplane piloted by "Star Wars" actor Harrison Ford lost engine power after takeoff, leading to a forced landing last week on a Southern California golf course, according to a preliminary report issued Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board.

The report confirms previous accounts of Thursday's crash landing at Penmar Golf Club that left the 72-year-old Ford hospitalized. Details regarding why the single-engine World War II vintage plane lost power after taking off from Santa Monica Municipal Airport were not included in the preliminary report.

A final report could take months to complete.

The pilot of the Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR, registered to MG Aviation Inc., reported engine failure after takeoff and turned back toward the airport, according to the NTSB.

"The airplane subsequently struck the top of a tall tree prior to impacting the ground in an open area of a golf course, about 800 feet southwest of the approach end of runway 3," the NTSB said in a statement Tuesday.

Ford's injuries were non-life threatening, his publicist said.

Ford received his pilot's license in the 1990s. In 2001, he rescued a missing Boy Scout with his helicopter. Nearly a year before, he rescued an ailing mountain climber in Jackson, Wyoming. In 2000 in Lincoln, Nebraska, a gust of wind sent a six-seat plane Ford was piloting off the runway. He and his passenger were not injured.



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Parents Warned of Flasher Near Escondido School

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The Escondido Union School District warned parents of one middle school about the report of a flasher near the campus.

Superintendent of Schools Luis A. Ibarra, Ed.D., informed parents about the incident just before school on Monday, March 9.

Five girls said a Spanish-speaking man approached them from a vehicle stopped on Mission Avenue between Juniper and Fig asking them several times for directions and other information.

Once the girls were close enough to the vehicle, the man exposed himself, Ibarra’s letter stated.

The girls were not touched or harmed in the incident.

Escondido Police will be in place Tuesday morning as students arrive and leave school, Ibarra told parents.

He also wanted parents to remind their children not to talk with strangers.

A search for the flasher and the black, four-door sedan with a roof rank and license plate beginning with the number “4” turned up no arrest.

The district’s letter to parents advised them that the man was described as Hispanic, 30 to 40 years old, thin, with short black hair and a goatee.

Escondido Police has an anonymous tip line for information on this incident or others. Call (760) 743-TIPS (8477) or via our Web site at police.escondido.org.
 

Burger King Drops Soft Drinks From Kids' Meals

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Burger King is no longer promoting soft drinks on its kids' meal menus.

"We have removed fountain drinks from our kids' menu boards and they are no longer merchandised as part of kids' meals," the company said in an emailed statement to NBC.

The company will instead suggest the meals be accompanied with 100% apple juice, fat-free milk, or low fat chocolate milk.

The menu change does not completely prevent customers from getting sodas with the meals. Customers will still be able to request for a soft drink to accompany kids' meals, the company said.

Advocacy groups like MomsRising.org had been pressuring Burger King and other food chains to make the change. 

"Parents and families across the country are applauding as one by one, restaurants are listening to parents and public health experts and starting to do their part to help keep America’s kids healthy,” MomsRising.org director Monifa Bandale said in a statement.

Competitors McDonald's and Wendy’s have announced similar menu changes. 



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Phil's BBQ to Open New Location

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Phil’s BBQ is expanding its smoked meat-eating empire with a new restaurant in Rancho Bernardo.

The former Elephant Bar at 17051 West Bernardo Drive will become a pulled pork and rib haven by the end of this year, the company says.

A remodel of the 7,720 square-foot building is slated to start in April. This location will include a full bar with San Diego’s favorite microbrews and a variety of craft cocktails to sip on while enjoying a full plate of meat.

Sports will also play a bigger part in this spot as they install large TVs and a sports ticker to keep fans updated.

Hiring will start in September, and the owner expects to have 75 open jobs.

The Rancho Bernardo location will be the fourth free-standing Phil’s BBQ, with others in Santee, San Marcos and Point Loma. Since it opened in 1998, the restaurant also opened two outposts at Petco Park and in the San Diego International Airport.

Phil’s barbecue-slathered food has been featured on the Travel Channel’s “Man vs. Food.”

1-Year-Old Boy in Amber Alert Found

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A missing 1-year-old boy was found safe in Mexico on Monday night just hours after police issued an Amber Alert to help find him.

Jayden Santiago was found in Tijuana by U.S. Marshals, Los Angeles Police Department said. He had been taken in San Pedro at around 1 a.m.

The youngster was taken by his father Giovany Santiago-Enriquez, with investigators saying he had slashed the boy's mother and her new boyfriend with a knife in a confrontation beforehand.

"He's good, from what I hear... so I'm happy," the boy's mother Christy Martinez said, "I have to go down there to Mexico to pick him up."

And she said she does not bear any grudges against her ex, despite what happened.

"Honestly I wish him the best, I hope it goes good for him. I don't wish him anything bad. I'm just glad that the baby's fine, that he didn't hurt the baby. All I care about is the baby's wellbeing," Martinez said.

Michael Larkin contributed to this report

Man Accused of Knowingly Spreading HIV Changes Plea

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The man accused of intentionally spreading HIV to an unsuspecting partner pleaded no contest to a violating a state health code the day his trial was set to begin.

Thomas Miguel Guerra, 29, changed his plea Monday and now faces six months in jail and a $1,000 fine at his April 13 sentencing, according to the San Diego City Attorney’s office. This is San Diego County’s first prosecution of willful HIV transmission.

Guerra previously pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor health and safety violation which forbids anyone with a contagious, infectious or communicable disease from willfully exposing someone else to it.

“Mr. Guerra pleaded no contest on my advice, although he’s always denied what he’s been accused of and continues to deny it," said Dan Rodriguez, Guerra’s attorney, in a statement.

His ex-boyfriend says the defendant intentionally deceived him about having HIV. The two started dating in April 2013, and Guerra claimed to be HIV negative, urging his boyfriend to have unprotected sex, the city attorney’s office says.

The unnamed victim, who was HIV-negative at that time, says he later asked Guerra to go get tested together. Guerra tested positive for HIV, and a week later, so did the victim, prosecutors say.

His boyfriend soon discovered message logs on Guerra’s computer, dating back to 2007, in which he references being HIV positive. Guerra even joked in text messages about having HIV and other people not knowing it, according to an arrest warrant.

The couple broke up in August 2013, and the health code violation was brought against Guerra a year later. As he was prosecuted, a judge ordered Guerra to stay off dating websites, specifically the gay dating app Grindr.

The man who was dating Guerra at the time of his arrest said he was shocked to hear the charges against him. As the two dated for a year, the man, who did not want to be identified, said it was like living in a Lifetime movie because the suspect was so caring. 

"And to go from hours away from wanting to propose to him to learning it's a Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde scenario," he said, "it's hard for me to see this man is evil."

This boyfriend said he became HIV positive right before he started dating Guerra, but he told NBC 7 Guerra lied to him about his status.

He then found a texts on Guerra's phone, bragging about infecting people. He said that's why he broke up with Guerra. "I do believe there is some evil in him. It's almost sociopathic," the man told NBC 7. "He doesn't seem to care about the pain he's caused people."

He was granted a restraining order against the suspect on Oct. 28.

City Attorney Jan Goldsmith said this is the first successful prosecution of this kind of case in the state of California since the statute was adopted 20 years ago -- as far as they could find.

"What's important to us is that this law has finally been enforced and we can get this message out," said Goldsmith.

NBC 7 went to Guerra's last known address. A woman there told us he was not available to comment on this story.



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Dogs Stranded After I-805 Crash

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A San Diego traffic collision landed one man in the hospital and his three dogs in county custody Tuesday.

The dogs – a Mastiff, a French Bulldog and possibly a Corgi, were in the man’s Mercedes C230 when the car slammed into the back of a semi along southbound Interstate 805 near Sorrento Valley Road. The accident happened at approximately 10:30 p.m. and may have involved an impaired driver, officials said.

When California Highway Patrol officers arrived to the scene of the crash they found the dogs uninjured but abandoned when their owner had to be taken to a nearby hospital for some minor injuries.

So CHP officers stayed with the animals on the highway until San Diego County Animal Services arrived.

A car jumper cable was used to leash the dogs to a nearby light pole. The dogs appeared to be unhurt and relaxed. 

The dogs’ owner was treated at Scripps La Jolla and underwent a blood test to see if he was driving while under the influence of a controlled substance.

The cause of the crash was under investigation.
 



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Manhunt Suspect's Death Ends "Very Tragic Case:" Police

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An Escondido man believed to have killed his adoptive mother was found dead in his vehicle miles away from the crime scene officials confirmed Tuesday.

Joseph Stuber, 46, of Escondido, was found dead in a pickup truck found parked on Stratford Court in Del Mar.

"This is an ending of a very tragic case," Escondido Police Lt. Neal Griffin said. "An 83-year-old woman who had stood by her adopted son for most of his life ended with a very violent death. It's a tragic situation."

Stuber was last seen driving away from his home on Mountain View near South Citrus around 9:30 p.m. Monday.

Inside the home, police say they found Stuber's 83-year-old mother dead from what appeared to be a gunshot wound.

Just before 8 a.m., San Diego County Sheriff's Department officials confirmed Stuber's Toyota Tacoma pickup was found on Stratford Court between 13th and 15th streets in Del Mar.

“We have determined that the suspect took his own life,” Griffin said.

Escondido police say they opened the death investigation after Stuber's biological father reported that Stuber, a high-risk sex offender, had made some threatening remarks Monday night.

"He's a registered sex offender of the highest order," Griffin said.

When officers arrived, Stuber refused to leave the house. When officers called, Stuber hung up the phone. 

However, at some point, Stuber was able to get out without being detected and law enforcement launched a manhunt.

At about 10:50 p.m., officials were able to enter the home and discovered what they describe as an elderly woman, dead on the floor, the apparent victim of a violent assault.

She was later identified as Stuber's mother. Her name has not been released.

Law enforcement officers say found the suspect's vehicle through the use of a license plate reading database. 

New Measure Could Help 4 Million in Calif. Repaying Loans

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A new measure signed by President Obama Tuesday could benefit some of the four million students with outstanding student loan debt in California.

The Student Aid Bill of Rights, a presidential memorandum signed by President Obama, will direct the Department of Education and other federal agencies to work across the government to help those repaying loans.

More than four million Californian students and residents have outstanding student loans. In total, those in California that borrowed an FFEL loan or direct loan owe an estimated total outstanding amount of $112,268,605,000. That number is the highest in the U.S. In all, more than 40 million people have students loans in the nation. 

The memorandum will create a state-of-the-art compliant system to make sure the Department of Education, colleges and contractors provide quality service.

That website will give students a way to file complaints and provide feedback about federal student loan lenders, servicers, collection agencies and higher education institutions in a timely manner. 

Tuesday's move will also create steps to ensure students understand how to repay loans with monthly payments, analyze new student debt trends to recommend new legislation.

The federal government also released state-by-state numbers outlining how many students have outstanding federal loan balances and the total number of federal student loan borrowers that may benefit from the memorandum.

Texas has the second highest total outstanding amount due with $81,850,800,000.



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Mom Shot TV Kids Were Watching: PD

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A woman in a northwest Chicago suburb fired a rifle at the television as her three kids watched it because she didn't like how much TV they were watching, police say.

Jennifer S. Ullery, 40, of Algonquin, pleaded not guilty Monday to a felony and three misdemeanors, the Northwest Herald reported.

Ullery told police she shot the television because was upset with how much TV her children were watching and because she didn't like the program they were watching at the time, police told the Herald. The children are 6, 11 and 15 years old.

Authorities told the Northwest Herald they did not know how many shots were fired at the television from the Ruger .22-caliber rifle.

Ullery, of the 3000 block of Talaga Drive, was charged with one felony count of discharge of a firearm and three misdemeanor counts of endangering the life of a child.

After Ullery was arrested, the children were placed in the care of another family member.

The incident allegedly happened Jan. 20, but the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services were first notified Feb. 9.



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Dust Mistaken as Smoke Seen in East Village

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Dust mistaken as smoke was seen coming from a high-rise building in East Village on Tuesday afternoon.

Firefighters responded to a report of smoke just after 1 p.m. to the building at 321 10th Ave. Police officers were performing traffic control in the surrounding area.

The smoke turned out to be dust coming from construction crews grinding concrete on the 19th floor.

Firefighters and police left the scene at 1:30 p.m.



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Truck Hits Building, Breaks Gas Line

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San Diego fire officials were warning about leaking gas after a silver pickup truck rammed into a gas line Tuesday afternoon in Pacific Beach.

The vehicle jumped a curb and hit a city building near La Playa Avenue and Crown Point Drive at about 1:30 p.m.

The crash ruptured a gas line, which was blowing out the natural gas.

San Diego Gas & Electric crews was called in to shut off the line and fix it.

No injuries have been reported.



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Free Agency Watch: Franklin Officially Joins Chargers

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As the NFL free agency period officially opened Tuesday afternoon, the San Diego Chargers formally announced acquiring Denver Broncos guard Orlando Franklin.

The move will bolster the Bolts’ offensive line with one of the top free agents on the market this year – something experts think is critical for the Chargers’ offensive success.

Also Tuesday, the Chargers agreed to contracts with center Trevor Robinson for two years and defensive end Ricardo Mathews for one year.

In other news, the team released offensive guard Chad Rinehart for about a $3 million cap saving.

The Bolts' five-year contract with Franklin -- worth about $36 million -- was the biggest news of the day.

Franklin is entering his fifth season in the NFL. He was a second-round pick by the Broncos in 2011.

In 2012, he started every game and allowed only 3.5 sacks for the season, the fewest among right tackles starting every game.

The acquisition was expected this week, though Franklin was replying to fans’ tweets three days ago, saying he was unsure where he would land.

On Tuesday afternoon, he tweeted to a fan: “Broncos never offered me a deal, so I went with a team that did.”

Franklin joins three other free agents or would-be free agents to sign with the Chargers. They include left tackle King Dunlap, cornerback Brandon Flowers and return specialist Jacoby Jones.

NBC 7 Reporter Derek Togerson contributed this report.



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Lawsuit Questions CPUC Hiring Criminal Defense Attorneys

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A lawsuit filed in San Diego demands California Public Utility Commission officials explain why the government agency has hired criminal defense attorneys using taxpayer funds.

The suit filed in federal court Monday alleges the CPUC has violated state code by hiring outside counsel, Sheppard Mullin, without public knowledge or input.

“What we have here is a $49,000 retainer that does not identify who is actually getting that criminal defense,” attorney Maria Severson said Tuesday.

But the CPUC says the state contract manual allows agencies to hire outside counsel, and the California Government Code lets a public entity provide for the defense of criminal actions.

"The CPUC, when faced with responding to a series of complex criminal and civil investigations by both the U.S. Department of Justice and the State Attorney General’s Office, retained the services of an outside law firm with experience in counseling clients faced with responding to state and federal criminal investigations and complex criminal, civil, and regulatory proceedings," said Terrie Prosper with the CPUC in an email to NBC 7.

The suit demands public hearings and expedited proceedings to avoid the destruction of records and emails showing between Southern California Edison and the CPUC commissioners regarding the San Onofre Nuclear Generator Station (SONGS) settlement.

Read details of the lawsuit here.

Severson is among the critics in San Diego who call CPUC financial settlements in the San Onofre plant shutdown "a sellout" from the standpoint of ratepayers. 

In a unanimous vote, the CPUC approved a settlement that requires consumers pay about $3.3 billion over 10 years for the premature closing of SONGS. Shareholders will pay $1.4 billion under the settlement approved in November.

Consumer advocates in San Diego claim it’s an unfair settlement, charging utility customers for electricity they never received.

Former San Diego City Attorney Mike Aguirre is named as plaintiff in the lawsuit filed Monday.

“Public funds are being secretly used to pay attorneys,” Aguirre told NBC 7 Tuesday. “What public official should be free to spend $800 an hour on one of the largest law firms in the world, the white-collar crime unit, to defend the organization when the organization can never be indicted, only the individual.”

Prosper argues the CPUC does not have the "expertise, breadth of experience, resources, or time to handle internally the massive amount of work that needs to be done to effectively manage and cooperate with the investigations, while at the same time fulfilling its duty to act in the best interests of the public."

Aguirre has filed official requests for emails and other documentation regarding dozens of conversations and meetings that led up to the announcement of the SONGS settlement.

Most recently, Aguirre asked why newly installed CPUC President Michael Picker has been deleting all of his emails older than 90 days.


"Ed Brooke Didn't Back Down": Senator Mourned

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Former Sen. Edward W. Brooke, the first black U.S. senator elected by popular vote, was remembered at his funeral as an inspiration to thousands of young Americans and a moral compass for fellow lawmakers before he was laid to rest Tuesday.

Lawmakers, former colleagues and family packed a ceremony at the National Cathedral in Washington that paid tribute to the liberal Massachusetts Republican's life and trailblazing work. Brooke, first elected to the Senate in 1966, died Jan. 3 at the age of 95.

"Ed Brooke didn't back down," Secretary of State John Kerry said in a tribute at his funeral, praising the late senator's moral compass and calling him "the embodiment of a style of legislating that valued substance over rhetoric and public needs over public agendas."

"Brooke shunned the title of trailblazer, but that's what he was," Kerry added.

Washington, D.C., Del. Eleanor Holmes-Norton called the Washington-born Brooke "a self-made senator," pointing out that when he was born in 1919, the District of Columbia didn't have a local government.

"He led a phenomenal life," Brooke's chief counsel Ralph Neas, who counted Brooke as his first-ever boss and his life-long mentor, told NBC outside the funeral. "His leadership was indispensable. He was my guidepost for the last 40-plus years."

Also attending the funeral were former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, former Massachusetts Gov. Mo Cowan and many other lawmakers.

A former captain in the Army, Brooke was later buried with full military honors Tuesday afternoon at Arlington National Cemetery, where his widow Anne was presented the flag.

Before he died, Brooke had told The Associated Press he was "thankful to God" that he lived to see President Barack Obama's election. And the president was on hand in October 2009 when Brooke was presented with the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest award Congress has to honor civilians.

Obama hailed Brooke as "a man who's spent his life breaking barriers and bridging divides across this country."

A Republican in a largely Democratic state, Brooke was one of Massachusetts' most popular political figures during most of his 12 years in the Senate.

Brooke earned his reputation as a Senate liberal in part by becoming the first Republican senator to publicly urge President Richard Nixon to resign. He helped lead the forces in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment and was a defender of school busing to achieve racial integration, a bitterly divisive issue in Boston.

He also lent his name to the Brooke amendment to the federal housing act, passed in 1969, which limited to 25 percent the amount of income a family must pay for rent in public housing.

Brooke received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a White House ceremony in 2004. Five years later, when Brooke received the congressional honor in Washington, he cited the issues facing Congress - health care, the economy and the wars overseas - and called on lawmakers to put their partisan differences aside.



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NY Kids Swing Bats, Brass Knuckles

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Police on Long Island are investigating after high school students brawled with one another using baseball bats and brass knuckles following a lunchroom dispute.

A family member of one of the students involved tells NBC 4 New York the brawl over the weekend was a manifestation of ongoing racial tensions between the students.

The melee broke out Saturday afternoon in an industrial park in Ronkonkoma following a dispute at Connetquot High School in Bohemia, police and family members of those involved say. Authorities say about 10 students were involved in the fight, some bringing baseball bats and brass knuckles.

Video obtained by NBC 4 New York shows several teens standing in a street arguing before the fight breaks out. One person, who is black, accuses a white person of calling him a racial epithet. Then, one of the participants can be seen pulling a metal bat out and handing it to another person.

Then, a person can be heard saying, "Take the brass knuckles off, bro" to the teen who initially had the bat. That person is then heard yelling expletives and, "I'm from Queens, New York!"

The video shows a third teen run up and punch one of the other teens in the face. At that point, all the students begin brawling in the street. 

The fight lasted about 10 minutes, police say. Student Nicholas Abrahamson suffered a broken jaw and was taken to Stony Brook Hospital for surgery. No other students were seriously hurt.

 

Abrahamson remains in fair condition, the hospital said on his family's behalf.

"We are very grateful and thankful for the care he is receiving," the family said in a statement issued by the hospital.

No arrests have been made. The students involved in the fight have been suspended from school pending a disciplinary review. 

Parents packed into a standing-room only Connetquot Central school board meeting Tuesday night to express concern over the violent incident and questioned whether the school did enough to prevent it.

Justine North, a friend of Abrahamson's family, said the teen's mother had "begged" the school to mediate the kids.  

The school district said earlier Tuesday that it tried to intervene following the lunchroom dispute Friday, the day before the brawl, and contacted the students' parents.

"The intention was to make the parents aware of the school district’s concern that the verbal argument could grow into something more serious over the weekend outside of the school district’s jurisdiction," the school said in a statement.

In addition to increasing security measures following the fight and conducting random bag checks on students, the school district said at the meeting it will set up a task force to deal with harassment and set up a mediation system for feuding students. 

School board president Lee Kennedy added that officials were cooperating with police in the ongoing investigation. Detectives from Suffolk's Fifth Precinct were also at the meeting to solicit leads from anyone who might know anything about the fight. 


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"Sniper" Killer Sent to Psych Hosp.

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Eddie Ray Routh, the former Marine convicted of killing former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield, has been transferred to a correctional psychiatric facility near Houston.

Routh, who gunned down the "American Sniper" author and his friend in 2013 at a gun range, was transferred to the Jester IV unit in Richmond, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Earlier this month Routh, 27, had been sent to the Middleton Unit near Abilene to undergo an evaluation and psychological screening that would determine where he would begin serving out his sentence.

After jurors rejected his insanity defense, Routh was sentenced to life without parole for shooting Kyle and Littlefield at a gun range in Erath County in 2013.

An attorney for the former Marine filed an appeal and a motion for a new trial about a week after the verdict.

Man Fatally Shot in Subway: NYPD

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A man was shot and killed by a retired New York City correction officer inside a Brooklyn subway station at the height of the evening rush Tuesday, authorities and sources say.

Law enforcement sources said 32-year-old Gilbert Drogheo was shot in the torso by the unidentified 69-year-old retired correction officer near a stairwell inside the Borough Hall station at about 6:30 p.m.

Drogheo was taken to Brooklyn Hospital, where he died, authorities said.

The retired officer stayed on the scene after the shooting and he was not injured. No other bystanders were hurt, police say. The officer and another person who was with Drogheo are being questioned by police.

Police said a dispute that escalated into a physical confrontation led to the shooting.

Norman Seabrook, the president of the city Correction Officers' Benevolent Association, told NBC 4 New York Wednesday that they believe the retired officer was acting in self-defense. He said if the Brooklyn DA convenes a grand jury to hear evidence in the case, the union would stand behind the retired officer.

Video posted to Instagram showed subway riders being ushered out of the station amid confusion.

Witness Fatima Manuel said she first thought she head a firecracker when the gunshot rang out.

"I was scared," she said. 

Startled straphangers said firing a weapon in a crowded subway station is dangerous regardless of the justification.  

"Obviously there's ricocheting and it's usually very crowded here," said Elizabeth Brett Schneider.

"I'm shocked, this is my local subway station," she said. "I'm here every morning, every evening, and this scares me. That's really frightening." 

All subway entrances reopened by 4 a.m. Wednesday after being closed for hours Tuesday night. There were already widespread subway delays on at least a half-dozen lines Tuesday due to signal problems. 

-- Ida Siegal and Katherine Creag contributed to this report 

Concrete Smashes Into Woman in Car

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A Connecticut woman nearly lost an eye and can’t turn her head after a slab of concrete from an overpass fell and smashed into her car on Interstate 95 in Westchester last week.

Myra Flores, of Stamford, was sitting in the passenger’s seat of her husband’s car and was headed north on the highway on Saturday when a chunk of concrete crumbled down and crashed through the windshield near Larchmont, New York, sending shards of glass and rock pieces into her face.

"When I was in the moment I wasn't so concerned about my face. I was more concerned about my eye because I just had so much pain," Flores says. "I could hear glass breaking and I could hear the wind coming in through the windshield. I couldn't open my eyes and I couldn't talk."

Flores, who was weeks away from graduating from nursing school at the time of the accident, had to get 15 stitches to hold her right eye shut after doctors pulled pieces of gravel and glass from it. She says she cannot turn her head without pain shooting through her body.

Flores expects to learn in a few days if her vision has been damaged. Then she will have to consider whether her planned career in nursing remains a viable one.

Though she was badly injured, and those injuries may have lasting repercussions, Flores says she is fortunate.

"As a mother, even though I was going through the situation, I was grateful that my children weren't in the car," Flores says. "I can't imagine another human being going through what I'm going through now."

Road crews worked on the scene near the accident Tuesday. NBC 4 New York has reached out to the New York State Thruway Authority for comment. 

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