The brother of the Bell Gardens mayor police said was shot dead by his wife said Wednesday he will always love his sister-in-law, though he wishes she hadn't taken "matters into her own hands."

Daniel Crespo, 45, was gunned down at his family home Tuesday afternoon after punching his 19-year-old son, Daniel Jr., in the face when the teen tried to intervene in a fight between his parents, investigators said. Police said Crespo's 43-year-old wife, Lyvette, then grabbed a gun and shot the mayor multiple times in his upper body.

The mayor died at a hospital. His brother, William Crespo, said he's conflicted about what happened.

"If it was that, she should've called 911. She shouldn't take matters into her own hands. She's not the cops," he said. "I love her; I still love her. She's still my sister-in-law; I'm always going to love her."

Neighbors told NBC4 they were in shock and never expected their friend would be shot and killed.

"I don't believe what happened in here, because he is my neighbor, and he was a very friendly person," Laura de la Cruz said. "I don't believe it."

Crespo's wife and son were questioned at the Bell Gardens police station. Several hours later, sheriff's detectives said the pair had been released and that no arrests had been made.

"He was working so much and helping the community so much, and I remember he would always give out gifts for the children," Cruz's daughter said. "I didn't believe it was Crespo, because he did so much for this community. He just helped so many people."

Sources told NBC4 the mayor lived at the two-story condominium with his wife, 19-year-old son and 26-year-old daughter, who was not present at the time of the shooting.

"I'd see them as a normal family," said Janet Morales, who said she's known the couple for 25 years. "Never have I seen violence before. That is the reason why I'm in shock."

Investigators have not released additional details about the shooting, and prosecutors will decide whether to press charges against Crespo's wife in his death.

"We don't know exactly what happened," said Alberto Bernal, who met Crespo during his campaign for City Council in 2001. "Only the people involved at the scenes know exactly what happened and to take images and information out of context, it's sad.

"It's just heart-breaking that my friend is no longer with us," Bernal said.

According to the city’s website, Crespo was a Brooklyn, New York, native who had been married to his high school sweetheart since 1986. After moving to Bell Gardens, he worked as a Los Angeles County deputy probation officer for 15 years. He was elected to the Bell Gardens City Council in 2001.

The city issued a statement Wednesday and said Tuesday's shooting "have stunned this very close-knit community."

"This is a tremendous loss for Bell Gardens," City Manager Philip Wagner said in the statement.

Grief counselors were staffed at City Hall on Wednesday to help city employees and will be made available to community members, the statement read.

Bell Gardens is a suburb of about 42,000 residents. It's located roughly 18 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

Willian Avila and John Cádiz Klemack contributed to this report.

A computer program designed to protect kids online has potential privacy issues.

The internet monitoring program called Computer Cop allows parents to look for inappropriate content on their kids computers. The district attorney’s office gives the program to local parents free of charge.

But now, the DA's office admits there are potential privacy problems, specifically with the key stroke logging feature.

“If it’s something that parents are uncomfortable with they can disable it and use the products, other features,” said Brendan McHugh with the DA’s office.

However, one computer security expert says he would not encourage parents to use Computer Cop. Stephen Cobb with ESET says the keystroke logging feature has the ability to expose sensitive information to outsiders.

“This particular piece of software came out some time ago, and I think I would be moving on from that to something that is more secure and has more capabilities,” he said.

Cobb says Windows and MAC operating systems already come with parental controls on their computers and parents should become familiar with those. Alternatively, parents can purchase more advanced security programs.
 

A man with a shotgun took matter into his own hands to bring done a drone flying over his neighbor’s home, according to police along the Jersey Shore.

Lower Township Police said they received a call Friday around 5:30 p.m. from the drone’s owner, who said he was flying the device over his friend’s home along the 1000 block of Seashore Drive in Lower Township, Cape May County, to gather some aerial photographs of construction being done at the home when the drone suddenly went down.

Right before the man lost control of his drone he heard what sounded like several gunshot blasts, said investigators.

When he recovered the drone, the owner found several holes in the device, police said.

When police arrived, the victim pointed them in the direction of where he heard the blasts. Police then went to 32-year-old Russell Percenti’s home.

There, officers found the shotgun used to shoot down the drone, police said. Police didn’t say why Percenti, a waiter at a local eatery, allegedly pulled the trigger.

Percenti posted $250 in bail after being arraigned on criminal mischief and weapons charges.

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A suspect riding a motorcycle is still on the loose after leading police on a chase through Escondido Wednesday night.

Escondido Police tried to pull the motorcyclist over just before 8 p.m. near East Valley and Bear Valley parkways.

When the suspect did not pull over, police pursued for a short time until the person bailed off the motorcycle and took off on foot.

Officers are now setting up a perimeter in the area.

Check back here for details on this breaking news story.

President Barack Obama surprised diners at River North's RPM Steak Wednesday night during his Chicago visit, ahead of a planned speech and a campaign event for Gov. Pat Quinn.

The president is in the city for a closed-door fundraiser for Quinn at a downtown hotel and a speech on the economy at Northwestern University Thursday.

Obama's Wednesday night schedule was not released in advance, so diners were surprised when the president stopped in at the restaurant, located at 66 W. Kinzie St., for dinner.

He was joined by White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett and longtime friend Marty Nesbitt, who is leading the search for Obama's post-presidential library.

The restaurant is owned by reality stars Bill and Giuliana Rancic.

Air Force One landed at 7:07 p.m. at Gary’s airport, instead of O'Hare International Airport. Obama was greeted by Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson and Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly, and after a few words with the pair, the president boarded a helicopter to Chicago.

The president is expected to spend the night at his Kenwood home and attend the campaign event for Quinn the next day.

Obama's speech at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management begins at 1:15 p.m. on the Evanston campus, according to a statement from the school.

The school notes his visit marks the first by a sitting president in 60 years. Obama received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Northwestern in 2006. 

“I am extremely pleased to announce that President Barack Obama will come to Northwestern’s campus in Evanston to make a major address about the economy and his plans to keep expanding opportunity for Americans,” Northwestern President Morton Schapiro said.

Obama is expected to leave the Chicago area on Thursday.

Michelle Obama will be in Chicago on Oct. 7 to support Quinn, and Hillary Clinton is expected on Oct. 8.

Quinn's campaign released a new radio ad Wednesday featuring the first lady lauding the governor's work on behalf of veterans and support for raising the minimum wage.

The big-name appearances may provide a welcome distraction for the Quinn campaign next week, when a state legislative committee is scheduled to hold hearings looking into the governor's troubled Neighborhood Recovery Initiative.

Early voting begins Oct. 20.

Notorious, now octogenarian jewel thief Doris Payne is back in handcuffs, but not for some sly heist.

She is headed to court Thursday on an alleged probation violation that her attorney Gretchen von Helms calls a failure in the system.

“Doris is obviously extremely upset. She's very ill, she's elderly now, she's 83 years of age,” said von Helms.

The lawyer told NBC 7 that Payne is on probation for two cases: one in Riverside County where she took a $22,500 ring from a Palm Desert store in 2013, and the other in Los Angeles County for a similar felony theft.

Riverside County probation officials took Payne to an L.A. courtroom, von Helms said, and the thief was told her supervision was transferred to L.A. County. She soon started reporting only to her probation officer there.

“Riverside were perplexed that she hadn't called Riverside and told them where she was, even though she had been taken to L.A. County by the Riverside Sheriff's Department,” said von Helms.

Officials in Riverside County soon issued a warrant for Payne’s arrest, accusing her of probation violation.

Von Helms claims her client did nothing wrong, making all her required reports to the L.A. officer. The attorney said Riverside County never contacted L.A. County to ask about Payne, although they knew she had been released from jail into L.A. supervision.

"This is exactly the case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing and the two probation departments not communicating,” said von Helms.

On Thursday, a judge is expected to rule on whether the probation violation charge is valid. If that is the case, Payne could be ordered to serve the remainder of a four-year prison sentence. She only served two years due to the prison realignment measure AB 109.

Payne’s international life of crime spanned six decades, sparking notoriety in the news and an independent film called “The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne.” Halle Berry is even reportedly portraying her on the big screen, although the thief raised issues with that casting.

"She goes into the store and she is found to be in possession of a ring at some later time,” von Helms said of her client’s modus operandi. “She is not caught on videotape typically with the ring, but circumstances in the case in Riverside led her to plead guilty."

She has lifted high-end jewels from stores in New York, Tokyo, Monte Carlo and here in San Diego. In January 2011, Payne was sentenced for stealing a $8,900 diamond ring from the Macy’s department store in Fashion Valley.

A scuba diver died Wednesday evening in an underwater accident at the Mission Bay Channel.

A captain of a nearby vessel sent out a distress call to lifeguards when the diver started struggling below the surface at about 7 p.m., just south of Mission Point.

Responding lifeguards had a hard time getting the man out of the water because of the heavy equipment he was wearing, San Diego Fire officials say. They believe that may have been the source of the diver's problems.

When they finally pulled him out, he had been underwater between four to eight minutes, according to estimates.

Lifeguards performed CPR on him at their Quivira Court headquarters. The diver was then transported to UC San Diego Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 8:05 p.m.

The investigation into the man's death will continue Thursday morning. Investigators will search for the diver's equipment that may have fallen to the ocean floor during his struggle.

The Oceanside City Council voted 3 to 2 Wednesday to end its red light camera program — an "early Christman present for the residents of Oceanside," as one councilmember put it.

Councilman Gary Felien said the decision comes from constant complaints about the cameras, and he cited multiple studies that have failed to prove their effectiveness.

Instead of declining accidents, the cameras seemed to increase rear-end collisions and added to drivers' stress, Felien claimed.

Oceanside is following the lead of San Diego, Escondido, Poway and Santee, which have also removed their red light cameras.

City attorneys plan to notify the camera provider that they would like to withdraw from the contract early, but they must still verify the timing of that withdrawal, according to Felien.

U.S. nonprofits are shipping truckloads full of medical supplies, simple household cleaning items and hygiene products to help fight the spread of the Ebola virus, even as the first case is confirmed within American borders.

An organization behind a local push to stop the disease is San Diego-based Project Concern International (PCI).

“We've got to do all we can to help contain the spread of this disease, not because we’re worried about it coming to the United States, but it’s the right thing to do in Liberia,” explained Senior Vice President for Programs Janine Schooley.

PCI has a 60-member Ebola awareness team in Liberia focused on administering information, education materials and medical advice.

Pictures show West African natives with megaphones, trying to change attitudes and behavior to minimize the risk of spreading the deadly virus.

“Just staying away from bodily fluids. All those things we need to do to protect ourselves from this contagion,” said Schooley.

Liberia is one of three countries hardest hit by the virus, killing 1830 people, the World Health Organization says.

On Tuesday, a Dallas hospital diagnosed the first Ebola case in the United States.

“We knew this would happen in May, and it would get this bad," said Erica Ollmann Saphire, Ph.D., a professor at the Scripps Research Institute.

Her La Jolla lab is one of 25 labs across the globe that created the experimental Ebola medicine ZMapp, which was used to treat two Americans who survived after being infected with the virus.

“We're definitely working with a keen sense of urgency, trying to understand this virus to defeat it on all steps of its life cycle," said Ollmann Saphire.

Federal money is pouring into local organizations fighting Ebola. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently entered a $42 million contract with the manufacturer of ZMapp, Mapp Biopharmaceutical in Sorrento Valley.

The PCI says in the past few days, more resources and funding has been made available for Ebola programs like theirs, but they say it's hard to tell if it's related to the Texas case.

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A search is underway for a Marine airman missing in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy confirmed.

On Wednesday, an MV-22 Osprey lost power when taking off from USS Makin Island, an amphibious assault ship homeported at Naval Base San Diego. Two crew members bailed out into the water. One of those Marines was rescued safely, but the other is still missing, according to the Navy.

The pilot managed to gain control of the plane and return to the ship, the Navy said. The MV-22 Osprey can carry two dozen troops, though it appears only three were on board at the time of the incident.

The aircraft is part of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) based at Camp Pendleton in northern San Diego County. 

Planes from aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush and smaller Navy boats have joined the search. The missing Marine's name has not been released.

The Navy and Marine Corps are investigating what went wrong and why the crew members jumped out of the plane.

The Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group and the 11th MEU deployed last July to support operations in the Middle East.

Refresh this article for the latest on this developing story.

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A jury has found a Carlsbad woman accused of murdering her husband not guilty of first-degree murder, but deadlocked on the remaining charges.

After deliberating about 16 hours over two days, the jury announced the verdict on Wednesday in the trial of Julie Harper accused of fatally shooting Jason Harper, a Carlsbad High School math teacher, on Aug. 7, 2012.

She showed little outward emotion upon hearing the verdicts. Harper, who is free on $2 million bail, declined to speak to reporters as she left the courthouse.

The judge declared a mistrial in the other charges against Harper: second-degree murder and manslaughter.

The district attorney's office has the option whether or not to try Harper again; legal experts say a retrial is likely, taking into account the severity of the charges that were deadlocked and the fact they come with a firearm enhancement.

Jason Harper's friends and colleagues were at court on Wednesday and said they were "shocked" and "very disappointed" with the verdict.

"I feel like I've lost a little bit of faith in the justice system and I don't like that feeling at all," said Andy Tomkinson, a Carlsbad High School teacher and Jason Harper's friend.

In the trial, which lasted three weeks, Harper claimed she had been acting in self-defense because she feared her husband would kill or rape her.

Prosecutors argued Harper had been angry and spiteful about the marriage.

In closing arguments, defense attorney Paul Pfingst said that there is no evidence Harper was angry or spiteful, just a victim of months of verbal, physical and sexual abuse. Pfingst said she feared for her life and that her actions were out of love for her children.

“One could say that neither one is irrational, neither one is unreasonable,” Pfingst told jurors. “But if there is an argument that has reason to support it that comes to the benefit of Ms. Harper, she's entitled to the one that supports her."

Deputy District Attorney Keith Watanabe said Harper’s actions were those of a guilty person: She buried the gun, moved her husband’s car and moved his body. Plus, she did not immediately report his death.

He also said her story of her husband’s alleged abuse has never been been corroborated.

“If she does not have the right to defend herself than she has no right to point a loaded gun at another human being,” Watanabe said.

Pfingst did not address why Harper buried her gun, which has not been found to this day.

The patient diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas has been identified as a Liberian man named Thomas Eric Duncan, NBC News has confirmed.

He is believed to have flown to the United States via two United Airlines flights, first flying from Brussels to Washington, D.C., and then taking a connecting flight to Dallas-Fort Worth.

United said Wednesday that it believes the patient, whom it did not identify, flew from Brussels to Washington Dulles on Flight 951 on Sept. 20, and then, three hours later, from Washington Dulles to Dallas-Fort Worth on Flight 822 that same day.

The airline, reiterating what health officials have said, said that there was "zero risk of transmission" on any flight Duncan flew, because he didn't begin to show symptons until several days later.

The New York Times reported that Duncan may have become infected in Liberia on Sept. 15, when he helped carry his landlord's gravely ill daughter to the hospital. She died the next day.

Earlier this month, Duncan was completing an employment contract with a shipping company in Liberia's capital city of Monrovia. When that contract expired, he used a visa to travel to Dallas to visit family, well within the virus' 21-day incubation period.

Duncan arrived in Dallas on Sept. 20 and began showing symptoms on Sept. 24, U.S. health officials said Tuesday.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas said Wednesday that Duncan sought medical care after 10 p.m. Sept. 25 and had only a low-grade fever and abdominal pain.

"His condition did not warrant admission. He also was not exhibiting symptoms specific to Ebola," the hospital said in statement Wednesday. "The patient returned via ambulance on Sunday, Sept. 28, at which time EMS had already identified potential need for isolation. The hospital followed all suggested CDC protocols at that time."

A specimen sent to a state lab in Austin confirmed Tuesday that Duncan had contracted Ebola. Those test results were then confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

In the days since Duncan left Liberia, his landlord's son, who had helped them carry his sister to the hospital, also died after a short, severe illness, the Times reported. Two other people in Liberia who may have had contact with the woman have also reportedly died.

Meanwhile, health officials in Dallas are monitoring as many as 18 people, including five children and an ambulance crew of three, who have been in contact with Duncan.

The schoolchildren and firefighters are all being isolated at home and will be monitored for 21-days from their date of exposure.

The four schools attended by the five students — Dan D. Rogers Elementary School, L.L. Hotchkiss Elementary School, Sam Tasby Middle School and Emmett J. Conrad High School — all remain open but will be thoroughly cleaned, Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles said Wednesday.

None of those being monitored are currently showing any signs of Ebola, and state and federal health officials say no other suspected cases of Ebola exist in the United States.

NBC 5's Scott Gordon contributed to this report.

The ability to text 911 in an emergency is on its way to California.

The state’s Office of Emergency Services is required to lay out a plan and timeline for a Next Generation 911 system under Senate Bill 1211, signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown Tuesday.

The Next Generation 911 includes the text-to-911 innovation, which officials say will be help hearing-impaired users or those who are afraid to talk in the midst of an emergency.

The Federal Communications Commission ordered all wireless carriers to enable their customers to text 911 by the end of 2014. The big four carriers — AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile — agreed in May to support the emergency texts in all areas where they can be received at 911 call centers, known as "public safety answering points."

However, California’s dispatch centers have not purchased or installed the upgrades needed to receive those messages.

As directed by SB 1211, the Office of Emergency Services will develop target dates for testing, implementing and operating the Next Generation 911 system throughout California. The office must also calculate and report the estimated cost of such an endeavor.

When the system is incorporated, California will join 18 other states that have enabled text-to-911 in various counties.

Officials tested out the texting system earlier this year with the help of police departments in Downey, Arcadia and California State University Long Beach.

Even after text-to-911 is enabled, law enforcement agencies say they want residents to use it only in special circumstances. A phone call will still be the preferred method.

A pediatric nurse accused of performing sex acts on an infant and videotaping it may have done the same thing to another baby.

A grand jury indictment filed Sept. 26 accuses Michael William Lutts, 50, of taking sexually explicit digital photos of an 11-month-old girl. Read the full indictment here

The pictures were allegedly taken around July 24. One month later, Lutts was arrested at his College Grove home and charged with sexual exploitation of a child.

The Kaiser Permanente nurse was accused of performing lewd acts on his 2-month-old foster son, who was born prematurely.

According to court documents, the alleged abuse included Lutts touching and manipulating the baby boy’s genitals while masturbating, among other things. Pictures show the hospital tag was still attached to the infant’s leg.

The baby has been placed in the care of Child Protective Services.

Kaiser Permanente has said Lutts was suspended from work and would not be returning until the investigation and criminal proceedings are completed.
 

Four teenagers have been arrested for allegedly slaughtering 920 chickens at a Foster Farms facility in Caruthers, California, police said.

Fresno County police said the animals were killed with a golf club and another blunt object on Sept. 20 after the suspects entered a chicken shed by pulling back part of the facility's fence.

Police on Wednesday announced the arrest of 18-year-old Gabriel Quintero, of Riverdale; two males, ages 15 and 17, from Caruthers; and a 17-year-old male from Lemoore.

Foster Farms said the chickens were worth about $5,000. The company called the killing an “unconscionable act of animal cruelty.” The nonprofit Animal Defense League had offered a $5,000 reward Wednesday for any information leading to the arrest of the perpetrators. Foster Farms had also offered a reward.

Fresno County police said in a news release that local news coverage produced several tips that led to the arrests. Detectives also learned information on the attack and possible suspects from monitoring social media.

Evidence at a home in Caruthers linked the 15-year-old and a 17-year-old to the crime, Fresno County police said. Both were taken into custody without incident.

Another 17-year-old was taken into custody at a home near Lemoore.

Quintero was then arrested at an apartment in Fresno. He was booked on charges of burglary and felony cruelty to animals.

It was not immediately clear if he had a lawyer.

The three other teenagers were taken to the Fresno Juvenile Justice Center and also booked for burglary and felony cruelty to animals charges.

Caruthers is about 17 miles southwest of Fresno.

The day Lyvette Crespo allegedly shot and killed her husband, Bell Gardens, Southern California, Mayor Daniel Crespo, at their condo, it ended 28 years of physical abuse against her and her son, a source close to the mayor's wife told NBC4.

During a domestic dispute in front of their son Tuesday, she grabbed Daniel Crespo's gun – the one he used as a probation officer – and opened fire, killing her husband, the source said.

Lyvette Crespo was detained Tuesday, but was released after questioning.

Police and prosecutors were not talking about the case on Wednesday.

The source close to Lyvette Crespo said the mayor abused his wife for years.

The abuse started as far back as the couple was together, but Lyvette kept the abuse secret, the source said.

She didn't seek medical attention for those cases nor report them to police.

It's unclear when the physical abuse started with the son, but had been ongoing for at least the last four years, the source said.

Bell Gardens police officials have no reports of domestic violence calls to the Crespo's Bell Gardens condo.

Crespo has been described by family and friends as a nice, generous and giving man. Some neighbors said there was no indication of violence at the home.

"He worked at the County Probation Department where he was helping young adults to better themselves. So he was always trying to find alternative ways to…you know, violence was not an option," friend Albert Bernal said.

He sat on the Bell Gardens City Council for 13 years before becoming mayor. A biography on the city’s website said Crespo married his high school sweetheart.

The city's Mayor Pro Tem Priscilla Flores said she is in shock.

She described him as a good person, his wife as quiet and nice and his children as ideal.

"As a colleague and a friend, I knew his heart was always in the right place," Flores said in a statement.

Friends of Crespo plan to hold a vigil at City Hall Friday evening. 

NBC4's Tena Ezzeddine contributed to this report.

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U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey is calling for a Vermont college to rescind its offer to a convicted cop killer, Mumia Abu-Jamal, to address their fall 2014 graduates during its Oct. 5 commencement ceremony.

"I cannot fathom how anyone could think it appropriate to honor a cold-blooded murderer," The Pennsylvania Republican wrote in a letter to Goddard College interim President Robert Kenny. "What possible enlightenment can your students obtain from this man?"

Abu-Jamal, 60, is currently serving a life sentence at the Mahanoy State Correctional Institution in Frackville, Pa. for the 1981 murder of 25-year-old Philadelphia Officer Daniel Faulkner. 

Students in the fall 2014 graduating class selected Abu-Jamal, who is a 1996 Goddard College graduate, as their commencement speaker, according to a college spokeswoman. Abu-Jamal also hosts a radio show that airs on WGDR-WGDH Goddard Community Radio every Sunday.

The Goddard College president did not immediately respond to requests for comment. It is unclear if they will adjust the ceremony in response to the senator's letter.

School officials announced Abu-Jamal as the speaker Monday, explaining his remarks were prerecorded and the short video will roll during the ceremony.

"Choosing Mumia as their commencement speaker, to me, shows how this newest group of Goddard graduates expresses their freedom to engage and think radically and critically in a world that often sets up barriers to do just that," Kenney said in a Goddard College news release Monday.

But Toomey disagrees, saying the dialogue sparked by including Abu-Jamal in commencement is a "slap in the face to Danny Faulkner's family, and to all of the law enforcement officers who risk their lives for us every day."

"Is there any crime so heinous that Goddard would not reward the perpetrator with a spot as commencement speaker?" Toomey asked. "This is not a question of free speech. It is a question of judgment and your school's basic sense of right and wrong."

"[What] lesson is Goddard teaching its students about their moral responsibilities, as members of a civil society, to their fellow citizens?" he continued. "Abu-Jamal has never apologized or expressed any regret for his heinous crime."

Celebrities like Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg and others have publicly expressed their support for Abu-Jamal, who has gained followers from around the world claiming he was the victim of a racist legal system.

Yet the politician points out that the killer's claims the jury was racist "has been rejected by multiple state and federal courts and is belied by the facts."

Abu-Jamal was originally sentenced to death, but prosecutors later agreed to a life term after a federal appeals court ordered a new sentencing hearing, citing flawed jury instructions.

The commencement ceremony — one of 20 Goddard holds each  year — will begin at 4 p.m. Oct.  5 at the school's Haybarn Theatre at 123 Pitkin Road in Plainfield, Vermont. 

Goddard College is a liberal arts college with three locations -- Plainfield, Vermont; and Seattle and Port Townsend, Washington.

Contact Alison Burdo at 610.668.5635, alison.burdo@nbcuni.com or follow @NewsBurd on Twitter.

Chantique’s Corp. is recalling Pure Baby Organic boy’s hoodies because the drawstring around the neck poses a strangulation risk.

The sweaters have red drawstrings that can become entangled or get caught on playground slides, hand rails, school bus doors or other moving objects posing a substantial strangulation hazard, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.

There were no reported injuries, according to the CPSC.

People who bought the hoodie should remove the drawstring from the garment or return it for a full refund.

The affected hoodies are solid gray with zipper front closure and were sold in toddler boy's sizes 2t to boy's size 3 for $62.

The hoodies were sold at children’s boutiques nationwide and other stores such as Elephant Ears, Pumpkin heads, Sprouts and on-line at www.nordstromrack.com from January 2014 through August 2014.

Consumers can call Chantique’s Corp at (213) 629-3222 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PT, Monday through Friday or email at info@chantiquesshowroom.com for more information.
 

Teamwork is a big part of success in the NFL.

The Chargers are teaming with Susan G. Komen San Diego to kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month, offering free mammograms for women age 40 and up today at Qualcomm Stadium.

Women can stop by the stadium -- at Friars Road and Mission Village Drive -- anytime until 3 p.m. today to get a breast exam and mammogram from Komen's mobile stations.

"They are the first NFL team to do an event like this and because of the Chargers and them really taking action off the field has now launched the NFL and there's other NFL teams that are moving forward to do mobile mammograms just like this," said Flora Hoang, Director of Development for Susan G. Komen San Diego.

Hoang says six women are diagnosed with breast cancer every day in San Diego County. Mammograms can help save lives by providing early detection.

She said Komen can provide a follow-up for women who need it, in order to get the help they can.

More than 700 women came by the station last year to get examined.