New York Post - The former NYPD cop who allegedly left his 8-year-old autistic son locked in a freezing garage also kept a family dog in a heated room inside at the same time, pre-trial testimony revealed Monday.
Michael Valva & his then-fiancee Angela Pollina have been charged with murder in the Jan. 17, 2020 death of Thomas Valva with authorities accusing the couple of locking the child overnight in a frigid garage while it was 19 degrees outside.
Housekeeper Tyrene Rodriguez testified at a pre-trial hearing on Long Island about the boy’s final moments, noting she got her cleaning supplies from a mud room where the dog “Bella” slept.
“And that’s a heated room?” the Suffolk County prosecutor asked Rodriguez.
“Yes,” Rodriguez answered.
Rodriguez told the court she had heard Thomas crying when she arrived that morning to clean Valva’s house & saw the couple escort Thomas to the basement. Minutes later, Pollina returned frantically saying Thomas wasn’t breathing.
Rodriguez helped while Valva tried to administer CPR to the dying boy, with the housekeeper leaning Thomas’ head back to open his airways.
“He was very cold,” she said, according to Newsday. “He was damp.”
Valva & Pollina have both pleaded not guilty to second degree murder charges.
WASHINGTON (SBG) — A 19-year veteran New Jersey police officer is facing a list of serious charges after his fellow officers discovered a methamphetamine lab inside of his home in Long Branch, according to police and prosecutors.
Upon hearing the news, Long Branch Police Department's Acting Chief Frank Rizzuto immediately suspended 50-year-old Christopher Walls without pay.
At approximately 10:36 p.m. Saturday, Walls' fellow officers were called to a domestic disturbance at his home. A person living in the home told police that "Walls was involved in suspicious narcotics activity."
The New Jersey State Police hazmat team that was called in to respond found materials, chemicals & instruments "consistent with a methamphetamine laboratory in both the basement of the residence & in a shed on the property," the Office of the Monmouth County Prosecutor stated on its website.
Police said Walls had everything in his home he needed to manufacture meth, along with the discovery of methamphetamine residue on glassware that's typically used to make the drug. Walls also had books related to "making methamphetamine, explosives & poison."
Police also found a large, open gun safe that was accessible to a child who lives at the home. " Inside the gun safe were two long guns, four handguns, eight high-capacity magazines & a large quantity of ammunition," prosecutors said.
Wells is facing the following charges:
*First-degree maintaining or operating a controlled dangerous substance (CDS) production facility *Second-degree possession of a firearm during the course of a CDS offense *Second-degree risking widespread injury *Second-degree endangering the welfare of a child *Third-degree manufacturing CDS (methamphetamine) *Third-degree possession of CDS (methamphetamine).
Wells faces 20 years in prison if convicted of the first-degree charge & 10 years in prison if found guilty of any of the second-degree charges.
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The evolution of technology has changed how we listen to music and how artists create it. According to hip-hop artist Tatted Swerve, technology has also altered how artists are discovered. He believes that modern technology has made it easier for artists to get their music heard.
There are today countless platforms from which artists can promote and share their music without even having to step inside a recording studio. According to Tatted Swerve, these platforms have helped create a revolution in independent music that is being easily discovered by listeners. Swerve points out that TikTok is currently the most influential platform for musicians hoping to be discovered. As a barometer for everything trending, TikTok has brought overnight success to young musicians experimenting with their sounds online. Swerve cites an example of TikTok star Conan Gray as a recent success story. Gray started out sharing videos of himself singing in his bedroom until he was discovered by Republic Records and offered a multi-album deal.
Tatted Swerve believes that the age of technology has shifted the hierarchy of the music industry. With the ability to record entire albums on SoundCloud and share them on Spotify, artists no longer need the help of a record label to be heard. On asking what he believes the future holds for artists in the modern world of technology, Swerve says, “I think that as technology advances, more platforms will appear, which can help artists find their audience without ever having to sign a deal or hand the rights to their music over to a label.”
Tatted Swerve’s debut single “Come Home” hit Spotify in 2018. The track featured rap superstar Coi Leray and with its release, Tatted Swerve gathered loyal listeners who were drawn in by his unique sound. A devotee of hip-hop music since his early childhood, Swerve started recording tracks from the age of sixteen, devoting himself to creating new sounds and styles. His latest track “Make A Name”’ is a hip-hop fable with a smooth beat, which lyrically explores his rise to the top and establishes him as a fresh voice with something to say. With plans to continue his rise within the world of hip-hop, Swerve says, “I’m dedicated to building a legacy within the music industry that can outlast trends and remain relevant to any listener for years to come.”
The age of technology has streamlined the experience of creating and releasing music, and Tatted Swerve believes that these advancements will continue to help new artists be discovered. Read more…
Debbie Harry was 31 when she and her band Blondie released their first album, and Christine McVie was 34 when her group Fleetwood Mac released it's signature album “Rumours.” GrowthwithMatty is almost a decade ahead of these two music superstars, and he’s poised to experience the same kind of growth.
At 23, he’s done more than most people manage in a lifetime – he is CEO of a marketing company, he’s a music producer, and he’s released two stylish EPs, the first, “Covid Dreams,” the second, “The Cold Life,” which is just about to drop.
Both EPs give off a decidedly different vibe, so it will be interesting what comes next from this musician who sounds so seasoned despite his limited experience.
GrowthwithMatty Immerses Himself In Music
Luckily for us, he is currently working on new music, and wants to continue to challenge his own creativity, even if he’s not getting quite enough sleep.
While recording his own music is a newfound love – he was inspired by exposure to the artists he produces and a business partnership with Waka Flocka, which will only expand his global exposure – it is one he loves so much that he’s been up recording every night, spending five or six hours at a minimum working on songs until they feel perfect.
We asked Matthew what the next step will be, and he said with all the progress he’s made in such a short period of time, success in the music industry feels inevitable.
It does for us as well, given the sophistication he’s displayed in his work so far.
The many missions of GrowthwithMatty
One thing that seems quite likely is that GrowthwithMatty is looking to transform how we expect music to sound.
His instrumental, layered songs are taking the music industry to the next level, challenging listeners to find their own emotional connection to his work. Both “Covid Dreams” and “The Cold Life” feature unique beats with a sophisticated edge, giving him the leverage he needs to bring instrumental music into the contemporary hip-hop world.
The last time instrumentals were popular enough to scale up the charts was decades ago, in the 1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s, with songs like Frankenstein” by Edgar Winter, “Taste of Honey” by Herb Albert, and “Pick Up the Pieces” by Average White Band.
Those songs have their place in the vault of music history, but there’s a fresh element of excitement and intrigue present in GrowthwithMatty’s work, and it is a sound that is likely to connect with many fans, both current and new.
He also wants to encourage others to take a chance and reveal themselves through the power that is music.
“My goal is just to inspire other young musicians, because I’m young,” he said. He’s also uber-talented, which will hardly hurt his musical journey.
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The suspect arrested in connection to the murder of a young boy who was found in the middle of a street in Dallas has been identified as 18-year-old Darriynn Brown.
Police said Brown, so far, has been charged with kidnapping and theft. Further charges are expected pending forensic results, according to police.
The 4-year-old victim was found in the 7500 block of Saddleridge Drive Saturday morning after police received a 911 call. Police said the 911 call did not come from the boy’s home.
The cause of the death has not yet been released, but police said they believe the suspect used an “edged weapon.”
At around 10 p.m. Saturday, police said they had a suspect in custody. Further details, such as location of the suspect, were not immediately released.
“Through the hard work of the men and women of the Dallas Police Department this criminal was brought to justice and it would not have been made possible without the Dallas FBI Evidence Response Team and the public’s assistance,” the department said in a statement.
Investigators believe the boy lived in the neighborhood. The woman who called 911 spoke to CBS 11 News about what she saw.
“I see something laying in the road and my initial thought was that it was a dog. The closer I get to it I can tell it’s a human cause I see a hand and I see legs. Very traumatizing. I have three kids. To see a child covered in blood in the middle of the street, it’s truly traumatizing,” she said.
CBS 11 News found the FBI’s evidence response team searching and removing items from a house located in 7500 block of Florina Parkway on Saturday evening. It’s in the same neighborhood as where the boy was found dead. The Dallas Police Department confirmed this location was also a part of their investigation.
(Reuters) Israel pummeled Gaza with air strikes on Monday and Palestinian militants launched rockets at Israeli cities despite a flurry of U.S. and regional diplomacy that has so far failed to halt more than a week of deadly fighting.
Israel's missile attacks on the densely populated Palestinian enclave killed a top Islamic Jihad commander and left a crater in a seven-storey office building that Israel's military said was used by Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas.
Rocket barrages, some of them launched in response to the killing of Islamic Jihad's Hussam Abu Harbeed, sent Israelis dashing for bomb shelters with direct hits on a synagogue in Ashkelon and an apartment building in Ashdod.
Gaza health officials put the Palestinian death toll since hostilities flared up last week at at least 204, including 58 children and 34 women. Ten people have been killed in Israel, including two children.
The cross-border hostilities have been accompanied by an uptick of violence in the occupied West Bank, and by riots involving Arab and Jewish mobs within Israel and clashes in Jewish-Arab communities. Police said an Israeli man died in hospital on Monday after being attacked by Arab rioters last week.
As Islamic Jihad mourned Harbeed's death, Israel's military said he had been "behind several anti-tank missile terror attacks against Israeli civilians", and an Israeli general said his country could carry on the fight "forever".
At least seven Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza on Monday by evening. Two died in the missile attack on the office building, which Israel's military said was used by Hamas internal security.
"My children couldn't sleep all night even after the wave of intensive bombing stopped," said Umm Naeem, 50, a mother of five, as she shopped for bread in Gaza City.
Militant groups in Gaza also gave no sign that an end to fighting was imminent. Rocket sirens blared into the evening, and medics said seven people had been injured in a rocket strike in Ashdod.
Earlier on Monday, Israel bombed what its military called 15 km (nine miles) of underground tunnels used by Hamas. Nine residences belonging to high-ranking Hamas commanders in Gaza were also hit, it said.
"We have to continue the war until there is long-term ceasefire - (one) that is not temporary," Osher Bugam, a resident of the Israel coastal city of Ashkelon, said after a rocket fired from Gaza hit a synagogue there.
Hamas began its rocket assault last Monday after weeks of tensions over a court case to evict several Palestinian families in East Jerusalem, and in retaliation for Israeli police clashes with Palestinians near the city's al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest site, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Palestinians have also become frustrated by setbacks to their aspirations for an independent state and an end to Israeli occupation in recent years.
World concern deepened after an Israeli air strike in Gaza that destroyed several homes on Sunday and which Palestinian health officials said killed 42 people, including 10 children, and persistent rocket attacks on Israeli towns.
U.S. President Joe Biden's envoy to the region, Hady Amr, met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday. Blinken said U.S. officials had been "working around the clock" to bring an end to the conflict.
"The United States remains greatly concerned by the escalating violence. Hundreds of people killed or injured, including children being pulled from the rubble," he said after talks with Denmark's foreign minister in Copenhagen.
Despite the flurry of U.S. mediation, Biden's administration approved the potential sale of $735 million in precision-guided weapons to its top ally Israel, and Congressional sources said on Monday that U.S. lawmakers were not expected to object to the deal despite the violence. read more
Blinken and other top U.S. officials put in calls to leaders in Egypt, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates on Monday.
While the devastation in Gaza was likely to make it harder for Israel to expand its ties with Arab countries, Gulf states that invested in opening ties with Israel last year are showing no public sign of second thoughts. read more
Brigadier General Yaron Rosen, a former Israeli air division commander, gave no indication on Monday there would be a let-up in attacks in what he called a "war of attrition".
"The IDF (Israeli military) can go with this forever. And they (Hamas) can go on with their rockets, sadly, also for a very long time. But the price they are paying is rising higher and higher," he told reporters.
The Israeli military said at least 130 Palestinian combatants had been killed since fighting began.
Diplomatic efforts are complicated by the fact the United States and most western powers do not talk to Hamas, which they regard as a terrorist organisation.
Abbas, whose power base is in the occupied West Bank, exerts little influence over Hamas in Gaza.
Tensions have surged between Israel's Jewish majority and 21% Arab minority in what the country's president has warned could devolve into "civil war".
General strikes over Israel's Gaza bombardment were planned for Tuesday in Arab towns within Israel and Palestinian towns in the West Bank.
(Reuters) Israel pummeled Gaza with air strikes on Monday and Palestinian militants launched rockets at Israeli cities despite a flurry of U.S. and regional diplomacy that has so far failed to halt more than a week of deadly fighting.
Israel's missile attacks on the densely populated Palestinian enclave killed a top Islamic Jihad commander and left a crater in a seven-storey office building that Israel's military said was used by Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas.
Rocket barrages, some of them launched in response to the killing of Islamic Jihad's Hussam Abu Harbeed, sent Israelis dashing for bomb shelters with direct hits on a synagogue in Ashkelon and an apartment building in Ashdod.
Gaza health officials put the Palestinian death toll since hostilities flared up last week at at least 204, including 58 children and 34 women. Ten people have been killed in Israel, including two children.
The cross-border hostilities have been accompanied by an uptick of violence in the occupied West Bank, and by riots involving Arab and Jewish mobs within Israel and clashes in Jewish-Arab communities. Police said an Israeli man died in hospital on Monday after being attacked by Arab rioters last week.
As Islamic Jihad mourned Harbeed's death, Israel's military said he had been "behind several anti-tank missile terror attacks against Israeli civilians", and an Israeli general said his country could carry on the fight "forever".
At least seven Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza on Monday by evening. Two died in the missile attack on the office building, which Israel's military said was used by Hamas internal security.
"My children couldn't sleep all night even after the wave of intensive bombing stopped," said Umm Naeem, 50, a mother of five, as she shopped for bread in Gaza City.
Militant groups in Gaza also gave no sign that an end to fighting was imminent. Rocket sirens blared into the evening, and medics said seven people had been injured in a rocket strike in Ashdod.
Earlier on Monday, Israel bombed what its military called 15 km (nine miles) of underground tunnels used by Hamas. Nine residences belonging to high-ranking Hamas commanders in Gaza were also hit, it said.
"We have to continue the war until there is long-term ceasefire - (one) that is not temporary," Osher Bugam, a resident of the Israel coastal city of Ashkelon, said after a rocket fired from Gaza hit a synagogue there.
Hamas began its rocket assault last Monday after weeks of tensions over a court case to evict several Palestinian families in East Jerusalem, and in retaliation for Israeli police clashes with Palestinians near the city's al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest site, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Palestinians have also become frustrated by setbacks to their aspirations for an independent state and an end to Israeli occupation in recent years.
World concern deepened after an Israeli air strike in Gaza that destroyed several homes on Sunday and which Palestinian health officials said killed 42 people, including 10 children, and persistent rocket attacks on Israeli towns.
U.S. President Joe Biden's envoy to the region, Hady Amr, met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday. Blinken said U.S. officials had been "working around the clock" to bring an end to the conflict.
"The United States remains greatly concerned by the escalating violence. Hundreds of people killed or injured, including children being pulled from the rubble," he said after talks with Denmark's foreign minister in Copenhagen.
Despite the flurry of U.S. mediation, Biden's administration approved the potential sale of $735 million in precision-guided weapons to its top ally Israel, and Congressional sources said on Monday that U.S. lawmakers were not expected to object to the deal despite the violence. read more
Blinken and other top U.S. officials put in calls to leaders in Egypt, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates on Monday.
While the devastation in Gaza was likely to make it harder for Israel to expand its ties with Arab countries, Gulf states that invested in opening ties with Israel last year are showing no public sign of second thoughts. read more
Brigadier General Yaron Rosen, a former Israeli air division commander, gave no indication on Monday there would be a let-up in attacks in what he called a "war of attrition".
"The IDF (Israeli military) can go with this forever. And they (Hamas) can go on with their rockets, sadly, also for a very long time. But the price they are paying is rising higher and higher," he told reporters.
The Israeli military said at least 130 Palestinian combatants had been killed since fighting began.
Diplomatic efforts are complicated by the fact the United States and most western powers do not talk to Hamas, which they regard as a terrorist organisation.
Abbas, whose power base is in the occupied West Bank, exerts little influence over Hamas in Gaza.
Tensions have surged between Israel's Jewish majority and 21% Arab minority in what the country's president has warned could devolve into "civil war".
General strikes over Israel's Gaza bombardment were planned for Tuesday in Arab towns within Israel and Palestinian towns in the West Bank.
Rich Cash is a young, hungry emcee from New York City's Lower East Side, who isn't waiting for an invite because he's kicking in hip hop's door with bangers like "The Separation." This is the second single and accompanying music video off Rich's new "Lowa's Dragon" EP.
"Lowa's Dragon" is available on all streaming platforms:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider a major rollback of abortion rights, saying it will decide whether states can ban abortions before a fetus can survive outside the womb.
The court’s order sets up a showdown over abortion, probably in the fall, with a more conservative court seemingly ready to dramatically alter nearly 50 years of rulings on abortion rights.
The court first announced a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision & reaffirmed it 19 years later.
The case involves a Mississippi law that would prohibit abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. The state’s ban had been blocked by lower courts as inconsistent with Supreme Court precedent that protects a woman’s right to obtain an abortion before the fetus can survive outside her womb.
The justices had put off action on the case for several months. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an abortion-rights proponent, died just before the court’s new term began in October. Her replacement, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, is the most open opponent of abortion rights to join the court in decades.
Barrett is one of three appointees of former President Donald Trump on the Supreme Court. The other two, Justices Neil Gorsuch & Brett Kavanaugh, voted in dissent last year to allow Louisiana to enforce restrictions on doctors that could have closed two of the state’s three abortion clinics.
Chief Justice John Roberts, joined by Ginsburg & the other three liberal justices, said the restrictions were virtually identical to a Texas law the court struck down in 2016.
The Mississippi law was enacted in 2018, but was blocked after a federal court challenge. The state’s only abortion clinic remains open. The owner has said the clinic does abortions up to 16 weeks.
A central question in the case is about viability — whether a fetus can survive outside the woman at 15 weeks. The clinic presented evidence that viability is impossible at 15 weeks, and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that the state “conceded that it had identified no medical evidence that a fetus would be viable at 15 weeks.”
The Mississippi law would allow exceptions to the 15-week ban in cases of medical emergency or severe fetal abnormality. Doctors found in violation of the ban would face mandatory suspension or revocation of their medical license.
Maroon 5's Adam Levine goes Sneaker Shopping with Complex's Joe La Puma at SoleStage in Los Angeles and talks about Kanye West giving him Red October Yeezys, his memories of Kobe Bryant, and Travis Scott gifting him with friends-and-family Air Jordans to perform at the Super Bowl.
Philly artists Pillz and ACF Leem link up to drop a new music video called “Cadillac” out now via YouTube. Directed by MajorMotion. Watch below and follow Pillz and ACF Leem on social media.
Memphis native Big Folk is back this week with another music video, this time for his "Houdini" single featuring LilSlimey. Directed by LMBFilmz. Watch the visual below and check out the rest of his catalogue on Spotify.
An El Paso woman is seeking legal damages as well as mental health support after she woke up in the middle of the night to blood dripping from her ceiling and splattered throughout her room.
Ana Cardenas, 58, awoke around 4 a.m. on May 8 after she felt something dripping on her body. She assumed it was raining outside and thought a leak had sprung from the apartment above hers.
But when Cardenas turned her light on to investigate, to her horror, her entire bedroom was sprayed with blood and she had blood on her bed as well as on her body.
Cardenas had left the fan on in her bedroom and as the blood seeped from the apartment above hers, the fan sprayed her entire bedroom with blood, ruining her mattress, clothes and furniture.
Cardenas called 911 and the stench became so unbearable, she ran out of her apartment and waited for police to arrive outside.
Guillermo Terrazas, Cardenas’ older brother, drove from Arizona to help his sister and told FOX TV Stations that she is traumatized.
"It was so ugly and awful. She thought she was in a bad dream but it was real," Terrazas said.
Once police arrived at Cardenas’ apartment, they went to the apartment above hers to investigate what was causing the leak, but when officers knocked on the door, no one answered.
Police resorted to breaking down the door and unfortunately found the tenant of the apartment deceased inside. His decomposing body was lying right above Cardenas’ bedroom, Terrazas said.
"He had been dead for several days," Terrazas said, according to police. "His fluids leaked through the floor and through her ceiling."
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