Wait for daughter's body ends on her 17th birthday

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hwang In-yeol and his wife waited seven years to have a child, and then she was born on Oct. 29, 1997. After a ferry disaster in April that killed her and 303 others, the couple waited again for nearly seven months to see Ji-hyeon's body. The vigil ended Wednesday when divers retrieved their only child's body on her 17th birthday.

"The saddest birthday party on the earth," read a headline in the Hankyoreh newspaper Thursday alongside a picture showing a sobbing Hwang standing with his wife on Wednesday before a whipped-cream cake with glowing candles on it.

"Please, wait peacefully for me in heaven. Daddy will follow you soon," the 51-year-old Hwang was quoted as saying.

Divers found Ji-hyeon's body on Tuesday around a toilet in the sunken ship Sewol, but it took one day to pull it up to the surface because of strong currents and its decaying condition. The results of DNA tests released Thursday confirmed the body belongs to Ji-hyeon.

Her body is the first recovered since July 18, raising the official death toll from the April 16 sinking to 295, mostly high school students who were travelling to a southern island for a school trip. Nine others are still missing.
Hours before the body was brought up, Hwang and his wife Shim Myeong-seop threw a party to celebrate their daughter's 18th birthday at a gym on the southwestern island of Jindo, where they have been staying since April 16 to be closer to the searches.

In this Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014 photo, Hwang In-yeol sticks candles on a birthday cake for his daug …

Many Asian cultures, including South Korean, count the age of the newborn baby as 1, and by that method Ji-hyeon would have celebrated her 18th birthday on Wednesday. The entire Korean media reported it as such.
The parents were confident the body was that of their daughter because of the clothes on her, according to volunteer workers helping families of the missing people.
The Hankyoreh newspaper said Hwang and his wife also offered a bowl of rice, rice cakes, sea mustard soup and pizza at the party, which was also attended by family members of the nine other missing people.
"It was a great help because so many people congratulated us on our daughter's birthday," Hwang, the father, was quoted as saying.
Ji-hyeon's body was airlifted to her hometown of Ansan, just south Seoul, on Thursday for a funeral, according to Jang Kil-hwan, the director of volunteers on Jindo Island.
Hwang did not immediately respond to calls, but in a previous interview with The Associated Press he had described Ji-hyeon as a "precious gift." During their months-long vigil in the gym in Jindo, his wife had hobbled on aching knees every morning to a lighthouse at the island's Paengmok port and thrown a few spoonful of rice into the sea. She called it breakfast for her daughter, and a prayer that divers will find her body soon.
Hwang, who works for an auto parts manufacturer, then regretted that he couldn't talk to his daughter enough before the sinking because of his long working hours.

"Ji-hyeon had a talent for painting. She was also studying Chinese with the goal of becoming a translator," Hwang had told the AP. "But I wish I knew more about my daughter than I do now."

The sinking, one of South Korea's deadliest disasters in decades, caused nationwide grief and fury, with authorities blaming overloading of cargo, improper storage, untimely rescue efforts and other negligence for the incident.

On Monday, South Korean prosecutors demanded the death penalty for the ferry's captain and life sentences for three other key crew members, blaming their negligence and abandonment of passengers for the massive loss of life. A local district court is to issue verdicts on the 15 crew members in November. __

$600,000 for rent? Only the filthy rich can afford

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JFK and Jackie slept there. William Randolph Hearst owned it. Now, this Beverly Hills house could be the most expensive rental in America.

With a stopover price tag that's more than three times the average cost to buy a home, the Beverly House is thought to be America's most expensive rental. At $600,000 a month, it's an exorbitant fee for a temporary stay that only the megarich can afford.
"When the filthy rich need a temporary pied-a-terre, they rent places like the Beverly House," said author Mark Ellwood.

Beverly House sits on 6 private acres that include two guest homes. The main mansion is 50,000 square feet and has 17 bedrooms and 30 bathrooms. Rent for the Beverly Hills property makes it the most expensive in the U.S., according to Jeff Hyland, president of Hilton & Hyland, the agency listing the home.

But to prove it's the most expensive rental in America isn't so easy, according to Trulia's chief economist, Jed Kolko.

"Because so many of the most expensive rentals are never formally listed, we're unable to say if any specific listing is the most expensive," Kolko said. But he did go on to say that "$600,000 per month is an extraordinary rental amount."

The per-month-fee dwarfs the average median cost of a house in the U.S., which is $176,000, according to Zillow. And it's three times the most expensive rental currently listed in the site's database, which is $200,000 for a Malibu home.

Two different home rental sites, RadPad and Lovely, confirmed they do not have listings that high. RadPad founder Jonathan Eppers said the price doesn't come close to any of the 2 million homes listed in its database over the past 18 months.

"Based on my own experience, I would say that this is the most expensive rental I've ever heard about," he said.

So, does anyone actually rent it? "Yes," according to Hyland. He said the house has been rented many times over the years, but would not give an exact figure. The longest stretch anyone has stayed was just under two months.

"Why take a floor in a hotel when you can have better security in your own compound, with your own pool, private yard, can play tennis, and have as many people as you want as guests," he said.

It's even been rented for noncontiguous stays, which is easier than having to lug around personal belongings just to return and rent it again, he said.

Hyland would not name any guests, saying that "people who can afford to rent or buy at such high costs value privacy."
Four people have owned the home since it was built in 1927. Most famously, Marion Davies bought the property nearly 60 years ago for media magnate William Randolph Hearst. He lived out his final years there, and that's part of the draw for the big rent.

"For $600,000 a month, you can sleep in the same house that was once owned by the original Citizen Kane," Ellwood said.

Actual items from the Hearst castle in San Simeon, California, were installed in the home, including a 100-year-old fireplace mantle, original Brunswick pool table and doors from a Spanish castle.

The mansion sits in the midst of Beverly Hills in arguably the most famous zip code in America, 90210. It's blocks from the glitz and glamour of Sunset Boulevard, where many celebrities play while dodging the paparazzi.

Fittingly, the Beverly House has celebrity-like status of its own. It played a Hollywood role as the location where Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner shot their fictional romance in "The Bodyguard."

And it has hosted such guests as John and Jackie Kennedy, who stayed there during their honeymoon.

But don't worry, if temporarily sleeping in the same spot where the leader of the free world once slept isn't enough, the house can be bought, too. It's listed at a cool $135 million.

"Just hope you don't wake up next to a horse's head, because it's also where 'The Godfather' was filmed," Ellwood said.

Devil Worshiper Hell-Bent on Controversy with Satanic Black Mass Ceremony

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Devil Worshiper Hell-Bent on Controversy with Satanic Black Mass Ceremony 

In a small, darkened room, Adam Daniels, the self-proclaimed head of his own satanic church, spat and stomped on the symbolic body of Christ in a ritual devoted to Satan.

The smells of incense and smoky dry ice vapors wafted over his small band of followers, who watched him and others perform the so-called “black mass” and destroy bread that was meant to symbolize the Eucharistic, which Catholics say is supposed to symbolize the body of Christ.
Only about 40 or so people attended Daniels’ demonic service, which was held in the basement of an Oklahoma City civic center in September, but it was enough to draw nearly 2,000 Christians from all over the region, some of which drove in from out of state, for a massive protest against it.

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Daniels is the co-founder of Dakhma of Angra Mainyu, a dark religion that worships demons, he claims to have created himself. He has written his own “bible” and calls himself “the daster,” which he said was “the equivalent to a high priest,” even “pope.”

“I’ve been working on this for 10 years,” he said. “It’s been created by my creation.”

Daniels has a real day job -- he works as a restaurant cook -- but he insists he has supernatural powers that are so strong he claims he can give someone a death sentence.

“For example, we had an opponent whose mother was dying of cancer and when the destruction ritual was done on him, it put his mother out,” Daniels said.

He’s also a man with a dark past -- Daniels is a registered sex offender, but he doesn’t believe that conviction interferes with performing his duties as “daster” to his flock.

Daniels has 14 “believers” who worship regularly at his “church,” which is a converted storage room in his house.

Before Dakhma of Angra Mainyu’s black mass last month, the small group of Satanists had remained in the shadows of obscurity. They had sold tickets to satanic ceremonies before, only to have almost no one show up. In fact, they garnered almost no public notice at all until they threatened to desecrate the Holy Sacrament of the Catholic Church, the communion wafer, during a satanic ceremony.

The archbishop of Oklahoma City was outraged.
“There’s a real danger involved,” said Archbishop Paul Coakley. “Danger, because of the powers that they are invoking are real. This isn’t entertainment. This isn’t a horror movie. This is real. These people are serious. They are invoking satanic powers. They are conducting a satanic ritual.”
Coakley flat out denounced Daniels’ claim that he’s expressing freedom of religion, and instead called the Black Mass a demonstration of hate speech.
“In the way I view it, what they’re doing is taking something very sacred to two billion Roman Catholics around the world, desecrating it, mocking it and ridiculing it,” Coakley said. “This is a group whose only purpose is to mock ridicule and to tear down something sacred to another religion.”

The archbishop even went as far as to say the satanic mass was an assault on the soul of humanity.

“I’ve seen the effects of satanic influences in people lives, destroying families,” Coakley said. “’The Exorcist’ [the movie] is based upon a true story. Satanic influences are real.”

The news of these devil-worshipers’ ceremony spread quickly online, and 100,000 people signed a petition to block it. Many were angry, not just because a Holy Sacrament would be desecrated in the name of Satan, but also because it was rumored to be stolen from a Catholic church.

“There was never a stolen host,” Daniels said. “[The Christians] are the ones that decided to claim that we had a stolen host.”
In reality, Daniels said, they just bought the communion wafers from a store.
“There’s a Christian store, it’s called Lifeway on the expressway where they sell all kinds of gear, including a wafer’s mask,” he said.
But for the first time, the group’s black mass ceremony sold out of all their 88 tickets, which cost $17.50 each.
For Daniels, all this pseudo-controversy is exactly what he is looking for and he’s just getting started. He said his next project is to build an alter to Satan made of debris left over from one of the deadliest domestic terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, one that hits a little too close to home for most Oklahomans.
“We want to use highly charged material, probably one of the most highly charged things in Oklahoma would be rubble from the Oklahoma City bombing,” Daniels said. “It would have one of the most highly negative charges that you could have energy wise.”
“Creation through destruction,” he added.

How Police Say Two Women Almost Got Away With Stealing at Least 6 Houses

How Police Say Two Women Almost Got Away With Stealing at Least 6 Houses

Laverne Green was shocked to discover that someone had stolen her house and moved strangers in. She was even more dismayed to find out that she had to start court proceedings to get her own house back.

It all started when Green and her husband, undergoing a divorce, had moved out of their Prince Georges County, Maryland, townhouse. Green still stopped by weekly to make sure everything was OK with the house. But in May 2013, she arrived to find an unwelcome surprise when she discovered that her key didn't work in the door.

“So I knock on the door, and this lady comes to the door,” Green told ’ “She said that she was renting the property. I’m like, ‘How can you rent this property--this is my house?’”

The renters said they procured the house through broker Shannon Lee. They called Lee, who arrived minutes later.

“This lady pulls up in this black BMW. She jumps out of the car, and she said, ‘Well, I bought this property through a tax sale,’” Green recalled. “I asked her, ‘[Do you] have the deeds and everything to the house?’ She said, ‘Oh yeah, I’ve got everything.’”

Police say Lee had actually taken control of her house with forged documents and then rented it out.
“Nobody suspected that someone would actually advertise a property they didn’t own and collect rent on it,” prosecutor Angela Alsobrooks told “20/20.”
Alsobrooks said this type of scam only works if the real homeowner isn’t around to notice. Luckily, Green not only visited her house often, but she also was a secretary for the Prince Georges County Police. Instead of calling 911, Green asked co-worker Lt. Charles Duelley for help.
Duelley got a search warrant for Lee’s home and discovered a stack of deeds he said were forged for other homes and other evidence of a scheme in progress much larger than he’d ever imagined.
“I identified probably 15 to 20 other properties … that had been targeted,” Duelley told “20/20.”
Police say Lee, along with her alleged partner in crime, Qiana Johnson, apparently gained control of at least six houses and planned to steal 15 to 20 more.
Duelley believes Lee scouted the area for houses that appeared vacant and were pending foreclosure. He said she compiled meticulous house by house reports of potential targets, even breaking in to take photos.
Lee then used blank deeds, according to Duelley, adding her name as the new owner, a fake notary seal and a bogus lawyer signature. She then simply walked into the county records department to officially enter that counterfeit into the public record.
Charrise and Michael Stewart answered an advertisement Lee posted when she was looking to rent one house she had taken over.
“We fell in love with it,” Charrise Stewart told “20/20.”
“It was everything we wanted in a house, and the price was right,” Charles Stewart told “20/20.”
The Stewarts said Lee represented herself as a respected broker, gave them a tour and got them to sign a lease. It seemed legitimate to them, despite some suspicious red flags, they said.
“From the outside you can see the damage done to the locks of the door, as if someone busted in the door, changed the locks on the door,” Charles Stewart said. Lee claimed that the scratches were from when she had trouble changing the locks.
The couple also wondered why they were not receiving electric bills from the local utility, Pepco. The Stewarts called the utility, but were told they couldn’t find them in the system as the owners.
In the meanwhile, authorities said, Lee and Johnson were collecting rent from the house and other properties they’d stolen. They allegedly even sold one for a pile of cash.
“She had had herself convinced that the paperwork was of good enough quality on the forgeries that she … thought she was in the clear,” Duelley said.
Police said that Lee and Johnson kept the bigger properties to live in themselves, including a sprawling five-bedroom colonial house that Donnie and David Small lived in Cheltenham, Maryland.
“It’s bananas, like it’s honestly crazy,” Donnie Small told “20/20.”
The Smalls had been forced to leave their beloved home when Donnie Small’s job was transferred to California. Struggling to carry two homes, they fell behind on the payments. Police said that was when Johnson used a faked deed to move her whole family in.
Even though “20/20” flew Donnie Small back from California to visit, she legally could not go inside the home.

“It’s really sickening, because you put your blood, sweat, and tears into buying your dream home, and we had to leave it because of financial situation,” said Donnie Small.

Donnie Small’s former neighbors said Johnson claimed to be family members of the Smalls. But some neighbors became suspicious and called Donnie Small’s husband.

“[They said], ‘Did you sell the house?’” Donnie Small said. “And he’s like, ‘No.’”

The Smalls called police, who evicted Johnson’s family. But Johnson moved back in hours later, and in an outrageous twist, Johnson sued the Smalls for false eviction.

Lee and Johnson were eventually arrested. Lee pleaded guilty to burglary and forgery. She is facing multiple counts of theft, forgery and burglary. Johnson was charged with multiple counts of theft, burglary, forgery, among other charges. But they left a mess for everyone else.

Donnie Small and Laverne Green had to file expensive eviction proceedings to get their houses back, and the Stewarts spent thousands of dollars when they had to quickly move out and find a new home.

When confronted by “20/20,” Lee said, “The truth will come out … I didn’t steal any houses.” Johnson has not responded to repeated requests for comment.

Lee later missed another court hearing, claiming she’d been in the hospital. She gave the judge hospital admissions records to prove it, but even the records were proved to be forged. She was sentenced to six months and may face additional charges as well.

Alsobrooks, who prosecuted Lee, said: “She’s obviously a very bright woman who chose to use her talent in ways that would have her go to jail.”

Johnson is currently awaiting trial.

“If somebody was telling me this story, I don’t’ know how much I would believe it,” 

Military kills 25 Boko haram members in Damboa

No fewer than 25 members of Boko Haram were killed yesterday October 19th by troops of the 7th division of the Nigerian army after the sect members launched a fresh attack at Damboa LGA in Borno state. Damboa is the same town the sect captured in June but was recovered by the Military in August.

Residents of the area said terrorists arrived around 5pm yesterday in seven Hilux buses and many motorcycles, and immediately started shooting at villagers. Fortunately, the military stationed in the area returned fire an killed many of the sect members...

A resident of the town told Vanguard;

"The terrorist numbering over 100 in 7 Hilux pickup vans and motocycles fully armed with Rocket Propelled Launchers, Improvised Explosive Devices(IED), AK47 rifles, stormed the town on Sunday night. They realized that the town had started picking up live following the returning of many fleeing residents after military took over from the terrorist who captured the town in June this year but we are happy that they are confronted"

Nicki Minaj is definitely on a hot streak. After effortlessly rapping on the killer remix of "Flawless" by Beyoncé, she followed up with the bootylicious video for her new single, "Anaconda." Since the song (and the video) is all about the booty, we thought we'd pay tribute in the only way that seems appropriate. 

LADY GAGA N HER NEW PAW TATTOO.

At Least 8 Issues We Have With Lady Gaga's New Tattoo

Not on the right track. Not born this way.
Lady Gaga revealed her new back tattoo on Instagram, and we love Mother Monster, but we're not so sure about it. Now, it's her life, her body, and we're not here to bring her down on that front. We're just thinking that maybe she could've kept this ink secret -- like her possibly secret marriage. Here are just a few of the issues we have with Lady Gaga's new tattoo.
Photo: Lady Gaga's Uncanny Resemblance to Amy Winehouse
Little Monsters please forgive us...
1. Just try getting anything done with finger nails like that.

2. Pinky fingers don't point that way.

Seriously, look at them. They don't.
3. Also, about that ring finger...

WHAT IS IT EVEN CONNECTED TO?
4. But really the space between them is what's really throwing us of
5. It's off theme.

Let's see we've got neutral colors, daisies, Tokyo love, dad heart, oh, and a giant red monster claw. NBD.
6. She called it a paw...

"My favorite tattoo is the one I got last night in Hamburg, its the Monster Paw, the symbol of my fans as they have held their paws high in the crowd every night since we became a community. I cherish it for its meaning, the loyalty, devotion, and strength we share. I wanted it engraved on me forever, <3"
This is a beautiful sentiment from her Reddit "Ask Me Anything" interview, but that tattoo is not even a paw. Biologically impossible hand? Yes. Paw? No. Sorry we're not sorry.
7. From a brand image standpoint, it's confusing.

Let's face the elephant in the room. Mother Monster is debuting Fame Monster era ink in a post-Artpop world.
8. The tattoo has a tattoo

It's like tattoo inception.

Police mistakenly think black teen is home burglar.

Police pepper spray Wake County teen inside his home after he's mistaken for burglar

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FUQUAY-VARINA, N.C. (AP) — Police mistook a black teenager for a burglar and pepper-sprayed him inside the home of his white foster parents.

It was Monday afternoon when 18-year-old DeShawn Currie came home from school and went up to his room. Unknown to him, a neighbor thought they saw something amiss in a neighborhood of mostly modest brick ranch homes that's had a run of crimes lately. Police were called. A possible burglary in progress.
The three officers dispatched to investigate found the side door ajar and walked in, guns drawn.

Barefoot and dressed in a tank-top and shorts, Currie came downstairs and met them in the dining room.

Not knowing if Currie was a burglar, whether he was armed or who else was in the house, an officer barked orders. Currie tried to explain this was his home. They told him to shut up.
"I did everything that they asked," said Currie, who is about 5-foot-8 and 200-pounds. "I was calm and being compliant with them until something happened."
One of the officers noted the faces of three small white children in the family photos on the mantel. Currie is black.
"Where's your picture if you say you live here?" Stacy Tyler, who made Currie her foster child last December, recounts one of the officers as asking. "He (Currie) snapped. And that's when he got loud and yelling."

Officers raked his face with pepper spray.

"Mr. Currie became very volatile, profane and threatened physical violence toward the police officer," police in this Raleigh suburb said Wednesday in a prepared statement. "In an effort to calm Mr. Currie, the police officer asked him several times to have a seat, which he refused. Mr. Currie became increasingly belligerent and profane and the police officer attempted to restrain Mr. Currie with handcuffs to insure the police officer's and Mr. Currie's safety. Mr. Currie then struck the police officer's left arm knocking the handcuffs to the floor."

That's what led to the pepper spray, police said. No charges were filed against Currie.
"The Fuquay-Varina Police Department does not engage in nor does it condone racial profiling. At no time during this event was race a factor," their statement said.

Stacy Tyler said she believes all of the officers involved are white. Police have not said how many officers entered the home, their length of service with the department or their race.

Police Chief Larry Smith, two police captains and a police spokeswoman did not respond to emails from The Associated Press asking what specific instructions Currie did not follow. Police also did not describe what kinds of crimes had been committed in the neighborhood and how recently. Stacy Tyler said a bicycle was stolen out of her home's back yard a couple of weeks ago.
Tyler said she arrived home Monday after picking up her other three children from school, running errands and buying them ice cream to find Currie crying inside an ambulance. He was handcuffed as his face and eyes were doused with water to flush out the pepper.

"That was the part that broke my heart, knowing all the work that my husband and I have put into rebuilding his life and giving him a good and normal teenage life," Tyler said, chatting outside her rented home as a black cat snoozed in a wicker rocking chair on the porch. "You don't get in foster care and not have scars, and he's been in foster care a very long time."

The 29-year-old, stay-at-home mom met Currie during the 18 months she and her husband Rickey lived and worked at the children's home. She said she and Rickey, a 30-year-old construction foreman, decided simultaneously to bring Currie into their home last year.
They moved next door to a black family in a mostly white neighborhood less than three months ago, Stacy said. The neighbor who called the police apologized Tuesday for prompting what could have become a tragedy instead of a sudden heartbreak.
Currie said his eyes still sting and his heart still hurts.

"I'm getting over it and whatever slowly," he said. "But there's still that big emotional part."

MOM WHO TRIED TO KILL DAUGHTER

Mom who tried to kill daughter gets 10-22 year

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BEULAH, Mich. (AP) — A judge Wednesday sentenced the mother of an autistic Michigan teenager to 10-22 years in prison for what the woman described as a failed murder-suicide attempt brought on by despair after years of violent attacks by her child and failure to find affordable and effective treatment.

Kelli Rai Stapleton, 46, pleaded guilty last month to first-degree child abuse in a bargain with prosecutors who dismissed an attempted murder charge. She admitted driving her daughter Isabelle to an isolated spot in rural northern Michigan in September 2013, giving her a sleep-inducing drug and placing two charcoal-burning grills inside their van.

Both survived, although Isabelle, now 15, was in a coma for four days and suffered brain damage. Although largely recovered, she still has memory loss and problems with balance.

Circuit Judge James Batzer ordered Stapleton to serve a minimum of 10 years before becoming eligible for parole, though she will get credit for the 399 days she's already served. He set her maximum sentence at 22 years.

Her body trembling and her voice breaking, Stapleton apologized repeatedly before her sentencing to her children, her former husband, her friends and others. Although her attorney requested probation and community service, Stapleton herself asked Batzer for a 15-year sentence — "one year for every year of (Isabelle's) life that I tried to take."
"I will spend each moment of each day in anguish for my actions and gratitude for the miracle that brought Issy back," Stapleton said, referring to her daughter by her nickname.

FILE - This undated file booking photo provided by the Benzie County Sheriff shows Kelli Stapleton.  …

"She is not a monster," Stapleton said. "I am. ... I always have and will always love her beyond measure."

Batzer rejected the suggestion that Stapleton had faked her suicide attempt and simply wanted to be rid of her daughter. He said that Stapleton might have been mentally ill but noted that she had decided against going to trial on an insanity defense.

"We can have sympathy," Batzer said. But he described Stapleton's actions as "profoundly wrong" and deserving of "a severe price."

Defense attorney Heidi Hodek said she was disappointed and that imprisoning Stapleton wouldn't help anyone. Prosecutor Sara Swanson said Stapleton deserved punishment and the sentence should serve as a deterrent.

"We can't as a society say that it's OK to try to kill your children," Swanson said

Kelli Stapleton reads a statement to Judge James Batzer shortly before her sentencing to 10-22 years …

Stapleton and her former husband, Matthew, a school principal who recently obtained a divorce, were prominent figures in the adjacent Lake Michigan communities of Elberta, where they lived, and Frankfort. In addition to Isabelle, they have another daughter and a son.

On Wednesday, Hodek read aloud a letter from Matthew Stapleton, written on behalf of him and his children, which said, "We know and understand in our hearts that she needs help, not an extended amount of jail time."

Kelli Stapleton became well known as an outspoken advocate for autism awareness and blogged about the challenges of finding proper help for Isabelle.

Stapleton wrote in the summer of 2013 that she was "suffering from a severe case of battle fatigue" after the family's insurance company stopped paying for a treatment program and local officials changed Isabelle's education plan.

She later told authorities she had concluded the best solution would be if she and her daughter "went to heaven."

During a three-day sentencing hearing, friends and relatives said Stapleton was a loving but broken mother, while other family members described her as selfish and devious.

Batzer said he had received letters from around the nation about the case, which generated sharp debate among advocates of those with disabilities.

Ari Ne'eman, president of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, argued for sentencing Stapleton "the same way a mother of a non-disabled child would be sentenced for a comparable crime."

Forensic psychiatrist Carole Lieberman, who examined Stapleton in July, testified that Stapleton was suffering from post-traumatic stress and bipolar disorders and was legally insane when attempting the murder-suicide.

AIRPORT SCREENING FOR EBOLA

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration announced Wednesday that airline passengers arriving from the three West African countries experiencing an unprecedented Ebola outbreak will now be screened for potential exposure to the deadly disease when they arrive at five major U.S. airports. The screening will include having their temperat

Five things you need to know about the screenings:
1. THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS
Customs and Border Protection agents stationed at New York's Kennedy, Newark Liberty, Washington's Dulles, Chicago's O'Hare and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta airports will be screening passengers. The effort begins in New York on Saturday and expands to the other airports over the next week.
There are no nonstop flights to the U.S. from Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea, the three hardest-hit countries. Nearly 95 percent of the roughly 150 people traveling daily from or through those West African countries to the United States land first at one of the five airports selected for extra screening. Customs and Border Protection agents stationed at other airports and border crossings will also be on the lookout for any visibly sick passengers.
2. THEY KNOW ALL THE STOPS

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Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Wednesday that officials in his department can track passengers all the way back to where their trips began. He said even if someone arrives in the U.S. after making several stops, Homeland Security will be able to identify them and screen them for possible Ebola exposure when they arrive.

3. NO-TOUCH TEMPERATURE TAKING

Mayorkas and the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Tom Frieden, said DHS employees at airports will use no-touch thermometers to take the temperatures of passengers who have come from or through West Africa. The screeners won't wear masks or any of the other scary-looking protective gear seen in photographs and video from West Africa. Mayorkas said those precautions haven't been deemed medically necessary.

Agents will also be asking questions about the passengers' travel and potential contact with anyone who may have been infected with Ebola.

4. FEVE

A teacher uses a thermometer to test the temperature of students, checking for possible Ebola fever  …

Frieden said Wednesday that people who have a fever will be interviewed to determine whether they may have had contact with someone infected with Ebola. Case-by-case, health workers will direct the passenger either to the local medical system or public health system for possible treatment or routine follow-ups, including daily temperature readings for the 21-day Ebola incubation period. There are quarantine areas at each of the five airports that can be used, if necessary.

Frieden said health officials expect to find many travelers who do have fever, but that doesn't mean they are all infected with Ebola. He said about 1 of every 500 people leaving West Africa has an elevated temperature, but most are suffering from malaria or some other ailment.
5. FELLOW TRAVELERS ON THE AIRCRAFT
Thousands of people pass through customs and immigration screening areas at the five airports daily and most won't be pulled aside for extra screening.
Frieden said because the number of passengers from the three West African countries is so few — about 150 daily — the extra screening isn't expected to disrupt normal operations.
He said security and health authorities "think it's manageable."

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Unrest in St. Louis After Police Officer Shoots, Kills Man

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Unrest in St. Louis After Police Officer Shoots, Kills Man (ABC News)

The fatal shooting of an 18-year-old black man in south St. Louis by an off-duty police officer sparked a night of unrest in a city still reeling from the August slaying of an unarmed man in nearby Ferguson.

Wednesday's shooting happened at about 7:30 p.m. in the city's Shaw Neighborhood, and involved an officer working a department-approved secondary job for a private security company, Police Chief Sam Dotson said at an early-morning news conference.

The officer approached a group of men. One of the men took off running, Dotson said, so the officer pursued. Dotson said the suspect approached the officer in an "aggressive" manner, with a physical altercation occurring. The man then turned and fired three rounds at the officer before his gun jammed, Dotson said.

The officer, who was not injured, returned fire, shooting 17 times and fatally wounding the man, Dotson said.

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A gun was recovered at the scene. The officer was placed on administrative leave, as per department policy, police said. Police have not identified the officer or the man he killed.
The incident comes nearly two months to the day after the police shooting of Michael Brown, 18, in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, located about 20 miles away. Brown's shooting sparked weeks of protests and spawned national discourse about police use of force.
Some of the people protesting recently in Ferguson were seen in St. Louis after Wednesday's shooting, Dotson said.
“Tensions in the region are very high,” Dotson said. “Any police officer use of force certainly will draw attention.”
St. Louis Alderman Antonio French, who documented the turmoil in Ferguson after Brown's Aug. 9 shooting death, reflected on the region's renewed anguish.
"At the scene of yet another young man's death,” he wrote on Twitter. “This happens too often in our city. It's a crisis that we should all be concerned about.”
Activists took to the streets of St. Louis overnight, marching and chanting, seeking answers.
Some police vehicles were damaged during the protests, with windows smashed, Dotson said.
People also shared their frustration on social media, with #shawshooting the most popular national trending 

Lady Gaga’s Tattoos

Pop superstar Lady Gaga has fourteen tattoos including flowers on her hip, a German quote on her arm, and a unicorn on her thigh.
All of her tattoos are on one side of her body body out of respect for her father. Gaga says: “He asked that I remain, on one side, slightly normal. So I only have my tattoos on my left side. I think he sees [my right] as my Marilyn Monroe side, and he sees [my left] as my Iggy Pop side.” It may seem like an odd thing for her father to request, but Gaga explains how it came about: “I sort of naturally was doing it all on the left and then my dad sort of requested one day because I was talking about getting one on my right arm and he’s like ‘could you just keep your crazy on the left?’”

Treble Clef Tattoo

Lady Gaga’s treble clef tattoo

Lady Gaga’s very first tattoo was a treble clef at the center of her lower back.  Obviously music has always been a huge part of Gaga’s life.  She got this tattoo when she was only 17 years old and used a fake ID because she was underage.  She later added a large flower tattoo beside it but instead of covering the music note she kept it intact and had it touched up.
Lady Gaga’s parents have come to accept her tattoos but they weren’t always fans.  She says “when I got my first one, they like had a freakin’ heart attack!”  Gaga of couse continued to get more tattoos.  She says that when she got her next tattoo “I had a heart attack because I felt bad for not telling them I was gonna it. We’re really close. So I went home and I started crying and I was like ‘I really love it, I’m really sorry.’”

Daisy Tattoo

Lady Gaga’s daisy tattoo

Another of Lady Gaga’s earlier tattoos is this design of three daisies on her left shoulder.

Peace Sign Tattoo

Lady Gaga’s peace sign tattoo

Lady Gaga has a tattoo peace sign on the inside of her left wrist as a tribute to John Lennon, one of her musical idols. Lennon was a major advocate of the anti-Vietnam war movement and a believer in peace. “My peace sign…was inspired by John Lennon. I grew up two blocks from the [Strawberry Fields] Imagine memorial. It’s actually one block away from where John Lennon was assassinated. And I am a huge Beatles, John Lennon, Yoko Ono fan. So ‘give peace a chance’,” Gaga explains, referencing John Lennon’s 1969 hit solo song “Give Peace A Chance.”
The tattoo is pointed inwards towards her in order to serve as a reminder to herself. “You will notice that if you’re looking at it it’s upside down, but for me it’s right side up,” she says. “The reason I had it put kind of upside down is because I wanted it to be a reminder to me that even though I always write fun music about sequins and panties and fame and money, that I make sure to always keep in mind the important things.”

Rose Tattoo

Lady Gaga’s rose tattoo

Lady Gaga has a large tattoo of roses that sprawls from her lower back to the left side of her waist.  This tattoo was done by famous tattoo artist Kat Von D back in 2008 and it was filmed for the show LA Ink. Lady Gaga had some regrets about her treble clef tattoo and its’ “tramp stamp” location, so she worked it into her side piece. “Literally this entire side piece I have is a compensation for that one tattoo,” she says.
Gaga is drawn to the feminine feeling of Kat Von D’s designs. She told Kat: “You do beautiful work. It’s really elegant and the lines are perfect.”

Toyko Love Tattoo

Lady Gaga’s “Toyko Love” tattoo

Lady Gaga got two tattoos during her trip to Japan in August 2009, one of which is “Tokyo Love” on her shoulder. Gaga got this tattoo along with a few members of the “Haus of Gaga,” her creative team of stylists and designers.  The tattoo is to commemorate a shining moment in Gaga’s career when the Haus of Gaga worked with the famous Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki on a photoshoot starring Lady Gaga.
Gaga explains: “[The tattoo] was to celebrate the Haus’s collaboration with legendary Japanese photographer Araki. I was bound by Araki’s personal bondage artist, by several ropes and Japanese knots, and through a visceral bondage and sexual-torture experience, Araki photographed me, using a series of several cameras. He did not photograph my image; he photographed my soul. We spent the night with Araki and his friends at a members’ only bar he’s owned for more than 20 years, where he displays his work. Here, he painted me and took Polaroids through the night. I was honored to be the first American woman he’s photographed, and only the second pop artist, in the company of Björk. He signed the Polaroids “Tokyo Love,” and the Haus got tattoos of his marking in celebration.”

German Tattoo

Lady Gaga’s German quote tattoo

The other tattoo which Lady Gaga got in Japan is actually written in German.  This large text on her bicep is a passage from Gaga’s favorite writer Rainer Maria Rilke, whom she describes as “a poet and romantic philosopher.” The tattoo translates to “Confess to yourself in the deepest hour of the night whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write?”
The quote speaks of the need to write and to Gaga it is about her need to write music.  She says: “I had this tattooed on my arm so that every single day I would be reminded that my gift is songwriting and I have to do it. It’s not an option. It’s like breathing.”

Dad Tattoo

Lady Gaga’s “Dad” tattoo

Lady Gaga’s third tattoo on her left shoulder is a tribute to her father.  It is a heart with a banner reading “dad.”  Gaga got this tattoo shortly after her father had a successful open heart surgery.  He has struggled with a heart condition for many years and Gaga was afraid that she was going to lose him.  She wrote her song “Speechless” as a plea for him to get the surgery.
When she told her father about her plans to honor him with a tattoo she says “he got all teary-eyed and he said, ‘Well, you’re running out of real estate, so don’t get it too big.’”  She announced her plans for the tattoo in October 2009 and had it done shortly after.

Little Monsters Tattoo

Lady Gaga’s “Little Monsters” tattoo

Lady Gaga permanently inked her love for her fans in February 2010 when she tattooed “Little Monsters” on her arm below her German tattoo.  Little Monsters is the name given by Gaga to her fanbase.  She got this tattoo right after the 2010 Grammy Award where she won two awards: best dance recording for “Poker Face” and electronic dance album for The Fame.  Though the Grammys are chosen by industry insiders rather than voted on by fans, Gaga still credits her fans with all of her success.  After winning the awards she tweeted “We won big tonight little monsters. I am so proud to make music 4 you. I hope I continue to inspire u the way u inspire me. You’re everything.”  She took to Twitter again to show off the tattoo with the caption “look what i did last night.  little monsters forever, on the arm that holds my mic. xx”

Unicorn Tattoo

Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” unicorn tattoo

In September 2010, Lady Gaga tattooed a unicorn on her thigh with a banner reading “Born This Way,” the title of both her second full-length album and its lead single.  Her song “Born This Way” is about embracing one’s uniqueness and never compromising, and speaks in particular to the gay community, whom Gaga has been a vocal advocate for.  The unicorn is a symbol of rarity and uniqueness.
This is Lady Gaga’s ninth and most recent tattoo.  We’re surprised that it’s been so long since she’s gotten one!

ARTPOP Tattoo

Lady Gaga’s “ARTPOP” tattoo on her arm

Much like Lady Gaga got a tattoo to celebrate her album “Born This Way,” she added a new tattoo in August 2012 with the title of her album “ARTPOP.” She got the tattoo as soon as the album title was announced, though it was not released until November 6, 2013.
ARTPOP is more than just the name of her album, it’s also an expression of her life and career. “I live between two things–I live between art and pop all the time,” she says.

Anchor Tattoo

Lady Gaga’s anchor tattoo on her side

Lady Gaga waited nearly two years between tattoos number 9 and 10, but only a month between 10 and 11! She revealed an anchor on her ribcage, done by Henk Schiffmacher at Amsterdam Tattoo Museum, in September 2012. “New Tat. Stamp of His Mermaid,” she wrote.

Cherub Tattoo

Lady Gaga’s cherub head tattoo

On September 13th, 2012, Lady Gaga got a cherub tattooed on the back of her head live at her fragrance launch. Taking place at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, Lady Gaga changed into lingerie and tattoo artist Michael Mahoney inked a renaissance cherub on the back of her head inside of a giant perfume bottle. She prepared for the tattoo by shaving a triangle shape into her hair, but let the hair grow over the tattoo a few months later.

RIO Tattoo

Lady Gaga’s RIO Tattoo

On November 10th, 2012, Lady Gaga headed to a tattoo parlor in Rio de Janeiro to get “R†O” tattooed on the left side of her head, behind her left ear. This tattoo is for her fans, and the font is three different fans’ signatures. Tweeting about her tattoo, she said:

“R†O. Monsters, all over the world you continue to inspire me everyday, your like an endless ocean of possibilities.”
…”the font was derived out of the signatures of three fans, all from different neighborhoods and ages. Represents how music brings us 2gether.“

Mouse Tattoo

Lady Gaga’s mouse tattoo

Lady Gaga got a tattoo of a mouse on her elbow in August 2013 in honor of her younger sister Natali Germanotta who is a student at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City. Gaga chose a mouse because Natali was called “mouse” as a child. The details of the tattoo are also relevant to her sister’s life–the mouse is holding a needle and thread to symbolize Natali’s love of fashion design and the thread below the mouse’s feet spells out her nickname “Nat.”
Gaga explained the tattoo on her website: “Got it for Nat, my sister and original hoodrat, her name was always mouse and I am loopy. Needle represents her passion for fashion design. I love her more than anything, she inspired me.”

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