Chicago 11-year-old creates hoodie to help autism patients self-soothe

PHILADELPHIA - Cherelle Parker, a Democrat with a long political history in Pennsylvania, won Philadelphia’s mayoral primary on Tuesday, likely setting her up as the city’s 100th mayor and the first woman to serve in the role.Parker, 50, who served for 10 years as a state representative for northwest Philadelphia before her election to the city council in 2015, asserted herself as a leader whose government experience would allow her to address gaping problems with public safety and quality of life in the nation’s sixth-largest city. She will go up against Republican David Oh in the Nov.

A missing girl has been found six years after she was abducted, thanks in part to the show Unsolved Mysteries.

DENTON, Texas - A 7-year-old Texas boy is showing how big his heart is after he walked a 8-year-old bullied schoolmate home.And his mother caught it all on video.Ashley Sanders of Denton said she recorded her son Noah, a first grader, after school in April.The video shows Noah walking with an unidentified girl who is his schoolmate.RELATED: Central Islip School District sued over failure to protect student from bullyingSanders posted it on her social media and of course, it went viral.Sanders usually waits outside the school to meet her children to prevent bullying and fighting. She said the little girl in the video usually says hello and pets Sanders’ dogs.But one day, the little girl wasn’t happy and came to Sanders crying.A trio of Canadian researchers said that dodgeball may be a tool for bullying and oppressing students."I asked her if she was okay and she proceeded to tell me that a boy was bullying her," Sanders told FOX Television Stations.The little girl told Sanders that a bully ripped up a picture she had and called her a crybaby.That’s when Noah, feeling indignant, got involved to comfort her."My son asked her who it was and when she described her bully, he felt like he knew who it was so he asked me if he could walk her home to make sure she's OK," Sanders added.RELATED: Watch: Boy tells mom 'I want to die' after continued bullying at schoolSanders, feeling proud of her son, recorded the moment Noah showed such compassion."I believe the little girl felt safe to share her feelings with us because I have a genuine love and heart for children's ministry," Sanders added.

PHILADELPHIA - Voters in Philadelphia are determining who will likely lead the nation's sixth-largest city in a crowded field of Democratic candidates on Tuesday, as the city faces upticks in gun violence and quality-of-life issues that make people feel unsafe.Five front-runner candidates — including former city council members, former city officials and a grocery store franchiser — have sought to differentiate themselves in a tight contest.The Philadelphia race serves as the latest barometer of how residents of some of the nation’s largest cities hope to emerge from the pandemic, which heightened concerns about crime, poverty and inequality. The results have sometimes been tumultuous in other parts of the country, leading to the defeat of the incumbent mayor of Chicago in February and the ouster of San Francisco’s district attorney last year.Philadelphia voters will choose between front-runner candidates including former council members Allan Domb, Helen Gym and Cherelle Parker; former city controller Rebecca Rhynhart; and political outsider and grocer Jeff Brown.

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya told her supporters on Monday to be ready to grab any chance to turn her country into a democracy as speculation about the health of veteran President Alexander Lukashenko swirled.Shortly after her message to supporters via Twitter, a Belarusian state news channel released a photo of Lukashenko, 68, at what it said was a military command center in what would be his first public appearance in almost a week.State TV later broadcast a clip of Lukashenko at what it said was a central air force command base. It showed him sitting in a chair talking to officers.

A 15-year-old boy is fighting for his life after police say he was shot in Hunting Park Monday night.  PHILADELPHIA - A 15-year-old boy is fighting for his life after police say he was shot in Hunting Park Monday night. Just after 7:30 p.m., police responded to reports of gunshots on the 100 block of West Wyoming Street.

for an unknown “medical complication.”Foxx’s daughters, Corinne and Annalise — plus the latter’s mom, Kristin Grannis — were all in the Windy City over the weekend to spend time with the 55-year-old entertainer, TMZ reported on Monday. Annalise was spotted outside of a physical rehab center with her guitar, while Grannis was captured holding Mother’s Day flowers and a balloon.While the outlet did not name the specific rehab center where Foxx is reportedly staying, they did say that the facility specializes in stroke recovery, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury and cancer rehabilitation.TMZ claimed a source told them that Foxx arrived at this Chicago facility in late April.

Martha Stewart once said, “There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion.”The 81-year-old lifestyle guru certainly brought the passion to Sports Illustrated as part of her newly revealed Swimsuit Issue cover.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was set to stop in Edmonton on Monday to meet with military personnel who are helping Alberta fight ongoing wildfires.

₹59 crore, registering a growth of 15.7 per cent, compared to ₹51.2 crore in the corresponding period last year. The company reported a total sales of ₹316.3 crore in the January-March quarter, reporting an increase of 21 per cent compared to ₹262.2 crore in the year-ago period. The company reported a total revenue of ₹321 crore, posting a growth of 19.8 per cent, compared to ₹268 crore in the same period last year.

PHILADELPHIA - A Democratic primary that will likely determine who becomes Philadelphia’s next mayor could boost a progressive cause struggling to make a comeback after national setbacks, but with no clear front-runner it's just as likely to fortify the city's existing Democratic machine.Not one of the five top candidates has emerged as a clear favorite in Tuesday's primary, a digression from mayoral races in recent history, said Richardson Dilworth, author of the book "Reforming Philadelphia," which examines the city’s government over the course of 350 years."The political structure of the city is in a moment that is somewhat unprecedented," he said. "It’s ideologically incredibly cohesive.

HAYWARD, Calif. - Forrest Jones spent over two decades in California state prisons, but on Sunday, he graduated from college.Jones grew up in Hanford in San Joaquin Valley where he was the youngest of 10 siblings in a working class family. Jones said he started hanging out with the wrong crowd and spent 27 years of his life in California state prison.  "I started messing with drugs, became addicted," Jones said.

Edmonton Oilers’ season ended Sunday night at Rogers Place with a 5-2 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights.Vegas wins the best-of-seven 4-2. They’ll play either Dallas or Seattle in the Western Conference Final.“There were two teams that were taking swings at each other in every game,” Oilers Head Coach Jay Woodcroft said.“It feels like a failure or a wasted year almost,” Leon Draisaitl said after the loss.The Golden Knights took an early lead when the puck bounced in front to Reilly Smith, who snapped a shot past Stuart Skinner 24 seconds into the game.Connor McDavid provided a quick response, 31 seconds later, when his shot from the right wing eluded Adin Hill.Just 1:48 after that, Derek Ryan centered the puck to Warren Foegele, who connected for his second of the post-season.Vegas came out strong in the second and went ahead on a pair of goals by Jonathan Marchessault in the first eight minutes of the period.“I thought we played a good first period,” Woodcroft said.

NORTH PHILADELPHIA - The number of young people losing their lives to gun violence is sobering. Mother’s Day can be especially difficult for their parents and Sunday, they have a plea for people to put their guns down.Daphne Brown points to a blanket with photographs and states, "This is why I have this photo blanket, for memories, because he was my only child."Mother’s Day brings a compounded pain for Daphne Brown.

BUFFALO, N.Y. - The city of Buffalo will pause Sunday to mark the passing of one year since a gunman killed 10 people and wounded three others in a racist attack that targeted Black people at a city supermarket.A moment of silence followed by the chiming of church bells at 2:28 p.m. will honor victims of the massacre at the Tops Friendly Market on May 14, 2022."The racially motivated mass shooting shook our community to its core.

New Delhi: Use of technology and digital health tools can help in achieving the universal health coverage, said the union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya, while addressing the G7 health ministerial meeting on health innovation in Nagasaki, Japan on Sunday.  The meeting was held to discuss the priorities, implementation and utilization of health innovations like digital health towards ensuring universal health coverage. Health Ministers of the G7 countries and invited “Outreach 4" countries of India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand participated in the meeting.  Mandaviya said, “Use of technology & digital health tools are an enabler and equalizer which can facilitate strengthened health service delivery.

LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. - A family is grieving the death of a beloved mother and grandmother after the 76-year-old was hit by a school bus and died in La Puente.The California Highway Patrol, which investigates crashes involving school buses, said the incident happened on Monday, May 8 at around 2:20 p.m. on Hacienda Boulevard and Fairgrove Avenue. Blanca Arcelia Guerrero, the mom of 6, was crossing the intersection when she was struck by a Hacienda La Puente Unified school bus. The Medical Examiner's office ruled Guerrero's cause of death as blunt force trauma.

Stock image of terraced housing in England. via Getty Creative Images A British housing association apologized after discovering a tenant’s body in his home possibly six years after he died. "Everyone at Bolton at Home has been deeply shocked by this, and we realize it will concern and upset people to learn his body remained undiscovered for such a long time," Noel Sharpe, chief executive of Bolton At Home, said in a statement. "It's completely unacceptable to us that something like this has happened, and we've taken action to reduce the risk of it happening again," Sharpe added.

A Welcome To Fabulous Las Vegas retail store at the entrance of the Venetian Hotel & Casino is viewed on February 10, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images) CARSON CITY, Nev. - Last month, Las Vegas was talking baseball.

Arizona where he creates spectacular, high resolution images of everything beyond earth.The hobbyist turned full-fledged space photographer now sells his photos online and is funded through patreon subscribers to fuel his passion for outer space, McCarthy told LiveNOW from FOX. He's even built an observatory from his backyard shed in Arizona."In 2017, I bought my first telescope," Mcarthy declares on his site CosmicBakground.

A Perth Red Cross hero who attended the King’s coronation at Westminster Abbey called it “the experience of a lifetime”.

WEST PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia gun violence epidemic continues as a 14-year-old boy was shot and killed on a West Philadelphia SEPTA train platform.Officials say the shooting happened Saturday afternoon, a little after 2 p.m., at the SEPTA station located at 52nd and Market in West Philadelphia. The boy was shot on the westbound platform of the El.Police arrived to find the teen had been shot in the arm and the chest.

Roy Cooper, governor of North Carolina, speaks about investments in affordable, accessible high-speed internet at the Carole Hoefener Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, US, on Thursday, July 21, 2022. Photographer: Grant Baldwin/Bloomberg via Getty RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - In front of an exuberant crowd, North Carolina’s Democratic governor vetoed legislation Saturday that would have banned nearly all abortions in his state after 12 weeks of pregnancy.About 1,000 abortion-rights activists and voters watched on a plaza in the capital of Raleigh as Gov.

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police are asking for the public's help to find a 98-year-old woman they say has not been seen or spoken to in approximately two weeks.Celia Shilder, 98, was last seen by neighbors on the 800 block of Fairfield Street in Northeast Philadelphia.

SOUTH PHILADELPHIA - The moment tens of thousands of Swifties have been waiting for – Taylor Swift live at the Linc for a weekend of sold-out concerts. Her first tour in five years and night one, over the top, as Swift put on a show like only she can.

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. - The mother of a 1-year-old girl who died Thursday night after she was pulled from a pond in Sandy Springs is being charged with her murder, according to Sandy Springs Police Department.During a press briefing, police said that the mother is being charged with felony murder and cruelty to children. She has been identified as Asia Calabrese-Lewis. She is being held in the Fulton County Jail. The child has been identified as Nirvana Oliver. "They live in the area, the father showed up… found her there with us and asked where the child is.

POINT BREEZE - Three people have been shot in Point Breeze, including an 11-year-old girl.Officials said the shooting happened Friday night, just before 8 p.m., on the 1900 block of South 23rd Street.Philadelphia police arrived to find the 11-year-old girl on the street suffering with a gunshot wound to her leg. Police rushed her to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA - Authorities have charged an inmate who they say helped two fellow inmates escape a Philadelphia prison last weekend, sparking a dayslong manhunt across the city. Jose Flores-Huerta, a 35-year-old who is currently incarcerated at Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center, was charged Thursday with Escape and Criminal Conspiracy. Flores-Huerta is incarcerated for a deadly group beating at Pat's King of Steaks in Sept. 2021 that claimed the life of 28-year-old Isidro Cortez. It's alleged that Flores-Huerta helped Nasir Grant, 24, and Ameen Hust, 18, free themselves from the prison last Sunday night through a hole in a perimeter fence. Prisons Commissioner Blanche Carney told reporters the duo missed three headcounts before prison guards realized they were missing Monday afternoon.One of the two inmates who escaped from a Philadelphia prison on Sunday was captured by U.S.

ESCONDIDO, Calif. - An 8-week-old kitten is on the mend after the tiny animal got its head stuck in the frame of a truck in California. The driver of the truck was on the road on Monday and heard "meowing sounds" at a stop sign, according to the San Diego Humane Society. Upon further inspection, the driver discovered the female kitten with its head stuck in a hole in the frame of the truck.RELATED: Watch: Police respond to calls for help, turns out to be 'very upset goat'The truck driver contacted the San Diego Humane Society, whose staff members sedated the kitten and worked to safely extract the animal. "After sedating the kitten, they patiently used Q-tips to dislodge her head and free her from the tight spot," the humane society said in a post on Facebook about the ordeal. The kitten was then taken to the humane society’s Escondido campus "for additional care, including pain medication, fluids, antibiotics and a good meal."The kitten is pictured in screengrabs from a video shared by the San Diego Humane Society of the rescue.

PHILADELPHIA - A man has died after he was hit by a car while crossing the street in North Philadelphia, police say. According to officials, the incident occurred on Thursday night around 9:30 p.m.

FILE - Lyft signage on a vehicle as it exits the ride-sharing pickup at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California, on Feb. 3, 2022.

NEW YORK - Daniel Penny, the 24-year-old Marine veteran at the center of Jordan Neely's choking death aboard a subway train last week, has turned himself in to police to face a criminal charge over the incident.Neely, who was homeless, died back on May 1 after Penny allegedly held him in a chokehold for several minutes.According to witnesses, Neely was yelling at and harassing passengers on the train before he was subdued by Neely and others, and ultimately died.Manhattan prosecutors say they will bring criminal charges against a man who used a deadly chokehold on an unruly passenger aboard a New York City subway train.The Medical Examiner's office later ruled Neely's death a homicidecaused by compression on the neck.Penny faces a charge of second-degree manslaughter, which could carry a jail term of up to 15 years."Second-degree manslaughter means that they're charging him with having recklessly caused the death. Recklessly means that he was operating with a substantial and justifiable risk of causing death to another person," explained Andrew Cherkasky, a former federal prosecutor."I think that some people are going to be upset about this that it wasn’t more serious.

Chicago police said Wednesday.The four were ordered held without bail Wednesday by Judge David Kelly, who said prosecutors had provided “a mountain of evidence“ that the suspects had “engaged in a very violent crime spree.”Preston was technically off her shift when she was killed, but she was still wearing her uniform that night as she walked home. The Chicago Police Department said Monday that it will rule Preston’s killing a “line of duty death,” which will secure additional benefits for Preston’s family.After the bond hearing for the four teens on Wednesday, Preston’s mother, Dionne Mhoon, said she was “heartbroken” and “full of anger, rage, questions why.”An initial timeline of events was released by police, who believe the teens drove past the off-duty cop in a sedan and circled back to approach her as she stood outside her home in Avalon Park, a neighbourhood in Chicago’s South Side.Residential surveillance video shows three people getting out of the sedan and running toward Preston.

LOGAN - Philadelphia police report the shooting of four people, including the fatal shooting on one man and the wounding of a 7-year-old, in the city’s Logan neighborhood.Officials say the shooting happened on the 5900 block of North 21st Street, Thursday evening, just before 6 p.m.Police arrived to find a 7-year-old with a gunshot wound to the leg. The condition of the child was not disclosed.The people were taken to Einstein Medical Center where one man died after arrival.No other details were released regarding the other victims.An investigation into the shooting is underway.___Tips can be submitted by calling 215-686-TIPS (8477) or texting PPD TIP (773847).

GOODYEAR, Ariz. - A man convicted in a hit-and-run crash in Goodyear that left a teenage boy dead has been sentenced to prison.Richard Romo, 45, will spend nearly nine years behind bars after he hit and killed 13-year-old Dylan Buensuceco, who was riding his bike home from school near Estrella Parkway and Elliot Road on April 26, 2022.According to Goodyear Police, the crash happened near Estrella Parkway and Elliot Road around 2:45 p.m. Police say 13-year-old, Dylan Buensuceso, died.Romo was arrested days after the collision.Richard Romo "Many people came forward with camera footage.

PHILADELPHIA - An arrest has been made in the killing of a 16-year-old boy who police say was gunned down on a Philadelphia street nearly a month ago. Aysir Clark was taken into custody Tuesday after he surrendered to authorities on the 400 block of North Broad Street in North Philadelphia, police reported. Clark is believed to be linked to the Apr.

ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. - A pair of Florida deputies helped a hawk "snake" his way out of a deadly situation.Alachua County Sheriff Clovis Watson said two of his patrol deputies received a call Sunday regarding what appeared to be an injured hawk lying in the roadway of a residential neighborhood. WILD ANIMAL ENCOUNTERS THAT WENT VIRAL THIS WEEKAlachua County Sheriff Clovis Watson said two of his patrol deputies received a call Sunday regarding what appeared to be an injured hawk lying in the roadway of a residential neighborhood.

Daniel Penny is seen in bystander video holding Jordan Neely in a chokehold. (Luces de Nueva York/Juan Alberto Vazquez via Storyful) NEW YORK - Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran at the center of Jordan Neely's choking death aboard a subway train last week, is expected to turn himself in to police as soon as Friday to face criminal charges over the incident.Neely, who was homeless, died on May 1 after Penny allegedly held him in a chokehold for several minutes.According to witnesses, Neely was yelling at and harassing passengers on the train before he was subdued by Neely and others, and ultimately died.The Medical Examiner's office ruled Neely's death a homicide. Penny, 24, will face a charge of second degree manslaughter, which could carry a jail term of up to 15 years."We cannot provide any additional information until he has been arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court, which we expect to take place tomorrow," the Manhattan district attorney's office said in a statement.Last Friday, attorneys for Penny released a statement that read: "We would first like to express, on behalf of Daniel Penny, our condolences to those close to Mr.

Arizona, has his sights set on his future, and boy is it bright.Andrade is expected to graduate from high school in June, but unlike most soon-to-be grads, he has a little more to celebrate — namely, three college degrees.The 17-year-old whiz kid told Good Morning America he started taking college-level classes when he was in Grade 6. By Grade 8, he was enrolled in a concurrent education program at Estrella Mountain Community College.Andrade is homeschooled, but after his regular school day, he would take his college courses either online or in person on the college’s campus.On May 19, Andrade will receive his three associate degrees in artificial intelligence (AI), computer science and mathematics.