Golfer jumped into pond, tried to save woman being attacked by alligators: 911 calls

*By Paul Harrison, University of Oxford 

Americans are more pessimistic about its trajectory than they were in the spring, parents of young children are not yet rushing to have them vaccinated.

Covid jab.The 51-year-old musician had been a member of the English pop reggae band for 11 years before he departed the band last year.Hoy spoke out about his shock exit from the band for the first time on GB News, during Mark Steyn's show.READ MORE:GMB fans cringe over 'uncomfortable' UB40 interview as band talk reunion rumoursThe vocalist slammed the group for a 'lack of loyalty' as being in the band had felt like being in a second family.He said: "To have your entire career taken away from you over a jab is a terrifying prospect. This is discrimination.

Doctors have outlined two kinds of people who are more prone to hospitalisation owing to the recent surge in the COVID-19 cases in the national capital. The national capital has witnessed a two-fold surge in Covid-19 hospitalisation in the last 15 days, with the daily tally rising steeply. Across the country cases have gone up by 25 per cent with 15,754 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the health bulletin by the health ministry.

The Economic Times report, Akshay Budhraja, senior consultant, respiratory and sleep medicine at Aakash Healthcare said, “the number of acute coronary syndrome, myocardial infarction (heart attack) is increasing in Covid positive patients.

PHILADELPHIA - Authorities are searching for someone who they say lit an American flag on fire outside a South Philadelphia home.According to police, the flag was hanging outside a home on the 200 block of Fulton Street when it was set on fire around 4 a.m.

Photo courtesy city of Watsonville WATSONVILLE, CA - The city of Watsonville says multiple agencies responded to Watsonville Municipal Airport Thursday after two planes attempting to land collided. At least two people are dead after initial reports of multiple fatalities.The incident happened just before 3 p.m., officials said. An investigation is underway.Federal Aviation Administration quickly issued the following preliminary statement:  "A single-engine Cessna 152 and a twin-engine Cessna 340 collided while the pilots were on their final approaches to Watsonville Municipal Airport in Watsonville, Calif., around 3 p.m.

Kelly Simpson was arrested in Charlotte County for interfering with the custody of a minor PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. - A Port Charlotte teacher has been arrested after a missing teen was located at her residence. The Charlotte County Sheriff's Office said the teen boy was reported missing by his parents August 12. Investigators said they learned the boy may be at the home of a 31-year-old teacher, Kelly Simpson.Simpson allegedly knew the teen boy had been reported missing when she picked him up from an unknown location and "concealed him inside her home."The sheriff's office said Simpson is a teacher with Charlotte County Public Schools. She faces a charge of interfering with the custody of a minor.Charlotte County deputies said the investigation would continue and anyone with information is asked to call 941-639-2101.

PROSPECT PARK, Pa. - It’s back to school in a couple of weeks and not for just students and teachers, but police officers, too. Some area school districts spent the summer beefing up on-campus security for the upcoming school year.When students at Interboro High School start classes next month, they’ll see a newcomer roaming the hallways – the school’s dedicated police officer."With the tragedies that happened across the country, we have to be prepared for any kind of event like that," explained Prospect Park Police Chief Dave Madonna.Walking the halls of Interboro High School, Chief Madonna says after scenes from places like Uvalde and Sandy Hook, student security has become a top priority.

PHILADELPHIA - Several parents of Philadelphia school children argued spoke out against the district's mask guidance for the upcoming school year during a public meeting. The School District recently announced that students returning to the classroom this fall will be required to mask for the first 10 days of the school year. After the 10-day period designed to limit a potential COVID outbreak in schools, masks will become optional for students unless certain criteria calls for the mandate to be reimposed. Masks could return during the school year if community spread is high, a classroom experiences an outbreak, or upon returning from an extended break. RELATED COVERAGEStudents and staff in the pre-k head start program are required to wear masks all year long. The district hosted a public meeting on Thursday afternoon and heard from several parents who were not happy with the updated guidance. "This is an equity issued," Rahul Ganesan argued. "It really, really deeply reflects upon that, why are our kids in the district being treated differently than almost 99% of kids in the entire country?"School officials consulted with several medical experts when devising the new guidance, including Medical Officer Dr.

Travis Barker is currently battling COVID-19.

FILE - The elephant, a symbol of the Republican Party, on in a rug in the lobby of the Republican Party's headquarters in Washington. (Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty Images)A Republican group in Alabama is apologizing after accidentally using a picture of the GOP elephant that contained Ku Klux Klan imagery.The Lawrence County Republican Party intended to post an image of the GOP elephant on its Facebook page, but ended up using one in which the white spaces between the animal's legs were drawn to resemble hooded Klansmen.A party official said the image was taken from the results of a Google search and that the image was immediately replaced once the mistake was detected."I would like to offer a deep and sincere apology for a picture that temporarily appeared on this page last night.

Photo courtesy city of Watsonville WATSONVILLE, CA - The city of Watsonville says multiple agencies responded to Watsonville Municipal Airport Thursday after two planes attempting to land collided. At least two people are dead after initial reports of multiple fatalities.The incident happened just before 3 p.m., officials said. An investigation is underway.Federal Aviation Administration quickly issued the following preliminary statement:  "A single-engine Cessna 152 and a twin-engine Cessna 340 collided while the pilots were on their final approaches to Watsonville Municipal Airport in Watsonville, Calif., around 3 p.m.

Today we are reporting 3,805 community cases, 466 current hospitalisations.

Willie Nelson had a "pretty rough time" with Covid-19 earlier this year. In an interview for The New York Times, the country music icon revealed he tested positive for the virus in May. "I had a pretty rough time with it," he shared.

lagging in Japan due to the coronavirus pandemic's impact on the restaurant and nightlife industry, so the country is launching a new contest to try to boost consumption among young people dubbed, "Sake Viva!""The purpose of this announcement is to revitalize the industry," Japan's National Tax Agency said in announcing the plan, according to a translation. Applicants between the ages of 20 and 39 are encouraged to submit business plans to boost alcohol sales to young people ahead of a contest in November. FILE - Glasses of craft beer sit in a tray ready to be served inside the Bakusyu Club Popeye bar in the Ryogoku neighborhood of Tokyo, Japan, 2015.

Cocaine, weighing 41 pounds and with a street value of $1.3 million, was found on a passenger plane by officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection at Philadelphia International Airport.

Colored fentanyl pills with the appearance of candy seized at Port of Nogales. (US Customs and Border Protection)Customs and Border Protection agents in Arizona seized more than 15,000 fentanyl pills that were strapped to a person's legs on Wednesday, and one official says that it could be the start of a trend targeting younger people.The "candy"-looking pills were seized in Arizona at the Nogales Port of Entry on Wednesday, and Port Director Michael W.

after being hospitalized with pancreatitis, Travis Barker is now dealing with COVID-19.The rocker took to Instagram on Thursday to share the news with fans, posting a stylish, moody shirtless snapshot of himself swinging some drumsticks.«Covid sucks

Quebec CEGEP students have ‘reduced ability to study’ amid COVID-19 pandemic: union head Drouin says CO2 detectors only measure the size of the problem. Instead, he says the government should reconsider purchasing air purifiers to keep COVID from spreading.“(There was) two to three times less number of outbreaks in the schools with purifiers versus no purifiers,” said DrouinMUHC Pediatric and Infectious Diseases Division Director Dr.

Photo courtesy city of Watsonville WATSONVILLE, CA - The city of Watsonville says multiple agencies responded to Watsonville Municipal Airport Thursday after two planes attempting to land collided. There are reports of multiple fatalities.The incident happened just before 3 p.m., officials said. An investigation is underway.Federal Aviation Administration quickly issued the following preliminary statement:  "A single-engine Cessna 152 and a twin-engine Cessna 340 collided while the pilots were on their final approaches to Watsonville Municipal Airport in Watsonville, Calif., around 3 p.m.

video. Shoppers were shocked to see a Lincoln MKX SUV slowly making its way past stores inside South Shore Plaza located in Braintree, Massachusetts. Video shared on social media showed the SUV stopped in front of a clothing store as a person can be heard saying, "Like, she literally has to drive from all the way down there to over here." FILE - Freeze frame from video showing an SUV being backed out of a Massachusetts mall Thursday morning. (@ghettova via Storyful)One witness told local news media that she was on her phone when she suddenly heard a female security officer screaming, "Stop! Stop! Stop!" "I was walking around and talking to someone on the phone at the time when I heard the security lady start screaming, ‘Stop! Stop! Stop!,’ and by the time I got up to the window, I realized there was a Lincoln SUV," Squishables Store Manager Stacy Bartko told 7News Boston. The driver, who was only identified as an elderly female, stopped the car and was evaluated by police and a mental health clinician at the scene before she was transported to a nearby hospital, according to 7News. The vehicle was able to make entry into the mall only because a safety bollard was missing from in front of the entrance due to a recent accident, police told local news outlets.

ASPEN, CO - JUNE 23: Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter speaks with President Jimmy Carter and Aspen Institute president and CEO Walter Isaacson during the McCloskey Speaker Series on June 23, 2015 in Aspen, Colorado. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Image Former first lady Rosalynn Carter is celebrating her 95th birthday on Thursday.Born in Plains, Georgia, on Aug. 18, 1927, Eleanor Rosalynn Smith was the oldest of four children.

FILE - A home with a nearby derrick drilling for natural gas near Calvert, Penn. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)A recent study from Yale School of Public Health found evidence of a higher risk of children developing leukemia if they lived near unconventional oil and gas (UOG) developments, also known as hydraulic fracking sites.  The peer-reviewed study published on August 17 in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found that children who were born and lived near these fracking sites were two to three times more likely to be diagnosed with cancer between the ages of 2 and 7. Researchers observed nearly 2,500 Pennsylvania children, 405 of whom were diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common type of cancer in children, according to a news release about the study. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, also known as ALL, is a type of cancer that causes mutations in the lymphoid immune cells. The long-term survival rates are high among children who are diagnosed with this type of cancer, however, this puts them at higher risk of developing other health problems and psychological issues, according to the study’s authors. Chemicals released from fracking sites into the atmosphere as well as pollution generated from vehicle emissions at these sites are just a few of the impacts observed in this study, according to the senior author, Nicole Deziel, associate professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. "Studies of UOG exposure and cancer are extremely few in number.

ATLANTA - Skinny DeVille, a member of the Grammy-nominated band Nappy Roots, said waking up to the news that his bandmate and business partner had been kidnapped and shot was "heartbreaking."Police are searching for suspects in an armed robbery and kidnapping near Atlantucky Brewing. Investigators said at least two people robbed someone near the brewery before forcing brewery co-owner Melvin Adams, better known by his stage name Fish Scales, into his SUV and driving to Hapeville.

A phase 3 randomized, controlled trial published today in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that three drugs repurposed for the treatment of COVID-19—metformin, ivermectin, and fluvoxamine—didn't prevent hypoxemia, an emergency department (ED) visit, hospitalization, or infection-related death, although a secondary analysis finds that metformin may hold some promise.

SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Pa. - Christiana Care won’t be taking over Crozer Health, after all. Negotiations have concluded without an agreement.In a joint statement, they said the economic landscape has significantly changed since the signing of the letter of intent in February, impacting the ability of the sale to move forward.

PHILADELPHIA - For the second time this month, activists gathered in front of Sharon Hill’s Borough Hall to demand the release of more information on the police killing of an 8-year-old last August.Authorities say in late August, Fanta Bility and her family were leaving the Academy Park High School football field among a crowd of fans when a shooting between two young men erupted. Bullets from that shooting came in the direction of three Sharon Hill Police officers who were monitoring the crowd. The officers returned fire, shooting toward a car they believed was involved in the initial gunfire, striking the car and members of the crowd.

GERMANTOWN - A family is in mourning after a woman was hit and killed by a SEPTA bus in Germantown."They said that a 71-year-old woman got hit by a SEPTA bus at Greene and Walnut Lane. We were like, ‘Wait a minute, our Aunt Eloise is 71 and usually catches the bus right there!’" exclaimed nephew Gregory Shuler.Shuler is at a complete loss after finding out, through a news report, his 71-year-old aunt, Eloise Little, was the elderly woman hit and killed by a SEPTA bus late Wednesday evening. "I’m just in shock right now.

marijuana, but support for legalization is still widespread.According to Gallup, pollsters conducted phone interviews with 1,013 people 18 or older in all 50 states and Washington, DC. When asked what effect they thought marijuana had on society, 49% of respondents said it was positive, while 50% said cannabis has negatively impacted society.But still, 68% of adults think marijuana should be legal, Gallup says.Not surprisingly, the large majority of adults who have ever tried marijuana believe its effects on users and society as a whole are positive. The survey found 72% of people who have never tried marijuana think it’s bad for society.View of hemp flowers at Empire Standard, a hemp extract processing and distribution plant, on April 13, 2021 in Binghamton, New York.

HOLLISTER, Calif. - A San Jose fire captain is grappling with an unthinkable tragedy after all three of his children were killed in a car crash Sunday evening.Captain Steve Biakanja of San Jose Fire Station 16 lost his 14-year-old twin daughters Leigh and Lucy, and 12-year-old son Ben, in a crash on Highway 156 in Hollister.The children's mother also died in the crash.Captain Steve Biakanja pictured alongside his children, Leigh, Lucy, and Ben.  According to the California Highway Patrol, the four were traveling in a Tesla on eastbound Highway 156 when, for unknown reasons, their vehicle veered into oncoming traffic and hit a tractor-trailor.Investigators are trying to determine why the Tesla crossed into oncoming traffic.The Carmel Unified School District said that Leigh, Lucy, and Ben were all enrolled at Carmel Middle School and attended Tularcitos Elementary School before that.Superintendent Ted Knight told KION-TV, "Coming back, the second week of school to this news this morning was certainly very tragic and was hard for a lot of staff and students to hear."Knight said the deaths of Leigh, Lucy, and Ben has taken a toll on some of their classmates."Some students did need to go home. Some students are in our wellness center talking to mental health professionals.

File: The Utah State Capitol building in January, 2021. (Photo by GEORGE FREY/AFP via Getty Images) SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah high school athletics association secretly investigated a female athlete — without telling her or her parents — after receiving complaints from the parents of two girls she had defeated in competition questioning whether the girl was transgender.The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the Utah High School Activities Association and the girl’s high school determined she indeed was female after poring through school records dating back to kindergarten.Association spokesman David Spatafore told lawmakers that the girl and her family weren’t told of the investigation to spare them embarrassment and "to keep the matter private," the Tribune reported Thursday.The revelation comes as at least 12 Republican-led states — including Utah — have passed laws banning transgender women or girls in sports.

Female soldiers are shown wearing different prototype designs of the Army Tactical Brassiere. (U.S.

Jonah Hill communicated in a recent published in Deadline, saying that he would no longer promote his movies out of concern for his mental health.“I have come to the understanding that I have spent nearly 20 years experiencing , which are exacerbated by media appearances and public facing events,” wrote, adding, “I usually cringe at letters or statements like this, but I understand that I am of the privileged few who can afford to take time off. I won’t lose my job while working on my anxiety.

Image shows the Apple iOS 15.6.1 update on an iPhone screen. (FOX TV Stations)Apple released a new software update on Wednesday that should safeguard two security vulnerabilities that impacted every iPhone and iPad model capable of running iOS 15. The first issue involved the potential for an application "to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges," according to Apple’s security updates website.  A kernel is the central component of a computer’s operating system and it manages all of the operations and hardware.