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http://youtu.be/mCuYL_2wLSI Amusement park guests in Ohio were forced to walk down a 200-plus-foot roller coaster by stairs after a mechanical issue. The incident happened at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, on Monday, when guests at the amusement park had to evacuate the Magnum XL-200 roller coaster due to a mechanical issue. Tony Clark, director of communications for Cedar Point, told Fox News Digital that the incident was the result of a “standard ride stoppage” which triggered the guest evacuation. Josh Lett, who saw the evacuation, told Fox News Digital he hasn’t seen anything similar to this happen before. The Magnum XL-200 roller coaster tops out at 205 feet and was the “Guinness Book of World Records holder for its leading edge height,” according to Cedar Point’s website. Read ...

http://youtu.be/8VEW9dIMAFo A 78-year-old Florida man was arrested after he allegedly shot his wife, dismembered her with a chainsaw and stuffed her remains into five bags that he tossed into the ocean. William Lowe Jr. has been charged with first-degree murder and abuse of a human body in connection to the brutal death of 80-year-old Aydil Barbosa Fontes, his wife of 15 years, Delray Beach Police announced Thursday. Officers had been hunting down the suspected killer since they found the first of five large bags containing body parts of a woman last month in the city’s Intracoastal Waterway. A bystander called police July 21 after spotting the first suitcase with a “human foot protruding through the zipper,” according to the arrest affidavit. The suitcase, which contained Barbosa Fon...

http://youtu.be/FGKX-vD6aRU A Ukrainian drone attacked and damaged a Russian warship at the Black Sea naval base in Novorossiysk, a Ukrainian official said on Friday, August 4. Video that appeared on social media on Friday showed a surface drone approaching and impacting a ship, identified as the Russian Navy’s Ropucha-class landing ship Olenegorsky Gornyak. The video was reposted by Anton Gerashchenko, a former deputy interior minister and current advisor to the Ministry of Interior Affairs, who said it was provided to him by “sources.” Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense said Ukrainian forces had attempted to attack the base with two unmanned sea boats, which were both destroyed in the harbor. Other videos that circulated on social media appeared to show the Russian ship listin...

http://youtu.be/viPm6uyEQoI Gilgo Beach victim Maureen Brainard-Barnes’ body was bound by the distinctive belt stamped with the initials “WH” or “HM” — which could match relatives of prime suspect Rex Heuermann, the prosecutor leading the case said in a new interview. The belt — first teased as a possible clue in 2020 — was one of three used to tie 25-year-old Brainard-Barnes’ feet, ankles and legs together, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney told Newsday on Thursday. “Yes, there was ‘WH’ or ‘HM’ on the belt. The last name is Heuermann. There are ancestors with WH, so assign to that what you will,” Tierney said. Although he did not elaborate, Heuermann’s grandfather, William Heuermann, who died in 1964, had those initials, Heuermann remains the prime suspect in Brainard-Barn...

http://youtu.be/nqR8t5RwVis Dramatic video captured Delta Air Line passengers evacuating a plane on slides after it blew a tire that burst into flames upon landing in Atlanta. Flight 1437, a Boeing 757 carrying 190 passengers from Richmond, Virginia, landed at about 6 p.m. Wednesday at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, 11Alive reported. Emergency crews were dispatched to the aircraft on a report of a blown tire, as the inflatable slides were deployed for the passengers to evacuate. One of them praised the swift response by the ground personnel and flight attendants after the mishap, which left at least one person hurt. “The Delta team was extremely organized and professional with no panic,” passenger Bruce Campbell, who shot video of the scene on the tarmac, told 11Alive. Rea...

http://youtu.be/njLDLh__Jm0 Two US Navy sailors were arrested for allegedly conspiring to pass sensitive security information to Chinese officials in separate plots, officials announced Thursday. Jinchao Wei, a 22-year-old sailor aboard the San Diego-based USS Essex, was busted Wednesday on espionage charges after he provided China with detailed information of the ship and its crew. Federal prosecutors alleged Wei made contact with a Chinese government intelligence officer in February 2022 and provided photographs and videos of the Essex, an amphibious assault ship that specializes in transporting and deploying helicopters. The information Wei disclosed included technical and mechanical manuals as well as details about the number and training of Marines during an upcoming exercise, the...

http://youtu.be/uQ1ebUTU_2I Star student Megan Ebenroth, 17, tragically died last month after contracting a rare, brain-eating amoeba while swimming in Georgia. The death was reported last month, but the victim’s identity wasn’t confirmed until now. “I’m still in shock,” the teen’s mother Chrissy Ebenroth told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution while discussing the “extraordinary” pupil’s passing. “But I can’t keep silent about her.” Megan and several friends had reportedly gone swimming on July 11 in a lake near her home in Dearing, McDuffie County. The high schooler had wanted to enjoy the last few weeks of summer before starting her senior year. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/08/04/star-student-dies-from-brain-eating-amoeba/ #amoeba #meganebenroth #georgia The New York Post...

http://youtu.be/fxICh7xd9XI Former New Jersey governor and current Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie made a surprise visit to Ukraine on Friday, August 4, meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv. Christie began his trip by visiting a number of sites around the country’s capital including Bucha, a town on the outskirts of Kyiv where hundreds of civilians were massacred in March 2022, Suspilne News reported. The President’s Office said Zelensky emphasized the importance of increasing assistance from Ukraine’s partners to fight Russian missiles and underscored the successful liberation of occupied Ukrainian territory. Christie responded that he wanted to see what was happening in Ukraine with his own eyes and share that information with the American publ...

http://youtu.be/zz4DwrwPxnk Police investigating the notorious Gilgo Beach murders announced Friday that have identified the victim previously known as Jane Doe No. 7 as a 34-year-old Manhattan woman. Karen Vergata is believed to have disappeared around Feb. 14, 1996, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said Friday morning. Two months later, on April 20, her legs were found in a plastic bag at Davis Park on the bayside of Fire Island’s Blue Point Beach. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/08/04/gilgo-beach-victim-jane-doe-no-7-identified-as-investigation-continues/ #gilgobeach #karenvergata #rexheuermann #longisland #crime #janedoe The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion...

http://youtu.be/O6wRdo7YmtY Distressing video captured the moment an off-duty Massachusetts police sergeant pummeled his 72-year-old neighbor – after an incident involving the cop’s paddleboard. Hull police Sgt. Scott Saunders is seen pinning Harry Horsley, his neighbor of 36 years, to the ground and delivering punishing blows on July 24, video posted by Boston 25 News shows. Horsley told police told police he was driving on the narrow Furnace Colony Drive in Pembroke when Saunders struck his car with a paddleboard, so he pulled over and got out of the vehicle, WCVB reported. “Why did you hit my car? That’s all I said,” Horsley told Boston 25. “He bull-rushed me down to the ground, landed on top of me, I’m on my back. He pounded away. I’m like this trying to protect myself from getting...

http://youtu.be/rHny23qn7kM Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny had an extra 19 years added to his jail term on Friday in a criminal case that he and his supporters said had been trumped up to keep him behind bars and out of politics for even longer. Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest domestic critic, is already serving sentences totalling 11-1/2 years on fraud and other charges that he says are also bogus. His political movement has been outlawed and declared “extremist”. A court at his IK-6 penal colony in Melekhovo, about 235 km (145 miles) east of Moscow, on Friday brought to a close his trial on six separate charges, including inciting and financing extremist activity and creating an extremist organisation. The audio feed from the court, where the trial h...

http://youtu.be/YvN-Ez_ju-s Vice President Kamala Harris aimed for the stars but came up short Wednesday, repeatedly talking about “space cooperation” alongside Mongolian Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai. “Today, I am pleased to announce that the next steps in our work together will be about further expanding our partnership. In particular, we will discuss the work that we will do together to strengthen our space cooperation,” Harris, 58, said at the White House while President Biden enjoyed the Delaware beach. “You and I spoke briefly about the beginning of the next era — and, for you, what that means, in terms of your leadership and your vision for the future,” Harris told the prime minister, “and certainly, strengthening our space cooperation would be a part of that agenda — ...

http://youtu.be/pTJjKA4CtLg Maine residents were baffled and outraged by a mysterious purple vapor that filled the sky in Portland on Thursday and Friday — calling it potentially hazardous pollution fit for a supernatural horror story, according to reports. Workers first spotted the magenta vapor billowing from the smokestack at the Ecomaine waste energy plant on Thursday morning, likely due to burning iodine, wmtw.com reported. “Isn’t this how @StephenKing books begin?,” tweeted Alexander Hitchen, who snapped photos of the eerie scene. Ecomaine claimed the purple pollution — which can cause health problems — was halted within hours, but it reappeared Friday, according to the station. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/08/04/purple-haze-maine-residents-baffled-by-mysterious-magent...

http://youtu.be/0uk5Z_HeTbk A Twitch influencer’s giveaway in Manhattan quickly morphed into mayhem Friday as thousands of his young fans mobbed Union Square Park — assaulting cops, smashing cars and screaming “F—k the PD” in a wild, nearly three-hour scene. Gamer Kai Cenat, who has over 20 million Twitch followers, planned to give away PlayStation 5s, computers, microphones and other gaming accessories at the real-life meet-up scheduled for 3:30 p.m. The location of the mass gathering wasn’t announced until just before Cenat arrived at the park and a permit was never obtained, officials said. Videos show the 21-year-old livestreamer getting hyped up with his crew in his party bus before he heads to the park — where he’s immediately mobbed by thousands of cheering fans. Within half...

http://youtu.be/9VGu-gbSwRU President Biden was back on his bike Monday, pedaling around Rehoboth Beach, Del., as his troubled son’s former business partner Devon Archer answered questions on Capitol Hill. The 80-year-old president and first lady Jill Biden zipped by reporters shortly after 11 a.m., with the president ignoring a shouted question about Chinese malware. A small crowd watched from behind a rope line and cheered on the first couple, who wore matching long black pants, black T-shirts and bike helmets. Three official vehicles led the bike convoy, which also included Secret Service agents on bicycles and in golf carts. About an hour later, Joe and Jill circled back in front of the crowd, buzzing by once again without answering questions, but this time offering onlookers a sm...

http://youtu.be/IHsi4GnRDEA The “Breaking Bad” grandma accused of running an international drug ring out of her California home is living life “as if nothing has happened,” and doesn’t even have an ankle monitor, pictures taken by The Post show. Joanne Segovia, 64, has been out on bail since charged with allegedly leading a double life dealing drugs, including deadly fentanyl, while working as executive director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association in March. Despite facing up to 20 years in prison, Segovia can be seen smiling and cheering at a park where she watched her grandson’s Little League game over the weekend. Segovia and her husband, Dom, still live in the same quiet gated community in San Jose that federal prosecutors claim was the base of her drug shipping operation...

http://youtu.be/NCpAAdleySY A Canadian real estate agent has been suspended and fined $15K after a Ring camera caught him drinking milk out of a client's fridge; an Indian mom is missing after she apparently fell off a Royal Caribbean cruise ship during a voyage from Malaysia to Singapore on July 31; a man who was swept out to sea while swimming off the coast of Long Island treaded water for five hours before he was rescued by retired members of the FDNY. #realeaste #canada #royalcaribbean #longisland #rescue The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more. Subscribe to New York Post Sports: https://www.youtube.com/c/nypostsports Catch the latest news here: https://nypost.com/ ...

http://youtu.be/RYfF_9zhNJY A Jersey Shore man fatally shot his ex-wife and her dog after she called 911 to report a break-in — and then turned the gun on himself, according to officials. Mother of two Kimberly Hoffman, 49, called 911 about 5 a.m. Saturday to report that someone was trying to break into her apartment in Little Egg Harbor, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer said. “Responding Officers made forced entry into the apartment, where they located the deceased body of Ms. Hoffman with an apparent gunshot wound to the face,” he said in a statement. The officers then located the bullet-riddled body of her dog, as well as that of her ex-husband, Carl Schulz Jr., 52, who was still conscious, Billhimer said. The gunman, also of Little Egg Harbor, was transported to AtlantiCa...

http://youtu.be/reWdgXC5uUA A Ukrainian drone crashed into an office tower in the financial center in Moscow during an attack in which other aircraft were shot down, different Russian authorities said Tuesday. The business area in the west of the capital where the Ukrainian drone went down, Moscow City, was already the target of an attack on Sunday that damaged two office towers. “Several drones heading towards Moscow were shot down by air defense systems,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram on Tuesday. “One hit the same City tower” that was damaged over the weekend, he added. “The façade on the 21st floor was damaged, the windows were broken in an area of 150 m2. There is no information on victims," explained the mayor, who reported that the emergency services had gone to t...

http://youtu.be/XKRggdpNW64 Harrowing video captured the moment two people jumped off their burning boat seconds before it exploded — at the urging of a couple who saved them from the inferno. The unidentified boaters are seen struggling amid the growing flames and thick black smoke Friday aboard the 21-foot Baja on West Grand Traverse Bay in Michigan, dramatic footage shared with ABC 11 shows. “It’s too late, guys! It’s too late!” passing boater Nathan Greenwood yells at the pair who initially appear confused as to how to respond. “Get off the boat! It’s gonna blow!” Greenwood shouts, as his wife also yells: “Jump out right now!” With flames completely covering the passenger area — seemingly reaching the pair inside — the two boaters eventually haul themselves over the side and into ...

http://youtu.be/loHB1Q4dEcY The Frisco Police Department has apologized to an Arkansas family after a mistake by an officer led to them being pulled over in a “high-risk” traffic stop during which guns were drawn by police on July 23. The incident occurred when an officer conducted a computer check on an out-of-state license plate, but incorrectly entered it as being from Arizona, rather than Arkansas. This led the officer to believe the car was stolen. “We made a mistake,” Frisco Police Chief David Shilson said. “I apologized on behalf of our department and assured them that we will hold ourselves accountable and provide transparency through the process.” A member of the family, Demetria Heard, called the experience her “worst nightmare,” in a Facebook post. “Although we weren’t phys...

http://youtu.be/XYR3wUORdDI New Jersey Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, the first black woman to serve as speaker of the state Assembly, died Tuesday after being hospitalized with an undisclosed illness. Oliver, 71, was serving as acting governor this week while Gov. Phil Murphy was vacationing in Italy. She was admitted to Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston on Monday, Murphy’s office announced. Oliver, a Democrat from Essex County, rose to the post of Assembly speaker in 2010 before losing the seat to Vincent Pietro in 2013, Fox16 reported. While serving as acting governor in Murphy’s absence, she signed a number of bills that included a pilot program to revamp the state’s juvenile justice system in four Garden State cities, the outlet reported. Read more at https://nypost.com/2...

http://youtu.be/nWuGTx21L_k A body was pulled from waters near where a Goldman Sachs senior analyst went missing following a concert at The Brooklyn Mirage — just weeks after another man vanished not far from the venue and was found dead in the same creek. The body was discovered facedown just after 11 a.m. Tuesday in the English Kill tributary of the Newtown Creek near 1100 Grand Street — about a half mile from the Bushwick concert venue, police sources said. John Castic, 27, vanished after going to a concert at the hotspot early Saturday morning. It remained unclear Tuesday afternoon if the body was that of the missing analyst. The other man, Karl Clemente, 27, was turned away from the venue June 11. His body was pulled from the Newtown Creek, behind a warehouse, a few days later, ...

http://youtu.be/fw9MEPfJNwc The maximum temperature in Phoenix, Arizona is expected to fall under 110 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday (July 31) for the first time in a month, as the city finally receives some much needed rainfall. Temporary relief for the state says Tom Frieders, Warning Coordination Meteorologist at NWS Phoenix. “The core of the heat is kind of shifted a little bit to the east and centered over Texas now as we're more influenced by some monsoon thunderstorms both today and tomorrow,” Frieders explained. He says the heat will make its way westward again. “And by this weekend, we're talking about extreme temperatures for highs again from Arizona all the way to Texas, where more records could be broken.” #arizona #heatwave #weather The New York Post is your source for brea...

http://youtu.be/PdVm5t5BFTA The woman charged with drunkenly crashing into a golf cart, killing a just-married South Carolina bride, was visibly upset in court Tuesday as a judge refused to spring her from jail. Jamie Lee Komoroski, 25, breathed heavily and looked close to tears when she appeared at the proceedings via video. The New Jersey native was dressed in a striped prison jumpsuit as Circuit Judge Michael Nettles ruled that she will remain in custody while awaiting trial on a slew of charges related to the April 28 wreck that killed Samantha Miller, 34, and left the groom and two others seriously injured. “[Komoroski] didn’t just kill my child,” Miller’s mother, Lisa, said tearfully during the hearing. “She killed all of us.” Komoroski is accused of driving her Toyota Camry o...

http://youtu.be/0gbYVMEzX4A United Airlines has temporarily banned a woman from flying with it after she allegedly caused pilots to divert a flight to Los Angeles after an argument with flight attendants about wine. The woman, who has not been identified, caused a “disruptive” scene on the July 25 flight from Houston when she “refused to follow the flight attendant’s instructions to return to her seat,” United Airlines said in a statement. The melee caused the LA-bound flight to divert to Phoenix. Videos of the uproar shared on social media captured the moment a flight attendant warned the woman to take her seat or the flight would be forced to land in Arizona. “Sit down,” the attendant repeatedly screamed at the woman, who continued to talk over him and tried calling his bluff. Read...

http://youtu.be/I2KNaSg8MC8 A Chinese zoo has been forced to “bear all” its secrets, following allegations its popular bear is actually a human in disguise. The Hangzhou Zoo in China gained international interest after a video of one of its bears standing on its hind legs went viral — forcing officials to deny it was a human in a costume. A new video of the zoo’s 4-year-old sun bear, named Angela, has caused further doubt, showing the human-like bear waving to visitors who have flocked to see the mysterious mammal. However, an animal expert has spoken out against claims the Chinese sun bear is a human in a lifelike bear suit, insisting it is in fact a real bear. Ashleigh Marshall, an expert from Chester Zoo, told the BBC that the animal “is definitely a real bear,” although she agreed...

http://youtu.be/GazSTh7dzIM Joe Rogan suggested that the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was a set-up by the US government’s intelligence agencies to take down former President Donald Trump. “The Jan. 6 thing is bad, but also, the intelligence agencies were involved in provoking people into the Capitol building. That’s a fact,” the controversial podcaster said during a nearly three-hour episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” on Friday. Rogan also speculated that a 61-year-old man named Ray Epps — who found himself at the center of conspiracy theories surrounding the attack after videos showed him breaching Capitol grounds — could have been a federal agent. “I think that every other person who was involved in Jan. 6 — who was involved in coordinating a break-in into the Capitol and then instigating ...

http://youtu.be/4rPGGJbM9ds A Philadelphia TV news anchor known as the “Dean of Traffic” sported a visibly swollen eye while on the air Tuesday — the result of being sucker punched in an attack he blamed on a TikTok challenge. Bob Kelly, a longtime meteorologist for Fox 29 in the City of Brotherly Love, was slammed in the face by a brute while emceeing a party at a Jersey Shore bar on Sunday. The unidentified attacker first poured a beer on the journalist’s head before hitting him while filming the incident at Oar House Pub in Sea Isle City, some 30 miles south of Atlantic City, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Kelly was transported to a local hospital where he was treated for minor injuries. Kelly’s left eye was barely open as he discussed the ordeal during an appearance on “G...