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☆ ‘She Said’ Review: Plodding Through the Weinstein Story
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Kyle Smith | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Major movie studios hardly ever delve into newspaper work any more, and the so-so picture “She Said” is an excellent illustration of why. It falls into nearly every trap that awaits a journalism film, even featuring sequences in which characters type or stand around gazing into computer monitors, both of which exert considerable deflationary pull on drama. Since watching people ask questions leaves viewers at one remove from the story, the solution to the possibility of dramatic deficiency is either to make the journalists themselves abundantly colorful (“His Girl Friday,” “The Paper”) or to cast them as detectives who devise enterprising means to solve a complex puzzle (“All the President’s Men,” “Spotlight”). “She Said,” directed by the German actress and filmmaker Maria Schrader , errs by ignoring both paths. Portraying the New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor , who in 2017 broke the story about producer Harvey Weinstein ’s sexual misconduct, Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan are so aggressively ordinary that they leave a personality void at the center of this disappointing film.

☆ California woman, boyfriend accused of killing her sister and baby niece over sibling rivalry, authorities say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

FRESNO, Calif. — A California woman and her boyfriend were charged Monday with the murder of her 18-year-old sister and 3-week-old niece who were shot in their Fresno home out of jealousy and sibling rivalry in September, authorities said. Fresno Co SheriffIt wasn’t immediately known if Solorio-Rivera and Arroyo-Morales have retained attorneys who could speak on their behalf. Fresno police arrested the couple last week and they are being held at the Fresno County Jail on a $2 million bond. Fresno Police Chief Paco Balderrama said after the arrests that when officers arrived they found Yanelly Solorio-Rivera shot to death in her bed with her baby Celine in her arms. “The murder scene was traumatic for all officers, detectives, EMS personnel, and crime scene technicians who responded to the scene,” he said.

LOS ANGELES — “That ’70s Show” star Danny Masterson told the court Monday that he would not testify at his own rape trial. His announcement came after a fourth woman testified last week that he raped her twice, more than two decades ago after they had met on a movie set. Masterson is not charged with raping the woman, an actress identified in court as Jane Doe #4. Unlike the three women Masterson is charged with raping, Jane Doe #4 is not a former or current member of the Church of Scientology. Cohen made his third request for a mistrial after Jane Doe #4 finished testifying and was again rebuffed by the judge.

☆ Georgia man arrested for allegedly breeding and training over 100 pit bulls for dog fighting
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-13 | by ( Mirna Alsharif | Mirna Alsharif Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Police in Georgia have arrested a man for allegedly breeding and training 106 pit bulls for dog fighting, according to a news release. Some of the pit bulls were emaciated while others were very strong and aggressive towards other dogs, according to police. Dog collars seized in connection with a Georgia man who was arrested for allegedly breeding and training over 100 pit bulls for dog fighting. Burrell was arrested without incident and charged with felony counts of cruelty to animals and dog fighting. Paulding County authorities including the sheriff's office and the marshal's bureau have secured multiple search warrants for Burrell's home and are investigating.

☆ Community still looking for answers in violent 2011 murder of David Grubbs on Ashland, Oregon bike path
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-13 | by ( Sarah Portney | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

It was more of an assisted medical call.”But the chief told Dateline that he thought something more might have been going on. It struck home with a lot of people that the bike path isn't safe,” Chief O’Meara said. I was afraid.”He added that he feels David’s case wasn’t given enough attention in public by police. “David did not have an enemy in this world.”Garrison’s mother, P.J., told Dateline that she remembers meeting David for the first time. He was so just naturally funny and had the gift of gab,” Garrison told Dateline.

☆ Mysteries: Anthony Horowitz’s ‘The Twist of a Knife’
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( Tom Nolan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

“The Twist of a Knife” is the fourth entry in a gleefully witty series in which author Anthony Horowitz pairs a fictional version of himself with detective Daniel Hawthorne to solve murders and write true-crime books about them. As the novel begins, “Anthony Horowitz” has just published the duo’s debut (“The Word Is Murder”) to good reviews. His agent is now reading the manuscript for the second book (“The Sentence Is Death”), even as Horowitz sets out to write the third title (“A Line to Kill”). Horowitz now says that three books with Hawthorne is enough; he tells his collaborator that their partnership has run its course. Horowitz declares his innocence, but Hawthorne reserves judgment: “Why would I believe someone who spends his entire life making stuff up?”

☆ California mother charged after 3-year-old son dies of fentanyl overdose
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A California mother has been charged with child endangerment after her 3-year-old son died of a fentanyl overdose earlier this year, police say. Jennifer Mae Niemann, 30, was the primary caregiver of the boy and was present when her child died on May 4, the San Luis Obispo Police Department said Thursday. Police received a call at 10:15 p.m. local time about an unresponsive 3-year-old boy who was turning blue and not breathing at a home in the 1600 block of Mill Street in San Luis Obispo. The boy was transported to a nearby hospital but never regained consciousness and was pronounced deceased that evening. On Monday, San Luis Obispo Police detectives went to San Diego to attempt to locate Niemann, who they described as transient, and she was located Tuesday and taken into custody.

☆ Man who threatened to shoot 2 women killed by officers on Coney Island, police say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A man was killed by New York City police officers in the famed Coney Island area after he allegedly threatened to shoot two women, police said. Three units responded to the corner of West 36th Street and Neptune Avenue, including one police marked vehicle with two uniformed officers and two unmarked vehicles manned by public safety officers, Maddrey said. As soon as the units arrived to the corner, officers saw a male with a gun. When officers exited their vehicles to approach him, he “immediately starts shooting at the officers,” Maddrey said. The suspect eventually got down on the ground, but continued to shoot at the officers.

☆ L.A. sheriff’s deputy charged in 2021 fatal shooting of man who was already on the ground
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

A Los Angeles sheriff's deputy was charged Wednesday for an on-duty, unlawful fatal shooting of a man who was holding a knife last year outside his family's East L.A. home. L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy Remin Pineda, 38, was charged with one felony count each of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and assault under color of authority following the March 2021 fatal shooting of David Ordaz, Jr., L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón announced Thursday. The deputies’ union, Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, did not immediately return a request for comment. In August, another L.A. County sheriff's deputy, Sean Essex, 51, was indicted on charges of sexually assaulting four girls in a case that prosecutors had declined to pursue a decade ago. Last year, a state civil rights investigation was opened into the sheriff’s department over allegations of excessive force.

☆ California megachurch elder and her parents charged with murder, torture of adopted 11-year-old daughter
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

An ordained elder at a California megachurch was arrested along with her parents in connection to the death of her 11-year-old adopted daughter. Arabella McCormack. San Diego Sheriff's Dept. Leticia McCormack was an ordained elder at The Rock Church, an evangelical megachurch in San Diego. A church spokesperson said Thursday that she was not on staff and operated in a volunteer capacity to help with various ministry tasks.

☆ Tennessee man breaks into woman's home and kidnaps her over lottery ticket, before assaulting officers, police say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

A Tennessee man broke down the door of his ex-girlfriend’s home, kidnapped and attacked her in a rage, upset that he did not receive a lottery ticket and claiming she owed him money, authorities said. She told officers he was upset “due to him not receiving his lottery ticket and money he felt he was owed." It's not clear if she had a lottery ticket on his behalf. The woman told officers she couldn’t breathe for about five seconds, according to the affidavit. Hanes allegedly continued to ask for money, specifically $10,000 and she said she didn’t have that type of money to give him.

Masterson has been charged with raping three women between 2001 and 2003 but has not been charged with sexually assaulting Jane Doe #4. On cross-examination, Jane Doe #4 said about a month later, Masterson assaulted her again at her home. Asked by Deputy District Attorney Reinhold Mueller what happened the next morning, Jane Doe #4 said "Danny was there." Unlike the other accusers, Jane Doe #4 was not a Scientologist. Dua Anjum reported from Los Angeles and Corky Siemaszko from New York City.

☆ ‘The Calling’ Review: A Mystery Show With Jewish Mysticism
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Sherlock Holmes had unimpeachable inductive reasoning and a cocaine habit. Hercule Poirot had “enormous moustaches.” Avraham Avraham ? The creation of Israeli crime novelist Dror Mishani , Avraham (Jeff Wilbusch) begins his days in a shawl and tefillin praying on his roof near Brooklyn’s Williamsburg Bridge; when he says he grew up in Crown Heights, he means Orthodox Crown Heights. When he encounters a dead body on the street, as he does at the outset of episode 1 of “The Calling,” he murmurs holy words of Hebrew over the body. And when a teenager goes mysteriously missing, he sits on the boy’s bed, to better sense his subject’s whereabouts and, possibly, the unsettled spiritual-emotional atmosphere that may have inspired the disappearance.

LOS ANGELES — The judge in the rape trial of “That ‘70s Show” star Danny Masterson dealt the defense a potential setback Monday by allowing a fourth woman who says she was assaulted by the actor to testify. Jane Doe #4 was not in cahoots with Masterson's accusers or a Scientologist, Mueller said. He said the jury should be aware there is another woman "out there with similar experience with Mr. Masterson who also was interviewed" by detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department. The judge had initially barred the testimony of Jane Doe #4, who told police she was sexually assaulted by Masterson in 1996. Dua Anjam and Diana Dasrath reported from Los Angeles, Corky Siemaszko from New York City

Remains found this week were positively identified as those of Alexis Gabe, a California woman missing since January, authorities in Oakley, California, said Friday. Alexis Gabe City of OakleyAn Amador County sheriff's investigator and dentist who specializes in forensic odontology, finding evidence through teeth and dental records, confirmed the remains belong to Gabe, the department said. Investigators believe the rest of her remains are scattered and that it's possible they might not recover them all, police said. Gabe, 24, was from Oakley, an East Bay city where her parents pressed authorities to find her alive. Days after her disappearance, Jones moved to Washington state, where he had family, police said.

☆ Car buried in Silicon Valley in the '90s may have been put there for insurance fraud, police say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Phil-Helsel-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Phil Helsel | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A Mercedes-Benz found buried in the backyard of a home in an affluent San Francisco-area community may have been put there for insurance fraud, Atherton police said Thursday. The 1991 500 SL car was found buried beneath 4 to 5 feet of earth as landscapers were doing a project at the home on Oct. 20. Law enforcement personnel investigate a car found buried in a San Francisco area backyard, on Oct. 21, 2022. “Detectives are still investigating this incident and it is believed the vehicle was possibly buried for insurance fraud purposes,” Atherton Police Chief Steven D. McCulley said in Thursday’s statement. Lew was convicted in 2000 of insurance fraud after he paid undercover agents $50,000 in cash and jewelry to sink his 56-foot yacht — worth $1.2 million, NBC Bay Area has reported.

But this focus obscures what is happening on the ground, every day: Local and national public health workers and epidemiologists, or “disease detectives,” around the world are stopping outbreaks in their tracks and preventing epidemics. The case studies show what is possible when local, state and national communities mobilize a whole-of-society effort to prevent epidemics. When local efforts are supported by national and local government, we can stop and prevent epidemics. Another lesson is the substantial return on investment we can realize by prioritizing and funding preparedness efforts. Finally, there is a crucial role that coordination among local, state and federal agencies plays in epidemic prevention.

☆ Fact Check-Fake Daily Beast headline on U.S. cop caught dealing fentanyl to children during Halloween
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A headline purporting to have been published by The Daily Beast suggesting that a Pentagon cop had been caught dealing fentanyl to children during Halloween trick-or-treating has been circulating online. “This was clearly altered by a third party, and we are looking into it,” a spokesperson for The Daily Beast told Reuters. Instead, The Daily Beast published a headline featuring the same images of a male, with the same time stamp. The authentic headline reads: “Off-Duty Pentagon Cop Caught Dealing Cocaine, Police Say” (here). The Daily Beast did not publish a headline that an off-duty Pentagon officer had been arrested for selling fentanyl to children during Halloween.

DNA from under the fingernails of a Las Vegas woman killed in 1980 has led to the arrest of a suspect in the long-cold murder case, police said Monday. Sandra DiFelice, 25, was “brutally raped and murdered” in a home she shared with a roommate on Dec. 26, 1980, Las Vegas Police Lt. Jason Johansson said. DNA collected from under her fingernails was tested using new technology after detectives took another look at her case, and the suspect, Paul Nuttall, was arrested Thursday, police said. After police and the DNA lab looked at the case again, “they were able to determine that there was additional evidence that could be submitted for processing using new DNA technology,” Johansson said. He was arrested on charges of murder, sexual assault and burglary, police said, and was still living in Las Vegas.

With the defendant's no contest plea, Los Angeles authorities closed the case on the 2011 murders of a teenage girl and a young woman that once sparked fears of an Eastside serial killer. The first was when investigators zeroed in on serial killer Lonnie Franklin Jr., known as the Grim Sleeper, in 2010. A search of familial DNA turned up a near-match for evidence collected from the Eastside victims' bodies, Beck said in 2017. The Los Angeles County coroner's office said Lozano had been strangled and Guzman, whose body was badly decomposed, sustained unspecified neck trauma. Beck said his department's DNA database search turned up no other open-case matches for Borjas.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 29 (Reuters) - A man who clubbed U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband over the head with a hammer, shouting, "Where is Nancy? ", faced charges of attempted murder and other felonies a day after the violent break-in at the couple's San Francisco home. She flew to San Francisco to be with her husband. Police identified the man arrested at the scene by officers who intervened in the attack as David Depape, 42. Formal charges were expected to be filed by the San Francisco district attorney's office.

☆ Opinion | Science Has a Nasty Photoshopping Problem
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Elisabeth Bik | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +14 min

One evening in January 2014, I sat at my computer at home, sifting through scientific papers. Manipulated imagery in scientific papers can look ordinary at first glance. However, this ability, combined with my — what some might call obsessive — personality, helped me when hunting duplications in scientific images by eye. So when a scientist’s research shows a negative result, cheating can be tempting. Legitimate criticism of scientific research should receive legal protection.

☆ Arrest made after break-in at Democrat Katie Hobbs’ campaign headquarters
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Rebecca-Shabad-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Rebecca Shabad | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

An arrest has been made in connection to a burglary at the campaign headquarters of Katie Hobbs, the Democratic nominee for governor of Arizona, Phoenix police said Thursday. Hobbs’ campaign confirmed to NBC News that it was made aware of the arrest. The burglary comes amid reports of voter intimidation in Arizona, where Hobbs, as secretary of state, is the top election official. In a statement Wednesday, Hobbs’ campaign manager tied the reports of alleged voter intimidation to Lake and other election deniers. She added that “Hobbs and her staff have faced hundreds of death threats and threats of violence over the course of this campaign.”

☆ Phoenix police investigating break-in at Democrat Katie Hobbs' campaign headquarters
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Zoë Richards | Zoë Richards Is The Evening Politics Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Phoenix police said Wednesday they are investigating a burglary at the campaign headquarters of Katie Hobbs, the Democratic nominee for governor of Arizona. The burglary comes amid reports of voter intimidation in Arizona, where Hobbs, as secretary of state, is the top election official. In a statement Wednesday, Hobbs' campaign manager tied the reports of alleged voter intimidation to Lake and other election deniers. “Let’s be clear: for nearly two years Kari Lake and her allies have been spreading dangerous misinformation and inciting threats against anyone they see fit. She added that “Hobbs and her staff have faced hundreds of death threats and threats of violence over the course of this campaign."

☆ Couple wanted for questioning in Arizona, Nevada murder cases found dead
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) — A couple wanted in connection with murder cases in Arizona and Nevada has been found dead in a desert area southeast of Kingman, according to authorities. Lake Havasu City police said it appears McGuire shot himself, but it’s unclear if Branek’s wound was self-inflicted. The couple was being sought in connection with a double homicide in Kingman on June 28, according to authorities. They said McGuire also was considered a suspect in the fatal shooting of a woman Monday in Las Vegas. Authorities said additional murder investigations possibly connected to McGuire are under investigation.

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