West Virginia Adults Arrested For Child Neglect

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Sissonville, West Virginia -  A West Virginia couple was arrested Tuesday after two children were allegedly found locked inside a shed in Sissonville, police said. According to the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office, police received a 911 call just after 5:46 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 2, 2023, regarding the welfare of the children. Deputy H.K. Burdette responded to the 200 block of Cheyenne Lane in Sissonville, where she found the two sibling minors — a 16-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy — "locked inside a barn." Deputies made several attempts to contact family members but were unsuccessful, local news station WSAZ reported. The children said they had no way to open the door from the inside of the barn, which investigators also referred to as a shed. Donald Lantz and Jeanne Kay Whitefeather of Sissonville, West Virginia, were arrested and charged with gross child neglect.

Milton, New York – It was "a scene right out of a movie" as Charlotte Sena was rescued in a stunning scene Monday night, neighbors said. "SWAT trucks and cop cars were here in seconds. Guns out. There was a rapid succession of at least five flash bangs," said Michael, who lives near Craig Ross Jr., the man accused of kidnapping 9-year-old Charlotte from a New York state park over the weekend. Law enforcement officers rescued Charlotte from a cabinet in Ross Jr.'s trailer behind his mother's property in Milton, state officials said. Michael's wife, Erica, said she "grabbed my kids to hide them in the basement" as officers stormed in.foxnews.com/us/neighbors-charlotte-sena-describe-tactical-raid-rescue-9-year-old-predators-camper.

Manhattan, New York - Former President Donald Trump was visibly frustrated during proceedings on the third day of his fraud trial in New York City on Wednesday. Trump could be heard complaining to his attorneys about the lack of a jury in the trial, which is being presided over by Judge Arthur Engoron. Trump was seen writing aggressively during testimony from witness Donald Bender, and at one point commented loudly that Bender should speak more clearly into the microphone. Trump has criticized New York Attorney General Letitia James for charging him under a civil statute that does not allow for a jury trial.

Washington D.C.- Laphonza Butler was sworn in Tuesday to fill the seat of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, who died last week at the age of 90. Vice President Kamala Harris, who has been a longtime ally and adviser of Butler, administered the oath of office, prompting boisterous applause from the Senate floor and gallery. California Gov. Gavin Newsom moved quickly to select Butler, who was the president of EMILY’s List, on Sunday. She is the third Black woman to serve as a senator, behind Harris and Sen. Carol Moseley Braun, D-Ill., in the 1990s. The first openly LGBTQ person to represent California in the chamber, she will serve alongside fellow California Democrat Sen. Alex Padilla. After her swearing-in ceremony, President Joe Biden called Butler to congratulate her, the White House said.

Pakistan, India - India staked new claim as a national superpower in space on Wednesday, landing its Chandrayaan-3 mission safely on the moon’s unexplored south pole. The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft launched last month and touched down on the lunar surface around 8:34 a.m. ET. The feat makes India the fourth country – after the then-Soviet Union, the U.S. and China – to land on the moon, and the first to land on one of the moon’s lunar poles. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tuned in to the livestream of the landing from Johannesburg, where he is attending the 15th annual BRICS summit of emerging markets. “All the people of the world, the people of every country and region: India’s successful moon mission is not just India’s alone ... this success belongs to all of humanity,” Modi said, speaking on the Indian Space Research Organization webcast of the event. “We can all aspire for the moon, and beyond,” Modi added.

Denver, Colorado - A pilot is facing criminal charges after being caught on video chopping an airport parking barrier with an ax. Kenneth Henderson Jones, a 63-year-old pilot with United Airlines, was charged with misdemeanor criminal mischief after being caught on video earlier this month taking an ax to a parking lot barrier at Denver International Airport, causing an estimated $700 in damages. Video of the incident obtained from Denver International Airport shows Jones with an ax chopping at the exit barrier of a parking lot before eventually knocking the barrier off of its attached base. Jones is then shown being confronted by multiple airport employees who witnessed the incident, with the employees eventually able to wrestle the ax away from the seemingly irate pilot.

Minsk,Belarus - The U.S. Embassy in Belarus issued an alert Monday for all American citizens in the country to leave immediately and warned against traveling there. The warning comes after Lithuania closed two of its major border crossings with Belarus over concerns about the Russian mercenary group Wagner that has established operations in the country. The governments of Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland said further closures of border crossings with Belarus are possible. The U.S. State Department has advised Americans not to travel to Belarus due to Minsk’s support of Russia’s war against Ukraine, the buildup of Russian military forces in Belarus, the "arbitrary" enforcement of local laws, potential civil unres and the risk of detention.

Saudi Arabia - Saudi border guards killed “hundreds” of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers crossing the Yemen-Saudi border between March 2022 and June 2023, Human Rights Watch alleged in a report released Monday. The organization said it interviewed 42 Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers and analyzed over 350 videos and photographs posted to social media, as well as satellite imagery. Together, HRW said it showed evidence of dead and wounded along the migrant trail, in camps and medical facilities, as well as burial sites and “expanding Saudi border security infrastructure.” Videos shared on TikTok and Facebook purport to show dead bodies along the migrant trail near the Yemen-Saudi border, as well as migrants with wounds consistent with injuries from explosive blasts or gunshots, according to a forensic pathologist. HRW claimed to have sourced and verified the videos. Several videos purportedly recorded near an informal migrant camp appear to show Saudi border guard posts, and newly constructed fences next to one. HRW further said that satellite imagery obtained by the nonprofit also indicated growing graveyards nearby.

Chernihiv, Ukraine - Seven people including a 6-year-old girl were killed, 144 wounded, and 41 were in hospital after a Russian missile struck a central square in the historic northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said. "I am sure our soldiers will give a response to Russia for this terrorist attack," President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address, delivered early on Sunday at the end of a visit to Sweden. "A notable response." He said that of the 144 people injured, 15 were children, and named the girl killed as Sofia. Fifteen others were police officers, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on Telegram. Klymenko said most of the victims were in vehicles, crossing the road, or returning from church. Regional governor Viacheslav Chaus said 41 people were in hospital on Saturday. Zelenskiy said the strike on Chernihiv, a city of leafy boulevards and centuries-old churches about 145 km (90 miles) north of Kyiv, coincided with the Orthodox holiday of the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord.

Washington D.C. - A Canadian woman who mailed a threatening letter containing a poisonous substance to former President Donald Trump while he was serving in the White House was sentenced to over two decades in prison on Thursday. Pascale Cecile Veronique Ferrier, a 56-year-old dual citizen of Canada and France, was sentenced to 262 months, nearly 22 years, behind bars in Washington, D.C., for mailing a letter containing the poison ricin in 2020 to then-President Trump and others. She pleaded guilty in January to violating biological weapons prohibitions. In the letter, Ferrier referred to Trump as "The Ugly Tyrant Clown" and laced it with the potentially deadly ricin, saying, "If it doesn’t work, I’ll find better recipe for another poison, or I might use my gun when I’ll be able to come. Enjoy! FREE REBEL SPIRIT." Ferrier was ultimately arrested trying to drive across the U.S / Canada border at the Peace Bridge Border Crossing in Buffalo, New York, while carrying a gun, a knife and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, authorities said. The letter was intercepted at a mail sorting facility in September 2020, before it could reach the White House.