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    GEORGETOWN, Ohio (WCPO) — One of two inmates who escaped from the Brown County detention center has been captured, according to the Mason County Sheriff’s Office.

The search for the second escaped inmate is still underway.

The Mason County Sheriff’s Office said Roy Butler was located and arrested while Jerry Cooper is believed to be in the Dover area near the Mason-Bracken line.

In a release, the Brown County Sheriff’s Office said the two escaped between the hours of 10:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. Monday night.

The inmates damaged a security window, allowing them to escape through the police impound lot at the jail, the sheriff’s office said.

Cooper was in jail on charges of attempted murder, felonious assault and having weapons under disability. Butler had been charged with aggravated trafficking in drugs and having weapons under disability. The sheriff’s office said both men will now face additional escape charges.

According to court records, Cooper was indicted on his charges in May. Court documents say Cooper paid two other men to murder someone. Documents allege that on February 10, one of those men drove Cooper to the victim’s house and waited in the vehicle while Cooper rang the doorbell of the home.

When the man living there answered the door, Cooper allegedly shot him in the chest and ran, eventually jumping into the vehicle with the other man.

Court records show Butler was charged with four counts of aggravated trafficking in drugs in July. Documents filed in the case say Butler specifically is accused of selling methamphetamine.

The sheriff’s office said a search is currently underway involving several law enforcement agencies, canine units and aviation units.

BCSO said anyone who finds Cooper should not approach him and instead immediately contact Detective Sergeant Charles Ernst at 937.378.4435, ext. 126.

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By Michael Chen

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    NATIONAL CITY, California (KGTV) — A DJ who intervened to help several women being attacked after a boat party is recovering from serious injuries after being stabbed by one of the assailants.

On September 6, around 9:30 p.m., Ricky Haynes, 33, was packing up his equipment after performing at a birthday party on a small yacht two Saturdays ago when he heard something near the dock.

“Then out of nowhere, I hear some screams going on. Then I hear people getting pushed into the water,” Haynes said.

When Haynes reached the dock, he witnessed a disturbing scene.

“I see a bunch of people on top of the girls, two guys stomping on these girls,” he said.

Haynes immediately stepped in to help.

“I push two guys off the two girls. Another guy from behind me pushes me into water. I get to the dock, and as I was pulling myself out of water, I felt something come up to me and push me. One of the girls behind me said, ‘you just got stabbed,'” Haynes said.

The stab wound penetrated his chest, puncturing his lung and breaking a rib. The injury was just inches from his heart.

As blood gushed from his side, Haynes applied pressure to the wound and tried to stay calm. The group of more than 10 attackers fled the scene in their vehicles.

Haynes was rushed to the emergency room, where doctors diagnosed him with a punctured lung and broken rib. His recovery is expected to take several months.

“Even with pain medication, I have trouble breathing right now,” he said.

Despite his injuries, Haynes said he doesn’t regret his decision to intervene.

“It was the right thing to do. Those girls could have gotten killed, stabbed,” he said.

According to Haynes, police told him the altercation began when a woman from his group brushed up against a woman in the other group.

Haynes hopes sharing his story will lead to tips and arrests.

“It’s scary. If they get away with this, more people will be stabbed. I don’t want anyone else to go through this,” he said. “Just glad to be alive. There were a lot of moments in that whole situation where I thought I was a goner.”

A GoFundMe campaign has been started to help Haynes with medical and other expenses.

Any witnesses or tips can be directed to the National City Police investigations division at 619-336-4460.

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By Laura Acevedo

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    SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — A Catholic deacon at St. Jude Shrine of the West in Southcrest plans to self-deport after his legal resident status was revoked, the San Diego Diocese confirmed Monday.

Churchgoers say the Deacon made the announcement himself during mass at noon on Sunday, saying he would be going to Tijuana. Another parishioner says the same announcement was also made during the 8 a.m. mass.

The announcement shocked parishioners, prompting several to contact ABC 10News seeking more information about the situation.

Churchgoers said the deacon told the congregation he came to the United States when he was 13 years old and had served the St. Jude community for roughly four decades.

ABC 10News is not naming the deacon while we work to confirm details about his background and circumstances.

On Monday, the Catholic Diocese of San Diego confirmed the deacon was a legal resident and that he had agreed to self-deport. However, the diocese could not provide additional information, including how long he worked for the church, whether he had worked in other locations, or if the diocese was working to help with his immigration case.

Attempts to reach the deacon and his attorney about what prompted the self-deportation were unsuccessful.

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By Keith BieryGolick

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    NEWPORT, Kentucky (WCPO) — When I ask Emily Robbins what she’d be doing if I weren’t here, she responds quickly.

“Working,” she said.

Robbins is a family attorney in Newport, a job she says requires her to be on her feet a lot — a difficult job that she says has been made much more difficult because of a problem in her neck.

“I had no idea just how debilitating a neck injury could be,” Robbins said. “And so I tried everything.”

Physical therapy. Two steroid injections. Massage therapy. More medications than she can list.

She describes the way she felt like this: “My body was a broomstick and my head was a bowling ball that at any point was going to tip over.”

All because of a herniated disc in her neck. Something that sent pain shooting down her arm, so much so that she once called her mom because she thought she was having a heart attack.

“It was that horrible,” Robbins said.

For months, the 30-year-old said she was misdiagnosed. And then, because of her age, she said people told her not to have surgery.

“I think there’s a stigma about having neck and back surgery,” Robbins said.

She felt it every day, when all she could do was lie down after work — forget having dinner with friends.

“It was lonely,” Robbins said. “It’s hard for people to understand that.”

Then, a doctor at Mayfield Brain and Spine recommended putting an artificial disc into her neck. It’s a procedure the surgeon tells me he’s performing more and more.

“The pain that people get from a herniated disc is unbearable,” said Dr. Bryan Krueger, an attending neurosurgeon there. “Life as you know it is essentially over.”

Krueger tells me the typical surgery would put more pressure on other joints, but an artificial disc helps maintain normal movement in the spine. That’s especially important when someone like Robbins has so much more life to live.

“When we operate on somebody in their late 20s, we have to think about the downstream effects of it on the rest of their life,” Krueger said. “This is what Emily needed to feel better.”

And at the coffee shop near her work, somewhere she once couldn’t even walk to, Robbins runs into a friend. Someone who remembers an embarrassing picture of her in a neck brace. Someone who is happy they can now go on longer walks together.

Someone who is happy she had surgery.

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By Stephanie Stahl

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    PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (KYW) — A Philadelphia nurse is sharing the power of art, weaving her way through life as an artist and health care provider.

Taking care of people and knowing about their medical conditions supplies this nurse with all kinds of ideas for her art.

Weaving, creating art – this is what Linda Ruggiero does when she’s not working as a nurse at Penn Medicine.

“I definitely get my inspiration a lot from those experiences in the lab and in other areas of nursing,” Ruggiero said.

In the cardiac catheterization lab, she was inspired by all the tubing and stents. She explains this creation, depicting what happens when there’s a troubled artery.

The heart is such a great metaphor for artwork and for opening up and healing and life,” Ruggiero said. “And so it was sort of easy to make that connection.”

Ruggiero was a neuroscience researcher before she decided to become a nurse seven years ago.

“I just liked the learning aspect,” she said.

Early in her nursing career, COVID hit, and Penn was bombarded with sick and dying patients. Ruggiero was on the front lines at the hospital.

“It was terrible and it was so heartbreaking,” she said, “and it just felt like it wouldn’t stop.”

Making art became her salvation during those dark days of the pandemic.

“The piece is called ‘Contained’ because we have this sense of trying to contain this virus that really was not contained at all in any form,” Ruggiero said.

There are two pieces about COVID: one a mess of yarn and the other a little more organized.

“This was sort of our trying to keep things tidy and contained, with it sort of seeping out on the sides. And this is what I felt like it was in reality, just kind of chaotic,” she said.

Now, her art is more focused on patients and families in Philadelphia, struggling with gun violence and drug addiction.

“Being creative has always kind of helped me, like, feel better,” Ruggiero said.

And as if she’s not already busy enough, the Penn Medicine nurse also teaches weaving. Ruggiero said that in her early 20s, she started knitting as something to do on the bus.

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By Liz Crawford, Ed Specht

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    DELAWARE COUNTY, Pennsylvania (KYW) — Letters written during World War II were finally received by the soldier’s family in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, more than 80 years after they were sent.

It’s all thanks to a postage collector on a mission and a social media post. CBS News Philadelphia was there when a brother and sister opened the previously sealed letters their late father sent to his parents in 1944.

Sitting in a home in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, siblings Kathleen Morris Rosati and John Morris held three unopened letters addressed to their grandmother, Mrs. Francis Morris of Drexel Hill, sent by their father, Jimmy Morris, while he was serving in the 83rd Thunderbolt Division of the U.S. Army during the war.

According to the National World War II Museum, between 1942 and 1945, more than 1 billion letters, known as V-mail, were processed, however three of those letters weren’t opened until 2025 thanks to Erik Martin, a postage collector in Massachusetts who ordered a batch of war envelopes online.

“This batch had four letters to the same woman, and I saw that three of them were still sealed, so I’ve never seen that before,” Martin told CBS News Philadelphia.

He became determined to find the descendants of Mrs. Francis Morris, so Martin posted the information he had about the letters on a Drexel Hill Facebook page. That helped lead to the connection within a day. From there, Martin mailed the letters to the Morris family in Delaware County.

On Monday, the two siblings sat together as they opened the historic family letters.

“Oh my gosh, it’s just incredible. … I feel like my dad’s right here with me,” Morris Rosati said.

All three letters were written between May and June of 1944, right around D-Day, when their father was stationed in England. Here’s some of what the letters said:

Dear Mom and Pop, Well I’m back in England now. I don’t know how long we’ll stay but write me anyhow…I had a very nice trip coming here…they lost my bags in the train. I sure hope they find them so I can get them back. I’m fine and I hope this letter finds you all at home the same. Your loving son, Jimmy. I hope to see you soon.

Dear Mom, Pop and all, Here it is Sunday again and I am fine. Hope this letter finds you all the same at home. I am okay and I am sure it won’t be much longer until I’m back home again. I got a letter from Grandma the other day. I’ll write you again soon. Your loving son, Jimmy.

Dear Mom, Pop, and all, Just a few lines to let you know I am okay and I hope this letter finds you all well at home. I haven’t had any mail since I’ve been in England and that doesn’t make me so happy. If there’s one thing I miss, it’s my mail. I hope little Billy is off and running around again. Tell the little rascal I was asking for him. I will close for now and I’ll write again soon. Give everyone my best regards. Lots of love, Your loving son, Jimmy.

Both children recognized their father’s handwriting and felt the sentiment of each letter confirms what they’d always known about their father — his family meant everything to him, even back then when he was just 19 years old.

“Here he is all the way from home and what’s getting him through is thinking about his family,” Morris Rosati said.

Coincidentally, the siblings received the letters the same week their father would have turned 101. He passed away in 2005 at the age of 81.

“When you look at the state of the world today and some of the things that are happening, in a way, I’m glad Dad’s not here to see it, but this comes at a time when I just feel like he’s telling me it’s going to be OK,” Morris Rosati said.

Jimmy Morris was one of five brothers who all served in World War II. They all came home and lived long lives. After the war, Jimmy Morris spent most of his career as a mail carrier in Delaware County, and his children said he took great pride in making sure each piece of mail made it to its intended destination.

“They certainly were the greatest generation. My dad could do anything, fix anything,” John Morris said.

The siblings said their father didn’t talk about the war with them, but he loved his country deeply and flew an American flag every day.

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By Lisa Rozner

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    NEW YORK CITY, New York (WCBS) — A Jewish student says antisemitic graffiti was found on his freshman dorm door at New York University last week.

The disturbing incident comes as NYPD data shows anti-Jewish hate crimes are on the rise in New York City.

“Free Palestine,” “Jew” scrawled on student’s door

Police say the act of hate happened on Sept. 9 at around 11:30 p.m., when the 18-year-old student, who had stepped out for a late-night snack, saw graffiti on his door inside Weinstein Hall saying “Free Palestine” and “Jew,” along with an image that appeared to be that of a pig.

The student did not want to be identified out of fear of retaliation, but he first reported it to End Jew Hatred campus coordinator Daisy Kahn.

“He is feeling really scared and startled,” Kahn said. “We talked to him about the importance of reporting, that he has rights.”

In a letter to the community the next day, the university’s president said, in part, “The targeting of a Jewish student is inexcusable raw hatred. As a campus, we must speak with a single voice in condemning this act. NYU has a zero-tolerance policy towards antisemitism and other forms of hatred.”

“The university has already taken steps to install security cameras in the dorm,” Kahn said. “However, the mere fact that a student thought that it was okay to write these antisemitic slurs on his door means that NYU is not doing enough.”

Hate crimes against Jews are up, NYPD says

The NYPD said it is investigating the incident as criminal mischief and the investigation is ongoing.

“Just saying the words ‘Free Palestine,’ you know, seemed a little innocuous, like you’re for the Palestinians, you’re for people’s human rights, and then it says ‘Jew.’ Whoever graffiti’d this person’s door is telling the world that antizionism is antisemitism today,” said Rabbi Mark Wildes, founder of Manhattan Jewish Experience.

Last year, the NYPD reported 54% of all hate crimes were against jews. During the first quarter of 2025, that number rose to 62%.

“Every student is entitled to their civil rights, and to learn free from harassment,” Kahn said.

NYU said the graffiti was cleaned up and support is being provided for the student.

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