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THURSDAY JUNE 21 2018 5ANewsKANSASCITY.COM One person was arrested Tuesday night after an alleged aggravated assault near 27th Street and Van Brunt Boulevard that left another in critical condi- tion, police said. The suspect cut the victim severely in the ab- domen around 8:20 p.m., police said. The two got into a fight because the victim claimed to have seen the suspect commit domestic violence earlier in the day. During the fight, the suspect allegedly pulled a knife. The victim was trans- ported to Truman Medical Center in critical condi- tion.

Police had no further information regarding the suspect or the condition of the victim Wednesday morning. No charges have been filed. KATIE BERNARD One arrested for allegedly slashing another with a knife, police say Tragedy has again struck the Coleman fam- ily, formerly of Maryville, who made international headlines in 2013 in the wake of the investigations into the sexual assault of then-14- year-old Daisy Coleman. Tristan Coleman the youngest of three brothers was killed Monday night in a one- vehicle crash on Interstate 70 in western Kansas. The 19-year-old was driving with their mother, Melin- da Coleman, who was a passenger and was listed in stable condition Tues- day at Logan County Hos- pital in Oakley, Kan.

always love you the Daisy Coleman wrote of her brother early Tuesday on Facebook. In a series of heart- breaking posts on Twitter, she also wrote: baby brother is gone. What do I even do. How do I breathe. How do I survive this.

Why did god take my best In an Instagram post with photos of Tristan, Daisy Coleman wrote: would sell my soul to be on the couch with you again watching cops or listening to peepers. You fought so hard for so long. I understand why the universe decided to- day was the day to let you go. But never stop loving you. never stop being my best friend.

My baby brother always Now living in Colorado Springs, Daisy Cole- man was at the center of the Maryville firestorm over her alleged rape by a high school football player in January 2012. After sneaking out to a house party from which she left crying, the girl was drop- ped off in the below-freez- ing cold outside her home. A felony assault charge against Daisy alleged attacker, who was the grandson of a former state representative, was dropped. Afterward, Daisy was bullied daily on social media and the Coleman family eventually moved from Maryville. Authorities reopened the case when a 2013 report in The Star caused the small-town scandal to go viral.

Ultimately, a special prosecutor, Jack- son Jean Peters Baker, reviewed the mat- ter and a 19-year-old No- daway man, Matthew Barnett, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor child endangerment. Barnett was the alleged attacker and, at the time of the plea, apologized to Daisy. Melinda Coleman, 56, had moved with Daisy, son Logan Coleman and Tristan to Albany, west of Bethany. Daisy, with older brother Charlie, went on to advocate nationwide for sexual assault survivors. Praised by many and vilified by others, the Colemans at least twice had suspicious fires dam- age their homes in Noda- way and Gentry counties, said Robert Smith, the fire chief in Albany.

It was the 2009 traffic death of Melinda Cole- husband, physician Michael Coleman, that seemed to set the family on a fateful course, Smith said: husband got killed, it be- gan a terrible forecast for them. He was their accident occurred about 10:20 p.m. seven miles east of Oak- ley. Tristan Coleman was driving a Ford pickup eastbound when he lost control and entered the median. The Kansas High- way Patrol said he over- corrected, briefly return- ing to the interstate lane before swerving back to the median and rolling the vehicle twice.

Both were wearing their seat belts. of you know the Coleman family have suf- fered unimaginable loss already in their wrote a family acquain- tance, Shael Norris, in launching a GoFundMe appeal Tuesday to raise funds for funeral and travel expenses. In seven hours, donations reached nearly half of the $5,000 goal. would love to be able to get Daisy home to bury her brother and best friend and help Charlie get Melinda home from the Kansas hospital she is the site reads. Norris is executive di- rector of SafeBAE.org, co-founded by Daisy, Charlie and others to help prevent and raise aware- ness of sexual violence, especially in middle and high schools.

story was featured in a Netflix documentary, and which was honor- ed at the Sundance Film Festival. Norris, who lives in Maine, boarded a flight Tuesday to Colorado Springs to pick up Daisy, who is a tattoo artist and had just moved to the city over the weekend with the help of her mother and brother. Immediately after the truck crash, a wounded Melinda Coleman tried to pull her son from the wreckage even after it began to burn. The moth- er eventually lost con- sciousness and Norris said she did not know whether Coleman was able to free her son. Nor- ris said about her efforts at the crash site.

totally Daisy Coleman loses brother in truck crash BY RICKMONTGOMERY A former archbishop of Washington, D.C., Cardi- nal Theodore McCarrick, has been removed from ministry because of alle- gations that he sexually abused a teenager almost 50 years ago while he was a priest in New York. McCarrick, 87, was a well-known church leader in global affairs. He said in a statement on Wednesday that he learned months ago about the allegation of sexual abuse, and he has lutely no recollection of this reported While he maintains his innocence, he wrote, obedience I accept the decision of the Holy See, that I no longer exercise any public POST Cardinal removed from ministry after allegation A missing hiker was found dead Wednesday near the site where a member of his search party was mauled by a bear outside of Anchor- age, Alaska. Police said the same brown bear appears to be responsible for attacks on the missing man, Michael Soltis, and the searcher, who was not identified. It appeared the bear had been protecting body when the male searcher was attacked.

The animal was not immediately found, and authorities were asking people to stay away from the wooded area in Eagle River, north of Anchor- age. ASSOCIATED PRESS Bear suspected in missing Alaska death Federal agents arrested 146 workers Tuesday at a meatpacking plant in Ohio, following a year- long immigration in- vestigation, the second large-scale raid within Ohio in two weeks. The arrests in one of the largest workplace immigration raids in recent years happened at Fresh meat pro- cessing plant in Salem, in northeastern Ohio. Im- migration and Customs Enforcement agents and local authorities also carried out search war- rants at the locations in Massillon and Canton. Most of the workers arrested were from Guatemala, an agency spokesman said.

ASSOCIATED PRESS Dozens arrested in Ohio during immigration raids RIVERSIDE, CALIF. In a plea to a police dispatcher to my a 17-year-old girl in a childlike, quivering voice detailed years of abuse she and 12 siblings suffered in a house where she said they were shack- led to beds, choked and went unbathed so long the stench was suffocating. In the 911 call played in a California court Wednesday during a hear- ing to determine if her mother and father should face trial on child abuse charges, the girl said two younger sisters and a brother were chained to their beds and she take it any longer. will wake up at night and they will start crying and they wanted me to call she said in a high-pitched voice. wanted to call so can help my David and Louise Tur- pin have pleaded not guilty in Riverside County Superior Court to torture, child abuse and other charges.

They are being held on $12 million bail each. The hearing is sched- uled to resume on Thurs- day. Louise Turpin dabbed her eyes with a tissue as the recording of her daughter was played. The 911 call in January was the start of a new day for the 13 Turpin offspring ages 2 to 29 who lived in such isolation that some even understand the role of police officers when they showed up at the house in response to the call, authorities said. Officers freed the three children shackled to beds and arrested the parents in a case that drew world- wide attention to severe neglect that was hidden behind the neatly kept facade of their home in Perris, 70 miles southeast of Los Angeles.

Inside, police said they discovered a house of horrors that reeked of human waste. Signs of starvation were obvious, with the oldest adult child weighing just 82 pounds, they said. The children were locked up as punishment, beaten and denied food and things normal kids enjoy, like toys and games, authorities said. They were allowed to do little except write in jour- nals that may corroborate the horrific stories they told investigators. The girl planned her escape for two years and was terrified as she climbed out a window and ran to freedom, Riverside County Deputy Manuel Campos testified.

even dial 911 because she was so scared that she was shak- he said. When she called the dispatcher around the corner from her house, the girl even sure what street she was on. The kids were rarely allowed to go outside. WATCHARA PHOMICINDA Press-Enterprise (Riverside, Calif.) Defendant Louise Turpin, second left, talks with an investigator as her husband, David Turpin, right, looks on. 911 call played in Calif.

abused children case BY AMY TAXIN AND BRIANMELLEY Associated Press JERUSALEM Israeli planes struck Hamas positions in Gaza after Palestinian militants there fired dozens of rock- ets and mortars at south- ern communities early Wednesday, the military said. The Palestinian fire came hours after the Is- raeli military said it struck Hamas infrastructure in response to bal- launched from Gaza into Israel. Israel has been battling large fires caused by kites and balloons rigged with incendiary devices or burn- ing rags, launched by Pal- estinians in Gaza that have destroyed forests, burned crops and killed wildlife and livestock. Fawzi Barhoum, a spokesman for Hamas, praised the rocket attacks calling them legitimate right that bombing is met with but did not take responsibility for them. The Israeli military said Palestinians fired about 45 rockets andmortars at Israel.

Seven projectiles were intercepted by the Iron Dome defense system and at least three fell pre- maturely, landing inside Gaza, it said. Fighter jets targeted about 25 Hamas targets overnight in re- sponse to the heavy Pal- estinian fire, it said. The exchange early Wednesday was the big- gest flare-up between the sides in weeks. However, no casualties were report- ed in Israel or Gaza. Some Palestinian rock- ets exploded inside Israel damaging property and peppering homes and cars with shrapnel.

One mortar exploded next to an Israeli kindergarten. Israeli police said its bomb disposal unit dealt with a rocket that landed in a populated area. Hamas terror or- ganization targeted Israeli civilians throughout the night with a severe rocket attack and is dragging the Gaza Strip and its civilians down a continually deterio- rating the military said. Military spokesman Lt. Col.

Jonathan Conricus said many Israelis spent the night in bomb shelters in communities near Gaza. Conricus elab- orate on open-fire reg- ulations regarding the kite and balloon threats but said those who launch such devices engaged in hostile He said so far the army has fired near those launching the devices and at infrastructure but added Israel has warned it not the cur- rent situation of daily air- borne attacks on its territo- ry. Tensions are high along the Gaza border after months of weekly mass rallies led by the Islamic militant group that rules the territory turned vio- lent. Over 100 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since they began. Israel strikes Hamas after rocket attacks BY IAN DEITCH Associated Press TORONTO Marijuana will be legal nationwide in Canada starting Oct.

17 in a move that should take market share away from orga- nized crime and protect the youth, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday. The Senate gave final passage to the bill to legal- ize cannabis Tuesday, legislation that will make Canada only the second country in the world to make pot legal. Trudeau said provincial and territo- rial governments need the time to prepare for retail sales. is our hope as of October 17 there will be a smooth operation of retail cannabis outlets operated by the provinces with an online mail delivery sys- tem operated by the prov- inces that will ensure that this happens in an orderly Trudeau said. The prime minister said that the goal is to take a significant part of the market share away from organized crime.

the following months and indeed years we will completely replace or almost completely re- place the organized crime market on he said. Canada is following the lead of Uruguay in allow- ing a nationwide, legal marijuana market, al- though each Canadian province is working up its own rules for pot sales. The federal government and the provinces also still need to publish regula- tions that will govern the cannabis trade. legislation is trans- said Justice Minister Jody Wilson- Raybould, adding it a wholesale shift in how our country ap- proaches cannabis, leaving behind a failed model of She urged Canadians to follow the existing law until the Cannabis Act comes into force. law still remains the Wilson-Ray- bould said.

Many questions remain unanswered, including how police will test motor- ists suspected of driving under the influence, what to do about those with prior marijuana convic- tions and just how the rules governing home cultivation will work. The Canadian provinces of Quebec and Manitoba have already decided to ban home-grown pot, even though the federal bill specifies that individuals can grow up to four plants per dwelling. can set their own laws. If individuals are challenging that law, they can challenge Wilson-Raybould said. Trudeau says country will legalize marijuana on Oct.

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