PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- The Hart family was in the Newport area around 8:15 a.m. March 24, about 2 days before their GMC Yukon went over a cliff and into the Pacific Ocean, killing 5 people and leaving 3 more missing.

 Cell phone pings placed them in the Newport area, KOIN 6 News learned.

 Investigators from the California Highway Patrol and the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office said they determined the family traveled south on US-101 from Newport until they got to Highway 1 in Legget, California.

 They stayed on Highway 1 until they got to Fort Bragg around 8 p.m. Saturday, March 24, and stayed there until about 9 p.m. Sunday.

 Jennifer Hart was spotted at 8:05 a.m. on March 25 at a Safeway in Fort Bragg, and investigators released that surveillance photo.

 Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The route the Hart family took from Oregon to Fort Bragg, California before plunging off a cliff on March 26, 2018 (KOIN)

 Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The route the Hart family took from Oregon to Fort Bragg, California before plunging off a cliff on March 26, 2018 (KOIN)

 But investigators do not have any further information about where they were between then and the time their SUV was spotted by a German tourist on Monday, March 26.

 Other sighting

 Jennifer Hart may have been seen in surveillance video from Fort Bragg, California a day before the family's SUV plunged off a cliff -- killing Jennifer, her wife Sarah and 3 of their children.

 The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office confirmed to KOIN 6 News Tuesday that they're investigating whether the woman shown in the video is Jennifer, however, they said the footage is grainy -- making it difficult to tell. Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Jennifer and Sarah Hart in an undated photo. (Courtesy photo to KOIN)

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 The possible sighting in Fort Bragg is about 20 miles from where the crash happened. Authorities plan to canvass that area -- including other businesses -- in hopes they can find out if the whole family was together, which could help narrow the search for the 3 missing children.

 On Wednesday, crews are expected to search about 20 miles of the shoreline from the crash site to the Fort Bragg area.

 Jennifer and Sarah Hart, both 38, were found dead March 26 at the bottom of a California cliff. Their 3 adopted children -- 19-year-old Markis, 14-year-old Jeremiah and 14-year-old Abigail -- were also found dead near the SUV.

 Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The scene where Sarah and Jennifer Hart's SUV plunged about 100 feet into the ocean -- killing them and 3 of their children. The whereabouts of their other 3 kids are currently unknown, March 28, 2018. (Courtesy: Fort Bragg Advocate-News)

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 The couple's 3 other children -- 15-year-old Devonte, 16-year-old Hannah and 12-year-old Sierra -- are still missing. But Sheriff Tom Allman said there is "every indication" all 6 children were inside the SUV at the time.

 Authorities said on Sunday that they believe the crash was an "intentional act" because of air bag evidence and because there was no tire friction by the cliff's edge.

 The California Highway Patrol spokesperson told KOIN 6 News that the vehicle -- a 2003 GMC SUV -- came to a stop 70-feet from the edge-- approximately 5 feet off the highway -- before it accelerated and plunged off the cliff.

 "It was pure acceleration from last break application until it hit the bottom of the ocean -- the edge of the ocean," said Greg Baarts with CHP.

 The SUV's speedometer was also pinned at 90 mph, though it''s no guarantee the vehicle was going that fast during the crash. The crash may have caused that number.

 Authorities are still investigating the crash. Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. A CBS News animation shows the Hart family SUV on its path to plunging off a cliff in California, killing 5 people. Three more are missing, March 29, 2018 (KOIN)

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 Authorities searched the Hart home in Woodland, Washington on Thursday, March 29 and said no suicide note was found. They're also trying to figure out why the Harts were in California.

 KOIN 6 News also learned that the West Linn Police Department was contacted about the Harts in 2013, but they said the case was forwarded to DHS, who couldn't confirm or deny that fact. Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Officials served a search warrant at the Hart home in Woodland Thursday, March 29, 2018. (KOIN)

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 Jennifer and Sarah recently moved to Woodland with their children from West Linn, where they had lived since 2014. In 2010 when they lived in Minnesota, Sarah Hart was arrested and later convicted of a gross misdemeanor for hitting one of the children, who was 6 at the time. She served a year on probation.

 The court documents revealed a teacher noticed bruises on the child's back and stomach after the child said her mom had hit her. She also said her mom wouldn't give them lunch when they were grounded.

 In talking with police, Sarah Hart said the kids always got food but admitted spanking her daughter the day before and that it got out of control.

 The police report said "that her mom had put her in the bathtub and turned on cold water and then hit her...also stated that her mom had hit her with a fist. When asked what she had done to make her mom mad, (the child) said that she had a penny in her pocket and that this made her mom mad."

 Detective Sgt. Larry Dailey of the Alexandria, Minnesota police told KOIN 6 News the Harts talked with the police on their own accord but left him with the impression they thought there was a lot being made over just regular parental discipline. Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. A 2016 photo of the Hart family shown at a press conference by the Mendocino County (California) sheriff at a press conference about the cliff crash that killed at least 5 of the family members from Woodland, Washington (via KRON)

 Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. A 2016 photo of the Hart family shown at a press conference by the Mendocino County (California) sheriff at a press conference about the cliff crash that killed at least 5 of the family members from Woodland, Washington (via KRON)

 Later, the Harts left Minnesota and moved to Oregon, settling in West Linn. There, they homeschooled their children. However, Clackamas Education Services District said they have no records of the Hart family filing a declaration of intent to homeschool their children.

 In late 2017, they moved to Woodland, where 2 of the children reached out to neighbors Bruce and Dana Dekalb.

 "Their daughters telling us, 'Please, please, please,' begging us not to make her go back and that they were abusing her," Dana Dekalb said. "And then Devonte telling us he's being starved to death."

 The Dekalbs called Child Protective Services, who visited the family 3 times in the days before the crash -- but never made contact with the Harts. Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. A March 28, 2018 aerial image from Alameda County Sheriff's Office drone video shows the pullout where the SUV of Jennifer and Sarah Hart was recovered off the off Pacific Coast Highway 1, near Westport, Calif (Alameda County Sheriff's Office via AP)

 Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. A March 28, 2018 aerial image from Alameda County Sheriff's Office drone video shows the pullout where the SUV of Jennifer and Sarah Hart was recovered off the off Pacific Coast Highway 1, near Westport, Calif (Alameda County Sheriff's Office via AP)

 After news of the crash, the Dekalbs got a phone call from someone who said he knew the Harts from Minnesota.The friend told the Dekalbs he thought they had unfairly targeted the Harts, perhaps out of bigotry.

 KOIN 6 News contacted that person -- who would only identify himself as "a close friend of the Hart family from Minnesota." He said the Harts were a wholesome, loving family who overcame a lot of adversity. If they were abusive, the friends would have known, he said.

 Asked if he knew Sarah had been convicted of domestic assault in Minnesota, the "close friend of the Hart family from Minnesota" said he just learned about it from media reports, but that everybody makes mistakes.

 And, he added, those who knew the Harts will remember them as great people. ||||| Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.

 The search continued Wednesday for three missing children of the family whose car plunged off a California cliff last week, as investigators came closer to piecing together a timeline of their final days.

 The California Highway Patrol released a surveillance image from a Safeway in Fort Bragg taken March 25 — a day before the Hart family's SUV was found crashed at the bottom of a rocky shoreline about 15 miles to the north.

 Authorities have said no skid marks were found at the top of the dirt turnout where the GMC Yukon pulled off, and believe the crash may have been intentional.

 The surveillance photo shows mom Jennifer Hart, 38, purchasing bananas and other groceries. It's unclear where her wife, Sarah, also 38, and their six adopted children were at the time.

 A surveillance photo shows Jennifer Hart, right, at the Safeway in Fort Bragg, California on March 25, 2018. California Highway Patrol

 The CHP said in a news release it was analyzing the store's footage with FBI agents in an attempt to enhance the blurry viewing quality.

 The investigation has included interviewing neighbors and searching the family's home in Woodland, Washington, about 25 miles north of Portland, Oregon.

 Based on the surveillance footage as well as cellphone pings, police have come up with the family's travel itinerary: They were south of Portland at around 8:15 a.m. local time on March 24, then continued moving south along a coastal route, crossing into Northern California. By 8 p.m., they were in the Fort Bragg area.

 They remained there until about 9 p.m. the next day. At some point, they decided to venture north along Highway 1. And on March 26, just after 3:30 p.m., a passerby called police about an upside down SUV that had fallen 70 feet to the embankment below. ||||| FILE - This March 20, 2016, file photo shows Hart family of Woodland, Wash., at a Bernie Sanders rally in Vancouver, Wash. The SUV carrying the Hart family accelerated straight off a scenic California... (Associated Press)

 FILE - This March 20, 2016, file photo shows Hart family of Woodland, Wash., at a Bernie Sanders rally in Vancouver, Wash. The SUV carrying the Hart family accelerated straight off a scenic California cliff and authorities said the deadly wreck may have been intentional.(Tristan Fortsch/KATU News via... (Associated Press)

 SEATTLE (AP) — A woman said Tuesday that she told Oregon child welfare officials in 2013 that Jennifer and Sarah Hart — who plunged off a California cliff with their children last month in an SUV — had been depriving the kids of food as punishment.

 In a statement provided to The Associated Press, Alexandra Argyropoulos, a former friend of the Harts, said she "witnessed what I felt to be controlling emotional abuse and cruel punishment" toward the six children.

 Argyropoulos said she was told after she made the report that Oregon officials had interviewed the children but it was apparent that each child had been coached by their mothers on what to say. She said she was told there was nothing more the Oregon Department of Human Services could do because there was not enough evidence to make a case.

 "My heart is completely broken. The current system failed to protect these children from their abusers," Argyropoulos said.

 Authorities have said social services officials in Oregon contacted the West Linn Police Department about the family in 2013 while they were living in the area. Police referred media questions to the Oregon Department of Human Services, which cited privacy laws in refusing to say whether the agency was involved.

 Authorities don't know exactly when the wreck took place. A passing motorist discovered the vehicle on March 26, three days after social service authorities in Washington state opened an investigation apparently prompted by a neighbor's complaint that the children were being deprived of food.

 The Hart family's two moms and three of the six adopted children were found dead; the three others are missing and presumed dead, possibly washed out to sea.

 Authorities are investigating whether a surveillance video from Fort Bragg, California, shows one of the women a day before the SUV was found. California Highway Patrol investigators are working with the FBI to try to enhance the video.

 Later Tuesday, the highway patrol said investigators believe the Hart family was in or around Newport, Oregon, at about 8:15 a.m. March 24 and that they continued traveling south until reaching the area of Fort Bragg, California that evening. The family stayed in that area until the next evening, the state patrol said, officials said.

 The SUV carrying the family plummeted 100 feet (31 meters) from a highway near Mendocino, California.

 On Sunday, authorities disclosed that data from the vehicle's software suggested the crash was deliberate. They said the SUV had stopped at a pull-off area before speeding straight off the cliff.

 Sarah Hart pleaded guilty in 2011 to a domestic assault charge in Minnesota over what she said was a spanking given to one of her children.

 Argyropoulos said she was unaware of a 2011 domestic assault conviction against Sarah Hart. She said she had met the couple on Facebook, knew them for about eight months and that the family visited her in the Bay Area twice. The couple broke off contact with her after she voiced concerns to them about their treatment of the children, she said.

 Two weeks ago, Bruce and Dana DeKalb, next-door neighbors of the Harts in Woodland, Washington, called state Child Protective Services because the couple's 15-year-old son Devonte had been coming over to their house almost every day for a week, asking for food.

 Dana DeKalb said Devonte told her his parents were "punishing them by withholding food." The boy asked her to leave food in a box by the fence for him, she said.

 Devonte, a black boy who is still missing, drew national attention after he was photographed in tears while hugging a white police officer during a 2014 protest. ||||| A surveillance video that appears to show one of the Hart mothers is being reviewed as a possible clue in deciphering the route the eight family members took — and in the search of the three children who were reported missing but presumed dead — after their SUV plunged off a California cliff last week.

 Authorities have spent days retracing the "Hart Tribe’s" steps since the family’s battered SUV was found overturned at the bottom of a cliff just off the Pacific Coast Highway, about 150 miles north of San Francisco. The investigation found the family of eight was believed to be in the Newport, Ore. area around 8:15 a.m. on March 24, two days before their vehicle was found, California Highway Patrol said in a Wednesday news release.

 “It is believed they continued south along US 101 until they reached State Route 1 in Leggett, California. The family traveled south along State Route 1 until they reached the Fort Bragg area in Mendocino County around 8:00pm on Saturday evening, March 24, 2018,” the news release read.

 WHERE ARE THE HART CHILDREN? INVESTIGATORS RETRACE ROUTE OF DOOMED FAMILY WHO PLUNGED OFF CLIFF

 A map released by California Highway Patrol showed the coastal route the family possibly took. Authorities retraced the route based on cellphone pings, Officer Cal Robertson told Oregon Live.

 Police said the route goes cold, however, by Sunday night. A surveillance video taken just after 8 a.m. at a Safeway in Fort Bragg appeared to show Jennifer Hart at the register buying bananas and several other items. It’s unclear where the Harts went after the incident.

 Initial reports said there were signs that suggested the family planned for a short trip.

 Their SUV, a 2003 GMC Yukon LX with black rims, was found on March 26 with Jennifer and Sarah Hart, both 38, inside the vehicle. Authorities found the bodies of three children — Markis Hart, 19; Jeremiah Hart, 14; Abigail Hart, 14 — at the scene.

 Devonte Hart, 15, Hannah Hart, 16, and Sierra Hart, 12, are still missing. Mendocino County Sheriff Lt. Shannon Barney said rescuers will be searching the water near the crash site Wednesday morning for the three children, who were presumed to be in the vehicle at the time of the crash, Oregon Live reported.

 On Tuesday, Alexandra Argyropoulos, a former friend of the family, told The Associated Press she alerted Oregon welfare officials about Jennifer and Sarah Hart because she felt they were withholding meals from their six adopted children. Argyropoulos said she "witnessed [in 2013] what I felt to be controlling emotional abuse and cruel punishment" toward the children by the couple, who were living in West Linn at the time.

 "My heart is completely broken. The current system failed to protect these children from their abusers," Argyropoulos said.

 Argyropoulos said she was told the children had been interviewed but there was nothing more the Oregon Department of Human Services could do because there was not enough evidence to make a case.

 CALIFORNIA CLIFF PLUNGE INVESTIGATION FOCUSES ON UNACCOUNTED-FOR HART TRIBE CHILDREN

 A similar instance also prompted neighbors Bruce and Dana DeKalb to alert Child Protective Services three days before the family was found dead. They feared Devonte — who gained nationwide fame after a photo of him at a 2014 Portland, Ore., rally holding a “Free Hugs” sign went viral — was going hungry because he'd been coming over to their house too often in the past week asking for food.

 Authorities attempted to reach the family three times and made their third attempt the day after their SUV was found.

 Investigators believe the deadly crash may have not been an accident — as originally thought — after evidence suggested the driver, Jennifer Hart, accelerated off the side of the road. Court documents stated the speedometer of the SUV was pinned at 90 mph, though authorities warned the device could have been altered at impact.

 The Associated Press contributed to this report. |||||

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– A timeline of the final days of the Washington family killed in an apparently intentional car crash in California is coming together. Jennifer Hart, 38, was caught on surveillance footage at a Safeway store in Fort Bragg, Calif., around 8am on March 25, the day before the family's SUV plunged off a cliff about 15 miles north of the area, Fox News reports. The bodies of Jennifer Hart (who was driving the SUV) as well as her wife, Sarah, and three of their six adopted children have since been found; authorities are still searching for the couple's three other children. Jennifer Hart was purchasing bananas and other groceries during the Safeway trip; it's not clear where the rest of the family was, NBC News reports. The children ranged in age from 12 to 19; their parents were under investigation for alleged abuse or neglect at the time of the crash. Investigators have also been interviewing neighbors, searching the family's Washington home, and looking into cellphone pings. So far, they know the family was south of Portland by 8:15am March 24, and then drove south along the coast until, by 8pm, they were in the Fort Bragg area. They were there a little more than 24 hours, then headed north up the coast. Their GMC Yukon went off the cliff, falling 70 feet to an embankment below, on March 26; a passerby reported it to police around 3:30pm. Authorities say it appeared to have accelerated over the edge and that no skid marks were found near where it went over. "As of this date it is still unclear if the missing children were inside the vehicle during the incident," the CHP said in a news release, but the missing children are tentatively presumed dead. The local sheriff tells KOIN there is "every indication" they were in the car when it crashed. (A former friend of the couple has come forward to speak out about the alleged abuse.)


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 A car accident on Friday turned into a two-day battle for survival for a 9-year-old girl who was finally found just before 6 p.m. Sunday.

 Highway Patrol said 9-year-old Jordan Landon and her father, Douglas Landon, were in a car accident on Highway 55 near Turkey Quarter Creek Road in Craven County Friday. Jordan was trapped inside the car, a 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, and managed to survive on Pop-Tarts, water and Gatorade. Her father died in the wreck.

 "She said she tried to dig her way out, but she couldn't," family friend Kevin Brinson said.

 The struggle for survival for Jordan lasted until 5:45 p.m. Sunday when someone finally spotted the vehicle, which was far off the side of the road, about 48 hours after the wreck. Jordan was transported to Pitt County Memorial Hospital. Douglas Landon, the driver, was also removed from the car.

 Troopers continued Tuesday to investigate the speed at which the car was traveling Friday night. Landon was driving over 100 mph, according to the investigating trooper. The girl's mother, Cissy Leohmann, however, said Doug would have never driven recklessly with his daughter in the car.

 She maintains that the car was absolutely not traveling in excess of 100 mph as stated in the trooper's report. Instead, she believes a tire blew on the Monte Carlo. Leohmann thinks a half-dollar sized hole in the car's right rear wheel is evidence of a blowout; the tow operator who hauled the car out of the ditch says the hole could be evidence of such an incident.

 Troopers, however, believe a mechanical failure was not involved.

 Authorities believe he and the girl were coming home from a store in Jasper around 10 p.m. Friday when they got in the accident. Just before the wreck Sunday, the pair was seen at a Mini-Mart in Jasper, where they played scratch-off lottery tickets and bought snacks.

 Leohmann filed a missing person report and went looking for Landon and her daughter Saturday. During that search, Leohmann herself got in a wreck on Highway 55, less than 100 feet from the car Jordan was trapped in. None of the rescuers reporting to Leohmann's wreck saw Doug Landon's car down the embankment.

 "I'm sure Jordan could hear the sirens and everything and hear the police talking on the radio and nobody knew she was there," said Butch Morse, Doug's employer and friend.

 Even in his final moments of life, family friends say Doug was trying to protect Jordan when the car crashed.

 "He was curled up in a ball with his arm right across his chest and his other arm pushed out across Jordan. He was trying to hold her and trying to keep her protected, he was a good father," Brinson said.

 Landon lived on the 100 block of Turkey Quarter Creek Road, near the scene of the accident.

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 Comments ||||| Jordan Landon, 9, is lucky to be alive.

 For two days, the girl lay pinned by a seatbelt, trapped in a mangled car, flipped upside down, after a crash that killed her father, 39-year old Douglass Landon.

 Police say the two likely crashed late Friday night, on their way home from a stop at a nearby convenience store in rural Craven County, N.C. Video surveillance from the store captured Landon hugging her father just minutes before their accident.

 When the two did not arrive home, Jordan's mother, Claudette Leohmann, embarked on her own search on Saturday, but fell short after she crashed her own car less than 100 feet away from the accident site.

 "I'm sure Jordan could hear the sirens and everything, and hear the police talking on the radio," Butch Morse, a friend of the family, told ABC News. "And she was sitting right there."

 It was not until Sunday evening that a man walking along the road spotted the overturned 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo where Jordan laid alive in a ditch and called police. When rescuers arrived, they believed both father and daughter were dead, then Jordan made a sound and they realized she had survived. It took three fire and rescue teams over an hour to cut her out of the car.

 Jordan told police she survived on pop tarts and Gatorade, occasionally crying out for help when she could muster the strength, but no one heard her screams.

 "For a 9-year-old to do that it's pretty heroic. She was able to keep herself calm. The family member next to her is obviously deceased so that's a lot to deal with, plus being dark at night," said Sgt. David Clifton of the North Carolina Highway Patrol.

 Investigators recovered the speedometer, stuck at 110 mph, and say speed was a factor in the crash. They do not believe alcohol was involved.

 Jordan, who Clifton described as "very talkative" after rescuers were able to free her from the car, told her mother she does not remember her father speeding before the crash.

 "I asked Jordan, 'Was Daddy driving fast?,'" Leohmann told ABC. "She said, 'No mommy, daddy wasn't driving fast.'"

 During her two days trapped in the car, Jordan also had to endure bitter cold; overnight temperatures in the area fell below 30 degrees.

 "She did have a coat so she was able to keep herself warm as best she could but it's still pretty traumatic for a 9-year old to go through," said Clifton.

 Jordan suffered only non-life threatening injuries and is expected to make a full recovery.

 ABC Affiliate WCTI contributed to this report. |||||

– A truly astonishing tale of survival out of North Carolina: A 9-year-old girl managed to survive for more than 43 hours stuck upside down after the car her father was driving crashed. Jordan Landon was trapped by her seatbelt from about 10pm Friday until her Sunday night rescue, reports the Sun Journal. "She ate Pop Tarts and Gatorade while she waited for help," says a sergeant with the NC Highway Patrol. Her father, Douglas, 39, died from his injuries. "He was curled up in a ball with his arm right across his chest and his other arm pushed out across Jordan. He was trying to hold her and trying to keep her protected," says a family friend. Though alcohol is not currently suspected as a contributing factor, police recovered the speedometer, which was stuck at 110mph, reports ABC News. The car "ran off the road to the right and into a steep ditch bank. The car went airborne and was inverted as it hit a cluster of trees," the sergeant explained. A passerby happened to notice the 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo while out walking. Police initially believed Jordan was dead, until she managed to make a sound. The story's unbelievably bizarre twist: WCTI reports that Jordan's mother set out on Saturday to look for the pair—and crashed her own car 100 feet from where her daughter was pinned. She survived, but rescuers never spotted Landon's wreck.


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Breast implants may cause a small but significant increase in the risk of an extremely rare but treatable type of cancer , the Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday.

 The risk applies to both saline- and silicone-filled implants, and to all women who have them, whether for reconstruction after cancer surgery or for cosmetic enlargement of the breasts.

 The cancer, anaplastic large-cell lymphoma, involves the immune system. It is not breast cancer. It is usually a systemic disease, but in the cases linked to implants, the lymphoma grew in the breast, usually in the capsule of scar tissue that formed around the implant. The cases were discovered because women developed symptoms long after they had healed from the implant surgery — lumps, pain, asymmetry of the breasts, fluid buildup and swelling.

 In some cases simply removing the implant and scar tissue gets rid of the disease, but some women might need chemotherapy and radiation, said Dr. William Maisel, the chief scientist and deputy director for science in the drug agency’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health. He said there was some evidence, though not conclusive, that the form of this lymphoma found in implant patients was less aggressive than the usual type.

 So far, the drug agency said it knew of about 60 cases worldwide, a tiny number compared with the 5 million to 10 million women who have implants. But even that small number appears to be an excess of cases when compared with the usual incidence of the disease: This type of lymphoma in the breast is normally found in only 3 in 100 million women who do not have implants.

 Because the risk appears to be so small, the drug agency said, “the existing data support the continued marketing and use of breast implants.” But it also said that women considering implants should first discuss the information with their doctors.

 Women with implants who have no symptoms do not need to do anything special or change their routine health care, Dr. Maisel said. But they should pay attention to any changes and see a doctor if swelling, lumps or other symptoms develop.

 Because there is very little data on the lymphoma, Dr. Maisel said, the agency “is not comfortable recommending a specific treatment.” Cases may differ, and women who have the disease need to be treated by a breast surgeon and an oncologist.

 The worldwide market for breast implants is roughly $820 million a year and growing at 8 percent a year, according to industry figures.

 The Food and Drug Administration said it needed more data and was asking doctors to report confirmed cases to its safety information program, MedWatch. Dr. Maisel said the agency was working with the American Society of Plastic Surgeons to create a registry of cases. He also said that information about the possible link to the cancer would be added to the labeling information sent out with implants.

 Dr. Maisel said it was not yet known for sure whether the implants really increase the risk of the cancer, or how they could do so.

 “We do know that both silicone and saline implants are surrounded by silicone,” he said, adding that silicone has been found in cells around breast implants and may stimulate the cells and induce lymphoma in rare cases. But he added, “Please understand that is speculative and a hypothesis.”

 A spokeswoman for Allergan, which makes implants, sent a statement by e-mail saying that the company supported the drug agency’s recommendations. But the statement also said: “Reports of ALCL in patients with breast implants are extremely rare and are not to be mistaken for breast cancer. A woman is more likely to be struck by lightning than get this condition.”

 Another implant maker, Mentor, did not respond to a telephone message asking for comment on the drug agency announcement.

 A medical group, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, issued a statement saying it supported the development of a registry for the cancer cases in women with implants, but added that implants were “the most studied device in medical history” and were safe. ||||| The Food and Drug Administration is reviewing a possible link between breast implants and a form of cancer.The federal agency said on Wednesday that 13 years of research citing 34 cases of anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) in breast implant patients has shown that individuals who undergo the procedure "may have a very small but increased risk of developing" the disease."But with an estimated 5 to 10 million breast implant recipients worldwide, agency experts say the known ALCL cases are too few to say conclusively that breast implants cause the disease," the statement added Surge Desk offers a quick list of three other common hazards associated with breast implants.Breast augmentation surgery holds the same risks of most other common operations, including seroma and hematoma (fluid and blood build-up). Adverse reaction to anesthesia is a rare occurrence but also a common concern.Ruptured implants are one of the most common health hazards associated with breast augmentation due to the likelihood of leaking silicone, therefore most experts conclude that implants in such cases should be removed as soon as possible. The FDA explains that "capsular contracture occurs when the scar tissue or capsule that normally forms around the implant tightens and squeezes the implant." The condition commonly requires re-operation and, along with ruptured implants, is one of the most common concerns associated with silicone-gel-filled and saline-filled breast implants. |||||

– Breast implants have been linked to an extremely rare but treatable cancer, the New York Times reports. It's called anaplastic large-cell lymphoma, and in these cases, it usually forms in the scar tissue around the implant. The link was seen in saline and silicone implants, and in both reconstructive implants for breast cancer sufferers and in cosmetic surgeries. The good news: Only about 60 cases have been reported worldwide—out of 5 million to 10 million women with implants. Given the rarity of the condition, the FDA said implants are still safe, though women considering them should factor it into their decision. One manufacturer of implants said "a woman is more likely to be struck by lightning than get this condition.” Most women diagnosed reported symptoms—including lumps, fluid buildup, pain, and swelling—long after they had healed from surgery. (Click for other health risks associated with implants.)


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Focused crawls are collections of frequently-updated webcrawl data from narrow (as opposed to broad or wide) web crawls, often focused on a single domain or subdomain. ||||| Anna Lushchinskaya, from a video showing her attacking, spitting and shouting at fellow subway passengers.

 What is it with New York lawyers spouting racist rants in public places this year?

 Another New York lawyer has been caught on video making racially charged comments, as well as assaulting a fellow subway passenger. That video, which has gone viral, comes just a few months after a New York City lawyer named Aaron Schlossberg was caught making a racially charged, anti-immigrant rant. That video, which also went viral, prompted intense blowback and a referral to attorney disciplinary authorities, forcing a public apology from Schlossberg.

 In the latest incident, multiple videos posted online Wednesday depict a woman on a New York City subway car in Brooklyn shouting expletives, spitting at fellow passengers and specifically attacking another woman on the train by kicking and hitting her with an umbrella and keychain.

 At one point in the video of the incident, the aggressor—identified in news reports as Anna Lushchinskaya, who uses the last name Lushchinsky professionally—lets out a racial slur typically used to denigrate Asians. Later, Lushchinsky makes another comment that seemed to be racially charged, referring to a male passenger, who has dark skin and describes himself on camera as Dominican, as “Muhammad.”

 After footage of the subway incident was publicized, news reports emerged that in addition to her behavior during the morning rush hour, Lushchinsky is a law school graduate who was registered as an attorney in New York. According to state bar records, she graduated from New York Law School and was admitted to practice in New York in 2004. It’s unclear from the bar records whether Lushchinsky is actively practicing—her profile on the state bar’s attorney directory lists her registration status as, “due to re-register within 30 days of birthday.”

 Lushchinsky could not be reached for comment Friday.

 In the wake of the subway confrontation, Lushchinsky, 40, was arrested and the New York City Police Department’s transit bureau announced on Twitter that she could have faced felony assault charges. However, according to criminal court records in New York, the subway incident resulted in five misdemeanor charges, including menacing with a weapon other than a gun and attempted assault.

 The video of Lushchinsky called to mind the controversy that swirled around Schlossberg earlier in 2018. In May, a video posted online showed a white man who appeared to be Schlossberg berating the manager at a Fresh Kitchen restaurant in Manhattan. The tirade apparently came after Schlossberg overheard a conversation in Spanish between other Fresh Kitchen employees. Schlossberg accused them of all being “undocumented” and threatened to call U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

 The viral video of Schlossberg prompted U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-New York, to refer the matter to bar disciplinary authorities. Ethics experts said at the time that it wasn’t likely Schlossberg would ultimately face discipline from the bar, and even if he were disciplined, it probably wouldn’t become public.

 But a different analysis may apply to Lushchinsky—particularly if she is convicted of any of the criminal charges she faces in light of the subway incident.

 “Whether the lawyer is disciplined will depend on whether he has prior discipline and his defense (‘the meds made me do it,’ for example),” Stephen Gillers, a professor at New York University School of Law, said in May after the Schlossberg incident. “If the conduct leads to a conviction, even a minor one, discipline will be much more likely.” ||||| Footage of a jarring, racially charged attack on an Asian passenger riding the subway in New York has gone viral.

 The New York Police Department said Anna Lushchinskaya, 40, has been charged with two counts of felony assault after the incident, which occurred during the morning rush hour on Tuesday aboard the D train in Brooklyn.

 A 24-year-old woman was left bleeding with cuts to her face, the police said.

 Warning: video contains strong language

 In the video shared by Juan Ayala on his Twitter account PlatanoMan, Lushchinskaya is seen screaming “f**k off” several times before apparently preparing for her attack by putting her sunglasses in her handbag and tying back her hair. She then lashes out with her umbrella and key chain.

 After an Asian man intervenes, Lushchinskaya, who is white, screams “f**king chink”, which prompts surrounding passengers to shout the attacker down.

 The dispute began after the suspect bumped into the complainant, according to the police report. The man who intervened, 30, also sustained scratches, it said.

 “I'm lucky that she didn't have anything like weapons on her – like knife, gun – because it could have got a lot worse,” the victim, who wishes to remain anonymous, said after the attack, according to New York’s Channel 7 Eyewitness News.

 “I'm lucky that people were on the train who were helping me, especially the first Asian guy who stood in front of me right away because he wasn't recording,” the report quoted the victim as saying.

 “He just stood in front of me to help me, because I know other people were recording, but their recording didn't do anything until later on when it escalated.”

 The video had attracted 4.5 million views on Facebook as of Friday. Some of the more than 1,700 comments included complaints that more people surrounding the attacker did not try to stop the assault.

 Then she tried me so I had to detain her until the cops showed up ♂ pic.twitter.com/C3UybusAxa — PL∆T∆NO M∆N™ (@PlatanoMan) December 12, 2018

  ||||| EMBED More News Videos The victim of a racist and violent subway attack, who did not want to show her face, speaks out about the terrifying incident.

 Then she tried me so I had to detain her until the cops showed up 🤦🏾♂ pic.twitter.com/C3UybusAxa — PL∆T∆NO M∆N™ (@PlatanoMan) December 12, 2018

 A Brooklyn woman is under arrest after allegedly unleashing a violent, racist tirade on another straphanger onboard a D train.It happened Tuesday around 8:30 a.m. on a northbound D train near 9th Avenue in Borough Park, Brooklyn.Police said 40-year-old Anna Lushchinskaya, of Sheepshead Bay, faces felony assault charges after she yelled profanities at a 24-year-old Asian woman and struck her with an umbrella handle and keys.Videos on social media from the incident show what appears to be Lushchinskaya making racist slurs at both the victim and a good Samaritan who intervened, but police have not charged the suspect for bias crimes."Everybody was just looking at each other like, 'Are you sure you just heard that? Did you just hear that?'", said the man who stepped in to help, Juan Ayala, speaking exclusively with Eyewitness News."I'm lucky that she didn't have anything like weapons on her -- like knife, gun -- because it could have got a lot worse," the victim, who wishes to remain anonymous, told Eyewitness News exclusively. "I'm lucky that people were on the train who were helping me, especially the first Asian guy who stood in front of me right away because he wasn't recording. He just stood in front of me to help me, because I know other people were recording, but their recording didn't do anything until later on when it escalated."The dispute began after the suspect bumped into the victim, police said.Juan Ayala held Luschchinskaya for police, but was worried about the victim."It's something that can almost be traumatizing, honestly," said Ayala. "It's not a situation that anybody should be involved in, especially a little girl."The victim suffered lacerations to her face. The good Samaritan also suffered scratches.Lushchinskaya was apprehended at 36th Street and placed under arrest."Coming home, I couldn't breathe," said the victim. "Every time I have to get a train, I'm really careful where I'm watching."A criminal complaint from June shows that Lushchinskaya was charged in June in connection with another D train scuffle. According to the complaint, Lushchinskaya allegedly pepper-sprayed a man on the train at the 36th Street station.---------- ||||| New York (CNN) A Brooklyn woman whose racist, profanity-laced tirade on the New York subway was captured on video this week has been charged with felony assault after she struck a fellow passenger, authorities said.

 The dispute between Anna Lushchinskaya, a 40-year-old white woman, and the 24-year-old passenger, a woman of Asian descent, began after Lushchinskaya bumped into the woman early Tuesday, the New York Police Department told CNN.

 Lushchinskaya yelled profanities at the victim on the northbound D train, hitting her with an umbrella and keys, the NYPD said. On video captured by witnesses, Lushchinskaya can be heard calling the woman a racial slur.

 Lushchinskaya was apprehended at the 36th Street Station and arrested, the NYPD said.

 CNN could not reach Lushchinskaya or her attorneys for comment Friday.

 Lushchinskaya was arraigned in Kings County Criminal Court following the incident, according to Brooklyn District Attorney spokesperson Oren Yaniv. She pleaded not guilty and posted $1,000 cash bond, according to court records.

 She is due back in court January 22.

 The victim suffered cuts to her face, the NYPD said. She told CNN affiliate WABC, which said she wanted to remain anonymous, that she was grateful people intervened.

 A 30-year old good Samaritan suffered scratches when he intervened, the NYPD said.

 Several subway riders captured the tirade on video. The incident has since been viewed by millions of people on social media.

 The video shows the woman yelling profanities at the victim and calling another rider "retarded."

 "F*** off," Lushchinskaya allegedly said several times before striking the victim with her hand.

 She then took off her sunglasses and gloves, pulled her hair back and took her umbrella and keys from her bag, according to the video. Then, she began kicking the woman, who defended herself.

 Passengers intervened, trying to restrain Lushchinskaya, and told her to stop. One person threatened to call the police.

 The video shows Lushchinskaya striking the woman several times with her umbrella and her keys and again kicking her.

 "She's not even fighting you back," one person is heard saying.

 At least two subway riders tried to wrestle the umbrella away.

 Lushchinskaya is seen spitting in the direction of the victim before yelling more profanity and a racial slur.

 Juan Ayala, who was filming the incident, said he decided to intervene, but Lushchinskaya lashed out at him. A video posted by another user shows Ayala talking to Lushchinskaya.

 "Do not spit at me," Ayala says in the video, to which Lushchinskaya replies, "What are you, her attorney? F***ing Mohammed."

 The subway car erupts in a gasp and Ayala gives his reply: "What? B****, I'm Dominican!"

 Fellow subway riders protested. "Your white privilege ain't working over here," one man is heard saying.

 The victim told WABC she felt lucky the woman didn't have a weapon like a gun or a knife "because it could have got a lot worse."

 "I'm lucky that people were on the train who were helping me, especially the first Asian guy who stood in front of me right away because he wasn't recording. He just stood in front of me to help me, because I know other people were recording, but their recording didn't do anything until later on when it escalated," she said.

 This is Lushchinskaya's second arrest this year for a subway altercation -- both took place at the 36th Street Station in Brooklyn. In June, she was arrested for allegedly pepper spraying a man and woman, according to DCPI detective Sophia Mason. Both were Hispanic. She was charged with harassment, menacing with a weapon and attempted assault. |||||
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– What's up with New York lawyers? Months after one was caught on video spewing anti-immigrant rhetoric in a restaurant, another flung racist insults on the subway and apparently assaulted a woman of Asian descent. Anna Lushchinskaya, 40, shouted profanities at a 24-year-old Tuesday after bumping into her on the northbound D train—then is seen assaulting her with keys and an umbrella, CNN reports. Lushchinskaya unleashed an obscenity meant to denigrate Asians, per the South China Morning Post, then fired off an anti-Middle Eastern insult at a man who intervened. "What?" he responds. "...I'm Dominican!" A good Samaritan who intervened got scratched up, while the female victim walked away with facial lacerations: "I'm lucky that she didn't have anything like weapons on her—like knife, gun—because it could have got a lot worse," she tells WABC-TV. "I'm lucky that people were on the train who were helping me, especially the first Asian guy who stood in front of me right away because he wasn't recording." As for Lushchinskaya, she was arrested and charged with five misdemeanors, including attempted assault and menacing with a weapon other than a gun, Law.com reports. See videos of the incident here and here, but be warned, it's ugly. (See how New Yorkers dealt with the first ranting lawyer.)


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 President-elect Donald Trump, who won the hearts and minds of millions of working-class voters, may help deliver a multibillion-dollar bonanza to America’s wealthiest families.

 The Manhattan businessman’s election offers congressional Republicans their best chance in years to eliminate the estate tax, which he and others call the “death tax.” Abolishing it would save more than $20 billion a year for the millionaires and billionaires the tax applies to -- including the Trump family and several of the people he has chosen for his administration.

 “A lot of families go through hell over the death tax,” Trump said during his presidential run. The tax’s opponents say it forces some families to sell their farms or small businesses in order to pay up. Studies suggest that only a small percentage of estates fall into those categories.

 Wiping out the estate tax has been a longstanding goal for Republican lawmakers, and the party’s sweeping victories in the 2016 election have brought them thrillingly close to achieving it. But there are potential stumbling blocks. Their narrow margin in the Senate leaves few votes to spare. And Trump may have a hard time reconciling his populist campaign themes with a tax break for America’s richest.

 Under federal law, the tax, which is levied at a 40 percent rate, applies only to estates worth more than $5.45 million for individuals and $10.9 million for couples. Estates worth less than that may be passed on to heirs tax-free. Last year, just 0.2 percent of estates of people who died were subject to the tax, according to estimates by the Tax Policy Center, a Washington-based research group that’s a joint venture of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution.

 ‘The Forgotten Guy’

 Trump “campaigned as someone who’s going to help the middle class, the forgotten guy, but every policy he’s advocating -- huge tax cuts for the wealthy, estate tax -- all for the top .001 percent,” said Representative Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from Manhattan.

 America’s wealthiest “hit the jackpot” with Trump’s election, he said.

 Since Trump’s election, House Ways & Means Chairman Kevin Brady and Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch have repeated their desire to repeal the estate tax. House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have long supported its elimination. Passage in the Republican-led House is assured. In the Senate, a decade-long estate tax repeal can pass with 50 of 52 expected GOP senators under a special mechanism called reconciliation, while 60 votes could end it for good.

 “The death tax on family farms, small businesses, ranches and estates has crippled hard-working families for far too long,” Hatch told Bloomberg News in a statement.

 In 2013, 120 of the 3,780 estates subject to the tax were farms and businesses, according to the Tax Policy Center. That’s a little more than 3 percent. The same year, estates valued above $20 million paid an average tax rate of 18.8 percent -- many achieve a lower effective rate through tax-planning strategies, including giving some of their fortune away to charity.

 Windfall to Leaders

 At that 18.8 percent effective rate, repealing the tax would be a large windfall to the leaders-in-waiting of the Trump administration.

 Trump’s estate would save $564 million, based on his estimated net worth of $3 billion. Trump disagrees with that net-worth estimate, which Bloomberg News compiled in July; he has said his net worth exceeds $10 billion. If so, his savings would increase -- to as much as $1.9 billion at an 18.8 percent effective tax rate. Trump’s transition team didn’t respond to a request for comment for this story.

 Trump’s Commerce secretary choice, Wilbur Ross, might save about $545 million, based on his estimated net worth of $2.9 billion. Ross is the chairman and chief strategy officer of WL Ross & Co. LLC. Richard DeVos, the father-in-law of Trump’s education secretary choice Betsy DeVos, might save $900 million, based on his estimated $4.8 billion net worth. Richard DeVos is co-founder of Alticor Inc., the parent of closely held direct-seller Amway Corp. Linda McMahon, Trump’s pick to head the Small Business Administration, and her husband, Vince McMahon, who together founded World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., might save more than $250 million based on their shared net worth of at least $1.35 billion. The nominees’ net worth estimates were compiled by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

 Repealing the tax would also benefit Treasury secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin, who held shares in CIT Group Inc. worth more than $100 million as of Dec. 2. And Gary Cohn, who is said to be Trump’s choice for his chief economic policy adviser, would leave his position as president of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. with $266 million of stock and awards amassed during his years at the investment bank, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

 Early Test

 The looming estate-tax debate may be an early test of how Republicans deal with the electorate’s populist-over-elite mood. In interviews, Republican senators and congressmen played down the tension between Trump’s populist image and repealing the estate tax.

 “Every president who’s ever had the office is going to have tension between their campaign and reality,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican. “How he handles that tension is up to him. But there’s nothing new about a president campaigning one way and having to govern another.”

 Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said on Thursday he expects an estate tax repeal to be included in the budget reconciliation beginning in April. Others want it to be part of a comprehensive tax overhaul package. GOP aides said many are waiting for guidance from Trump.

 Some conservatives caution that upper-end tax breaks are politically problematic.

 “Trump would do well to craft a tax-reform agenda that is populist in a very visible, obvious way that delivers tangible gains to middle-income voters,” said Reihan Salam, executive editor of the National Review, a conservative magazine. “I believe that coming right out of the gate and focusing on high-end tax cuts might prove costly.”

 Democratic Opposition

 Democrats overwhelmingly oppose reducing the tax — presidential nominee Hillary Clinton campaigned on raising its rate to 65 percent for couples worth $1 billion. “I’m against” repealing the tax, said incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. “To do it would sure help out the wealthiest few in America.”

 GOP leaders are thus wary of over-promising. “Every tax bill is going to have a lot of tension and a lot of problems because the Democrats are not real enthused about things,” Hatch said in an interview. “We’ll just have to see. But we may be able to do some things.”

 The politics of repeal may depend on which description of the tax reaches the public. A Gallup poll in March found that 54 percent of Americans favored eliminating it when told it’s a tax paid when a person dies. But researchers have found that people are more likely to support it -- and to want it to be increased -- when told who it affects.

 “It becomes a question of how effective Democrats are at reframing that issue beyond this notion of a death tax,” said Norman Ornstein, a political analyst at the American Enterprise Institute.

 — With assistance by Brendan Coffey ||||| Highlighted areas show what parts of President Trump’s 2005 tax return could have been affected by the new tax plan.

 President Trump could cut his tax bills by more than $1.1 billion, including saving tens of millions of dollars in a single year, under his proposed tax changes, a New York Times analysis has found.

 On Wednesday, the White House announced a sweeping plan to cut a variety of taxes that would overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy. The estimate of Mr. Trump’s savings is based in part on information from his 2005 federal tax return. The analysis compares what his tax burden would be under current law with what it would be under the proposal.

 Mr. Trump’s 2005 return is the most recent available publicly and was released in March by David Cay Johnston on the website DCReport.org. The Times’s figure also relies on an estimate of Mr. Trump’s net worth, calculated by the Bloomberg Billionaire’s Index to be $2.86 billion.

 “I don’t benefit. I don’t benefit,” Mr. Trump said on Wednesday. “In fact, very, very strongly, as you see, I think there’s very little benefit for people of wealth.”

 In fact, high-income earners like Mr. Trump are likely to benefit disproportionately if the White House proposal becomes law. The estimates, calculated with the help of Robert Willens, an accounting expert, and Stephen Breitstone, a tax lawyer, provide a view into precisely how.

 Savings of about $1.1 billion from repealing the estate tax

 Though it would not be reflected on his income tax return, Mr. Trump’s proposal to eliminate the estate tax would generate the largest tax savings. If his assets — reportedly valued at $2.86 billion — were transferred after his death under today’s rules, his estate would be taxed at about 40 percent. Repealing the federal estate tax could save his family about $1.1 billion, though it could still be subject to New York estate taxes.

 Savings of $31 million from repealing the alternative minimum tax

 Line 45 of Mr. Trump’s 2005 tax return shows he paid $31.3 million because of the alternative minimum tax.

 The decades-old alternative minimum tax is meant to prevent America’s wealthiest from using deductions to pay very low or no federal income tax. In 2005, it accounted for about 80 percent of Mr. Trump’s overall income tax payment. His plan to repeal the tax would save him $31.3 million.

 Savings of about $16 million from taxing certain types of business income at 25 percent

 Lines 12 and 17 of Mr. Trump’s tax return show the income he earned from businesses, rental real estate and other kinds of business partnerships, totaling $109.76 million.

 Mr. Trump’s proposed changes could allow individuals to qualify for a significantly reduced tax rate of 25 percent on certain types of income they receive through business partnerships and similar entities. That is up from the original proposal in April of 15 percent, but far lower than the top tax rates currently faced by high-income earners of 39.6 percent.

 Mr. Trump could save as much as $6.2 million on business income and $9.8 million on income from real estate and other kinds of partnerships under this plan, compared with his tax burden under current law. (In 2005, much of this taxable income was offset by a $103.2 million write-down in business losses.)

 The proposal released Wednesday “contemplates” that Congress will adopt measures to prevent the wealthy from recharacterizing their income to take advantage of the new, lower rate and avoid the top personal rate. If that happens, it could have a big effect on Mr. Trump’s tax bill.

 Savings of about $0.5 million from cutting the highest tax rate

 Lines 7, 8a and 9a show $10.79 million in wages, taxable interest and ordinary dividends that Mr. Trump earned in 2005.

 The proposal to reduce the highest tax rate to 35 percent from 39.6 percent would save high-income earners similar to Mr. Trump a relatively small amount compared with the repeal of the alternative minimum tax. The $500,000 in savings is a rough estimate because Mr. Trump has not specified income levels for his proposed tax brackets.

 Increase of $3 million to $5 million in taxes from repealing most deductions

 Line 40 shows Mr. Trump itemized his deductions instead of using the standard tax deduction, claiming $17 million.

 Mr. Trump would probably lose most of the deductions he reported in 2005. Depending on his effective tax rate under the proposal, Mr. Trump could pay roughly $3 million to $5 million more in taxes. ||||| President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans unveiled Wednesday their plan for a massive tax overhaul.

 The plan, meant to be a framework for Congress to negotiate into legislation, still has missing parts. But read on for a look at who wins and loses under the proposal as it stands now.

 Winners

 Corporations with high tax rates: The framework lowers the corporate tax rate to 20 percent from 35 percent. Trump initially wanted to lower it to 15 percent but said his “red line” for the rate is 20.

 It also lowers the tax rate for small businesses to 25 percent. The majority of small business owners would use the extra cash to expand businesses and hire additional employees, Alfredo Ortiz, president of the nonprofit Job Creators Network, told Fox News.

 Heirs to large estates: The plan eliminates the so-called death tax, or estate tax. The federal estate tax, which typically affects wealthier Americans, is a tax on property transferred after the owner’s death.

 People who do their own taxes: With the framework, Republicans hoped to simplify the tax code and the way Americans file their taxes. The plan collapses the number of brackets from seven to as little as three.

 High-income households: The framework includes multiple tax cuts for high-income taxpayers, including the elimination of the Alternative Minimum Tax. The AMT is a supplemental income tax meant to offset benefits a person with a high economic income could receive.

 Low-income households: The plan doubles the standard deduction, which reduces the amount of taxed income, to $12,000 for individuals and $24,000 for married couples, making low-income taxpayers a winner, Steve Odland, CEO of the Committee for Economic Development, told Fox News.

 It also increases the child tax credit which could be beneficial to families.

 Losers

 Taxpayers in high-tax states: The plan eliminates state and local tax deductions, meaning taxpayers in states with high taxes will lose out on the write-off. This impacts those in mostly blue states, such as California and New York.

 Congressional New York Republicans have warned that they will not vote for a plan that includes the removal.

 Accountants: Because the plan would streamline the tax process, less people would potentially need to hire tax accountants, lawyers and firms, Odland predicted.

 Trump has said he wants to put H&R Block "out of business."

 National debt: The plan would result in approximately $2.2 trillion of net tax cuts -- a blow to the national debt, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget said.

 “Given today’s record-high levels of national debt, the country cannot afford a deficit-financed tax cut,” the nonprofit said.

 Social programs: With the greatly reduced amount of tax collections the plan calls for, it’s possible that domestic spending on programs such as welfare programs and education could take a hit, Henry Aaron, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told Fox News.

 People who want a concrete plan: Aaron also said the plan was lacking in details, making it difficult for policy experts to come up with concrete estimates of the framework’s impact.

 “People can make assumptions about what the details will be and make estimates based on their assumptions, but you won’t really know until the details are in,” he said. |||||
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– It's hard to know for sure, but President Trump may save a pretty penny if his administration's "once in a generation" tax proposal goes into effect, despite Trump insisting earlier this week the plan is "not good for me." The New York Times put Trump's estimated net worth of $2.86 billion and his 2005 federal tax return—one of the few publicly available pieces of detailed info on the president's finances—up against the current tax law and the new plan. Its findings: The president and his estate could save more than $1 billion. Experts commissioned by the Times postulate the benefits would mostly come from the elimination of the estate tax and the alternative minimum tax. Under the current estate tax, Trump's estate would take a 40% hit following an assets transfer after his death. In what it called a potential "bonanza" for Trump and his Cabinet members, Bloomberg last year estimated Trump's family would save $564 million by dumping the estate tax; the Times figures it closer to $1.1 billion, minus New York state taxes. Getting rid of the AMT, which made up about 80% of Trump's income tax payment in the 2005 return, could save him more than $31 million. Writing for the Washington Post, Philip Bump notes Trump's "vague articulation" on how he's looking out for the little guy, not the ones with fat wallets, "is not borne out by the details." Fox News offers the winners and losers under the tax proposal.


– It was a heist worthy of Hollywood: Thieves targeted a London warehouse temporarily holding some of the world's rarest books, cut through its skylights, rappelled down, and made off with more than $3 million in bounty, reports the Telegraph. In total, the trio nabbed more than 160 books, and Business Insider notes that CCTV cameras show the thieves ignoring everything in the warehouse but four containers, the contents of which they checked against a list. "This was a big job," Alessandro Meda Riquier, a dealer who lost about $1.6 million worth of books in the heist, tells the CBC. "Police said that it took more than three hours to complete." The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers has published the complete list of stolen publications, but the "jewel" is a 1566 edition of De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium by Copernicus, the book in which he theorized that the sun, not the Earth, is at the center of our solar system. Other notables include a 1506 edition of Dante's Divine Comedy, and a copy of Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. It smacks of an inside job, an art attorney tells the Guardian, likening it to the Lufthansa heist in the movie Goodfellas. "Somebody had inside information that they were being kept in a warehouse and were particularly valuable," he says. "Then someone allowed that information to leak out, and criminals took advantage.” (One book dealer was murdered for his copy of a children's classic.)

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One book dealer thought to have lost £1 million in antique works in he heist said he has been left devastated by the raid.

 Alessandro Meda Riquier said 51 books, including by Galileo and rare editions of Dante's Divine Comedy, had been taken.

 He told Sky News: "I'm very upset because this is not something you can buy everywhere.

 "Behind these books there is a lot of work because we have to search to try to find out where the books are - auction houses, collectors, colleagues - and there's big research behind these books."

 He added: "They are not only taking money away from me but also a big part of my job."

 The books were being stored at the warehouse as they were due to be flown to the United States, reportedly for this weekend’s 50th California International Antiquarian Book Fair.

 The Metropolitan Police confirmed that a “number of valuable books” had been taken in the theft and appealed for information.

 A spokesman said: "Detectives are investigating a commercial burglary which occurred between January 29 to 30, 2017. A warehouse in Feltham was broken into and a number of valuable books were stolen."

 Anyone with information should contact police via 101, or contact Crimestoppers anonymously. ||||| Books of significant value were stolen from a West London warehouse on the night of 29th January while in transit for the California Book Fair. A full police investigation is underway!

 For a complete list of all stolen books, please view the PDF below!

 For more details of individual copies, please contact the dealers directly, contact details to be found in the list of stolen books.

 If anyone offers you any of these titles, please contact the Police SCD6-ArtandAntiquesUnit@met.police.uk and quote crime reference number 0502127/17

 ABA Secretary Camilla Szymanowska on +44 (0) 20 7421 4681 secretary@aba.org.uk

 or ABA Security Chair Brian Lake on +44 (0) 20 7631 4220 brian@jarndyce.co.uk immediately! ||||| A gang of thieves has reportedly stolen over £2 million worth of rare books from a warehouse near Heathrow airport in a "Mission Impossible"-style heist, The Mail on Sunday reports.

 The newspaper reports that over 160 rare books were stolen, including works by Galileo, Isaac Newton, and Leonardo da Vinci.

 Thieves reportedly gained access to the warehouse in Feltham, Middlesex by climbing onto the roof, cutting holes through the reinforced skylights, and then abseiling down into the building.

 The heist, which took place on the evening of January 29, was captured on the warehouse's CCTV cameras, The Mail on Sunday reports.

 Thieves were observed ignoring all other items stored in the warehouse, instead targeting four containers that stored rare books. A source told The Mail on Sunday that the gang of criminals checked the contents of the containers against a list, "throwing the ones they didn't want away." The books were being stored in the warehouse temporarily as they made their way to the California Book Fair.

 The gang then placed the rare books into holdalls and pulled them onto the roof of the building using ropes. The bags were then placed into a van and driven away.

 The Mail on Sunday reports that the thieves likely stole the books to order, as it would be difficult to resell the titles. The newspaper says that scientific works, of the type stolen in the raid, "are particularly in demand." It speculates that a wealthy collector known as "the Astronomer" may have ordered gangs to steal books for him.

 The most valuable book stolen in the raid is a 1566 edition of "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" by Copernicus. The book, which can be translated as "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres," set out Copernicus' theory that the Sun is at the centre of the universe, not the Earth.

 The owner of the rare Copernicus book stolen in the raid, identified only as a dealer from Padua in Italy, told The Mail on Sunday that "It was clearly a robbery done to order. It was a specialised gang. They took only books, nothing else."

 The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers has published two separate lists detailing every book believed to have been stolen in the heist. It lists two dealers who have had stock stolen from them: Librario Bado e Mart s.a.s. di Bado R. e C. from Padua, Italy, and Michael Kühn from Berlin, Germany.

 Another book that is believed to have been stolen is a 1656 Galileo book titled "Opere di Galileo Galilei," another early scientific work about the universe.

 A copy of "Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica" by Isaac Newton was also stolen in the raid. The book was a landmark work covering physics and mathematics.

 A 1506 edition of Dante's "Divine Comedy" was also stolen in the raid. ||||| Books Shortcuts Mission impossible: trying to flog a stolen 500-year-old Dante manuscript Tome raiders have stolen more than 160 rare books by abseiling into a warehouse, but they may struggle to cash in on their £2m crime The theft of rare books, manuscripts and maps is thought to be on the rise. Photograph: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images

 In a rare book heist described as “extraordinary” for its Mission: Impossible-style stealth, a gang of thieves has stolen more than £2m worth of antiquarian books from a London warehouse. The three tome-raiders evaded the security system by boring holes through reinforced glass skylights and abseiling 40ft on ropes into the repository. The haul of more than 160 books included a 1566 copy of De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium by Copernicus, worth an estimated £215,000, as well as works by Galileo, Isaac Newton, Leonardo da Vinci and a 1569 edition of Dante’s Divine Comedy.

 The question is, what happens to the books now? How might they be sold? And who would buy them? “Criminals first try to cash out on these crimes,” leading art lawyer Chris Marinello, CEO of London based Art Recovery International, tells me. “They are looking for buyers and the more publicity the crime gets, they more difficult it becomes to sell these items. Placing them on international databases, such as ARTIVE.org, which records stolen objects so they can not be sold knowingly in the marketplace, means reputable dealers and collectors will not touch them.”

 Marinello, who has been working to reduce the trade in illicit cultural heritage for three decades, explains that this, unfortunately, is when the “second crime” often takes places. “The books might then be broken up,” he says. “Some of the illuminated manuscripts and engravings contained therein might be traded in the art market, where many buyers don’t know they were cut out of rare books. It becomes a lot more difficult to trace.”

 The theft of rare books, manuscripts and maps from libraries and other repositories is thought to be on the rise. An alarmingly titled conference at the British Library in 2015, The Written Heritage of Mankind in Peril, was prompted by two major heists at European libraries, both of which turned out to be inside jobs. What continues to confound the international rare book market – estimated to be worth $500m (£380m) a year – is how easily stolen books are fenced and resold.

 So what’s the solution? “It’s urgent at this point that the victims come forward and record these losses,” Marinello says. “It’s really important to make these books unsellable by disseminating that information. That’s the key. In my experience the books will either turn up very shortly or when the criminals know they can’t sell them they’ll go underground and be traded or sold at 5%-10% of their true value. We might expect a ransom demand as well from someone looking to shake down an insurance company. The next few days and weeks are very important from an investigative point of view.”

 Does he believe, as some are saying, that the books might have been stolen to order by a specialist collector? “I would strongly refute that,” he replies. “I think this was more likely similar to the Lufthansa heist in Goodfellas, where somebody had inside information that they were being kept in a warehouse and were particularly valuable. Then someone allowed that information to leak out, and criminals took advantage.” |||||


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– A 17-year-old student is in custody as a person of interest in Wednesday's fatal shooting at an Alabama high school, AL.com reports. According to ABC News, police are pursuing charges against the teen but aren't releasing any additional information on his or her identity until charges are filed. The person of interest was also one of the two students injured in the incident, which happened during dismissal in a classroom at Huffman High School in Birmingham. The teen reportedly shot themselves in the leg. They were released from the hospital and into police custody. The 17-year-old killed in the shooting has been identified Courtlin Arrington. She was set to graduate in May, had been accepted to college, and hoped to become a nurse. A third, non-student person was injured in the shooting and treated at the scene, WBRC reports. Police initially called the shooting "accidental," though the cause is still under investigation. Officials decided to pursue charges after watching video of the incident. "At this particular time, we consider it accidental until the investigation takes us elsewhere,'' acting Birmingham police chief Orlando Wilson says. "We have a lot of unanswered questions. There are so many unknowns at this time."

A Huffman High School student is in custody in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Courtlin Arrington inside the east Birmingham school.

 Police have not identified the student but issued this statement Thursday morning: "Detectives of the Birmingham Police Department have been working through the night reviewing evidence, video and statements on the tragic incident that took place at Huffman High School yesterday. Due to their diligent work a person of interest has been taken into custody. Charges are pending a review of the case by the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office. Because the charges are pending we will not be releasing any information on the individual in custody. Further information will be released as it becomes available."

 Was the shooting an accident?

 Initially Birmingham police officials said the deadly shooting, which happened inside a classroom as school was dismissing for the day, appeared to be accidental.

 "At this particular time, we consider it accidental until the investigation takes us elsewhere,'' Acting Birmingham Police Chief Orlando Wilson said. "We have a lot of unanswered questions. There are so many unknowns at this time."

 We learned Thursday that the shooting was captured on video and led authorities to pursue the charges against the student.

 Were metal detectors being used at the school?

 Dr. Lisa Herring, Superintendent of Birmingham City Schools, said Huffman High School does have working metal detectors in use but declined to comment further as it is part of the ongoing investigation.

 We don’t know if the metal detectors are the kind that students walk through or if they are the wand type often used in secondary inspections.

 Are there cameras in the school?

 Acting Birmingham Police Chief Orlando Wilson said Wednesday that there were surveillance cameras in the school.

 Who was the third person that was injured?

 A third person, who is not a student, was injured, but it is unknown to what extent.

 What does “person of interest” mean?

 A person of interest is someone the police are “interested” in during the proceedings of a criminal investigation

 Terms like “suspect,” “target,” and “material witness” are more clearly defined, and even have formal definitions given to them by the Department of Justice. However, “person of interest” remains undefined formally. It does not show up in formal manuals like the Associated Press Stylebook, which reporters use to aid them in writing their stories, and it has never been officially defined by police, prosecutors, or journalists. The term is more of a colloquialism, rather than an official definition.

 Were parents notified of a lockdown?

 We have asked Adrienne Mitchell, Birmingham City Schools Strategy and Communications Officer, but have not received a clear answer. When asked if parents were notified, she referenced a recorded message sent to parents hours after the shooting. We have asked if an alert was sent to parents alerting them to a lockdown and subsequent shooting. We have not received a response to that question.

 Students interviewed by WBRC said the bell rang at 3:40 p.m. and the gunshots occurred around 3:45 p.m. The school was placed on lockdown at that time.

 Copyright 2018 WBRC. All rights reserved. ||||| A Huffman High School student is in custody in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Courtlin Arrington inside the east Birmingham school.

 Police have not identified the student but issued this statement Thursday morning: "Detectives of the Birmingham Police Department have been working through the night reviewing evidence, video and statements on the tragic incident that took place at Huffman High School yesterday. Due to their diligent work a person of interest has been taken into custody. Charges are pending a review of the case by the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office. Because the charges are pending we will not be releasing any information on the individual in custody. Further information will be released as it becomes available."

 Initially Birmingham police officials said the deadly shooting, which happened inside a classroom as school was dismissing for the day, appeared to be accidental. The shooting, however, was captured on video and led authorities to pursue the charges against the student.

 There was a bit of confusion on police radios at first with reports of an active shooter. An officer then clarified the situation. "Listen. We've had an accidental shooting, not an active shooter. We have the gun, we have the one who had the gun. We just need two paramedic vehicles to get these two kids out."

 The shooting happened at 3:45 p.m. Arrington was given CPR at the scene and en route to UAB Hospital but was pronounced dead upon arrival at 4:16 p.m.. The other teen suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the leg. He was treated in the emergency room and quickly released into police custody where he was questioned and held overnight in the Birmingham City Jail.

 A woman at the police station who said she was the boy's mother, said she had not been told his condition, but she did not believe he had a gun. She and other family members gathered there declined further comment. Friends of the student said he had been robbed on campus the previous day, and that likely is why he had a gun at school.

 Arrington was going to graduate in May, had already been accepted into college and had dreams to become a nurse. "We're not just talking about some person, we're talking about losing a part of our future,'' said Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin. "Our hearts are heavy."

 On Thursday, the mayor asked that all flags at city facilities be flown at half-staff. "My thoughts and prayers remain with this young lady's family, friends, Huffman family, and community,'' he said via Twitter.

 School officials announced late Wednesday night that school will be closed on Thursday. The delay will provide an opportunity for the system to conduct a thorough safety sweep of the school, and also allow the system to collaborate with organizations in the community to provide counseling support to both students and staff, said Superintendent Lisa Herring.

 "The magnitude of this event causes us to pause," Herring said. "However, we want to assure our parents, students, staff and community that safety and security are a top priority for Birmingham City Schools."

 On Thursday, Herring met with Acting Police Chief Orlando Wilson and his staff to come up with a safety plan for heightened security when students return to school on Friday. In addition to the school resource officers already assigned to the school, additional officers will patrol both the inside and outside of the school. A number of other undisclosed safety measures also will be put into place, she said.

 The superintendent also said school district administrators are meeting with United Way, area pastors, local teacher association representatives, mental health counselors and others to devise a counseling plan for students and staff.

 "We recognize that as the students return on Friday, that will not be an instructional day,'' Herring said. "We recognize that this is a time of crisis and students are processing emotions that many have never dealt with. It is important to understand that Friday, and the coming days, will be a day of comfort and support."

 Many have questioned the use of metal detectors at the school, and whether they were in use Wednesday. Herring said she wouldn't comment on any part of the ongoing investigation, but said there are working metal detectors at the school.

 Herring said she knows there are many tough days and tough questions ahead.

 "Our goal is to reassure our parents that, as much as we can, we will work to keep our schools safe. But our hearts and our minds are on the families tonight,'' she said. "How do we tell parents that their school is safe after an event like this and how do we reassure our children? That is the work we will take on every single day."

 Herring said Huffman High School does have working metal detectors in use but declined to comment further as it is part of the ongoing investigation. In addition to increased security at the school Thursday, the superintendent said said there will be a full crisis team on hand to help students and faculty.

 She praised the school officials on hand during Wednesday's shooting. "For as much as they've had to tackle on a very difficult day, they have done an exceptional job of trying to provide care and concern for those who were in the building and for those who had exited out,'' she said.

 "We had two victims today, regardless of the circumstances,'' Herring said of both students. "We are most concerned about our families and the child who is no longer with us. We will not only pledge every effort to support the family, but we will do that for every child in Birmingham City Schools."

 "I think it's really important we find a way to mourn with the family. That we wrap our arms around the Huffman High School community,'' Woodfin said. "Our entire Birmingham community is in mourning and grief right now. While there are many questions ...we need to take to the time realize that a life was lost. "

 Dozens of police officers gathered at the school Thursday morning, as the investigation into yesterday's fatal shooting continues. A small memorial of red balloons and flowers were placed on the fence, near the school's driveway.

 Birmingham City Councilor Lashunda Scales, who represents the Huffman area, was also present Thursday. She commented on what she thinks the school can do to increase security, and said Arrington had a "beautiful, radiant smile."

 Denise Kendricks, who lives in Huffman, stopped by the school Thursday morning to voice her concerns about security measures in place. "These kids are out here crying for our help," she said through tears. "Something has to happen. Somebody's got to be held accountable."

 Kendricks has a son, who serves in the military and lives in Florida, a daughter who recently graduated from Auburn University, and a six-year-old who goes to school nearby. None of her children went to Huffman High. "I expect my child to come home [from school]. I never expect my child to not make it home," she said. "I can't even wrap my brain around that."

 The woman also said she's frustrated with others offering prayers and setting up vigils. She said, "We're past candlelight vigils. It's too late for that. Where were you yesterday? Where were you the day before yesterday?"

 "These are the things [students] are seeing every single day.... I'm tired of people waking up and losing their lives over something that could be handled," Kendricks said. "If it's affecting our community, it's affecting me." ||||| A person of interest has been taken into custody after a 17-year-old girl was shot dead at an Alabama high school Wednesday, police said.

 Charges are pending a review of the case by the Jefferson County District Attorney’s office, the Birmingham Police Department said today.

 A 17-year-old boy was also shot and survived in the Wednesday afternoon incident during dismissal at Huffman High School in Birmingham, police said. He was taken to a hospital where he was treated and released, police said.

 Carol Robinson/AL.com via AP

 Carol Robinson/AL.com via AP

 The cause of the shooting remains under investigation, Peter Williston of the Birmingham Police told ABC News today.

 The gun involved was recovered, police said.

 Carol Robinson/AL.com via AP

 Brynn Anderson/AP

 Police today did not release any information about the person in custody.

 Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said on Twitter Wednesday, "I'm praying for the family of this young lady who tragically lost her life way too early."

 ABC News' Rachel Katz and David Caplan contributed to this report. |||||


– Friends driving by your house and honking a friendly hello: cool. City and county officials and employees honking for almost 10 years as they drive by to get back at you for placing a bid on a house: not so cool. Per Courthouse News Service, that's the claim of Ohio resident Garrick Krlich's lawsuit filed Thursday against the city of Hubbard, Trumbull County, and Hubbard's police chief, all of whom Krlich says "intentionally turned a blind eye" to an orchestrated campaign to "harass, intimidate, terrorize, and retaliate against him," mainly via the car-honking. Why Krlich says he's the object of retaliation: In 2007, he tried to buy at an auction a neighboring property that for nearly a century had been in the family of the town's fire chief at the time. Krlich says when he put in the highest offer, then-Fire Chief John Clemente Jr. told him he'd better take it back or risk being "bitter enemies." Krlich kept his bid in, though for unspecified reasons, the property "did not pass to him as it should have"—and, he says, the harassment started anyway. Described on the Krlich.com website (subtitled "Small Town Terrorism") as "undeserved, uninterrupted, unyielding spite," the subsequent actions Krlich says have been directed toward him—the relentless honking, an unsympathetic police department, a 911 service that hangs up on him—have been carried out by various Hubbard firefighters driving city trucks, members of Police Chief James Taafe's family, city councilmen, and others, per the suit. In a 2014 20/20 interview, Krlich says the honking peaked at 100 times a day (it's since died down to just a couple per day); Clemente and his wife noted in the same interview that Krlich was simply litigious. "If you beep your horn one time, he'll take you to court," Marlene Clemente said.

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Why Has This Man Been Honked at Over 5,000 Times?

 By ANDREW PAPARELLA, ERIC M. STRAUSS and ALEXA VALIENTE

 Here's the Situation:

 Long-time Hubbard, Ohio, residents Rick and Cindy Krlich told ABC News' "20/20? that everyone in their town has turned against them.

 Over the past seven years, they said, horns have been honked 5,000 times by people driving past their house.

 "In the beginning, it was 100 times a day," Rick Krlich said. Lately, the couple said, it has settled down to once or twice a day.

 What Started It All:

 In a 2007 real estate deal, Rick Krlich got into a dispute with John Clemente over the house next door.

 It's a long complicated story, but essentially, Rick Krlich sued in an attempt to buy the house when it was in probate court, even though it had been in the Clemente family for several generations.

 Rick Krlich succeeded only in annoying John Clemente, who at the time was the town fire chief. His lawsuit failed, and the Clementes moved into the house.

 Rick Krlich's Side of the Story:

 According to Rick Krlich, John Clemente and his family retaliated by organizing a vast conspiracy of horn honking that has continued throughout the years since.

 The Krlich home now has surveillance cameras to record when and who honks their horns while driving past the house. From a fireman in a fire engine to a police officer from a nearby town, the Krlich's have recorded many honkers throughout the years.

 Rick is now suing no fewer than 40 alleged horn blowers, including the Clementes.

 John Clemente's Side of the Story:

 John and Marlene Clemente deny they instigated the honking.

 According to John Clemente, his son's girlfriend and some of her friends would blow the horn, but he said that was just their way of saying goodbye.

 And while a fire truck and other Hubbard residents have been caught on video honking the horn outside of the Krlich house, John Clemente said that Rick Krlich brought it on himself.

 "Why wouldn't you be against him … and what he is doing to everybody?" John Clemente told "20/20." "Do you realize he has got 700 cases going to court?"

 "If you beep your horn one time, he'll take you to court," Marlene Clemente told "20/20." "Just a regular beep or just to beep at the neighbors across the street, he'll take you to court."

 A Solution?

 In an attempt to bring together a town blown apart by a destructive horn-honking habit, "20/20? invited the Clementes, the Krlich's and the town of Hubbard to a Peace and Reconciliation Barbecue.

 Watch ABC News' "20/20? on Friday, May 2 at 10 p.m. ET to see what happened. ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (CN) – For nearly 10 years, one resident claims employees and officials of a small Eastern Ohio town have been honking while driving past his home, in what he calls a campaign to harass him for bidding on a property owned by the former fire chief’s family.

 Despite proof of the harassment, police have refused to investigate his complaints or punish anyone for the honking, according to a complaint filed Thursday by Garrick Krlich in Youngstown federal court.

 Krlich claims Hubbard, Ohio Police Chief James R. Taafe, the city of Hubbard and Trumball County “intentionally ‘turned a blind eye’ to the rights and plight of plaintiff and his wife, but numerous city and county officials, executives and employees have been recorded actively, directly and intentionally participating in this campaign, sometimes while in city and/or county vehicles.”

 Krich contends the harassment began in 2007, when he tried to purchase a property adjacent to his own.

 The property was up for auction following the death of the then-fire chief’s aunt. After Krlich placed the highest bid, former Fire Chief John Clemente Jr. allegedly “told plaintiff to rescind his bid or they’d be ‘bitter enemies for life,’ because the house had been in his family since 1922.”

 Although Krlich refused to rescind his winning bid, “title to the property did not pass to him as it should have,” according to the complaint, and he was harassed anyway.

 “Members of the Clemente family and their friends and coworkers (including many of John Clemente Jr.’s coworkers in the Hubbard Fire Department) began a campaign to harass, intimidate and terrorize plaintiff and his wife by honking their horns whenever they drove past plaintiff’s residence, which continues to this day,” the lawsuit states. (Parentheses in original.)

 In the complaint, Krlich claims he has called the police and 911 about the honking, and has gone so far as obtaining civil protection orders against some of the harassers, but nothing has been done.

 He says he installed video and audio recording equipment to capture “countless incidents of horn blowing by passing motorists, including, inter alia, the Hubbard Police Chief’s son and brother, City of Hubbard councilmen, members of Hubbard Police Department (while driving police cruisers), City of Hubbard firemen (while driving City fire trucks),” as well as numerous city and county officials, school buses and others connected to the local governments. (Parentheses in original.)

 Despite this proof, the police department has failed and refused to do anything, Krlich alleges. He claims the police department refuses to take many of his reports, and 911 has hung up on him.

 “The Hubbard Police Department and Trumball 9-1-1 Center require plaintiff, and only plaintiff, to follow a specific ‘protocol’ prior to contacting the Hubbard Police Department or 9-1-1 Center, or they will not respond to, or accept, a noise or harassment complaint from him,” the lawsuit states.

 A city attorney for Hubbard did not immediately respond Monday to a request for comment.

 Krlich is suing Hubbard, Police Chief Taafe and Trumball County for an alleged violation of the Equal Protection Clause. He is seeking compensatory damages for his video recording equipment and legal fees as well as punitive damages, in a total amount exceeding $75,000.

 He is represented by Caryn Groedel in Cleveland.

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