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spoiler alert!!! this gives away the ending: When Debra Newell first spotted John Meehan on a dating website in 2014, she was instantly smitten — but the mother of four couldn’t have predicted that her whirlwind romance would quickly unravel into a horrifying nightmare. Newell’s case of love gone wrong is the subject of an upcoming Oxygen documentary titled “Dirty John: The Dirty Truth.” It features interviews with detectives who worked on the case, some of Meehan’s former girlfriends and even his first wife, Tonia Bales. The shocking tale was the subject of a smash-hit podcast in 2017 – from Wondery and the Los Angeles Times – and, more recently, in late 2018, Bravo premiered “Dirty John,” a scripted series with Connie Britton in the starring role. “I felt that the reason I participated in all of it, not just the Oxygen special, was to get awareness out there for other women,” Newell told Fox News. Newell, who was four times divorced, met Meehan on an over-50 dating website. Meehan posed as an anesthesiologist who’d just returned to Southern California after a year in war-torn Iraq while volunteering with Doctors Without Borders. Newell, a wealthy and successful interior designer ready for romance, was impressed by what she read and saw. “What drew me into John was number one his love for animals,” explained Newell. “That he loved children. He … was good looking in my eyes. He was a doctor. Basically, he checked all the boxes for me.” After two months of dating, the couple got married. “John was extremely persistent,” said Newell. “Every day, he was saying, ‘Please, please, please marry me. You are my soulmate. You are the person that I want to live the rest of my life with. We’re getting older. Let’s just do it.’ I was nervous, apprehensive about doing it, but I did.” While Newell said she felt herself quickly falling in love with the charismatic doctor, her four children weren’t impressed. In fact, one of her daughters hired a private investigator to confirm her fears. It turned out Meehan never worked for Doctors Without Borders and never even attended medical school. What Meehan did have was a felony rap sheet which unveiled he served time for stealing narcotics in hospitals. The Los Angeles Times reported that from 2005 to 2014, he had “seduced, swindled and terrorized multiple women, many of whom he had met on dating sites while posing as a doctor.” Newell said the report made by the private investigator was about 324 pages. The newspaper added that by the time Meehan married Newell in December 2014, three women had standing restraining orders against him. At least three others had requested them. Meehan had also told Newell one of his sisters had died of cancer. However, both of his siblings were alive and well. “I think that I jumped with my heart instead of my head, and I ignored the flags,” Newell admitted. “They were in front of me, but I refused to really look at them. I was just falling in love. … I wasn’t happy with how he was treating my kids. But I wasn’t seeing a lot of it because how he would treat them when I wasn’t around was very different when I was around … he didn’t make an effort to get to know my family, get to know my friends. He just wanted to be with me, and I thought that was one of the biggest signs.” Newell said she thought then of her sister, Cindi Vickers. Oxygen shared that in 1984, Vickers’ husband Billy came up behind her, placed a pistol to the back of her neck and shot her to death. After pulling the trigger, Billy then shot himself in the stomach. He would survive the gunshot and later remarried. Newell immediately wanted to end the marriage, even though Meehan kept insisting he was innocent of the allegations. They reconciled briefly, but eventually, she realized she couldn’t spend the rest of her life with a manipulative con artist. Newell filed to annul the marriage to Meehan in April 2016. She also went into hiding. “I gave John a chance. I also had one foot in, and one foot out. I really needed to analyze and figure this all out on my own,” she recalled. “When I left I had an exit plan because you don’t walk away from these men without something violent happening,” said Newell. “I had another phone. I had changed all my passwords. I changed emails. I had transferred money. I had talked to my office that I was going to be gone so they could get a hold of me remotely. There were many, many things I did to prepare myself to leave so that I could go into hiding.” People magazine reported Meehan filed for divorce himself, demanding half of Newell’s income and ownership in her business. He also reportedly lit her Tesla on fire, emailed nude images of her to her family and began to stalk her. “I thought he was after me for my money, so I didn’t feel that my kids should be in fear,” said Newell. “We thought it was me, and so I’d been hiding for seven months at this point.” Then on Aug. 20, 2016, Meehan waited outside of her youngest daughter Terra’s apartment and attacked her with a knife. An injured Terra, who was inspired by moves she saw on “The Walking Dead,” managed to fight Meehan off her. She kicked the knife from his hand, grabbed the weapon and stabbed him multiple times. “She was right-handed. She didn’t think,”reported the Los Angeles Times. “She began flailing, looking for targets. She connected, again and again. His shoulder. His shoulder blade. His triceps. His shoulder blade. His upper back. His shoulder blade. His upper back. Between his shoulder blades. His forearm. His triceps. His shoulder. His chest. His left eye — and through it — into his brain.” Newell would receive a phone call from a distraught Terra. “I get this call from my daughter, and she’s screaming that she killed my husband,” said Newell. “It was so surreal. The guilt and just everything overwhelmed me. … I don’t know how I got there, but I got to the site … She was sitting on the curb. I just wanted to be with her.” Meehan died in the hospital four days later. Newell said she and Meehan were separated at the time. She claimed their annulment was going to be final on September 13. The then-25-year-old Terra was never charged for Meehan’s death because it was determined she fought back in self-defense. Newell also shared Terra was sent away for about six months to Austin, Texas where she received extensive therapy for PTSD. But before then, Newell reached out to Meehan’s sisters to notify them of their brother’s fate. “When everything happened we actually called John’s sisters,” said Newell. “They talked about the fact that they had been in fear, and that they were OK with what Terra had done. … The girls had relief. They were many, many other victims out there that were all of a sudden no longer in fear because John was gone.” Newell said she hasn’t dated since. These days, she’s hoping her story will educate others on how easily one can be tangled in a terrifying situation if those glaring red flags are ignored. “I hope people understand that it can happen to anyone,” said Newell. “There are many, many people out there that are going through what I went through, maybe in a different way. But they are not alone.” “Dirty John: The Dirty Truth” airs Jan. 14 at 8 p.m. on Oxygen.

The NBA had a few, most notably former 1st round pick Kelvin Cato.

DEAR ABBY: My son and daughter-in-law are “horrified” that we refer to our 3-year-old grandson’s penis using the correct terminology. Should we relent and refer to that part of his body as something else? — UNSURE IN THE SOUTH DEAR UNSURE: Not in my opinion. Children should be taught the correct terms for their body parts as soon as they are aware enough to identify — and pronounce — them. To do this will prevent confusion and possibly embarrassment later. Teach him to call it his ‘heat-seeking missile’ and see how popular he becomes! No, the Force was not with him. Luke Sky Walker, 21, was arrested in early December by police in Elizabethton, Tennessee, for a probation violation in connection with a felony theft charge. The jailbird namesake of the Jedi master was then taken into custody at the Probation and Parole Office before being taken to the Carter County Detention Center, WCMH reports. Even Mark Hamill — who played Luke Skywalker in the iconic “Star Wars” film series — commented that the arrest was a little out of this world. “The real crime here is Mr. & Mrs. Walker saddling this poor guy with that name in the first place,” Hamill tweeted early Sunday. “#MisbegottenMoniker” Hamill also took a shot at Walker’s height of 5 feet 6, seemingly pointing out that he doesn’t have a future with the Dark Side either by adding to his tweet, “#AlsoTooShortForAStormtrooper.” Hamill’s tweet had been retweeted more than 1,900 times as of early Monday — and generated plenty of puns for “Star Wars” aficionados. “I feel worse for his sister, Anna Kin,” one tweet read. “It is, realistically, an impossible name to live up to,” another read. Walker remained held without bail at the Carter County Detention Center, jail records show. ALSO FROM DECEMBER: A fed-up mom-to-be KO’d her baby shower because she said her “fake a– family” ridiculed the name she’d chosen for her child. The unidentified woman blasted her family for questioning her decision to name her son Squire Sebastian Senator in a post on the Facebook event page for the now-canceled shindig. “Ya’ll have been talking sh-t about my unborn baby. AN UNBORN CHILD,” she wrote. “How can you judge an unborn child?? What is wrong with you?? “I never knew my family could be so judgmental. “They’ve spread rumors and lies about my child,” she wrote. “No, I am not crazy. No, I am not mentally unstable. No, I was not drunk when I named my child.” But she assured her relatives that no matter how they felt about it — she wasn’t going to budge on her son’s name. “This is the name I was meant to give him,” she wrote. “This is how it will be. He will not be allowed to have a nickname, he is to be called by his full and complete first name. “This name conveys power. It conveys wealth. It conveys success,” she added, explaining that she’d chosen the moniker because it hinted at the family’s ties to senators and squires. “My baby’s name WILL be a revolution,” she continued. “It will push people to question everything.” The raving future mom told her family she was planning a smaller “more inclusive” baby shower where she wouldn’t be judged. “F–k you all. Fake a– family,” she wrote. “You won’t get to be a part of my baby’s life and it’s all because you had to judge him.” Her post was published on Reddit on Saturday, where users continued to mock the baby’s name. A mother who gave her daughter the name “Abcde” is upset because a Southwest Airlines gate agent at John Wayne Airport in California mocked the girl’s name, not only in person but also on social media. Abcde Redford is an epileptic, so she and her mother Traci always board before others, and a few weeks ago that triggered the incident. Traci Redford said the agent not only mocked her five-year-old daughter’s name, which is pronounced “Ab-city,” in front of the young girl but also took a picture of her boarding pass and posted it on social media so others could make fun of it, too. Redford claimed, “The gate agent started laughing, pointing at me and my daughter, talking to other employees. So I turned around and said, ‘Hey if I can hear you, my daughter can hear you, so I’d appreciate if you’d just stop.'” Traci and Abcde Redford and her daughter were bound for El Paso, Texas, where they make their home. Traci Redford filed a complaint with the airline. Traci Redford recalled, “While I was sitting there, she took a picture of my boarding pass and chose to post it on social media, mocking my daughter. It was actually brought to my attention by somebody who had seen it on Facebook and reported it to Southwest Airlines. And after two weeks of doing a formal complaint, Southwest hadn’t done anything.” Southwest Airlines stated to ABC7: We extend our sincere apology to the family. We take great pride in extending our Southwest Hospitality to all of our Customers, which includes living by the Golden Rule and treating every individual with respect, in person or online. The post is not indicative of the care, respect, and civility we expect from all of our Employees. We have followed up with the Employee involved, and while we do not disclose personnel actions publicly, we are using this as an opportunity to reinforce our policies and emphasize our expectations for all Employees. One might think that naming a child “Abcde” would be unique, but as Vocativ reports, “According to the Social Security Administration database, 328 babies, all girls, have been named Abcde in the United States. Since 1990, we’ve had Abcdes born every year except 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996. The name was given to an all-time high of 32 babies in 2009, though the number has slightly declined each year since then. The median age of Abcdes is 7.5, and all but 11 of them are minors.” In 2014, a 7-year-old autistic girl named Abcde and her service dog, a pit bull named Pup-Cake, wanted to meet a mall Santa and waited for 30 minutes, but the Santa wouldn’t meet the girl because he feared the dog. Traci Redford decided to make the experience educational for her daughter. She told ABC7, “She said ‘Mom, why is she laughing at my name? And I said not everyone is nice and not everyone is going to be nice and it’s unfortunate.'” Tattoos are for life… but names aren’t. A Swedish mom getting a tattoo of her son’s name came up with a quick fix when the artist made a glaring mistake – she just changed her toddler’s moniker. Johanna Giselhäll Sandström recently told local newspaper Blekinge Läns Tidning her “heart stopped” and she “thought [she] was going to faint,” when she saw the ink on her arm had an extra letter and read Kelvin — instead of Kevin, The Local Sweden reported. The 30-year-old mom wanted to honor her children – Nova and Kevin – with a tat three years ago and when the artist didn’t ask about the spelling, she didn’t give it any more thought, she said. Shortly after, she noticed the glaring mistake and went back to the shop, only to have the artist laugh and say there was nothing he could do except issue a refund. Sandström balked at the idea of going through the painful and expensive tattoo removal process and thought legally changing her then-2-year-old’s name would be simpler. The parents have grown to love their son’s “unique” name and the boy – who is 5 now – has taken to it too, Sandström said. “I had never heard the name ‘Kelvin’ before. There isn’t anyone who names their kid Kelvin. So when I thought more about it, I realized that no one else has this name. It became unique. Now we think it is better than Kevin,” Sandström said. The couple had just welcomed their third child, a little girl named Freya, and Sandström wants to go under the needle again to add her name. This time, she’ll be more watchful. “I’m going to write it down on a piece of paper and check it over 10,000 times,” she joked.

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Last year I had a cyst removed from my shoulder by Dr. Neckman.

I watched a local news report this morning about the expansion of ferry service between Staten Island and Manhattan. The reporter:

The last of a Hawaiian land snail species has died. The Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources says the last known Achatinella apexfulva died on New Year’s Day. It was about 14 years old and named George. In 1997, the last 10 known of its kind were brought into a laboratory at the University of Hawaii to be raised in captivity. Some offspring were produced but the snails all eventually died — except for George. A 2-millimeter snippet of George’s foot was collected in 2017 for research. It remains in deep freeze in San Diego. The snails were once common in Oahu’s Koolau mountains and were used to make lei. The department says other remaining snails native to Hawaii face extinction from threats including invasive species and climate change.

I hope it's a huge hit and keeps him on Broadway and off TV forever, since I don't see plays, but have had to endure several of his annoying hammy 'acting' performances over the years on several shows I watch. Maybe he can do something with Matthew Jessica Parker, so he can get him off THE CONNERS; I feel like barfing every time he shows up as Jackie's beau.

Just consider yourself lucky he didn't decide to feed his dog Avalon jerky.

Oh, please! SVU had this plot 16 years ago, and it wasn't one of their better episodes. Waste TV-14 | 1h | Crime, Drama, Mystery | Episode aired 15 November 2002 Season 4 | Episode 8 The team is on the case of a woman who's been in a coma for 14 months and is found to be 7 weeks pregnant. After going though many suspects, they focus on the patient's doctor and discover he is impregnating comatose female patients with a rich donor's sperm in order to get embryonic stem cells that are biologically compatible. The problem for the ADA is that laws are not on her side in prosecuting such crimes.

A 79-year-old Ohio man called police to complain about the quality of "sexual services" rendered by a pair of prostitutes he paid $500 to visit hishome, cops report. The septuagenarian, who lives in South Euclid, a Cleveland suburb, dialed 911 on January 3 to report a robbery. The john, identified in a police report as William Batts, said that while the hookers “did perform some sexual services,” the duo “failed to meet [his] expectations.” Thankfully, police did not further describe the elderly man’s carnal desires. During a conversation with a police dispatcher, Batts said that he was “in the process of getting robbed” by “two ladies” who took $500 from his wallet. By the time cops arrived at the complainant’s home, the prostitutes had departed. Batts told officers that he had met the women through a friend in Cleveland. Hedescribed the hookers as “African American females, approximately 40 years old, and dressed all in black,” cops noted. One woman, Batts said, was about 5’ 7”, while the second hooker, named Keisha, “is the short fat one.” Though the pensioner contended he had been victimized, officers explained that his unsatisfactory encounter with the women did not constitute an actual robbery attempt. While Batts appears to have admitted to solicitation of prostitution, a misdemeanor, he will not be charged in connection with his disappointing dalliance, according to a police official.

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An Iowa felon who authorities believe was intoxicated allegedly fired a .30-30 rifle at a deer but accidentally hit a 73-year-old woman in her home Friday night, The Des Moines Register reported. The woman was reportedly cleaning a stove in her Ottumwa, Iowa, home when she heard a loud noise. She felt the back of her head and discovered she was bleeding. She drove herself to a hospital where doctors dislodged a bullet from the back of her head, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources said in a news release. She was later discharged from the hospital. The suspect, later identified as 34-year-old Lee Joseph Ryals, was arrested at a camper for allegedly shooting a deer around 7:00 p.m. The arrest was about 45 minutes before authorities learned of the woman’s injuries. Investigators soon connected Ryals with the alleged offense, estimating that the bullet traveled more than 120 yards before it entered the woman’s home. Authorities reportedly said Ryals was likely drunk when he shot the rifle. Ryals was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and reckless use of a firearm. Conservation officers also charged him with several hunting violations. Ottumwa is about 90 miles southeast of Des Moines Radar O'Reilly's hometown.

Oral-B Glide dental floss contributes to elevated levels of toxic PFAS chemicals in the body, according to a new study from the Silent Spring Institute in collaboration with the Public Health Institute in Berkeley, California. Scientists are concerned about widespread exposure to PFAS (perfluorooctanesulfonic acids) in the population because the water- and grease-proof substances have been linked with kidney and testicular cancer, thyroid disease, high cholesterol, low birth weight, decreased fertility and immune system damage. The new research, published this week in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, offers new insight into how these chemicals end up in people’s bodies and how consumers can limit their exposures by modifying their behavior. “This is the first study to show that using dental floss containing PFAS is associated with a higher body burden of these toxic chemicals,” says lead author Katie Boronow, a staff scientist at Silent Spring. “The good news is, based on our findings, consumers can choose flosses that don’t contain PFAS.” Researchers measured 11 different PFAS chemicals in blood samples taken from 178 middle-aged women enrolled in the Public Health Institute’s Child Health and Development Studies, a multigenerational study of the impact of environmental chemicals and other factors on disease. To understand how people’s behavior influences their exposure to PFAS, the researchers then compared the blood measurements with results from interviews in which they asked the women about nine behaviors that could lead to higher exposures. Half of the women in the analysis were non-Hispanic white and half were African American. Women who flossed with Oral-B Glide tended to have higher levels of a type of PFAS called PFHxS (perfluorohexanesulfonic acid) in their body compared with those who didn’t. To further understand the results, the researchers tested 18 dental flosses (including three Glide products) for the presence of fluorine — a marker of PFAS — using a technique called particle-induced gamma-ray emission (PIGE) spectroscopy. All three Glide products tested positive for fluorine, as did two store brand flosses with “compare to Oral-B Glide” labelling and one floss describing itself as a “single strand Teflon fiber” tested positive for fluorine. Representatives for Proctor and Gamble, which manufactures Glide products, have yet to respond to The Post’s request for comment. Boronow’s team points out that the public also is exposed to PFAS in fast food packaging, non-stick pans, waterproof clothing and stain-resistant carpets. African American women who frequently ate prepared food in coated cardboard containers, such as french fries or takeout, had elevated blood levels of four PFAS chemicals compared to women who rarely ate such food. Researchers did not see the same relationship with prepared food among non-Hispanic whites. “Overall, this study strengthens the evidence that consumer products are an important source of PFAS exposure,” says Boronow. “Restricting these chemicals from products should be a priority to reduce levels in people’s bodies.”

Jeff Bezos and wife MacKenzie announce divorce after 25 years of marriage

She and Meathead grew up across the road from each other. She was in the last building on the odd side of Grand Concourse (#3235), he was in the last building on the even side (#3224). I always thought those were interesting-looking buildings, not knowing who had once lived there. 3224 is a triangular building that takes up an entire triangular block. It has a set-up like some older fancy buildings in The Bronx, Brooklyn, & Queens. It has a central address, but several sections, each with their own entrance accessed through a central courtyard. Usually there’d be more than one place to enter the property, but as security concerns grew, they’d be gated off. If you look at the street view just to the right of the entrance of 3224, you can see through the locked gate that there are a couple of covered entrances visible in the courtyard. The building’s intercom is on this gate, which was not a part of the bldg originally. If you follow the street view around to the middle of E. Mosholu Pkwy S. there is another gate marked 3224 which can be accessed by tenants with a key, but there’s no intercom there. You can see more inner entrances in the courtyard. An interesting thing that happens in hilly areas (The Bronx has a lot of hills) is that buildings can have more stories on one side of the block than the other. Since Mosholu is lower than Grand Concourse, there are basement apts along Mosholu, each with their own entrances to the street. To the right of the gate you can see doors marked BD & BE. To the left of the gate you have BB & BC, along with the medical suite BA.

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A woman who swiped right on Bumble wound up getting stung when the match she bragged to about poaching a “bigo buck” turned out to be a game warden. According to the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, McIntosh County game warden Cannon Harrison was using the dating app in December when was notified he matched a woman in his area. After exchanging greetings, the woman, whom authorities declined to identify, revealed she had just shot a “bigo buck” and was “pretty happy about it,” according to copies of the messages. “Hell yeah,” Harrison replied. “Get em with a bow?” “We don’t need to talk about that,” the woman replied. When Harrison jokingly asked if she bagged the deer with a spotlight, she replied, “yeahhhh.” The woman admitted to illegally harvesting a deer — at night and outside rifle season — and revealed where she shot it and shared a photo of herself posing with the dead animal. “It definitely was a shock,” Harrison told Tulsa World. “First you think, ‘This isn’t real.’ You think, ‘Maybe she knows who I am and is teasing me,’ but we did some digging on who she was and where she lived.” Turns out, the woman ended up meeting her match, albeit not in the manner in which she likely intended. Harrison and his colleagues discovered she not only illegally shot the deer but also harvested only the head and backstrap meat, which is also illegal in Oklahoma. The woman and an unidentified accomplice were ultimately fined $2,400 for improper possession of an illegally taken animal and taking game out of season, authorities said. The game commission did not pursue charges related to the spotlighting of the deer or the waste of the meat. “You can’t just ignore a broken law that falls right in your lap, but [it] was kind of a bummer,” Harrison told Tulsa World. “She said it was her first deer ever, too.” The game commission on Sunday shared photos and screenshots from the case on Facebook. The post has amassed more than 500 comments and 1,500 shares. The majority of commenters found humor in how the case developed, with one person joking, “I’m pretty sure a court date wasn’t the type of date she was looking for,” and another saying, “Bet he finds his future wife after all of this attention!” If anything, the story should serve as a reminder that you truly never know who you are talking to online.

Maybe he’s just covering his ass! A Florida man who was busted for allegedly smuggling syringes in his rectum into jail claims that they don’t belong to him, according to officials. Wesley Dasher Scott, 40, was initially busted on a marijuana charge. He then pulled three syringes from his body cavity during a strip search at Pinellas County Jail, news station WFLA reported. Scott handed the syringes over to authorities and claimed he found them. He was then booked on several drug charges, including possession of marijuana. Authorities also slapped Scott with an additional charge of felony possession of contraband in a county detention facility. He remained in jail Tuesday on $5,000 bond, according to court records.