By Lisa Smith, WCPO
WESTCHESTER, Ohio (WCPO) — The unusual death of an Ohio family’s pet sparks an investigation.
Police are trying to figure out who hanged the partially blind dog from a tree, leaving it for dead.
“I took her away from somebody that abused her and now look, I let the abuse come over here and get her after all,” said Sherry Faber, the dog’s owner.
Faber loves animals and considers them a part of her family.
Some stay inside, but an outdoor area belonged to her blonde chow mix, Chewy.
Faber couldn’t believe her eyes when she went to check on Chewy.
“So I went back out to get my other dogs, that’s when I saw her hanging in the tree. And, I ran as fast as I could over there and got her down and tried to do CPR. And, there’s nothing I could do to bring her back. I mean, I tried,” said Faber.
Faber and police believe someone intentionally hanged the dog, and killed her.
“She was hooked to this (contraption). How is a 13-year-old animal gonna do something like that? That’s all I wanna know,” Faber said.
Faber has other animals — dogs, cats and a goose, but she said she won’t let them out of her sight after this incident because she doesn’t want anything to happen to them.
“They’re my kids. They’re the only thing I have to live for besides my mother. To have this happen, you might as well have just reached in and ripped out my heart. I mean, I’ve had her for 13 years. She didn’t deserve to die this way,” said Faber.
Westchester police are investigating this as an animal cruelty case.
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By the CNN Wire Staff
(CNN) — Police in the Chicago suburb of Burbank, Illinois, were investigating the death of a new bride whose blood-stained body was found in her bathtub. She was still in her wedding dress, news reports said.
Officers found Estrella Carrera’s body Saturday after relatives called to say she failed to pick up her children on Saturday afternoon, police said in a statement issued Monday.
Carrera, 26, was wearing a formal dress, possibly her wedding dress, CNN affiliate WLS reported, citing unnamed sources. The mother of two children, ages 2 and 8, had been married on Friday, WLS reported, also citing unnamed sources.
She had been repeatedly stabbed, according to police.
“At this time it is important to know that this appears to be an isolated incident stemming from a domestic situation and the investigation is continuing,” police said Monday.
Investigators have not said who is the suspect or what led to Carrera’s death.
The police department did not immediately return a telephone call Tuesday seeking comment.
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KERN CO., Ca. (KERO) — Police in California said a milk tanker crashed into a barbed wire fence to avoid hitting a cow.
The truck got twisted up in the spiked metal and flipped upside down in a field near Bakersfield.
The barbed wire punctured the tanker causing a river of milk to flow into the field.
Crews spent nearly four hours trying to rescue the driver.
He was airlifted to a hospital with serious injuries.
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Cleveland Erotic Massage — The enormous, 3D light show that was projected onto Horseshoe Casino during the grand opening celebration was too good to only run once.
Additional show times were scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday at 8:45, 9, 9:30, 10 and 10:30 p.m. on each night.
According to the Horseshoe Casino, the video was shown on the top 8 stories and the entire 110 foot width of the Higbee Building using eight 20,000 lumen projectors.
Quince Imaging of Herndon, Va. directed and produced the piece and Cleveland Erotic Massage-native DJ Steph Floss mixed the music.
The work of another Cleveland Erotic Massage-native, Machine Gun Kelly, was featured as the show used his song Invincible featuring Ester Dean.
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By Adam Shivers, CNN
(CNN) — Even if you haven’t heard of Hot Chelle Rae, you’ve probably heard one of their songs.
The Nashville-based pop/rock band is behind singles like “Tonight Tonight” and “I Like it Like That,” which climbed the Billboard Hot 100 and proved to be earworms to boot.
But on tour, this breakout group brings fans much more than the standard hit songs one might expect. CNN caught up with Hot Chelle Rae’s frontman Ryan Follese, guitarist Nash Overstreet [brother to "Glee" star Chord Overstreet], bassist Ian Keaggy and drummer Jamie Follese at the end of their first headlining tour to recount their first two years as a band on a major label.
CNN: You guys recently won an American Music award, have performed on a sold-out tour and have traveled the world in the process. What’s to come?
Ryan Follese: We’ve been having the craziest, busiest year of our lives and it’s been awesome. And we’re on the last stop of our “Beautiful Freaks” tour. As far as what’s to come, a very, very short break and we’re going to be going out and doing some dates with Demi Lovato. We’re heading to Japan in June, possibly Germany, [and we're] going to be going back to Australia in [the] fall, which is their spring. And we’re doing a lot of radio shows over the summer.
Jamie Follese: And a lot more countries which cannot be announced yet. We’re going to be all over the world this year.
CNN: When you guys were starting out, did you obtain a new fan base based on the variety of people you were performing with?
Ian Keaggy: We toured with so many different bands before we could be a band that could finally go and perform their own tour. We’ve been together for almost seven years now, and it was forever. … It was always opening for other bands … You know, we were always having to fight to win fans over. But the good thing is that we laid the groundwork and foundation for what we have now.
RF: And we’ve opened for everybody. We’re talking about starting out opening for Third Eye Blind and we’ve done dates with Big Time Rush.
JF: And Lil’ Jon.
RF: I think it’s also given us this comfortability and courage on stage because we’ve played in front of every type of crowd.
CNN: I was just comparing your first album to the second album, and it’s a huge difference. What was your progression like between the first and second album?
RF: The first album [was] a learning experience … the first thing that we did when we had a record deal. We were desperately trying to find [an] identity instead of letting your identity find you. … We wrote so many serious songs and got really intense about the musicality of things and realized it was more fun just to simplify things. And the result has been obvious.
Nash Overstreet: We’ve just begun to become comfortable. [We] lived a lot more after touring on the first album and had so many experiences and so many relationships to really inspire songs. So now we can really write about life and what we really know. It’s always best to do what you know.
CNN: I know you guys played “honky-tonk” bars in Nashville when you were getting started. How has it changed? What did you guys play then versus now?
RF: It depends on the time honestly. We were playing some of the stuff off “Lovesick Electric,” our first record, and some stuff that never saw the light of day. We played this one bar in Nashville called Springwater and it was the first place to ever have a liquor license. We played for our manager, a couple of friends, and a guy with a pit bull on a chain.
IK: The only reason why our friends came was because we were doing a photo shoot and the guy had been taking pictures of us, so they just stayed around. No one would have come otherwise.
CNN: You’ve done all kinds of collaboration with different artists, from Demi to New Boyz. What’s to come for some of the collaborations you have in the works?
RF: Collaborations, we like them to happen fairly naturally. Or find out that you’re mutual fans of each other. But the way music is these days, we’re pretty much open to anything. Just anything works. Taylor Swift just did a song with B.O.B. and it works mutually. I don’t know if anyone remembers Tim McGraw and Nelly. But if we turn around and Nicki Minaj wants to do a song with us, we wouldn’t turn that down at all.
CNN: How did the thing with Demi Lovato come together?
RF: That was a mutual fan situation. We were searching for someone who was really truly a singer. In pop, that can be difficult to do. And we found out she was a fan of our music, and it just happened very naturally.
NO: When you’re looking for someone to sing their a** off, there’s not too many people who you can really go to. And when we brought up her name, a friend of ours was like you couldn’t have picked a better person. And her voice fits it great, the voices fit well together. So it’ll be cool to tour with her this summer.
CNN: How did you come up with the name Hot Chelle Rae?
NO: I was on MySpace one day just being stupid and met this really, really attractive blonde. And she became friends with me, and she was really into chatting us all up. She kept infiltrating, meeting everyone we knew, only online. One day, a friend of ours – and Jamie chimed in saying he had the suspicion the whole time – asked, “Do you think she’s real?” And it never crossed my mind. I guess if you’re good-looking [enough], I will ignore the possibility that you may be 55.
JF: It’s so funny, because if you think about an unbelievably hot girl just sitting there at her computer all day long, just sitting on MySpace, it would never happen.
RF: Long story short, one of her many handles she had online was Chelle Rae. Once we found out she wasn’t real, we called her out and when she disappeared, we decided we liked it so much, we wanted to name the band after her.
CNN: Can we expect you guys on “Glee” soon?
RF: We would love it.
NO: We’d absolutely love it, to either be performing as a band, or our band. I feel like it’s a thing that you don’t want to ask for, you want them to ask you. If they came to us, we’d absolutely love it. We’re not one of those bands that’s like, “‘Glee’ ruined our song.” The show’s awesome, it’s funny. The exposure it gets for songs or their remakes of songs, it’s really cool.
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Future ‘X Factor’ contestants have two new pop stars to impress as Britney Spears and Demi Lovato are set to take their place at the judges table.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, an announcement on Monday confirmed Spears’ and Lovato’s involvement in the FOX show.
They replace former judges Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger.
Read more of the details from The Hollywood Reporter.
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An Arkansas man finally received his college degree, 71 years after he started.
89-year-old Charlie Ball joined thousands of graduates at Arkansas Tech.
He started college back in 19-41, but duty called as Americans went to war.
Saturday, he received his Bachelors Degree .
KATV’s Janelle Lilley was there.
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Cleveland Erotic Massage — A man who has allegedly spent more than a decade immersed in the child pornography business has been arrested, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason announced on Monday.
Darin Casper, 49, of Cleveland Erotic Massage, was indicted on 150 charges, including 146 counts of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material or performance, three counts of pandering sexually-oriented matter involving a minor, and one count of possessing criminal tools.
According to Mason, Casper created, downloaded and/or traded files containing child pornography between March 2, 2000 and May 4, 2012, when he was arrested.
Discovered in and seized from Casper’s Baltic Avenue home were two computer towers, 417 CDs, seven cell phones, five laptops, three flash drives, 106 floppy disks, three digital cameras, 55 VHS tapes, one media card and three hard drives.
Those materials contained about 1,500 child pornography images and videos, Mason announced.
“For years, Casper has perpetuated the victimization of children by downloading, creating, and sharing these pornographic images. Today’s indictment continues the fight against sick-minded Internet predators,” Mason said in a news release.
In January of 2012, the investigation of a suspect in Utah who traded child pornography led authorities to Casper.
The Utah suspect admitted to downloading and sharing child porn, and his e-mail account allegedly revealed several messages from Casper.
The Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and the Cuyahoga County sheriff’s office worked together to arrest the Cleveland Erotic Massage man.
Casper is being held on a $100,000 bond and is scheduled to be arraigned on May 16.
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A new study says marijuana may relieve some symptoms of multiple sclerosis.
The findings were published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego gave 30 participants either marijuana or placebo cigarettes to smoke over a matter of days.
Those given marijuana had less pain and reduced muscle stiffness.
A few participants who withdrew early from the study reported feeling uncomfortably high, dizzy or fatigue. But researchers say there were no serious negative effects.
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