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Teen Who Lost Everything
In Hurricane Accepted Into 7 Ivy League Schools
Hurricane Sandy de- stroyed the Baldwin, N.Y., family home of Daria Rose in 2012. The Long Island teen, then a sophomore in high school, lost everything.
"It was hard because it's really unpredictable when you don't have a stable place to live," she told ABC News. "[You] don't know if you're moving here next, or there ... mymomandmydadandmy family, they made me realize what was important. Stuff is just stuff. What is important is your health, education, your family."
The family did recover and recently moved into a new home in Baldwin. Rose, now 18, recently applied to 7 Ivy League colleges—and was accepted at all of them.
"I've always known I wanted to go to Yale," she told ABC News. "But junior year I started looking at all my options, and I realized
DARIA ROSE
how many great schools there were out there."
So she figured why not and began applying to the seven schools that appealed to her.
"I went home and checked Harvard first and then Princeton and then Brown ... and as they kept coming in, I was just astonished. I could- n't even breathe," Rose told the news station. "It was an amazing moment."
Rose has two more col- lege visits ahead of her and has until May 1 to make her decision.
Six Officers Suspended After
Man Dies From Spinal Injury
Sustained In Their Custody
BALTIMORE, MD --- Baltimore's mayor, police of- ficials, and prosecutor sought to calm their city Monday, while six officers were sus- pended as authorities investi- gated how a suspect suffered a fatal spine injury in police custody last week.
A week after Freddie Gray, 25, was pulled off the street and into a police van, authorities don't have any videos or other evidence ex- plaining what happened to cause the "medical emer- gency" an arresting officer said Gray suffered while being taken to the local police station.
The Gray family's lawyer, Billy Murphy, had said that Gray's "spine was 80 percent severed at his neck."
In a police report obtained by The Baltimore Sun, Officer Garrett Miller wrote that police on bike patrol stopped Gray April 12 after he was seen fleeing "unprovoked upon noticing police pres- ence." Police said a knife was found clipped to Gray's pants pocket and he was ar- rested on a weapons charge.
The video taken by a by- stander of the arrest does not show the injury occurring, but did capture four police of- ficers dragging a screaming Gray to a police van.
On Monday, police re- leased a more detailed time-
FREDDIE GRAY
line that revealed that Gray was placed in leg irons after an officer felt he was becom- ing "irate. During transport to Western District via wagon transport the defendant suf- fered a medical emergency and was immediately trans- ported to Shock Trauma via medic," Miller wrote in the report.
Police Commissioner An- thony Batts said that Gray asked first for an inhaler, and then several times during his transport for medical care.
Batts also said it is still unclear why Gray was stopped in the first place, say- ing only that officers "made eye contact" with Gray and another man, and the two took off running.
Mayor Stephanie Rawl- ings-Blake, who is Black, said she too is "angry that we are here again" after trying to overcome decades of distrust between police and citizens in Baltimore's inner city.
700 Africans Feared Dead After Boat Capsizes
European Union officials gathered for an emergency meeting Monday, after hun- dreds of people are believed to have died in what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest mi- grant disaster.
The bodies of 24 people killed when the boat on which they were traveling from North Africa to Europe cap- sized were taken to the island of Malta to be buried Monday, the Associated Press reported. The Maltese Army said they were all adult men.
The exact number of deaths in the shipwreck, which happened around midnight local time Saturday, is not known — the fishing vessel was initially reported to have been carrying 500 to 700 peo- ple when it capsized.
Charges Dismissed Against Chicago Cop Who Killed Young Woman
REKIA BOYD
The charges against the Chicago police officer involved in the 2012 shooting death of 22-year-old Rekia Boyd have been dismissed.
A Cook County judge ruled that there was no evidence of reckless conduct, which would be necessary to move forward with the involuntary manslaughter charge, prompt- ing the dismissal, the news sta- tion reports.
Dante Servin, the officer involved, had been kept on the force, but had been stripped of his powers and was on desk duty during the court proceed- ings.
Boyd was among a group of people in Douglas Park when Servin approached and told them to keep the noise down. There was an exchange of words before, Servin said, he saw one of the men in the group pull out what he thought was a gun. Servin fired his gun from his car, hitting Boyd in the back of the head. She died the following day.
White House Fence Jumper Arrested
A person carrying a suspi- cious package was arrested on Sunday evening after at- tempting to scale a White House fence.
"The individual is in cus- tody and charges are pend- ing," the Secret Service said in a statement. No further infor- mation was provided.
The package was exam- ined and found to be harm- less, CNN reports.
It was just the latest in a series of recent security lapses. Last September, an- other man jumped the fence
with a knife and made it all the way inside the mansion before he was stopped.
Security officials are re- portedly planning to add spikes to the top of the fence in an attempt to deter such behavior in the future, accord- ing to CNN.
City’s First Black Mayor Leads To Police Resigning
PARMA, MO -- Most of the police force and several officials resigned after the small town of Parma, Mis- souri elected its first African American woman as mayor.
Tyrus Byrd, a former city clerk, was officially sworn in as mayor on Tuesday after beating incumbent Randall Ramsey.
Ramsey had served as mayor of Parma for 37 years under two terms.
The outgoing mayor said five of the city's six police offi- cers submitted their resigna- tion, citing "safety concerns." Parma's city attorney, clerk and water treatment supervi- sor also quit.
Some Parma residents say they aren't worried about safety now that the police force has shrunk. "I think it's
Mayor Tyrus
swearing in was disrupted by resignation of police officers and administrators.
pretty dirty they all quit with- out giving her a chance," res- ident Martha Miller told KFVS. "But I don't think they hurt the town any by quitting, because who needs six police for 740 people."
At her swearing in cere- mony, Byrd said that she is looking to getting things in order for the city.
Byrd’s
L. A. Officer Charged With Assault Of Suspect Surrenders
LOS ANGELES, CA - A Los Angeles police officer was charged on Monday with as- sault for his part in the video- taped arrest of a Black man who contends he was kicked so hard he lost a tooth filling and was knocked unconsi- cious.
The charge the Los Ange- les District Attorney's Office brought against Officer Richard Garcia, 34, stems from an Oct. 16 arrest of Clinton Alford, Jr., that has already resulted in a fed- eral lawsuit against the city.
The filing of the criminal charge against the officer fol- lows a series of deaths of African-Americans at the hands of police that have raised questions about race relations in the United States and the use of force by law en- forcement.
He pleaded not guilty to the charge during an appear- ance in court on Monday, ac- cording to City News Service. Earlier in the day, he turned himself in to officers.
CLINTON ALFORD, JR.
In the October arrest, po- lice approached Alford be- cause he matched the description of a robbery sus- pect, and he ran away from them, the Los Angeles Dis- trict Attorney's Office said in a statement.
Alford surrendered after a foot pursuit, but Garcia as- saulted him as he lay prone on the ground, prosecutors said.
Media reports was 22 years old at the time of his ar- rest, was initially charged with possession of rock co- caine and resisting arrest but the charges were later dis- missed.
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