Louisiana Twin Toddlers Found Dead In Truck, Heat To Blame?

On Saturday, June 18th, Alisha Orr woke up from a nap in her Bossier City, Louisiana home, and couldn’t find her twin toddlers, Oliver and Aria, anywhere.  

Orr got in touch with her neighbor, Rhonda Williams to see if she had see the three-year-olds.

While Orr searched their backyard, Williams look into the family’s truck and found Aria.  

Williams attempted CPR, but told the Shreveport Times it was too late.

“Her jaws had locked. It was obvious she was gone.”

Williams thought Oliver may have had a fighting chance at the time.

“It may have been wishful thinking, but when I tried to do CPR on him, I thought I felt a thready pulse,” Matthews recalled.

Though details are sparse, the initial autopsy revealed that the twins may have died from heat-related issues, since temperatures in parts of the country recently have soared.  

It’s not known how they got into the car, or how long they were in there, authorities warned, as the investigation is ongoing.

“They were wonderful, happy kids,” she said.

“I pray every moment of the day for the family. They are good people, and they were good parents. I can’t imagine what they are going through.”

Alisha’s husband, Travis is a deputy with the Bossier Parish Sheriff’s department, and both parents were devoted to their three children (they also have a son, 8).

“You could see this took him to his knees,” Williams said of Travis.

“Everything he did, he did with the kids.”

The Sheriff’s department released a statement of support for the Orrs.

“We are saddened by the tragic loss suffered by the Orr family, and our hearts are heavy,” Bossier Sheriff Julian Whittington said.

“This is a very difficult time, but it’s even more so, as they are a part of our Bossier Sheriff’s Office family. Please keep Deputy Travis Orr and his family in your thoughts and prayers.”

Charlie Sheen: Under Criminal Investigation For Spreading HIV?

Earlier today, we learned that Charlie Sheen wishes he had used more condoms in his younger years. (In this case, “his younger years” means 15 to 49).

Now it seems that a few other folks wish he’d wrapped it up as well – namely, all of his former partners and the California District Attorney’s office.

For months, there have been rumors that Sheen is facing jail time for lying to failing to inform his past sex partners that he’s HIV positive.

Now, thanks to Sheen’s latest interview with Matt Lauer that aired on Today this morning, investigators may have all the evidence they need to press charges against the former Two and a Half Men star.

It seems the remark that really grabbed their attention came when Sheen answered a question about his regrets:

“I regret not using a condom one or two times when this whole thing happened,” Sheen told Lauer.

He went on to admit that there were at least two occasions in which he knowingly had sex while HIV positive, but did not tell his partner:

“There [were] two examples, but protection was always in place,” he said.

“And it was for the right reasons, because everyone that I had told up to that moment had shaken me down.”

Now, Radar Online is reporting that the DA may be planning to press charges against Sheen as early as this week.

“Charlie’s admission that he didn’t tell partners about his HIV has the DA chomping at the bit,” one insider tells the site. 

It seems all they’re waiting on is testimony from one of the several women have publicly accused Sheen of misleading them about his condition.

“The DA’s office wants to go after him, but no one has come forward — yet,” says the source.

Sheen says he recently test drove a high-tech, fool-proof condom from Sweden, so his future partners needn’t worry.

Perhaps not surprisingly, he also says he’s had trouble getting laid recently.

Wendy Bell Sues TV Station: I Was Fired for Being White!

Wendy Bell has filed a federal lawsuit against Pittsburgh-based WTAE for firing her this past spring, alleging that the TV station gave her the pink slip because she’s white.

Yes, she has really said this.

Back on March 21, Bell (a 21-time Emmy winner) took to Facebook in order to voice her opinion about the March 9 shooting of five African-Americcan people in Pittsburgh’s Wilkinsburg neighborhood.

This is what she wrote at the time:

You needn’t be a criminal profiler to draw a mental sketch of the killers who broke so many hearts.

They are young black men, likely in their teens or in their early 20s. They have multiple siblings from multiple fathers and their mothers work multiple jobs.

These boys have been in the system before. They’ve grown up there. They know the police. They’ve been arrested.

Bell wrote this without any actual knowledge of the assailants.

She simply assumed they were black men who fit this description… which is pretty darn racist, if you think about it.

Bell was relieved of her duties nine days after the station deemed her comments to be an ethical violation. 

In her lawsuit, the journalist complains:

“Had Ms. Bell written the same comments about white criminal suspects or had her race not have been white, Defendant would not have fired her, much less disciplined her.

“Ms. Bell’s posting of concern for the African-American community stung by mass shooting was clearly and obviously not intended to be racially offensive.”

We’re not sure how clear or obvious that is, even if Bell did not mean any harm by her comments.

According to the Associated Press, Bell “is seeking back pay, punitive damages and her old job.”

Do you think she deserves it? 

Was what she wrote just a citizen trying to be of assistance? Or was she being overtly racist and terrible?

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Wendy Bell Sues TV Station: I Was Fired for Being White!

Wendy Bell has filed a federal lawsuit against Pittsburgh-based WTAE for firing her this past spring, alleging that the TV station gave her the pink slip because she’s white.

Yes, she has really said this.

Back on March 21, Bell (a 21-time Emmy winner) took to Facebook in order to voice her opinion about the March 9 shooting of five African-Americcan people in Pittsburgh’s Wilkinsburg neighborhood.

This is what she wrote at the time:

You needn’t be a criminal profiler to draw a mental sketch of the killers who broke so many hearts.

They are young black men, likely in their teens or in their early 20s. They have multiple siblings from multiple fathers and their mothers work multiple jobs.

These boys have been in the system before. They’ve grown up there. They know the police. They’ve been arrested.

Bell wrote this without any actual knowledge of the assailants.

She simply assumed they were black men who fit this description… which is pretty darn racist, if you think about it.

Bell was relieved of her duties nine days after the station deemed her comments to be an ethical violation. 

In her lawsuit, the journalist complains:

“Had Ms. Bell written the same comments about white criminal suspects or had her race not have been white, Defendant would not have fired her, much less disciplined her.

“Ms. Bell’s posting of concern for the African-American community stung by mass shooting was clearly and obviously not intended to be racially offensive.”

We’re not sure how clear or obvious that is, even if Bell did not mean any harm by her comments.

According to the Associated Press, Bell “is seeking back pay, punitive damages and her old job.”

Do you think she deserves it? 

Was what she wrote just a citizen trying to be of assistance? Or was she being overtly racist and terrible?

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