Pair rescued from disabled sailboat off popular beach
Emergency crews in Ocean City, New Jersey, sprang into action Saturday afternoon to rescue two people stranded on a disabled yacht that eventually ran aground on a sandbar near the beach. According to the Ocean City Fire Association, emergency crews, Ocean City police and beach patrol officers responded to a water rescue near 22nd Street […]
Disney accused of denying park passes to disabled kids
Disney has reportedly been accused of refusing to issue special theme park passes to children with disabilities as it cracks down on fakes who use the passes to skip lines for rides and attractions without paying extra. Paula Rowland, a Florida woman, said she went to Walt Disney World in Orlando with her husband and […]
Lawsuit challenges mask ban in New York’s Nassau County, claims it discriminates against disabled people
Disability rights groups have filed a lawsuit to block Nassau County’s mask ban, which prohibits people from wearing face coverings in public except for health or religious reasons. The lawsuit claims the ban is unconstitutional and discriminatory against people with disabilities. The New York Disability Rights Association filed a federal class action lawsuit on Thursday […]
More than $350K raised for disabled Air Force veteran, 90, seen pawning jewelry to support wife with dementia
A 90-year-old disabled Air Force veteran living in New Hampshire has raised more than $365,000 after a TikTok user filmed him pawning his jewelry to pay rent for himself and his wife, who has dementia, to avoid eviction. TikTok user Jenelle Marie ran into a man calling himself Donald at US Gold and Pawn in […]
Alleged home intruder brings knife to gunfight with disabled Vietnam veteran and pays the ultimate price
The disabled Vietnam veteran said he discovered a knife-wielding male intruder breaking into the bedroom of his Albuquerque, New Mexico, home Monday morning and taking his gun. Danny Ricketts He told KOB-TV He grabbed a gun from his nightstand and shot the alleged intruder, then called police. “I looked at the window and I didn’t […]
Disabled veteran food vendor sues NYC for $8M after arrest
A disabled U.S. Army veteran and longtime street vendor has filed an $8 million lawsuit against the city, alleging he was wrongfully arrested while trying to make a living, according to court documents. Food vendor Armando Crescenzi was operating a food cart at West 34th Street and Broadway in February when he was arrested and […]
Iowa parents kept 4-year-old disabled son in ‘makeshift cage’: authorities
Two Iowa parents instructed a relative caring for their developmentally disabled 4-year-old son to keep him in a makeshift cage after police found him outside the home covered in human and animal waste, authorities said. Dustin Carl Lee Perry and Lindsay Barbara Marie Hamilton, both 26, were arrested Thursday after their bodies were found covered […]
Lawsuit Accuses Tennessee Juvenile System Of Beatings, Shacklings Of Disabled Children
Tennessee’s juvenile justice system is facing a federal class-action lawsuit filed on Wednesday alleging rampant abuse of disabled minors in its custody. The complaint was filed on behalf of several children with disabilities who spent time in the custody of the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services (DCS). It highlights several alleged abuses and systemic problems […]
Illegal Accused of Raping Disabled Person Was Freed into U.S. by Biden’s DHS
An illegal immigrant accused of raping a severely mentally disabled Rhode Islander has been released into the United States by President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Rigberto Hoyos Alban, a 33-year-old illegal immigrant from Colombia, Crossed He was arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border near the Rio Grande Valley in Texas in November 2023. […]
Disabled Army Veteran Survives Violent Grizzly Attack
A disabled military veteran played dead while clutching his bear spray to escape a vicious grizzly bear attack in Wyoming last Sunday, FOX26 reported. The attack happened when 35-year-old Shane Patrick Burke was attempting to photograph a spotted owl on Signal Mountain in Grand Teton National Park. Fox 26. “It was the most violent thing […]