A Florida man suspected of drunk driving was filmed trudging through swamp water known to contain alligators while carrying two small children after allegedly running from a crash scene.

Police in Lakeland said the alarming sequence began at about 4am on September 9, when Isaac Kinsey, 27, allegedly drove through a road-closure sign and struck sandbags on Highway 33.

His vehicle eventually stopped after hitting exposed tree roots in a construction area, authorities said, but Kinsey allegedly left the scene on foot.

Responding officers discovered two vacant child safety seats in the vehicle, prompting an urgent search for Kinsey and the children believed to have been with him.

Roughly 30 minutes later, a drone operator located Kinsey in a wooded swamp south of the crash site.

Disturbing drone video showed him moving through the alligator-infested marsh with a two-year-old child and a 10-month-old infant in his arms.

As he struggled across the difficult, waterlogged terrain, Kinsey appeared to fall repeatedly, causing the children to go beneath the water, the footage showed.

At one point, the video appeared to show Kinsey leaving the two-year-old behind while continuing through the swamp with the baby, before falling several more times.

In dramatic body camera video, an officer could be seen racing to the edge of the alligator-infested swamp water to catch up with Kinsey and rescue the children.

‘I could hear them crying in the woods,’ the officer could be heard saying as a baby whimpered at a distance.

When Kinsey then emerged from the water, he put his hands up in surrender, claiming he ‘did not know there was a swamp right here.’

But the officer seemed uninterested in his excuses, as he demanded Kinsey hand over the infant. 

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A moment later, he could also be heard encouraging the toddler to come forward. 

The children were then promptly taken to a local hospital, where they were treated and released.

As news then got out that the two young children were safe, an officer back at the crash site could be heard saying: ‘Ooh, thank you God for finding those kids.’ 

Meanwhile, police said Kinsey admitted he was intoxicated as he ‘displayed multiple indicators of impairment.’

He also allegedly had a suspended drivers’ license at the time, and is now facing three felony charges and eight misdemeanor offenses – including two counts of negligent child abuse with great bodily harm.

Police Chief Sammy Taylor told Fox 13 he was left outraged by Kinsey’s lack of care not only for the others on the road, but also for his own children who he’s glad didn’t drown.

‘It was just like a doll he was throwing around, and several times [they] went underneath the water,’ he noted.

‘I’m a father and grandfather, and it just makes your blood boil.’

The department also noted on social media that ‘this incident could have ended with the loss of two innocent lives.

‘The rapid deployment of Lakeland PD’s drone technology, along with the persistence and teamwork of responding officers, helped locate the children in an extremely difficult environment and get them the care they needed.

‘There is no excuse for impaired driving,’ the police department added. 

‘We are thankful these children survived and proud of the officers whose actions helped prevent an even greater tragedy.’ 

City Council progressives are again seeking to curb Asian-American students’ access to the city’s most selective public high schools, advancing what critics call racial injustice in the name of racial equity.

Queens Democrat Nantasha Williams and Brooklyn Democrat Lincoln Restler follow the same rationale that critics say led state Education Commissioner Betty Rosa to weaken the value of a New York diploma: removing measures that reveal public schools’ deep failures to educate Black and Hispanic students.

The council members argue that the small number of Black and Hispanic students admitted to Stuyvesant High School, Bronx Science and other specialized schools represents a serious inequity. But critics say they do not confront the underlying cause: shortcomings in K-8 education that leave too few students prepared to excel on the race-blind Specialized High Schools Admissions Test.

Instead, critics contend, their approach would punish the students succeeding under the current system by imposing an admissions framework that excludes students from heavily Asian neighborhoods.

Williams and Restler wrote to Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels, urging additional admissions at the eight elite high schools that do not use the SHSAT and, ideally, the elimination of the test altogether.

(They also propose expanding enrollment by thousands of seats. Yet the state’s class-size law is expected to reduce enrollment at these schools unless the city expands the buildings to add classrooms.)

Their most immediate proposal targets students admitted through the summer Discovery prep program, where 62% of the current cohort is Asian. They would restrict Discovery eligibility to students from the city’s 15 lowest-income school districts — a move that would exclude 90% of low-income Asian students.

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Citywide poverty rates among Asian-American students are as high as, or higher than, those among Black and Latino students; Asian families, however, are more likely to live in economically diverse neighborhoods.

Critics argue that the Williams-Restler proposal deserves a more candid label: the Asian Exclusion Act.

The Asian Wave Alliance condemned the premise, saying it amounts to the belief “that racial diversity requires reducing opportunities for one minority group in order to increase opportunities for another.”

AWA co-founder Yiatin Chu rightly ripped this “attack on merit masquerading as ‘diversity.’ ”

Felicia Thomas-Williams of the state Board of Regents inadvertently exposed the racism here by arguing for the state’s new no-standards graduation pathways: “You don’t assess a fish on climbing a tree because fish can’t climb trees.”

Unless she’s just being cynically dishonest, the implication is that Thomas-Williams thinks we shouldn’t assess black and Hispanic kids on literacy or numeracy because she doesn’t believe they can become proficient in reading or math: That’s outright bigotry.

Nantasha Williams and Lincoln Restler are every bit as bigoted, or perhaps just equally dishonest.

An ex-Ohio teacher is facing criminal charges after investigators said he knowingly gave a missing underage girl a place to stay, despite allegedly knowing she had been reported missing.

Jobe Binkley, 48, of Springfield, Ohio, was charged with interference with custody, according to a criminal complaint reviewed by News Media. The first-degree misdemeanor carries a possible sentence of up to six months behind bars and a $1,000 fine.

The teen had been missing for 263 days after leaving a Columbus youth shelter on Dec. 2, 2025, according to reports from WSYX and The New York Post.

Both outlets identified Binkley as the girl’s former high school science teacher.

The complaint alleges that Binkley “did knowingly allow the child victim to stay in his home while having knowledge of the victim being an active missing juvenile.”

A probable cause affidavit says an officer assigned to the U.S. Marshals Service went to Binkley’s Springfield residence on Aug. 21 after investigators determined it was the missing teen’s last known location.

Binkley reportedly told the officer that the girl was in the home, then called for her to come outside. She then exited the residence, the affidavit states.

“He spoke with the resident owner, Jobe Binkley, who stated the juvenile was inside. He called for the juvenile, and they exited the home,” the affidavit says.

Investigators further alleged that officers had previously visited Binkley’s home twice during their search for the missing Ohio girl.

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During those visits, Binkley allegedly refused to let officers inside and told them the juvenile was not there.

“Officers had been to Mr. Binkley’s house on two previous occasions where the juvenile was entered missing,” the affidavit states. 

“At those times he refused officers to enter his home and stated that the missing person was not inside. Officers noted that Jobe was made aware the individual was in fact an active missing person.”

According to The New York Post, Binkley was placed on administrative leave from Springfield City Schools in November 2024 and again in January 2025 before he was fired the following month.

Chelsi Warner, the mother of the victim’s half-sister, alleged to the New York Post that Binkley began grooming the teen after they met at school.

“She’s had a troubled history with her mother and this groomer took advantage of a girl looking for a parental figure,” Warner said.

Court records show Binkley has pleaded not guilty to the charge.  A pretrial hearing has been scheduled for Sept. 30, according to court records.

The Springfield Police Department and Springfield City Schools could not immediately be reached by News Media for comment.

Brian Hickerson appears to be on a path toward further tragedy.

Hayden Panettiere’s troubled former boyfriend was involved in a dramatic motorcycle crash on Sunday, only minutes after collecting his brother from jail, the Daily Mail can reveal. Friends and family say the late star’s on-again, off-again partner is “all kinds of f****d up right now” following her death.

Exclusive Daily Mail video shows Hickerson’s brother, Zach Hickerson, 38, limping in pain after he was thrown from the rear of the motorcycle when it allegedly clipped a car in traffic early Sunday evening in Greenville, South Carolina.

Witnesses said Brian, 37, helped Zach make his way to the curb before driving off on the Suzuki Hayabusa, leaving his shaken brother behind to exchange insurance information with the other motorist.

The alarming crash occurred just hours after both brothers were placed in handcuffs following a bar fight on Saturday night. Brian was left with blood running down his face, while Zach was charged with disorderly conduct.

Brian, who is grieving and has reportedly lost 40 pounds since Panettiere died from a suspected fentanyl overdose one month ago, was seen in an angry exchange with patrons at the Wild Wing Cafe in Greenville, South Carolina.

According to TMZ, a heckler shouted at the realtor and aspiring actor: “You killed her. You probably beat her.” Brian has not been charged with, or accused of, any wrongdoing connected to her death.

Brian reportedly threw a bar stool backward but was not arrested. Zach, meanwhile, was taken into custody on a disorderly conduct charge after police said he was heavily intoxicated and shouting profanities.

The alleged collision happened at 5:30pm the following day after Zach was released from the Greenville County Detention Center on a $257.50 personal recognizance bond and Brian went to collect him. 

It wasn’t immediately clear who was to blame, or whether Zach – who lost a shoe in the tumble – was seriously hurt.

Daily Mail reached out to the brothers, who were both wearing crash helmets, but neither responded.

The brush with disaster came as no shock to family friends who said troubled Brian has barely left his grandma’s home in weeks.

Saturday night’s bar outing was supposedly an attempt to get him to shake off the deep despair that has gripped him since Panettiere’s August 16 overdose.

‘Brian is not dealing with things well,’ a concerned pal warned the Daily Mail.

‘I would go in there and try to see him but he would probably want to fight me. Me and the rest of the world. He is all kinds of f****d up right now.’

Brian’s antics are the latest glimpse into the turmoil surrounding the sudden death of Panettiere, who had a well-documented history of alcohol and opioid addiction.

The Nashville actress, 36, was found unresponsive at an upmarket Airbnb after flying from Los Angeles to Greenville, where Brian grew up.

Brian told police he woke from a nap and administered Narcan before paramedics arrived but was unable to revive her.

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Zach, a pastor and former healthcare exec, was also there. They both attempted CPR to no avail.

According to a police report Zach was ‘very emotional’ as first responders tried to save mom-of-one Panettiere’s life.

Brian was stoic and did not become ‘visibly emotional’ until after the star was pronounced dead. He handed cops a ‘bag of medication’ she was taking, the report added.

An official cause of death has still not been determined but investigators are said to be closing in on a ‘longtime drug dealer’ based out of LA.

TMZ reported that multiple law-enforcement sources believe Panettiere took a single oxycodone pill on the morning of her death that was laced with fentanyl.

Investigators are now trying to establish where the black-market pill came from and identify the person who supplied it.

They are reportedly digging into a trove of text messages between Panettiere and the alleged peddler, including messages exchanged right up until the week she died.

Brian has already spoken with federal investigators as part of the probe, according to TMZ, but he has not faced arrest and has not been accused of wrongdoing.

Panettiere and Brian began dating in 2018 and endured a volatile on-again, off-again relationship.

Brian was arrested in 2019 over an alleged attack on Panettiere and was later arrested again in Wyoming in February 2020.

He ultimately pleaded no contest in 2021 to two felony counts of injuring a spouse or girlfriend and was sentenced to 45 days, though he spent only 13 behind bars.

Panettiere later described the relationship and the abuse she said she endured in her memoir, detailing how addiction and violence became intertwined with a romance that she repeatedly struggled to leave.

Zach described Panettiere as ‘one of my dearest and closest friends’ in the wake of her death.

Daily Mail revealed that Zach and Panettiere had also been in a brief relationship.

She was photographed holding hands with him in New York City in 2019 when an onlooker remarked: ‘They looked very comfortable. Like a real couple.’

Brian’s lawyer Sloane Ellis has been contacted for comment.

‘Hayden’s death remains under investigation, and it is important to allow that investigation to proceed,’ he previously said.

‘As has been publicly reported, police confirmed there were no signs of foul play.’

The Greenville County Coroner’s office told the Daily Mail: ‘It should not be much longer before the Coroner’s Investigation report is complete to include the cause and manner of death.’

As long as he keeps calling it “spaghetti sauce” rather than marinara, Patrick Ricard is unlikely to be mistaken for Tommy DeVito anywhere in New York or North Jersey.

Still, Ricard — the 300-pound fullback who represents John Harbaugh’s preferred brand of physical football while evoking Giants fans’ memories of the smashmouth 1980s — may be on track to build a DeVito-style cult following of his own.

“I’m like the spaghetti sauce on the offense,” Ricard said, explaining an analogy that run-game coordinator Greg Roman uses with him. “I’m like the secret sauce, where you put me in different spots to get the advantage, and I’m usually a mismatch with who I’m blocking because I’m usually bigger than them.

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“It’s a lot of fun to be in this offense — to be moved around a lot in motion and shift and be in different spots. It’s almost like ‘Where’s Waldo?’ on Sundays, and it can be a lot to defend.”

The Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three young children is adding the lawyer known for challenging Karen Read’s retrial as she seeks to have the charges against her dismissed.

Clancy’s high-profile murder trial reportedly ended with an 11-1 jury split favoring a finding that she was not criminally responsible. She has now brought veteran Boston attorney Martin Weinberg onto her defense team.

According to a Plymouth Superior Court filing obtained by News Media, Weinberg submitted a limited appearance Tuesday so he can file and argue an upcoming motion to dismiss the case on double-jeopardy grounds.

The court document says Weinberg will represent Clancy on the dismissal request as well as “related matters.”

The filing does not specify when Weinberg plans to submit the motion. Clancy is scheduled to return to court on Sept. 29.

Judge Sullivan declared a mistrial on Sept. 4 after jurors deliberated for seven days and informed the court they were unable to reach a unanimous decision.

Afterward, several jurors said that 11 panel members favored a verdict of not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility, while one juror supported a conviction.

Clancy’s longtime defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, signaled immediately after the mistrial that he would fight any attempt to put her on trial again.

The defense is expected to argue that the way the mistrial ended bars prosecutors from taking another shot at the case. Prosecutors can generally retry a defendant after a jury deadlocks, but Clancy’s attorneys are expected to claim that the circumstances surrounding her mistrial make a second trial improper.

Weinberg mounted a similar fight for Read after her 2024 trial ended without a verdict.

Read’s attorneys said jurors later told them they had unanimously agreed to clear her of second-degree murder and leaving the scene of a deadly crash, despite remaining divided on a manslaughter charge.

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Weinberg argued that Read should not face those two charges again. A judge rejected the request, finding that the jury never formally returned not-guilty verdicts and that Read’s attorneys had agreed to the mistrial.

The battle continued in state and federal court before Read was retried in 2025. She was acquitted of second-degree murder, manslaughter and leaving the scene of a deadly crash but convicted of misdemeanor operating under the influence.

Clancy is accused of strangling her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan, with exercise bands inside the family’s Duxbury home in January 2023.

She then jumped from a second-story window in an apparent suicide attempt, leaving her paralyzed, authorities said.

Clancy does not deny killing the children but pleaded not guilty because her attorneys say she was not criminally responsible at the time. Her defense argued she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was heavily medicated when the children died.

Prosecutors countered that Clancy carefully planned the killings, sending her husband, Patrick Clancy, out of the house before attacking the children.

Clancy remains in custody at Tewksbury Hospital. Prosecutors have not publicly announced whether they intend to retry her.

Sullivan also ordered the identities of the 12 jurors and six alternates who served in Clancy’s trial to remain private indefinitely amid safety concerns and the unauthorized disclosure of jurors’ personal information.

The judge wrote that jurors had been identified without their permission and that at least one juror had asked for the protection to be extended indefinitely.

“Based on the circumstances of this trial and the fact that the case continues to receive daily, divisive attention in Massachusetts and beyond, the Court concludes that there is a real and present ‘risk of [personal] harm to the jurors [and] to the integrity of their service,’” Sullivan wrote in the order obtained by Fox News.

Sullivan also found “a risk of immediate and irreparable injury” if the juror list were made public. The order does not prevent jurors from identifying themselves or speaking with the media if they choose.

In a separate order, Sullivan temporarily extended the protection covering the names of the larger pool summoned for jury duty from July 20 through July 24. Those names will remain impounded for another 10 days because of concerns about juror safety.

As Hispanic and Latin American Heritage Month gets underway, a new American Heart Association report is underscoring serious cardiovascular health risks facing Hispanic adults across the United States.

Released this week, the report finds that cardiovascular disease has become the leading cause of death among Hispanic adults. Researchers cite an interconnected range of social, financial and environmental obstacles behind the disparity, from gaps in health insurance and food insecurity to language barriers.

Only one in five Hispanic adults in the U.S. meets the standard for ideal heart health, according to the American Heart Association.

“It is unfortunately not surprising,” said Dr. Amol Bahekar, an interventional cardiologist who has treated patients in the Sandhills community for nearly 14 years. He said the report mirrors the health trends he routinely encounters in his practice.

“There is unfortunately a high proportion of obesity in the Hispanic population. A large proportion of these patients tend to be diabetic, and a large proportion of these patients tend to be hypertensive,” Bahekar said.

Although there is no one-size-fits-all answer for Hispanic communities, Bahekar said modest changes in daily habits can still deliver meaningful benefits for heart health.

“Control the portion and control the amount of sodium in your diet. Any added amount of salt can contribute to high blood pressure eventually, and then can lead to heart disease,” Bahekar said.

The report stressed that the barriers to better cardiovascular health reach well beyond a doctor’s office.

Francisco Almodovar, a veteran who had triple-bypass surgery eight years ago, knows those obstacles firsthand.

“I was in denial when it happened to me. There’s no way this could be happening to me. I am in great shape,” Almodovar said.

“You hear the doctor tell you what they’re going to do, you know, cut you open and all that. You don’t really comprehend that at first. So finally sunk in, I was a little nervous, terrified,” he said.

Today, Almodovar is part of Mended Hearts of Fayetteville in North Carolina, a support group for heart patients and their families. He often helps bridge the language gap for Spanish-speaking patients.

“They’ll mention it or their loved one, whoever happens to be in the room, they don’t speak English. So I ask them, you know, they speak Spanish and they say, yeah, so we just go down that road and you know, I just talk to them,” he said.

Brenda Berkstresser, treasurer of Mended Hearts, Chapter 400 in Fayetteville, said the support group offers vital connection and firsthand experience for patients and families.

“You must be a heart patient of any kind to be a visitor. And we visit patients. We visit their families in the waiting room. In 2006, when I had my open-heart surgery, I thought I was the only person in Fayetteville with heart disease. You never heard anybody speak of it? We talk to people 1 to 1, and they see that they’re not the only people with this heart disease. They find out things that may be, you know, since their doctors and nurses do not have heart disease, things that don’t occur to them,” Berkstresser said.

The American Heart Association’s findings highlight the need for greater awareness and resource access in Hispanic communities.

“A lot of the Hispanic patient population don’t have awareness of their heart and or heart disease and health conditions, they do not have access to healthcare that they deserve,” Bahekar said.

Almodovar added, “The more information you have, the better your quality of life going forward can be.”

As Hispanic Heritage Month continues, advocates hope increased attention will help drive solutions to improve heart health outcomes for Hispanic families across the country.

Resources

Mended Hearts HeartGuide in English

Mended Hearts HeartGuide in Spanish