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Ebony Frederick × Children removed from Lancaster apartment after mother suffers overdose Ebony Frederick LANCASTER — State Police troopers removed two children — a 3-year-old and a 10-month-old — from the apartment of a woman suffering from a heroin overdose, according to a police report. Police say officers responded to an apartment on the 100 block of East King Street at 9:36 p.m. on August 7 to assist emergency medical personnel with a sick person call . Officers found an unresponsive woman, Ebony Frederick, suffering from an apparent overdose. According to police, the apartment was found to be unfit for human habitation. The floor was covered in bodily fluids, feces and vomit, police say. Soiled diapers were found lying in the open, on a bed and inside dresser drawers . Officers found part of the floor was covered in cleaning fluid and chlorine bleach. The bathtub was found to have a significant amount of standing water in it — enough to endanger the children, who had been insi...

A Lancaster woman who was treated for an apparent overdose is facing child endangerment charges after responding officials found two young children in an uninhabitable apartment with her last week. Ebony Frederick, 33, of the 100 block of East King Street , was taken to Lancaster County Prison following medical treatment, authorities said. When police, and emergency personnel, responded to a sick person call at Frederick's efficiency apartment on Aug.7, Frederick was unresponsive and two children, a 3-year-old and a 10-month old child, were located with her. The apartment was covered in bodily fluids, feces and vomit. This included the floors, beds and a smearing on the walls, according to the police affidavit. Soiled diapers were laying in the open and placed in dresser drawers while Pine-Sol cleaner and chlorine bleach were also poured on the floor, police said.  The bathtub was found to have a significant amount of standing water that posed a drowning threat to the children...

A Lancaster woman is facing charges after police say she overdosed, and children had to be removed from her apartment that was in deplorable condition. Ebony Frederick, 33, of Lancaster, faces charges two counts of endangering the welfare of children. Police said officers were dispatched to the 100 block of East King Street at 9:36 p.m. on Aug. 7 to assist EMS with a sick person. Officers later learned that the medical issue turned out to be an overdose. Frederick was found unresponsive in the apartment, and two children ages 3 and 10 were found in a bathtub. The apartment was unfit for human habitation, as the floor was covered in bodily fluids, feces, and vomit, according to police. Officers also found soiled diapers in a bed and in a dresser. Part of the floor was also covered in cleaning solvent and bleach. Police also said the bathtub the children were found in had a "significant amount" of standing water in it. The children, who police said showed physical signs of...

LANCASTER, Pa. (WHTM) – A woman was arrested after she apparently overdosed in an apartment so filthy that it was unfit for her two young children, police said. Ebony Frederick, 33, is charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child. Lancaster police said they were called to the apartment in the 100 block of East King Street on Aug. 7 to assist EMS with a sick person call . Frederick was unresponsive and the officers discovered the medical issue was an apparent overdose. The efficiency apartment was unfit for human habitation. The floor was covered in bodily fluids, feces and vomit, and soiled diapers were on a bed and in dresser drawers, police said in a news release. The children, ages 3 and 10 months, were unattended in a bathtub that had been filled with enough water to pose a threat to them, and both showed physical signs of neglect, police said. The children were taken into protective custody. Once Frederick was medically cleared, she was arraigned on the charges...

Published time: 22 Aug, 2017 16: 33 Edited time : 23 Aug, 2017 09:16 Flash flooding caused by three rounds of heavy rain storms drenched Kansas City , Missouri overnight, leading to numerous water rescues and residents trapped on their roofs. Parts of the Kansas City metro area picked up over 9in (22 cms) of rain, breaking a record, as three rounds of heavy rain pounded the area throughout Monday and into early Tuesday morning . There were more than 130 weather-related calls to the police and fire departments of Kansas City overnight and into Tuesday morning due to the flash floods. Images show water pouring in and around half-submerged houses, car roofs just visible above the water line, roads flooded or washed out, and road signs surrealistically indicting ‘speed limits’ or ‘stop’ in the middle of streams. Radar estimates and Weather Underground rainfall reports indicated a broad swath of 3 to 7in (17 cms) of rain had fallen across the Kansas City metro area . A stretch of ...

BARCELONA, Spain — The Latest on the Spain attacks (all times local): 5:15 a.m. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has asked people to pray for a young Australian boy who is missing after a vehicle attack on a popular Barcelona promenade that killed 13 people. Turnbull said Saturday that the boy's mother was badly injured and is in a hospital following Friday's attack at the Las Ramblas promenade . Turnbull says the boy's family is searching for him. He did not release the boy's name. Turnbull says: "All of us as parents know the anguish his father is going through, and his whole family is going through, as they rush to seek to find him in Barcelona." Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says four Australians were injured in the attack. ___ 2:35 a.m. Police in Catalonia say they have searched two buses in their hunt for violent extremists believed responsible for a pair of deadly attacks in the northwestern region of Spain. Police say on the...

NEW YORK, NY — It's one of the oldest rivalries in American migration: New York vs. Los Angeles. For the better part of a century, residents of the nation's two largest metro areas have been defending their chosen kingdom and dismissing the other on an endless loop of judginess between kitty-corner coasts. Ew, the traffic! But the sunshine! But the subway! But the garbage! But the skyline! But the coastline! But the bustle! But the chill! In this tireless war of words, a clear winner has yet to emerge. But it's harder to argue against the numbers. Thousands of working professionals have relocated to Los Angeles County from New York City in the past year and a half, according to a series of monthly "workforce reports" released this spring and summer by the job- networking site LinkedIn (and spotted by LA Weekly). And it's not exactly a two-way street. Since early 2016, according to LinkedIn, around seven or eight out of every 10, 000 site users in LA report...