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Aug 28, 2014 USC senior cornerback Josh Shaw has admitted to lying about how he suffered his ankle injuries last weekend and has been suspended indefinitely , the school said in a statement Wednesday. Shaw said he suffered a pair of high ankle sprains Saturday night after jumping from the second story of an apartment complex to save his 7-year-old nephew, who was struggling in the pool. Shaw said his nephew did not know how to swim. He admitted to team officials on Wednesday that the story was a complete fabrication. Head coach Steve Sarkisian said Tuesday the school received several calls questioning the authenticity of Shaw's story and had been investigating the matter. Josh Shaw has been suspended indefinitely after admitting to USC officials that he made up a story about how he injured his ankles last weekend.  Kirby Lee/USA TODAY Sports "We are extremely disappointed in Josh," Sarkisian said in the statement. "He let us all down. As I have said, nothing in h...

Shaw has been suspended indefinitely and was already expected to miss at least the first month of the season with a pair of high ankle sprains . "Potentially," Sarkisian said when asked if Shaw could return to the team. "Sure." Shaw said he suffered his injuries Saturday night after jumping from the second story of an apartment complex to save his 7-year-old nephew, who was struggling in the pool. Shaw said his nephew did not know how to swim. He admitted to team officials Wednesday that the story was a complete fabrication. Sarkisian, however, said Shaw did not tell them how he suffered the injury outside of "falling from a balcony" and was with his recently hired attorney , Donald Etra, when he spoke to him and school officials. "He was unable to tell us," Sarkisian said. "When he actually admitted to us that he was lying, he was in the presence of his attorney. That's a better question for his attorney. He didn't tell us a...

Getty Images Updates from Wednesday, Aug. 27 USCTrojans.com's Jordan Moore has the latest on Shaw's story: USC senior cornerback Josh Shaw came to USC athletic department officials this afternoon (Wednesday, Aug. 27) and admitted that he had lied about how he suffered his ankle injuries over the weekend. He said that the story he told of rescuing his nephew in a pool in Palmdale, Calif., was a complete fabrication.  He apologized for misleading his coaches, teammates, athletic department officials and the public. "We are extremely disappointed in Josh," said USC head football coach Steve Sarkisian .  "He let us all down.  As I have said, nothing in his background led us to doubt him when he told us of his injuries, nor did anything after our initial vetting of his story. "I appreciate that Josh has now admitted that he lied and has apologized.  Although this type of behavior is out of character for Josh, it is unacceptable.  Honesty and integrity must be ...

Josh Shaw is the man who fell to earth. From a second- or third-story balcony, not in Palmdale, Calif., but near downtown Los Angeles , onto an unforgiving surface. From team captain for the University of Southern California (USC) football team to indefinitely suspended player . From hero to fabulist. At some point between last Saturday evening and Monday afternoon Shaw , a fifth-year senior and starting cornerback for the Trojans, found his way into the training room in the John McKay Center on USC’s campus. The Palmdale, Ca. native required treatment after suffering high-ankle sprains in both legs. And at some point before entering the McKay Center, Shaw concocted a lie – an elaborate and heroic tale– to explain how those injuries had been sustained. Shaw’s story, not unlike its author, eventually landed with a mighty thud. “I made up a story about this fall that was untrue,” Shaw said Wednesday in a statement released through his recently hired attorney , Donald Etra. “I was wro...

Published: Saturday, August 26, 2017 @ 9:22 AM Updated: Sunday, August 27, 2017 @ 3:50 PM By: Breaking News Staff UPDATE @ 1:21 p.m.:  Ohio Task Force 1 has been given a new destination -- Katy, Texas, outside Houston. >>" Tonight WHIO Radio is airing two hours of special LIVE coverage of the active situation in Texas. Listen starting at 7 p.m. on AM 1290 and News 95.7 WHIO." WATCH: Live coverage from Houston UPDATE @ 1:05 p.m.:   Ohio Task Force 1 will soon be leaving the Texas town of Tivoli and head for San Antonio to stage. “We are seeing lines of medics and charter buses headed to Houston,” WHIO-TV’s Gabrielle Enright reports , along with videographer Chuck Hamlin . UPDATE @ 11:05 a.m.  Ohio Task Force 1 , in the small southeast Texas town of Tivoli, helped “rescue” a fire truck trapped when the firehouse collapsed. There were no injuries resulting from the collapse as the team was able to help the fire crew get their fire engine back in service. There hav...

Published: Saturday, August 26, 2017 @ 9:22 AM Updated: Sunday, August 27, 2017 @ 3:50 PM By: Breaking News Staff UPDATE @ 1:21 p.m.:  Ohio Task Force 1 has been given a new destination -- Katy, Texas, outside Houston. >>" Tonight WHIO Radio is airing two hours of special LIVE coverage of the active situation in Texas. Listen starting at 7 p.m. on AM 1290 and News 95.7 WHIO." WATCH: Live coverage from Houston UPDATE @ 1:05 p.m.:   Ohio Task Force 1 will soon be leaving the Texas town of Tivoli and head for San Antonio to stage. “We are seeing lines of medics and charter buses headed to Houston,” WHIO-TV’s Gabrielle Enright reports , along with videographer Chuck Hamlin . UPDATE @ 11:05 a.m.  Ohio Task Force 1 , in the small southeast Texas town of Tivoli, helped “rescue” a fire truck trapped when the firehouse collapsed. There were no injuries resulting from the collapse as the team was able to help the fire crew get their fire engine back in service. There hav...

LOS ANGELES – The heroic tale of USC cornerback Josh Shaw rescuing his nephew from drowning turned out to be a lie. What exactly happened that night, causing Shaw to injure both of his ankles, remains unclear. Shaw admitted to school officials Wednesday afternoon that he fabricated the story posted on USC’s website, ending a two-day whirlwind of rumors and speculation. Shaw was suspended indefinitely from all team activities. “We are extremely disappointed in Josh,” USC coach Steve Sarkisian said in a statement. “He let us all down. As I have said, nothing in his background led us to doubt him when he told us of his injuries, nor did anything after our initial vetting of his story. “I appreciate that Josh has now admitted that he lied and has apologized. Although this type of behavior is out of character for Josh, it is unacceptable. Honesty and integrity must be at the center of our program. I believe Josh will learn from this. I hope that he will not be defined by this incident.” ...

(Source: Karla Navarrete, 3TV/CBS 5) (Source: Karla Navarrete, 3TV/CBS 5) GLENDALE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - Flooding sparked by rain Saturday night and Sunday morning forced dozens of people out of their homes at a Glendale condo complex . It was about 3 a.m. Sunday when the Arizona chapter of the American Red Cross got a call from the Glendale Fire Department regarding "widespread flooding" at the Glen Condos at Maryland and 63rd avenues. [ WATCH RAW VIDEO : Flooding at Glendale condo complex ] [RELATED: Monsoon storm causes flooding, road closures] [SPECIAL SECTION: Monsoon 2017] According to Red Cross spokesman Colin Williams , about 25 people from eight units are displaced. Those units are split-level. "So, they're essentially below grade; you have to take some stairs to access that," Williams explained . "There's just a lot of standing water in those patio areas so the entire units are flooded." A second apartment complex not far away is dealin...

Six people had to jump to safety from the second story of a burning apartment building early Monday after an unattended candle caught fire .    HOUSTON - Six people had to jump to safety from the second story of a burning apartment building early Monday . The fire broke out at the Coppertree Village Apartments on W. Gulf Bank near Veterans Memorial at about 4 a.m.  Several residents were trapped and jumped from a window to get out.  “It had started in the living room so we had to bust through the window to get out,” said Audrey Richardson.  “I jumped with my baby to break her fall.” Two adults suffered minor injuries , including one woman who broke her foot in the fall and another relative who cut his arm breaking through the glass.   Two young girls were among the six family members who had to make the emergency escape but they weren't hurt.   # BREAKING cell phone video shows what apartment looked like. NW #HOU family of 6 jumped from 2nd story to escape! More on #khou...

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...