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New York man accused of choking his 95-year-old grandmother

Fortress ANN, N.Y. - A New York man has been accused of choking his 95-year-old grandma inside the rustic upstate home they shared.

The Washington District sheriff's office says 50-year-old Kevin Gonyea was accused Wednesday of second-degree kill in the demise of Leona Twiss.

Police say Gonyea and his 35-year-old spouse, Melissa, revealed discovering Twiss dead Sunday night in the family's home in the town of Post Ann, 55 miles (88 kilometers) upper east of the capital city.

Authorities say a post-mortem decided Twiss had been choked with a towel. Police say Melissa Gonyea was accused of frustrating indictment and messing with confirm on the grounds that she discarded the towel.

Both the couple are being held in the area imprison. Their legal advisors didn't remark on the charges.

Man caught in ATM slips notes to clients asking for offer assistance

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A Texas man who wound up noticeably caught inside an ATM slipped notes to clients by means of the receipt space arguing for them to enable him to get away, police said Thursday.

The temporary worker wound up plainly stuck Wednesday when he was changing a bolt to a Bank of America room that prompts the back of the ATM, Corpus Christi police Lt. Chris Hooper said. He couldn't give himself a chance to out of the room since he didn't have a keycard on him and was not able inform bank workers for offer assistance.

"Clearly he exited his cellphone and the swipe card he expected to escape the room outside in his truck," Hooper said.

When he understood clients were recovering money from the machine, he passed notes to them through the ATM receipt opening. One read, "Please offer assistance. I'm stuck in here and I don't have my telephone. It would be ideal if you call my manager ..."

A few clients seemed to reject the notes as a stifler, Hooper said. In any case, one called police, who identified a black out voice originating from inside the ATM. An officer broken down the way to the room and liberated the man, whose name has not been discharged.

"Everybody is alright, yet you will never observe this in your life, that some person was stuck in the ATM. It was quite recently insane," Richard Long time past, a police senior officer, told KRIS-television.