MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A mother in Tennessee has been charged with first-degree murder and child abuse and neglect in connection with the stabbing deaths of her four young children, authorities said Saturday.
Shanynthia Gardner of Memphis was charged with four counts of first degree murder while committing aggravated child neglect in the deaths of four of her children – all under the age of 5 – whose bodies were found after deputies entered her apartment in unincorporated Shelby County.
Shelby County Sheriff Bill Oldham says the victims were a 4-year-old boy; a 3-year-old girl; a 2-year-old girl; and a 6-month-old girl. Their names have not been released.
A 7-year-old boy escaped the attack, but Oldham said details of how he survived were not being disclosed at this time. All five children were Gardner’s.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – A top manager for billionaire Carl Icahn says Atlantic City’s main casino workers’ union appears “hell-bent” on trying to shut down the Trump Taj Mahal casino as a strike against the struggling gambling hall enters its second day.
Local 54 of the Unite-HERE union went on strike Friday against the Taj Mahal, the casino opened by Donald Trump in 1990 but now owned by his friend, Icahn.
The main sticking point was the union’s demand that health care and pension plans for the casino’s 1,000 unionized workers that were terminated in bankruptcy court be restored. Icahn had offered to restore health care, but not to a level the union deemed acceptable.
Union president Bob McDevitt said no further talks are scheduled.
Associated Press & Washington Post
