Deaf Hunter Crawls From Forest After Accident

WITNtv - Deaf hunter crawls out of woods, survives serious leg injury after deer stand falls.



Greenville, N.C. - Reporter interview with Joe, who is Deaf, tells his story of falling out of a tree and breaking his leg during a solo hunting trip. It took him 12 hours to crawl from the forest and another several to find aid.



Joe Liuzza got home alive, just barely. Through grit and determination, he was able to win his battle against nature and pull himself and his mangled leg out of a swamp following a hunting-related accident near Robersonville that turned into a 14-hour ordeal.

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Liuzza, 47, was home temporarily from the hospital on Dec. 13 and feeling a little more relaxed as he recounted the details of his harrowing experience.



It was easy to see in his features and by the steel cage wrapped around his right lower leg, rods poking through the skin to hold the disconnected portions of his bones in place that he had been through a struggle that he and his wife, Delia, owner of The Tipsy Teapot in Greenville, would never forget.



She served as her husband's sign-language interpreter because Joe is Deaf... Read more: http://www.goupstate.com/article/20130107/WIRE/130109796

Deaf Man Stabbed 3 Times Tells His Story

WXIItv - Deaf man stabbed 3 times tells his story.



BURLINGTON, N.C. - Terrance Daniels, who can neither speak nor hear, was recently stabbed three times in a case in which a man has been charged. He spoke through an interpreter about the attack.



Police in Burlington say a Deaf man was stabbed several times after his sign language was mistaken for gang signs by another man.

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Sgt. Mark Yancey said 45-year-old Terrance Ervin Daniels was using sign language with another Deaf man.



A third person saw them, thought they were flashing gang signs and stabbed Daniels several times with a kitchen knife.



A neighbor saw the victim and called emergency personnel... Read more: http://www.wxii12.com/news/local-news/piedmont/Burlington-man-stabbed-after-sign-language-mistaken-for-gang-signs-police-say/-/10703612/18100348/-/60e0ry/-/index.html

Deaf Woman's Cat Seized By Animal Control Officers

SHELBY, NC. - 'My heart is just broken': Deaf woman's cat seized.



A basket of cat toys sits forlornly on the carpet in Cindie Steever's apartment in Shelby along with an empty food bowl.



Steever said her small apartment feels barren and empty without Costello. For Steever, Costello was more than a pet. She was her ears. Steever can't hear a knock on the door. A ringing phone goes unnoticed. She speaks with the help of her fingers and an interpreter. Steever, who is Deaf, told The Star her small gray and white cat would alert her to sounds around her home. Through her interpreter, she described Costello as her "champion hearing cat."



Last week, Costello was taken by Cleveland County Animal Control officers when they were called to her home to remove some kittens. Steever's anguish cannot only be seen in her fingers, but her face. "I relied on her," she said.



Jacquelyn Moore, Steever's friend and interpreter, said Steever felt intimidated by several people. "She thought she was being forced to give Costello up," Moore said. "She felt she didn't have a choice."



Steever, who got Costello in 2011, said the cat recently had three kittens. Her landlord told her she had to find homes for the babies but that she could keep Costello. She was given a week. Read more: http://www.shelbystar.com/news/local/my-heart-is-just-broken-deaf-woman-s-cat-seized-1.64712



Source: shelbystar.com

ENC School For The Deaf Stays Open

CBS-WNCT - Community Helps Save Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf.



Wilson, N.C. - It’s a time for celebration for an important school here in the East. The state had plans to potentially shut down the Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf, but the community has helped change their minds. It’s the news they have been waiting for.

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The school will stay open. “It’s good for the socialization for our kids to communicate more to develop their language and learn more,” explained Leigh Thorpe. Her two sons are just two of the students who will call ENCSD home... Read more: http://www2.wnct.com/news/2012/aug/16/community-helps-save-enc-school-deaf-ar-2526170/

Budget Cuts Threaten NC Schools For The Deaf

Media Video: Budget cuts threaten NC Schools For The Deaf.



RALEIGH, N.C. (CBS News) - Budget cuts could force a North Carolina school for the impaired to close, but the fight is taking center stage tonight in Raleigh. The General Assembly wants to close one of the state's three schools for the impaired; the North Carolina School for the Deaf in Morganton, The Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf in Wilson, or the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.

Read more http://www2.nbc17.com/news/2011/sep/28/supporters-raleighs-morehead-school-blind-angry-ov-ar-1442546/

Source nbc17.com