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Outdoor deck collapses at an Alabama house, seriously injuring at least 6

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:12 GMT

DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An outdoor deck collapsed at a house in Alabama, seriously injuring at least six people, authorities said.It wasn’t clear how high the deck was or how far people fell when it collapsed Sunday at the home near Lake Martin, a large reservoir northeast of Montgomery that is a popular recreation area.It wasn’t immediately clear why the deck collapsed, said Ben Wilkerson, chief of a volunteer fire and rescue department in the area. About 15 people were on it at the time. Everyone is expected to recover.When emergency crews first responded, “it was a little chaotic,” Wilkerson said. Other fire departments and ambulance services were called.Source

Police: Six slain, 27 wounded by gunfire over a violent weekend in Chicago

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:12 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — The city of Chicago has experienced another bloody and violent weekend as six people were fatally shot and 27 others were wounded by gunfire.Officers responded to two dozen separate shooting incidents from 6 p.m. Friday to 11:59 p.m. Sunday, according to major incident notifications released Monday.The incidents included the slaying of one man and wounding of four others early Saturday as they stood on a sidewalk and the wounding of three people, including two women, Saturday night on Chicago’s South Side when gunfire rang out from an alley at a group of people.A 16-year-old boy was found on a sidewalk and pronounced dead at a hospital after being shot multiple times Friday night. The teen was identified as Rashaun Hood, grandson of community activist Robin Hood.“I want the community to remember that he was a basketball player. He stayed on the honor roll at school. He was just like any other youth,” Hood told WGN-TV. “We have got to tell on these killers and we canno...

Kingston council to create a working group to improve student-community relations

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:12 GMT

At city council, with unanimous support, it was decided that steps will be taken to create a working group aimed towards fostering a positive relationship between students and the greater Kingston community.With Kingston having three large educational institutions, there is a large population of post-secondary students which is also expected to increase in the future. As stated by Coun. Conny Glenn when she brought the proposal before council, “the population of students is so large, it’s like having a small city in our own city.”In the motion put forward by Glenn, it was stated that the student population has created challenges within certain neighbourhoods. Challenges listed included the city spending “a small fortune on policing” and bylaw being “stretched thin” when there are major events. However, these challenges are just part of the reasoning behind the creation of thisIn pursuit of these goals, it was resolved that a working group be created for the City of Kingston, S...

How you can get half-priced Broncos tickets Tuesday

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:12 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — The Denver Broncos' 2023 regular season is just seven weeks away, and on Tuesday a limited number of tickets for each game will be half-priced.On Tuesday, 2,000 tickets per game will be sold at half-priced. This means fans have the chance of grabbing a discounted ticket to any of the nine home games scheduled for 2023. Broncos wrap up 1st offseason program under Payton, aspire to match Nuggets, Avs success But before you get your credit cards ready, there are some rules for purchasing a ticket:There will be a limit of four tickets per household, orders exceeding this limit will be canceledMulti-game purchases are not allowedAll sales are final and there are no exchanges, cancellations or refundsTickets will be delivered to the buyer's phone on the day of the gameHalf-priced tickets cannot be re-sold or transferredA single-game half-priced ticket will start at $15, so grab them while you can. Tickets will go on sale starting at 10 a.m. on Ticketmaster. Broncos home ...

Police investigating possible armed robbery aboard yacht on Miami River; rapper Quavo on board during incident

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:12 GMT

Police are investigating reports of a possible armed robbery aboard a yacht along the Miami River.7News cameras captured a heavy police presence and several City of Miami Police cruisers with their lights on parked in the area of Southwest North River Drive and Second Street, near The Wharf Miami, just after 10 p.m., Sunday.The owner of the yacht said they chartered the vessel earlier in the day, and between 13 and 17 people were on board. The people who they chartered the yacht to paid for the service, but at some point, when it came time to bring the yacht back to its proper dock, they held up the captain of the boat at gunpoint and demanded their money back.The captain told police that one of the men who held him at gunpoint threatened to kill him and throw him off the boat. The suspect then removed the captain’s wallet and phone from his pocket before threatening another crew member. According to a police report, rapper Quavo, whose real name is Quavious Marshall, was also...

Elon Musk reveals new ‘X’ logo to replace Twitter’s blue bird

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:12 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Goodbye Twitter. Hello X.Elon Musk has unveiled a new “X” logo to replace Twitter’s famous blue bird as he follows through with a major rebranding of the social media platform he bought for $44 billion last year.The X started appearing at the top of the desktop version of Twitter on Monday, but the bird was still dominant across the smartphone app. In response to questions about what tweets would be called when the rebranding is done, Musk said they would be called Xs.It’s yet another change that Musk has made since acquiring Twitter that has alienated users and turned off advertisers, leaving the microblogging site vulnerable to new threats, including rival Meta’s new text-based app Threads that directly targets Twitter users.Musk had asked fans for logo ideas and chose one, which he described as minimalist Art Deco, saying it “certainly will be refined.” He replaced his own Twitter icon with a white X on a black background and posted a picture of th...

1 dead after attending Rolling Loud concert in Miami

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:12 GMT

One person has died after they attended Rolling Loud in Miami on Saturday. Miami-Dade Police confirmed the death, Monday afternoon. According to detectives, it is unclear if the attendee died at the stadium, during transport to the hospital or at the hospital.Due to an ongoing investigation, police have not released the cause of the individual’s death. Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

Greta Thunberg removed from protest after receiving a fine hours earlier

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:12 GMT

Hours after a court fined climate activist Greta Thunberg for disobeying police last month, she was forcefully removed from a protest in Malmö, Sweden.Thunberg — accompanied by more than a dozen activists — blocked the road on Monday to an oil harbor, holding a sign that said “I block tanker trucks.” She was “forcibly removed” by police, according to Reuters. Earlier in the day, a local court ordered Thunberg to pay a little more than €129 in fines and €86 to the Crime Victim Fund for refusing to stop blocking oil trucks in Malmö back in June. “We cannot save the world by playing by the rules,” she said about the verdict.Thunberg, now 20, has been the face of the global youth climate movement since beginning a one-person protest in front of the Swedish parliament in 2018 while in high school. As other youth activists joined, the protest turned into the global Fridays for Future movement. She was named TIME’s person of the year in 2019 for drawing ...

Crews recover body of missing paddleboarder following search effort on Martha’s Vineyard

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:12 GMT

Massachusetts State Police say crews recovered the body of a paddleboarder who never resurfaced after going underwater at Edgartown Great Pond on Martha’s Vineyard.An MSP Underwater Recovery Unit was able to find the body of the 43-year-old male Monday morning, a day after another paddleboarder told officials they saw him go under the water, but never reappear Sunday evening.According to MSP spokesperson David Procopio, state police divers helped bring the body to shore around 10 a.m. after Massachusetts Environmental Police spotted the victim using a sonar device.“The recovery was made approximately 100 feet from shore at a depth of about eight feet,” Procopio stated. “The investigation into the fatality is being conducted by the State Police Detective Unit for the Cape and Islands District and Edgartown Police.”

A ‘she-cession’ no more: After COVID dip, women’s employment hits all-time high

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:12 GMT

Tim Henderson | Stateline.org (TNS)After fears of a “she-cession” during the pandemic, women have returned to the workforce at unprecedented rates.Much of the gain reflects a boom in jobs traditionally held by women, including nursing and teaching. Many good-paying jobs in fields such as construction and tech management are still dominated by men, a continuing challenge for states trying to even the playing field for women workers.In June, the national share of employed women ages 25-54, considered prime working age, hit 75.3%, the highest recorded since the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey started reporting the numbers in 1948. The share of women 25-54 working or looking for work also hit a new high of 77.8% in June, the third straight month it beat the previous record of 77.3% from 2000.“It’s good news that women are finding jobs in this economy at a greater rate than they were previously,” said Elise Gould, a senior economist at the left-leaning think tank Economic ...