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Police investigate 2 shooting threats at Dillard and Fort Lauderdale high schools

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:11:52 GMT

Fort Lauderdale High School and Dillard High School were both placed on lockdown after police received information regarding shooting threats. The lockdowns have since been lifted, Monday, but they brought many concerned parents to the schools.“There was some sort of threat with a gun of some sort,” said Traci Bartz, a parent who arrived at Fort Lauderdale High, “so they were all huddled in a corner, and they were all very scared. It’s been hours now, so I’m just waiting to come get her, and I don’t know what’s going on.”The initial call came in from Fort Lauderdale High School after, authorities said, a called told police there would be a school shooting. “I’m seeing lots of police with guns and stuff, so obviously this is serious,” said Wesley Leon, a sophmore, who was held outside, while police searched inside. “I’ve been waiting here for like two hours.”Police arrived on the scene quickly after t...

Fire breaks out in Northwest Miami-Dade fleamarket

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:11:52 GMT

A fire broke out Monday and crews from the City of Miami and Miami-Dade are currently working to put it out.The location is believed to be a fleamarket near 36 street between 28th and 29th Avenue. The area is surrounded by boat sales and automobile repair shops.7Skyforce captured the dark smoke slowly turning white as firefighters put water on the fire.No injuries have been reported so far. Officials said because of the nature of the fire and the proximity the power grid will be turned off. Nearby residents can experience power loss in the next hour or so. Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

Family finds hundreds of old love letters hidden in attic. Here’s who wrote them

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:11:52 GMT

NAPA, California (KCRA) — When Joanne Willis moved into her Napa home in November, she didn’t know how much love was in the foundation.“The second we moved into this house we felt just happy here, too,” Willis said.Willis and her husband are the third owners of the house, but it was only when she was exploring every inch that she found an old treasure hiding in the attic.“I was surprised,” Willis said. “I couldn’t believe it got left behind.”In a dark corner, there was a chest that hadn’t seen the light of day for nearly four decades.“It’s a cool find,” Willis said. “I’ll take this over gold, well maybe not, but this is pretty good.”Willis couldn’t believe her eyes. There were hundreds of love letters from the mid-1950s. She decided to use social media to see if she could figure out who the letters belonged to.“We had to figure out who the original owner of the house was and then we went from there,&...

China’s Xi to meet Putin in Moscow, speak to Zelenskyy: reports

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:11:52 GMT

Chinese President Xi Jinping is planning to visit Moscow to meet with Vladimir Putin as early as next week, according to reports by Reuters and the Wall Street Journal.The U.S. newspaper added that Xi would also call Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which will be the first time the two men will have had direct communication, at least publicly, since the Russian invasion started more than a year ago.The Kremlin last week refused to comment on reports saying that Xi would be in the Russian capital on March 21.Xi, who broke with tradition and embarked on his third five-year term as president last week, has long considered Putin his “old friend,” while the two governments reached a “no-limit partnership” shortly before Putin waged war on Ukraine.There was no immediate response from Beijing or Moscow.Sergii Nikoforov, Zelenskyy’s spokesman, would not deny or confirm the upcoming talks. “I don’t have any additional information … ...

Online marketplace Wish makes a comeback in France

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:11:52 GMT

PARIS — U.S. online marketplace Wish is available in France again at the state’s request, a year and a half after it ordered the platform’s delisting over unsafe products. In November 2021, the government announced with much fanfare that the California-based platform would be removed from search engines and app stores for flouting consumer-protection rules and failing to reply to the requests coming from the Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF).At the time, French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire had also threatened Google and Apple with legal action if they didn’t comply.The e-commerce platform is now back on Google Search, app store Google Play and French search engine Qwant. “We received a notification from the DGCCRF informing us that the November 23, 2021 injunction ordering us to remove Wish from Search and Play is lifted,” a spokesperson for Google told POLITICO. The reasons for the order are unclear,...

Halls of Boston’s City Hall adorned with art of local school children for all of March

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:11:52 GMT

The corridors of City Hall are looking a bit different this month, thanks to hundreds of pieces of art made by Boston students.Their artwork now lines a number of the building’s hallways – and the display “drew” quite the crowd over the weekend.“I’m so proud of all of them and really excited to be here with them,” said Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, who was on hand to meet with the young artists who are drawn to art.The mayor told 7NEWS it is important to give children different ways to express themselves, with the arts playing a key role in education.“This is a part of not just school for learning math and science and English, but learning about who you could be as a human being and so it’s really exciting to see those pieces coming together,” Wu said.It was a message echoed by Tyler Banfield, a fourth grader at Mendell Elementary who got to meet the mayor on Saturday.“I really like art just because you can express all of...

Investigation underway after thieves allegedly steal vehicles from NH dealership, lead police on chase

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:11:52 GMT

An investigation is ongoing this week after police said thieves stole four vehicles from a New Hampshire car dealership in an incident that police said may be linked to another theft in Waltham last week.Police said thieves broke into the dealership, stealing some of the vehicles out of the facility’s showroom. A matter of days after vehicles were stolen at a Eastside Motoring in Waltham, police said they believe the same people may be behind the two incidents. Speaking on Monday, Hempstead Police Deputy Chief Robert Kelley said the department is working with Waltham police in their investigation. “It looks like the incidents could be related,” Kelley said.The front doors of DC Motors in Hampstead were found busted open Sunday morning. General Manager Chris Tymowicz said $250,000 worth of inventory was taken, including a 2020 Grand Cherokee Trackhawk, a 2018 Range Rover, a 2021 Polaris Slingshot and a 2014 Dodge Charger. “I don’t know whether they’re gonna resell them...

Damon Stoudamire hired as Georgia Tech’s head coach

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:11:52 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — Longtime NBA guard Damon Stoudamire was hired Monday as Georgia Tech’s men’s basketball coach.The 49-year-old Stoudamire comes to the Atlantic Coast Conference school from the Boston Celtics, where he had served as an assistant coach since 2021.He previously coached collegiately at Pacific, where he compiled a 71-77 record over five seasons. He was the West Coast Conference coach of the year in 2020.Georgia Tech moved quickly to fill the void left after the firing of Josh Pastner.He was dismissed on Friday, two days after the Yellow Jackets capped a 15-18 season with a second-round loss to Pittsburgh in the ACC Tournament.Stoudamire takes over a struggling program that has made only one NCAA Tournament appearance in the last 13 years.

Power crews prep for possible outages from nor’easter

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:11:52 GMT

Power crews were getting ready Monday as a new round of winter weather is expected to bring the threat of power outages across the state. The daylong, multifaceted storm beginning Monday night could drop up to 18 inches of snow in parts of Western Massachusetts and northern Worcester County. While snow totals will likely be lower in parts of Eastern Massachusetts, the wind could howl, slamming some locations with gusts up to 60 miles per hour. Eversource has called this a “potentially significant” weather event. The company has called in crews from as far away as Canada, Texas and Michigan as a result. “We really have a pretty good contingent,” Eversource President of Regional Electric Operations Craig Hallstrom said on Monday. Hallstrom said roughly 800 external line crews are on hand. With possible tree damage, Hallstrom said 500 tree crews are also ready to respond. Eversource officials said they’ve been planning for this storm for several days, adding th...

Government races to reassure US that banking system is safe

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:11:52 GMT

By KEN SWEET, CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, CHRIS MEGERIAN and CATHY BUSSEWITZ (Associated Press)NEW YORK (AP) — Depositors withdrew savings and investors broadly sold off bank shares Monday as the federal government raced to reassure Americans that the banking system was secure after two bank failures fed fears that more financial institutions could fall.President Joe Biden insisted that the system was safe after the second- and third-largest bank failures in the nation’s history happened in the span of 48 hours. In response to the crisis, regulators guaranteed all deposits at the two banks and created a program that effectively thew a lifeline to other banks to shield them from a run on deposits.“Your deposits will be there when you need them,” Biden told the public, seeking to project calm. He also said the banking executives responsible for the failures would be held accountable.In other developments, the Federal Reserve announced that it would review its supervis...