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Take Steps Miami event to raise awareness about Crohn’s and colitis held at Tropical Park

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:07 GMT

A community in South Florida laced up their sneakers and took steps to fight disease and find a cure.Family and friends on Saturday gathered for the Take Steps Miami event at Tropical Park in Southwest Miami-Dade.Participants found a fun and supportive atmosphere to raise awareness and funding for the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America.More than 3 million Americans suffer from the diseases. Event organizers said Saturday’s turnout was a productive way to let them know they are not alone.“Here in Miami, in the Take Steps walk today, we’ve raised over $150,000 towards our goal of $200,000 to give back,” said Alfredo Cepero with Cepero’s Crusaders.7News reporter Dannielle Garcia took the stage as the event’s emcee.Take Steps is the largest fundraising campaign for the nonprofit organization.

Indiana residents thought there was an explosion. It turned out to be a meteor

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:07 GMT

(CNN) — It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a … meteor flashing through the Indiana night sky.Residents of Hamilton County, Indiana, had the out-of-this-world opportunity to witness a meteor Friday night.Residents reported what they thought might have been an explosion due to the loud sound and flashing lights, according to a tweet from Hamilton County Emergency Management.The agency’s “current theory” is the sound and light were caused by a sonic boom from a meteor.Pilots in Kentucky saw a meteor to the north and a lightning detection center picked up signals over Carroll County, Hamilton County Emergency Management reported.Videos taken by residents and published by CNN affiliate WTHR show a bright light streaking across the sky. Several videos also captured the rumbling sound caused by the meteor.Hamilton County Emergency Management thanked the National Weather Service and FAA for helping them “quickl...

2 Utah homes slide off cliff, prompting evacuation

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:07 GMT

(CNN) — Two empty homes overlooking a canyon slid off their foundations in Draper, Utah, prompting the evacuations of two adjacent residences, officials said Saturday.In October, city building officials declared two clifftop homes “unfit for human habitation” due to “earth shifting that resulted in sliding and breaks in the homes’ foundations,” city officials said in a Facebook post.The city had been following up with the developer for months on engineering studies regarding the stability of the area, officials said.“With the snow pack melting and creating changes in conditions, other homes in the neighborhood will be evaluated for safety concerns,” said the Facebook post. “At this time, only the two adjacent homes are being evacuated.”Draper officials closed two public trails following the slide.“Everyone needs to avoid the area. Do not go to the neighborhood where the homes slid. Only residents allowed,” ...

Community rallies together after hateful graffiti found in Natick

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:07 GMT

NATICK, Mass. (WHDH) — The Jewish community in Natick is rallying together to make it clear hate has no place in their community after a swastika was found drawn on the ground near a commuter rail station.The Chabad Center of Natick held a walk Sunday morning from the spot where the drawing was found to the center, where community members were invited to demonstrate against hate. The drawing has since been transformed into a message of acceptance.

Multi-vehicle collision on southbound I-15 kills two, including infant

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:07 GMT

FALLBROOK, Calif. -- Southbound lanes on a stretch of the Interstate 15 in North County are blocked off due to a multi-vehicle collision that killed two, including an infant, and injured four others.Authorities were first alerted to the crash around 3:15 p.m. Sunday, located on the I-15 south of Mission Road and north of State Route 76.Three cars were involved in the crash, with two suffering major damage. California Highway Patrol logs indicated that one vehicle had been overturned. According to North County Fire Protection Captain John Choi, the two fatalities include one adult and one infant. No details are available yet on the age, gender, relationship between the two and what vehicle they were in."It's a heartbreaking day when we lose people on our roads," Choi told FOX 5. Helicopter rescue prompted at Three Sisters Falls One of the four individuals hurt sustained major injuries and the other three are minor, Choi said. All of the individuals that sustained an injury in the c...

One arrested after illegal entry and sexual assault of woman in College and Clinton area

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:07 GMT

One man was arrested in a sexual assault investigation after an incident that happened on April 1 in the College Street West and Clinton Street area.On April 3 police received a call for a sexual assault that happened two days earlier as a 92-year-old woman was inside her residence and a man entered the woman’s unit.Once inside the man sexually assaulted the woman and then fled from the residence. On April 13, Kelvin Chan, 58, of Toronto, was arrested and charged with being unlawfully in a dwelling-house and sexual assault.Police are concerned there may be more victims of sexual assault from Chan.

SeaWorld euthanizes sick sea lion found on San Diego freeway

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:07 GMT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Freeway, the sea lion rescued after wandering inland from his ocean home and crossing busy San Diego thoroughfares, has been euthanized after falling ill. The sea lion earned his name in January 2022 after being found on State Route 94, a freeway several miles from shore, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. The SeaWorld San Diego team that got him to safety said he’d been previously spotted at San Diego International Airport and in a storm drain in the Logan Heights neighborhood. Since being rescued last year, Freeway had contracted a “progressive disease that our animal care experts diagnosed,” SeaWorld said in statement Friday. “Despite extensive treatment, the disease caused his health to deteriorate over time,” the statement said. Given his decline, the team made the decision to humanely euthanize him, SeaWorld said.Freeway was first rescued in November 2021 when he was found on a busy road near North San Diego Bay. A rescue crew rehabbed him at Se...

Arkansas dad charged for allegedly piercing son's ear; arrest video goes viral

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:07 GMT

Police said they were contacted by a resource officer at Springdale Public Schools who was concerned about the teen's welfare when he showed up at school with a piercing in one ear. He told fellow students his dad had been drunk when he "put him in a choke hold and shoved the piercing in his ear," police said in a press release. Police went to the home of Jeremy Sherland, the father of the teen, to question him about what happened. While he admitted piercing his son's ear, he refused to answer more questions or let police talk to his son, the department said. They left and came back with an arrest warrant. 9 teenagers shot at after-prom party in Texas Officers' second visit to the home is partially captured on video. When they asked Sherland to step outside, officers said he refused and blocked the doorway.The video shows an officer push Sherland back into the house. Multiple officers hold him against the wall and place him in handcuffs, as a woman can be heard asking for an expl...

May forecast: Will our wettest month live up to history?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:07 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Before April has even wrapped up as the first wetter-than-normal month since November, we're looking ahead to May.What’s normal for May in Austin?Average High: 86.9ºMay 1 Average High: 83ºMay 31 Average High: 91ºAverage Low: 66.8ºMay 1 Average Low: 63ºMay 30 Average Low: 71ºAverage Rain: 5.04″ (Wettest month on average)May is typically the wettest and stormiest month of the year in Central Texas and it's usually our wettest month by a lot. No other month of the year averages more than four inches in a month and May averages a little more than five!May 2023 forecastThe Climate Prediction Center released its preliminary forecast for May and our odds are good for near-average rainfall in May. Near-average would mean wet, as May is our wettest month, but it would not indicate above-average rain that would help to chip away at our rainfall deficit. May 2023 Rainfall Forecast (CPC)Still, with December-March having below-normal rainfall in Central Texas, even normal rain wo...

Longhorns forward Dylan Disu says he's coming back for another season

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:07 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas Longhorns forward and Pflugerville native Dylan Disu had four words about his basketball future on Sunday."The show goes on!"MORE THAN THE SCORE: Stay up to date on sports stories like these, and sign up for our More than the Score sports newsletter at kxan.com/newslettersIn a post on Instagram, the 6-foot-9 Hendrickson High School grad said he's going coming back to play a super senior season, including a scene from "The Wolf of Wall Street," where Leonardo DiCaprio's character yells that phrase to employees.Disu hit his stride at the end of the last season, which was cut short by a bone bruise in his left foot after Texas' second-round game in the NCAA Tournament. He was named the Big 12 Conference Tournament's most outstanding player, and then turned in his best game of the season against Penn State in the second round, lighting the Nittany Lions up for 28 points on 14-of-20 shooting with 10 rebounds to help the Longhorns win 71-66. Disu’s huge night carri...