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Police: Margate couple arrested for abusing niece for years resulting in ‘permanent disfigurement’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:15:27 GMT

A Margate couple was arrested for abusing their 15-year-old niece for nearly a decade, officials said. Latricia Crawley, 46, and Benjamin Lockett, 43, are facing charges of aggravated child abuse and child neglect with great bodily harm after a victim’s plea for help led to a shocking discovery of long-term abuse. Investigators said Margate Police responded to the couple’s home on Wednesday, after the teenage victim reached out to her online instructor for assistance.Upon arrival at the home, police reportedly found the victim with a laceration on her head and visible swelling, resulting from an assault by Lockett, detectives said. She was immediately transported to Broward Health Coral Springs for treatment.During her medical examination, officers said they uncovered evidence of extensive long-term trauma on the victim’s body, including scars consistent with ligature marks, bruising, scar tissue, bite marks from insects and signs of malnutrition.According to the a...

18 dead, 13 hurt in shootings at Lewiston, Maine bowling alley and restaurant

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:15:27 GMT

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Authorities searched forests, waterways and small towns Thursday for a U.S. Army reservist who they say killed 18 people and wounded 13 in a mass shooting at a bowling alley and a bar that sent panicked patrons scrambling under tables and behind bowling pins and gripped the entire state of Maine in fear.Schools, doctor’s offices and grocery stores closed and people stayed behind locked doors in cities as far away as 50 miles (80 kilometers) from the scenes of Wednesday night’s shootings in Lewiston.President Joe Biden ordered all U.S. flags to be flown at half-staff as condolences poured in from around the nation and at home, including from Maine native and author Stephen King, who called it “madness.” The attacks stunned a state of only 1.3 million people that has one of the country’s lowest homicide rates: 29 killings in all of 2022.The suspect, Robert Card, is considered armed and dangerous and should not be approached, autho...

WATCH: Wild wreck involving multiple vehicles caught on camera in O’Neill Tunnel

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:15:27 GMT

Multiple cars and a truck were involved in a crash inside the O’Neill Tunnel Wednesday morning, and the scene was cleared within a little over an hour.On the northbound side of I-93, a truck hit the front of the car as the driver tried to merge into the left lane around 7:53 a.m. The crash affected multiple vehicles.The scene was cleared by 9:16 a.m.

Heartache, shock in Maine after Lewiston shootings

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:15:27 GMT

LEWISTON, MAINE (WHDH) – Community members were in shock in and around Lewiston, Maine Thursday after a series of deadly shootings Wednesday night. Investigators said 40-year-old Robert Card allegedly first targeted a bowling alley in Lewiston before moving to a restaurant in town around 7 p.m. Maine’s Governor on Thursday morning said at least 18 people were killed. Thirteen people were injured. As law enforcement agencies ramped up efforts to find Card, who remained at large, people impacted by the shootings shared their thoughts. “My heart is crushed,” the owner of the restaurant said in a statement. “I am at a loss for words. In a split second your world gets turned upside down for no good reason.” Officials said seven people were killed at the bowling alley, Just-In-Time Recreation. Eight people died at the restaurant, Schemengees Bar and Grille. Three other people died after being taken to area hospitals.Maine Gov. Janet Mills on Thursday said “...

Biden, state lawmakers respond to mass shooting in Maine

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:15:27 GMT

While the search for the gunman continued the day after the senseless slaughter of more than a dozen in Maine, President Biden decreed flags should be flown at half-staff for the next five days in recognition of those lost.“As a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence,” the president has declared flags should be “flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government.”Biden’s order stands until Oct. 30.The proclamation came Thursday morning, as the country began another, now all too familiar, collective mourning period after 18 were slaughtered and 13 more injured by an eruption of gunfire, this time in a quiet corner of Maine.As of this writing the hunt for a lone shooter continues, with agents from the FBI, ATF, TSA assisting the Maine State Police and local law enforcement with the search.According to the White House, the president spok...

Maine mass shooting: ‘Why do people do this?’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:15:27 GMT

In the wake of a mass shooting that left 18 dead and 13 injured in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday evening, many are speaking out on the event’s devastating toll on their family, friends and community.Here are some:‘Why do people do this?’ 10-year-old victim asksWhen Zoey Levesque felt a bullet graze her leg she wasn’t worried about the injury, the 10-year-old told ABC News on Thursday, she was too busy running for her life.Her mom Meghan Hutchinson was watching the kid practice with her youth bowling league when she heard a “loud pop,” turned around and saw the shooter right behind her.Zoey was shot — a shallow graze to her leg — as the pair ran to barricade themselves in a back room with other families. Another young boy came into the room had a “massive hole” in his arm bleeding badly, Hutchinson told ABC, and a second mom called 911.The police arrived 20 minutes later, the mother said, but the group was too scared to let ...

Vintage Chicago Tribune: 10 key moments in George Halas’ life on the 40th anniversary of his death

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:15:27 GMT

Halloween marks 40 years since Chicago Bears founder, owner, coach and player George Halas died.Just a child then, I now have questions about his remarkable life. What were the key moments that shaped his career? And, what don’t I know about one of the founding fathers of the National Football League?I picked up a copy of his autobiography, “Halas by Halas,” from a local library to help with this research. He cowrote the 338-page memoir with longtime husband-and-wife Tribune reporting team Gwen Morgan and Arthur Veysey in 1979.Don Pierson, a former sports reporter who covered the Bears for the Tribune from the late 1960s through the team’s Feb. 4, 2007 loss to the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLI, provided invaluable guidance.It was difficult to consolidate the list into just 10 highlights. And the surprises were plentiful. Did you know Halas narrowly avoided Chicago’s deadliest boating mishap? That he played right field for the New York Yankees? He...

The party’s over: Boston Police will no longer permit crime at Mass and Cass, commissioner says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:15:27 GMT

The city’s permissive attitude toward open-air drug use and violence occurring in the Mass and Cass zone will drastically change on Nov. 1, when authorities begin enforcing a new anti-encampment ordinance, Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox said on Thursday.There will be a “heavy” police presence in the area, as cops begin taking down the tents and tarps contributing to much of the crime occurring at the intersection known as Methadone Mile, Cox said at a City Hall press conference.While he vowed to partner with the Wu administration in adhering to the spirit of the mayor’s ordinance, which is to get homeless individuals and addicts the help that they need, Cox issued this warning: People coming to Atkinson Street to engage in criminal activity will no longer encounter “an area of permissiveness.”“We want to make it clear to the people who come to the city with a different intent, whether it’s to sell drugs or criminality, or to victimize the people that are in these areas, we’r...

Ticker: UMass economic impact: $8.3B; Mortgage rates tick up, again

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:15:27 GMT

Spending by UMass students and faculty, construction projects, and university purchases of goods and services are driving a record $8.3 billion economic impact across the five-campus system, according to a new report.The analysis  also determined that the university system is responsible for nearly 40,000 external jobs across the state, that more than 330,000 university alumni live in Massachusetts, and that the university issues 20,000 undergraduate and graduate degrees each year.“As a center of undergraduate and professional education, as well as research and innovation, the University of Massachusetts is a key driver of the Commonwealth’s economy and workforce, helping to set Massachusetts apart as it competes, both domestically and globally,” said Mark Melnik, director of economic and policy research at the the UMass Amherst-based Donahue Institute, which authored the report.Mortgage rates tick up, againThe average rate on 30-year fixed mortgages remained at generati...

Judge says Georgia’s congressional and legislative districts are discriminatory and must be redrawn

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:15:27 GMT

By JEFF AMY and KATE BRUMBACK (Associated Press)ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge ruled Thursday that some of Georgia’s congressional, state Senate and state House districts were drawn in a racially discriminatory manner, ordering the state to draw an additional Black-majority congressional district.U.S. District Judge Steve Jones, in a 516-page order, also ordered the state to draw two new Black-majority districts in Georgia’s 56-member state Senate and five new Black-majority districts in its 180-member state House.Jones ordered Georgia’s Republican majority General Assembly and governor to fix the maps by Dec. 8, saying he would redraw districts if lawmakers did not. Hours after the ruling, Gov. Brian Kemp issued a call for a special session to begin Nov. 29 to redraw congressional and legislative districts, although a spokesperson for the governor said that is a scheduling decision and doesn’t mean the Republican opposes an appeal.Jones’ ruling follows an eight-day September trial ...