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Officer discharges firearm after license plate reader flags stolen vehicle in NW Miami-Dade

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:24:00 GMT

An investigation is underway after an officer fired shots at a stolen vehicle in Northwest Miami-Dade. Miami-Dade Police focused their attention on a black BMW that was reported stolen at around 7:30 a.m. Thursday, just a short hour later a license plate reader would flag the vehicle in the area of Northwest 79th Street and 13th Avenue.According to Detective Alvaro Zabaleta, a detective approached the vehicle as the driver started reaching under their seat. The suspect was given verbal commands to put their hands up.After the driver failed to comply the officer discharged their firearm. “Fortunately it did not strike anyone,” said Zabaleta. The suspects then attempted to flee the scene as they headed eastbound on NW 79th St. Both of the men involved then ditched the car a few blocks away from where the shots were fired but police would eventually catch them. According to officials both of the suspects were wanted by police.

Man charged with sexual battery, kidnapping after Miami Police receive CrimeStoppers tip

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:24:00 GMT

A man was charged with sexual battery and kidnapping after the Miami Police Department received a CrimeStoppers tip.Surveillance video from May 7 showed the suspect moments before and after he attacked a woman who was walking on Biscayne Boulevard, near 32nd Street. The victim told investigators that the man grabbed her and then dragged her to an empty lot. She suffered injuries on her cheek and jaw as she did put up a fight.According to police, 20-year-old Clarens Braynen was identified as the suspect in these crimes while he was being held at Krome Detention Center. The Miami Police Department thanked the community on their Instagram page.“The suspect … that was involved in the Sexual Battery that took place on Biscayne Blvd has been arrested and is IN CUSTODY! Thank you to everyone who spread the word and assisted us with this case. #InCustody,” read the social media post.

Banner plane crashes on North Perry Airport airfield in Pembroke Pines

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:24:00 GMT

A Piper PA 25 Pawnee banner plane crashed on the airfield at North Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines. The crash occurred shortly after noon on Thursday, prompting the dispatch of Pembroke Pines Fire Rescue.The incident, similar to a fatal crash that occurred last week in Hollywood, involved the same model of aircraft.As 7Skyforce hovered over the scene, the banner plane could be observed in an upright position on the grass.At this time, it remains unclear if there are any injuries associated with the crash.Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

Man arrested after car collides with gates of Downing Street, where UK prime minister lives

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:24:00 GMT

LONDON (AP) — A car collided Thursday with the gates of Downing Street in central London, where the British prime minister’s home and offices are located, setting off a rapid security response in one of London’s most-fortified sites.The Metropolitan Police force said a man was arrested Thursday afternoon at the scene on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving. There were no reports of injuries.Video footage posted on social media showed a white car heading straight for the gates at low speed across Whitehall, the main thoroughfare in London’s government district. Footage shot soon after showed a car with its trunk open up against the tall metal gates.It was not immediately clear whether the crash was deliberate. Police said they were working to establish the circumstances.Officers cordoned off Whitehall after the crash but later lifted some of the barriers.Public access to the street is restricted and the gates are protected at all times by armed police ...

Man arrested after car crashes into Downing Street

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:24:00 GMT

LONDON — A man has been arrested after a car crashed into the gates of Downing Street, the residence of U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, on Thursday evening.The Metropolitan Police said in a statement that a car had “collided with the gate of Downing Street on Whitehall” at around 4.20 p.m. local time.“Armed officers arrested a man at the scene on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving,” the London police forced added. “He has been taken into custody.”Footage from the scene shows the car crossing Whitehall — home of several key government departments — and approaching the main entrance to Downing Street, which is heavily guarded by police. It appears to slow down before hitting the gates.The BBC and Press Association news agency reported that Sunak was in No. 10 Downing Street at the time of the visit, but had subsequently left for a pre-planned visit.“There were no reports of any injuries,” the Met said. “Enquiries a...

Stoughton police say incident involving 3-car crash and gunshot victim stemmed from case of road rage

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:24:00 GMT

Police say a chaotic crash in Stoughton that involved three cars and led to multiple people being hospitalized, including a gunshot victim, was the result of a road rage incident that started in nearby Canton.Stoughton’s Deputy Chief of Police Brian Holmes said a crash that occurred Wednesday night at the intersection of Plain Street and West Street appeared to have started at a 7-Eleven convenience several miles away.According to police, two parties that did not know one another had been arguing at the store before they started chasing one another erratically in their cars, travelling on Plain Street for several minutes before crashing into a third, unrelated vehicle at the Stoughton intersection.Officials said one of the original two parties was shot during the chase. As a result of the crash, six people were taken to the hospital, with all involved being released afterwards.As of Thursday morning, police say no one had been taken into custody.

6 AAPI financial influencers to follow in 2023

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:24:00 GMT

The investing information provided on this page is for educational purposes only. NerdWallet, Inc. does not offer advisory or brokerage services, nor does it recommend or advise investors to buy or sell particular stocks, securities or other investments.A 2021 study from Pew Research Center found that the median annual income of Asian households in the U.S. was nearly 39% higher than the rest of the country.But lived experiences are much more nuanced.“In my experience, managing money doesn’t come up often in a typical Asian American household,” says financial influencer Max Do. “You assume it’s being taken care of, and it doesn’t come up until there is a problem.”That same study noted that income and poverty rates vary widely among the many ethnicities that fall under the umbrella term Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.Vivian Tu, another financial influencer, says her family loves to talk about money. Their experiences highlight just how varied the spectrum of ...

What’s in a name? Hagerstown seeks help branding its baseball team | COMMENTARY

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:24:00 GMT

In professional sports, team names mean everything. Just look at the Baltimore Orioles and Ravens franchises — beautifully paired ornithologically, historically and literarily (the latter as a nod to Edgar Allan Poe). We’re not claiming the teams’ successes this year have been driven by their well-chosen monikers. Or that the names were even, in retrospect, tough calls to make, given the dearth of species called “Baltimore something-or-other” or giant literary figures who wrote about a raven and are now buried in Baltimore. But, hey, the names obviously didn’t hurt. Just take a look 50 miles south at the Washington, D.C., area, where baseball and football fans are stuck with, respectively, “Nationals” (way, way too obvious) and “Commanders,” a post-Redskins, post-WFT (Washington Football Team) title so bland and borrowed that the NFL team (in the process of being sold) was recently denied a trademark for it.This brings us t...

Police identify Haverhill man with deep Boston roots as victim of Dorchester shooting

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:24:00 GMT

The Boston Police Department has identified Daniel Mayers, 33, of Haverhill, as the victim of a broad-daylight shooting in Dorchester.Police responded just before 5 p.m. Monday to the area of 264 Columbia Road for reports of shots fired. There they found Mayers, who was in a vehicle near Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School, suffering from gunshot wounds. He was transported to an area hospital and pronounced deceased.Mayers has deep roots in Boston.His “extremely devastated” family said in a statement: “This loss is unfathomable as we try to understand the details of this tragedy and find who took the life of someone who impacted so many others in nothing but the most positive ways.”Mayers grew up in the neighborhood where he was gunned down on Monday. His father, Rev. Dr. Thomas W. O. Mayers, served as the Reverend at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Columbia Road in Dorchester for nearly 20 years, according to the family.Danny Mayers, as he was known ...

Prosecutors widen case against polygamous sect leader, adding child pornography charges

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:24:00 GMT

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors have widened their case against the leader of a small polygamous group that resides near the Utah-Arizona border, adding child pornography charges and detailing his sexual encounters with children he took as wives in new charges filed earlier this month.Sam Bateman is accused of making child pornography in a superseding indictment filed recently. The May 18 document also provides new details about how he took wives as young as 9 years old as he worked to win followers in at least four states to start his own small offshoot group of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.The FLDS is itself a breakaway sect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, widely known as the Mormon Church. Polygamy is a legacy of the early teachings of the mainstream church, but it abandoned the practice in 1890 and now strictly prohibits it.The indictment adds to a raft of charges filed against Bateman last year. In December, prosecutors ch...