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Toll rises from 103 to 110 in Kenya cult starvation deaths

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:15:10 GMT

MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan officials say the number of deaths linked to a cult on the country’s Indian Ocean coast has risen from 103 to 110. Heavy rains stalled the exhumation process for the third day and government pathologists began autopsies.According to the Kenyan Interior Ministry, five people have been found alive over the last two days by searches and aerial surveillance of the 50,000-acre Chakama ranch.The autopsies began a day after President William Ruto announced that his government would soon establish a judicial commission of inquiry to investigate the deaths. Opposition leader Raila Odinga said Monday that the Kenyan parliament should “establish whether the deaths … were acts of rogue pastors, human sacrifices or body-organ trade.” Leaders from the region and human-rights organizations have criticized the government’s slow pace of rescues, and its denying journalists and activists access to the forest.Source

Is it legal to own a capybara in Colorado?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:15:10 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Have you ever wondered if you can own a certain species of exotic animal as a pet? Everyone knows dogs and cats can make great companions to humans, but what about, say, capybaras?Capybaras are the world's largest rodent species and are native to South America. They can grow to be around 4-foot-3 and can weigh up to 174 pounds as adults.For the most part, Colorado wildlife law doesn't allow you to own native or exotic wildlife. Colorado Parks and Wildlife has a comprehensive list of animals you can own without a permit in Colorado, from dogs and cats to red kangaroos and wallaroos. If it isn't on the list, you need a permit. Here are some wild animals you can own in Colorado Capybaras are not on the list.This means you need to get a permit before you can legally bring a capybara into the state at all.How do you get a permit to own a capybara in Colorado?If you were hoping to get a permit to own a capybara as a pet in your house, you can't.There is a list of major ...

Reward of up to $22,000 offered in deadly hit-and-run

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:15:10 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The Denver Police Department is working to solve a deadly hit-and-run crash from last year. The Metro Denver Crime Stoppers announced a reward of up to $22,000 for information in a hit-and-run crash that left a bicyclist dead on Aug. 10, 2022. Cyclist killed in hit-and-run, friend hit weeks later The crash happened just before 7 a.m. when the driver of a Ford Explorer ran a red light and hit a bicyclist near East 13th Avenue and North Syracuse Street.The bicyclist, a man, was pronounced dead.Photos of the vehicle involved in the crash on Aug. 10, 2022 (Credit: DPD)Police said the driver of the vehicle left without stopping or leaving any information. The SUV should have damage to the driver-side front fender and driver-side rear-view mirror, DPD said. Is it legal to have a tinted license plate cover in Colorado? If you have any information, please contact our partners at Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867. You can remain anonymous and be eligi...

Police search for missing 22-year-old man in Fort Lauderdale

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:15:10 GMT

Fort Lauderdale Police are seeking the public’s help in finding a missing 22-year-old man. Aeon Brown was last seen Saturday near 300 SW 4th Court.He was wearing a black T-shirt, blue/gray shorts, black slides and a black beanie. Brown stands at about 5 feet, 9 inches and weighs about 160 pounds. According to police, he may have been driving his 2004 blue Honda Accord with a Florida tag LJHT23. Anyone with any information on Brown’s whereabouts is urged to contact should call police immediately at 954-828-5700.

Panthers, Maple Leafs meet in round 2 after big series wins

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:15:10 GMT

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — There was a time in Paul Maurice’s coaching career when he wanted his teams to immediately move on after a big win and start thinking about the next challenge.Not now.He wanted the Florida Panthers to spend a little extra time savoring their upset of the Boston Bruins in one of the biggest NHL playoff shockers ever, figuring that will help get them ready for the next challenge. The Panthers start Round 2 of the playoffs in Toronto on Tuesday night, facing a Maple Leafs team that ousted perennial power Tampa Bay.“It’s two sides of the same coin,” Maurice said Monday from Boston, before the team flew to Toronto. “On the one half, that was as emotional a win as our franchise ever had. So, you either say you’re a little light in the tank, or you’re still flying on those fumes. You’re either coming out hot because you’re still rolling or you’re gassed. Either way, Game 1 gets played and Game 2 will have nothing to do with Game 1.”Getting to Round 2 was super emotiona...

Police search for missing endangered adult in Wilton Manors

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:15:10 GMT

Wilton Manors Police are seeking the public’s help in finding a missing man. Vernon Plummer was last seen Wednesday at Windsor Place at 1850 NE 26th St.He was last seen wearing blue pants and a yellow T-shirt. Plummer stands about 5 feet, 11 inches tall and weighs 170 pounds. According to police, he is an endangered adult who requires daily medication. Anyone with any information on Plummer’s whereabouts is urged to contact Detective Burgan at 954-390-161.

Multiple students taken to hospital after refrigerant leak causes ‘strange odor’ at West Newbury school

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:15:10 GMT

A West Newbury school was evacuated and multiple students were taken to area hospitals Monday morning due to what officials later identified as a refrigerant leak.West Newbury Police and fire chief Michael Dwyer said an initial call came in around 9:40 a.m. reporting a strange smell coming from a science lab in the middle school area of the Pentucket Middle-High School. Speaking later Monday afternoon, Dwyer said a school resource officer ordered an evacuation after receiving information about the incident. Four students were transported to area hospitals after they started feeling dizzy and nauseous, according to Dwyer. About 42 others were checked out at the scene and released to their parents. Dwyer said all students impacted by this incident are expected to be okay.At one point, the situation was considered a hazardous materials incident, prompting a large emergency response. Pentucket Middle-High School is a new facility that was just built and opened last fall.W...

Hunter Biden must answer more questions about his finances and art sales, judge rules

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:15:10 GMT

(CNN) — An Arkansas judge on Monday ordered President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, to answer additional written questions about his investments, his art sales and other financial transactions as part of a paternity-related case.Hunter Biden also will sit for a deposition in mid-June, where he’ll have to answer questions under oath, the judge said.Independence County Circuit Judge Holly Meyer also chided Hunter Biden’s lawyers for overly redacting their filings and hiding information that should be public.“The ability to redact is being somewhat abused,” Meyer said, ordering lawyers to re-file public versions of some of their previous filings, including some that had been “sealed” and fully blocked from public view.The filings likely included information about which financial records Hunter Biden might need to turn over to Lunden Roberts, an Arkansas woman who is the mother of one of his children.Monday’s hearing ...

Former US Marine killed in Ukraine

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:15:10 GMT

(CNN) — A former US Marine, Cooper “Harris” Andrews, 26, was killed on the outskirts of Bakhmut late last week, according to his mother and colleagues in Ukraine.Andrews, from Cleveland, Ohio, was hit by a mortar, his mother, Willow Andrews said, likely on April 19 on the so-called “Road of Life” — a rare access road into Bakhmut used by the Ukrainian military to resupply their forces but also evacuate civilians.Andrew’s body has yet to be recovered, she said, owing to the ongoing fighting around the city, whose outsized symbolic importance has led to intense fighting as Moscow desperately tries to seize it.Andrews worked for an activist group known as the Resistance Committee, according to their social media statements. They said he was killed assisting the evacuation of civilians from the city. Andrews left Cleveland, Ohio in November and joined the Foreign Legion in Ukraine, a group of foreign fighters helping the Ukrainian...

A record-breaking blob of smelly seaweed is arriving in Key West — and tourists aren’t happy about it

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:15:10 GMT

(CNN) — Ginny Matts and her boyfriend were excited to celebrate her 60th birthday in Key West. But their vacation was spoiled by an unexpected guest: a record-breaking amount of smelly seaweed known as sargassum that is coating the iconic Florida island’s popular beaches.What Matts and her boyfriend, Jason Hytreck, encountered was the Great Atlantic Sargassum Seaweed Belt, a floating mass of brown seaweed that spans more than 5,000 miles and forms yearly from the shores of Africa to the Gulf of Mexico.The mass this year set a new record with scientists finding more seaweed from the blob present in the Caribbean Sea than any other April on record, according to a report from the University of South Florida. Scientists measured 3 million tons of seaweed, which emits a gas that can smell like rotten eggs, in the Caribbean, the report shows.The blob of smelly seaweed is hitting beach shores just as Florida’s tourist season hits its stride — a major ...