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Man accused of targeting 2 tourists in Miami Beach in sexual battery, robbery case appears in court

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:33 GMT

A man in Miami Beach was arrested Wednesday after being accused of targeting two tourists in what police described as a sexual battery and robbery case. Thirty-nine-year-old Alejandro Yadir Gongora was charged with two counts of sexual battery with no serious personal injury and two counts of strong-arm robbery.On Thursday, Gongora appeared in court.“So he’s pretending to be a rideshare driver, picks up these two women, robs and assaults them,” Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Mindy Glazer said. “No contact with the victims through social media or other electronic means, and you must stay at least 500 feet away from the victims, their homes, schools and place of employment at all times.”Gongora was given a $30,000 bond.According to Miami Beach Police, on Saturday, the two victims were leaving a club in the Wynwood area when they hailed for a driver to take them back to their hotel in Miami Beach. They believed Gongora was their rideshare driver and entered his ...

Search underway for naked creeper caught on camera prowling Lauderhill neighborhood

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:33 GMT

A pervert is on the prowl after, police said, he entered a patio in a Lauderhill neighborhood, stared through the glass door and began to pleasure himself while nearly fully naked.Surveillance cameras captured the man, seen wearing only a disposable mask, dark sneakers and some kind of dark hood, as he walked up to the back of a house in the Inverrary neighborhood of La Mirage, at around 9 p.m. on Tuesday. He them peered into the window and began touching himself.“What in the world, hold on, what?!” said a resident. “I think he needs to rot in hell.”The homeowner told 7News that he, his wife and young daughter were home at the time, but their little girl had already gone to bedThe man was looking through a glass door leading to the kitchen and living room area.For residents seeing just a screengrab of the nude subject, their reaction was similar.“OK, that is very crazy and very sad that this is happening,” said a woman, “so, yes, something n...

Police arrest 23-year-old man connected to fatal hit-and-run in NW Miami-Dade

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:33 GMT

A 23-year-old man was arrested in connection to a fatal hit-and-run. Carlos Ariel Rodriguez was charged with vehicular homicide, leaving the scene, driving without a license and tampering with evidence after he tried to hide his car’s damage.On June 22, the victim was crossing the street along Northwest 32nd Avenue and 103rd Street back when he was suddenly struck by a speeding driver that failed to stop at a red light before getting away.Rodriguez is being held on a $270,000 bond.

Student and staff evacuated after school bus catches on fire in SW Miami-Dade

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:33 GMT

A school bus caught on fire on a busy South Florida highway.Miami-Dade Fire Rescue arrived at the scene and safely evacuated students and staff that were on board, Thursday afternoon. Video showed one bus stopped along the Turnpike near the ramp to southwest 216th street, as well as a second bus and other vehicles that showed up to pick up the children.No injuries were reported.

Investigation underway after 2 hospitalized after double shooting in NW Miami-Dade

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:33 GMT

A double shooting in Northwest Miami-Dade prompted a police investigation after two people were hospitalized. Miami Police Thursday morning confirmed there was a shooting at 1419 NW 69th Terrace.At the scene, one male was shot in the arm and was transported to the hospital in stable condition. According to Miami-Dade Police, they received a call at around 7:30 a.m. in regards to an unresponsive male who was on the sidewalk at Northwest 14th and 71st Street. Fire rescue transported the victim to the hospital in critical condition. An investigation on what led up to the shooting is now underway.

Shambles in Granada: Mega-gathering of European leaders ends with a whimper

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:33 GMT

GRANADA, Spain — A summit gathering close to 50 European leaders, dozens of aides and legions of journalists ended as a damp squib when those gathered failed to make any significant progress to resolve conflicts on Europe’s doorstep — or any other regional issue. The third edition of Emmanuel Macron’s pet project, the European Political Community, was billed by advisers as an opportunity to broker peace between warring Armenia and Azerbaijan, de-escalate tensions in the Balkans and hold a strategic conversation about the Continent’s security. While leaders did rally around Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was in Granada to shore up Europe’s support amid U.S. jitters on Ukraine aid, they failed to make headway on the other conflicts in the absence of key players. Hope among attendees in taking steps to resolve the humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh were dashed when both Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan decided to skip the g...

Judge rules deadly officer-involved shooting in Cambridge was justified

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:33 GMT

A judge has ruled a deadly officer involved shooting in Cambridge earlier this year was justified, the Middlesex County District Attorney’s office announced on Thursday. The shooting happened back on Jan. 4. In his recent report, Judge John Coffey said officers “had been pursuing (Sayed Arif) Faisal through Cambridge streets for approximately ten minutes, during which time Faisal was cutting himself with a knife with a foot-long blade.”Coffey said Faisel did not respond to officers’ commands to stop and drop the knife and “refused to engage with any of the officers’ attempts to communicate with him.”Coffey said Faisel “was not subdued or seemingly affected” by a less-lethal shot and instead turned and walked toward a Cambridge police officer. “At the moment that Officer McMahon fired his weapon, a reasonable law enforcement officer in the same position would reasonably believe that he, along with his fellow officers and others, were in imminent danger of being serious...

Summer Stretch Ends, Fall Feel Returns

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:33 GMT

What a week we’ve had to kick off the month of October! While the leaf change may have it looking like October outside, it certainly doesn’t feel like it… at least for now. That will change by the weekend and next week. Tonight, we’ll stay on the warm and muggy train like the last couple of nights. That low level humidity and moisture will once again lead to fog out the door early tomorrow morning. Clouds will increase overnight, which combined with fog and higher humidity will keep our overnight low temperatures on the warm side.Tomorrow will still bring above average temperatures, but you’ll notice some changes with more clouds than what we’ve seen the last few days. A mostly cloudy sky returns, and while not as warm as the last few days, temperatures will climb back above average to the lower 70s — we should be in the mid 60s.The clouds are ahead of our rain chances that will return for the first part of your weekend. Saturday looks to be...

Crews battle fire at hotel in Boston

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:33 GMT

Firefighters responded in Boston Thursday after a fire broke out in a hotel off Arlington Street, officials said. The Boston Fire Department in a post on X said companies were on scene at the Newbury Boston hotel as of around 1:45 p.m. Smoke was coming from the roof of the building and officials said a second alarm had been ordered. Guests were seen clearing the hotel while crews fought the flames inside.In a later update, fire department officials said the fire started in a pizza oven in one of the hotel’s restaurants. Officials said the fire then spread through ductwork from the 16th to the 18th floors.Officials said building inspectors will have to assess damage to the hotel after this fire. There were no injuries reported.

COVID wastewater data jumps south of Boston; Massachusetts launches new viral respiratory illness dashboards

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:33 GMT

The COVID wastewater data for the south-of-Boston region has been jumping in the last few days, while overall reported virus cases across the Bay State ticked down last week.Meanwhile, Massachusetts health officials on Thursday launched several new dashboards to track viral respiratory illness trends in the state. The new dashboards are focused on COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial syndrome (RSV).“As we experienced to a certain extent last year, we’re heading into a winter where COVID-19, influenza and RSV are likely to co-circulate,” State Epidemiologist Catherine Brown said during a recent briefing about the dashboards.“We all experienced kind of the predominance of COVID for so long, and then last season with the tripledemic, we started to really see what our future might look like,” Brown added. “And it was during that tripledemic where everybody needed information about what was happening with more than just COVID. We needed to lo...