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Warmer, then wetter

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:32 GMT

We’ve “turned the page” in the recent weather story that’s been highlighted by a cold spell. For nearly a week, south Florida has been feeling chilly due to a cold connection with air from the north. Beginning Thursday, the weather map shows a front approaching Florida from the west (out of the Gulf). This is technically a cold front but without the cold air support. The boundary will basically send us a push of clouds but rain will be limited, at best. We’re only forecasting a slim chance for patchy light showers late Thursday (mainly near the Keys). Then, perhaps the best weather-day in sight will come on Friday. Temperatures will be comfortable with dry conditions and low humidity. It would be nice have Friday’s weather stick around for the upcoming weekend, but that’s not going to happen. There’s a high chance for added warmth (highs above 80-degrees) with developing downpours on Saturday. The latest model guidance shows ...

‘This is horrifying’: Family demands answers after inmate becomes pregnant in jail

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:32 GMT

An investigation is underway at a county jail because of revelations an inmate got pregnant while behind bars. Now her family is demanding answers. 7’s Jessica Holly investigates.The inmate has been here at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in West Miami-Dade for nearly two years. She should not have intimate contact with any man, but right now, she is now three months pregnant. Having a relative behind bars is never easy. Crystal Bareto’s sister, Daisy Link, is an inmate at TGK.Daisy recently called with disturbing news.Crystal Bareto, Daisy’s sister: “She called us and told us that she had been sexually assaulted and that she was three months pregnant.” The 28-year-old is locked on a charge of second-degree murder. She has been held at TGK with no bond since the summer of 2022.Crystal Bareto, Daisy’s sister: “With all the things that are happening in there, we’re really, really scared for her life.” Crystal filed a...

Make-A-Wish gifts brand-new camper to 11-year-old Girl Scout battling leukemia

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:32 GMT

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (WSVN) — A South Florida girl who is battling cancer was able to do what she loves most — enjoy the outdoors with her family — thanks to Make–A-Wish Southern Florida.Homestead resident Marilyn Rodriguez feels truly at home in nature. So she made a wish.“My name is Marilyn, and my wish is for a camper,” she said in a video.The 11-year-old, who is battling leukemia, later got proof that dreams really do come true.Her mother LeeAnn Rodriguez, confirmed her daughter has a passion for the outdoors.“She loves to go camping,” said LeeAnn. “Ever since she was introduced to it, it’s been one of those things that she loves.”Marilyn has actually been a Girl Scout for most of her life..“I’ve been camping since I was 5 or 6,” she said.But since her cancer diagnosis, her time outside has been limited.“With her being diagnosed, dirt is really not a good thing for her to be around,” sai...

MBTA riders navigate first day of new partial Green Line shutdown

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:32 GMT

MBTA Green Line riders on Wednesday were seeing some commute changes, boarding shuttle buses instead of trains in several spots as large portions of the line shut down for scheduled repairs. With current disruptions scheduled to continue through much of January, riders speaking with 7NEWS said they hope it will all be worth it. “It’s probably an extra 30-minute commute,” one person said. “…It’s not fun.”Under the T’s current schedule, all Green Line trains from North Station to Kenmore will be shut down through Jan. 12. The stretch will reopen for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend before closing again from Jan. 16 through Jan. 28.The E line from North Station to Heath Street and the B line from Kenmore to Babcock stations will also be closed during the same timespan.Other service suspensions are scheduled on the Green Line Extension throughout January.The T has detailed travel alternatives and is operating shuttle buses. Though faced with longer day...

Haley calls out Trump ‘temper tantrums’ during two day New Hampshire tour

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:32 GMT

LONDONDERRY, N.H. — You can feel the difference between a Nikki Haley town hall held in July and one in January.A presidential rally with the former U.N. Ambassador in July, according to independent Granite State voter Marie Mulroy, felt like an underdog show. A half-attended longshot bid at a Washington D.C. side job or perhaps a tryout for the vice presidency.A packed, standing-room-only event at Game Changer Sports Bar and Grill held Wednesday was something else entirely, she said.“Things are different. This is different. She’s going for gold. She’s so close to victory she can smell it,” Mulroy told the Herald.The crowd is one example, she pointed out. When she first took a seat in the back of the restaurant’s large dining area, Mulroy was one of a few dozen people waiting to hear the former South Carolina governor speak. She had enough room to dance in place to the house music.By the time Haley took the stage, the Manchester resident was fighting for elbow room among hundr...

Can the Chicago Bulls afford to keep playing small ball? ‘We’ve got no choice,’ coach Billy Donovan says.

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:32 GMT

NEW YORK — In the first quarter of Tuesday’s blowout loss to the Philadelphia 76ers, Chicago Bulls coach Billy Donovan had a problem.He knew that 76ers star center Joel Embiid would play every minute of the opening quarter after missing the previous four games with an ankle sprain. Donovan also knew he couldn’t afford to keep Andre Drummond on the court without risking foul trouble. And Patrick Williams — the logical replacement for Drummond on Embiid — had exited early after suffering stiffness from a lingering ankle injury.So Donovan’s only choice was to pull Drummond for the final two minutes of the quarter and bring in Terry Taylor — a 6-foot-4, third-string power forward — to guard the 7-foot, 280-pound Embiid, the reigning league MVP.This is the current reality for the Bulls, who are trying to stay afloat during the extended absence of starting center Nikola Vučević and now the limited availability of Williams.Tuesday&#...

Nor’easter expected to dump snow across Massachusetts before a ‘stronger storm’ next week

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:32 GMT

Wondering what that clicking sound is? It’s everyone across the region hitting the refresh button on the latest storm forecasts ahead of the weekend.The first winter storm of the season is expected to dump snow across Massachusetts from Saturday night into Sunday, according to meteorologists who continue to caution that a shift in the system’s track can change a lot.The quick-moving nor’easter will likely drop 4 to 8 inches of snow on the Boston-area, AccuWeather Meteorologist Carl Erickson told the Herald on Wednesday.“Snow should move into the Boston-area sometime Saturday night, and the heaviest should be late at night through the first half of Sunday,” Erickson said.“Some light snow could linger Sunday afternoon before the system pulls away Sunday evening,” he added.The highest amounts of snow accumulations are expected to be west of Interstate 495.Southeastern Massachusetts and the Cape and Islands should see lower snow accumulations an...

Battenfeld: Maura Healey joins lame Biden campaign in New Hampshire even though he’s skipping primary

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:32 GMT

It’s not like there’s any problems in Massachusetts. Everything is great, right?So why is Gov. Maura Healey wasting our taxpayer time promoting Joe Biden’s lame primary write-in campaign in New Hampshire?The president is deliberately not on the ballot – making a conscious effort to not participate in this month’s New Hampshire primary, which Democrats relegated to later in the primary season to make way for South Carolina.Biden engineered the whole thing for political reasons. It was a blowoff to an entire state as payback for him getting drubbed in New Hampshire four years ago, when he slunk out of the state like a wounded animal.So now he’s not even in the race, despite efforts by Healey and the Biden campaign to make it seem like he is in it.Even if Biden wins, which he no doubt will because the other Democrat is an obscure congressman, it’s just a blip in the primary season. It won’t matter. Yet Healey – a so-called “super surrogate” for Biden whatever that is – is now joining t...

Fall River police seeking man charged with Fall River murder

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:32 GMT

Authorities have fingered four Fall River men for the murder of another Fall River man last May.A Bristol County grand jury, following a long-term investigation, has indicted Tajon Saxon and Quanif Johnson, both 26, for the May 13, 2023, murder of Diamonte Odom in Fall River. They also indicted Dioni Tavarez-Leonirio, 25, and Devin Alves, 18, on charges connected to the murder.That May night, at around 10:45, Fall River Police received multiple 911 calls reporting gunshots around 275 County St., a multi-family dwelling in a residential area. There, police found Odom, who had been shot in the face. He was rushed to Rhode Island Hospital but was pronounced dead hours later.Three of the indicted men are in custody, but Saxon remains on the run and “is the subject of an intensive manhunt at this time,” Bristol District Attorney Thomas Quinn III said Wednesday. Saxon is wanted not only for Odom’s murder but also as an accessory to the May 2021 double-homicide of Jovaughn Mills and Miguel...

Second administration official resigns in protest of Biden’s support for Israeli war in Gaza

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:32 GMT

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and COLLIN BINKLEY (Associated Press)WASHINGTON (AP) — A Department of Education policy adviser appointed by the Biden administration quit Wednesday to protest the administration’s crucial military support of Israel’s war in Gaza and its handling of the conflict’s repercussions at home and abroad. Tariq Habash, a Biden administration appointee who had worked in the education department to help overhaul the student loan system and address inequities in higher education, told The Associated Press he submitted his resignation Wednesday. That was after he and others had “done everything imaginable” to work within the system to try to register their objections to administration leaders, he said.Habash becomes at least the second official, and the first known official of Palestinian origin, to resign from the administration in protest of President Joe Biden’s actions regarding the war. State Department veteran Josh Paul stepped...