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Residents’ next step after historic floods: dealing with insurance

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:55:00 GMT

Historic flooding in South Florida is bringing headaches for homeowners in more ways than one. Replacing anything that’s damaged is bad enough, and filing an insurance claim may only add to the frustration.The water is slowly receding but still deep in parts of Broward County, as people carry their belongings out in trash bags.It is still so bad that a 7News crew had to go in on a mud buggy to reach homeowner Javier Cabrera.“The water came up to that line,” he said.Cabrera said he was in Boston on business when he looked at his security cameras and saw the devastation.“It was stopping here and didn’t move,” he noted.Both of his cars and home were completely flooded.Asked if he had insurance for the contents of his home, Cabrera responded, “I don’t have content [coverage] because I was not expecting something like this.”Many of these homeowners are down and tired. Fighting insurance companies is the last thing they want to do.R...

7NEWS team members assist with One Boston Day beautification project at Martin’s Park in Boston

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:55:00 GMT

Members of the 7NEWS team were out at Martin’s Park on Friday to help with a beautification effort at a Seaport District park in member of the marathon bombing’s youngest victim.“I think it’s beautiful,” downtown resident Matt Conway said of the Martin’s Park cleanup. “It really is.” Conway lives close to the park and said he loves visiting with his daughter Lenny. Hannah Love, a marathon runner from Scotland, said the park is a must see for her family. “The kids absolutely love the park,” she said. “So, as soon as we said we were coming back to Boston, we had to come back to this park.”7’s Julliana Mazza was one of the volunteers planting flowers and handing out daffodils at Martin’s Park Friday. The flowers represent a new marathon symbol that has signified hope and resilience since the bombing ten years ago. “It’s our hope that, when people in the community see these daffodils, that they are renewed with a sense of hope and this idea of kind of mov...

Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital staffers treated to appreciation event ahead of One Boston Day

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:55:00 GMT

7NEWS was among the organizations out showing its support to hospital workers at Spaulding Rehabilitation in Boston on Friday, one day ahead of One Boston Day, an annual day of service in the city. 7NEWS and other organizations treated the workers to ice cream and other delicious treats.The hospital was one of many locations that took in patients after the two bombings at the Boston Marathon finish line.7NEWS also teamed up with Spaulding to clean up Mayor Thomas Menino Park, the city’s first fully accessible playground.

Athol man gets more than 5 years in prison for participating in Jan. 6 Capitol riots

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:55:00 GMT

An Athol man shown in surveillance footage at the riot on the Capitol battering police with a riot shield will spend more than five years in prison for his role in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.“It was just fun, exciting, enjoyable. I mean, we were all — we were just having a relaxed, nice time,” said Vincent Gilespie during his jury trial in December of 2021, as transcribed in a prosecution sentencing memo filed on March 31.On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell in federal court in Washington, D.C., sentenced Gillespie to 68 months in prison, which amounts to five years and eight months, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Gillespie also has to pay a $25,000 fine and $2,000 in restitution.A D.C. jury convicted him on Dec. 23, 2002, on charges of assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers; civil disorder; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds; and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. The feds say that more than 1,00...

Crime Briefs: Authorities seek help finding 2 Medford men missing since last month

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:55:00 GMT

The Middlesex District Attorney’s office said that two men last heard from on March 30 remain missing and they need the public’s help in finding them.Friends and co-workers reported that Pavel Vekshin, 28, and Kiryl Schukin, 37, who lived in an apartment on Locust Street in Medford, missing on April 9, but that they hadn’t heard from them for more than a week beforehand.“Since the time of their reported disappearance, police have been actively investigating this case and believe the men’s cell phones are off,” the DA’s office wrote in a Friday statement, adding that police had located a vehicle belonging to one or both of the men, “their whereabouts remain unknown.”Investigators ask that anyone with any information contact State Police detectives in Middlesex County at 781-897-6600 and/or Medford Police detectives at 781-391-6767.‘Prison’ is the word for California man who threatened Merriam-Webster HQThe 34-year-old California man who wrote threats like “I am going to shoot and bom...

Knicks’ Julius Randle eyeing Game 1 return from ankle injury in first round vs Cavaliers

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:55:00 GMT

Julius Randle has his eyes on Game 1.The power forward is officially listed as questionable for Saturday’s contest against the Cavaliers, and he’ll warm up pregame with the idea of returning to the lineup, according to ESPN’s Adrian WojnarowskiRandle sprained his ankle on March 29 and the Knicks claimed he wasn’t cleared for contact as recently as Thursday’s practice. Still, coach Tom Thibodeau acknowledged Randle had begun sprinting and he wasn’t worried about conditioning after such a long layoff.“I think he’s done a good job with that,” Thibodeau said. “He’s done a lot of cardio-type stuff. But again, you can do whatever it is, it’s not the same as the intensity of an NBA game. The contact, the strength part of it, the conditioning part of it, that’s where you see it. But whatever he can give us, he’ll give us. I’m confident in that.”Assuming Randle goes through warmups without a setba...

Trolley service in Old Town impacted due to investigation of apparent suicide

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:55:00 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Trolley service in Old Town Friday afternoon has been impacted due to an investigation of an apparent suicide, San Diego police confirmed to FOX 5.The incident occurred at Congress Street and Taylor Street near the Old Town Transit Center, according to police.Around 3:26 p.m., San Diego Metropolitan Transit System tweeted riders should expect delays on the Green and UC San Diego Blue Lines in both directions. Multiple car crash prompting significant delays on I-5 As of 3:38 p.m., the Green Line will operate a bus bridge between Old Town and Fashion Valley while UC San Diego Blue Lines will single-track through the station.No other information has been released at this time.If you know anyone that needs help, Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is available at 988.Check back for updates on this developing story.

Can't go to Coachella? This local brewery has music lovers covered

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:55:00 GMT

VISTA, Calif. -- The first weekend of Coachella is underway and thousands have already made the trek out into the Southern California desert to experience their favorite artists live at the three-day festival.With a stacked line-up for this year's event, it might be hard for San Diegans that aren't able to venture to Indio to quell the fear of missing out.But those music lovers sticking at home should not fret: a local kombucha brewery is bringing a little bit of Coachella right to their Vista taproom.Local Roots Kombucha, located at 1430 Vantage Court, will be hosting a live stream watch party every day this weekend from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m.People will be able to sip on delicious hard kombucha while enjoying broadcast sets from some of the biggest names in music right now. Coachella-themed trivia will also be going on. Music festivals in San Diego this summer: A complete guide for concertgoers Drink specials will be available, from $3 kombucha shots to $5 desert-themed drinks. Anyo...

Former NBA star Shawn Kemp charged in parking lot shooting

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:55:00 GMT

SEATTLE (AP) — Prosecutors in Washington state charged former NBA star Shawn Kemp on Friday with first-degree assault in a parking lot shooting last month over a stolen cellphone, saying that in a text message just before the shooting, Kemp wrote, “I’m about to shoot this (expletive).”Kemp was arrested after the shooting outside the Tacoma Mall on March 8. No one was injured, and Kemp’s lawyers have insisted he returned fire in self defense after tracking and trying to retrieve a cellphone that had been stolen from him earlier that day.One, Tim Leary, did not immediately return a text message seeking comment on the charge.A probable cause statement by Tacoma police, filed in Pierce County Superior Court on Friday, did not indicate Kemp was shot at. It said some of his statements were not corroborated by surveillance video, and that the text message sent just 13 minutes before he arrived at the mall showed his intent.The probable cause document said Kemp told police that after being ...

Mexico arrests 3 more officials in deadly March 27 fire

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:55:00 GMT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican prosecutors said Friday they have arrested three more officials of the country’s immigration agency for a fire at a detention center last month that killed 40 migrants.Among those arrested were the local head of supplies for the immigration agency and an official of the Grupo Beta migrant protection service, the the Attorney General’s Office said in a statement.The director of agency for the northern border state of Chihuahua has been ordered to appear in court, but has not been arrested. The fire occurred March 27 in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, after a migrant allegedly set fire to foam mattresses to protest a supposed transfer.The immigration agency’s top national official, Francisco Garduño, is scheduled to make a court appearance April 21. At that point prosecutors will make their formal accusations and present evidence.Prosecutors had announced Tuesday that Garduño would face unspecified criminal charges in the case.President Andrés Manuel...