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Thieves are taking Dodge Chargers by pushing them into the street, programming with new keys

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:57 GMT

 RED GROVE, Illinois (WBBM) — Car thefts are at their highest level in the U.S. since 2008, and Illinois tops the list.Now, one man from the south suburbs says he knows what is pushing the numbers higher. He caught thieves on surveillance camera pushing his car from his house.The man, Jawuan Bishop, told CBS 2’s Sara Machi he’s he is sick of the trend. Meanwhile, a car expert is looking for solutions.“Sadly enough to say, I kind of already expected that to happen,” Bishop said. “I just didn’t think my day was going to come that day. But it did. And that’s just what happened.”That was Bishop’s reaction after watching video of thieves stealing his Dodge Charger this week. He said he has heard of this trend and caught it on video – after thieves break a rear window, they are able to essentially put the Dodge in neutral.One person is then seen running behind the car to push it into the street. Others joined – a...

Scattered showers in San Diego are expected to taper off at this time

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:57 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- It was a wet Saturday morning for several parts of San Diego County, but the National Weather Service says residents may not need their umbrellas all weekend. Scattered showers are expected to be the most widespread in the morning hours and should decrease into Saturday afternoon, according to weather officials. Looking ahead, the tail end of the rain is expected to taper off Saturday night. Wet weather could impact weekend plans NWS says dry and mild weather conditions are forecast for Sunday and slightly warmer temperatures are expected into Monday. According to weather officials, Sunday's high will range from 65 to 70 degrees west of the mountains, around 50 degrees in the mountains, in the low 80s in the low deserts and upper 60s in the high deserts. This isn't the last of the rain and wind. NWS says the next storm in "the parade of seemingly endless winter storms" is forecast to arrive Tuesday, moving across southern California into the night before leaving the r...

Police: Podcaster and husband shot dead in Seattle-area home

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:57 GMT

REDMOND, Wa. (AP) — A podcaster and her husband were found shot to death in their suburban Seattle home, along with a man who had been suspected of stalking the podcast host for months, in what police who had tried to serve a protection order in the case described as their “worst nightmare.”Police had been trying to serve a protection order on Ramin Khodakaramrezaei, 38, before Friday’s killings, but they had been having a hard time locating the truck driver from Texas, Redmond Police Chief Darrell Lowe said. Zohreh Sadeghi, 33, and her husband, Mohammad Milad Naseri, 35, had just received the court order a week earlier.Sadeghi’s mother called police around 1:45 a.m. Friday after she escaped the home and ran to a neighbor’s house.Officers found Naseri lying on the floor near the door of the home and pulled him outside and saw that he had a gunshot wound. They performed CPR, but he died at the scene. Inside the home, officers found Sadeghi and the suspect dead.“This...

US agencies debunk Florida surgeon general’s vaccine claims

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:57 GMT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — U.S. health agencies have sent a letter to Florida’s surgeon general, warning him that his claims about COVID-19 risks are harmful to the public.The letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was sent Friday to Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo. Ladapo was appointed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2021 and has attracted national scrutiny over his close alignment with the governor in opposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other health policies embraced by the federal government.Ladapo last year released guidance recommending against COVID-19 vaccinations for healthy children, contradicting federal public health leaders whose advice says all kids should get the shots. He also has recommended against men ages 18 to 39 getting the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, claiming that an analysis by the Florida Department of Health showed an 84% increase in cardiac-related deaths.In their letter, the federal agen...

Coroner: Death of former Ohio AMBER Alert infant unexplained

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:57 GMT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An autopsy has concluded that the death of one of two Ohio twin boys who became the center of a statewide AMBER Alert that garnered nationwide attention last year was due to “sudden unexplained infant death” that involved an “unsafe sleep environment.”The Franklin County Coroner’s Office on Friday cited “no evidence of trauma, foul play, abuse, or neglect” in the Jan. 28 death of the 6-month-old Columbus boy.The office said the child had been placed face-down on an adult bed with excess bedding and pillows, which it called an unsafe sleep environment, after being fed and was left unsupervised, but it could not be determined whether such “significant conditions” played a role in his death.The coroner’s office said young infants have limited neck muscle strength to reposition their airway which can lead to a form of oxygen deprivation, but the office couldn’t confirm or exclude “a contributory component of mechanical or obstructive asphyxia” so the manner o...

Americans’ fun road trip to Mexico became days of horror

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:57 GMT

LAKE CITY, S.C. (AP) — It was supposed to be a fun road trip to Mexico, a post-pandemic adventure for a group of childhood friends.One was treating herself to cosmetic surgery after having six children. It was a 34th birthday celebration for another. They rented a white van in South Carolina and set out on the nearly 22-hour trip, shooting silly videos and driving straight through to Brownsville, on the tip of Texas.“Good morning America!” Eric Williams said into the camera in the early morning hours after the all-night drive. “Mexico, here we come.”But once they got to Mexico, the trip took a terrible turn. Two members of the group would never make it home, victims of the ruthless Gulf Cartel, a drug gang tied to brutal killings and kidnappings in the violent border city of Matamoros, a city of a half a million people that has long been a stronghold of the powerful cartel.There could hardly be a worse border town to pick for a fun adventure.It all started when Latavia McGee, booked...

Ukrainian firefighters on risky mission to save lives, homes

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:57 GMT

KOSTIANTINIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Thick grey smoke pours from the roof as the firefighters arrive at the brick house, one of several homes hit by Russian shelling in a residential neighborhood of Kostiantinivka. The city in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk province has come under intense bombardment in recent days amid a Russian push to capture nearby Bakhmut, where Ukrainian forces have held on during a grinding battle that started last summer.Ukrainian authorities say Russian forces are attacking Kostiantinivka with cluster bombs and missiles. Pavlo Kyrylenko, the governor of Donetsk province, said one person was killed and at least three civilians wounded after several rounds of Russian shelling on Saturday.An attack on the city a day earlier injured eight people and destroyed or damaged more than a dozen houses. The barrages have overwhelmed local firefighters, who take great risks putting out fires in buildings and cars even as the shelling continues. The air is heavy with smoke an...

Whatever happened to Ontario’s plan to ditch time changes?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:57 GMT

Remember all that talk about doing away with time changes? Well, here we go again. The clocks are springing forward on Sunday morning at 2 a.m. even though Ontario passed a bill back in 2020 to permanently stay on Daylight Saving Time. So why has nothing happened? The legislation passed in Ontario included a very important caveat – both Quebec and New York State had to make the move at the same time. The Ford government tells CityNews despite the legislation, nothing’s changed and they’re not willing to go it alone. And in a rare move, this is one issue that opposition leaders are actually in agreement with.“We voted for it, if New York does it, then we’re going to do it,” said Interim Ontario Liberal Leader John Fraser. “As long as we’re all on the same page with it, that’s what works.”“My personal preference is that we do not change the clocks in the spring and the fall,” Ontario Green Party Leader Mike Schrei...

An anti-government protest in Czech capital draws thousands

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:57 GMT

PRAGUE (AP) — Thousands of people in the Czech Republic rallied against the government Saturday, protesting high inflation and demanding an end to the country’s military support for Ukraine.A new political group, PRO, organized the rally at Prague’s Wenceslas Square as an anti-poverty event. As participants called on the coalition government to resign, party leader Jindrich Rajchl said they want “a government to care first of all about the interests of the Czech citizens.”His group, whose name translates in English to Law, Respect, Expertise, blames the European Union for soaring energy prices. Inflation slightly dropped to 16.7% in Czechia in February from 17.5% a month earlier. PRO also wants the Czech government to stop taking actions that are intended to reduce misinformation and fake news.Ukraine was a key issue at Saturday’s demonstration, where the crowd called for a peaceful solution to the war. Some people had the letter “Z,” a symbol of the Russian milita...

Human hand found by man walking dog in NYC; investigators find out who it belonged to

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:57 GMT

PLEASANT PLAINS, Staten Island (WPIX) — A man walking his dog in New York found a human hand on Thursday, but police have since determined where it came from.The unnerving find was made on Staten Island, in a wooded area near the North Mount Loretto State Forest in Pleasant Plains around 2:30 p.m. Thursday, the NYPD said.Officials from the city medical examiner’s office responded and confirmed the body part to be a right hand. Jogger in NYC’s Central Park finds skeletal remains On Saturday morning, officials with the NYPD's Public Information office confirmed that investigators identified the severed hand's fingerprints and determined it had belonged to a 63-year-old woman who died in 2011.The woman had been buried at Resurrection Cemetery, about a mile's drive from where the hand was found. Police said a plot next to hers had recently been excavated on Feb. 27 for a new burial. It is believed the equipment used to remove the soil from the plot severed the deceased's hand, and tha...