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Israel orders more people in crowded southern Gaza to evacuate as heavy bombardment shifts south

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:30 GMT

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel’s military ordered more areas in and around Gaza’s second-largest city of Khan Younis to evacuate on Sunday, followed by heavy bombardment, as it shifted its offensive to the southern half of the territory where it asserts that leaders of the Hamas militant group are hiding.Palestinians in Gaza said they were running out of places to go. The Gaza Strip, bordering Israel and Egypt, is sealed. Many of the territory’s 2.3 million people are crammed in the south after Israel ordered civilians to leave the north in the early days of the war sparked by the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas and other militants that killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in southern Israel.Before the latest evacuation orders, United Nations monitors said the areas told to evacuate made up about one-quarter of the territory.Heavy bombardment was reported overnight into Sunday around Khan Younis and the southern city of Rafah, as well as parts of the north that had...

Alabama man sentenced to more than 3 years for assaulting officers during Jan. 6 riot

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:30 GMT

An Alabama man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for assaulting officers during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.Dillion Colby Herrington, 31, of Madison, Alabama, was sentenced to 37 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release after pleading guilty to one count of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.Police said that he was carrying a knife and taser at the time and was attending the “Stop the Steal Rally” before the riot.Herrington was on the West Plaza of the Capitol grounds in a group of rioters who were “taunting” officers who were in a “defense police line,” according to court documents.The documents say that Herrington repeatedly approached police displaying his middle finger and approached one officer and shouted, “Look me in the f— eyes, m—f—! I’m coming for you.”Police say he had to be retrained by other rioter...

Fatal Miami car accident sends 4 to hospital; 1 killed

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:30 GMT

A pedestrian was killed in Miami after a violent car accident involving three other people.Police received a call just before 4:30 a.m. on Sunday and arrived at the scene where they found the pedestrian hit and three people trapped inside a car. They used the jaws of life to free them. The four people were rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital Trauma Center, where one was pronounced dead.No information has been released on the state of the condition of the three others involved in the wreck or details on what caused the crash. Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

DA: Man found stabbed outside Kowloon Restaurant in Saugus has died

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:30 GMT

A police investigation is underway after a man was found fatally stabbed in the parking lot of Kowloon Restaurant in Saugus on Saturday night, police said.The man was found stabbed around 9 p.m. and pronounced dead soon after at Mass General Hospital, according to a statement issued by Essex District Attorney Paul F. Tucker and Saugus Police Chief Michael Ricciardelli. His name has not been released.Video shared from the scene showed paramedics rendering aid to the injured man in a taped-off section of the parking lot.The stabbing came a week after a wild brawl at the iconic restaurant the night before Thanksgiving.No additional information was immediately available.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Sunday Rain

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:30 GMT

Grab the umbrella and rain gear! It’ll be a soggy, cooler and breezy day.We have showers moving in this morning. Rain will turn steadier through the morning, heavy at times this afternoon. With the showers and wind out of the east/northeast temperatures will be stuck in the 40s. We won’t have a lot of forward movement with our temperatures today. It’ll be breezy this afternoon with winds gusting 20-25 mph at times.This is a rain event for us. Up north, some of the highest elevations could get a half a foot or more of snow. Great for ski resorts to open more trails!Hope you can join us through 11 am on 7News as we track the rain.-Meteorologist Melanie Black

Needham man redeploying to support IDF in ongoing war with Hamas

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:30 GMT

A Needham man is deploying to support the Israel Defense Forces for the second time in recent months as the conflict with Hamas continues.Boaz Arbel, who deployed at the onset of the conflict Oct. 7, says he served for about a month and is now returning for an expected two-month redeployment.“This is horrible it’s just mind-blowing beyond anything to explain that,” he said. “Being here in Israel seeing the hostage releases.” Arbel, whose four daughters are also serving, says his mind is with the hostages who are still being held in Gaza.“It’s sadness beyond explanation,” he said. “Those who are staying back there underneath, in the tunnels, in cages.” Arbel wears a dog tag around his neck that reads “bring them home” in English and in Hebrew as a reminder of what he’s fighting for.“I am hopeful and that’s what Israel lives for, Israel lives for peace and I’m confident that we will ge...

Person dead after stabbing at Kowloon Restaurant in Saugus

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:30 GMT

A person is dead after a second violent incident in less than a month at the iconic Kowloon Restaurant on Route 1 in Saugus.Less than two weeks after the now-infamous “Thanksgiving Eve Brawl” went viral and led to the arrests of four people, authorities say the Saugus Police Department again responded there on Saturday night and found the victim in the parking lot.“Authorities are investigating a fatal incident in Saugus Saturday evening,” Essex County DistrictAttorney Paul Tucker and Saugus Police Chief Michael Ricciardelli announced in a release. “The victim was found with a knife wound in the parking lot of Kowloon Restaurant, 948 Broadway, Saugus, after 9:00 p.m.”The victim, who has not been identified, was rushed to Mass General Hospital, where they “pronounced deceased a short time later,” according to the DA.More information is expected to be provided after noon on Sunday, according to authorities.The fatal stabbing is the second violent incident at the Kowloon to make headli...

Glenys Kinnock, former UK minister, European Parliament member and wife of ex-Labour leader, dies

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:30 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Glenys Kinnock, a former British cabinet minister, member of the European Parliament and wife of former Labour leader Neil Kinnock, has died. She was 79.Kinnock died Sunday at her London home some six years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, her family said.Kinnock went from being a schoolteacher to an outspoken politician to cabinet minister under former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and was known for her work to reduce poverty and starvation in Africa and other parts of the world.Tony Blair, the former prime minister, said she had been a huge support to her husband but was a leader herself and her passing would be mourned in many places around the globe. “She was a huge figure in progressive politics for decades: incredibly smart, brave, determined and resolute in standing up for what she believed was right,” Blair said. “Whether in fighting the cause of development, and the eradication of global poverty, social justice in Britain, equality for women...

Frustrated Vaughan residents say illegal land use destroying their community

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:30 GMT

On the edge of Vaughan, there’s no shortage of serene countryside. But talk to people in the area and they say that has changed in recent years.“Our biggest concern is that by doing nothing, it just manifests itself,” says resident John Bartella, pointing to the rise in businesses that have popped up on farm and residential properties at the King-Vaughan border.“The noise that happens from these industrial machineries, they’re continuously throughout the day and it’s not fair. We have residents that have been here in this community for over 50 years, they’re in their golden years, they’re trying to enjoy a summer day in their backyards and they’re unable to.”Once a picturesque street, Coal Creek Road in the Kleinburg area of Vaughan has a different look these days with trucks and sea containers stacked high, stored up and down the street in an area mostly zoned agricultural. Truck after truck can also be seen on a road wher...

Guinea-Bissau’s leader calls a shootout an attempted coup, heightening tensions in West Africa

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:30 GMT

BISSAU, Guinea Bissau (AP) — A shootout in Guinea-Bissau’s capital Friday was an attempted coup, President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said Sunday after a meeting with security forces, confirming fears over the latest threat to democracy in the increasingly volatile and coup-hit West Africa.“They attempted a coup and failed to materialize their objective,” Embalo said, after members of the National Guard command improperly released two ministers detained over alleged corruption, resulting in a shootout with the Presidential Palace Battalion.During a visit to the National Guard command in Bissau, Embalo said Victor Tchongo, the head of the National Guard, has been dismissed and “will pay dearly” for the attempt to depose the president. “You are all betrayed by your commander … (and) this is why we advise you to distance yourself from politicians and do your service to the nation,” he told officers.The attempted coup is the second in West and Central Africa in a week after last week’s ...