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Fairfax Co. police share tips on securing your home before vacation

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:55:39 GMT

Summer is a time where a lot of people leave town. But while you’re enjoying your vacation, burglars could be plotting on your empty home.The Fairfax County, Virginia, Police Department reported 680 cases of burglary or breaking and entering in 2022, a 21% increase since 2021.As a result of this, the department’s crime prevention unit is sharing some home security reminders so that it doesn’t happen to you.The weakest point of your home’s doorways and how to operate a personal alarm system is outlined in the department’s home and property protection guide. Ensure that your residence appears occupied even when no one is home by using timers on lights inside, police said.That extends to the outside of your home too, including keeping the perimeter of your property well-lit and landscaping trimmed near entrances and walkways.“Exterior lighting is extremely important to residential security,” officials said. “Each exterior doorway should b...

Champions League final: Haaland and Martinez could hold keys to victory for Man City, Inter Milan

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:55:39 GMT

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — While Erling Haaland is feeling the weight of expectations ahead of Saturday’s Champions League final, Lautaro Martinez is aiming to complete a spectacular double, six months after winning the World Cup with Argentina.They are the players who could make the difference when Manchester City faces Inter Milan at Istanbul’s Ataturk Olimpiyat Stadium.“Of course I feel pressure,” said Haaland, the prolific City striker. “I would lie if I said I didn’t. You say it yourself and it’s true — they (City) won the Premier League without me, they won every trophy without me. So I’m here to try to do a thing that the club has never done before and I’ll do my best.”Haaland’s frank admission is a measure of what is at stake in European club soccer’s biggest game.He has appeared to have ice in his veins in his first season at City in which he has scored 52 goals, won two trophies and is now on the brink of leading the club to its first Champions League ...

Última hora tras el encuentro de niños desaparecidos en selva de Colombia, en vivo

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:55:39 GMT

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How Loudoun Co. schools are responding to rise in hate incidents

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:55:39 GMT

School officials in Loudoun County, Virginia, say they’re offering training and professional learning and have hosted a series of sessions with the Anti-Defamation League in response to an increase in hate incidents.At an equity committee meeting earlier this month, the school system said it recorded 294 incidents involving hate speech or racial slurs in the third quarter of the school year. As of May 31, the county reported 262 incidents in the fourth quarter, and 861 total incidents this school year.It comes at a time when other D.C.-area school systems have also reported a rise in hate and bias incidents. In Montgomery County, Maryland, for example, Superintendent Monifa McKnight said the county is averaging about one hate incident per day this school year, triple the number it reported when compared to previous years and before the pandemic.In Loudoun, staff members in the Division of Equity have visited schools to see what’s going on at each campus and what can be d...

Bubba’s Ice Cream back in business at new Danville location

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:55:39 GMT

DANVILLE, Va. (AP) — Bubba’s Ice Cream, a long-time beloved establishment that closed its North Main Street location for good last fall, is selling sweet frozen treats again at a new spot.Owner John Arnone opened the business back up in May in a renovated former car wash building on Franklin Turnpike, next to Rubens Too restaurant.Arnone likes the new location due to more traffic along Va. 41 than at the old North Main site.“It’s been going real well,” he said during an interview at the business. “I thought it was going to be a good location and it has been.”Bubba’s Ice Cream has been a local institution for Dan River Region residents since it first opened in Danville in 1959.Thirty-nine-year-old customer Christina Holley has enjoyed Bubba’s Ice Cream since she was a small child.“I like the banana split in a cup,” said the Blairs area resident, who brought her two daughters and their two friends along. “That’s my favorite.”Bubba’s new location is more convenient for Holley, she said...

Denver weather: Cooler weekend with more showers and storms

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:55:39 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver's weather will be cooler this weekend with afternoon thunderstorms Saturday and more widely scattered showers on Sunday. Weather today: Morning sunshine followed by afternoon thunderstorms Morning sunshine will help temperatures climb to the mid-70s. Pinpoint Weather: mild temperatures June 10. Free concerts, events and festivities in the metro this weekend By the afternoon, clouds will build in followed by showers and thunderstorms. Pinpoint Weather: temperatures cool as clouds roll in on June 10.There is a marginal risk for stronger storms turning severe east of Denver. Weather tonight: Showers clearing, mostly cloudyShowers and thunderstorms will wrap up this evening. We will be left with a mainly cloudy sky and low temperature in the 50s, which is right in line with normal for this time of year. Pinpoint Weather: mild temperatures linger after storm June 10. Nuggets win Game 4, bring series lead to 3-1 in Miami Looking ahead: Soggy start t...

Toddler in Volusia County dies after being left in car for nearly 3 hours

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:55:39 GMT

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (WSVN) – Parents rushed their toddler to the hospital in Volusia County after leaving her inside a truck for more than two hours. Body camera footage showed Volusia County sheriff’s deputies putting crime scene tape around a blue pickup truck outside of a hospital on Thursday. The vehicle belonged to the parents of the two-year-old girl.A report from the sheriff’s office said that the family, including three other siblings ranging in age from 14 years old to 8 years old, forgot the toddler in the truck after returning home from lunch. It wasn’t until after they were about to leave the home nearly three hours later that they found the child strapped in her car seat and unresponsive. Her parents rushed her to the hospital where she was pronounced dead.According to the President of Kids and Car Safety Janette Fennell, it doesn’t take long for a car’s internal temperature to reach unsafe levels.“In the first ten minutes, the...

Woburn crash sends motorcyclist to hospital

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:55:39 GMT

Police are investigating a motorcycle crash in Woburn Saturday morning that sent one to the hospital.The motorcyclist was seriously injured and was taken to the hospital, officials said. The incident happened on Route 128 Southbound, and some lanes are closed.

Bill Madden: Buck Showalter isn’t too blame for the mess that is this $345M Mets team

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:55:39 GMT

Suffice it to say, Steve Cohen feels little consolation over dodging a $185 million bullet with Jacob deGrom needing Tommy John surgery.The bleak deGrom news out of Texas was announced Tuesday, but three days later Cohen’s $345 million Mets had been swept by the Braves in Atlanta and began the weekend three games under .500 in fourth place in the National League East.Naturally, the talk radio yahoos are screaming for Cohen to start shaking things up at Citi Field, but while mistakes and miscalculations have been made, fault for this pratfall in Queens lies other than in the manager’s office. For it’s not Buck Showalter’s fault that Daniel Vogelbach has been an absolute bust as the primary DH, and it’s not his fault that Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander, his twin $40-plus million supposed aces, gave up 10 runs in a combined 8 2/3 innings against the Braves, and it’s certainly not his fault that Pete Alonso got hit on the wrist with an errant Charl...

Trump set for first public appearances since federal indictment with speeches to GOP audiences

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:55:39 GMT

COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Saturday is set to make his first public appearances since his federal indictment, speaking to friendly Republican audiences in Georgia and North Carolina as he tries to rally supporters to his defense.Trump, who remains the front-runner for the 2024 GOP nomination despite his mounting legal woes, is expected to use speeches at two state party conventions to rail against the charges and amplify his assertions that he is the victim of a politically motivated “witch hunt” by Democratic President Joe Biden’s Justice Department.The indictment unsealed Friday charged him with 37 felony counts in connection with his hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Trump is accused of willfully defying Justice Department demands to return classified documents, enlisting aides in his efforts to hide the records and even telling his lawyers that he wanted to defy a subpoena for the materials stored at his residence. T...