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Greek police arrest 2 suspected of planning terror attacks

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:12:07 GMT

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Police in Greece say they have arrested two terrorism suspects who had been planning attacks in the country aimed at causing mass casualties.The suspects were allegedly part of an overseas terrorism network. They are being held at police headquarters in central Athens, authorities said Tuesday.Greece’s anti-terrorism police division and National Intelligence Service were involved in the arrest, according to a police statement, and were assisted by a foreign intelligence service that has not been named.Source

Pedestrian killed in hit-and-run in west Denver

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:12:07 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A pedestrian was killed in a hit-and-run crash on Sheridan Boulevard late Monday night. According to the Denver Police Department, officers were called to investigate a crash on West 10th Avenue and North Sheridan Boulevard at around 11 p.m. Monday night. The area is in west Denver in the Villa Park neighborhood. Armed suspect arrested after barricade situation lasting more than 8 hours DPD said a driver collided with a pedestrian. The pedestrian was declared dead on scene, and the driver fled without leaving any information or checking on the victim. DPD said officers located the suspect vehicle but no arrests have been made. Anyone with information on this hit-and-run is asked to call Denver Police or Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.

Colorado had a bigger share of movers than any other state in 2021

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:12:07 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — More of Colorado's population was living in new homes in 2021 than any other U.S. state. Colorado's status as a destination state developed in the 2010s with a record number of people moving into the state in 2015. During the COVID pandemic, its desirability increased as a destination for workers looking for more square footage and more outdoor opportunities. A statewide shuffle of downsizing, upsizing, out-migration and in-migration took hold as rent and homeownership prices went from high to prohibitive. Armed suspect arrested after barricade situation lasting more than 8 hours More of Colorado's people were shuffled around in 2021 than anywhere else, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey.The survey said 16.3% of Colorado residents over 1 year old were living in a different house in the U.S. or Puerto Rico the previous year - roughly one in every six people. Only Washington, D.C. had a higher share of movers, with 19.2%. Colorado cit...

1 detained following reports of armed person at medical center in SW Miami-Dade

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:12:07 GMT

One person was detained after police responded to reports of an armed and dangerous person at the Capital Plaza Medical Center on Kendall Drive. The incident occurred at 10700 SW 88 St. in Southwest Miami-Dade, Tuesday. According to authorities, they received at least one phone call indicating that there was somebody armed with a gun on the premises after someone on the property noticed them on a security camera. Police immediately responded to the scene around 11:15 a.m. and began clearing every level of the building. The evacuation process began on the fourth floor, and all evacuees were escorted across the street to a nearby gas station where a command post was set up.During the search, police detained one man for questioning who matched the description of the person with the gun that was described to them.The evacuees have since been cleared to return back into the building. The incident was captured by 7SkyForce from above where police could be seen around the building.As of 1 ...

Police detain 2 men in Miami Gardens suspected to be involved in shooting in Fort Lauderdale

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:12:07 GMT

Police detained two men who might be connected to a shooting. An officer in Fort Lauderdale spotted the subjects in a vehicle at Broward Boulevard on Interstate 95, Tuesday morning. The vehicle was stopped by police in Miami Gardens at Second Avenue.7Skyforce hovered over the scene where a large police presence surrounded the vehicle during a traffic stop.The driver and a passenger were taken into custody by Lauderdale Police.According to police, the vehicle, a silver Mercedes Benz, matched the description of a car potentially connected to a shooting that happened Monday in Fort Lauderdale. During that shooting, a woman was caught in the crossfire off of Northwest 20th Street. The victim was shot in the leg and was taken to the hospital. She is expected to be OK.Investigators said that that woman was not the intended target. One lane along Northeast Second Avenue has been closed as police continue their investigation. Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more det...

Young children, the head of their school and its custodian. These are the victims of the Nashville school shooting

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:12:07 GMT

(CNN) — Another American community is reeling after a shooter killed three 9-year-olds and three adults at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville.Monday’s attack was the deadliest US school shooting in nearly a year and the 19th shooting at a school or university so far in 2023 that left at least one person wounded, a CNN count shows.Some 562 such shootings have unfolded since 2008.“Our community is heartbroken,” the Covenant School, a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church, said in a statement. “We are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church. We are focused on loving our students, our families, our faculty and staff and beginning the process of healing. …“We appreciate the outpouring of support we have received, and we are tremendously grateful to the first responders who acted quickly to protect our students, faculty and staff. We ask for privacy as our community...

Video shows Nashville police search school, fire at shooter

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:12:07 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville police released video Tuesday from a body-worn camera that shows a team of officers entering and searching an elementary school, then confronting and opening fire on an assailant who had murdered three children and three adults in the latest school shooting to roil the nation.The dramatic, six-minute video supplements an earlier release, late Monday, of about two minutes of edited surveillance footage that shows the shooter’s car driving up to the school, glass doors being shot out and the shooter ducking through one of them.The new video from Officer Rex Engelbert’s body cam shows a woman greeting police outside as they arrive at The Covenant School on Monday. “The kids are all locked down, but we have two kids that we don’t know where they are,” she tells police.“OK, yes, ma’am,” Engelbert replies.The woman then directs officers to Fellowship Hall and says people inside had just heard gunshots. “Upstairs are a bunch of kids...

Man dies after falling through Lake Champlain ice on ATV

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:12:07 GMT

SWANTON, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont man has died after falling through the ice while riding an all-terrain vehicle on Lake Champlain.Donald Jones, 82, of Richmond, died Monday evening at Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans, Vermont State Police said.Emergency crews responded to a call on Monday afternoon that a man had fallen through the ice several hundred feet from shore in Swanton.Rescuers found Jones and brought him to shore about 30 minutes later, police said. Rescuers provided lifesaving measures before Jones was taken by ambulance to the St. Albans hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said.An autopsy will be performed to determine the cause and manner of death.In February, three ice fishermen died after falling through the ice on Lake Champlain in two separate incidents within days of each other.

RI soldier who died during Korean War accounted for

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:12:07 GMT

CUMBERLAND, R.I. (AP) — An Army sergeant from Rhode Island who was captured during the Korean War and died of starvation in a POW camp in May 1951 has been accounted for, military officials said.Sgt. Lawrence J. Robidoux 22, of Cumberland, will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery on a date to be determined, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said in a statement.Robidoux was accounted for in January after his remains were identified using mitochondrial DNA, dental and anthropological analysis. His family was recently briefed on his identification.Robidoux, a member of B Company, 1st Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, was reported missing in action on Nov. 27, 1950, the DPAA said.According to his personnel profile on the DPAA’s website, his company came under Chinese attack from two sides and after the Chinese infiltrated the American positions, U.S. troops pulled back.Robidoux was captured and marched to a POW camp on the Yalu River. POWs release...

Bankman-Fried charged with paying $40M bribe to China to unfreeze crypto

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:12:07 GMT

NEW YORK — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was charged with directing $40 million in bribes to one or more Chinese officials to unfreeze assets relating to his cryptocurrency business in a newly rewritten indictment unsealed Tuesday.The charge of conspiracy to violate the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act raises to 13 the number of charges Bankman-Fried faces after he was arrested in the Bahamas in December and brought to the United States soon afterward. The indictment was returned on Monday.FTX filed for bankruptcy on Nov. 11, when it ran out of money after the cryptocurrency equivalent of a bank run. He has remained free on a $250 million personal recognizance bond that lets him stay with his parents in Palo Alto, California.He has pleaded not guilty to charges that he cheated investors out of billions of dollars before his business collapsed.An arraignment on the rewritten indictment was set for Thursday by U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan. He also on...