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Oprah Winfrey visits Maui shelters and donates time, supplies to fire evacuees

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:19:16 GMT

(CNN) — Oprah Winfrey was spotted at shelters on Maui visiting with people displaced by the wildfires and bringing much needed supplies this week.“Mahalo Nui Oprah for following through! She returned with cots, pillows, and toiletries for the people in the shelter in Wailuku. She even spent some time with the people there. It was very much appreciated,” local non-profit group Kāko’o Haleakalā posted on Instagram with video of Winfrey carrying pillows through crowds of people on cots and folding chairs.Winfrey, media mogul and former talk show host, owns property on the island, and her spokesperson confirmed to CNN she has been volunteering at emergency shelters.“Oprah has been to several local shelters to ask first-hand what was most needed,” Oprah’s spokesperson said. “She then went to Walmart and Costco to shop for the items and brought them back. It is heart-breaking devastation.”Hettrick said Winfrey plans to give more support “as it becomes clear which funds can be the mos...

Charges filed against 52-year-old man in 2022 deadly boat crash in Boca Chita

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:19:16 GMT

Charges were filed against a 52-year-old-man who is accused of causing a horrible boat crash that claimed the life of a young woman and injured several others in Boca Chita on Labor Day of 2022.George Pino faces counts of careless operation of a vessel causing death and serious bodily injury, which are both second degree misdemeanors.Pino was at the helm of a boat the collided with a channel marker, which threw those on board into the water. Seventeen-year-old Luciana Fernandez was killed in the accident.

Pregnant woman found dead in fire pit at North Carolina home was shot in the head, autopsy states

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:19:16 GMT

CARY, North Carolina (WRAL) — A pregnant woman found dead in March in a fire pit outside a Cary home was tied with rope and shot in the head, according to reports from the state Medical Examiner’s Office.Authorities identified the woman as Cecily Anne Walker-Scott, 34, of Raleigh, after finding her body in a fire pit outside a home on Dorset Drive in Cary.Police said the home belonged to Ian Delauder, a 35-year-old man who died after shooting himself March 19 outside his house.Authorities did not reveal the nature of their relationship but said Delauder was the murder suspect in Walker-Scott’s death.A toxicology report from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Raleigh indicates Walker-Scott had methamphetamine, cocaine and fentanyl in her system.According to the accompanying autopsy report, Walker-Scott was found covered with burnt trash, mulch and melted black plastic, believed to be the remnants of a burned trash can. A bloodied rope was also around her waist.Th...

Maui wildfires kill at least 55 people, and the race to find survivors is grim as countless residents in torched areas remain missing

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:19:16 GMT

(CNN) — The frantic search for survivors trapped by Maui’s infernos has grown bleak, with cadaver dogs sifting through the charred remains of neighborhoods and countless residents still nowhere to be found.The death toll from this week’s wildfires has soared to 55 in what could be the largest natural disaster in Hawaii’s history, the governor said.“We will continue to see loss of life,” Gov. Josh Green said during a news conference late Thursday. “We also have many hundreds of homes destroyed, and that’s going to take a great deal of time to recover from.”Now, families wait in agony to learn what happened to their missing loved ones.Live updates: Deadly wildfires burn across MauiTimm Williams Sr., a 66-year-old disabled veteran who uses a wheelchair, last spoke with his family Wednesday as he was trying to flee Kaanapali, just north of the obliterated town of Lahaina.Shortly before he went missing, Williams sent a photo of flames shooting toward the sky, his granddaughter ...

Suspect arrested after allegedly stealing car from Danvers grocery store, leading to chase

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:19:16 GMT

A 38-year-old man from Springfield, Mass., is in custody after authorities say he led state and local police on a chase, following a carjacking in Danvers.Massachusetts State Police spokesperson Dave Procopio said the pursuit occurred after a suspect allegedly stole a woman’s vehicle in the parking lot of a Stop & Shop.According to Procopio, the suspect went on to drive along Route 97 and I-95 South, pursued by police from Topsfield at one point before state troopers took over.“[The] vehicle had damage from some sort of crash he was in before the pursuit began,” Procopio said in a news release. “We ended up stopping him just north of the Ferncroft rotary on the Danvers-Boxford line.”Following his apprehension, the suspect was taken to a hospital after he “complained of pain.”Procopio said the suspect will later be turned over to the Danvers Police Department, where authorities are expected to charge him in relation to the carjacking.

Bourne man indicted on indecent assault, child enticement charges following incident involving two juveniles

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:19:16 GMT

A 60-year-old man from Bourne was indicted on multiple counts of assault and battery, as well as indecent assault and child enticement, after an incident that occurred on a local beach, according to officials.The Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office announced on Friday that Jeffrey Burgess was indicted by a Grand Jury over what happened after he allegedly approached two juvenile females at Electric Ave. Beach on Aug. 7.According to the DA’s office, Burgess allegedly made sexual advances towards the juveniles and “tried to persuade them to go to a wooded area near the beach.”“It is alleged that Burgess touched both juveniles on their hands and arms and touched one juvenile with his tongue,” the DA’s office stated in a news release.Officials said that as of Friday, Aug. 11, Burgess remains in custody and is being held on bail.The total number of charges he faces include:Assault and Battery (3x counts)Indecent Assault and Battery on a Ch...

Judge sends FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to jail, says crypto mogul tampered with witnesses

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:19:16 GMT

By LARRY NEUMEISTER (Associated Press)NEW YORK (AP) — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried left a federal courtroom in handcuffs Friday after a judge revoked his bail after concluding that the fallen cryptocurrency wiz had repeatedly tried to influence witnesses against him.Bankman-Fried looked down at his hands as Judge Lewis A. Kaplan explained at length why he believed the California man had repeatedly pushed the boundaries of his $250 million bail package to a point that Kaplan could no longer ensure the protection of the community, including prosecutors’ witnesses, unless the 31-year-old was behind bars.At the conclusion of the hearing, Bankman-Fried took off his suit jacket and tie and turned his watch and other personal belongings over to his lawyers. The clanging of handcuffs could be heard as his hands were cuffed in front of him. He was then led out of the courtroom by U.S. marshals.It was a spectacular fall for a man once viewed by many as a savvy crypto visionary wh...

Nestor Cortes — son of South Florida and Cuba — will have to wait to make his bucket list start in Miami

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:19:16 GMT

MIAMI — The last time the Yankees visited the Marlins, Nestor Cortes found himself filling an unusual role in a familiar setting.A resident of nearby Hialeah, Florida, Cortes had to pinch-run late in the game with the Yankees’ bench depleted. A left-handed pitcher, Cortes is known for his arm, not his legs. But he gladly made his first major league appearance in his hometown ballpark — even if it left him desiring more.“That was pretty cool,” Cortes told the Daily News of his awkward stumble around the bases in 2021, but he added that it would also be “cool to go back and actually pitch a game there.”Cortes would have gotten his wish on Saturday had he not surprisingly landed on the 15-day injured list on Friday afternoon with a left rotator cuff strain. He had been scheduled to start against the Marlins, the team he grew up rooting for, at LoanDepot Park, before the latest blow in an already injury-ravaged campaign.But he will still see fri...

Ticker: Demand for the new 486-horsepower V-8 Ford Mustang is roaring; Russia is back on the lunar path

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:19:16 GMT

New versions of the Mustang muscle car will begin shipping next week and more than two thirds of the orders include the big, 5-liter V-8 engine, Ford said Friday.Demand for roaring engines remains strong in an era when Detroit automakers are starting to phase out the rumbling gas burners and transition to electric vehicles in order to meet strict government emissions and fuel economy requirements.There are about 13,000 U.S. orders for the 2024 Mustangs, Ford says, which also can be equipped with a four-cylinder turbocharged engine. Of those orders, 67% have the V-8, and more than a quarter of the people seeking that Mustang want the six-speed manual transmission, spokesman Mike Levine says.Russia is back on the lunar pathA rocket carrying a lunar landing craft blasted off Friday on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years, racing to land on Earth’s satellite ahead of an Indian spacecraft.The launch from Russia’s Vostochny spaceport in the Far East of the Luna-25 craft to the m...

Upon return, Kevin Brown says he has ‘wonderful relationship’ with Orioles and ‘solid dialogue’ with John Angelos

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:19:16 GMT

Set to make his return to the Orioles’ Mid-Atlantic Sports Network booth Friday, broadcaster Kevin Brown publicly addressed his absence from the network for the first time.Brown, the network’s lead play-by-play announcer for Orioles games, hasn’t appeared on a MASN broadcast since calling the Orioles’ July 23 series finale against the Tampa Bay Rays, when, during a pregame segment, he listed team-provided statistics about the team’s struggles in recent seasons at Tropicana Field with Baltimore on the cusp of winning its first series there since 2017.He was scheduled to be on the call for the subsequent series against the Philadelphia Phillies, but instead broadcasted those games for the Orioles Radio Network. He hasn’t called an Orioles game on television or radio since July 26, but is scheduled to return for Friday’s series opener against the Seattle Mariners.“O’s fans – I’m a storyteller. And never want to be a part...