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Florida floods: FLL airport reopens as residents clean up mess

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:11:41 GMT

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Fort Lauderdale’s airport reopened Friday morning, two days after an unprecedented deluge left planes and travelers stranded, as residents in the city’s hardest hit neighborhoods began the slow process of cleaning up the mess left behind.Officials at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport completed final inspections after sunrise Friday and resumed operations at 9 a.m.In a tweet Friday morning, airport officials advised travelers to check with their airlines on updated flight schedules before going to the airport.The airport shut down Wednesday evening as a storm dumped more than 2 feet (60 centimeters) of rain.“Nature has been unkind to us,” Broward County Mayor Lamar Fisher said during a news conference Thursday afternoon at the airport.While it started raining on Monday in South Florida, much of the water fell Wednesday, and the Fort Lauderdale area saw record rainfall amounts in a matter of hours, ranging from 15 inches (38 centi...

Suspect in Cash App founder killing makes court appearance

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:11:41 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The 38-year-old tech consultant charged in the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee made his first appearance in a San Francisco courtroom Friday but did not enter a plea.Nima Momeni, a tech consultant who police say knew Lee, is now scheduled to be arraigned April 25.The judge ordered Momeni held in jail without bail, as requested by San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.Momeni appeared in court in an orange sweatshirt and pants. He did not speak except to say “yes, your honor” when the judge asked if he agreed to decline his right to a speedy trial.He is represented by Burlingame attorney Paula Canny, who is on vacation and whose brother Robert Canny, also an attorney, appeared in her place Friday. “The facts of what occurred, or didn’t occur, will come out over time,” he told reporters after the hearing.In the courtroom were Momeni’s sister Khazar Elyassnia and her husband.On Thursday, San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott announced Momeni̵...

Fort Lauderdale residents seek shelter at Holiday Park; mayor provides update after historic floods impact community

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:11:41 GMT

After historic flooding impacted people’s homes, residents arrived at Holiday Park Gymnasium to seek shelter. About 40 people and their pets took shelter at the gymnasium, at 1200 G. Harold Martin Drive, Friday. 7News spoke to the shelter’s manager and she said that they are working around the clock to provide people resources. Inside the shelter are families and people with disabilities. One blind man at the shelter was rescued from his home Wednesday night by Fort Lauderdale Rescue with a boat after his home was flooded with 3 feet of water.Several people at the shelter are frustrated with local officials due to a lack of communication and a lack of resources. On Friday afternoon, Fort Lauderdale mayor Dean Trantalis thanked the state delegation and Gov. Ron DeSantis for declaring a state of emergency because now they can tap into funds to help people. Trantalis also said that FEMA is on the ground to assist. Residents at Holiday Park said that they’ve had n...

Russian court fines Wikipedia owner for article related to Ukraine invasion

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:11:41 GMT

(CNN) — A Moscow court has fined the Wikimedia Foundation for refusing to remove an article on Russian-language Wikipedia called “The Russian occupation of the Zaporizhzhia region,” according to state media.The foundation — which owns Wikipedia, a site with pages in around 300 languages, including Russian — has been fined 2 million rubles ($24,500), Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported Thursday.The court documents allege that Wikimedia refused to remove “material” about the hostilities “within the framework of the special military operation” in Ukraine and about the country’s Zaporizhzhia region becoming part of Russia, TASS said.Leighanna Mixter, senior legal manager at Wikimedia, confirmed the fine to CNN and said that, over recent months, the foundation had received “a steady stream of takedown orders that target well-sourced content on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects.”“The information at issue on Wikiped...

Justice Department charges leaders of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel in sprawling fentanyl-trafficking probe

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:11:41 GMT

(CNN) — The Justice Department on Friday announced charges against more than two dozen defendants, including three sons of the notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, in a sprawling fentanyl-trafficking investigation.Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the charges at a news conference in Washington, alongside Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Anne Milgram and other top federal prosecutors.The indictments against the leaders of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel were unsealed, including against Guzman’s sons, who are known as the Chapitos, or little Chapos.The fentanyl trafficking, weapons and money laundering charges in three indictments involved a total of 28 defendants: 23 of whom are based in Mexico, four in China and one in Guatemala.Charges were filed against alleged chemical suppliers, lab managers, fentanyl traffickers, financiers and weapons traffickers. Among those charged are Chinese citizens accused of supplying precur...

Knicks vs. Cavs: A position-by-position breakdown of NBA first-round playoff series

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:11:41 GMT

It’s not the best way to look at a matchup in basketball these days. There’s so much switching and mismatch hunting in the NBA that head-to-heads are rarely sustained. But the Tale of the Tape, as documented below, provides a window into the talent level.And as we know, a playoff series can easily be won or lost on talent.So here are judgments on seven individual matchups concerning No. 4 Cavs vs. No. 5 Knicks, which tips off Saturday night in Cleveland. Plus, you’ll get a bonus prediction at the end.POINT GUARDJalen Brunson (24 ppg, 6.2 apg, 49% shooting, 41.6% on 3s) vs. Darius Garland (21.6 ppg, 7.8 apg, 46.2% shooting, 41% on 3s).Great offense from the position on both sides, although Brunson adds intangibles such as leadership, clutch reliability and an eagerness to take a charge. He is New York’s glue. Clearly, he was also Dallas’s glue. Garland was an All-Star last year and is capable of dropping 50-plus points, which he did near the beginning of...

Celtics’ Jaylen Brown discusses recovery from finger injury, excitement to face hometown Hawks

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:11:41 GMT

Jaylen Brown said he got the stitches out of his injured right finger on Thursday and will be ready to go on Saturday when the Celtics host the Hawks in Game 1 of the playoffs.“Feeling a lot better,” Brown said after Friday’s practice. “I’ll tell you that. Just working to get some reps in, be ready for (Saturday).”Brown missed the final two games of the regular season after suffering a right finger laceration last Thursday at home. He said he cut the finger when he was picking up a piece of glass in his house from a vase he knocked over and broke while watering plants in his home. It required five stitches.Brown returned to practice on Thursday and said Friday it’s been healing well.Brown said he’ll wear something to protect the finger.“I got like a bunch of different things I guess,” Brown said. “Try different methods that I’ve been trying over the last two days, but the one I tried today I think works the best, so I think I’m going to go with that. There’s like some protective stu...

Panthers should be no pushover for Bruins

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:11:41 GMT

The Bruins are the clear favorites to beat the Florida Panthers in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. The B’s earned that right/burden by virtue of their record-breaking 65-win season.But if the Panthers claim not to be intimidated by the Big, Bad Bruins 2.0 in the opening series that starts at the Garden for Games 1 and 2 on Monday and Wednesday (the rest of the schedule was expected to be released late Friday night), it’s not false bravado. The two teams essentially split the four-game season series (the B’s can say they took the series by going 2-1-1), with both teams winning their home games.In fact, it was the Cats’ overtime win over the B’s on Jan. 28 in Sunrise that may have saved their season. The Panthers were massive underachievers to that point. The defending Presidents’ Trophy winners were an unimpressive 23-22-6, they had lost their previous three games and seemed ready to slip into oblivion. And it looked like David Pastrna...

Charges against Massachusetts Guardsman posted as he’s held in Top Secret leak case

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:11:41 GMT

Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused of leaking Top Secret government documents, is being held without bail until at least next week.The Dighton man made a short appearance in U.S. District Court in Boston this morning where the case against him has just been posted.An affidavit prepared by an FBI special agent to back up the criminal case states “Many of the documents depicted in these images bear classification markings, including ‘TOP SECRET’ markings…“Certain of the images appear to depict Government Information that was used to inform senior military and civilian government officials during briefings at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. …“(I)n or around January 2023, the Subject Username began posting photographs of documents on Server 1 that contained what appeared to be classification markings on official U.S. Government documents….”Teixeira was identified as the leader of a Discord server — which is what the gaming-dominated social m...

Florida floods: Airport reopens as residents clean up mess

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:11:41 GMT

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Fort Lauderdale’s airport reopened Friday morning, two days after an unprecedented deluge left planes and travelers stranded, as residents in the city’s hardest hit neighborhoods began the slow process of cleaning up the mess left behind.Officials at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport completed final inspections after sunrise Friday and resumed operations at 9 a.m. In a tweet Friday morning, airport officials advised travelers to check with their airlines on updated flight schedules before going to the airport. The airport shut down Wednesday evening as a storm dumped more than 2 feet (60 centimeters) of rain.“Nature has been unkind to us,” Broward County Mayor Lamar Fisher said during a news conference Thursday afternoon at the airport.While it started raining on Monday in South Florida, much of the water fell Wednesday, and the Fort Lauderdale area saw record rainfall amounts in a matter of hours, ranging from 15 inches (38 cen...