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Florida’s killer clown case finally ends with plea deal

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:10:40 GMT

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A clown came to Marlene Warren’s door on a May morning in 1990, handed her carnations and balloons and then shot her dead in front of her son. On Tuesday, her husband’s alleged mistress and future wife finally pleaded guilty to being the killer — even though she still insists she is not — closing a case that is strange even by Florida standards.Sheila Keen-Warren, 59, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a deal that will likely see her released from prison within a year. Long suspected of being the shooter, Keen-Warren has been jailed awaiting trial for first-degree murder since 2017, when Palm Beach County sheriff’s investigators said improvements in DNA technology proved that a hair found in the clown’s getaway car came from her.Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg said in a statement that the plea deal “obtained a measure of justice” for Marlene Warren and her son. No public notice was given for Tuesday’s p...

Crews respond to serious crash in Topsfield

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:10:40 GMT

Crews were on scene at a serious crash in Topsfield Tuesday afternoon. SKY7-HD was over the crash in the area of East Street shortly before 4 p.m., where firefighters appeared to be trying to get someone out of a car. No further information was immediately available. This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest updates.

Boston PD issues ‘Missing Person Alert’ for 59-year-old woman suffering from mental health issues

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:10:40 GMT

The Boston Police Department is requesting the public’s help in finding a 59-year-old woman who suffers from mental health issues and has not been seen for 24 hours.Christine Meeker of Dorchester was last seen around 2 p.m. on Monday, April 24, in the area of 20 Thetford Ave., according to officials.The police department described her as being 5’03 and noted that she was last seen wearing pink sweatpants and yellow crocs.Anyone with information on Meeker’s whereabouts is asked to call 911 or Boston PD’s B-3 Detectives at 617-343-4712.Those who wish to share information anonymously can do so by calling the CrimeStoppers Tip Line AT 1-800 (494)-TIPS or by texting the word ‘TIP’ to CRIME (27463).

Spotty Showers Continue

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:10:40 GMT

We’re in a very rinse and repeat type forecast this week. After nice mornings, we develop more clouds in the afternoon and out of those clouds a few spotty showers. The only difference is where those spotty showers pop up. Yesterday they were primarily across southern New Hampshire with a few rogue sprinkles in far northern Worcester County and the Merrimack Valley. Today north and west of Boston.Rain chances will remain small the next two days, but not zero. The placement again looks to vary each day. Wednesday looks to be most likely far west, in Worcester County and Western Mass. So unless you’re in Worcester County I think you’ll be dry tomorrow. Then Thursday those shower chances are a little bit more uniform across the area, but still spotty and hit & miss activity. We all dry out on Friday.The other theme we had the last couple of days is “cooler coast” and that’s not going to change. In fact I think tomorrow is even more pronounced as ...

The Jets are hoping Aaron Rodgers helps rewrite their story after disappointing finish to 2022

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:10:40 GMT

The Jets finished last season on a sixth-game losing streak.That downward slide to a 7-10 season led to a significant seismic shift within the organization this season.After Gang Green started Zach Wilson at quarterback the last two seasons, the Jets and the Packers agreed on a blockbuster trade that would send Aaron Rodgers to New York.In return, the Packers will receive the Jets’ No. 13, a 2023 2nd-rd pick (No. 42), a 6th-rd pick (No. 207), and a conditional 2024 second-round pick that becomes a first if Rodgers plays 65% of the plays next season. In addition to Rodgers, the Jets will receive the Packers’ No. 15 overall and a 2023 fifth-round pick.Of course, adding a quarterback of Rodgers, who has won four NFL MVP awards and a Super Bowl in 2010, has a lot of people within the Jets organization optimistic. Now Gang Green will hope Rodgers can lead them to the playoff for the first time since 2010.“There is going to be excitement,” Jets general manager Joe ...

John Kerry faces heat from House Oversight Committee chair

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:10:40 GMT

The House Oversight Committee is attempting to siphon details of the inner workings of John Kerry’s super-secret Climate office in a move being hailed by one watchdog.Michael Chamberlain, director of Protect the Public’s Trust, said he’s had to take Kerry to court over his lack of transparency.Now House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is threatening his subpoena power to see exactly what Kerry, the special envoy for climate, is up to.“The work of the American public is supposed to be performed in the open and that obligation should apply above all to an office with the power of John Kerry’s Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate,” Chamberlain told the Herald Tuesday.Kerry has told the Herald a listing of his entire staff will not be shared until October of 2024 — a month before the next presidential election. The Herald made that request via the Freedom of Information Act.Comer doesn’t want to wait that long.In...

Yosemite closes over flooding threat as huge snowpack melts

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:10:40 GMT

By AMY TAXIN and JAE C. HONG (Associated Press)LEMOORE, Calif. (AP) — Ron Caetano is packed and ready to go. His family photos and valuables are in the trailer and he’s put food in carry totes. He moved the rabbits and chickens and their automatic feeders to higher ground.He and his family and dogs could get out in less than an hour, they figure, should more heavy rain or hot weather melt so much mountain snow that gushing water overwhelms the rivers and channel that surround their tight-knit, rural Central California community and give it its name, the Island District.“The water is coming this way,” said Caetano, who started a Facebook group to help organize his neighbors. “I am preparing for the worst and praying for the best and that’s all we can do.”After more than a dozen atmospheric rivers dumped epic rain and snowfall on California, a reservoir that stores water upstream is expected to receive three times its capacity in the coming mo...

Trial opens in E. Jean Carroll’s rape lawsuit against Trump

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:10:40 GMT

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and JENNIFER PELTZ (Associated Press)NEW YORK (AP) — A former advice columnist’s nearly 30-year-old rape claim against Donald Trump went to trial Tuesday as jurors in the federal civil case heard her allegation of being attacked in a luxury department store dressing room. The former president says nothing happened between them.E. Jean Carroll will testify that the assault that happened in a few minutes in a fitting room in 1996 “would change her life forever,” one of her lawyers, Shawn Crowley, said in an opening statement.“Filled with fear and shame, she kept silent for decades. Eventually, though, silence became impossible,” Crowley said. And when Carroll broke that silence in a 2019 memoir, the then-president “used the most powerful platform on Earth to lie about what he had done, attack Ms. Carroll’s integrity and insult her appearance.”Trump wasn’t in court, and his lawyers haven’t yet preview...

What you need to know about COVID variant arcturus — and a new, odd symptom

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:10:40 GMT

Cindy Krischer Goodman | South Florida Sun SentinelA new omicron subvariant is spreading across the country with an odd potential symptom: conjunctivitis, also known as pink eye.Helix, a surveillance company that tracks emerging variants across the nation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, discovered the variant known as XBB.1.16 or arcturus makes up as much as 5% of new COVID cases in Florida. Arcturus appears to be more contagious than other subvariants, and doctors are reporting the strain may be linked to a rise in red itchy eyes.Health experts say it’s unlikely conjunctivitis would be the only symptom associated with a COVID-19 infection, and note that allergy season is here, too. However, doctors are reporting that along with cough and cold symptoms associated with COVID, children are coming in with “itchy conjunctivitis with sticky eyes, not seen in earlier waves.”Conjunctivitis is a swelling of the thin layer that lines the white part of the eye and can caus...

How Dolphins’ tampering in pursuit of Tom Brady cost them 1st-round pick in Thursday’s draft

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:10:40 GMT

Amid an abundance of excitement surrounding the Miami Dolphins’ offseason, the 2023 NFL draft is a painful reminder that the team was stripped of its first-round pick due to tampering violations.That’s why Thursday night’s first round will only consist of 31 picks, instead of the usual 32 — one for every NFL franchise. The league found Miami had “impermissible communication” with quarterback Tom Brady and coach Sean Payton while they were employed by other teams.The NFL, in August, docked the Dolphins their 2023 first-round draft selection and 2024 third-round pick. Owner Steve Ross was fined $1.5 million and suspended for the first six weeks of the 2022 regular season for the tampering findings.The Dolphins once held two first-round selections in the 2023 draft. They had another one from a previous trade with the San Francisco 49ers, but that one was later sent to the Denver Broncos at last season’s trade deadline for Pro Bowl outside lineb...