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Local teen painter works to educate, revitalize one of Broward’s oldest Black neighborhoods in a creative way

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:54:00 GMT

A South Florida teen is on a mission to teach history through art, and she’s doing it one neighborhood at a time. Reporter Karen Hensel has her story in today’s 7 Spotlight.Fort Lauderdale’s Sistrunk neighborhood has a rich history.Yana Danzig, founder, Brushstrokes for History: “This area was kind of the heart of the Black community in Fort Lauderdale for many years.”Seventeen-year-old aspiring artist Yana Danzig has spent the past several months learning all she could about the area. She became interested after volunteering in a service project to help revitalize Sistrunk.Yana Danzig: “They were already painting colorful and beautiful designs on pieces of plywood to put up on buildings like these.”Yana says she learned so much about the history here, she wanted to share it with others. So she decided to do it in the way she knows best: through painting.Yana Danzig: “I just really feel motivated and driven to help communicate with peo...

Police search for man who attempted to steal meat, beer from Publix in Miramar

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:54:00 GMT

Police are on the search for a man who attempted to steal meat from a Publix in Miramar.According to police, surveillance video from Oct. 4 showed the suspect walking through the supermarket with a shopping cart full of meat and beer.Investigators said he walked out without paying for any of it, before an employee stopped the man outside and took everything back. The subject then fled the scene.If you recognize the man or have any information on this attempted theft, call Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS. Remember, you can always remain anonymous, and you may be eligible for a reward of up to $5,000.

Crews work to put out tractor trailer fire at animal farm in NW Miami-Dade

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:54:00 GMT

A tractor trailer went up in flames at an animal farm in Northwest Miami-Dade.Miami-Dade Fire Rescue arrived at the scene at 12200 NW 154th St., Friday afternoon. 7Skyforce hovered over the scene as smoke billowed from the tractor trailer. Crews worked to contain the fire, but the trailer was severely damaged. No injuries were reported.A group of ducks nearby appeared to be unfazed by the flames and smoke.

Rain Saturday, Wind Sunday

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:54:00 GMT

There are a few showers this evening. You might want the umbrella for your Friday dinner plans. Keep the rain gear around tomorrow. A few showers will be us in the morning. Steadier rains arrives by midday into later in the day with downpours and a rumble of thunder. Sunday is dry, but it’ll be windy and feel cooler.The HREF model highlights a low chance for thunder as this system works across our region in the afternoon and evening.It’ll be mild from start to finish on Saturday. Temperatures start in the 50s and end in the 60s. Sunday will be cooler! We’ll start in the 40s and only make it to the 50s.Less wind Monday. Tuesday starts off cool, but luckily our sunshine returns! Temperatures warm up Wednesday into the upper 60s. Next week is dry.-Meteorologist Melanie Black

Lucas: Governors deserve official home

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:54:00 GMT

Sometimes a house is not a home.It is certainly not much of a home when a bunch of Nazis come knocking on the door.Well, they did not exactly approach the front door last Saturday of the Arlington four-bedroom house Gov. Maura Healey, 52, is living in with her partner Joanna Lydgate, 42, and Lydgate’s two children from a previous marriage.But the right-wing members of New England-based NSC-131 (National Social Club) did cause enough of a disturbance that the cops had to be called.In a story covered by WBZ-TV, a half dozen or so State Police cruisers with blue lights flashing in the night descended on the quiet neighborhood to deal with the 25 neo-Nazis protesting the influx of illegal immigrants into the state.“New England is ours, the rest must go,” the masked and hooded demonstrators chanted before being led away by state troopers. No arrests were made.It is not known if anyone was in the house at the time, but the ruckus did disrupt the neighborhood, which is made up of million-d...

Conditions are ‘deplorable,’ not enough supplies, says Canadian in Gaza Strip

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:54:00 GMT

A Canadian living in the Gaza Strip says families are starting to ration food and using toilet water to stay hydrated as little aid is reaching the area amid the war between Israel and Hamas.Mansour Shouman has been providing updates on the situation in the southern strip and said conditions are deplorable and the limited supplies that are getting through are not nearly enough.Israel has cut electricity, fuel and water supplies to Gaza as part of a “total blockade of the territory.”An agreement was reached to allow a small amount of humanitarian aid in through the Egyptian border. “The surprise was there are only 25 trucks; 25 trucks is maybe enough for one or two UN shelters right now,” said Shouman.“Normally on regular days Rafah border crossing has hundreds of trucks coming in full of food and things to drink clothes … we rely on imports, we do not manufacture,” he added. “We have 2.2 million people here and supplies have not been r...

Appeal court orders new trial for former senior Montreal politician Zampino

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:54:00 GMT

MONTREAL — Quebec’s Court of Appeal has ordered the former chair of Montreal city council’s executive committee to stand trial on corruption charges.The three-judge panel found that a lower court judge erred when she stayed charges against Frank Zampino in 2019, after finding that police wiretaps violated his constitutional rights.The appeal court said in its decision that the wiretaps — which captured conversations with lawyers — violated Zampino’s rights, but that the violations weren’t serious enough to justify a stay of proceedings.It says, instead, that the evidence gathered from the wiretaps can’t be used at the trial.The charges against the former right-hand man to Gerald Tremblay, who was mayor from 2001 to 2012, allege that municipal contracts were awarded in exchange for political donations.The appeal court says several other people who were targeted in the same police operation, whose charges were also stayed, will also have to fa...

Montreal police say hate crimes rising, most targeting Jews, amid Israel-Hamas war

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:54:00 GMT

Montreal police say they’ve received reports of 16 hate crimes, mostly targeting Jewish people, since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas on Oct. 7.Police say that, as of Wednesday, they had received reports of 12 hate crimes targeting the city’s Jewish community — including one during a protest — and four hate crimes targeting the city’s Arab and Muslim communities.Police say that during the same period there were also 13 “hate incidents” targeting the Jewish community and seven targeting Arabs or Muslims.Hate incidents are described by the police as actions that are not criminal but that may affect people’s sense of safety, such as the distribution of offensive material, insults and offensive gestures.In its annual report, the police service said there were 50 hate crimes and 21 incidents targeting people based on their religion in 2022, along with 118 hate crimes and 35 incidents targeting people based on their ethnic or national ...

Affidavit: Man charged with murder in deadly southeast Austin shooting

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:54:00 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- An affidavit obtained by KXAN on Friday provided more details and identified the suspect accused in a southeast Austin homicide that occurred earlier this week.Shortly before 1:30 a.m. Monday, the Austin Police Department responded to the 2200 block of E. Riverside Drive in what was later revealed in the affidavit as a shooting, court documents said. Police investigating after person killed in southeast Austin overnight When police arrived on the scene, they found two men lying on the ground, with one on top of the other. The man lying on the ground was identified as Elvin Salvador Tinoco-Orosco, 35, according to the affidavit. His shirt was covered in blood but he was not injured, the affidavit states.The other man was found with a gunshot wound. That man was later identified as Jader Francisco Tinoco-Salgado, 38, the affidavit states. EMS and the Austin Fire Department arrived on the scene and pronounced Tinoco Salgado dead at 1:45 a.m.The Austin Police Departme...

F1 weekend generates millions of dollars for Austin

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:54:00 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Formula 1 racing means big money for the Austin economy. "I was walking around downtown yesterday, and everyone had their certain team's shirts on, hats on, everything," said Katie Shyman, who is in town from Phoenix.It is a big weekend for fans but also local businesses."Formula 1 weekend in Austin is our biggest and busiest weekend when it comes to how our hotels are seeing business, our restaurants, our venues," said Wesley Lucas with Visit Austin.Visit Austin says attendance has continued to rise year after year. Last year, the event had about 440,000 people for the entire three-day event."Last study estimated that about 65 percent of the folks that attend the race are from out of town," said Lucas.All those travelers need a place to stay, and many Austin hotels see a boost in business. How to get to, from the F1 United States Grand Prix in Austin "High occupancy week for us, a lot of international clients," said Jacob Weaver, Hotel ZaZa Austin's GM.This is one...