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Bullet narrowly misses toddler in car seat in road rage shooting

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:52:00 GMT

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) -- A road rage incident this week led to gunfire in Aurora with a child​ in one of the cars.It happened Monday at Peoria Street and Florida Avenue, near a park.Peggy Holm and Matt Templeman were planning a fun day at the park with their toddler when they came to an intersection in Aurora."We had a stop sign and this gentleman did not," Holm said. "He was turning onto the street that we were on and he stopped when he didn't have a stop sign. So we gestured him on so that he could move along." Denver Police encourage drivers to ‘Cage the (Road) Rage’ amid increase in aggressive behavior That gesture, Templeman said, was enough to set that person off. They saw that he immediately became visibly angry."We felt really dangerous with our daughter in the car," Templeman said, "so we just tried to turn around and get away from him and that's when he did the shot."The suspect shot at them, leaving a bullet hole in their driver's side back door."I don't understand why y...

Fort Collins Police sued for former cop's false DUI arrests

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:52:00 GMT

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (KDVR) -- Jason Haferman may no longer be a Fort Collins police officer but the fallout from his forced resignation continues. Five lawsuits were filed in Larimer County District Court on Wednesday. The five plaintiffs all claim they were wrongly arrested for DUI because blood results later showed no or almost no alcohol or drugs in their system.The lawsuits filed by attorney Sarah Schielke name former police officer Haferman, the City of Fort Collins, Sergeant Allen Heaton, and an unidentified corporal, for what the lawsuit claims was a lack of supervision for Haferman."What we uncovered was astonishing. Nobody was reviewing what this officer was doing," Schielke said. Police looking for person of interest in Douglas County shooting The civil rights attorney based in Loveland told the Problem Solvers an audit trail she obtained of Haferman's body camera video showed supervisors were not reviewing Haferman's cases despite numerous negative test results that Sc...

Girlfriend of man shot and killed at Walmart in Lauderdale Lakes speaks out

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:52:00 GMT

The girlfriend of a man who was fatally gunned down at a Walmart in Lauderdale Lakes is devastated over the horrific moments that, she said, unfolded just feet away from their child.According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, 42-year-old Thierry Bastien came under fire when he stepped up to save a stranger who was being attacked, Tuesday afternoon.Wednesday evening, his girlfriend, Makia Ford, spoke to 7News to share her pain. Ford said she begged the suspect, identified as 22-year-old Tironie Sterling, to not shoot her boyfriend, but the suspect shot the victim in the chest, back and leg.“It’s something you can never forget. It’s a day I’ll never forget for the rest of my life, as long as I live,” Ford said.Ford said the image is still fresh, as she witnessed her boyfriend’s final moments.“I laid on the side of him, I tried to tell him, ‘Stay with me,'” Ford said. “I even prayed on the side of him.”BSO deputies ...

North Bay Village residents of condo deemed unsafe receive checks after donation from Channel 7 Foundation

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:52:00 GMT

Some residents in North Bay Village have received a helping hand weeks after they were ordered out of a condominium.North Bay Village Mayor Brent Latham on Wednesday delivered checks to those who were displaced when their building was deemed unsafe in April.The money will hopefully help offset the costs of storage, temporary relocation and other housing costs.“We started a fund immediately, understanding that we were gonna need some resources to deal with, and we used a lot of those resources for hotels and temporary shelter to move people,” said Latham, “and then we got a very, very generous donation from Andy Ansin, the owner of Sunbeam [Corporation] and Channel 7, and with that donation, that’s really the principal that we’ve been able to use now for these payouts to the individual condo owners.”Residents of the Majestic Isle Condominium received the evacuation order after an inspection uncovered several structural flaws.Channel 7 is located in...

Police search for 72-year-old man reported missing in North Miami Beach

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:52:00 GMT

Police are seeking the public’s help in finding a 72-year-old man who went missing in North Miami Beach. According to detectives, Melchor Garcia was last seen leaving the area of Northeast 166th Street and West Dixie Highway, Wednesday night. He was last seen wearing a black hat, black T-shirt, gray pants and socks with sandals.Garcia stands 6 feet, 1 inch tall and weighs 138 pounds. Officials urge anyone with any information on Garcia’s whereabouts to contact North Miami Beach Detective Aladin at 305-949-5500.

Cannot get plastic surgery refund

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:52:00 GMT

She paid for plastic surgery but the clinic cancelled the surgery and wouldn’t return her money. When things got even stranger, she called Help Me Howard with Patrick Fraser to see how they operate.No one can take care of you. You have to do it yourself.Aretha does.Aretha Wilkerson: “I do like to do myself up nice. I don’t want to get wrinkles and stuff.”But of course, the years are always fighting to age you, and Aretha felt like she was losing that battle.Aretha Wilkerson: “Everybody else has a flat stomach. So I want to get a flat stomach, you know.”Aretha’s husband then paid $4,500 to make it happen.Aretha Wilkerson: “I was getting liposuction and tummy tuck. So I was so excited.”Aretha lives in New York, but decided to have to have the plastic surgery in South Florida at a place two relatives had it done.Aretha Wilkerson: “They have it in New York, but I love Miami, so that’s why I came down here to Miami.”...

At least 4 hospitalized after Corvette, minivan collide in Southwest Miami-Dade

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:52:00 GMT

Rescue crews took at least four people, including a child, to the hospital after they were injured in a crash in Southwest Miami-Dade.Miami-Dade Police and Fire Rescue units have responded to the scene of the two-vehicle crash in the area of Southwest 99th Avenue and 56th Street, just after 8:45 p.m., Wednesday.7News cameras captured a mangled minivan and a Corvette at the scene, as paramedics treated injured victims on stretchers.Paramedics transported four or five victims to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital in unknown conditions. The age of the pediatric patient is unknown.Back at the scene, officers have shut down the westbound lanes of Southwest 56th Street near 99th Avenue.Police have not provided further details about the crash or may have caused it, as they continue to investigate.

King Charles III’s ‘Make Britain Great Again’ village

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:52:00 GMT

This article is part of POLITICO’s Global Policy Lab: Living Cities, a collaborative journalism project exploring the future of cities. Sign up here.POUNDBURY, England — The town of Poundbury may be located three hours south of London, but aesthetically it feels as if it’s centuries removed from the dense, modern British capital.The experimental development’s streets are lined with quaint but elegant brick homes straight out of a BBC adaptation of a Jane Austen novel, Victorian terrace houses and vaguely Gothic cottages. Beyond them, there are Regency-style townhouses, Palladian mansions and a square dominated by what appears to be a miniature version of Buckingham Palace.At first glance, the place seems grand and storied, but as you wander from one architectural pastiche to another, the quaint, historic village feels disconcertingly fake.That’s because it is: Prior to 1993 this rainy, windswept corner of Dorset was just muddy farmland, but for ...

Rishi Sunak faces 13-year itch in first big electoral test

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:52:00 GMT

LONDON — “It’s like Basra after we bombed it.” That was the stark verdict of one dismayed Stoke-on-Trent resident this week as they rated the city’s roads ahead of crucial local elections.Voters head to the polls to choose councillors in more than 8,000 seats on 230 councils across England Tuesday. Local elections, typically, are more likely to be determined by voters’ takes on tarmac, trash, graffiti and street lighting rather than who should lead the country.Reading across from local polls to glean general elections insight is fraught with danger, as experts and activists try to remind Westminster at this time of year.Yet after 13 years of national Conservative rule, and with Keir Starmer’s Labour continuing to outpace Rishi Sunak’s governing party in the national opinion polls, the line between the local and the national is blurring.Between two wallsLabour and Conservative insiders are managing expectations ahead of the big day.Labour officials insist 400 gains ...

Ukraine’s rule of law battlefield

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:52:00 GMT

Mykhailo Zhernakov is a lawyer and co-founder of the DEJURE Foundation where he is chair of the board. Stepan Berko is a lawyer and the advocacy director for the DEJURE Foundation. Halyna Chyzhyk is an advocacy officer and judiciary reform expert at the Anticorruption Action Center.Ukraine has struggled with rule of law for a very long time.Courts are among the least trusted public institutions in the country, and out of several attempts at judicial reform, most have been unsuccessful. Nevertheless, one particular piece of the reform remains a distinct exception — the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC).In 2022, judicial reform in Ukraine received new momentum when the European Union granted the country membership candidate status, conditioned on a number of institutional reforms — first and foremost, judicial. And the reformed process of the HACC’s formation, composition and first practice have been a great success, all due to the fact that the integrity check of its judges was made ...