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Electric truck maker Rivian plans Colorado locations, announces Georgia factory

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:57 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — Rivian Automotive will move ahead with construction on a factory in Georgia early next year, the company confirmed Thursday.The California-based electric truck company made the announcement as it opens a retail location in an intown Atlanta development, the eighth in a network of what the company calls “spaces” that it's rolling out in select locations nationwide. The company plans additional locations in Colorado, Texas and California in coming months. How much do houses cost in Colorado? See the list by county Customers can't buy a truck or SUV at Rivian's Atlanta location — the company only sells online to evade Georgia's rules requiring auto manufacturers to have dealers. But the company hopes people who have already reserved one of Rivian's vehicles or who are thinking about buying one will stop by to learn about electric vehicles, climb inside, take a test drive, and even buy a Rivian-branded jacket or backpack.“We sell a physical product, so people want to ex...

Florida City apartment resident speaks out on fatal rollover crash involving 17-year-old fleeing traffic stop

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:57 GMT

A Florida City woman said she’s grateful she and her son were not home when, police said, a teenage driver slammed into her apartment building in a rollover crash that left him dead.7News cameras on Friday captured Krystal Holmes as she surveyed the damage to her home, located along the 500 block of Northwest Fifth Avenue in the River Oaks town home community.The gaping hole on the side of the building caused by the crash has since been boarded up.“Had I been home, had I not left home a few moments earlier, I would have been inside the residence,” she said.Miami-Dade Police said 17-year-old Brandon Madison was behind the wheel of a rented Mercedes-Benz sedan when he fled a traffic stop and crashed into Holmes’ home, Thursday afternoon.Police said an officer with MDPD’s Robbery Intervention Detail attempted to pull over Madison at a nearby Sunoco gas station due to a traffic violation, but the driver wouldn’t cooperate.“He immediately closed ...

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

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:57 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 Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:57 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 Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:57 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 Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:57 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 Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:57 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 Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:57 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 Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:57 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 Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:57 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 ...