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NORAD ready to track Santa, and everyone can follow along

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:00:48 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — As children around the world eagerly await Santa’s arrival on Christmas, the military is ready to track him and see if he’s using any new technology.Armed with radars, sensors and aircraft, the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado keeps a close watch on Santa and his sleigh from the moment he leaves the North Pole. And it once again will share all those details so everyone can follow along as Santa travels the globe beginning Christmas Eve. NORAD Santa Tracker: Click here to follow along NORAD, the military command that is responsible for protecting North American airspace, has launched its noradsanta.org website, social media sites and mobile app, loaded with games, movies, books and music. And there’s a countdown clock showing when the official tracking of the sleigh will start.The military will track Santa with, “the same technology we use every single day to keep North America safe,” said U.S. Air Force Col. Elizabeth Mathias, NORAD’s chief sp...

Mother pleads for justice after son is shot dead, robbed in Fort Lauderdale; police release surveillance video

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:00:48 GMT

Surveillance video newly released by police showed the moment a young man was shot and killed in Fort Lauderdale back in September. Now his mother wants justice.The mother of 22-year-old Allie Cadet, who spoke with 7News on Friday, prefers not to show her face or use her name because the shooter remains at large. “It’s just so hard for all of us,” she said. “I’m just looking for justice for my son. That’s the reason why I wanted to talk to you, only if somebody can come forward to help me look for his justice.” According to Fort Lauderdale Police, the shooting occurred at around 12:15 a.m. on Sept. 2.Detectives said Cadet and other people may have been gambling by a staircase off Northwest 16th Court Police blurred Cadet as the subjects are seen opening fire, stealing the victim’s money and leaving the crime scene. Cadet’s mother is desperately trying to find out who did this to her son.“I’m just asking for help, for ...

1 in custody, 1 at large after pursuit of suspected robbers ends outside Family Dollar in Pembroke Park

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:00:48 GMT

Authorities have apprehended one person in Pembroke Park and are searching for a second, allegedly in connection to a pair of robberies in Miami-Dade County.7Skyforce hovered above a Family Dollar store along Hallandale Beach Boulevard, near Southwest 40th Avenue, just after 6 p.m., Friday.A Miami-Dade Police cruiser and a Broward Sheriff’s Office cruiser were seen near the subjects’ silver Honda, which is parked feet away from the entrance to the store.The people inside the Honda are allegedly wanted in connection to two robberies. One of them allegedly occurred outside of a bank in Sunny Isles Beach, and the second allegedly took place at a TD Bank along Northeast 183rd Street and 15th Avenue in Northeast Miami-Dade.Authorities were able to track the subject through a tracking device that may have been put in a bag.After realizing they were being followed along Interstate 95, the subjects pulled into the Family Dollar, ran inside the store and exited through a back doo...

Local driver describes moment falling thermos shattered windshield on Storrow Drive

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:00:48 GMT

A local driver shared his story Friday after he said a large metal thermos shattered his windshield on Storrow Drive in Boston. Speaking with 7NEWS, Frank Lucas said he was crossing under a bridge near Massachusetts Avenue when he saw something fall from above. Lucas said he called 911. When state police arrived, he said they found the thermos that had either been thrown or dropped from the bridge in the area. The thermos ultimately shattered the entire passenger side of Lucas’ windshield.Though Lucas had some glass on him, he said he was alone in the car at the time and was not hurt. “I’m thinking somebody is looking after me, because my wife wasn’t in the car,” he said. “Thank God for safety glass,” he continued.Lucas said the incident happened around 11:30 a.m. Friday morning. By 3 p.m., he said he was on his way home with a new windshield thanks to the help of a group of workers and a local windshield repair shop.

Missing girl found safe after being ‘inadvertently placed’ on wrong transportation van at Brockton school

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:00:48 GMT

Brockton police said a 7-year-old girl was found safe Friday after she was put on the wrong transportation van at a local school. Police in an initial post on social media near 5:15 p.m. asked for the public’s help in efforts to find Alicia Vitoria Goncalves Teixeira. A police spokesperson in a subsequent statement confirmed Teixeira was soon found at a Boys & Girls Club location. Brockton police said Teixeira had been last seen in the parking lot of Angelo Elementary School off North Main Street before she was “inadvertently placed on an unknown private transportation van.” Police did not say how the mistake happened and did not provide any further information.The Brockton Public Schools issued its own statement Friday, saying Teixeira “was found and is safe.”“She boarded an incorrect bus that transported her to a local child care institution where she remained until reunited with her family,” the district said.This is a developing st...

Ho, Ho, Ho

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:00:48 GMT

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas … in the malls for sure where Santa seems to be showing up a lot.Boston’s 9-month-old Ekieda Korli reaches for Santa’s beard while he gets his photo taken at the Prudential Center in Boston on Friday. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)Santa leans closer to Newport’s 2-year-old Marsden Mclaughlin to hear what she’d like for Christmas this year before getting her photo taken at the Prudential Center in Boston on Friday. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)Santa hangs out at the Prudential Center taking souvienir photos. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)Boston’s Chloe Karamitis smiles as she tells Santa what she’d like for Christmas. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)Christopher Gutierrez of Manzi Appraisers & Restoration with a restored angel statue at the Old North Church. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald) 

Local Massachusetts teachers group demands state union retract ‘inflammatory’ cease-fire resolution

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:00:48 GMT

Another local teachers union is demanding the Massachusetts Teachers Association rescind an “inflammatory” resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.The Bedford Education Association disassociated itself from the resolution this week, following the same action as the Newton Teachers Association whose president referred to the MTA statement as “antisemitic dog-whistling.”“The Bedford Education Association rejects the presumption that it is within the scope of our state and local associations’ mission to take a position on geopolitical affairs,” part of the BEA motion states. “Furthermore, the BEA rejects anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and all other expressions of religious and cultural intolerance.”Hyperlocal The Bedford Citizen first reported the resolution on Thursday, highlighting how some “Jewish residents contacted officers of the Bedford association and requested that they repudiate the statement, which they felt was one-sided, inflammatory, and with...

Norwood Police shoot woman they say came at them with a gun

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:00:48 GMT

A Norwood Police officer shot a gun-wielding woman in the parking lot of a storage business there Friday afternoon, police said.“We hope that she’s going to be ok. We also are tending to the officers who are present at the scene to make sure that they’re going to be ok,” Norwood Police Chief William Brooks said at a press conference he held at around 3 p.m. outside the Extra Space Storage location on Morse Street where the tense interaction took place just an hour or so beforehand.The unnamed woman, who Brooks described as “middle-aged” and who “had recently been living in Norwood,” was still alive at the time Brooks spoke with the media.As Brooks told it, the woman was in some kind of interaction inside the storage business with another man when she drew a gun on him and then the man called 911 a little before 1 p.m. The woman exited the building and walked into the parking lot as she held the gun to her own head, which is how Brooks — who said he was on scene throughou...

Lucas: Come on Biden, hit the Houthis hard!

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:00:48 GMT

Joe Biden ought to put Kamala Harris in charge of standing up to Yemen.It will show that he is not going to be pushed around by the Houthis anymore.And we are not talking about Hootie and the Blowfish, either.We are talking about real ragtag Houthis in Yemen who, backed and trained by Iran, are bombarding commercial ships in the Red Sea that are bound for Israel. Iran supplies the missiles and drones they are firing.Joe Biden looks at the event, confused and helpless.Were he to give the assignment to Harris, the vice president would deal with the Houthis the way she demolished the Mexican cartels after Biden named her border czar. (Yeah. Right.)Still, she could not do worse than all the other government officials Biden has sent to the Mideast to cope with the fallout from the Israeli war against Hamas in Gaza.Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and National Security advisor Jake Sullivan have met with everybody in the region — Benjamin Netanyahu in I...

Starr: Dodgers “fully throttle” Red Sox with $325 million Yamamoto contract

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:00:48 GMT

The promise of a “full throttle” Red Sox offseason, already an unrealistic dream, was officially broken on Thursday night, when Jack Curry of YES Network broke the news that the Los Angeles Dodgers had won the Yoshinobu Yamamoto sweepstakes.It’s the latest in a string of enormous, historic offseason transactions by the Dodgers, and the latest in a long line of Red Sox disappointments.Yamamoto completes an Orion’s belt of shining new stars; already in the last two weeks, the Dodgers gave Shohei Ohtani a record $700 million while also trading for and extending Rays star Tyler Glasnow.According to Jeff Passan of ESPN, Yamamoto’s is a 12-year, $325 million deal. There’s no deferred money, a $50 million signing bonus and player opt-outs after the ’29 and ’31 seasons. The Dodgers must also pay a $50.6 million posting fee to Yamamoto’s Nippon Professional Baseball team, the Orix Buffaloes. It’s not only unprecedented for the posti...