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‘Shopping cart killer’ suspect’s first trial delayed, awaiting sanity evaluation

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:10:33 GMT

A shopping cart was found near the bodies of two women in Fairfax County. (Courtesy Fairfax County Police Department ) A shopping cart was found near the bodies of two women in Fairfax County. (Courtesy Fairfax County Police Department ) The first trial for “shopping cart killer” suspect Anthony Eugene Robinson, which was scheduled to begin this August in Harrisonburg, Virginia, will be delayed, as his attorney has yet to receive a mental health evaluation to determine whether Robinson was insane when he allegedly killed two women  in 2021.Defense attorney Louis Nagy is considering an insanity defense in the deaths of 54-year-old Beth Redmon, of Harrisonburg, and 39-year-old Tonita Smith, of Charlottes...

Seahawks’ Quandre Diggs enjoys a normal offseason that doesn’t involve injury rehab

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:10:33 GMT

RENTON, Wash. (AP) — For most of this offseason, Quandre Diggs has been able to usually wrap up his daily workouts before the lunch hour arrives.That’s a significant and welcomed change from a year ago when the Seattle Seahawks starting safety would spend his entire mornings doing rehab after undergoing major surgery on his ankle before getting around to his normal workout.“I literally had a month of offseason to get ready for full season so it was kind of rushed,” Diggs recalled on Tuesday after Seattle wrapped up the first day of its mandatory minicamp. “I didn’t get to do the things I normally get to do in the offseason.”What Diggs experienced a year ago has given him a renewed sense of appreciation for having an offseason that looked more normal and allowed him to get ready for his fourth full season in Seattle the way he wants. It’s also given him a little bit of understanding for what fellow safety Jamal Adams has gone through with yet another offseason filled with rehabbing f...

Denver weather: No end in sight for afternoon storm chances

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:10:33 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver's weather will stay wet for the next week. There will be a chance for storms each afternoon, with heavy rain and lightning the main threats each day. A severe thunderstorm warning was in effect Tuesday for Adams, Arapahoe, Denver and Douglas counties until 6 p.m. A ground stop was also in effect for Denver International Airport as rain and hail hit the region.Weather tonight: Scattered stormsStorms were expected to push across the Front Range from 3-8 p.m. Tuesday. They will be slow-moving with heavy rain and could cause minor road flooding in low-lying areas. Stronger storms will bring lightning and the potential for small hail. They will be spotty, meaning not everyone will see a storm Tuesday night. Only 5 days into June, this much rain has fallen Storms will clear out after 8 p.m. with clearing skies and dry conditions returning overnight. Temperatures will fall into the low 50s early Wednesday morning. Weather tomorrow: Storms returnWednesday's te...

Tix for trade: Nuggets fans get creative to get to the NBA Finals

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:10:33 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Thousands of fans in a Facebook group called Denver Nuggets Ticket Exchange have been getting creative to either buy or trade tickets to attend the NBA Finals games. “You don’t normally see someone trade a $900 whisky bottle for tickets," said Grady Downing, an administrator for the private Facebook group. "We also have seen a lot of Taylor Swift tickets and then someone was offering her massage trade for tickets." Familiar faces spotted at Game 2 as hyped fans watch around town One of the people on the page, Hugo Parra, who owns Green HVAC Solutions, ended up using one of his businesses to get his hands on two club-level seats for Game 1 at Ball Arena. “The tickets would have been $3,000," Parra said. "The HVAC was a little pricier, so I charged him a tad more, so it worked out for him and me." The man with the tickets was Phil Kennedy. He said he became a season ticketholder earlier this year.“I finally jumped on the bandwagon back in February and became a season...

2 dead, 1 in custody in shooting outside Virginia graduation

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:10:33 GMT

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- Two people are dead and multiple others were injured during a shooting outside a high school graduation near Virginia Commonwealth University’s Monroe Park campus Tuesday evening, police have confirmed. A suspect is also in custody.The shooting happened around 5:15 p.m. ET outside the Altria Theater, where Huguenot High School was holding its graduation ceremony. Officers inside reported hearing gunfire and notified additional officers stationed outside, Interim Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards said during a Tuesday evening press conference. Officers then found seven individuals outside the theater with gunshot wounds, Edwards said.During a second press conference, Edwards said two of those individuals - an 18-year-old boy who graduated Tuesday, and a 36-year-old man - have died. Another victim, a 31-year-old, remains hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. Four others are hospitalized with non-life-threatening gunshot wo...

Police searching for person who drove at officer in Boston, prompting them to open fire

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:10:33 GMT

A large police presence gathered in Hyde Park on Tuesday night after a person drove at a Boston police officer, prompting them to fire at the vehicle, officials said.Police say a driver in a rental car drove at the officer near the intersection of Wachusett Street and Eldridge Road. The officer, who fired a single shot, was uninjured.No additional information was immediately available.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Hundreds attend vigil honoring mother, toddler fatally shot in Franklin, NH

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:10:33 GMT

Hundreds of people came together for a candlelight vigil honoring the memories of a Franklin, New Hampshire woman and her 1-and-a-half-year-old daughter who were fatally shot on Saturday.Community members cried and shared stories about Nicole Hughes, 38, and her daughter, Ariella Bell. Hughes was remembered as a kind soul who cared for those around her and Ella as a happy little girl.Hughes’s 5-year-old daughter was also shot during the incident but has since been release from the hospital.The toddler’s father, Jamie Bell, 42, was found dead near the Merrimack River with a self-inflicted wound to the neck.It is believed Bell shot and killed them both before fleeing and eventually taking his own life.A GoFundMe has been set up by a relative of the victims.

Yankees look dazed beneath haze vs. Chicago’s Lucas Giolito

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:10:33 GMT

Smoke filled the air at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday, but not because the Yankees’ bats were on fire.Instead, White Sox starter Lucas Giolito kept the Bombers hitless for six innings as the two teams played beneath an unhealthy haze, the result of smoke from Canadian wildfires drifting south. The smog provided an apocalyptic-looking backdrop as Chicago claimed a 3-2 victory to begin a three-game series.The Yankees picked up their first hit of the night when Isiah Kiner-Falefa hit a catchable flyball that dropped between centerfielder Luis Robert Jr. and Andrew Benintendi. The mishap, which happened with Joe Kelly on the mound, allowed Willie Calhoun to score after he walked earlier in the inning.The Yanks finished the game with three total hits, including a solo shot from Josh Donaldson off closer Liam Hendriks in the ninth.Prior to that, Giolito stifled the Yankees’ lineup, which played without Aaron Judge for the second straight game after he injured his toe on a fence-br...

Ukrainians make desperate escape from floods after dam collapse as shelling echoes overhead

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:10:33 GMT

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV (Associated Press)KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — As shelling from Russia’s war on Ukraine echoed overhead, dozens of evacuees on an island in the Dnieper River scurried onto the tops of military trucks or into rafts to flee rising floodwaters caused by a dam breach upstream. The unnerving bark of dogs left behind further soured the mood of those ferried to safety. A woman in one raft clutched the head of her despondent daughter. A stalled military truck stuck in swelling waters raised the panic level as Red Cross teams tried to manage an orderly evacuation.Nobody knew just how high the waters rushing through a gaping hole in the Kakhovka dam would rise, or whether people or pets would escape alive. The scrambled evacuation by boat and military truck from an island neighborhood off the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson downstream on Tuesday testified to the latest human chaos caused by Russia’s war in Ukraine.Ukrainian authorities accused Russian force...

2 men died in Richmond shooting after high school graduation, police say

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:10:33 GMT

RICHMOND — Seven people were shot, two fatally, when gunfire rang out Tuesday outside a downtown theater where a high school graduation ceremony had recently concluded, causing attendees to flee in panic, weep and clutch their children, authorities and witnesses reported.A 19-year-old suspect tried to flee but was arrested and will be charged with two counts of second-degree murder, Interim Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards said in a nighttime news conference at which he confirmed the two fatalities.Five others were wounded by the gunfire outside the Virginia capital’s Altria Theater and in an adjacent park. At least 12 others were injured or treated for anxiety due to the mayhem, according to police.“As they heard the gunfire, it was obviously chaos,” Edwards said. “We had hundreds of people in Monroe Park, so people scattered. It was very chaotic at the scene.”Edwards said the two who died were both male, ages 18 and 36. Their names were not released, but police...