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Talk show host, former politician Jerry Springer dies at 79: Reports

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:44 GMT

(NEXSTAR) — Jerry Springer, the legendary talk show host and former mayor and news anchor, has died, according to a statement from his family shared with multiple outlets. He was 79. Springer passed away peacefully at his home in Chicago Thursday, a spokesperson for his family told WLWT.“Jerry’s ability to connect with people was at the heart of his success in everything he tried whether that was politics, broadcasting or just joking with people on the street who wanted a photo or a word,” Jene Galvin, a lifelong friend and spokesman for the family, told the outlet. “He’s irreplaceable and his loss hurts immensely, but memories of his intellect, heart and humor will live on.”Jerry Springer, as seen on the show's 25th Season Spectacular -- (Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)FILE - Jerry Springer attends AOL Build Speaker Speakers at AOL Studios In New York on May 19, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/FilmMagic)...

Owner surrenders dog after it bites 7-year-old girl in Miami Gardens

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:44 GMT

Miami-Dade Animal Control removed a dog that attacked a young girl, which sent her to the hospital. The dog’s owner surrendered the animal at around 10 a.m., Thursday. The 7-year-old that was attacked still remains in the hospital with a severe injury. “I’m very, very happy that the dog is gone, but I’m also sad that my granddaughter is in the hospital suffering in pain,” said Carletha Rodgers, the victim’s grandmother. “It’s a bittersweet day.”K’lonie Huges survived a gruesome dog attack Wednesday night at Northwest 207th Street Road.Once the dog was in the back of an animal control van and barked, it had Rogers reliving the moment it all happened.“My granddaughter laying on the ground while he’s attacking her, in pain, crying out yelling, screaming for help,” Rodgers said. The attack took place in Crystal Meadow’s yard, a place where the neighborhood kids like to play.“You hearing him growing like ...

Hollywood PD arrest woman after altercation with school Guardian

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:44 GMT

The Hollywood Police Department officers responded to the scene for emergency assistance after a school Guardian encountered an altercation with a parent outside of a school. Law enforcement officers arrested the person when they arrived on the scene.On Thursday, just after 8:15 a.m., authorities responded to an incident at Stirling Elementary School, located at 5500 Sterling Road, when the Guardian called for backup after a heated argument escalated.Officials said she drove in the wrong direction into the pick-up loop of the school. That was when the interaction between the Guardian and the driver occurred.The Guardian sustained minor injuries and, police said, no students or staff members were harmed.According to the Florida Department of Education, Guardians are armed personnel who aid in the prevention of active assailant incidents on school premises. The Coach Aaron Feis Guardian Program, named after the man who used his body as a shield to protect students in the Parkland sch...

Timothy Garton Ash on the future of Europe — Eva Kaili back in the spotlight

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:44 GMT

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Stitcher .st0{fill:#EB8A23;} .st1{fill:#FAC617;} .st2{fill:#612368;} .st3{fill:#3792C4;} .st4{fill:#C33727;} Acast “We have created the best Europe there has ever been” — so says Timothy Garton Ash, this week’s special guest. Meanwhile, former vice president of the European Parliament, Eva Kaili, is fi...

Carolyn Bryant Donham, at center of Emmett Till death, dies

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:44 GMT

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana, a coroner’s report shows. Carolyn Bryant Donham was 88.Donham died Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, according to a death report filed Thursday in Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office in Louisiana.Till’s kidnapping and killing became a catalyst for the civil rights movement when his mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in their hometown of Chicago after his brutalized body was pulled from a river in Mississippi. Jet magazine published photos.Till traveled from Chicago to visit relatives in Mississippi in August 1955. Donham — then named Carolyn Bryant — accused him of making improper advances on her at a grocery store in the small community of Money. The Rev. Wheeler Parker, a cousin of Till who was there, has said 14-year-old Till whistled at the woman, an act that flew in t...

SJC Ruling May Revive Case Against Former Holyoke Home Leaders

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:44 GMT

Criminal proceedings can proceed against two former Holyoke Soldiers’ Home officials accused of negligence that led to the deaths of dozens of veterans early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday. In a 5-2 decision that reversed a lower court’s dismissal of grand jury indictments, the Supreme Judicial Court said prosecutors should have a chance to present their case at trial against Bennett Walsh, the facility’s former superintendent, and David Clinton, its former medical director. Justice Dalila Argaez Wendlandt wrote in the majority ruling that testimony presented to the grand jury “constituted probable cause to believe that the defendants violated the elder neglect statute” and concluded Superior Court Judge Edward McDonough “erred in dismissing the indictments” in November 2020. Justices David Lowy and Elspeth Cypher dissented, with Lowy writing that there was “insufficient evidence before the gra...

Your pollen allergies are overwhelming? This might be why

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:44 GMT

(CNN) — Pollen has exploded to eye-watering levels this spring in some parts of the country after warm weather pushed plants out of their winter slumber much earlier than normal.In Atlanta, the pollen count sky rocketed to “extremely high” in early March and stayed high through much of April, according to the Atlanta Allergy and Asthma physicians practice. Farther north in Washington, DC, allergy sufferers have been dreading the lime-green film of pollen covering that covers windshields and porches and piles up on streets and sidewalks.But these aren’t isolated trends. As the planet warms, researchers say allergy season is starting earlier and lasting longer. And a study from the journal Nature published last year found that pollen count is projected to increase by 200% by the end of the century if planet-warming pollution continues to rise.Climate Central, a nonprofit focused on climate news and research, recently analyzed how w...

New anti-obesity drug poised to upend weight loss care

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:44 GMT

As a growing number of overweight Americans clamor for Ozempic and Wegovy — drugs touted by celebrities and on TikTok to pare pounds — an even more powerful obesity medicine is poised to upend treatment.Tirzepatide, an Eli Lilly and Co. drug approved to treat type 2 diabetes under the brand name Mounjaro, helped people with the disease who were overweight or had obesity lose up to 16% of their body weight, or more than 34 pounds, over nearly 17 months, the company said on Thursday.The late-stage study of the drug for weight loss adds to earlier evidence that similar participants without diabetes lost up to 22% of their body weight over that period with weekly injections of the drug. For a typical patient on the highest dose, that meant shedding more than 50 pounds.Having diabetes makes it notoriously difficult to lose weight, said Dr. Nadia Ahmad, Lilly’s medical director of obesity clinical development, which means the recent results are especially significant. “We have...

Heat-Knicks redux? ‘We understand the rivalry that they had back in the day. It’s not the same’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:44 GMT

It is the narrative that will drive the initial discussion, as the Miami Heat move into their Eastern Conference best-of-seven semifinal playoff series against the New York Knicks, a series that opens 1 p.m. Sunday at Madison Square Garden.But the reality of the rivalry is that the last time the teams met in a meaningful, competitive postseason matchup, Bam Adebayo had yet to turn 3, Gabe Vincent had yet to turn 4, Jimmy Butler was 10 and even sage Kyle Lowry was just 14.That was an epic 2000 Eastern Conference semifinal that went the full seven games and went to the Knicks, with Alonzo Mourning and Tim Hardaway as the Heat’s leading protagonists. To put the time lapsed into further perspective, Mourning is now 53, Hardaway 56.Yes, the teams since then also met in the 2012 first round, but that was a series the Heat dominated 4-1 behind their Big Three core of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, a series so unlike Heat-Knicks of the previous era that streamers were dropp...

Federal officials investigating two explosions in Weare, NH

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:44 GMT

Two explosions shut down roads in Weare, New Hampshire, and brought in federal investigators Thursday morning, according to police and the Boston field division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.Officials provided few details of the incidents and did not confirm whether any people were injured in the explosions as of noon.Weare police first reported Concord State Road was closed due to an unspecified active investigation before 8 a.m. Thursday. Shortly after, the road was reopened and police narrowed the investigation to Sugar Hill Road leading to Hopkinton.Weare police also reported Dustin Tavern Road on Wednesday afternoon, without specifying if the incident was connected.Around 10 a.m. ATF Boston confirmed federal agents were on the scene investigating the incident.New Hampshire State Police tweeted troopers are also assisting the ongoing investigation. The department said there is “no known threat to public safety at this time” and local traf...