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Miami-Dade Parks officials demand repairs at Miami Seaquarium for attraction to keep lease

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:14 GMT

Miami-Dade County officials have given the Miami Seaquarium’s owner a warning that repairs are required or they could lose their lease.The county’s Parks and Recreation Department sent the Dolphin Company a notice of default, giving the attraction, which is located on Virginia Key, 45 days to fix a series of issues.A dolphin had to be treated after the marine mammal are a piece of concrete from an aging tank at the Seaquarium.Regulators also found other animal care issues and too many vacant veterinarian positions.Inspectors discovered structural problems in the facility’s sea mammal tanks, including the pool that once housed Lolita the killer whale.The orca died in August at age 57.

Family of 10 displaced after fire ignites inside Fort Lauderdale home

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:14 GMT

A family of 10 has been left without a place to stay after their house in Fort Lauderdale went up in flames.Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue units responded to the scene of the blaze along the 1700 block of Northwest 10th Avenue, just after 7 p.m., Friday.“The first crew made entry and right away were met with heavy fire, heavy smoke,” said FLFR Assistant Fire Chief Timothy HeiserHomeowner Travis Baten told 7News he had left the house to run an errand, and that’s when his sister called him to to alert him.“They called me and said, ‘Hey, the house is on fire, and my sister was saying she’s getting the kids out of the home,” he said. “At that time it was, including my niece, seven children in the house, plus my sister. I came back, and by then, the room was engulfed. On my way back, I called 911.”Officials said firefighters had trouble reaching the fire.“They had difficulty getting to the ceiling of the fire because there is a lot...

Salem staves off near miracle comeback bid by Dennis-Yarmouth

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:14 GMT

SALEM — It certainly was a lot more dramatic than Salem coach Matt Bouchard wanted, but in his program’s first-ever home playoff game, the Witches survived a nearly miraculous rally from Dennis-Yarmouth to escape Bertram Field with a 33-27 win.The Witches (7-2) advance to face No. 6 Cardinal Spellman in the Div. 6 quarterfinals next week.“We knew it was going to be a battle and it was. We were lucky to pull that one out,” Bouchard said.It looked like Salem was going to cruise into the second round when Devante Ozuna scored on a 27-yard run with 1:55 left to give his squad a 33-13 lead.Dolphins quarterback Jayden Barber, who was a brilliant playmaker all game, hit Oliver Doto for a 67-yard score on the next play to cut the lead to 33-20.Still, the Dolphins were in need of two scores in 94 seconds to steal the win away. They promptly recovered an onside kick before Barber hit Peyton Kellett for a 45-yard gain to the one.Two plays later, Barber (17 of 40, 259 yards) flipped one to Brys...

Jackson Belsan (5 TD’s) leads Scituate past Wayland, 47-36

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:14 GMT

SCITUATE — For Scituate’s football program, one player has played the role of catalyst all year long, and he was back at it Friday.Senior quarterback Jackson Belsan finished 13-for-17 passing, racking up 266 yards to go with five touchdowns as seventh-seeded Scituate held on for a 47-36 victory over No. 10 Wayland in the opening round of the Division 4 football playoffs.Like many expected, this game had the makings of a classic during the first half. After Scituate (6-3) drew first blood on a 19-yard touchdown strike from Belsan to Lawson Foley, the Sailors watched their advantage evaporate, rapidly. Max Dressens broke off a 53-yard touchdown scamper 1:28 later, tying the score at 7-all. The schools would trade scores one more time, with Alex Burrill scampering for a five-yard touchdown for Scituate to cap the quarter.With 9:57 left in the first half, Wayland’s Michael Caulfield sprinted six yards for a touchdown, tying the score again at 14-14. By then, Sailors fans had started to ...

Top-ranked Boston College men fend off UMass Lowell, 3-2

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:14 GMT

Lofty national rankings count for nada in the hardscrabble halls of Hockey East.The No. 1 ranked Boston College Eagles scored the game-winner early in the third period and outlasted unranked UMass Lowell, 3-2, in a schoolyard brawl on Friday night on Kelley Rink at Conte Forum.BC improved to 6-1 and 1-0 in its Hockey East debut while UML dropped to 4-3 and 1-2 in the opener of a home-and-home weekend series. The two teams will have at each other again on Saturday night at the Tsongas Center in Lowell.“Obviously it is nice to have that ranking but at the end of the day it doesn’t mean all that much in the sense every team is going to come out hard and Hockey East is a tough league,” said BC senior defenseman and team captain Eamon Powell. “Each and every weekend we know we are going to have a battle.”BC broke the 2-2 deadlock at 1:19 of the third with an unlikely collaboration between a pair of aligned blue-liners. Junior defenseman Aidan Hreschuk led hi...

Long distance! Wrongly measured 3-point line on Nuggets’ court fixed ahead of tipoff with Mavericks

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:14 GMT

DENVER (AP) — The 3-point shot of Dallas forward Grant Williams felt slightly off all morning in practice on the new, brightly painted Denver Nuggets court.Turns out, it wasn’t his shot at all. It was a wrongly measured 3-point line.The line’s curvature was painted too far back on the blue-and-yellow floor that Denver will use for the NBA’s In-season Tournament that made its debut Friday night. In the time between shootaround and the game between the Mavericks and Nuggets, the line was repainted to the right distance.“I’m like, ‘There’s no way this is supposed to be this far,’” Williams said of his morning shootaround. “Everything was short. Plus, I could just tell from the perception, either it was the blue court and it’s messing with my eyes in the empty arena, or this line is long.”Indeed, it was too far back.Williams went out in pregame warmups and he was back on target. He said there was still the faint remnant of the other 3-point mark.“You ...

10-year-old hospitalized after South Side shooting

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:14 GMT

CHICAGO — A child was hospitalized Friday night after a shooting on the South Side, police say.According to Chicago police, the shooting happened in the 1100 block of East 91st Street, in the city's Burnside neighborhood, just before 7:40 p.m. Officers say a 10-year-old boy suffered a gunshot wound to the chest after three unknown individuals fired shots into a home in the area from outside. ‘I Stand with Israel’ signs vandalized in Skokie, police investigate as hate crime Police say the child, who has not been identified, was taken to the hospital in serious condition.Currently, it is unclear what led to the shooting or if any arrests have been made.Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call Area Two Detectives at 312-747-8271.Tips for police can also be filed at CPDtip.com. Tips can be left anonymously.

'I Stand with Israel' signs vandalized in Skokie, police investigate as hate crime

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:14 GMT

SKOKIE, Ill. — Some Skokie residents posted 'I stand with Israel' signs in their front yards in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas. Those signs were vandalized Thursday night in what Skokie police are investigating as a hate crime."We are American citizens and we are Jewish and Israel is our home away from home, and we just put these signs up to show the world that we stand with Israel," said Leah Graber, Skokie resident. For the Graber family, they said the sign in their front yard is a symbol of love and peace. But it and others in their neighborhood were vandalized overnight — ripped out — some even torn to pieces. Leah’s kids noticed the damage when they left for school Friday morning."They saw it and they thought it was the wind and I knew, I knew it wasn’t the wind when I looked around and saw others had theirs taken away also," Graber said. "The antisemitism hits home."One of Graber's neighbors captured on their doorbell camera what appeared to be three vandals with sign...

The career of Ed Burke: Power personified 

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:14 GMT

CHICAGO — It was the end of an era back in April when one of the last of the old-school Chicago machine politicians, Alderman Ed Burke, bid the Chicago City Council farewell."Many of you have over the years heard me quote the great Anglo, Irish statesman Edmond Burke who wrote, 'In politics, there are no permanent enemies, no permanent friends, only permanent interests,” Burke said in his last council speech. He may be retired, but the story of Ed Burke’s extraordinary 54-year reign is still unfolding, and the final chapter of his legacy will be written by the results of his federal corruption case. "He was one of a kind in terms of the way this city operates, and sadly he was also not that unusual in terms of his willingness to be corrupted by the system that he helped create," David Greising, President and CEO of the Better Government Association, said.  Read more: Latest Chicago news headlines Burke’s rise began in the 1960s. After a stint as a Chicago police officer,...

Paul Lisnek on migrant housing in Chicago, House Speaker Mike Johnson and more

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:14 GMT

WGN Political Analyst Paul Lisnek joined WGN Evening News to discuss several big stories from the week.The topics include the latest on migrant housing in the City of Chicago, new House Speaker Mike Johnson, the Trump sons’ fraud trial testimony and more.  Read more: Latest Chicago news headlinesTune in on Sundays for WGN-TV Political Report with Paul Lisnek.