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McMillan Middle School students to compete in world robotics competition

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:30:52 GMT

A group of aspiring engineers took top honors at a recent robotics competition in Florida. Now, they have their sights set on becoming some of the best in the country. Kevin Ozebek has today’s 7 Spotlight.School is in session, but this isn’t a typical class.These students are creating world-class robots.Dale Adamson, teacher: “They’re practicing their strategy. They’re practicing their driving skills, and they’re working on their codes now.”This is the STEM Squad at Howard D. McMillan Middle School in Kendale Lakes.Math and robotics teacher Dale Adamson is their coach.Dale Adamson: “You do need speed.”He says at the beginning of the school year, students are divided into teams and told to build a robot as part of a game-based engineering challenge.It’s called the VEX IQ Competition.Dale Adamson: “Most of these students didn’t have the experience at all with VEX and with building robots, so it starts very early i...

Five people arrested 2 years after shooting and crash in Kendall left 3 dead

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:30:52 GMT

Investigators have made a big break years after three people were killed at a graduation party. After two years of investigations, police have arrested five people involved in a shooting and crash in Kendall that left three people dead, including a Florida corrections officer, and injured at least five others following a graduation party, in June 2021. “Following tips and leads and collaborations with all of our criminal justice partners to make five arrests: three related to the homicide and two narcotic firearm subjects that were also arrested that are affiliated with these heinous acts,” the Director of Miami-Dade Police, Alfredo “Freddy” Ramirez said.One of five arrested, Jeremy Devine appeared in bond court, Friday, and is charged with second-degree murder. William Lee Thomas III and Melchelzadek Jacory Matthews are also being charged with second-degree murder and are waiting to be extradited back to Miami. Police said two others are connected to the case. James Joh...

8 years later, Florida man charged in Alabama cold case

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:30:52 GMT

BAY MINETTE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama law enforcement officials said Friday they’ve arrested a man accused of murder, eight years after the victim was reported missing from a Florida city.The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office in Alabama said Decody Herring, 32, was charged with the murder of Devin Kennedy of Pensacola, Florida. Kennedy was 22 at the time of his death, sheriff’s Lt. Andy Ashton said.Kennedy was reported missing from Pensacola on Nov. 14, 2015, the sheriff’s office said. His body was found a day later in Lillian, an unincorporated community along Alabama’s coast.Multiple suspects were developed at the time, but there was not enough evidence to warrant an arrest, investigators said.“Eventually, all of our investigative leads were exhausted,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement. “The case remained open but became cold.”The sheriff’s office said Friday that new information led to Herring’s arrest but didn’t say what it was. They al...

Inmates escorted out of building after hours-long standoff at Bristol County House of Correction

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:30:52 GMT

Authorities said no staff or prison inmates were taken hostage during a daylong “incident” at the Bristol County House of Correction that led to officers escorting prisoners out of the facility in handcuffs. Dozens of inmates could be seen sitting handcuffed in a nearby basketball court after they were removed by heavily-armored officers. The movement came after SKY7-HD spotted columns of officers moving into the scene of the disturbance just before 4 p.m., later escorting out inmates one after the other.Officials said the incident at the facility started earlier in the morning after authorities attempted to move inmates to different housing units. In an update provided by the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office, a public information officer said the incident occurred while staff were taking steps to make the facility “more suicide-resistant.”“Part of this process is moving inmates to different housing units,” PIO Jonathan Darling stated. “Frida...

More clouds and rain this weekend

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:30:52 GMT

7Weather- Hopefully you enjoyed the abundant sunshine today! Our chance to see the sun decreases this weekend, as we get more clouds and rain. Saturday will be your better (and dry) day to be outside.More clouds will gather overnight. That’ll keep most of us near 40° tomorrow morning. We’ll hold on to a lot of clouds throughout the day. It’ll start off breezy along the coast. An east/southeast wind will fill in more for everyone through the day. It’ll be gusty on the coast. Like today, that wind direction will pull cooler air off the Atlantic (47° as of this writing) and onshore. The coast will stay in the upper 40s/low 50s. Inland towns will be in the upper 50s/low 60s. Saturday evening will remain dry, but breezy. Rain will move in overnight, and the band will slide west to east through the morning. If you’re in eastern Mass, you could get a couple hours of dry time before the rain moves in. This is a slow-moving rain band and it’ll be with us ...

Dorchester man whose dogs police say attacked them was wanted on 12 warrants at the time of his arrest

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:30:52 GMT

The Boston Police Department says the suspect arrested at the Dorchester home where two dogs attacked an officer was wanted on 12 outstanding warrants, including assault and battery on a police officer.Tumerrick Brown, 22, of Dorchester, was arrested by the BPD’s Youth Violence Strike Force at about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. After officers placed him under arrest, police say, two dogs inside the house at 28 Michigan Ave. attacked the arresting officer and bit him several times.Another officer shot both the dogs, killing one and injuring another, according to a police statement. Both officers were transported to a hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries.Brown was wanted on 12 outstanding warrants, including assault and battery on a police officer, assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, multiple counts of larceny, automobile law violations and being a fugitive from justice from Salam, N.H.In a search of the apartment, officers found a .40-caliber firearm, acco...

Revolution look to extend unbeaten streak against Sporting Kansas City

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:30:52 GMT

The New England Revolution will put their five-game unbeaten streak on the line against underperforming Sporting Kansas City in an interdivisional match on Saturday night (7:30) at Gillette Stadium.The Revolution (5-1-2) are in first place in the Eastern Conference while Sporting Kansas City (0-5-3) is last in the Western Conference. But the most glaring discrepancy between the two clubs is not the records or standing within their respective conferences.The biggest chasm between the Revolution and SKC is measured in goals for and against. Both teams have played eight games with the Revolution netting 13 goals to just two by SKC. The Revolution have allowed seven goals to 11 by SKC.While acknowledging the numerical mismatch, Revolution sporting director and head coach Bruce Arena has looked beyond the disparate stats to avoid falling victim to a trap game.“Well, I think it’s something that doesn’t add up at this point,” said Arena. “There are quality players there in their front line...

Trans lawmaker silenced for 2nd day by Montana House speaker

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:30:52 GMT

By AMY BETH HANSON (Associated Press)HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A transgender Montana lawmaker was silenced for a second day Friday as her Republican colleagues have refused to let her speak on the chamber’s floor this session until she apologizes for saying lawmakers would have “blood on their hands” if they banned gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth.Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr sought to speak on a bill to prevent minors from seeing porn online, but House Speaker Matt Regier blocked the request. “I’m still going to expect the same standard for all representatives in this House. I’m still going to stand for the dignity and integrity of this House,” said Regier. He said earlier that the silencing was necessary to “maintain decorum” and will last until the end of the session unless she apologizes.Regier first shut down Zephyr on Thursday, when she wanted to comment on a bill seeking to put a binary definition of ma...

‘Incident’ at Dartmouth House of Correction now ‘calm,’ Bristol Sheriff’s office says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:30:52 GMT

The Bristol County Sheriff’s office reports that “both units are calm” at the Dartmouth House of Correction following an incident there for which not much information has been released.“The Bristol County Sheriff’s Office is taking steps to make the facility more suicide-resistent. Part of this process is moving inmates to different housing units. Friday morning, some inmates in one of the housing units did not want to move, leading to the current incident,” Bristol Sheriff spokesman Jonathan Darling announced in an email at 1:04 p.m. Friday.Sheriff Paul Heroux will provide further information before 6 p.m., the office said later.Many outlets speculated about what the “incident” looked like, but at 2:06 p.m., the Sheriff’s office tweeted that “Rumors of a ‘full blown prison riot’ are false. We will share more details when we can.”Eleven minutes later, the office announced that “All staff are accounted for. There are no staff hostages, and there is no reason to believe that inmates h...

Red Sox were smart to extend Rafael Devers early

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:30:52 GMT

This time last season so much of the discourse surrounding the Red Sox revolved around Xander Bogaerts and his looming free agency. It was like a dark cloud that hung over everything, and even when the Red Sox played well it lingered like an odor you couldn’t escape.Isn’t it refreshing how much different the conversation is now?After failing to retain Bogaerts or Mookie Betts before him, the Red Sox finally reached an agreement with one of their homegrown stars this past offseason, signing Rafael Devers to a 10-year, $313.5 million extension. The deal is the largest in Red Sox history and will ensure Devers remains the face of the franchise for the next decade.Though the extension technically doesn’t take effect until next year, it does have the short-term benefit of removing the threat of yet another superstar walking out the door. As a result fans have been able to live in the here and now, and so far Devers has looked worth every penny of that contract and more....