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4 found shot to death in Adams County home

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:14:28 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Four men were found shot dead at an Adams County home on Tuesday afternoon, investigators say.It happened in the 8400 block of Franklin Drive, according to an Adams County Sheriff's Office spokesperson. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox Someone reported a gunshot victim at 4:25 p.m., the spokesperson said. Responding deputies found a locked-up house, only to get inside and find four adults dead with what appeared to be gunshot wounds.Investigators believe the shooter is among the dead and died by suicide, according to the sheriff's office."This appears to be an isolated incident and there is no outstanding danger to the public," the sheriff's office posted on social media.Deputies were interviewing family and neighbors and were waiting to obtain a search warrant Tuesday night.FOX31 has a crew headed to the scene. Check back for updates.

Luminosa at Jungle Island returns after 4 years to light up your world with art

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:14:28 GMT

Missed seeing Luminosa at Jungle Island?Well… They’re back.The last time Luminosa was in Miami was back in 2019.Lauren Inderbitzin: “Luminosa is a completely immersive cultural experience where you can come enjoy the work of over 150 different artists who have created different lands using silk and steel. And they’ve built all these things by hand.”All of Jungle Island is covered in lights. That’s over a mile long.Lauren Inderbitzin: “There are four different lands guests can come and experience at Luminosa”Take a walk on the wild side with their Animalia AreaLauren Inderbitzin: “That’s going to take you into the jungle with animals that are larger than life.”Then it’s time to hit the ocean…Lauren Inderbitzin: “Get up close to Neptune’s Castle to really see the full immersion feeling.”You’ll have a “whale” of a good time getting up close to the marine life. Don’t worry, these ...

Former St.Thomas Aquinas High School football player gives back to community in Miami Gardens as Thanksgiving nears

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:14:28 GMT

As Thanksgiving approaches, former St. Thomas Aquinas and now Alabama football star, Dallas Turner, made sure people in Miami Gardens had something special to eat this week.Turner’s family and Drew Rosenhaus lent a helping hand at at the Flat Tops Forever Barbershop in Miami Gardens, Tuesday.Even though he is still at school, Tuner had to make sure to help spice up Thanksgiving for the community that helped raise him.“Dallas has been a part of our life at this barbershop, he grew up at the barbershop and he’s very familiar with the neighborhood,” said Devon Tuner, Dallas’ father. “He plays for the Ravens, so it’s a real special for him to kinda come back and be able to gave back to the community as he sees, as he ascending in college and becoming an adult, it’s a part of who he is.”

Israeli government agrees temporary cease-fire and hostage-release deal with Hamas

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:14:28 GMT

Israel and Hamas have agreed a temporary cease-fire and prisoner-exchange deal, after Israel’s Cabinet voted to back the agreement overnight.Haaretz reports that under the deal, Hamas is expected to release 30 Israeli children and 20 women, of the around 240 hostages its militants kidnapped during their October 7 mass attack on Israel. In exchange, Israel would release 150 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails. An official told Haaretz that Hamas may also release foreign national hostages under deals reached with their countries.Under the deal, which was brokered with officials from Qatar acting as intermediaries, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said hostages who are not released will receive medicine and be visited by the Red Cross.The cease-fire is expected to last four or five days, according to reports. Netanyahu’s office also said that the release of every 10 additional hostages would see one additional day added to the pause in fighting. Howev...

Israel approves deal to release at least 50 hostages held by Hamas

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:14:28 GMT

(CNN) — Israel’s cabinet has approved a breakthrough deal that would see the release of at least 50 hostages – women and children – from Gaza, according to an Israeli government statement, in what is expected to result in the first sustained pause in fighting and major de-escalatory step since Israel’s war with Hamas began.The freeing of the hostages will come in exchange for a four-day truce in Israel’s air and ground campaign in Gaza, the statement said. It made no mention of the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, though it is understood this is also a key part of the deal. Earlier reports suggested about 150 Palestinian prisoners, also predominantly women and children, would be released.The deal was approved by the Israeli cabinet by a significant majority, a government source told CNN.The statement held out the potential for the truce to extend beyond the original four-day period, saying that an extra day would be added to the truce for each t...

Former Patriots captain Devin McCourty focused on championing fight against injustice after retirement

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:14:28 GMT

Devin McCourty is best known for being a champion on the field. Now retired from the Patriots he is focused on championing the fight against injustice. McCourty retired earlier this year. Speaking to 7’s Amaka Ubaka, he detailed efforts to make an impact off the field and more.“Being a part of this, that was everything that we kind of worked hard and built up, it was the top of the mountain,” he said.McCourty was recently honored for his work in the case of William Allen, who had been in prison for 27 years serving a life sentence for murder and armed robbery. While Allen was involved in the crime, he was not the man who fatally stabbed the victim. McCourty learned about Allen’s case and knew he had to help. “I was blown away from there and told everybody, ‘I’m in, let me know how I can help, what we need to do, but I’m all in on this,” he said. McCourty moved fast, signing a letter to then-Gov. Charlie Baker pleading for Allen’s release. McCourty also appeared a...

Substitute teacher arrested after suspected 'inappropriate activity' with teen: police

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:14:28 GMT

OCEANSIDE, Calif. -- A 27-year-old Vista Unified School District substitute teacher suspected of inappropriate activity with a 13-year-old girl was arrested over the weekend, authorities said.Conner Chanove, who is also a coach for the all-girls Seaside Water Polo Club in Carlsbad, was arrested Monday after the teen's mother allegedly found him with her daughter in a vehicle at Guajome Lake Park in Oceanside, Sgt. Josh Morris with the Oceanside Police Department said in a news release Tuesday."The mother noticed inappropriate activity was taking place and removed her daughter from the vehicle and confronted the suspect," Morris said. Encinitas removes benches at Swami’s beach, frustrating locals Authorities were unable to find the suspect when they received the report Saturday, but two days later found and arrested him. Police also conducted a search of Chanove's home in Carlsbad.Chanove was booked into the Vista Detention Facility on multiple charges, according to police. His bai...

Man killed by police after reaching for gun in pants identified

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:14:28 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Authorities released bodycam video and identified a man who was killed by police after reaching for a weapon in his waistband last week in City Heights. Imanol Aparicio, 22, of San Diego, was identified as the suspect allegedly in possession of a loaded unregistered polymer 80 firearm and a backpack containing a loaded 30-round magazine with 13 rounds, Lt. Joseph Jarjura with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department (SDSO) said in a news release Tuesday.On the evening of Monday, Nov. 13, San Diego police received a report of a man shooting a female victim in the 4500 block of Polk Avenue in the Teralta East neighborhood, according to authorities. The caller told police the suspect was standing outside the home with a firearm.When officers arrived on scene, the suspect had already left, but was later located in the 4000 block of Wightman Street in the Cherokee Point neighborhood.Officers shouted multiple times at the suspect to take his hands out of his pockets, but he ...

US court denies woman’s appeal of Cristiano Ronaldo’s 2010 hush-money settlement in Vegas rape case

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:14:28 GMT

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A U.S. appeals court sided Tuesday with Cristiano Ronaldo, rejecting an appeal by the lawyer for a woman trying to force the international soccer star to pay millions more than the $375,000 in hush money he paid her after she accused him of raping her in 2009.Kathryn Mayorga’s lawyer had asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a federal judge’s dismissal of the case in Las Vegas in June 2022 and reopen the civil lawsuit she filed in 2018.They argued U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey should not have rejected Mayorga’s attempts to unseal and make public the confidentiality agreement she signed in 2010 in accepting payments from Ronaldo.A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based appellate court disagreed. It also rejected their argument that the judge abused her discretion by dismissing the case with prejudice, which prevented Mayorga from refiling the case, and took the unusual step of levying a $335,000 fine against her lawyer, Les...

Pilot killed as small plane crashes and burns on doorstep of shopping center in Plano, Texas

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:14:28 GMT

PLANO, Texas (AP) — A small plane crashed and burned Tuesday on the doorstep of a strip mall in Texas, killing the pilot and causing a nearby car to catch fire, but nobody on the ground was injured, authorities said.The single-engine Mooney M20, with just the pilot aboard, went down at about 6 p.m. north of Air Park-Dallas Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said.Photos from the scene showed the wreckage in a parking space next to a nail salon and diner just outside of the shopping center in the Dallas suburb of Plano.The crash caused a parked car to catch fire, but nobody was inside the vehicle, authorities said.Police confirmed the pilot died at the scene.The cause of the crash was under investigation. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the plane was taking off or trying to land at the small suburban airport, which has a single runway.The Associated Press