Author: Enegxi News
New surveillance video showed the moments a construction worker was caught in an explosion at a gas station in Hallandale Beach. The worker was hospitalized with second and third-degree burns to about half his body. The explosion happened on Tuesday at the gas station located at 26 S. Federal Highway. In the surveillance footage obtained by 7News on Wednesday, the worker was seen standing in the middle of the blast. Debris was seen flying after the initial explosion and a fire started off to the side. Linda Paisley, who works three blocks away, said she heard the explosion. “I heard, down the street, like…
AUKAR, Lebanon (AP) — A gunman who attacked the U.S. embassy near Beirut was shot and captured by Lebanese soldiers after a Wednesday morning shootout that injured an embassy security guard, the military and embassy officials said. The attack took place as tensions simmered in the tiny Mediterranean country, where months of fighting between Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops has displaced thousands along the border, following years of political deadlock and economic hardship. Local media reported that there was a gunfight involving at least one attacker and lasting almost half an hour. Joe Abdo, who works at a gas station…
A 28-year-old man has been arrested and charged with attempted felony murder following a stabbing incident at a 24-Hour Fitness gym in Miami Gardens last month. On May 9, Miami Gardens patrol officers responded to a reported stabbing at the 24-Hour Fitness located at 19371 NW 27th Ave. Officers found the victim at the front doors of the gym with stab wounds to his left underarm, left forearm and left buttock. The victim was airlifted to Aventura Hospital’s trauma unit due to the severity of his injuries. According to the arrest report, the victim identified Andrew Rodriguez, of Miami Gardens, as…
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Hunter Biden’s gun trial have spent hours showing jurors evidence of his drug problem, seeking to reveal through his own words and writing the depth of his addiction to show it was still going on when, they say, he lied on a form to buy a firearm. First lady Jill Biden went to court Wednesday for the third day to support her son, ahead of her trip to France to meet President Joe Biden, who was in Europe to mark the anniversary of D-Day. Testimony continued with cross-examination of an FBI agent who…
The owner of a troubled restaurant in the region is vowing to reopen after state health inspectors shuttered his business over an insect problem. Saratoga County’s Route 50 Diner – located in Ballston Spa at 2002 Doubleday Avenue – was closed Thursday, May 30, after a New York State Department of Health inspector uncovered a cockroach infestation, according to the agency’s report. The report added that the business, which opened in 2017, is working with a pest control company “for ongoing treatment” to mitigate the issue. Owner Brian Hyra confirmed the development in a defiant Facebook post in which he preemptively defended his…
Florence, Italy (CNN) — An Italian court has upheld Amanda Knox’s final remaining conviction stemming from the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007. Knox was convicted in 2009 of slander for falsely accusing Patrick Lumumba of murdering Kercher in the Italian city of Perugia. An appellate court in Florence upheld that conviction on Wednesday. Knox was previously cleared of Kercher’s murder by the Italian supreme court in 2015. The two-judge, six-jury panel, with two alternates, reached their decision after an emotional Knox told the court that she was “sorry” she did not try harder to retract the accusation and…
As part of construction on the Historic Ridgeview Walk, a section of 7th Avenue S.W. in front of the Ridgeview Branch Library will be closed Thursday, June 6, from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Work crews will install a storm drain. 7th Avenue S.W. will be closed from the intersection of 7th Avenue S.W. and 1st Street S.W. to the driveway of the Ridgeview Branch Library parking lot. Detour routes will be established and clearly marked. Citizens are encouraged to use caution when traveling through or near the area for the safety of work crews.
OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — Under their feet, the sands of Omaha Beach, and in their rheumy eyes, tears that inevitably flowed from being on the revered shoreline in Normandy, France, where so many American young men were cut down 80 years ago on D-Day. Veterans of World War II, many of them centenarians and likely returning to France for one last time, pilgrimaged Tuesday to what was the bloodiest of five Allied landing beaches on June 6, 1944. They remembered fallen friends. They relived horrors they experienced in combat. They blessed their good fortune for surviving. And they mourned those who paid…
Following several sightings of an invasive insect known to cause harm to local forests, agriculture, and tourism, village officials in Westchester are advising residents to manually remove them by any means necessary. According to an announcement from Irvington village officials on Tuesday, June 4, numerous residents have reported sightings of the Spotted Lanternfly, an invasive insect from Asia known to negatively impact plant life in New York. The insect feeds on many plant species, including grapevines, red and silver maple, walnut, sycamore, rose bushes, oak, birch, fruit trees, Virginia creeper, Porcelain berry, and more. To do so, the species sucks…
One person was killed and several injured in an early morning crash in Montgomery County, state police say. Troopers were called at approximately 3 a.m. to the inner loop of I-495 near Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring, where there was a reported three-vehicle crash. (~245a) IL495 between Connecticut Ave & Georgia Ave IAO Exit 31A, collision w/ entrapment, involves 3 vehicles, multiple trauma patients, 1 person likely was ejected from vehicle, @mcfrs PE707, RS741, E705B, PE719, A716, M741, M750, A741B, EMS702 on scene, some lanes blocked — Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) June 5, 2024 According to the initial investigation, a 2005 Honda Accord struck a…