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Florida roofing company offers free AR-15, turkey for buying new roof

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:14:10 GMT

CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WSVN) — Roof EZ, a Cape Coral roofing company, is making a bold move to attract customers during the month of November. They are offering a unique “Roof and Gobble” special, which includes a free AR-15 rifle and a turkey with the purchase of a new roof.While the promotion has garnered attention, one of the owners of the roofing company, Jason Polly, is fully aware of what he is promoting. “I know we’re going to get a lot of kick-back, like, ‘Oh, you’re giving away AR-15 guns.’ Well, we like to promote gun safety,” he said. But this move is also facing criticism. The president of Prevent Gun Violence Florida, Patricia Brigham, calls it a terrible idea. “What is the purpose of that? It is a destructive thing to do,” she said. “That business is just adding to a culture of gun violence. The AR-15 is the choice for mass shooters.” The owner of Roof E-Z emphasizes that a background check is req...

Jeff Bezos is leaving Seattle for Miami

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:14:10 GMT

(CNN) — Jeff Bezos is leaving the city where it all began for him.The Amazon founder announced on Instagram that he’s relocating from Seattle, where he has lived since 1994, to Miami. He explained that his parents recently moved back to Florida, where he and his family lived when he was younger, and that he wants to be closer to them.“I’ve lived in Seattle longer than I’ve lived anywhere else and have so many amazing memories here,” Bezos wrote. “As exciting as the move is, it’s an emotional decision for me. Seattle, you will always have a piece of my heart.”The retro video attached to the Instagram post shows Bezos touring the first Amazon “office,” which is a garage, in Bellevue, Washington. The three-bedroom house sold a few years ago for $1.5 million.Amazon thrived in the state and has become one of the biggest companies in the world. The company’s headquarters are in nearby Seattle, where it has more than 55,000 employees.Another factor, Bezos said, was his space expl...

Deputy responds to heartwarming 911 call and grants child’s request for a hug

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:14:10 GMT

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WSVN) — In a heartwarming incident, a Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office deputy responded to a unique 911 call made by a child with a special request. The deputy approached the home and asked the mother about the situation. The mother asked her son if he called the law enforcement officer, all while the moment was all caught on the homeowner’s surveillance camera and the deputy’s body cam video.“Did you call this gentleman? Did you call the police?” asked te boy’s mother.“Well I wanted to give him a hug,” said the young caller. The mother responded in disbelief, “You called him to give him a hug,” as the officer laughed.“What? I did!” said the child. The child gets of of the house to hug the deputy as he continued to speak to the mother. The deputy also used this teachable moment to explain the importance of dialing 911 only in emergencies. In a release from the Hillsborough C...

Moscow scoffs at new US sanctions, saying Washington ‘shouldn’t hold its breath’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:14:10 GMT

Moscow on Friday dismissed a sweeping new round of sanctions imposed by the U.S. over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, saying Washington “shouldn’t hold its breath” in pressuring the Kremlin to stop the offensive. The U.S. on Thursday announced nearly 100 sanctions targeting Russian energy production and revenue, the metals and mining sectors, defense procurement, and those involved in supporting Moscow’s war effort, according to a statement by the U.S. Treasury Department.“Today’s actions demonstrate our further resolve in continuing to disrupt every link of [the] Russian military supply chain, and target outside actors who would seek to support Russia’s war effort,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in the statement. The aim of the sanctions is to disrupt Russia’s international supply chain for high-priority items, diminish its domestic industrial base, and impede its technological growth, the Treasury said. The measures also ...

Alf Dubs — Holocaust survivor and Labour peer — calls for ceasefire in Gaza 

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:14:10 GMT

LONDON – Labour peer Alf Dubs, who fled Nazi occupation and came to the UK on the Kindertransport in 1939, has called for a ceasefire in Gaza. Speaking on POLITICO’s Westminster Insider podcast, Dubs said the conflict in the Middle East is a “painfully difficult issue,” adding “we have to go for a ceasefire.”He said “The deal has to be a ceasefire, the hostages must be released, and food and supplies have to get into Gaza.”With his comments, Dubs — who served as a Labour MP from 1979 to 1987 and is the former director of the Refugee Council — joins a number of Labour politicians calling for a ceasefire, including 15 frontbenchers.Labour Leader Keir Starmer has so far resisted calls for a ceasefire, saying in a recent speech that he understood the concerns at the loss of life in Gaza but arguing a ceasefire would only “embolden Hamas” and that the “only credible approach” was to back temporary humanitarian pauses in the fighting.Asked if the conflict is especially difficult for him t...

Homicide investigation underway in Sharon after victim discovered at home

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:14:10 GMT

Authorities are investigating the death of a 62-year-old Sharon man as a homicide after his body was discovered at a house on Thursday, officials said.The Norfolk District Attorney’s Office said resident Brad Larson was discovered yesterday by a relative at Larson’s home at 78 Deerfield Rd.According to the DA’s office, the 62-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene after emergency crews arrived at the address shortly afterwards.“There will be obvious police activity in the area around that home through much of the day today,” Sharon Chief of Police Stephen Coffey said Friday. “Neighbors should be assured that, given what we know at this time, there is no ongoing threat to the neighborhood or the town related to this incident.”In a news release, Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey stated that no arrests had been made as of Friday morning, and that an autopsy would be performed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.This is a developing story; sta...

State auditor has no legal authority to audit Legislature, Campbell says to DiZoglio

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:14:10 GMT

The Massachusetts state auditor does not have the legal authority to audit the Legislature without consent, Attorney General Andrea Campbell ruled in a decision that strikes a blow to Auditor Diana DiZoglio’s attempt to open state lawmakers’ books.In a Thursday letter to DiZoglio, Campbell said the conclusion builds on advice given in 1994, when the attorney general’s office “expressed considerable doubt” that the auditor had the authority to audit the Legislature over its objection.The finding comes after DiZoglio asked Campbell to greenlight a lawsuit against the Legislature in an attempt to get the House and Senate to open up their finances and divulge details on internal proceeds in the face of fierce resistance from top legislative Democrats.Campbell said she believes in transparency as a cornerstone of good government.“But that transparency must be achieved through methods that are consistent with the law,” she said in a statement. “After a thorough review of the statutory tex...

Man found dead in Sharon, police suspect it’s a homicide

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:14:10 GMT

State and local police are on the scene of an apparent homicide in Sharon where a 62-year-old man was found dead, the DA reports.A relative discovered Brad Larson, age 62, in his home with obvious injury and alerted police, the DA reports this morning.“There will be obvious police activity in the area around that home through much of the day today,” Sharon Police Chief Stephen Coffey said Friday morning. “Neighbors should be assured that, given what we know at this time, there is no ongoing threat to the neighborhood or the town related to this incident.”An autopsy is set for today.“Investigators from the Massachusetts State Police Crime Scene Services Section responded last night to process the home for potential physical evidence,” District Attorney Michael Morrissey said. “There have been no arrests in this apparent homicide, and the investigation remains active today.”

‘Fall back’ this weekend and check your alarms: Fire Marshal

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:14:10 GMT

You’ll sleep tight come Sunday as daylight savings time ends and we all gain an extra hour — especially if you check your smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) alarms and change the batteries.That’s the advice from the state Fire Marshal’s office.“Working smoke and CO alarms are crucial home safety tools,” said State Fire Marshal Jon M. Davine. “As we ‘fall back’ this weekend, be sure you have the best protection by putting fresh alkaline batteries in alarms that use them and replacing alarms that are out of date.”Hyannis Fire Chief Peter J. Burke, Jr, president of the Fire Chiefs Association of Massachusetts, stressed the alarms save lives.“Carbon monoxide is the leading cause of poisoning deaths in the United States, and heating equipment is the main source of carbon monoxide in the home,” Chief Burke said. “We can’t see, smell, or taste carbon monoxide. Working CO alarms are the only way to detect this invisible killer.”Smoke alarms should be replaced when they’r...

Brad Stevens’ basketball journey shaped by late Bob Knight: ‘He was bigger than life’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:14:10 GMT

Brad Stevens was in the building for one of Bob Knight’s most infamous moments.It was Feb. 23, 1985. Assembly Hall. Another meeting in the intense intrastate college basketball rivalry between the Purdue Boilermakers and Knight’s Indiana Hoosiers. Stevens, then eight years old, made the trip to Bloomington with his father Mark, like they typically did a few times per year.But this was anything but typical.The clip has been watched millions of times, nearly four decades later. Five minutes into the game, the contentious Knight drew a technical foul arguing a foul. Moments later, as Purdue’s Steve Reid stepped to the free throw line, Knight turned around, picked up a red plastic chair from the bench and hurled it across the court in an incredible and iconic scene.A young Stevens watched in amazement from several rows up.“My dad always jokes that when I was eight years old and I saw him throwing the chair, he looked over at me and I was cheering him on,” Stevens told the Herald in an e...