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Police arrest suspect following homicide investigation in Coral Springs neighborhood

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:10:14 GMT

The Coral Springs Police Department arrested one person after they investigated a homicide that occurred in an apartment complex.According to officials, they started their investigation around 10 p.m. Monday after calls about a shooting near the 9200 block of Ramblewood Drive. The police department notified the public to avoid the area in a tweet just after their investigation began. Police announced around midnight that they have a suspect in custody. They also added that they will not release the identity of the victim or the suspect until their families have been contacted. Coral Springs PD has been contacted for more information. Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

Tropical Waves Elevate Rain Chances into the Weekend

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:10:14 GMT

The heat is finally taking the backseat as rain chances rise between now and the weekend courtesy of tropical waves passing through Florida. This Wednesday, there are no Heat Advisories in effect given the mostly cloudy skies and afternoon storms that are expected.So for today, expect a few morning showers and storms, then a better chance with storms around in the afternoon while clouds increase. This will hold temperatures closer to normal into the low 90s.The tropical wave that will be just to our west will move farther away for Thursday and Friday but there will still be a good amount of moisture in place. Therefore, we are still expecting scattered showers and thunderstorms, primarily in the afternoon. Given the repeated rounds of heavy rain in spots, areas of flooding could develop. Highs at most locations will remain in the low 90s.Now by the weekend, another tropical wave will enter the picture. It’s currently over the eastern Caribbean Sea but is forecast to move over ...

Miami Police searching for elderly man missing from Little Havana area

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:10:14 GMT

The City of Miami Special Victim’s Unit is seeking help in searching for a missing elderly man. Officials said Rudy Jesus Vazquez De La Cruz was last seen on Monday in the Little Havana area. The 76-year-old man stands at 5 feet, 6 inches, weighs about 140 pounds, and has blackish-gray hair and brown eyes. Authorities do not know what he was wearing at the time of his disappearance. Anyone with information on his whereabouts is urged to call Detective D. Reyes or any on-duty detective of the City of Miami of Police Department’s Special Victims Unit at 305-603-6300, 305-579-6111 or [email protected].

England beats Australia 3-1 to move into Women’s World Cup final against Spain

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:10:14 GMT

SYDNEY (AP) — England moved on to its first Women’s World Cup championship game with a 3-1 victory Wednesday over co-host Australia, ending the Matildas captivating run through the tournament.Australia superstar Sam Kerr started her first match of the tournament and scored for the Matildas but it wasn’t enough to hold off European champion England.Ella Toone scored in the 36th minute to put England up 1-0 and the Lionesses dominated possession in the first half.Kerr’s equalizer in the 63rd gave the 75,000-plus crowd some hope, but EEngland sealed it on goals from Lauren Hemp in the 71st and Alessia Russo four minutes from the end of regulation time.England and Spain will each be playing in the Women’s World Cup final for the first time when they meet at Stadium Australia on Sunday. Australia will play Sweden for third place on Saturday in Brisbane.

Police investigating after person stabbed outside South Station

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:10:14 GMT

Boston police taped off an area outside South Station overnight as an investigation into a stabbing was conducted.Crime scene tape could be seen blocking off a stretch of sidewalk near Atlantic Avenue and Summer Street in the area of a black duffel bag after police say a person suffered a non-life-threatening stab wound around 1:30 a.m.No arrests have been made.No additional information was immediately available.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Column: Chicago White Sox need to follow the Cubs’ game plan and clean house for 2024

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:10:14 GMT

The Chicago Cubs and White Sox have traded places since the finale of the 2021 City Series, when the Sox pummeled Kyle Hendricks in a 13-1 win at Guaranteed Rate Field for a three-game sweep.The ’21 Cubs, coming off their vaunted sell-off, went into that game on the South Side with a 6-20 record in August and the third-worst record in baseball since the All-Star break, ahead of only the Baltimore Orioles and Texas Rangers. The Sox were 19 games over .500 with a 10-game lead in the American League Central.The future looked exceedingly bright for the Sox, while the Cubs were entering the rebuild that president Jed Hoyer wouldn’t call a rebuild.As Hendricks took the mound again Tuesday night at Wrigley Field, the Cubs were back in the hunt for a playoff spot for the first time in three years, while the Sox had the fourth-worst record in the game and were 14 1/2 games out of first, playing out the string after a mini sell-off of their own.Times flies whether you’re hav...

Japanese mountaineer dies and another is injured while climbing a never-scaled peak in Pakistan

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:10:14 GMT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Japanese mountaineer is presumed dead after he and his partner fell about 70 meters (230 feet) while climbing a never-scaled mountain in northern Pakistan, their tour operator and a mountaineering official said Wednesday. The second climber, also Japanese, was injured.The accident occurred Friday afternoon as the pair climbed a mountain in the Andaq Valley, part of northern Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region which is also home to K2, the world’s second-highest mountain, said Karakarom Tours Pakistan.The climbers, Shinji Tamura and Semba Takayasu, fell when they had reached an altitude of 5,380 meters (17,650 feet), the tour operator said in a statement. Takayasu later said that their rappelling point had broken and that they fell together. He said his partner “was heavily hit” and badly injured. Both climbers were hit by rocks and Tamura then slammed into a rock when he landed, said Karrar Haidri, secretary of the Alpine Club of Pakistan.Tamura was ser...

Rescuers recover 33 bodies from a landslide at a Myanmar jade mine, with 3 people still missing

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:10:14 GMT

BANGKOK (AP) — The bodies of 33 people have been recovered from a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar and rescuers are searching for at least three people believed to be missing, a rescue official said Wednesday.In the landslide on Sunday in Hpakant, the center of the world’s largest and most lucrative jade mining district, earth and debris from several mines slid about 300 meters (1,000 feet) down a cliff into a lake below, carrying more than 35 miners with it.About 150 rescuers using five small boats have recovered the bodies from the muddy lake in Manna village in Hpakant, a remote mountainous town in Kachin state about 950 kilometers (600 miles) north of Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon, the leader of a local rescue team said. He said at least three people were feared missing.He spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared arrest by the military-installed government.The corpses were covered with green plastic sheets and placed in a row on the bank of the lake as rela...

CMHC says annual pace of housing starts fell 10% in July

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:10:14 GMT

OTTAWA — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in July fell 10 per cent compared with June when they posted their strongest showing so far this year.The national housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts in July came in at 254,966 units compared with 283,498 in June.The annual pace of urban starts was down 11 per cent in July at 234,857, while the rate of multi-unit urban starts fell 12 per cent to 193,446 and the pace of single-detached urban starts dropped four per cent to 41,411.CMHC says the annual pace of starts in July in Vancouver fell 23 per cent, while Toronto dropped 29 per cent. Meanwhile, Montreal rose 12 per cent, Calgary gained 33 per cent and Edmonton added 6 per cent.The annual rate of rural starts was estimated at 20,109 for July.The six-month moving average of the monthly seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts was 242,525 in July, up from 235,819 in June.This report by The Canadian Press ...

Germany’s Cabinet approves a plan to liberalize rules on cannabis possession and sale

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:10:14 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Cabinet on Wednesday approved a plan to liberalize rules on cannabis, setting the scene for the European Union’s most populous member to decriminalize possession of limited amounts and allow members of “cannabis clubs” to buy the substance for recreational purposes. The legislation is billed as the first step in a two-part plan and still needs approval by parliament. But the government’s approval is a stride forward for a prominent reform project of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s socially liberal coalition, though significantly short of its original ambitions.The bill, which the government hopes will take effect at the end of this year, foresees legalizing possession of up to 25 grams (nearly 1 ounce) of cannabis for recreational purposes and allowing individuals to grow up to three plants on their own. German residents who are 18 and older would be allowed to join nonprofit “cannabis clubs” with a maximum 500 members each. The clubs would b...