Police warn of holiday porch pirates amid rising thefts countywide

CNN Newsource on November 22, 2025

By Jazmon DeJarnette

Click here for updates on this story

    MARINA, California (KSBW) — Concern is growing as the holiday season approaches and porch pirates are coming around to steal packages off people’s doorsteps.

As the Marina Police Department expects those thefts to rise through the holidays, people who live here say they’re prepared.

“What we do is if we’re not going to be here, we know we’re going to get a package, then we ask our neighbors to take it for us. So it’s a lot of it is communication with your neighbors,” said Rich Andrews, a Marina resident.

“Setting up a camera will be really helpful as well to just catch these porch pirates,” said Jacqueline Joseph, another Marina resident.

It’s not just the Dunes at Monterey Bay neighborhood. Video from Del Rey Oaks police shows someone grabbing a package and taking off.

In Salinas, a Creekbridge resident was also hit. You can see in the video the package being taken and the thief walking away.

“They will typically walk to avoid any kind of, just, interest in the public. Like they just about to knock on the door and they will, grab the package and run back to the car and drive off,” said Michael Ball, sergeant at Marina Police Department.

If you’re ever the victim of something like this, police say to file a police report right away and send them any video you have.

“We will place a still image of the suspect on a wanted poster, and that gets electronically broadcast throughout the area,” said Ball.

Police also suggest requesting signatures for packages, scheduling delivery times and setting up delivery notifications.

This Marina neighborhood, which sees theft year after year, is just hoping these porch pirates leave their packages alone.

“I just hope that nobody has to encounter that horrible experience of losing something they ordered and really want to have,” said Andrews. This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. KSBW verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.

This story was provided to CNN Wire by an affiliate partner and does not contain original CNN reporting.

Please note: This content carries a strict local market embargo. If you share the same market as the contributor of this article, you may not use it on any platform.

VIDEO: Man jumps onto car roof after goat gets loose in Detroit neighborhood

CNN Newsource on November 22, 2025

By Meghan Daniels

Click here for updates on this story

    DETROIT (WXYZ) — One very unruly goat is in hot water after spending the day causing chaos up and down a block on Detroit’s west side.

Robert Pizzimenti is the owner of the four-legged troublemaker. The goat, called Smoke, escaped by hopping the fence and taking himself on a self-guided tour of the neighborhood, where he met Dae’lan Scott down the block.

“I go outside and I’m like ‘okay, okay… bah! bah!’ then I see Mr. Bob here come out of nowhere,” Scott said.

“They are very calming for people… not necessarily him but…” Pizzimenti said.

“I don’t want him to walk around, he actually hopped the fence. That wasn’t the idea, I do need to keep him contained,” Pizzimenti said.

According to court records, Wednesday’s escapade prompted the city to cite Smoke’s owner with possessing a wild animal without a permit inside the city. Pizzimenti tells me he’s hoping the city of Detroit will reconsider and see the value these four-legged animals can bring to the community. It’s important to note that court records also show a history of problems with his animals.

“If Detroiters were allowed to farm and garden the way many of us want to, we could have the most unique city on the planet!” Pizzimenti said.

Others on the block, like Maia Campbell, say they appreciate the agricultural diversity in the city.

“I do recognize there are lots of urban farms and there are people who have goats, chickens, all sorts of animals… which is a beautiful thing for our community,” Campbell said.

And meeting Smoke on friendly terms, Scott tells me next time he sees the goat on the street, he knows exactly what to do.

“We would be cool! I know where to take him! So if anybody do see him in the neighborhood,” Scott said.

This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. WXYZ’s editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.

This story was provided to CNN Wire by an affiliate partner and does not contain original CNN reporting.

Please note: This content carries a strict local market embargo. If you share the same market as the contributor of this article, you may not use it on any platform.

Pleasant Saturday before active Sunday

KRDO on November 22, 2025

Effrage Davis

Today we will have sunny and dry skies across Southern Colorado. We will have our highs in the 50s to 60s across the region.

We will continue have clear skies as we into the night. It will be chilly with lows in the 30s for the I-25 corridor and Eastern Plains while the High Country will have lows in the teens to 20s.

Snow and rain return to the forecast for your Sunday Funday. Snow will be in the High Country with some snow possible in portions of Northern El Paso County Sunday night. Along the I-25 corridor and Eastern Plains we can expect rain. Highs will be in the 40s to 50s across Southern Colorado.

We will dry out by the early hours Monday then our skies will become clear and sunny. Highs will increase back into the 50s to 60s along the Front Range and Eastern Plains with the High Country having highs in the 40s.

We will continue to have sunny skies Tuesday with temperatures falling down into the upper 30s to 40s for Southern Colorado.

We will continue have cool temperatures and sunny skies Wednesday.

Thanksgiving will be dry but cool with highs in the 40s to 50s. If you are doing the Turkey Trot make sure to bundle as we will start the day with temperatures in the 20s to 30s. It will also be in the 20s to 30s if you decided to go out shopping late Thanksgiving night into early Black Friday.

Black Friday we will continue to have highs in the 40s to 50s with dry and sunny skies.

Click here to follow the original article.

Lodi pastor thankful for community support following overnight house fire

CNN Newsource on November 22, 2025

By Carmela Karcher

Click here for updates on this story

    SACRAMENTO (KOVR) — It’s a phrase no one is prepared to hear in the middle of the night.

“I was, like, kind of startled and then basically, ‘What’s going on? What’s that noise? And then, ‘There’s a fire,'” Vintage Church Pastor Timothy Stewart said.

That’s exactly what happened to Timothy Stewart and his family, waking up to alarms blaring and heavy smoke Friday morning.

“I woke up everybody. I got our dogs as fast as we could, went out the back sliding glass door and walked around and got out,” he said.

Fire crews quickly came and put out the flames. Their family is safe, but their three cats didn’t make it out.

Due to fire and smoke damage, their house is unlivable. They’re only left with salvaged pictures and boxes of memories.

“Now we’re in this journey of figuring out our next steps, really just taking it, you know, one step at a time,” Stewart shared.

Stewart and his family have given back to the community in countless ways, whether that’s through Vintage Church or their volunteer work with Love Lodi.

Now, it’s time for the community to give back to them.

“Not even exaggerating, there’s probably been 500 people that have been contacted just through text messages,” Stewart’s friend Pat Schumacher said. “I’ve seen probably five other pastors during the morning, come here, just express their condolences and just let them know that they got their support.”

From flowers to food to simple check-ins, the Lodi community has surrounded the Stewarts in support.

“We’re called to be a light to this world,” Schumacher continued. “One of the ways that we do that is we rally around each other and have a community that’s deeper than most people ever experience.”

Even in their time of grief, this family and community still have others top of minds. With help, they still delivered turkeys to families the same day as the fire.

“We can have joy and peace outside of circumstances. That’s kind of where we’re at right now and so we’re just living in that and walking by faith,” Stewart continued. “You reap what you sow, kind of, right? We’ve sown a lot of love and we’re reaping that and it’s, it’s good.”

The Stewarts say they are overwhelmed and thankful for the amount of support their community has shown them.

Friends have also created an online fundraiser to help them during this time.

This story was provided to CNN Wire by an affiliate partner and does not contain original CNN reporting.

Please note: This content carries a strict local market embargo. If you share the same market as the contributor of this article, you may not use it on any platform.

Cancer survivor battling disease with an inspiring outlook and unique friendship

CNN Newsource on November 22, 2025

By Edie Kasten, Joe Donlon

Click here for updates on this story

    CHICAGO (WBBM) — Meet a man who made a conscious decision to face adversity with a smile and a sense of adventure. A driving force alongside him: a friend he never imagined meeting.

Cabbie Anouar Lysazale is a driving force in his pal Steven Daniel’s life in many ways. They first met about eight years ago.

“We’re friends. We’re family. We support each other and encourage each other,” Daniel said.

How did the two very different men become so close? Lysazale said it happened “organically” as he began driving Daniel to his treatment sessions for prostate cancer.

“I first noticed symptoms at the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017, but it was that my knee was in severe pain,” Daniel said. “Then I started to feel pain in my back, and then it developed into having difficulty with urinating.”

In 2017, Daniel learned he has metastatic prostate cancer. He also had a choice to make.

“I just said to myself, ‘If you were planning a trip to Spain – I’ve never been to Spain – it would be an adventure,” he said. “So, I’m just going to look at this cancer journey as my adventure.”

Daniel’s oncologist, Dr. Maha Hussain, an oncologist and expert at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University, said prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, but still “the odds for overall survival is tremendous.”

“Many men right now are living quite a bit longer,” Hussain said.

Hussain recently told Daniel his cancer is looking stable. She also said attitude is key. Take Daniel for example.

“He has a wonderful spirit, he is very positive, and he is definitely a survivor, and he is enjoying life,” she said. “The key thing is to keep being a fighter and survivor.”

In Daniel’s case, he’s not just a fighter and survivor, but a singer.

“Once I was diagnosed with cancer, I made a list of things that I’d always kind of wanted to do or to pursue,” he said. “One of them was taking voice lessons.”

In 2022, when the Prostate Cancer Foundation was looking for someone to represent the organization during the Chicago Cubs’ seventh inning stretch at Wrigley Field, they chose Daniel, and no one was more surprised.

“If you’d have told me in 2017, when I was diagnosed with prostate cancer, that I’d be singing at Wrigley Field, I would have said, ‘That’s silly. That’s not going to happen,'” Daniel said.

Speaking of things Daniel never guessed would happen: Lysazale’s constant kindness.

“He’d ask me if I needed to go to the grocery store,” Daniel said. “He would shut off the car, he’d wait for me, I’d go and get my groceries or whatever, then hew would just drive me home. One night, he said, ‘We’ve already taken care of dinner,’ so on the ride home, he just pulled over in front of that restaurant, went in, and got me dinner.”

But there’s even more.

“The most moving thing that he ever said to me was that he was praying for me when they were at mosque, that he was praying for me,” Daniel said.

Lysazale said their friendship was meant to be.

“His heart is so big, and it doesn’t matter what words comes out of my mouth, it’s not enough,” he said. “He’s very kind to our family, giving a lot of goodness to our kids.”

Daniel also gives Lysazale’s family a certain amount of chocolate.

“If I knew he was going to pick me up, I always got his children some kind of bag of candy,” Daniel said

“He spoiled my kids. Now I’m having trouble controlling them,” Lysazale said. “Whenever I bring chocolate home, my wife is like, ‘Did you buy chocolate?’ I’m like, ‘Nonni, this is from Mr. Steven.’ Like, ‘Oh, in this case, it’s okay.’ I’m like, ‘Excuse me?'”

Lisazale’s final word about Daniel?

“I believe he was born with a smile,” he said.

And Daniel’s words for all of us?

“Live your life. Embrace life,” he said. “If you want to go to a fancy restaurant, you’ve never done that? Make a reservation, go to that restaurant. If you want to take voice lessons, go take voice lessons. Embrace all those opportunities.”

Daniel sang again at Wrigley Field in 2024, and is hoping for a three-peat.

This story was provided to CNN Wire by an affiliate partner and does not contain original CNN reporting.

Please note: This content carries a strict local market embargo. If you share the same market as the contributor of this article, you may not use it on any platform.

Pregnant cancer survivor takes on Philadelphia 8K, her toughest test since 2024 Olympics

CNN Newsource on November 22, 2025

By Stephanie Stahl

Click here for updates on this story

    Philadelphia (KYW) — Philadelphia Marathon weekend is here, and one of the runners in Saturday’s 8K race will be a Villanova University field hockey coach who’s also pregnant and a cancer survivor.

Former Olympic athlete Karlie Kisha was at Independence Mall on Friday getting her Runners for Research T-shirt, ready for Saturday’s 8K race, which is part of the Philadelphia Marathon weekend.

“Looking for a 9-minute mile pace,” Kisha said, “but seven months pregnant, just kind of going to have fun with it and just enjoy the day.”

Kisha says the challenge of running about 5 miles pregnant is nothing compared to what she’s been through.

“I was diagnosed in April of last year,” Kisha said.

Kisha had thyroid cancer and was just 29 years old.

“My first surgery, I got my thyroid out, so your thyroid’s right here,” Kisha said, “and the cancer did spread to my lymph nodes, which goes all the way over to here. They took about 20 out.”

But there wasn’t much time to recover.

Kisha was on the U.S. field hockey team and was cleared to go to the Olympics in Paris just days before the team left.

“No one thought I could do it,” Kisha said. “I didn’t even think I was gonna be able to do it.”

Kisha says she was in the best shape of her life. That didn’t keep the cancer away, and the surgery didn’t keep her from the Olympics.

“It wasn’t just back running,” Kisha said. “It was back on the international stage, so I actually played in the game two weeks later, which is crazy.”

After Paris, Kisha was home for more treatments.

“In July, I had radiation,” Kisha said.

Grateful for the successful cancer treatments, Kisha is joining the American Association for Cancer Research team running to raise money for cancer research.

“I have had a great experience with my cancer situation,” Kisha said, “and I just want other people to also have an experience like mine.”

Kisha will be among 1,000 runners on the team, sharing the message that cancer research saves lives.

Kisha’s baby, her first, is due in mid-January. The group she’s running with is aiming to raise $8,000 for cancer research.

This story was provided to CNN Wire by an affiliate partner and does not contain original CNN reporting.

Please note: This content carries a strict local market embargo. If you share the same market as the contributor of this article, you may not use it on any platform.

Long Island home health aide indicted for trying to kill patient, DA says

CNN Newsource on November 22, 2025

By Mark Prussin

Click here for updates on this story

    NEW YORK (WCBS) — A New York home health aide accused of trying to kill an elderly patient in her sleep with a chef’s knife has been indicted for attempted murder.

Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly said Amanda Fraser, 23, stabbed the 84-year-old woman and held the knife to her torso for over 15 minutes at the elderly woman’s home in Massapequa last month.

“An excruciating 16 minutes” Fraser, who was arraigned on multiple charges Friday on Long Island, repeatedly told the woman to “just let go” and “stop fighting it” during the attack in October, Donnelly said.

“In the middle of the night as her elderly patient laid in her bed, this defendant allegedly brandished an approximately eight-inch blade and plunged it into the sleeping woman’s body,” Donnelly said in a statement. “For an excruciating 16 minutes as the woman moaned in agony, Amanda Fraser – the woman’s home health aide – held the knife firm in her body and repeatedly whispered for the woman to succumb. When she did not die, the defendant left the home, and the woman she was employed to care for, bleeding and alone in her bed.”

The injured woman was treated for a puncture wound to her lung and was hospitalized for weeks with an infection stemming from the injury, Donnelly’s office said.

Stabbing caught on surveillance video, family says Fraser, a Queens resident, was arrested after the alleged victim’s family said surveillance video showed her getting into the bed and stabbing the woman.

Sources told CBS News New York she went to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation before should could be arraigned.

Aides at Home, Fraser’s employer at the time, told CBS News New York the stabbing was a tragedy and an isolated incident.

“The investigation is ongoing. We’re cooperating fully,” a manager at the Hicksville office said.

Fraser was charged with second-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault, second-degree assault, endangering the welfare of a vulnerable elderly person, and endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically disabled person. She faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.

The DA’s office said she is due back in court on Dec. 9.

This story was provided to CNN Wire by an affiliate partner and does not contain original CNN reporting.

Please note: This content carries a strict local market embargo. If you share the same market as the contributor of this article, you may not use it on any platform.

71-year-old worker pinned under equipment in cranberry bog in Massachusetts dies

CNN Newsource on November 22, 2025

By Paul Burton

Click here for updates on this story

    BOSTON (WBZ) — A 71-year-old man died in a tragic accident at a cranberry bog on Cape Cod Friday morning.

The man, who has not been identified, was working at a bog behind County Road in Bourne, Massachusetts when something went wrong just after 8 a.m.

In a statement, police said he was “operating a piece of equipment in the cranberry bogs, when it rolled over on top of him, pinning him under the equipment.” Fire officials explained that the man was using the tractor to sand the bog in preparation for next season when something went wrong. The man had been in the industry for decades.

“When the tractor that this gentleman was driving started to go down a ramp to get to the bog, it flipped over, and he was trapped. His fellow workers who were with him did their best to get him out of there and they did” State Representative Stevem Xiaros said.

Officers and paramedics rushed in and attempted CPR, but the man died. The victim’s identity has not been released.

State and local police are looking into what happened, along with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The medical examiner’s office was also called in as part of the probe.

“The Bourne Police Department’s collect thoughts are with the family, friends, and co-workers of the victim in this incident,” police said in their statement.

Xiaros said that he spoke with the owner of the cranberry bog on Friday. The bog has been in the man’s family for five generations.

“He’s just a hard-working man and he ‘s very upset and struggling with the loss of his friend,” Xiaros explained.

No other information is available at this point in the investigation.

Bourne, Massachusetts is about 57 miles south of Boston.

This story was provided to CNN Wire by an affiliate partner and does not contain original CNN reporting.

Please note: This content carries a strict local market embargo. If you share the same market as the contributor of this article, you may not use it on any platform.

Anne Arundel County man indicted on massive Philippines sex trafficking ring

CNN Newsource on November 22, 2025

By Tara Lynch

Click here for updates on this story

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — An Anne Arundel County man now faces a 15-count federal indictment for his role in a sex trafficking ring based in the Philippines.

Philip Andrew Turner, 46, is charged with five counts of sexual exploitation of a child, four counts of coercion and enticement, three counts of receipt of child pornography, and two counts of possession of child pornography.

Turner was arraigned on Friday before a federal judge and is currently being held at the Chesapeake Detention Facility in Baltimore City. He was taken into federal custody on Nov. 6 after a complaint was filed.

According to the federal indictment, Turner used an online account to connect with known traffickers in the Philippines. This started in October 2017 and happened as recently as May 2025.

The indictment accuses him of “using the internet to persuade, induce, entice and coerce USER 1 [the trafficker] and the minor females to engage in sexually explicit conduct. Court documents say the victims were between 10 and 14 years old.

The feds say Turner negotiated the price for the content with the sex traffickers, chose the children he wanted to watch, and the sex acts he wanted to see. He allegedly received child sexual abuse images, saving them online and on his laptop. He also had live Skype calls with victims while they engaged in sexually explicit conduct, according to court documents.

Neighbors shocked in Linthicum Heights According to neighbors, Turner lived on Hawthorne Road for about 10 years. His neighbors told WJZ that they rarely interacted with him and that he kelp to himself.

“You either hear about it on the news or you know you read it about it on social media, but you have it happening on your street is …awful,” Kim Hill, who lives across the street, said. “We have, probably in the past two years, had quite a few families move in with little kids… I’ll even be more protective.”

TurnAround, Inc. is a local organization helping victims of sex crimes and trafficking. It says social media and the internet have made these types of crimes more common.

“It is unfortunately becoming very common because of the ease with which it can be facilitated online, and the kind of material can be exchanged,” Jean Henningsen, chief communications officer for the organization, said.

Prior charge in Anne Arundel County Cellphone video shows when Anne Arundel County and state investigators raided Turner’s home at the end of October before the federal charges were brought. On Oct. 28, Maryland State Police arrested Turner, charging him with child pornography, possession of child pornography, and other related charges.

In 2024, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) began investigating several individuals in Maryland connected to a sex trafficking ring in the Philippines. The traffickers allowed people to direct the sexual exploitation of minors via a live camera feed.

Investigators focused on Turner, alleging he directed juvenile females to engage in child pornography globally.

He faces a 15 to 30-year sentence for each count of sexual exploitation of a child. If convicted on the first five counts alone, Turner could face a minimum of 75 years in federal prison and a maximum of 150 years behind bars.

This story was provided to CNN Wire by an affiliate partner and does not contain original CNN reporting.

Please note: This content carries a strict local market embargo. If you share the same market as the contributor of this article, you may not use it on any platform.

Oscar’s Palm Springs in dire financial situation, asking for community support

KESQ on November 22, 2025

Athena Jreij

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) — Oscar’s in Palm Springs has set a $40,000 goal on Gofundme asking for the community’s support to keep it’s doors open.

Restaurant owner, Dan Gore, says the Palm Springs landmark is in a dire financial situation due to rising operational and utility costs, repairs, slow summer tourism and increased financial pressure during the Valley’s peak season.

“The air conditioning went out over the summer. It was a huge strain on us to get that replaced. I mean, everything seems to go up. The vendor, the liquor, the food, it’s all continuing to rise, and with the locals who are on a fixed budget, you know, it’s hard to bring the locals in when our prices are continuing to go up,” Gore said.

That AC repair cost them nearly $50,000 and the expenses didn’t end there.

“Our Edison bill runs between $4-5,000 every month during the summer. Insurance has gone up astronomically. If anyone’s had a business and has as many place employees as I have, workers comp insurance, general liability, medical, health insurance for my management team. It all adds up very quickly,” he said.

Gore says those issues have been made worse with slow summers and the expectation of less tourism this year. He says they’ve reported 30% less business compared to last season.

“We’re totally seeking a quarter of $1 million. We don’t want any more band aids. We’ve been on a band aid for several years now, and last summer was very bad for many, many people, and it was hard to recover from last summer.”

Oscar’s isn’t the only LGBTQ-owned business struggling this year, with many owners turning to Gofundme for community support as well. The platform reports over $8 million was fundraised in more than 130,000 donations in 2025 for LGBTQ businesses, covering operating costs, rent and utilities.

For drag performer Lawanda Jackson, a shuttered Oscar’s means one less place for their community to gather.

“When you come here, you have a home. You have a place you can mingle with other guys your age. You can’t do that online. You can’t go to the bars at our age anymore because everything has changed. This gives us reason, gives us vision, and it gives us a place to hug ourselves,” Jackson said.

If you’re interested in supporting Oscar’s, visit: Save Oscar’s Palm Springs.

Click here to follow the original article.