Month: February 2026

By Peter D’Oench

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    COCONUT GROVE, Florida (WFOR) — An 81-year-old Coconut Grove man and his wife are speaking out for the first time after being struck from behind earlier this month by a teenager riding an electric dirt bike.

CBS News Miami sat down exclusively with Hank Klein and his 76-year-old wife, Lisa Sloat, just days after they returned home from Mercy Hospital, where they had been recovering since the January 11th crash.

According to a Miami Police crash report, a 15-year-old lost control of his dirt bike and slid into both pedestrians. Citations are pending against the driver.

Klein and Sloat are now recuperating at home with assistance from aides and therapists. Klein described the crash, which happened around 11 a.m. near the entrance to Kennedy Park on South Bayshore Drive, as so severe that he was knocked unconscious and suffered a head wound with bleeding on his brain.

The report estimated the bike was traveling at 20 miles per hour, below the posted speed limit of 30 miles per hour. Sloat sustained a fractured ankle and must keep her leg elevated, relying on a walker to get around. Klein’s left arm is in a sling, and he also needs a cane to walk. Both say their recoveries will take months.

“I am not really happy about it at all,” Klein said, breaking down as he recalled the incident. “We were returning from Starbucks, and the next thing I knew, I was in the emergency room. They put 12 staples in my skull.”

Sloat added, “What we really care about is that this doesn’t happen to anyone else.”

Klein believes age restrictions and registration should apply to e-bike users and that police should enforce penalties for dangerous behavior.

“Every day is a struggle,” Klein said. “I’m making progress, but it’s rough.”

Sloat described her injury: “I broke my fibula on my right foot. I have a walker, but I have to hop. It will be six weeks before I can bear weight. Things like showering are difficult because of the cast.”

Sloat also advocated for mandatory insurance for e-bikes and dirt bikes.

The couple has hired attorney Michael Goldfarb, who may file claims for compensation. Goldfarb emphasized it is unacceptable for vehicles like dirt bikes to operate on pedestrian-friendly roads and encouraged Floridians to purchase uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage.

Klein and Sloat plan to write to local officials about the dangers of e-bikes and support a proposed bill limiting e-bike speed to 10 miles per hour on sidewalks and pedestrian areas.

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By Ryan Dennis

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    NEWNAN, Georgia (WUPA) — A Newnan mother is using social media to share recipes, build community, and show what perseverance looks like.

If you’re scrolling through your social media feed, you may have seen mom of six Tiana Carston turning everyday meals into special moments.

For Carston, watching her kids devour her kitchen creations is worth every spoonful.

“You see, it feels like a restaurant in here. I always set things up catering-style,” Cartson said.

Known online as Tiana’s Half Dozen, Carston has turned everyday meals for her family of six into an online movement, cooking from the heart and, along the way, inspiring others.

“Somebody followed us around the grocery store the other day, I kid you not,” she said.

And it’s not just the grocery store.

“We were at Texas Roadhouse, and this lady was like, ‘Heyyyyyy,'” she said.

Getting to this moment wasn’t easy. After a mass layoff, Carston found herself without a job and without a place to live.

“They were staying with my grandma, and I said, ‘If we ever get a place again, I’m cooking for my kids,’ because it was expensive being poor,” she recalled.

At one point, she was sleeping in her car, parked near a gas station, just to keep her job.

“I said, ‘Lord, if you ever give me a place again, I’ll cook meals at home.’ And that’s when I started cooking, and that’s how Tiana’s Half Dozen started,” she said.

Budget-friendly meals became a lifeline.

“I try to do like two to three hundred dollars a week, and then I divide that by seven,” she said.

And everyone has a say at the table.

“If they don’t like something, I don’t make them eat it. They swap plates. It all ends up getting ate,” she said.

Online and off, the message stays the same.

“That’s my hashtag: cooking with love,” Cartson said.

It’s a philosophy posted on her fridge and lives in her kitchen. For Tiana and her half dozen, the table is full.

“When we were living in that moment, it was really hard, but we still kept a positive attitude. We cried, and we didn’t understand, and we were all over the place, but I feel like that road led us here, and everything worked for our good,” she said.

A road and a future, she says, has never tasted better.

You can follow Tiana’s Half Dozen on Instagram.

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By Mike Sullivan

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    BOSTON (WBZ) — A new Super Bowl anthem for Patriots Nation has arrived.

A Massachusetts rapper and professor at Berklee College of Music is the voice and mastermind behind a viral song about the Patriots that now may be used by the NFL ahead of the Super Bowl.

“As soon as I did the song, and put it out, it went viral. It shot up all over the place,” said artist Roy Studmire, better known by his stage name IntlShow. “When I put it up, people started reposting and reposting and reposting.”

Studmire’s friend told him the city needed an anthem, and that he should be the one to create it. He quickly set forth creating a song from scratch that centered around the team motto “We all we got, we all we need.”

“Literally when I started creating, I heard this sound. It sounds like a warning sound, like we are coming after the title,” Studmire said. “Obviously, we are in the bounce era and people bouncing on the field. I’m literally visualizing all of this as I’m creating it.”

The song features lines and in game sound bites about Drake Maye, Stefon Diggs, Christian Gonzalez, and Kayshon Boutte.

“The restructure of the team this year, it felt like a brotherhood from our coach to rallying around the team,” Studmire said.

He released the song just before the AFC Championship game between the Broncos and the Patriots. Two days after the Pats victory, the song reached someone with the NFL. Like Studmire, the employee was a Boston Arts Academy alumni, which is Boston’s public high school for performing arts.

“They licensed the song for the NFL and NFL Network, which is exciting in itself for hype videos and reels,” Studmire said. “It’s something where my son can see that his dad really grinded this out and look his song is on the NFL.”

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By Kristen Consillio

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    HONOLULU (KITV) — Milton Yoshimoto has called Date Street his home for more than 50 years. But in just a few months, he’ll be forced to move.

“Well, we got to all scramble and fight for the same apartment,” Yoshimoto said.

From keiki to kupuna, dozens of families over the weekend got notices to vacate and are now scrambling to find homes.

“And when they say affordable, I don’t know what affordable is,” Yoshimoto said. “You know, it’s not affordable for Hawaii people.”

Landowner ʻIolani School is beginning a long-planned expansion, knocking down five aging apartment buildings next to the campus.

According to the school, more than 60% of the units are already vacant.

But the redevelopment is forcing Jessica Ramos’ family to make a bigger move this year to Las Vegas.

“I’m still worried. You know, there’s a lot of stuff going around in the world, but the best thing I would do is probably like move to Vegas,” Ramos said. “I know there’s more opportunities in Vegas. Anywhere but here honestly.”

Like many other kama’aina families, moving away from the islands is painful, but necessary for them to live their dreams.

“Like over here we paid $1,300, but like the two-bedroom and one bathroom that I’ve been looking at, like $2,000 that’s crazy,” Ramos said. “Like a crazy jump from what we have to pay right now.”

‘Iolani School is offering tenants up to $4,000 and help relocating to other homes. Tenants must be out by July 31.

“Some people got to decide to move to the mainland,” Yoshimoto said. “Some people got to move in with family, you know. That’s how it is in Hawaii.”

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By James Taylor

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    SACRAMENTO (KOVR) — A California congressman is calling for more railroad oversight. It comes on the three-year anniversary of one of the nation’s most destructive railway accidents and just a day after a derailment in Stockton.

Most of the 17,000 Pacific Gas and Electric customers now have power restored following Monday’s train accident in the Stockton railyards. But that mishap highlights the impact a train derailment can have on nearby communities.

“Millions of Americans live and work along hazmat railways,” said Ed Kelly, general president of the International Association of Firefighters. “We need to protect them.”

This week marks the three-year anniversary of the fire and explosion in East Palestine, Ohio, that was caused by a train derailment.

Congressman John Garamendi says similar tanker cars carrying flammable chemicals regularly come through Davis, Sacramento, and other Northern California communities.

“And we’ve had our share of almost-serious accidents,” Garamendi said.

He is co-sponsoring a bipartisan bill that would require new railroad safety standards.

“This rail safety bill covers sensible things,” Garamendi said. “It’s not complex, but it is very, very important.”

It would mandate having at least two crew members on board trains. It also requires railroads to install defect detectors that can spot mechanical problems, and it would force railroads to fund more hazmat training for first responders.

“Too often, firefighters arrive at train derailments with limited information and limited training,” Kelly said.

Penalties for safety violations would also be increased.

The Association of American Railroads says there’s no proven safety benefit to justify the cost of requiring two crew members. They oppose these kinds of regulations and want to adopt modern technologies to enhance safety benefits.

But bill supporters say more work needs to be done to protect communities from any more railway disasters.

The authors of the bill are trying to get it included in a vote for the new federal surface transportation reauthorization act.

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By Michele Gile, Dean Fioresi

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    LOS ANGELES (KCAL, KCBS) — An investigation is underway in Long Beach after the Holy Innocents Parish Catholic School was hit by burglars over the weekend, who left a significant amount of damage behind.

Long Beach Police Department officers were dispatched to the school early Monday morning upon learning of the incident. They were called after school officials arrived and found the school’s chapel in complete disarray.

“We feel violated,” said Principal Cyril Cruz. “I feel just really bad for our families, for our scholars.”

She said that the desecration of religious items is what hits her the hardest.

Among the damage is a smashed statue of The Virgin Mary, other religious artifacts, like the tabernacle that stores communion, and destroyed furniture. The alleged burglars also destroyed the school’s internet devices and musical equipment and tossed learning materials and Bibles around the building. A picture of Pope Leo XIV was also shattered.

“They were starting to stack up musical instruments, and different things like that, but the damage that’s particularly done to the sacred objects like the statues and the tabernacle … they took time to really damage those articles,” Cruz said.

Volunteers, staff members and parents worked throughout the day on Monday to clean up the mess, expressing concerns about a potentially bigger issue.

“I’m concerned. I need to know if there was writing on the walls, if there was hate crime targeted because we’re a specific Catholic setting,” said Patricia Torres. “That’s my biggest concern as a parent right now.”

The statue of The Virgin Mary was replaced early Tuesday morning by two parents, who drove to downtown Los Angeles to buy a replacement.

“Yesterday when I saw the pictures of our blessed Mother, broken, I felt a pain in my heart,” said Cristina Pietro. “I was crying. I said, ‘This is not possible.'”

The five-foot statue was back in its rightful place, on an altar in the chapel, by the time school got out.

“I know what happened; it wasn’t good. But I’m glad it was no damage and kids weren’t hurt, the building is still put, it’s not on fire,” said Teresa Han. “But hey, material things we will, little by little, get them back.”

School officials said that Long Beach police had forensic detectives at the scene to try and recover DNA evidence that could point them in the right direction while they search for the suspects.

Mass was canceled for students on Monday morning due to the damage and ongoing investigation, Principal Cruz said. Families and students still came together to pray at lunch time, focusing on those who took the time to damage their school.

“This is continuing to pray for those that need healing as far as doing something this bad,” said Gary Dyogi, one of the parents. “But also know that they will be forgiven.”

Principal Cruz said that police discovered some blood inside the chapel, which they hope will help them identify at least one of the suspects. She noted that they were initially hoping to have the school restored enough for normal operations on Wednesday, but so much work was done on Monday that mass was held as usual on Tuesday, followed by a procession asking for the protection of staff and students.

“Seeing the damage and seeing what has been done, especially to the sacred objects, I don’t know the heart of the person, but there’s definitely, at least I feel, something behind it,” Cruz said.

On Tuesday, church officials learned that Department of Justice investigators were joining the ongoing probe, and that while Long Beach police continue investigating the incident as a burglary, they haven’t been able to determine if anything was actually taken.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn shared a statement on the incident, which she called “a horrific violation of a school and faith community.”

“This should be a safe place for families to live their faith and for children to grow and learn,” her statement said, in part. “Instead, it has been desecrated. I stand with the parishioners and families of Holy Innocents.”

As of Tuesday afternoon, an online fundraiser to help the school recover and repair damages had raised nearly $100,000, thanks in large part of a $10,000 donation from Gabriel Iglesias, the Long Beach native and comedian popularly known as “Fluffy.” The fundraiser can be found by searching for the keywords “Restoring Holy Innocents School After Desecration.”

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By Christa Swanson

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    COLORADO (KCNC) — Police in the Denver metro area made an alarming discovery during the recent arrest of a suspected drunk driver when they found three children in the trunk of the car.

Westminster police officers pulled over the vehicle after they say they witnessed the driver, Thomas Michael Raiola, behaving recklessly near City Center Drive and 93rd Avenue. The officers reported there was a strong smell of alcohol coming from the vehicle. According to body camera footage released by the Westminster Police Department, Raiola denied drinking and initially agreed to do roadside maneuvers, but later changed his mind.

According to the police department, Raiola told officers, “My kids are in the trunk,” after the officers placed him in handcuffs.

“Sure enough, three kids were in the trunk. We’d like to point out it was also freezing temps outside during this stop. Luckily, the kids were unharmed,” the department said.

The officers also said they recovered several bottles of alcohol from the vehicle.

Raiola was arrested and booked into the Adams County Jail. He posted a $2,500 bond and is due back in court on March 16.

He is facing charges of DUI, reckless driving, failure to provide a valid insurance and three counts of child abuse. According to court records, Raiola received a deferred sentence for a 2020 child abuse charge in Adams County after completing a program.

Authorities said the officers contacted CPS, and the children were later released to family members.

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By Christa Swanson

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    COLORADO (KCNC) — Police in the Denver metro area made an alarming discovery during the recent arrest of a suspected drunk driver when they found three children in the trunk of the car.

Westminster police officers pulled over the vehicle after they say they witnessed the driver, Thomas Michael Raiola, behaving recklessly near City Center Drive and 93rd Avenue. The officers reported there was a strong smell of alcohol coming from the vehicle. According to body camera footage released by the Westminster Police Department, Raiola denied drinking and initially agreed to do roadside maneuvers, but later changed his mind.

According to the police department, Raiola told officers, “My kids are in the trunk,” after the officers placed him in handcuffs.

“Sure enough, three kids were in the trunk. We’d like to point out it was also freezing temps outside during this stop. Luckily, the kids were unharmed,” the department said.

The officers also said they recovered several bottles of alcohol from the vehicle.

Raiola was arrested and booked into the Adams County Jail. He posted a $2,500 bond and is due back in court on March 16.

He is facing charges of DUI, reckless driving, failure to provide a valid insurance and three counts of child abuse. According to court records, Raiola received a deferred sentence for a 2020 child abuse charge in Adams County after completing a program.

Authorities said the officers contacted CPS, and the children were later released to family members.

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