Month: August 2026

By Jim Keithley

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    BIDDEFORD, Maine (WMTW) — It has been six weeks since Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in downtown Biddeford. A public library in the Maine city is now working to gather items from two memorials that were formed in Guerrero’s honor.

The former lobby entrance to McArthur Library is packed with posters, signs, letters and handwritten cards, some of which are blurred because they were out in the rain.

“We’ll get as much information as we can out of it, but it’s a heartfelt thing,” said Rose Dionne, archivist and reference librarian at McArthur Library. “Looking at this collection, we are at the very start of this story. So in 50 years, what will people be looking for?”

One memorial grew at the corner of Hill and Pool streets, which is where Guerrero, 25, was fatally shot on July 13. Another memorial formed at nearby Mechanics Park, which served as a gathering spot for protests.

The director of MacArthur Library, Nicole Clark, said all of the items from the memorials will be archived. Guerrero’s family will then take what they want and the rest will remain in the library’s rolling shelves.

Dionne said the size of the collection is almost overwhelming.

“Most of the time, I get one-off pieces from people. Certainly, the amount is surprising,” Dionne said. “That’s why we are out here in the old lobby rather than in my office, because this stuff simply wouldn’t fit there.”

Dionne said preserving the items from the memorials is a way to protect a piece of history.

“I think this is a really powerful collection because it shows, sort of as directly as possible, what people thought in this moment,” she said. “I think that will be an incredible piece of history.”

The library is working with the city to decide on future plans for when and where the collection might be available for the public to view. Since there are a lot of items to go through, it will be a while before a public viewing happens.

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By Jennifer Peñate

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    BOSTON (WCVB) — Boston’s iconic CITGO sign, currently under renovation, has taken on a temporary shape that locals and tourists say resembles a middle finger, drawing laughter and attention.

“Maybe like we’re, we’re, we’re, we’re getting the middle finger,” one person said.

Another observer asked, “What does it look like now?” and answered, “Looks like a bird.”

“It looks like the middle finger; that’s ridiculous,” another person said.

The 60-foot by 60-foot sign, typically a square, has taken on a new shape during its restoration, sparking playful reactions from the community.

“Yeah, pretty Boston,” one person said.

“That’s a fair representation,” another added.

“Nobody’s ever gotten the bird ever driving the road here?”

The sign’s temporary appearance has been met with humor, but the restoration process is moving forward. The 11-foot letters and iconic red logo are expected to return to their original form by November.

The sign was moved months ago, piece by piece, to be perched 30 feet higher at its original home at 660 Beacon St. The relocation ensures the 60-year-old landmark remains visible and unblocked by any future developments.

“It’s a work in progress; it’ll be done soon,” one person said.

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By Pattrik Perez

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    PALM COAST, Florida (WESH) — A Flagler County man is accused of strangling his girlfriend on a sidewalk, and the sheriff’s office is praising a witness who drove by, saw what was happening, and called 911.

WESH 2 spoke exclusively with that witness, 33-year-old Symone, who said she initially did what most people would do when she saw a couple arguing on the side of the road in the middle of the night.

“I was like, ‘Let me just mind my business. I’m going to keep going.’ So I kept going,” Symone said. “That’s when the voice came to me. ‘Turn around.’ I’m like, ‘No, I am not gonna turn around. That ain’t got nothing to do with me,'” Symone said.

But then, she said, something told her one final time to turn around.

“I think it was the Lord, to be honest. It was like, ‘Turn around. She needs you,'” Symone said. “Within that split second, he had her on the ground, choking her.”

The ordeal unfolded around 1:40 a.m. Sunday on Old Kings Road near Town Center Boulevard in Palm Coast.

“As I’m busting a U-turn, I am like, ‘Hey, let her go. Turn her loose.” So he let her go,” Symone said. “She got up. She ran to me crying. She’s like, ‘He’s trying to kill me,’ gasping for air.”

Symone said the victim was hysterical and begging her to call 911 as the suspect sat on the sidewalk. Deputies arrived shortly after and took him into custody without a fight.

He was identified as 44-year-old Eulices Soto. According to an arrest report, they found a knife in his back pocket.

“I’m not going to fight. I’m on probation,” Soto can be heard saying in body camera video from the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.

“This individual suspect spent 17 and a half years in federal prison for trying to bring in a kilo of heroin into this country,” Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said. “Obviously, he didn’t learn anything, because he was recently released.”

Staly praised Symone for not just turning around, but for seeing something and saying something.

“Even if it turns out to be nothing, we’d rather come and check it out and know that it’s nothing serious or, in this case, determine it was something very serious,” Staly said.

Deputies said the victim had marks around her neck, as well as blood on her lip and behind her ear. Symone said she is thankful the victim’s injuries weren’t worse.

When asked if she would do it again, she didn’t hesitate.

“In a heartbeat,” she said.

Soto was arrested on a charge of domestic battery by strangulation and bonded out of jail Monday afternoon on a $35,000 bond. He is not allowed to have contact with the victim and is due back in court next month.

If you are a victim of domestic violence and need help, resources are available. In the event of an emergency, call or text 911.

To contact the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office in a non-emergency, call 386-313-4911, or call the Family Life Center’s 24-hour confidential domestic violence helpline at 386-437-3505.

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By Sarah Mankowitz

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    CAPE CORAL, Florida (WBBH) — Fishing with their grandkids in Cape Coral turned into a traumatic experience when their dog, Rosie, swallowed a fishing hook baited with a hot dog.

“Winston yells, ‘I got a fish, I got fish.’ And so, Sutton ran and threw his fishing pole down,” Diane and Jim Haines said.

The couple explained that Rosie mistook the bait for a snack.

“I immediately was just terrified that our dog was going to get lacerated by the hook,” Diane Haines said.

They described the moment they realized Rosie had eaten the bait.

“Saw Rosie grab the hot dog and eat it. So then we knew immediately we were in trouble,” they said.

The Haines family rushed Rosie to the emergency vet, fearing for her life.

“It was really traumatic. It really was. We were very worried,” Diane Haines said.

At VEG ER, the staff acted quickly to treat Rosie.

“They established the IV, gave her a sedative. And then next thing we knew, I mean, really truthfully, they were scoping her and then asked if we wanted to watch it,” the couple said.

Dr. Jeannette Gonzalez, medical director for pets at VEG ER, said fishing hooks are a common injury they encounter.

“I would say between fish hooks, heat stroke, sand impaction. Those are probably our top three things that we see here,” Gonzalez said.

She explained the dangers of fishing hooks for pets.

“They can get stuck in their lips as well as stuck in their esophagus. That becomes a medical emergency, and they need to have veterinary care in order to get those fish hooks out,” Gonzalez said.

To prevent such incidents, Gonzalez advised pet owners to take precautions.

“Making sure you keep your fishing gear away and keeping those fishing hooks away from dogs,” she said.

The Haines family also shared the financial impact of the emergency.

“It cost us four grand,” they said.

Rosie survived the ordeal, but her days of eating hot dogs are over.

“We’re thrilled she’s here, and we want her to live a really long time. But we’ve banned hot dogs from our home,” Diane and Jim Haines said.

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    WICHITA, Kansas (KAKE) — A former TV news anchor has pleaded guilty to stabbing her mother to death in her Wichita home last year.

During a hearing on Friday afternoon, 48-year-old Angelynn Mock entered the plea to first-degree murder in the death of 80-year-old Anita Avers last Halloween. The Sedgwick County district attorney’s office said the charge carries a presumptive prison sentence of life with parole eligibility after 25 years. Sentencing is scheduled for October 5.

Officers responded on the morning of October 31, 2025, to a reported cutting at a home in the 1500 block of East Crowley, near Wassall and Hydraulic. The Wichita Police Department said officers arrived to find Mock outside the home with cuts on her hands. Inside, they found Avers unresponsive in her bed with multiple stab wounds. She died at the hospital a short time later.

Mock’s stepfather told investigators that she had been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and suffered from delusions and depression, a court document states. Read more here.

Her stepfather told police that Mock was previously a news anchor in Missouri before being laid off after “an explosive situation involving alcohol,” according to the probable cause affidavit. Mock’s LinkedIn profile said she worked at the Fox Station in St. Louis from 2011 to 2015.

Judge Jeffrey Goering ruled in July that Mock was competent to stand trial. During a court hearing last November, Judge Goering ordered Mock to undergo a competency evaluation to see if she’s fit to stand trial. Goering found her incompetent during a hearing in January, and she was transferred to the Larned State Hospital for further evaluation.

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By Ellisyn Sanders

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    WICHITA, Kansas (KAKE) — For the first time in their lives, two Wichita siblings have spent the summer outdoors without excruciating pain.

Clint and Hattie Stuhlsatz have a rare genetic condition that causes severe pain when they are exposed to sunlight.

“This summer was the first summer that I actually wore shorts,” Hattie said.

For the first time, they are not counting down the minutes until they have to go indoors. The siblings could only spend at most 15 to 20 minutes in the sun before experiencing extreme pain.

“It’s way more painful than itchiness,” Clint said. “It’s more like stings and like your skin’s burning.”

Hattie described the feeling as being like a bunch of bug bites all over her body.

“One of our first symptoms that we figured out from Clint, his eyes swelled shut when he was a little kid, and we had no idea why,” their mother, Allison Stuhlsatz, said.

Both siblings were born with Erythropoietic Protoporphyria, also known as EPP.

The condition affects about one in 75,000 people globally.

“We’ve gone about explaining it to people, saying they’re allergic to the sun, which is not technically true, but they are having a toxic reaction in their blood,” Allison said.

For years, Clint and Hattie learned to live around the condition.

They wore protective clothing, including hats, long sleeves and masks, and spent much of their daytime indoors.

“I have been looked at weird, like when I’m walking around at like a store, a mall, or just outside on a walk,” Hattie said.

They also had to give up many activities, like sports, summer birthday parties and school recess.

“The hardest part was just not being able to grow up like I guess a normal kid would, and not be able to do activities that I love, like play football or play soccer,” Clint said.

Clint eventually had to give up football. After games, he said he would sometimes have to stay inside for three to five days because of the pain.

Now, both siblings are part of a clinical trial for EPP. The name of the treatment is a medication called Biopertin.

the medication is a small oral pill of glycine transporter 1. (GlyT1)

“Just thinking about a year and a half ago, I couldn’t have been outside without being in immense pain, so it’s just really amazing what this pill has done for me,” Clint said.

Now, they can spend hours in the sun — something they once thought would be impossible.

“This summer’s been surreal. It really has been. It’s been so cool to see them,” Allison said. “I mean, they’re living their best lives this summer for sure.”

This summer, the family traveled to Florida to visit relatives and went to the beach for the first time.

“We’re out there in the water, and they weren’t covered up,” Allison said. “Just to see him, just like any other kid, out in his trunks swimming, same thing with Hattie.”

For the siblings, those moments are about more than just vacation. They’re experiences they never thought they would get to have.

“It feels like I’m free and I’m normal,” Hattie said. “It just feels like my dream come true.”

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By Larry Seward

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    MIAMI (WFOR) — A group of Florida International University students celebrated a legal victory over FIU administrators.

A U.S. District Court Judge granted a motion to enjoin the university from enforcing regulations that punished members of FIU’s student-led ICEBreakers group for a silent demonstration.

In March, six students stood silently wearing T-shirts that said “ICE OFF FIU” in front of a crowd gathered inside a campus building to hear FIU President Jeanette Nunez interview a guest.

Administrators initially ruled that the six students violated campus rules by causing disruption. The students had until September 4 to record a video explaining their behavior or risk a hold on their enrollment status. That hold can prevent students from registering for classes or receiving their diploma.

Instead of complying, senior music education student Andrew Caro and others filed a lawsuit with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Those punished are part of FIU’s ICEBreakers organization that pushes university leaders to keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement off campus.

“Knowing that we don’t have to record that video and that our university will not go ahead with punishing us at least until the case finishes is absolutely overwhelming,” Caro said. “Our Latino community is consistently under attack. They are being oppressed by our government and by the [Department of Homeland Security], and the fact that my university is complicit in that is the entire reason why we engaged in the demonstration.”

The ruling ordered the university to stop enforcing regulations punishing the ICEBreakers’ conduct.

The judge said the students and ACLU are likely to win their lawsuit because FIU administrators acted “without regard for whether” the demonstration “materially disrupts the school’s operations.”

FIU’s Senior Director of Media Relations Madeline Baró released a statement to CBS News Miami late Monday afternoon.

“FIU values freedom of expression and supports an environment that fosters civil discourse and the respectful exchange of ideas. At the same time, the university’s responsibility is to maintain campus operations, support its educational mission, and ensure safety and access for all members of the university community. As this matter is pending litigation, we cannot comment further. We will comply with the court’s order while considering our legal options.”

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By Noel Brennan

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    CHICAGO (WBBM) — The Hubble and Webb will soon have a new neighbor from NASA.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch this weekend.

Long before Galileo, humans were stargazers. Our telescopes have just gotten bigger and better.

At the Adler Planetarium, Geza Gyuk, senior director of astronomy, and Hunter Miller, public observing educator, are especially excited about one telescope that’s not in their collection — the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The Roman telescope is named after NASA’s first chief astronomer.

“Frequently thought of as the godmother of Hubble, actually. Very, very involved in getting Hubble launched,” Gyuk said

Roman is equipped with a 300-megapixel infrared camera, with a field of view 100 times larger than Hubble’s.

“So, it will image over a billion different galaxies, potentially discover as many as over 100,000 new exoplanets that were never known previously,” Miller said.

The telescope will help astronomers explore mysterious dark matter and dark energy.

“We can see the effects of this dark matter and this dark energy, but what exactly they are isn’t explained yet,” Miller said.

Roman will join the Webb telescope – which has a narrower view but more powerful vision.

“I mean, they’re beautifully complementary,” Gyuk said.

Roman is set to launch Aug. 30, but Gyuk and Miller take off Friday, which they say is their first trip together. For Miller, it will be his first-ever launch and the first for Gyuk at Cape Canaveral.

NASA invited the pair from Adler to see the launch up close.

“Personally, I’m excited to, like, feel the blast when it launches,” Miller said.

“I was like, ‘Yes!’ I was like, it doesn’t matter what else I have planned, you know. I’m going on this,” Gyuk said.

As Roman rockets away, Earth will anxiously await what it sends back.

NASA expects to capture and release the first images from Roman toward the end of the year.

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By Matthew Keck

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    BULLITT COUNTY, Kentucky (WLKY) — A school bus carrying 28 students overturned in Bullitt County Monday afternoon, with more than a dozen people being hospitalized.

The crash happened in the area of Wilson Creek Road and Old Boston Road.

Bullitt County Public Schools said there were 28 elementary school students on the bus when the crash happened.

The driver and eight students were taken to the hospital from the scene, while parents took another five students to local medical facilities to be checked out.

Lebanon Junction Elementary School said it was bus 1515, and they told parents to go to the site of the crash to pick up their children.

Cooper Brown, a student on the bus, said he wanted to be helpful to other students: “I told them that if there was enough room in my car for all of them, I could probably take them to their house if their mom and dad’s didn’t come.”

Adam Heath, Lebanon Junction Fire Chief said he hadn’t seen a crash like this before: “Not in my 24 years in this county.”

It is unclear if another vehicle was involved in the crash.

Bullitt County EMS, along with Nelson County EMS, is responding to the scene.

The cause of the crash is under investigation.

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