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    SALINAS, California (KSBW) — A viral “door-kicking” challenge circulating on social media has reached Salinas, with residents reporting teens sprinting up to homes, kicking front doors, and running away.

One incident in the Creekbridge neighborhood was caught on a Ring camera. There have been similar posts appearing across the Nextdoor app, with at least one Salinas resident saying a kick knocked their door off its hinges.

A concerned neighbor blames lack of supervision and peer pressure.

“Parents are working, and they don’t know where their kids are,” one resident said.

Police across the country warn that the trend has already led to violent confrontations.

“This year alone, there’s been two deaths related to this — one in Texas and one in Virginia— where individuals were shot as they were fleeing,” said Chief Thomas Bell of Lower Swatara Township police.

Elk Grove police added, “What may be fun to post is traumatic and terrorizing to those on the other side of the door.”

Authorities advise parents to talk with teens about risks, and residents to report incidents save video evidence and avoid confrontations.

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    Michigan (WWJ) — A nearly 400-pound haul of cocaine was seized as U.S. and Canadian authorities followed up on suspicious activity in St. Clair County, Michigan.

The investigation began about 6:30 p.m. Nov. 25, the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Office said. That’s when members of the U.S. Homeland Security Task Force North noticed two commercial vehicles with Ontario plates parked at a Michigan truck stop. The two trucks left the area in opposite directions.

One of the trucks traveled to the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, where authorities did a vehicle inspection with the assistance of Warren Police Department K-9 Argo.

Officers found the nearly 400 pounds of cocaine in that vehicle, deputies said.

Officers saw the second vehicle swerving while driving and made a traffic stop. St. Clair County Sheriff’s K-9 Brock picked up on a suspicious odor, which led officers to search that vehicle, deputies said.

The Homeland Security Task Force members working on this investigation included officers from the Port Huron Police Department, Warren Police Department, St. Clair County Sheriff’s Office, Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Ontario Provincial Police and Canada Border Services Agency.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents also assisted in the arrest at the bridge.

“Thank you to the law enforcement officers involved in this case for their dedication to disrupting the dispersal of narcotics into the community,” St. Clair County Sheriff Mat King said.

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    KENOSHA, Wisconsin (WISN) — A Kenosha mother is mourning the loss of her three children who died in a fire at their father’s apartment on Thanksgiving Day.

“Instead of Christmas shopping, it’s casket shopping,” said Jourdan Feasby, the mother of 10-year-old Rylee, 9-year-old Connor and 7-year-old Alena.

The fire happened at an apartment complex near 43rd Avenue and 52nd Street in Kenosha, with flames breaking out around 10:30 p.m., according to the Kenosha Fire Department.

Feasby had spent Thanksgiving morning with her children before they were dropped off at their father’s apartment later that evening.

“I couldn’t process what I was hearing on the phone. They were just my whole world, and they were literally the brightest things that I have ever had in my life,” Feasby said.

She described the close bond between her children, who were just 17 months apart.

“They were just the three little amigos,” Feasby said.

The siblings were not only close but each had their own unique spark, whether it was singing, making videos, or playing on the playground.

Feasby finds solace in the memories captured on camera, though she struggles with the pain of being left behind.

“It does bring you peace that they are all together, that way none of them are alone, but it’s also hard in a selfish sense for myself because I didn’t want to get left behind,” Feasby said.

Authorities are still investigating the cause of the fire, and the family has set up a GoFundMe for funeral costs.

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    CANTON TOWNSHIP, Michigan (WWJ) — Officials in Canton Township, Michigan, say they’re looking into what caused a fire that destroyed a home on Sunday afternoon.

The blaze happened at a house on the 43000 block of Fredricksburg Street. Responding firefighters saw smoke and flames throughout the home, and that the back of the residence was fully engulfed, according to Battalion Chief Nick Lombardi with the Canton Fire Department.

According to officials, the home has been deemed “a complete loss,” and residents of the home have been displaced.

Neighbors told CBS News Detroit that rounds of ammunition were exploding during the fire. Police went to nearby homes to look for damage.

“It just puts us a little bit on a higher alert when that stuff happens,” Lombardi said when asked about the reports of exploding ammunition.

The fire department says there have been no reported injuries.

Lombardi said a fire inspector is looking into the cause of the blaze.

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    OMAHA, Nebraska (KETV) — As many streets remained icy following winter storms in Omaha, several “neighborhood heroes” took to pushing cars out of snowbanks and ice after several pileups on Pratt Street in North Omaha.

The hilly block between 40th and 41st streets was a sheet of ice Saturday afternoon, causing repeated crashes where drivers lost control of their vehicles. Despite a number of vehicles with damage, neighbors say everyone walked away from the crash safely.

“I’ve had wrecks before, but nothing in the winter like this. This is insane. This is the second one. The first wreck had three cars involved, and then not 20 minutes later, four or five cars are wrecked in front of my house,” homeowner Lacey said.

One driver says she was slowing down as she drove down the hill, but said she lost control when she hit ice. Her vehicle slammed into another car, which then was hit again when more cars became involved.

“They’re driving like it’s a normal day, like there’s no ice the way that if you were standing down there and you’ve seen the way that they hit in the impact and how fast they were going, there was no way of stopping it,” Jay Barrett said.

Brothers Dauntae, Jaxxon and Donovan said they ran outside after hearing one crash.

“Just making Hot Pockets. And then out of nowhere, we just hear: boom! So, we jump up, forget the Hot Pockets,” Dauntae said. “We’ve been outside since, like, 10 a.m., just helping people.”

Nina Ahlf said she got a call that her car had been hit while parked on Pratt Street. When she came by to look at the damage, she said she witnessed another pile-up.

“As I’m trying, the first car comes down and hits the red vehicle. And then the second car and then the third, and then the Jeep comes down. And that’s the one that caused a lot of damage. They hit one car and then swung and hit the light pole, and the light poles busted,” Ahlf said.

She said the brothers helped her dig her parked car out of the snowbank. The family also invited drivers inside to warm up after spending hours in the snow.

“They needed a house. We gave them water. Make sure everybody was good. I got everybody warm until the cops figured everything out. And we just sat out there with the entire street,” Dauntae said.

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    CINCINNATI, Ohio (WLWT) — Multiple cars were reported stolen at the Rookwood parking lot Saturday, and inside one of them was a puppy named Dolly.

Dolly’s story went viral on Cincinnati social media.

Thieves dumped the pup in the freezing cold, but Sunday, she was reunited with her owners.

On Saturday night, around 8 p.m. at Rookwood, thieves went on a stealing spree.

“Three cars were stolen that day. One car was stolen two minutes before ours from the lot as well,” Jimmy Hermann said.

Inside one of those cars was Dolly the long-haired daschund. Right away, her owners posted online, and it went viral on Greater Cincinnati social media.

“Immediately I thought, well, ‘Oakley Hyde Park Moms’ [Facebook group] will be all over this,” Olivia Molina said. “I had strangers messaging me saying they were driving around the area looking for her, I had people asking me how they could help.”

People connected them with a thermal drone pilot to look for Dolly’s heat signature Sunday morning.

“Yeah, he was out there at 9 o’clock this morning, with his drone, running around. It was 25 degrees. Yeah, he was extremely helpful, yeah, people at 5 in the morning are posting pictures on Facebook thinking they saw her,” Hermann said.

Location lead took them to East Walnut Hills, where they found Dolly Sunday afternoon after surviving the night.

“Yeah, thanks to everybody. We can’t thank the community enough,” Hermann said.

Police found the stolen car in East Price Hill. The tracking software was ripped out and the license plates were taken off.

When it was stolen Saturday night, Hermann was picking up pizza from Donatos in Rookwood.

“What the police had kind of shared and what’s happened often, is when you’re in those 15-minute parking spots, they typically kind of camp those areas out,” Hermann said.

The key fob in his pocket, the car was still running, but the doors were locked. Police told him thieves have new tech that might make people think twice about remote starts.

“They’ll have a universal key, and so if the car is still running, they can use that to at least access the car — no matter if it’s locked or not,” Hermann said.

“Everything’s wireless, I can start my car from you know inside my house, but then you know, not even think about it because it’s locked, but if they can get through the locks now, and be able to drive away,” said Doug Barclay, who was picking up Donatos pizza Sunday night. “I didn’t know if there was some type of distance that your car can go without the fob or not, but it’s just crazy what they can do now.”

For Jimmy and Olivia, though, Dolly was all that mattered. She’s home thanks to people who cared.

“She won’t be running any errands anytime soon. We’ll probably let her just stay at home and bark at the delivery guys from now on,” Hermann said.

WLWT News 5’s Sean MacKinnon reached out to Aegis Security at Rookwood to see if the stolen cars were caught on security cameras.

Police did not say if there were any possible suspects, but took fingerprints from the recovered stolen car.

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    CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (KCCI) — A recent partnership between the Meskwaki Nation and the University of Northern Iowa has facilitated the return of cultural items to Iowa’s only federally recognized tribe, underscoring the significance of preserving indigenous heritage.

The Meskwaki Cultural Center and Museum now houses these artifacts, each contributing to the rich history of the Meskwaki people.

Tieranny Keahna, the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa, explained the process of federally funded institutions reaching out to tribes with ancestral claims.

“Things that we know of the land that they don’t know of, just to show that there’s something here that maybe you should reach out and try to avoid what you’re trying to do with building and such,” Keahna said.

Keahna was involved in a project that recently brought Meskwaki cultural items back to their rightful home.

“It was a welcoming home ceremony for about 12 or so artifacts that came home,” she said.

The University of Northern Iowa donated its entire Meskwaki collection from the university’s museum.

“They got to bring the collection home to us and view the museum and learn a little bit more about Meskwaki history,” Keahna said.

The collection includes items dating from the 1980s to possibly as far back as the late 1800s. It also includes items like a fork called a mimishi stick, which Johnathan Buffalo, the museum’s Historical Preservation Director, remembers using as a boy. Buffalo is also the tribe’s Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act coordinator.

“Repatriation is when the tribe wants to make a claim for something that a museum or institution holds, saying we have ownership to this and they want to bring it back,” Keahna said.

Keahna noted that museums or institutions often acquire artifacts through purchases or donations from individual tribal members, often without the tribe’s awareness.

“Most of the time it’s via private collectors that have donated this, and we are not aware of those collections being donated,” she said.

Buffalo initiated conversations with UNI in the ’90s, which were later revived when the university reached out earlier this year.

“It was a short process. Some of these repatriations take a long time,” Keahna said.

Despite the time involved, the return of these items is invaluable to tribes across the U.S.

“They’re not objects. They hold special significance to our tribe. Every item has a purpose, has a soul in a way. Being able to welcome these individual souls home is a homecoming, and we just want to welcome them home with open arms,” Keahna said.

KCCI reached out to UNI, and the university’s president, Mark Nook, expressed honor in returning the cultural items, recognizing their deep significance and reflecting a commitment to respecting and strengthening the relationship between UNI and the Meskwaki people.

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    LEBANON, New Hampshire (WMUR) — Sarah George of Enfield said she was driving when a piece of the Route 120 bridge fell, shattering her sunroof.

“At first, it kind of just sounded like the roof exploded a little bit,” George said.

Sarah George’s ride home came to an unexpected halt.

“We were just coming home from picking up dinner, and we were driving I-89, we were driving through Lebanon, and I mean neither one of us really knew what it was at first,” George said.

The Enfield woman was in the car with her husband, Justin, and their three dogs.

“The wind was really loud because we were obviously still on the highway,” said Justin George of Enfield. “My first thought was definitely, thank God it wasn’t 10 seconds earlier or something like and then it came crashing through the windshield, that would have made the whole situation a lot worse.”

They took the next exit and drove to the police station.

“Originally, I wasn’t sure if someone had thrown something off the bridge, like what really happened,” Sarah George said. “That was kind of my initial thought.”

But that wasn’t the case.

“And then when we got to the police station and the officer came out and looked at the car, he was like, ‘No, it was probably a piece of the bridge,'” Sarah George said.

“If it was a piece of the bridge, like that makes me kind of nervous, that’s the route we drive to work every single day,” said George.

Sarah said, luckily, no one was hurt.

For now, Sarah said she’s in the process of filing a claim with her insurance company.

“I’m a nurse, so missing work isn’t really an option for me either, so it’s just going to be a little bit of a hassle, but I’m sure we’ll figure it out,” said Sarah George.

News 9 reached out to the state’s Department of Transportation.

They said this incident has been reported to them, and they are actively looking into it.

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