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    OUTER BANKS, N.C. (WTKR) — Five oceanfront homes in Buxton collapsed into the water on Tuesday, bringing the total of fallen Hatteras Island homes to 17 since 2020.

The Cape Hatteras National Seashore says the unoccupied homes collapsed between 2 p.m. and 2:45 p.m. There are no reported injuries at this time.

Seashore officials have closed the entire oceanfront area from northern Buxton to the off-road vehicle (ORV) ramp 43. Anyone using ORV ramp 38 should avoid driving south.

Here is a list of the houses that collapsed, as of Tuesday afternoon:

46001 Cottage Avenue 46002 Cottage Avenue 46007 Cottage Avenue 46209 Tower Circle Road 46211 Tower Circle Road More collapses are expected due to the rough surf, the seashore says, and visitors are advised to avoid the surrounding area due to dangerous debris.

News 3 Meteorologist Tony Nargi says the Outer Banks is seeing very rough surf Tuesday, thanks to Hurricanes Humberto and Imelda offshore, with heights of 6 to 12 feet and NE wind gusts between 35 and 45 mph. These winds and high surf will lead to coastal erosion, and overwash is expected in vulnerable areas of the dune. A Coastal Flood Warning is in effect from Rodanthe and points south for 2 to 3 feet of coastal floodwater inundation.

The collapses come two weeks after another Buxton home was claimed by the ocean. The home was owned by the family of Bonnie Clarke Lattimore, who tells News 3 the family had conversations of moving it two years ago. They recently started the process to move it after Hurricane Erin, but time wasn’t on their side before the ultimate collapse of “Dream House One.”

“The amount of people and love and memories of those house… I feel like someone died. You can hear it in my like emotions. I’ve been really struggling this past week with it all,” said Lattimore.

Before the recent Buxton collapses, all of the homes that have fallen into the ocean since 2020 have been located in Rodanthe.

The collapses have sparked discussions about how to protect threatened oceanfront structures. One solution that’s been underway includes moving homes further away from the water, but community members and officials are still working to take other preventative measures.

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By Mya Constantino

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    EAGLE MOUNTAIN, Utah (KSTU) — Utahn Kalima Watson doesn’t just dig into family trees. He helps people find their roots and discover who they are, all online.

“I’m trying to get people to see genealogy and family history the same way that I do,” Watson said.

The Hawaiian native who now lives in Eagle Mountain is the creator behind “Just Kalima,” — an online channel that has amassed nearly 200,000 followers on Instagram. He makes videos about genealogy and family history for people, but he’s especially trying to reach younger audiences.

“Genealogy can feel boring sometimes. I wanted to find a way to make it engaging and get through to people,” he said.

He says people send him their family names, and then he’ll use sites including Ancestry.com and Family Search.org to track down the details, and then turn them into quick stories for various social media platforms.

Watson’s journey started after moving from Hawaii to Utah in 2017. He wanted a tattoo that represented his Hawaiian roots so he could stay close to home while in Utah. But before getting it, he dove into his family’s history. That’s when he started learning about his ancestors, who he says were chiefs, voyagers, and leaders in Hawaiian history.

“People who did incredible things,” he said. “And the more I learned about them, the closer I felt to them.”

That search is what eventually gave him the idea for the videos he creates now.

At times, Watson chooses followers at random and creates videos about their ancestry. One of those followers is Mark Helske, also from Eagle Mountain. He said Watson uncovered stories about his family he hadn’t known. “I had no idea who Matthew Pennell was, that I was related to him,” Helske said during a Zoom call. “He managed a lighthouse that was under a lot of scrutiny because previous keepers of the lighthouse had not been doing their job properly and there was like a big accident. Matthew Pennell took over for years and years. I had no idea that was a part of my family’s history.”

He added, “It gives you like a feeling of pride knowing that you have ancestors that did something meaningful.”

That is exactly what Watson says he hopes people walk away with. “When you know the hard things they’ve done, it makes doing hard things yourself feel easier,” he said. “That’s the goal — to empower people.”

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    SALT LAKE CITY (KSTU) — The Dry Creek Fire that sparked overnight near the University of Utah campus has grown to an estimated 89 acres, but officials say its forward progress has been stopped.

Utah Wildfire Info said around 2:30 p.m. that although the forward spread has stopped, official containment is at 0% as they work to establish a perimeter.

No structures are currently threatened, and there are no evacuation orders. The Salt Lake City Fire Department is monitoring the situation should that change.

People are being told to stay off trailheads going up towards the fire location in Dry Creek, City Creek, Bonneville Shoreline Trail, and the surrounding foothills, even up behind the Avenues neighborhood and near the University of Utah Hospital.

The fire department is waiting and relying on outside resources to battle the fire, as the flames are in an area too far up for them to reach. Officials told FOX 13 News that the Division of Forestry and state resources are monitoring and assisting in the situation.

Even with all the rain the area has received, the new fire is a reminder that there is still plenty of dry vegetation that can start a new wildfire.

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    Utah (KSL, KSL TV) — After nearly three years in the hospital, one community decided to surprise a 5-year-old and her family.

The Barton’s Saratoga Springs neighborhood has supported them from the beginning. From prayers and rides to the hospital to raising more than three grand to send the Burton’s daughter to Texas for a donor heart — now they wanted to give her a grand welcome home.

Shalise Swenson, who helped plan the surprise, gathered pink and purple to line the streets for the Barton’s daughter, Sienna, who loves Taylor Swift and Disney.

“She’s spice and big heart,” Swenson said.

A big heart that’s been through a lot. Sienna was born with half a heart. She had surgery at six days old, six months old and was supposed to go in again at three years old.

“It’s a very discouraging process,” said Francesca Barton, Sienna’s mom.

In January 2023, Sienna went into heart failure and was hooked up to a mechanical heart while she waited for a new one.

“Twenty eight months later, we were still there waiting,” Barton said.

That’s when the Barton’s found a hospital in Texas that would have a greater chance of finding a donor with the right heart size for Sienna.

They flew to Texas in May 2025, and Sienna had a donor by June.

“Our daughter is only alive today because another family chose donation,” said Fano Barton, Sienna’s Dad.

Sienna needed to stay at least 90 days following her heart transplant. And on day 975 of the family’s journey, Sienna returned home to Saratoga Springs.

“She was two years old when she went into the hospital and now, she’s five,” Fano said.

Sienna waved her hands and threw out candy to neighbors as their car paraded through the streets.

“Our community has been behind us these past three years,” Barton said. “We’re just so grateful to them.”

After all this time, Sienna’s big heart, still beats.

“Our hearts are so full,” Barton said.

There’s a lot of healing and learning left for Sienna.

The Barton’s will go to Texas every six weeks for checkup appointments. The family said Sienna has physical therapy, feeding therapy and on top of that, they just want to catch up on being all together as a family after nearly three years of living in different places.

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    Colorado (KCNC) — A Colorado couple on vacation in San Francisco found a puppy who had been horribly abused. They rescued the pup and ultimately decided to adopt her. For a week now, she has been recovering in Colorado.

To see the pup playing in her Broomfield yard, you’d have no idea what she’s been through. But her name, “Brazen,” reflects how strong she is.

“It just fits her so well. I love the definition being bold and without shame,” said Lina Robles.

The night Robles and her partner, Allison Lopez-Bock, found Brazen is burned into their memory.

Returning to their San Francisco Airbnb after a concert, they saw a flash of black fur running at them.

“We think for sure we’re about to get mauled,” Robles said.

But when the dog got close, the pair realized it was a puppy, with duct tape around her mouth and eyes and a rope around her neck.

“It was horrific. I mean, I was shocked, I was appalled and also just really worried about her,” said Lopez-Bock.

“It was really distressing to see her in that state. She was just whimpering. She just cowered in between my legs,” Robles said.

Immediately, the women carefully removed the tape.

“She made a really big cry when we cut it off,” Robles said.

They brought her inside, cut off the rope, and gave her food and water.

“Immediately just licking us,” said Lopez-Bock.

The next morning, they dropped her off at a shelter and flew home to Colorado.

“At that point, it was just like, this is goodbye,” Robles said.

But they couldn’t get the 4-and-a-half-month-old lab they’d named Brazen off their minds.

When the shelter called to say they were running out of room, the women knew what to do.

“We felt like it was meant to be,” said Lopez-Bock.

They went back to California that day to adopt Brazen themselves.

“It was incredible. Her excitement was off the charts when we first saw her. She was very excited, jumping all over us,” said Lopez-Bock. “It was really sweet. Really cuddly, puppy loving. It was so sweet.”

They also shared Brazen’s story on social media.

“Just the outpouring of support and kind messages, donations, like, even just like people offering to donate their, like, dogs’ old toys to us. It’s just been really moving. I think she’s set for life. She has so much support now,” said Robles.

Brazen has adjusted to her new life in Colorado quickly.

“We went on our first hike this weekend. Took it in the fall foliage. And she had a great time,” Robles said. “We’re loving having her here. And now that we have her, we can’t picture it any other way.”

But a scar on her neck is a reminder of the abuse she endured. The rope had been tied so tight that it caused a laceration and infection.

“I was bawling, like crying so hard, thinking about someone doing that to her and the audacity that anybody has to treat pets that way. It’s so cruel,” said Lopez-Bock.

San Francisco Animal Care & Control told CBS Colorado they took Brazen in on Sept. 7 and treated her for wounds around her neck. They said, “The dog did not have a microchip and there were no cameras in the area the dog was found. We have no leads on who abused the dog and there is no active investigation.”

“I worry that she has a whole litter of puppies that is out there being still abused. So that’s a really big concern of mine,” Robles said.

Robles and Lopez-Bock hope Brazen’s story inspires others to take better care of animals.

“If you have the ability and the time to spend some time with dogs or even better foster dogs, adopt a dog, that that would probably be my biggest message,” Robles said.

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    SPOKANE COUNTY, Washington (KXLY) — Deputies arrested a man and a woman for breaking into a hotel room and stealing a guest’s wallet and rental car keys on Tuesday, according to Spokane County Sheriff’s Office.

Around 11 p.m. on September 23, SCSO responded to a reported burglary at a hotel near Division Street and Cascade Way in the Town and Country area.

The victim told deputies he was staying in the hotel and went to dinner with a friend earlier that night and returned to his hotel room around 6:30 p.m.

When he arrived back at the hotel, the victim realized he didn’t have his room keycard and went to the front desk to get another one.

While changing clothes in the bathroom of his hotel room, the victim said he heard a knock at the door and a woman’s voice say “housekeeping.”

He said he then heard his hotel room door open and someone enter his room, but when he exited the bathroom to check, no one was there.

Later in the evening, the victim said he noticed his wallet and rental car keys were missing from his room. He checked his banking app and saw that two fraudulent charges had been made to his credit card, prompting him to call law enforcement.

Through an investigation, deputies learned 46-year-old Barry Buchmann and 43-year-old Natasha Schwencer arrived at the hotel in a black sedan and entered the victim’s hotel room with his keycard.

Using the car model and license plate, deputies soon found Buchmann and Schwencer.

They told deputies they were at the same restaurant the victim was at with a friend when they saw him drop his hotel room keycard.

Buchmann and Schwencer told deputies they picked up the victim’s keycard, went to the hotel and used it to enter his hotel room and steal his wallet and rental car keys.

They then used the car keys to enter his rental car and steal personal items from the car.

A search of Buchmann and Schwencer’s home found some of the victim’s property.

Both Buchmann and Schwencer were arrested and booked into Spokane County Jail for various charges including burglary, identity theft, prowling and other unrelated past charges.

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    GRANT COUNTY, Washington (KXLY) — A three-year-old made a scary discovery in his front yard: a live hand grenade.

It happened near the intersection of Willard and May Street in Hartline.

According to the Grant County Sheriff’s Office, the young boy discovered the grenade Monday night and brought it inside to show his parents.

His parents then called 911.

The Washington State Patrol Bomb Squad was called to help, and they were able to determine that the grenade was live.

The Bomb Squad was able to carefully remove the device and take it to a remote area north of Hartline to dispose of it.

According to the GCSO, the grenade appeared to be weathered and exposed to the elements for a long time. Right now, it’s not clear how the grenade ended up in the front yard or how long it had been there.

This type of grenade is consistent with those used during World War II.

No one was injured in this incident.

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