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By Steven Yablonski

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    PLANTATION, Florida (WFOR) — A Tennessee rapper with hundreds of thousands of followers on social media was arrested after a SWAT standoff in Plantation Monday overnight, and he livestreamed the dramatic situation before he was taken into custody.

According to Plantation police, the situation began to unfold in the 8600 block of Gatehouse Road late Monday night.

Richard Maurice Colbert, better known by his stage name iHeartMemphis or iLoveMemphis, has over 700,000 followers on Instagram.

A family member told CBS News Miami that they’ve been trying to get Colbert help for days. And before the barricaded standoff that he livestreamed, he posted on social media leading up to the incident and showing when welfare officers went to check on him.

Colbert allegedly told the officers that he was God, with another video showing clouds in the sky and him saying that they were spying on him.

Video from the scene showed a garage door and car on its side, as well as glass on the ground after a window was shattered.

“Please, please save me y’all,” Colbert is heard saying in the livestream. “I’m begging you. I don’t got nothing. I don’t want to hurt nobody, y’all.”

At one point 20,000 people were watching Colbert’s livestream as he barricaded himself inside the home. Colbert rose to fame with his hit song “Hit the Quan” in 2015.

During the video he’s heard telling people he didn’t want to die, and in another part of the video he’s heard speaking with a dog.

Toward the end of the livestream he’s seen crouching in the garage and you can see the moment SWAT member move in to arrest him just after 3 a.m.

Plantation police said no injuries were reported, but the Colbert was taken to the hospital for evaluation.

Police said he was taken into custody for an active warrant for “written or electronic threats to kill.”

The dog that was inside the home was safely removed and released to a family member.

No other information was released.

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By Brian Sherrod

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    COLORADO (KCNC) — A new law expands how black history is taught at public schools across the state. Colorado’s HB25-1149 law requires K-12 public schools to integrate comprehensive Black history and cultural studies into their curriculum by 2028.

That law was signed in June 2025. The law establishes a 17-member committee to develop standards focusing on Black contributions and experiences. It also creates a free, bilingual resource bank for educators.

Director of Black Student Success at Denver Public Schools, Michael Atkins, is just one of several people who fought for this law. Atkins has been a part of the area since he was four years old. Atkins says this new law is essential. Black history cannot only be taught during February, which is the month recognized as Black History Month.

“We know our story is not just confined to just 28 days,” Atkins said. “This bill will allow the opportunity for us to embrace the black experience, 365 days a year.”

Atkins says all students and staff will learn about Black history and its contributions. Atkins says history cannot only be focused on slavery.

“African Americans have really contributed to our current state of living,” Atkins said. “That needs to be heard, taught, and observed to our most precious asset, which is our babies. This bill not only benefits our Black students. This bill benefits all students.”

Fourth-grader Zora Jackson in Denver Public Schools also worked to enact the law. Jackson attended meetings and spoke on the importance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s teachings and how they changed the world and her own life.

“I work every day to help my community become better and become a better person,” Jackson said. “I also want to help people rise up against hatred.”

Jackson said she is still surprised when she learned about what happened to Black people in the past.

“The fact that people were being treated differently based on skin color,” Jackson said.

Atkins and Jackson say that when all students learn about Black history and their contributions, it improves understanding. If you do not learn, you cannot change.

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By Donald Fountain

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    ATLANTA (WUPA) — Before you toss out your old music gear, you might want to send it to Coco Hankerson.

Hankerson is a music repair technician in the metro Atlanta area. However, she prefers to go by Coco the Geek, the name of her music repair business.

“I came up with the name Coco the Geek because I’m a geek of electronics,” said Hankerson. “Why not go ahead and choose a name that represents what I am, a geek, I’m a nerd?”

Hankerson specializes in repairing a mixture of old and new music gear. She says the work is not easy.

“That’s why you call me in. I’m the specialist. Y’all make the beats, and I be the geek,” Hankerson said.

She started her business in 2020 as a recycling company, then she switched to music repairs in 2024. Now Hankerson receives requests to fix gear across the country.

“It’s a lot of work. It may not look like it, but it’s a lot of technical work. You gotta learn how to read schematics, you gotta know what you’re doing because you can’t get hurt if you don’t know what you’re doing,” Hankerson said.

When Hankerson is in her repair shop, she sometimes gives the equipment she’s working on a name.

“I just call them my babies, come on baby let me go ahead and get you right,” said Hankerson.

Despite some of the technology being old, Hankerson says she still sees the value of getting the equipment back up and running.

“Why would you not want to do that? So to be able to contribute to him getting back to doing whatever it is he do or needs to get done with this, it feels good,” said Hankerson. “Because if not, it’ll be sitting where it was sitting, collecting dust. Those memories will be fading away.”

Hankerson recalled moments when, as a six-year-old, she was frustrated with why her Sony Walkman stopped working. She said those moments motivated her to be where she is now.

“If I can go back and tell 6-year-old me, ‘You have no idea, you are about to be one of the world’s greatest techs,’ I be jumping all over that bed, man,” said Hankerson.

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By Dan Raby

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    ATLANTA (WUPA) — The family of a Georgia Army veteran is now fighting to bring him back to the U.S. after he was deported to Jamaica, despite having an active appeal.

Godfrey Wade had lived in the U.S. for more than 50 years before he was taken into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. He remained in custody for nearly five months before his deportation.

His family and attorneys are trying to reopen Wade’s case, holding out hope that his case can be fully heard.

Wade came to the U.S. lawfully in 1975 as a teenager. He enlisted in the Army and served overseas.

That was his foundation, and he took pride in it and made us believe in the U.S. Army,” said his daughter, Emmanuela Wade.

After Wade was honorably discharged, he worked as a chef, tennis coach, and fashion designer.

His family says Wade’s life changed in September 2025, when he was pulled over for failing to use a turn signal in Conyers and arrested for driving without a license. Following that arrest, ICE detained him due to a 2014 removal order stemming from a 2007 bounced check and a 2006 simple assault charge. Wade’s attorney said that the assault charge involved no physical violence and that his client had paid the bounced check and related fines.

ICE cited a removal order from over a decade ago after officials said Wade did not show up for a hearing in 2014. Court records show hearing notices sent to an address used by ICE were returned as undeliverable. Wade’s attorney says the Covington man was unaware of the removal order until his arrest.

Loved ones have called Wade’s detainment “an emotional roller coaster” that has left him absent from the lives of his six children and three grandchildren.

“We’ve built an amazing life together, and to be separated from that is very challenging, especially since he did not have an opportunity to have his voice heard,” Wade’s fiancée, April Watkins, told CBS News Atlanta.

Georgia U.S. Rep. David Scott said his office formally requested last week that the Department of Homeland Security halt Wade’s deportation until he could have the case heard in court.

“Nonetheless, DHS deported Mr. Wade to Jamaica and did not notify my office until four days later,” Scott said in a statement. “Mr. Wade served this country honorably and was entitled to due process. His deportation is a continuation of the Trump Administration’s punitive and cruel immigration tactics, and I will continue pressing DHS for accountability.”

Speaking to CNN from Jamaica over the weekend, Wade said that he wants a chance to be heard.

“We are trusting in the justice system of my beloved country, the United States of America, that I loved so much and served,” he said.

Wade’s attorney says an emergency stay of the removal was denied, but an appeal remains pending.

CBS News Atlanta reached out to ICE for comment on Wade’s deportation and will update this story if they choose to respond.

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    CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (KRIS) — Jose Lopez lost everything when his house burned down, but he held onto hope even while walking through ash, soot and dirt.

“All this happens for a reason and I know God wants me to think big,” Lopez said.

The owner of Chico’s Candy Apples saw his home and business destroyed in a fire months ago. Neighbors, including Westside business Candy Andy, helped push his story out so customers could find him again.

Now Lopez says his Facebook is still flooded with neighbors asking where he’ll pop up next.

While he’s not back in the home he owns, Lopez has sold enough candy apples to move his family into a new apartment. He reminds his wife to stay focused on small goals.

“Don’t think about all the money we need to fix the house. Just think about one apple at a time, you know,” Lopez said.

No longer having to borrow someone else’s kitchen has made a significant difference.

“Way better. Now we can do our apples from here, and eventually we’re gonna get back to our home,” Lopez said.

Lopez says health issues made the last few months even harder, but he found strength in his faith.

“All the stress and the anxiety… I gave it to God. I said, God help me out,” Lopez said.

Most of his support has come through social media, with customers telling him they found him online.

“That’s how they go. They go because, ‘I saw you on Facebook, I saw you on Facebook,'” Lopez said.

At his table, customer Delma Garza drove from Kingsville after seeing one of those posts.

“It’s always good to be friendly to people… to help out wherever you can,” Garza said.

Lopez is looking forward to one thing most of all.

“Going back to my home. It’s going to be a great… great feeling,” Lopez said.

Since starting over, sales have already doubled from around 60 apples a day to now more than 120.

Lopez says his faith in God keeps him moving forward even on the hardest days. As he works to rebuild his home and business, every candy apple sold is one step closer to his goal.

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By John Franchi

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    SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (KSTU) — As the Olympic Games unfold in Milan and Cortina, Italy, the slopes of Cortina are once again hosting Olympic alpine skiing. But this isn’t the first time these Italian mountains have welcomed the world’s best skiers.

For 90-year-old Marvin Melville, a Utah native and two-time Olympian, watching the games return to Cortina brings back vivid memories from seven decades ago when he competed there as a 20-year-old in 1956.

“The parade, being a part of the team and representing the United States, there’s nothing quite like that,” Melville said.

The 1956 Olympics were the seventh iteration of the Winter Games, featuring only 32 countries compared to the 93 expected to compete this year. Melville’s experience represents a simpler era of Olympic competition, captured in his family’s home movies that transport viewers back 70 years.

His memories of skiing the treacherous Olympic downhill course in Cortina remain as vivid as those classic home movie reels. “I got halfway down the mountain and crashed and broke my skis and couldn’t finish,” Melville said. “But there were probably 80 competitors, maybe more, and there was only about 20 that got to the finish line.”

The Olympics provided Melville with unexpected moments of human connection that transcended Cold War tensions. While watching a U.S.-Russia hockey game, he stood next to a Russian cross-country skier. “The Russians scored a goal, and she took her fist and slammed me in the shoulder. All of a sudden I had a strong, warm affiliation with the Russians, which previously, you know, I thought they were the enemy,” Melville said.

Four years later, Melville competed again at the 1960 Olympics in California at what is now known as Palisades Tahoe, where he finished in 22nd place. “It makes you very patriotic. And I was also served in the military for two years. So yeah, I feel like I’m a patriotic citizen,” Melville said.

Melville has donated his Olympic mementos to the Alf Engen Ski Museum, though he borrowed them back to share his story. His official team jacket still fits after all these years. “Having this on your ski uniform was a big deal,” Melville said, referring to the Olympic patches.

Now battling polycythemia vera, a form of blood cancer, Melville reflects on his life on the slopes and the family he raised in Utah. He has five daughters, 29 grandchildren, and 56 great-grandchildren.

Surprisingly, skiing wasn’t always his passion. “No, no, I did not think that. I didn’t even like it the first few times we went up to Alta,” Melville said when asked if he always planned to be a skier.

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By Michael Chen

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    CHULA VISTA, California (KGTV) — Some two decades before Jason Myers kicked a record-setting five field goals in Super Bowl 60, he was perfecting his craft on the field at Mater Dei Catholic in Chula Vista.

John Joyner, who coached Myers during his junior and senior years, admits he was a bundle of nerves watching the game.

“After the first one went in—the first one I was pretty nervous—but he was perfect all night,” Joyner said. “I started rooting for New England to stop Seattle in field goal range.”

Joyner remembers when he first met Myers as a young athlete.

“When I first met Jason, he barely came up to my waist,” Joyner said. “He was a little guy, but he kind of matured quickly.”

Myers was actually a better soccer player at the time. As a midfielder, he helped lead his team to a regional championship.

“Jason was always intense, always serious,” Joyner said. “Very serious about his craft and being an athlete.”

But it was on the football field where Myers’ special talent became apparent.

“When he got on the football field, and he kicked the football, it sounded different than the rest of the other kickers,” Joyner said. “So we knew right there, this guy has got to be pretty special.”

Myers’ achievements are displayed on the Mater Dei Hall of Fame wall, including being named South Bay kicker of the year as a junior and being part of a league championship team.

Joyner’s favorite memory of Myers came during a crucial moment against Bonita Vista High on Halloween.

“I remember my favorite moment was he kicked a 42-yard field goal to win the game against Bonita Vista with little time remaining,” Joyner said. “It was a big upset for us. Right then, I realized he has ice in his veins.”

Myers’ Super Bowl performance has generated online chatter suggesting he was robbed of the MVP award.

“Yes, I’m biased, but he should have been noted MVP,” Joyner said.

After the game, Joyner reached out to congratulate his former player.

“I sent him a text to congratulate him,” Joyner said. “I told him I hope he’s getting some rest. He said he had just gotten done with a national talk show. Hopefully he’s getting some rest now.”

The Super Bowl performance adds to Myers’ already impressive legacy, and he maintains strong ties to his high school.

“He’s a top-notch guy,” Joyner said. “He always comes back and kicks with our kickers.”

For Joyner and the Mater Dei community, seeing one of their own succeed on the biggest stage is deeply meaningful.

“You see one of our own on the biggest stage. he has love for us, and we have love for him,” Joyner said. “It’s kind of surreal. He’s earned everything. We’re so proud of him.”

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By Laura Acevedo

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    SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — A Chula Vista mother was released from ICE custody Monday evening after nearly two weeks of detention, on what happened to be her youngest child’s fourth birthday.

Kris Estefany Pineda-Torregrosa walked out of the Otay Mesa Detention Center just before 7 p.m., fitted with an ankle monitor after ICE granted her parole request. However, she says her release was bittersweet as her husband, Reinaldo, remains in custody.

Pineda-Torregrosa spoke through tears, describing her mixed emotions about being freed without her husband.

The mother from Colombia and her Venezuelan husband were detained by ICE in late January in Chula Vista, leaving their sons, ages 4 and 12, without a legal guardian. Family friend Itzel Jimenez stepped in to care for the children when no other family members lived nearby.

“It was either they were going to go to CPS because no one was going to pick them up, or they’re going to come with somebody that they knew, so I decided to just take them,” Jimenez said.

Immigration attorney Nerea Woods took on the case through the county’s Immigrant Legal Defense Program after learning about the family’s situation on ABC 10News. Woods argued that ICE violated its own policy regarding the detention and removal of parents with minor children by detaining both parents simultaneously.

“It’s heartbreaking that we ever had to get to this point,” Woods said.

The case also drew community support. ABC 10News viewer Julie Rieth stepped forward to adopt the family’s dog, Bella, after Jimenez had to surrender the pet to a shelter due to her son’s allergies.

After more than a week of requests for information, ICE confirmed Friday that both parents lack lawful status to remain in the country, but did not explain why both were detained, leaving the children without a legal guardian.

Woods says she’ll continue to fight for Reinaldo’s release, hoping to work on their removal case without requiring continued custody.

“It was very clear to me that legally it should have never happened. I think that when we made it publicly known that it shouldn’t have happened, I hope that really pushed ICE to do the right thing,” Woods said.

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