Oofz Crews battling fire at Clair-Mel City home SARASOTA, Fla. 鈥?After 3 hours of deliberations, the jury found Henry Lee Porter Sr. guilty on two counts of sexual battery of a child under the age of 12. Porter Sr., the seventy-four-year-old former bishop of a Sarasota evangelical church, is on trial, accused of sexually abusing children from as far back as 1989.Opening statements were made by state prosecutors Tuesday, accu sing Porter of two counts of sexual battery of a child under the age of 12. Henry Lee Porter harnessed the word of God to sexually abuse children, that is what you re going to hear in this case. Thats what this case is about, said Ryan Felix, a state attorney.RELATED: 72-year-old Sarasota bishop accused of sexually abusing children, young adults for 4 decadesThe state said the jury will he ar from at least two victims who were raised in the Westcoast Center for Human Development church where Porter preached.But defense attorney Brent McIntosh opened by explaining that Porter was the real victim. WFTS Henry Lee Porter, Sr. sits with his attorneys in court. I will agree that this case has elements of manipulation in it. But the manipulation is not Henry Porters, the manipulation is coming from witnesse s, said McIntosh.The state started its case by calling victim one as the first witness. The now 40-year-old man testified that he was groomed and sexually abused in multiple ways by Porter from the ages 11 to 21. He said much of it occurred in a private room in th Srup WWII Medal of Honor recipient to lie in honor at US Capitol HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. 鈥?Depu ties with the Hillsborough County Sheriffs Office say the majority of drivers and pedestrians they come into contact with have no idea how to use an unmarked or implied crosswalk and the consequences can be deadly.There are thousands of unmarked or implied crosswalks across the Tampa Bay area. Deputies said you can recognize them when there is an intersection with no official crosswalk markings but has a sidewalk that ends and continues across the street. 3 BIG RULES:Under Florida Law, the driver of a car has to stop and yield when a pedestrian is in the crosswalk and is in the same half of the roadway of thearea.Drivers also have to stop and yield if a pedestrian is approaching them at an unmarked crosswalk in the opposite half of the roadway, according to Florida Statute 316.130.However, pedestrians cant just dash out into the road and must cross at an unmarked crosswalk at a 90-degree angle. Make sure you look out for traffic and cars, said Cpl. Kristy Udagawa with the Hillsborough County Sheriffs Office. You cant just start out in traffic. Youll get hit by a car that way. So youd need to look both ways and make sure the road is clear for you to c ross safely. Drivers who fail to stop for a pedestrian at an implied crosswalk can face at least a $163 fine. Pedestrians who dash into the road can also face fines. 鈫慍LICK FOR MORE COVERAGE鈫?
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Gqit 9/11 survivors remember the first responders who saved their lives In the garden of her home in Bellingham, Washington, Marie Eaton is always able to find something she lost. When I come out to garden, he s there, she said. And every time I m under one of the maples, I think, Oh yeah, Wayne, you re here. Her brother, Wayne Dodge, was also an avid gardener with a fondness for Japanese maple trees. But in 2021 he fell down the stairs and became a quadriplegic. A few months later, the 71-year-old doctor got pneumonia. Eaton said, As a physician, he knew what that meant; they call pneumonia the old man s friend. And he chose that way to leave. We were devastated to lose him, but understood that choice. Instead of being buried or cremated, Wayne had chosen a relatively new alte rnative: natural organic reduction, more simply known as human composting. It s a natural process that transforms the body into soil.Some of it is spread under the Japanese maples in Marie Eaton s yard. It s beautiful, like beautiful, beautiful mulch, she said. After death, Wayne Dodge s body was transformed into soil. CBS News Tracy asked, What do you say to people who will hear this and say, That just sounds a little creepy or a little strange Eaton replied, I might invite them to think a little bit about what traditional burial involves, which is embalming a body, putting it inside a lead-lined coffin, a Qmgb Syrian refugees settling across U.S. despite resistance FAIRFAX, Va. -- A priest in Virginia made a very public and shocking confession this week about his earlier life as a cross-burning member of the Ku Klux Klan.Willi am Aitcheson, 62, made a confession in an essay published Monday, writing, My actions were despicable hellip; while 40 years have passed, I must say this: I m sorry. He wrote that images from Charlottesville brought back memories of a bleak period in my life that I would have preferred to forget. CBS News Errol Barnett reports a spokesman for the Arlington diocese said Thursday: At the time he began ministry here in 19 93, the diocese learned of his past as well as his sincere conversion of heart. The spokesman also said Aitcheson s past was not common knowledge to current staff 24 years later. Philip and Barbara Butler have been reluctantly recalling the night they were terrorized by the KKK as newlyweds. It s 40 years and it came back again, Barbara told CBS News.This week, they discovered Aitcheson was responsible for burning a 7-foot cross in their front yard has been a practicing Catholic priest, an hour s drive away. Family questions sincerity of priest s confession on KKK past 03:31 Church officials say Aitcheson s statement this week came after a reporter began asking questi
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Fkug Yale professor arrested in domestic dispute dies after being taken to jail Democratic lawmakers with the House Oversight Committee sent a letter Friday to the U.S. Army requesting a report into an altercation earlier this week involving an Arlington National Cemetery employee and Trump staff who brought campaign photographers to the cemetery. In the letter, the committee s ranking member, Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, wrote to Army Secretary Christine Wormuth that he was hopeful you can provide the Committee with a full account of Monday s incident. Former President Donald Trump visited the cemetery to take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to commemorate three years since the 2021 Kabul suicide bombing that kille d 13 service members during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. The confrontation occurred when Trump s campaign brought its own photographers to Section 60 of the cemetery, where veterans of the recent Iraq and Afghanistan wars are buried. While the exact details remain unclear, an Army spokesperson said in a statement to CBS News Thursday that the employee was abruptly pushed aside, calling it unfortunate that the employee and her professionalism has been unfairly attacked. The cemetery said in a statement this week that federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries, to include photographers, content creators or any other persons attending for pu rposes, or in direct supp Wjvm Michael Jackson s Simpsons episode pulled after Leaving Neverland LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A real estate investor wanting to restore Muhammad Ali s boyhood home in Kentucky has a new business partner in his corner.Philadelphia lawyer George Bochetto said Monday that he has acquired a half interest in the small frame house in Louisville where the three-time heavyweight boxing champion grew up as a precocious boy named Cassius Clay.Bochetto becom es a partner with Jared Weiss of Las Vegas in the venture to restore the home to how it looked when Ali lived there decades ago. It s a remarkable piece of history, said Bochetto, a former Pennsylvania state boxing commissioner. Muhammad A li 1942-2016 48 photos Bochetto didn t disclose how much he paid to gain an equal share in the home. Weiss bought the house for $70,000 in 2012, but his plans to restore the house had seemingly stalled. Bochetto hopes to inject new energy and money into the project.Restoring the exterior and interior could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, Bochetto said. We re going to be self-funded on this whole project, he said. There s not going to be any obstacles to our accomplishing what we want to do, at least no financial obstacles. Bochetto counts himself among the former cham p s admirers. Ali was i
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Ckxl Armed intruders zip tie Tampa Bay area family, steal $30,000 in gold and cash Analysts say Costco s interesting and innovative initiative selling 1-ounce gold bars to its members has been a success in the months since its launch last year.A research equity note released by analysts at Wells Fargo has reportedly found that the company is bringing in as much as $200 million a month since the debut of the exclusive online sales of the preciousmetal bars in 2023.AsMarketWatch repor ted, the analysts said the gold sales appear to be boosting same-store sales by around 1%.In October, the company found that customers were buying out the pure 24-karat gold bars faster than its discounted 170-ounce jugs of laundry detergent, TheAssociated Press reported.The company s CFO Richard Galanti said during an earnings call that the gold bars were typically gone within a few hours after they are posted for sale on Costco s website, and said at the time the company had initially placed a two-bar limit for each buyer. The company was selling them at just under $2,000 each.SEE MORE: What is the Oatzempic trend, and are its social media claim s true The company said it was monitoring reports on Reddit while watching sales as it estimated how rec eptive customers would be to continued sales of precious metals.Estimates have found that Costco is pricing the gold bars aggressively at around 2% above the spot price, Investor Place reported. Withjust one transaction per member allowed, this could contribute to how the gold bars are priced. Within each transaction, up to five ba Hhss Think twice before posting your old senior photo on Facebook College life during this pandemic can be riddled with stress, anxiety and loneliness, so a new free mental health app specifically for college students can teach you how to become more self-aware and get you feeling more connected. To be honest, I didn t really have any knowledge about my emotions or anything. I was that typical tough guy, just fight through it, explained Ben Conness, a so phomore at the University of Tampa.Conness says he was very isolated at the beginning of this pandemic and was unable to process how he felt about anything.But after using an app called Ajivar, a personalized and computerized private coach, it helped support his mental health and gave him life tips. I ve been able to understand myself better and recognize these different emotions that I ve got going on, he said. College students certainly feel lonely. They feel isolated. They re not connected with their peers the way they used to, explained Trine Schmidt, a licensed Mental Health Counselor and co-founder of the Ajivar app.Schmidt says she developed the app to teach students about emotional intelligence, helping a student become more self-aware every day. There s so much research that talks about how mindfulness is really great in calming the nervous system and responding to stress more sufficiently and easy, Schmidt said.The Ajivar app is run by artificial intelligence and offers meditation, breathing techniques, relaxation tips, positive affirmations and skills to become more sel f-aware
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Wyqw Tesla workers in Buffalo move to form a union Missouri on Tuesday executed Raheem Taylor. Read the latest updates here.An attorney for Raheem Taylor is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to halt what he calls a constitutionally intolerable event - the potential execution of an innocent man Tuesday even ing. Taylor, 58, is scheduled to die at the state prison Bonne Terre, Missouri, for the killings of his live-in girlfriend and her three young children nearly two decades ago. Attorney Kent Gipson s motion asks the Supreme Court to grant a stay of execution and appoint a special master to review Taylor s innocence claim. A similar request to the Missouri Supreme Court was turned aside late Monday. The Midwest Innocence Project, the national NAACP and several Missouri civil rights and religious groups also have called for a stay of execution. At issue is the timing of the killings. Taylor has long maintained that he was in California when Angela Rowe, her 10-year-old daughter Alexus Conley, 6-year-old daughter AcQreya Conley, and 5-year-old son Tyrese Conley were killed in 2004. A medical examiner initially said the family was likely killed shortly before the bodies were found. At trial, the medical examiner had a different take, saying the family was probably slain much earlier, when Taylor was still in Missouri. Last month, Taylor s attorneys petitioned St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell to ask a judge for a new hearing on the innocence claim, as allowed by a relat Wgyw Report: Judge tosses conviction of activist who laughed at Jeff Sessions Civil rights group the Southern Poverty Law Center says there have been at least 700 cases of hateful harassment or intimidation since the election.It ranges from swastikas at a baseball field and a playground to Pennsylvania high school students shouting white power in the hallway and a throwback to the days of segregation at a high school bathroom in Northern California.I canrsquo;t explain to you what it feels like to come to a campus that Irsquo;ve loved for four years and not feel safe, said one student. Rise in hate crimes following Trump s election win 17 photos According to new numbers from the FBI, hate crimes were up almost 7 percent in 2015. That includes a 67 percent jump in crimes against Muslims. Trump addresses reports of violence: Stop it 00:21 When the racial tension continued even after Election Day, Lesley Stahl asked President-elect Trump about it on 60 Minutes. In response, Trump said, I am so saddened to hear that. And I say, lsquo;Stop it.rsquo; If it-- if it helps. I will say this, and I will s
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Gcqr Detectives in Michigan interview artist linked to Crumbley family CNN 鈥擪ia has recalled 427,407 of its Telluride SUVs because they can roll away while in park.All Telluride vehicles made between 2020 and 2023 and certain 2024 models are affected by the recall, according to a report this week by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.Kia did not immediately respond to C NNs request for comment.Since its launch in late 2019, the Tell uride has been a hit with Americans due to its roomy interior. Demand for the Telluride has been so high that in some years, Kia couldnt produce them fast enough.According to the NHTSA report, though, a main component of the SUVs steering wheel may have been improperly assembled on the recalled vehicles. The defect can cause damage over time that results in unintended movement in the cars while in park if the parking brake is not engaged. The report said affected vehicles could make a grinding noise when the damage occurs.All affected Telluride owners should bring their cars to a Kia dealer to get updated electronic parking brake software installed. Kia will reimburse car owners for the repair, according to the NHTSA. Latest National News from ABC Action News Kennedy Jr. says Trump would push to remove fluoride from drinking water AP via Scripps News Cwis PHOTOS: Divers remove 40-year-old tires littering bottom of the Gulf TAMPA BAY, Fla. 鈥?Golfers at Rogers Park werent just hitting shots this week, they were breaking down economic, racial and gender barriers. Its all part of the new program, Women of Color Golf.James Elementary School marks the first school to receive the program. For most of the girls, this was their first time on a golf course.Coach Vasti Amaro said she wanted to teach golf to minority girls, because when she was growing up, no one was there to teach her. I am that little girl, those girls we are working with, said Amaro.Women of Color Golf d rops the students off at Rogers Park right after school, where a team of coaches are ready to supply them with the equipment, clothes, and confidence to succeed. We looked at the statistics within the golf industry and there werent enough women who looked like us playing golf and that we need to start with the girls of a younger age, said Amaro. Were doing everything that either the parents dont have the eco nomic means to do or the time to do. The mission of the program is so much more than just teaching girls how to pitch and putt. It increases their likelihood of being strong leaders as they grow older, girls who play any kind of sport not only go on to have thriving careers but they also build a strong sense of self-worth, said volunteer Sky White.As for these young players, they are quick learners.Zaryah Stephens said her favorite part of the game is hitting the ball and making the shot.While Aenice Redfield said she was surprise
