Mar. 16, 2025
Hurricane Ian damage in Fort Myers Beach.Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty
In an update on Tuesday, Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said that officials currently have “3 missing person reportsin regard to the hurricane.”
Marceno also said that since Sept. 27, the day before the powerful stormmade landfall as a Category 4 hurricane, officials have responded to 4,866 well-being checks.
At least 127 fatalities have been reported in Florida due to the storm, according toABC News.
Mar. 16, 2025
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“The [pilot] noticed some unusual flags down there, some different colors, so they noticed some orange. They went back around to check it out, and they noticed three people signaling them,” Coast Guard Lt. Justin Dougherty toldNBC 12.
The crew then dropped food, water and radio to the trio to sustain them while they waited for the Coast Guard helicopter rescue team to deploy to the scene.
Due to weather conditions, the recovery was delayed until Tuesday.
Mar. 16, 2025
Three convicted suspects have been sentenced to prison for covering up the grisly death of a Virginia teenager, who was dismembered and burned in 2018.
Keelyn Codynah, Robert Keating, Juan Benavidez II and David Newton were all charged with accessory to murder in 2018 after police made the gruesome discovery of 19-year-old Megan Metzgerās remains on July 21, a spokesperson for Virginia State Police tells PEOPLE.
On the night of July 18, 2018, the group of teens were hanging out together, using methamphetamine when Newton, 22, began to panic and accused Metzger of being a police informant, theAssociated Pressreported.
Mar. 16, 2025
Three people were injured after a person opened fire near the entrance of aSix Flagsin northern Illinois over the weekend.
The initial investigation indicates that a white sedan entered the parking lot and drove toward the entrance to the park, before the suspects exited the vehicle and allegedly began shooting toward someone in the lot. The suspects then got back into the car, and fled the scene.
According to the release, two victims were transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Mar. 16, 2025
Two adults and a student were shot outside a football game at Whitmer High School in Toledo, Ohio, on Friday night.Washington Local Schoolsshared on its Facebook page hours after the shooting that the incident led to the three people being hospitalized and treated for injuries.“No guests were injured in the evacuation and we could not be prouder of our students, staff, Whitmer fans, and our guests from Central Catholic,” the district said.