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Global News
11 hours ago
- Climate
- Global News
New Brunswick wildfires: Blaze near Miramichi jumps to more than 1,100 hectares
An already-large wildfire near Miramichi, N.B., has nearly tripled in size since Monday, according to the province. The 'Old Field Road' wildfire was reported as being around 450 hectares on Monday afternoon is now said to be 1,120 hectares in size. It is one of 11 active wildfires, a number which is down from 14 on Monday, with only one other blaze deemed 'out of control', according to Fire Watch, the province's information portal. 1:39 Will weather help Canada's wildfire fight anytime soon? The other one is located near Irishtown, remains around 45 acres in size, which is the same as was reported on Monday. Story continues below advertisement Three of the other active wildfires are listed as contained on Firewatch while the other six are said to be on patrol. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Sign up for breaking National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy Provincial officials said Monday that the fire near Oldtown was in closer range to the community so resources had been diverted there from Miramichi. 'Around Irishtown that the the area of concern that particular polygon has as many as 900 structures in that region,' Minister of Natural Resources John Herron said Monday. 'That potentially could an estimated 1,500 persons.' Sorry, this visualization could not be loaded… The province had also asked people in the Irishtown area to prepare for evacuation at short notice. Herron said that firefighters were having issues getting in front of the Miramichi fire. 'At the moment we are unable to get in front of that fire but we do have the capacity to help steer it, steer it away from people,' he explained. 'So that that's where our efforts are with respect to the old fuel fire itself.' Story continues below advertisement A restriction on public access to Crown Lands went into effect as of 12:01 a.m. on Sunday in N.B. Government officials said all industrial and recreational activities on Crown land are prohibited due to extremely dry and dangerous conditions. Officials are encouraging private landowners to do the same.
USA Today
03-08-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Lions sign veteran offensive tackle, waive Raequan Williams
Herron takes over Williams' No. 76 jersey on the roster The Lions have made their first roster move following the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game loss to the Los Angeles Chargers. Detroit has signed veteran offensive lineman Justin Herron and released defensive lineman Raequan Williams. Herron, 29, has been around the NFL since 2020, when he was a sixth-round pick of the New England Patriots. He played collegiately at Wake Forest and quickly took over the starting left tackle role in New England as a rookie, but has started just four games in the subsequent four seasons. Herron missed the 2024 season with an injury while a member of the New Orleans Saints. He's also played for the Raiders. Williams had signed with the Lions this spring after a successful tryout at the rookie minicamp. The former Michigan State tackle had not progressed up the depth chart in his quest to get back into the NFL. Per team sources, Herron will take over Williams' No. 76 on the roster. The move comes in the wake of Dan Skipper suffering a sprained left ankle in the exhibition opener. Skipper will miss some practice time. Starting left tackle Taylor Decker is starting positional drills in Sunday's practice.
IOL News
13-07-2025
- Politics
- IOL News
Demand for judicial inquiry after Bishop Lavis mass shooting
Bishop Lavis Police Station. Image: File picture Not only has the recent mass shooting in Bishop Lavis been condemned by the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC), but it has also sparked a demand for a judicial inquiry into the systemic failure to address gang violence. Four people, including an elderly woman, were gunned down in a house in Bishop Lavis on Friday night. The mass killing comes amid a deadly spate of shootings across the Cape Flats over the past two weeks, with at least five mass shootings reported in Mitchells Plain, Kraaifontein, Mfuleni, and Lower Crossroads. SAPS spokesperson Lieutenant-General Malcolm Pojie confirmed that detectives are investigating the Bishop Lavis killings. 'Preliminary information reveals that two unknown gunmen, who fled the scene in a VW Polo, accosted the four in a bedroom, opened fire, and fatally shot the deceased, who all succumbed to gunshot wounds to their upper bodies,' Pojie said. Bishop Lavis Community Policing Forum (CPF) has condemned the shooting, saying that they are devastated and outraged by the relentless gang violence that continues to claim innocent lives in our neighbourhoods. 'The tragic mass shooting in Bishop Lavis last night, which claimed four lives, is yet another painful reminder of the crisis we face daily.' They are demanding a judicial inquiry into: the systemic failure to address gang violence, the collapse of crime intelligence structures, and the flood of illegal guns and ammunition fueling this bloodshed. 'Enough is enough. We refuse to accept that our children, families, and elders must live as prisoners in their own homes. The government's silence and inaction are tantamount to complicity,' they said. They are also calling for an immediate intervention from national and provincial leadership, increased and visible policing in hotspot areas, accountability for law enforcement failures, and community-centred strategies to tackle poverty, unemployment, and inequality, the root causes of gang recruitment. GOOD Secretary-General, Brett Herron, has said that by Saturday morning, life had moved on, with no heightened police presence. 'In the Cape Flats, violence has become so normalised that mass murder is met with a collective shrug from government and society alike. 'Just last week, two teenage boys were shot and killed in Mitchells Plain. Before that, it was a mass shooting in Gugulethu. Then Philippi. Then Khayelitsha. Week after week, the same story. These murders are not isolated incidents. They are symptoms of a city that continues to entrench spatial and economic injustice,' Herron said. Herron added that while the quality of policing and SAPS policing strategies must be improved, policing alone will not eradicate the crime and gang violence that the people of the Cape Flats have lived with for far too long and which is evidently escalating. 'The truth is that the living conditions in the apartheid era ghettos, which are almost exclusively the locations of this violence, have remained ghetto-like. In fact, these ghetto-like conditions have mostly worsened over the past 30 years. 'Until the City and Province confront the realities of spatial injustice, economic exclusion, and community abandonment, the killings will continue and the silence that follows them will echo even louder. Because four people should not be murdered on a Friday night and forgotten by Saturday morning,' Herron said. The MJC President, Sheikh Riad Fataar, said they've been prompted to speak out, lending their full institutional support to an integrated civic and state response, and will be holding a briefing on Monday to discuss the recent violence. Fataar said that in their capacity as a senior religious authority and civil society stakeholder, the MJC 'hereby conveys its concern regarding the prevailing and intensifying crisis of gang-related violence, organised criminality, and systemic insecurity that has engulfed communities across the Cape Flats and the broader Western Cape'. 'The purpose of the proposed engagement is to initiate meaningful deliberations on the immediate and coordinated implementation of solutions. We respectfully submit that any further delay in articulating and enacting a comprehensive plan of action risks entrenching a parallel social order governed by impunity and violence,' Fataar said. [email protected]
Scottish Sun
06-07-2025
- Scottish Sun
Sicko Scots mum behind monkey torture ring flogged sordid snaps on ONLYFANS
We can reveal Natalie Herron sold sordid snaps on sex site OnlyFans. A DEPRAVED Scots mum jailed for encouraging the torture of baby monkeys also flogged filthy pics of herself online. We can reveal Natalie Herron sold sordid snaps on sex site OnlyFans. Advertisement 2 She shared sickening videos of tiny monkeys being badly abused Last month she was jailed for two years and three months for her role in the animal abuse network. Herron, 39, of Airdrie, sold the pornographic images for cash while she helped lead a worldwide monkey abuse ring, which paid thugs to rip tiny macaques from their mothers in Indonesia then butcher them. The terrified animals were killed in agonising ways dreamt up by the group, including by crucifixion and machete attacks. The deranged fiend, from Airdrie, Lanarkshire, also binged on horrendous online clips of humans being decapitated, boasting: 'It goes beyond a hobby. It's almost a way of life.' Herron was sentenced at the town's sheriff court last month. Advertisement But it has now emerged she made a living from selling saucy snaps to perverts. A local said: 'It's likely she was going between stripping off for cash and watching monkeys being abused. 'It takes a seriously warped mind to sell sexy stuff while you are involved in animal torture. But nothing surprises me about her. 'She lived out all her sick fantasies online and hid her evil obsessions from her friends and family.' 2 Natalie Herron was jailed Advertisement Mother-of-two Herron hid her evil obsession by pretending to be an animal lover. The Scottish Sun unmasked Herron by printing the first picture of her. She was finally snared when US cops took down group ringleader Michael Macartney, 51, whose alias was 'The Torture King'. Inside 'hellhole' zoo with monkeys chained by necks & deer knee-deep in filth Scots cops found 1,084 images and videos of monkey torture on her iPhone. She admitted possessing and distributing obscene material between October 2021 and September 2022.
USA Today
01-07-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Carson Herron, son of PGA Tour veterean Lumpy, Monday qualifies for John Deere Classic
Little Lumpy is going to The Show this week. Carson Herron, whose father Tim "Lumpy" Herron won four times and made 560 career starts from 1996 through 2019, earned one of four spots into the PGA Tour's John Deere Classic at Monday qualifying in a three-for-one playoff. The 22-year-old Herron shot a 6-under 66 early Monday at Pinnacle Country Club in Milan, Illinois. With some low scores already posted, he didn't think it was going to be enough and drove back to the house where he was staying and killed time by fishing in the pond out back. 'Caught a bunch of bass,' the former University of New Mexico Lobo told the Albuquerque Journal. Blake McShea of Wendell, North Carolina, and Michael Johnson of Birmingham, Alabama, matched Herron's 66, forcing him to return to the course and battle on. He birdied the first playoff hole but one of his competitors – he couldn't recall which one – chipped in for birdie to extend the playoff. They both made par at the second hole but Herron sealed the deal in style, sticking his tee shot at the par-3 third hole to 2 feet. 'Everyone's working really hard, so it's just getting out there and continuing to push yourself to go lower and compete because it's not always going to go your way,' Herron told the Journal. 'But when it does, just cherish it and continue to learn and have fun.' Josh Radcliff of Grapevine, Texas, shot a sizzling 9-under 63 to earn medalist honors at the qualifier and solidify his Tour debut. Korn Ferry Tour players Petr Hruby and Zack Fischer also advanced to the John Deere Classic with 64. Those who weren't so lucky at the Monday qualifier included teen Blades Brown, veteran Nick Watney and another recent college grad, Ian Gilligan. Herron won twice during his senior campaign at New Mexico, his dad's alma mater too, and led the Lobos to an NCAA Championship appearance. He ranked No. 47 in the PGA Tour University rankings and turned pro with no status on a developmental tour. But this week he's got a Thursday tee time secured at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois, where his dear old dad, who earned his nickname for his husky physique, competed 11 times and recorded one top-10 finish. 'I'd always come and watch him play. He had some success there, and he really liked it,' Carson said of his dad. 'It was exciting just to come play here and see if I could make it.'
