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Talal Aridi, 38 GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, N.J. - Police in Gloucester Township, New Jersey say a child’s awareness at the bus stop helped lead to the arrest of a Megan’s Law registrant who was allegedly taking photos of a teenage girl. On March 22, around 3:30 p.m., Gloucester Township police responded to the are of Pine Glen Drive and Jarvis Road in Sicklerville for a report of a suspicious person taking photos of the teen. Police say Talal Aridi, 38, was taking photos of the girl as she walked to the bus stop when another girl spotted him. That girl then alerted an adult who was at the bus stop. The adult processed to confront Aridi and took photos of his vehicle and license plate before contacting police. MORE HEADLINES: Investigators soon learned that the vehicle was registered to Talal Aridi, who is a Megan’s Law registrant following an attempted luring case from 2019.

US President Joe Biden (L) and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (R) hold a joint press conference in Brussels, Belgium on March 25, 2022. (EU Commission/Pool/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) BRUSSELS - The United States and European Union on Friday announced a new partnership to reduce the continent's reliance on Russian energy, a step top officials characterized as the start of a years-long initiative to further isolate Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine.U.S.

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To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.Dr Susan Hopkins, Chief Medical Advisor at UKHSA said: “It’s important to be aware that Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever is usually spread by tick bites in countries where the disease is endemic, it does not spread easily between people and the overall risk to the public is very low.“We are working with NHS EI to contact the individuals who have had close contact with the case prior to confirmation of their infection, to assess them as necessary and provide advice.“UKHSA and the NHS have well established and robust infection control procedures for dealing with cases of imported infectious disease and these will be strictly followed."

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Covid-19 cases after a mild increase yesterday, India on Friday reported 1,685 fresh Covid-19 cases, according to the updated Union Health Ministry data. India on Friday also logged 2499 recoveries, taking the total Covid-19 recoveries up to 4,24,78,087. There were 83 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, taking the total death toll in the country to 5,16,755. While the active Covid-19 cases have reached 21,530 at 0.05%, the daily positivity rate has reached 0.24%.

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS - MARCH 24: Eric Dixon #43 of the Villanova Wildcats shoots a layup against the Michigan Wolverines during the second half of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Sweet 16 Round at AT&T Center on March 24, 2022 in San Anton PHILADELPHIA - Jermaine Samuels scored 22 points and Villanova controlled Michigan in a 63-55 Sweet 16 victory on Thursday night in the NCAA Tournament.Samuels' 8-of-13 shooting performance, much of it coming on tough drives through Michigan defenders and around Dickinson, carried a Wildcats offense that had long stretches of misfiring on 3-pointers.The second-seeded Wildcats (28-7) advanced to the South Region final to play the winner of Thursday night’s matchup between top seed Arizona and No. 5 seed Houston.

Today we are reporting 15,871 community cases, 899 hospitalisations and 13 deaths.

ANOKA, Minn. (FOX 9) - A show of overwhelming compassion from the victim’s family is giving a deadly hit-and-run driver the chance to avoid prison for now.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts participate in a training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, CA. From left to right: NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-4 mission specialist Jessica Watkins; NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-4 pilot Robert "Bob" Hi SpaceX's Crew-4 will launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in April aboard a Dragon capsule named "Freedom." NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren announced the name on Twitter on Wednesday. NASA ANNOUNCES PLANS TO DEVELOP SECOND ARTEMIS MOON LANDER"FREEDOM!! Crew-4 will fly to the International Space Station in a new Dragon capsule named ‘Freedom,'" he wrote.

CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County man is facing charges after prosecutors said his nephew suffered lethal exposure to fentynal that caused the child to have a medical emergency aboard a school bus and die days later.According to prosecutors, 36-year-old Troy Nokes manufactured fentynal at a home in Blackwood where he lived with his 12-year-old nephew. An investigation found that Nokes made the deadly drug the weekend before the child died and ordered him to clean paraphernalia that contained fentynal. Authorities responded to Gloucester Township Elementary School Jan.

a week prior. Two-dose coverage for those five and older is now 87.9 per cent, up from 87.7 per cent.For third doses, 50.8 per cent of people five and older have received a booster, up from 50.5 per cent a week earlier.

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People walk through Times Square on March 11, 2022 in New York City two years since the pandemic. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) NEW YORK - Here's a look at how the 10 most populous metro areas in the U.S. changed during the first full year of the pandemic, from mid-2020 to mid-2021, according to U.S.

HOUSTON - It's been nearly two weeks since a grand jury declined to criminally charge Deshaun Watson, now reports from the New York Times suggest a Texas grand jury is seeking another charge. PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Deshaun Watson will not face criminal charges, grand jury determinesAccording to the report, a grand jury in Brazoria County, just south of Houston past Sugar Land is looking into evidence from the 10th accusation of sexual misconduct against the former Houston Texans Quarterback. This new report also comes almost a week after Watson was traded to the Cleveland Browns. Texans General Manager Nicholas Caserio delivers remarks on Deshaun Watson joining the Cleveland BrownsThe grand jury’s decision in early March came about a year after the women first filed their suits, accusing Watson of exposing himself, touching them with his penis, or kissing them against their will during massage appointments. One woman alleged Watson forced her to perform oral sex.Attorney Rusty Hardin held a press conference Friday after a grand jury determined Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson will not face criminal charges.During a special hearing in February, Rusty Hardin, Watson's attorney, asked the judge to delay the deposition of his client until there is a resolution with the criminal case filed against him, saying there will be prejudicial impacts.The judge ultimately ruled the deposition can go on, but will be restricted to the nine accusers who have not filed a criminal complaint.

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NEW YORK - Police are searching for two men involved in the unprovoked attack of a woman and the man who came to her defense aboard a subway train in Downtown Brooklyn.On Mar. 2 at about 5:25 p.m., a 28-year-old woman was traveling on a southbound A train as it approached the Jay Street Station when she was suddenly punched and kicked in the face multiple times by the suspects, said police.When a 29-year-old man tried to intervene, he was punched in the face multiple times, too.The suspects then fled at the Jay Street Station.Get breaking news alerts in the free FOX5NY News app!  |  Sign up for FOX 5 email newslettersThe woman was taken to Cobble Hill Hospital in stable condition.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - In Miami Beach, authorities say they've had enough with the violence during spring break and are limiting alcohol sales in certain areas this weekend where a curfew is in effect.On Wednesday, city leaders ordered that "the sale or distribution of any alcoholic beverage(s) for off-premises consumption, with or without payment or consideration, therefore, shall be prohibited in the curfew area after 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 24, 2022, after 6 p.m. on Friday, March 25, 2022; and after 6 p.m.

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WASHINGTON - Legal experts and interest groups will weigh in on Ketanji Brown Jackson as the Senate Judiciary Committee wraps up four days of hearings on her historic nomination to become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.Jackson faced down a barrage of Republican questioning over two days about her sentencing of criminal defendants, her bid to join the Supreme Court veering from lofty constitutional questions to attacks on her motivations on the bench.On Thursday, the last day of hearings, interest groups including the American Bar Association and civil rights organizations will testify about Jackson's suitability for the court. Witnesses chosen by Republican senators will also speak.The American Bar Association, which evaluates judicial nominees, last week gave Jackson its highest rating, unanimously "well qualified."On Wednesday, her final day of Senate questioning, Jackson declared she would rule "without any agendas" as the high court's first Black female justice and rejected Republican efforts to paint her as soft on crime in her decade on the federal bench.Ketanji Brown Jackson, associate justice of the U.S.

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Villanova men's basketball head coach Jay Wright. SAN ANTONIO - Collin Gillespie, Jermaine Samuels and Villanova are back in the city of the Alamo for the first time since winning the national championship there four years ago. Even the opponent is the same, though in a different arena for this somewhat unexpected Sweet 16 matchup against Michigan.Gillespie and Samuels, true freshmen during that 2018 NCAA Tournament title run, are now graduate students and four-year starters who got an extra season of eligibility because of the pandemic."We were just role guys on a team with six guys who had been in big games before.

Weddings, just like life, are like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re going to get.

New York State Police said Trooper TJ Conklin helped a man stranded at a rest stop find his family, who accidentally left him behind. (Provided by New York State Police)ROSCOE, N.Y. - A family traveling in New York had been driving for three hours before they left something important behind at a rest stop: their own relative. The family had no idea they forgot their elderly relative until a New York State Trooper contacted them. New York State Police said Trooper TJ Conklin was called to check on a man at the Whitney Point Rest Area off Interstate 81. SUSPECT ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH SERIAL ATTACKS ON HOMELESS IN D.C., NEW YORKConklin learned the man's family accidentally left him behind after he stepped out of their car to stretch his legs.

Covid-19 deaths are running at around 900 per day -- with a total of one million deaths from the disease expected withing about a month.

PHILADELPHIA - Motorists have found some relief at the pump in recent weeks - albeit pennies worth - but experts believe gas prices will worsen in the coming months as pandemic-weary travelers plan to hit the road again. According to AAA, the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline has fluttered down to $4.23. Pennsylvania's average price sits a few cents above that at $4.31, and in neighboring New Jersey and Delaware drivers are paying around $4.Experts say the ongoing war in Ukraine is partly to blame for the high prices at the pump, but it's not the only reason driver's wallets will continue to get hammered.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday that NATO leaders are expected to agree at Thursday’s emergency summit to increase troops’ presence in Eastern Europe, with four new battlegroups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia.

Today we are reporting 18,423 community cases, 913 hospitalisations and 11 deaths.

Health Matters March 23: The University of Alberta is leading a national research network that’s studying glycomics – and how the science can accelerate drug discovery. Also, Alberta Health confirms the Omicron subvariant BA.2 is now the dominant COVID-19 strain in the province.

WASHINGTON - Sen. Cory Booker cut through a tense third day of hearings on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Wednesday with a speech on racial progress that drew tears from the nominee and held the rapt attention of colleagues.Booker, a Black Democrat from New Jersey, said he could no longer hold back his emotion over how Jackson has conducted herself in the face of combative questioning about her handling of child pornography cases, her representation of accused terrorists and her views on anti-racism teaching in schools."You faced insults here that were shocking to me," Booker said, speaking directly to Jackson, who is nominated to become the first Black woman on the high court."Nobody’s taking this away from me," Booker continued, choking up as he spoke.

FILE - Steve Wilhite, inventor of the GIF file, poses with an award backstage at the 17th Annual Webby Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on May 21, 2013 in New York City. (Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for The Webby Awards)Stephen Wilhite, the creator of the massively popular GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) and chief architect of America Online, died of COVID-19 at the age of 74 on March 14, according to The Verge. Wilhite was an avid camper and loved to travel, according to his obituary.

After months of stops and starts, Moderna announced today it seeks emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of a two-dose primary series of its COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 6 months to 6 years.

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London, Ont. councillors reject reintroducing municipal masking bylaw Nine of the 22 COVID-19 inpatients are being treated for COVID-19, while 14 were admitted for other reasons but were later found to have an incidental infection.At least 172 staff at LHSC are positive with COVID-19 as of Wednesday, up five from Tuesday and 13 from Monday.At St.

Mitski has postponed two upcoming shows due to a positive COVID-19 test in her touring party.The Japanese-American artist is currently out on the road in the US in support of her acclaimed sixth album ‘Laurel Hell’, which came out on February 4.This week’s shows at Radio City Music Hall in New York tomorrow (March 24) and Franklin Music Hall in Philadelphia on Friday (March 25) will now take place at a later date, according to a post on Twitter. Earlier this week, Mitski’s shows in Boston were also postponed for the same reason.“This week’s Mitski shows in NYC and Philadelphia will be postponed due to a positive Covid test in the Mitski touring party,” the post read.

NEW ORLEANS - At least one person was killed and many others were injured after a large tornado tore through New Orleans and surrounding areas on Tuesday night, leaving a trail of damage in its wake as it flipped cars and even lifted a house into the air and dropped it onto the street with a family inside.Videos showed a large, multi-vortex tornado that went into the Arabi area, a suburb of New Orleans. It then moved east across the Mississippi River into the Lower 9th Ward and parts of St. Bernard Parish — both of which were badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina 17 years ago.St.

NEW ORLEANS - The tornado that ripped through a New Orleans suburb lifted one house into the air and dropped it onto the middle of a street with a family of three inside.Neighbors said the parents of a girl climbed out of the wreckage screaming frantically for help. Their daughter was on a breathing machine, and now was stuck inside.Chuck Heirsch told The Times-Picayune / New Orleans Advocate that he called 911 as he saw his neighbor on Prosperity Street trying to reach his daughter.Damage pictured from a tornado on March 22, 2021, near New Orleans, Louisiana. (Credit: WVUE-TV) RELATED: New Orleans tornado kills 1, leaves trail of damage in its wake"They were screaming.

COVID-19 as the province saw a slight dip in hospital numbers Wednesday.Pandemic-related hospitalizations stood at 1,034, a nine-patient drop compared with the previous day. This comes after 99 people were admitted while 108 were discharged.Officials say 50 patients were in intensive care, an increase of four.The province recorded 2,111 new novel coronavirus cases, but the daily tally isn’t reflective of the situation since only certain high-risk groups have access to PCR screening.

PHILADELPHIA - As gun violence continues in Philadelphia, police are investigating another shooting that left one man dead. According to Philadelphia police, the incident happened around midnight when officers with the 26th district responded to a 911 call for an unresponsive man in a car in a parking lot on the 1400 block of North Hutchinson Street. Police say when officers and medics arrived they found a 32-year-old man in a Nissan slumped over in the driver's seat bleeding heavily from the neck. He was unresponsive and the car's engine was still running, authorities say. According to police, medics pronounced him dead on scene at 12:08 a.m. Philadelphia police investigating overnight shooting that left 1 man dead in North Philadelphia on Wednesday.  Chief Inspector Scott Small says police found something unusual while investigating the crime scene. A Dodge Durango parked two spots away from the Nissan had a semi-automatic handgun in plain view in the rear floorboards and a loaded magazine in the front center console, according to Small. Police say they are unsure if it is related to this case. The Nissan with the victim is registered to New Jersey, according to Small. There is no description of a suspect or a motive at this time, police say. The shooting happened less than a mile away from Temple University's campus, adding to the concerns students and residents have about increased violence in the area. ___RELATED COVERAGE ___DOWNLOAD: FOX 29 NEWS APP | FOX 29 WEATHER AUTHORITY APPSUBSCRIBE: Good Day Digest Newsletter | FOX 29 Philly on YouTubeAdvertisementFOLLOW: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

NEW YORK - The NYPD wants to find seven people who attacked a 14-year-old boy inside a subway station in East New York, Brooklyn. The assault took place on Mar. 14 at about 3:57 p.m.

New Zealand will relax its strict Covid-19 rules this week because case numbers have peaked and the population has high levels of immunity, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said.

Disturbing new details on the tragic murder of a young Calgary woman are coming to light. The athletic and vibrant 31-year-old was killed while she was on her way to work.

COVID climbed to 5,16,605 with 62 new fatalities.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A tornado tore through parts of New Orleans on Tuesday night, spawned by a storm that produced multiple tornadoes through parts of Texas and Oklahoma, killing one person and causing multiple injuries and widespread damage.The National Weather Service retweeted a video of the tornado in the eastern part of New Orleans that was visible in the darkened sky.The tornado appeared to start in a New Orleans suburb and then move east across the Mississippi River into the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans and parts of St. Bernard Parish before moving northeast.Guy McGinnis, president of St.

Legislative bureau chief Keith Baldrey has more on the presence and spread of the COVID-19 BA.2 variant in the province.

Today we are reporting 20,087 community cases, 960 hospitalisations and 11 deaths.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 17:Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the 2022 New York State Democratic Convention at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel on February 17, 2022 in New York City. Former Secretary of State Hillar Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton announced she tested positive for COVID-19 Tuesday. "Well, I've tested positive for COVID," she tweeted Tuesday. "I've got some mild cold symptoms but am feeling fine.