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Quinton Simon (Chatham County Police Department)CHATHAM COUNTY, Ga. - New video reportedly shows a fight between the grandmother and babysitter of 20-month-old Quinton Simon. The toddler was reported missing from his coastal Georgia home on Oct.

FILE - A Great White Shark swims just off the Cape Cod National Sea Shore in Cape Cod, Massachusetts on July 15, 2022. (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images) BARNSTABLE, Mass. - More than 20 shark sightings have been confirmed off the coast of Massachusetts’ Cape Cod this week, resulting in several temporary beach closures in the area. Cape Cod has long been known as a hot spot for sharks on the East Coast, with July being a "prime time" for great white sharks, according to Boston.com.

SKYFOX over a home in Northampton where authorities are investigating after two adults were found dead.  NORTHAMPTON, Pa. - A man has been charged in connection with a homicide and attempted suicide in Northampton earlier in June. According to the Bucks County District Attorney, 35-year-old Thadius William McGrath of Chatham, Massachusetts is charged with 1st-degree murder, third-degree murder, endangering the welfare of a child, recklessly endangering another person and related charges. Authorities originally launched a death investigation on June 8 after police responded to a home on Clark Court for a report of a suicidal person around 5 p.m. PREVIOUS: Police: Investigation underway after 1 found dead, another injured in NorthamptonThe DA's Office says officers knocked on the door and were met by a four-year-old child covered in blood. According to police, the child told officers that McGrath killed her mother and then shot himself. Authorities also say a second child about 1 year of age was also removed from the home. MORE LOCAL HEADLINESPolice say they found the victim, 31-year-old Samantha Jean Rementer, dead on the floor of a bedroom in the back of the apartment. Officials say an autopsy reveals she died from ligature strangulation. McGrath was suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the face from a 9mm pistol and he was taken to St.

CHATHAM COUNTY, Ga. - The Georgia Bureau of Investigation responded to the scene of a deadly shooting involving law enforcement in Savannah.Savannah police were called to the intersection of Oglethorpe Avenue and McDonough Street around 3:41 a.m. Sunday morning to investigate a fight between two men.Officers found a man in all black clothing "talking irrationally and carrying a makeshift weapon" on nearby Abercorn Street.

RALEIGH, N.C. - A Vietnamese automaker announced plans Tuesday to build a plant in North Carolina to manufacture electric vehicles, promising to bring 7,500 jobs and ending the state's streak of near-misses for landing carmakers.VinFast will build its first North American plant in Chatham County southwest of Raleigh, with production expected to start in 2024. It expects to employ 7,500 by 2027 with average salaries of $51,000, according to the state Commerce Department."VinFast’s transformative project will bring many good jobs to our state, along with a healthier environment as more electric vehicles take to the road to help us reduce greenhouse gas emissions," Gov.

CHATHAM, United Kingdom - A man convicted of causing a bomb scare at a factory making the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the U.K. earlier this year has been sentenced to more than two years in prison.According to the Kent Police Department, Anthony Collins, 54, mailed a suspicious package to Wockhardt Factory in January.

COVID-19 cases on Monday, as the seven-day average continues to decline. The provincial case total now stands at 597,841.Of the 326 new cases recorded, the data showed 183 were unvaccinated people, 7 were partially vaccinated people, 95 were fully vaccinated people and for 41 people the vaccination status was unknown.According to Monday’s report, 39 cases were recorded in Toronto, 33 in Peel Region, 31 in York Region, 24 in Ottawa, 20 in Chatham-Kent and 20 in Waterloo Region.All other local public health units reported fewer than 30 new cases in the provincial report.The death toll in the province has remained at 9,846 as no new deaths were recorded.

University of Guelph is joining several other post-secondary institutions in mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for everyone on campus.The mandate will be in place for the 2021-22 school year and includes faculty, staff and students at its main campus along with its Ridgetown campus in Chatham-Kent and indoors at all U of G field stations. University of Waterloo students will need to self-declare vaccination status “We know that being fully vaccinated significantly reduces the risks of the most serious outcomes of COVID-19,” said president and vice-chancellor Charlotte Yates in a statement on Wednesday.“The health and safety of the university community continue to guide our decisions.

coronavirus death. The deadly virus quickly spread across the country, changing life as we know it and killing 104,371 people in the UK and counting.The tragic death of 84-year-old Peter Attwood, from Chatham, Kent, was the earlier known involving Covid-19 in the UK, although that fact was not confirmed until August.

Chatham-Kent, Ont., police say four people were charged and fined under the Reopening Ontario Act following a traffic stop.Police said on Jan. 13, officers saw a suspicious vehicle on Grey Street in Chatham.

Jackie Erb (Courtesy of the Erb family) CHATHAM, N.J. - A New Jersey community is coming together to help a 5-year-old girl who has a rare form of blood cancer and urgently needs a bone marrow transplant. Jackie Erb, of Summit, has juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia, which occurs in just one or two children per million each year.Jackie is the daughter of Lauren Gonnella and Brian Erb, a special education teacher at Chatham High School in Chatham.

Police in Chatham-Kent say officers once again had to shut down a large gathering at a Wheatley, Ont., church for the second day in a row.Officials said Sunday that more than 100 unmasked people gathered at the Old Colony Mennonite Church Saturday morning. A 50-year-old man took responsibility and was charged under the Reopening Ontario Act.

CHATHAM COUNTY, Ga. - A Georgia judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the state Republican Party and President Donald Trump's campaign that asked him to ensure a coastal county was following state laws on processing absentee ballots.Chatham County Superior Court Judge James Bass did not provide an explanation for his decision Thursday at the close of a roughly one-hour hearing. Chatham County includes the heavily Democratic city of Savannah.The suit had raised concerns about 53 absentee ballots that poll observers said were not part of an original batch of ballots.

ATLANTA - As Georgia continues to count its ballots, the Trump campaign announced early Wednesday evening it has filed a lawsuit in the state seeking to pause that counting.The campaign, along with the Georgia Republican Party filed a lawsuit against the Chatham County Board of Elections asking a judge to order the county to secure and account for ballots received after 7 p.m.

gamble this weekend.Gateway Casinos announced Tuesday that it will reopen nearly all of its locations in the province that had been shuttered at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic, later this week. Elements Casino Brantford is one of several Ontario casinos to reopen Starting Thursday, Gateway plans it reopen its casinos in Chatham, Clinton and Woodstock, along with Gateway’s Playtime Casino in Hanover.The bulk of the reopenings will take place on Saturday with casinos resuming service in Innisfil, London, Sarnia, Sault Ste.

A man from Blenheim in Chatham-Kent says when he realized he had the only winning ticket for the April 14 LOTTO MAX draw after checking his ticket in a grocery store, he ran out of building, got into his truck, and started to weep. Adrian Olmstead, 44, says he had four tickets to scan.

coronavirus.Loblaw Public Relations said the pharmacies will offer COVID-19 testing for high priority people who do not have any symptoms or reason to believe they may have COVID-19.Premier Doug Ford made the announcement on Friday that testing would begin in a number of Ontario cities, including Brantford, Brights Grove, Cambridge, Chatham, Kitchener-Waterloo, Niagara Falls, Sarnia, St. Catharines, Stratford, St.

Coronavirus testing will be offered at select pharmacies in London, Ont., as of early next week, Premier Doug Ford announced on Friday.It’s not clear yet which pharmacies in the city will begin offering the testing, which is expected to start as early as Tuesday. In a statement, London Mayor Ed Holder said the city would share that information as soon as it was revealed, and that more locations would “soon be added throughout the city.”Ford also announced that testing was set to begin at pharmacies in Brantford, Brights Grove, Cambridge, Chatham, Kitchener-Waterloo, Niagara Falls, Sarnia, St.

The daughter of a British man who may have been the first person outside China to die of coronavirus has accused Beijing of a cover-up.

OTTAWA -- Twelve new cases of COVID-19 have been detected in Ottawa.

OTTAWA -- Twelve new cases of COVID-19 have been detected in Ottawa.

reported 76 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Thursday, however an issue with the province’s data system iPHIS meant latest numbers from 11 local public health units were not available.The 11 public health units not included in Thursday’s case count are from Algoma, Brant County, Chatham-Kent, City of Hamilton, Niagara Region, Peterborough, Simcoe Muskoka District, Southwestern, Sudbury & Districts, Timiskaming and Windsor-Essex County.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott said all 11 public health units on Wednesday reported only eight cases among them and that could be an indication for roughly how many cases may be under reported on Thursday.“This glitch

OTTAWA -- Eleven new cases of COVID-19 have been detected in Ottawa.

A transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, also known as the 2019 novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the United States. Note the crown-like spikes on the outer edge of the virus, hence the term "coron (NIAID-RML)CHATHAM COUNTY, Ga. - A 7-year-old boy has become the youngest person in Georgia to die from COVID-19, health officials confirmed Thursday.The Georgia Department of Public Health reports the 7-year-old African American male from Chatham County had no underlying of chronic conditions.“Every COVID-19 death we report is tragic, but to lose someone so young is especially heart-breaking,” said Dr.

coronavirus cases reported to the region’s health unit has been linked to a boating trip involving several Chatham-Kent-area households.Officials with Chatham-Kent Public Health reported Thursday that an investigation had found that 12 cases recently confirmed in the region were linked to the boating trip, which was outside of Chatham-Kent and was “several days in duration.”“(Chatham-Kent Public Health) is isolating these cases and tracing their contacts, of which there is a very large number,” the health unit said.Few other details are known about the boating trip, including where the group travelled, how many households were involved and where those infected are from.In a statement, the region’s medical officer of health, Dr.

coronavirus following a trip to Florida.Chatham-Kent police received a tip last weekend that a man had recently returned from the United States and was failing to comply with the mandatory 14-day self-isolation order under the federal Quarantine Act. Florida has so far seen more than 5,000 coronavirus deaths, nearly 350K cases Investigators learned that the man returned to Canada on July 10, landing at Pearson International Airport.

COVID-19 as the province ramps up its effort to contain farm outbreaks.Ford says the province cannot force workers to take the tests, but the reception among workers and farmers has been positive.The province’s labour minister says Ontario has inspected approximately 200 farms and issued 60 orders to improve safety.

A Chatham man has been charged after officers say he tried to interfere with an investigation by falsely claiming his wife was diagnosed with COVID-19.

An accountant saddened to miss a birthday trip to Belfast turned each room in her family home into pubs to hold a coronavirus lockdown bar crawl.