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Nathaniel ‘Trey’ Davis appointed as Greensboro’s new city manager [Video]

FORECAST COMING UP IN JUST A LITTLE BIT, DAVE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. POLICE IN WINSTON-SALEM ARE TRYING TO FIND A COUPLE OF SUSPECTS THIS AFTERNOON, ACCUSED OF STEALING FOUR PIECES OF EQUIPMENT FROM FORSYTH MOWER WORKS. OFFICERS SAY THIS HAPPENED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT THEIR BUSINESS ON GRIFFITH ROAD. THE BUSINESS OWNER SHARED THESE CRYSTAL CLEAR SURVEILLANCE PICTURES WITH US. THAT OWNER SAYS THE FOLKS WERE GATHERING AND LOADING UP A CHAINSAW OIL TO DONATE TO VICTIMS OF HALLOWEEN WHEN THEY BELIEVE THE CRIME OCCURRED. BECAUSE THEYRE SO BRAZEN JUST TO COME IN AND JUST GRAB SOMETHING AND RUN. NO CONCERN OF WHAT WOULD WHAT COULD HAPPEN TO THEM OR WHAT COULD HAPPEN TO SOMEBODY AS THEY AS THEY PEELED OUT OF HERE, JUST NO CARE IN THE WORLD FOR FOR THE WORKING PERSON, IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THIS CASE, REACH OUT TO THE WPD, THE RANDOLPH COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE SAYS REMAINS FOUND IN ARCHDALE ARE THOSE OF A MISSING WINSTON-SALEM MAN. LAST MONTH, DEPUTIES DISCOVERED THE BODY OF THOMAS BURTON JUNIOR, ALSO KNOWN AS TC, AT A HOME ON ROB CURTIS ROAD. INVESTIGATORS SAY THE OWNER OF THE HOME, BO MARTIN, IS CHARGED WITH CONCEALING A DEATH AND ONE PERSON HAS DIED AFTER A SCOOTER AND BOX TRUCK CRASHED IN NORTH WILKESBORO. ACCORDING TO THE STATE HIGHWAY PATROL, 60 YEAR OLD KEVIN JOHNSON WAS RIDING A SCOOTER ON HIGHWAY 268 AT LIBERTY GROVE ROAD WEDNESDAY WHEN HE RAN A RED LIGHT AT THE INTERSECTION. HE WAS HIT BY AN ONCOMING BOX TRUCK. JOHNSON WAS FLOWN TO A HOSPITAL, WHERE HE LATER DIED FROM HIS INJURIES. THE DRIVER OF THE

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Massa. sending help to areas recovering after Hurricane Helene [Video]

Food, flashlights, water, paper goods, baby care items and other necessities are being collected at a Massachusetts police station, one example of ongoing charitable efforts to help communities down south that were devastated by Hurricane Helene. The West Bridgewater Police Department garage was open to collect the supplies. Organizers said they are particularly in need of non-perishable foods, bug spray and flashlights. On Friday afternoon, some of the donations were already loaded onto a truck being prepared for the trip to North Carolina. Five West Bridgewater officers plan to drive the truck to the North Carolina Highway Patrol for distribution. Collections in West Bridgewater will continue until noon on Sunday. Additionally, a truck organized by the YMCA of Greater Boston departed Friday morning from East Boston. Two YMCA staff members are delivering that truck of food to Asheville, North Carolina. Dozens of Massachusetts utility crews are already working in areas damaged by the storm, and members of Massachusetts Task Force One are working in North Carolina. The hurricane roared ashore Thursday night as a Category 4 storm on Florida’s Gulf Coast and then quickly moved Friday through other states, uprooting trees, splintering homes and sending creeks and rivers over their banks and straining dams. Dozens of deaths are blamed on the storm, and millions are without power in the region.Video below: How Helene may cause supply shortage at hospitals

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About 100 elephants escape flash floods at sanctuary in Thailand [Video]

Flash floods swept through a popular elephant sanctuary in northern Thailand on Thursday, forcing the evacuation of about 100 elephants and trapping dozens of tourists, amid urgent pleas for help.Dramatic video and images from the Elephant Nature Park near the city of Chiang Mai showed dozens of elephants wading through belly-deep water to find safety on higher ground.”It was the biggest evacuation we have ever done to save their lives, the water rose rapidly,” Saengduean “Lek” Chailert, founder of Elephant Nature Park, told CNN, calling the floods the most severe the park has ever experienced.Video showed park staff who work with elephants, known as mahouts, shouting, “Go go, keep going” as they urged the huge pachyderms out of their pens and through the high floodwaters.While many of the animals found shelter on a nearby mountain overnight Thursday, come morning, Saengduean said the danger was far from over.”There are some animals we could not evacuate yesterday. Thirteen adult elephants are still trapped in their quarters. They are panicking,” said Saengduean.Northern Thailand has suffered severe flooding and landslides in recent weeks due to torrential rains brought by Typhoon Yagi, Asia’s most powerful storm this year, which left dozens dead as it swept across the region in mid-September.Authorities in Chaing Mai, a popular tourist destination in Thailand, have issued alerts for potential flooding as water levels along the Ping River, which runs through the city, reach dangerous levels.With extensive flooding around the park and waters still rising, the sanctuary’s founder said they are facing the unwelcome prospect of having to evacuate the animals a second time.”The situation is a lot worse than yesterday,” she said, adding that she has requested urgent help from Thai authorities.A priority is getting hold of boats so the mahouts can stay with the remaining elephants at the park to keep them calm, she said.”We urgently need volunteers and animal cages as we must move the animals to the mountains due to the roads being completely cut off in both directions,” the park said in a post on Facebook.About 30 foreign volunteers are also trapped at the sanctuary, including five Americans, some of whom have been working at the park for several weeks, Saengduean said.The Elephant Nature Park is an elephant rescue and rehabilitation center in the Chiang Mai countryside that has rescued more than 200 elephants from the tourism and logging industries since its inception in the 1990s. It also runs tours and volunteering programs that allow visitors to observe the animals or help with conservation work.Many of the elephants are blind or have physical injuries, which have hindered their ability to escape and complicated evacuation efforts.”Among the evacuated animals, there are many sick elephants, some barely walk. We had to help them to get to the foot of the mountain. We are in desperate need for help,” Saengduean said.As well as elephants, the park is home to about 5,000 rescued animals including dogs, cats, horses, pigs and rabbits some of which were evacuated in recent days after authorities issued a flood warning.Several villages in Chiang Mai’s Mae Rim district have been inundated by water from upstream runoffs, local media reported Thursday.Elephants, Thailand’s national animal, have seen their wild population decline in recent decades due to threats from tourism, logging, poaching and human encroachment on elephant habitats.Experts estimate the wild elephant population in Thailand has dwindled to 3,000-4,000, a decline from more than 100,000 at the beginning of the 20th century.

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West Allis popular neighborhood haunted house returns [Video]

CHICAGO IS RANKED THE BEST CITY. A POPULAR HAUNTED HOUSE IS BACK THIS YEAR IN WEST DALLAS, THE CHARITY HOME HAUNT AT 98TH AND MONTANA AVENUE. ALMOST FORCED TO CLOSE ITS DOORS FOR GOOD. 12 NEWS MADISON MOORE DOCUMENTS THE CHANGES TO KEEP THE TRADITIONS GOING AT THE NOVAK MANOR. ITS THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN. SPOOKY SEASON IN THE NOVAK MANOR IN WEST DALLAS IS IN FULL SWING. SO THEN THIS WHOLE AREA IS AGAIN A NEW ADDITION TO THE POPULAR NEIGHBORHOOD HAUNTED HOUSE. FORTUNATE TO BE RETURNING FOR A FIFTH YEAR IN A ROW AFTER A COMPLAINT PROMPTED A MONTHS LONG PERMITTING FIGHT WITH THE CITY. SO ONCE WE WERE KIND OF ABLE TO IRON THAT OUT, AND THEN ONCE WE WERE ALSO ABLE TO ADDRESS ALL THE ISSUES THAT THE NEIGHBORS THOUGHT MIGHT BE A PROBLEM FROM US CONTINUING THIS, THEN WE DIDNT HAVE ANY PROBLEMS. WE WERE ABLE TO APPLY FOR THE PERMITS AND EVERYTHING WAS GRANTED. WITH THE NEW PERMIT, CITY INSPECTORS ACTUALLY CAME HERE TO NOVAK MANOR TO MAKE SURE IT WAS UP TO SAFETY CODE. ADAM TELLS ME THEY WIDENED THE WALKWAYS, ADDED FIRE EXTINGUISHERS AND EVEN GLOW IN THE DARK EXIT SIGNS. BUT WHAT HASNT CHANGED? THE SCARING. ALL FOR A GOOD CAUSE. TYPICALLY, WE ASK FOR A MINIMUM DONATION OF $1 PER PERSON, WHICH HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC CONSIDERING SOME OF THE PROFESSIONAL HAUNTS ARE A LOT MORE THAN THAT. SO WE DEFINITELY GIVE THEM A GOOD EXPERIENCE FOR THAT MONEY. AND THEN ONCE THEYRE IN, THEN THEY JUST GOT TO CROSS THEIR FINGERS AND HOPE FOR THE BEST. PROMISING TO ELICIT A FEW JUMPS AND SCREAMS ALONG THE WAY IN WEST DALLAS, MADISON, MOORE, WISN 12 NEWS. THE HAUNTED HOUSE IS OPEN FROM 6 TO 10 EVERY FRIDAY, AND SATURDAY, NOW THROUGH OCTOBER 26TH.