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Driver ejected, killed after fiery FedEx semi-truck crash on Interstate

A FedEx driver is dead after he was ejected from his truck and killed during a fiery crash on an Illinois interstate.

According to the Illinois State Police Department and the Northbrook Fire Department, deputies responded at 2:23 a.m. on Tuesday to Interstate 294 at mile marker 52.5 in Deerfield for a report of a crash with injuries.

When they arrived, authorities said that the semi-truck had crashed into the guardrail and erupted into flames.

Video footage from the scene showed the brown semi-truck smoldering with large plumes of smoke with packages strewn across the interstate. 

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Authorities said that the driver of the FedEx truck was violently thrown from the cab and was taken to Glenbrook Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

Firefighters worked for hours to fully extinguish the fire. Authorities said that it destroyed the semi-truck and one of the trailers it was towing.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation by the Illinois State Police.

The identity of the driver has not been released by the Cook County medical examiner’s office, FOX 32 reported.

FedEx did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Bills fan killed in shooting outside Dolphins stadium after game, police say

A Buffalo Bills fan was shot and killed shortly after watching his team win the AFC East on Sunday night, police said.

Dylan Issacs, 30, was identified as the victim who died outside Hard Rock Stadium, where the Bills had just beaten the Miami Dolphins, 21-14.

Issacs, who was from Canada, attended the game that decided the division champion – Buffalo had clinched a playoff spot earlier in the day with the Jacksonville Jaguars’ loss, while Miami clinched weeks earlier.

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Police said Issacs was shot after he and a group of friends “had a verbal argument with the subject” while walking “through the traffic,” according to WIVB in Buffalo.

“The subject exited the vehicle and fired several rounds” before fleeing the scene “in an unknown direction,” police said.

Police have since recovered the vehicle from which the shots were fired, and a suspect has been located, Miami’s Local 10 reported. The car was found in West Palm Beach, but no arrests had been made as of Wednesday afternoon.

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A GoFundMe has been launched to help his family with funeral fees and have him laid to rest in Six Nations, Canada.

“On behalf of Dylan’s family, we would like a moment to express our sincere and heartfelt gratitude to those who have donated, shared and sent prayers to us during this challenging and painful time,” the page read. “To the Bills Mafia, the Buffalo Bills as well as the Miami Dolphins and fans and to everyone across Turtle Island, thank you for coming together and showing up with so much love and support for us and our community. It has been truly inspiring to see the things we can do as human beings with empathy and compassion for one another.”

The GoFundMe also states that an “unknown male… tried to intentionally hit” the group with the vehicle.

“He always made people laugh,” Isaacs’ mother, Susan, told CBS News. “We are all hurting and he played an important part in everyone’s lives. Now we need help with burial expenses. I just need to pay for his funeral and his casket.”

“Conflicts are not worth a life,” she added. “I’m was just a game and people were mean. We are all here and we will never forget you. You will live forever in our hearts. He will not be forgotten.”

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US tourist paddleboarding in Bahamas killed by shark: police

A tourist was killed by a shark Monday while paddleboarding in the Bahamas, according to local police. 

Nassau police were notified around 11:15 a.m. about a woman visiting from Boston, Massachusetts, who’d been attacked by a shark. She is believed to be in her 40s. 

Police told reporters that the woman had been paddleboarding with a male relative less than a mile off the western end of New Providence island, where the capital, Nassau, is located, when she was bitten by a shark. 

A lifeguard on duty observed what was happening, went out on a rescue boat, and retrieved the victim along with her relative, and brought them to safety. 

CPR was administered to the female victim, but she had suffered serious injuries to the right side of her body, including the upper hip region and her right upper limb, police said. 

Emergency personnel responded to the scene and assessed that she “showed no vital signs of life,” police said. The relative who she was paddleboarding with was not injured. 

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“We extend our heartfelt condolences…for this most unfortunate situation,” Police Sgt. Desiree Ferguson said. 

It was not immediately clear what type of shark attacked the woman. Police have not released the identity of the victim. 

Fatal shark attacks are rare, with only an average of five to six reported worldwide a year, most of them occurring in Australia. Last year, there were a total of 57 unprovoked bites around the globe, the majority of them in the U.S., according to the International Shark Attack File.

At least 33 confirmed unprovoked shark attacks have been reported in the Bahamas since 1580, with the island ranking ninth worldwide, according to the file.

The Nassau Guardian newspaper reported that authorities in the Bahamas are still searching for a German woman who went missing late last month after she was attacked while diving.

Last year, a shark killed a U.S. cruise ship passenger from Pennsylvania who was snorkeling in the northern Bahamas near Green Cay.

Most shark attacks in the Caribbean occur in the Bahamas, although a rare shark attack was reported in the French Caribbean territory of St. Martin three years ago.

Tempers flare on MSNBC as Mehdi Hasan argues with Israeli official: Your government ‘killed children’

MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan launched into a heated argument with Israeli official Mark Regev, an advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, live on his show Thursday.

Hasan accused the Israeli government of killing children and of spreading propaganda and false information in the wake of the Israeli-Hamas war. 

“They’re dead, Mark,” Hasan said, arguing that he has seen Palestinian children “with my own lying eyes being pulled from the rubble” from bombings. “But they’re also people your government has killed. You accept that, right? You’ve killed children? Or do you deny that?” 

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“No, I do not,” Regev responded. “I do not. I do not. First of all, you don’t know how those people died, those children.”

“Oh wow,” Hasan said in return.

Hasan also claimed that the Israeli government was peddling “disinformation” in the wake of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas on Israeli, American and other citizens. 

“I agree with you. We shouldn’t blindly believe anything Hamas says,” he said. “But why should we believe what your government says either? Your military spokesman on Monday pointed to an Arabic document in the basement of a Gaza hospital and claimed it was a guardian list on which every terrorist writes his name. But that was false.” 

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In another tense exchange about casualty numbers, Hasan told Regev that he was avoiding his question on the issue.

“But you’re dodging my question, Mark,” Hasan said. 

“I’m not sure that’s true,” Regev returned. 

Hasan also pointed to a tweet from Israeli diplomat Ofir Gendelman who made a post “from a Lebanese short film” that the MSNBC host said was another example of “endless disinformation” from the Israeli government. 

When Regev attempted to disagree with Hasan’s accusations, the two launched into another back-and-forth argument. 

“Allow me to answer your question!” Regev told Hasan, raising his voice. “I’m answering your question directly, if you’ll allow me. We originally said in the atrocious Hamas attack on our people on Oct. 7, we had the number at 1,400 casualties, and now we’ve revised that down to 1,200 because we understood that we had overestimated: we made a mistake. There were actually bodies that were so badly burned, we thought they were ours. In the end, apparently they were Hamas terrorists.” 

“When we make a mistake, we admit it,” Regev said. 

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Relatives of loved ones killed, kidnapped by Hamas plead for help: 'The world has to step up'

A distraught family member described on “FOX & Friends” Wednesday seeing videos of her relatives being taken from their home in southern Israel by Hamas. 

LeElle Slifer said she recognized her mother’s cousin, Kinneret, in a newly surfaced video of hostages whose hands were tied as they walked alongside Hamas terrorists. Additional video showed four lifeless bodies with physical characteristics matching the hostages.

“She texted us that morning. She was in the house with her husband, her daughter, her son, and her daughter-in-law and her little granddaughter, three years old. They were all there celebrating the holiday, and she said she was safe,” Slifer told host Steve Doocy, who was also overcome with emotion over what happened to the family. 

“Then we started seeing videos from the terrorists that she’d been taken, reports from her husband that their daughter was taken, their son, their daughter-in-law, their granddaughter… and we just kept searching for news, and we didn’t know for so many days.”

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Her voice began to break. “Then I saw the video online, and I had to tell my family in Israel that I had seen [her] laying on the ground lifeless, and we still haven’t recovered her body yet.”

Before disappearing toward Gaza, Hamas militants tied Kinneret’s son’s hands and shoved him into a vehicle with his wife and three-year-old daughter. Another member of their kibbutz – or community – was shoved in the trunk.

When they encountered a tank, the terrorists stopped the vehicle and got out, giving Slifer’s loved ones a chance to escape.

“[They] knew that if they didn’t do something, they would be as good as dead,” she said. “So they jumped, ran from the car…” Kinneret’s son hid in a field with his daughter for 24 hours until silence replaced gunfire and shouting. He then made his way back to the kibbutz.

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“Thank God they’re alive,” Slifer said. 

But Kinneret’s daughter-in-law had to hide someplace else and has been missing since. Slifer said the family has to assume the worst has happened: that she has been taken hostage in Gaza.

“This is jihad. There are no rules in jihad. They’re raping women in fields. They’re beheading babies. They’re executing the elderly in the street. They’re taking [people] back to Gaza to use as human shields. It’s appalling. And the world has to step up and get these hostages out,” she continued.

Terror in the Holy Land also devastated Ofri Levy, whose family was kidnapped by Hamas. She begged for their rescue on Wednesday.

“The only thing we know is that they were taken to Gaza on Saturday,” she told FOX News. Video showed her sister-in-law holding her two sons as they were taken from their home by Hamas terrorists.

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“We knew [she] and the kids were taken because we got this video in already on Saturday. We didn’t know anything about my brother until yesterday, which was his birthday, and it was the first time we got any picture of him, any sign of life, and we saw him in a picture surrounded by terrorists leading into Gaza.” 

“He was bleeding from his head,” she said. “One of the terrorists had a hammer in his hand.”

Levy said her brother stayed in contact with her via text messages leading up to the kidnapping, telling her he was terrified as he heard explosions, gunfire and screaming in Arabic.

“The last text I got from him was 9:45 Saturday saying they were coming inside their house. Later, we also saw a video of them breaking inside my brother’s house,” she explained.

“I can’t think of anything else. They have to come back home. They have to join us again…” she added.

The death toll continues to climb in the harrowing days since war broke out Saturday. As of early Wednesday, nearly 2,100 have been killed on both sides of the conflict, including more than 1,200 in Israel.

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At least 20 people killed in 'apocalyptic' crash after bus plunges from bridge

At least 20 people are dead after a bus veered off an overpass near Venice, Italy, on Tuesday evening, authorities said.

Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro told Italian state TV channel Rai News24 that there were “at least 20 dead” after a bus veered off the road and fell a few meters close to railway lines in Mestre, a suburb of Venice. Following the crash near railway tracks, the bus caught on fire.

“There are at least 20 dead, but some people are still trapped in the wreckage,” Brugnaro said.

Venice prefect Michele Di Bari said that there were 15 survivors from the crash. 

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The cause of the incident is still unclear with emergency crews on the scene accessing the damage.

Following the crash, Brugnaro wrote on X, in a translated post, that the scene of the crash was “apocalyptic” and that he had already ordered the “city to mourn” for the “numerous victims” who were on the bus.

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“A huge tragedy struck our community this evening” Brugnaro wrote. “I immediately ordered the city to mourn, in memory of the numerous victims who were on the fallen bus. 

“An apocalyptic scene, there are no words,” he said.

Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, gave her condolences to residents, saying that she is close with local government during this time of “profound pain.”

“My deepest condolences to the families of the victims and those injured in the serious accident in Mestre,” Von der Leyen wrote in a translated X post. “I am close to President Mattarella, President Meloni and the mayor of Venice Brugnaro in this moment of profound pain.”

Reuters and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

Florida bakery reopens after owner nearly killed by son: 'Long way to recovery'

Knaus Berry Farm reopened Monday after one of the Florida bakery owners’ sons nearly killed his own mother.

“Thank you for the prayers and kind words. We are overwhelmed with this communities kindness! Also thanks to the first responders @miamidadefirerescue and the diligent work @miamidadecountypolicedep,” Knaus Berry Farm — a popular Redlands bakery and farm — wrote in a Monday Instagram Post.

They continued: “We received encouraging words from Rachel’s doctor today. A slight improvement! It will be a long way to recovery but are hopeful. We are comfortable in opening tomorrow for Presidents’ Day.”

Rachel Knaus Grafe and Herbert Grafe were at their home in the Redlands when their 30-year-old son, Travis Grafe, allegedly attacked them on Friday evening, WSVN-TV first reported.

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Miami-Dade Police Department officers responded to a violent domestic dispute in the 15700 block of SW 248 Street in the Redlands, authorities told Fox News Digital over the weekend.

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An injured husband and wife at the home told responding officers that their son attacked them with a “blunt object” before he fled the scene,” authorities said.

Grafe reportedly has a traumatic brain injury, according to WPLG.

A family friend told WTVJ-TV that the couple was “extremely shocked and upset” over the incident.

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“I’ve just heard that Travis wanted money, and his mom wouldn’t give it to him, and he beat her pretty bad — close to death — with a flashlight,” the family friend said.

Florida Republican Rep. Carlos Giménez said he and his wife are “praying for” the Grafe family in a Saturday tweet.

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“Knaus Berry Farm is an iconic business in our district, providing some of the best baked goods and milkshakes in South Florida. Horrified by this news,” he wrote.

Travis Grafe is being held on $25,000 bond at Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation. He is charged with attempted murder, robbery and aggravated battery.

Fox News’ Stephen Sorace contributed to this report.

Indiana woman killed in flash flood, multiple homes destroyed

A woman was killed during weekend flash flooding in rural southeastern Indiana that damaged numerous homes and washed away several roads, officials said.

Normally small creeks were overwhelmed as perhaps eight inches of rain fell Saturday night in parts of Jefferson and Switzerland counties. The Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency said one woman was found dead, along with two homes destroyed and more than 20 buildings damaged around the rural community of Manville.

Resident Kim Schultz told WDRB-TV that a friend tried to get the woman to leave her house before it was swept away, but she didn’t want to go.

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The fast-rising waters swept away several vehicles and uprooted trees. Jefferson County officials said at least two damaged bridges were closed indefinitely, while the state highway department closed a bridge for Indiana 250 in Switzerland County for repairs.

Jefferson County road department worker Chad Backus told WLKY-TV that it expected it would be several weeks before all roads would be reopened in the area about midway between Louisville, Kentucky, and Cincinnati.

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The identity of the woman who died wasn’t immediately released and no other injuries were reported.