Florida
Tkachuk returns following collision with Kucherov
SUNRISE, Fla. — Florida Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk had to be helped off the ice and taken to the locker room in the first period after a collision with Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kucherov during Monday night’s game.
Tkachuk returned in the second period and received a standing ovation. He joined the Panthers’ power-play unit in his first shift back.
“We wouldn’t let him back in the game if we didn’t think he was OK,” Florida coach Paul Maurice said in his in-game interview on Scripps Sports. “But he’s tough.”
Kucherov crashed full speed into Tkachuk’s right leg late in the first period, causing Tkachuk to fall and grab his knee. He remained down for a couple of minutes until a team trainer helped him off. He didn’t appear to put any weight on the leg.
Kucherov was assessed a five-minute major penalty, and after an officials’ review, a game misconduct for the hit.
Tkachuk, in his third season with the club, is second on the team with 13 goals and 22 assists in 30 games this season.
The Lightning led Florida 3-0 at the end of the first period thanks to goals by Kucherov, Jake Guentzel and Mitchell Chaffee. It was the second game of a back-to-back set for the two rivals, as the Panthers defeated the Lightning 4-2 on Sunday night in Tampa, Florida.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Florida
Naked Thief Thwarted in Florida Holiday Heist
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Florida
Florida man kills wife, shoots stepdaughter after fight over NFL game: ‘Don’t shoot me’
Police say Jason Kenney was drinking and watching football when he got mad at his wife, killed her and shot her 13-year-old daughter. A letter they found indicated he also was using cocaine.
Editor’s note: This story contains material about domestic violence and suicide. Those facing domestic abuse can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or visit its website for a virtual chat. If you or someone you know needs mental health resources and support, please call, text or chat with the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline or visit 988lifeline.org for 24/7 access to free and confidential services.
A Florida man killed his wife and shot his stepdaughter in the face following an argument over watching a football game, authorities say.
Jason Kenney, 47, had been drinking and watching Monday Night Football in his shed in Highland City, just east of Tampa, until about 11 p.m. on Dec. 22, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a news conference the following day. Kenney then went inside his home and wanted to continue watching the game in the living room, where his wife Crystal was, Judd said.
Crystal Kenney didn’t want to watch football and an argument ensued. As the fight escalated, Crystal told her 12-year-old son to run to a neighbor’s house and call 911, Judd said.
As the boy ran out of the home, he heard the first gunshot. Responding deputies found Crystal dead inside, her 13-year-old daughter shot in the face and shoulder, and Jason Kenney gone. The infant daughter the couple shared was unharmed, and the 13-year-old survived the gunshot wound after the bullet hit the bridge of her nose and deflected through the top of her head, Judd said.
“The 13-year-old girl begged not to be shot – ‘Please don’t shoot me. Please don’t shoot me,’” Judd said. “And he shot her twice.”
After shooting his wife and step-daughter, Kenney drove in his truck toward the home of his late father in Lake Wales, and called his sister to tell her he had “done something very, very bad,” that he would be in the news and that it was the last time they would talk to each other, Judd said.
Kenney ended up in a shed on his father’s old property. Deputies tracked him down and when they called for him to come out, they heard a single gunshot. They found Kenney dead inside.
Judd said that a relative told deputies that Kenney had been beating on Crystal “for a while,” though the sheriff’s office has no records of any domestic violence calls or charges. Jason Kenney had no criminal history, Judd said.
Deputies found a letter written by Crystal and addressed to her husband in the room where her body was found. In it, she wrote: “You’re drinking, you’re using cocaine again. This is not the way the family should be. You need God.”
Judd said the tragedy hit close to home with deputies, particularly coming three days before Christmas.
“He absolutely destroyed a family,” Judd said. “Our homicide detectives are distraught. When you go in there, there is a beautiful Christmas tree with lots of Christmas presents under the tree, just like the nuclear family should be … and it ends up this way.”
The sheriff encouraged anyone in crisis to call 911 and ask for help. The national crisis hotline number is 988.
“How does an argument over a television program end up with a murder, an attempted murder and a suicide?” he said. “It should never happen. Call for help … Don’t hurt yourself, don’t hurt a loved one.”
Crystal Kenney’s 12-year-old son and the baby daughter she shared with Jason Kenney are now in the care of grandparents as Florida’s Department of Children and Families determines their long-term placement, Judd said.
Florida
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy to meet with Trump in Florida
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is coming to the United States Sunday to meet with President Donald Trump in Florida as the war with Russia continues.
Zelenskyy said Friday he’s meeting with President Trump Sunday at his estate in Florida. The meeting comes as the Ukrainian president hopes to get security guarantees from the U.S. as part of a revised 20-point plan to end the war.
Zelenskyy said Friday the plan is about “90 percent ready”. It would end the nearly four-year long war that started after Russia invaded Ukraine in February of 2022.
The announcement comes after Zelenskyy said he had a “good conversation” with U.S. Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law.
The push comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin continues demanding Ukraine cede territory in the eastern part of the country and Ukraine agree to never join NATO while limiting its future ability to defend itself. Russia and Ukraine are not directly negotiating, with talks to end the war mostly going through the U.S.
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