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Police have resumed their search for a missing toddler after he vanished when falling into a river over the weekend.

Roque Garvia-Ortiz (Fulton County Sheriff's Office) FULTON COUNTY, Ga. - Fulton County deputies have arrested a man accused of raping and impregnating a family member after a manhunt over the weekend.The Fulton County Sheriffs' Office says their investigation began on the weekend when the Falls River Police Department reached out in their search for Roque Garcia-Ortiz.According to officials, Garcia-Ortiz raped a 14-year-old family member and impregnated her.Officials were afraid that the suspect was trying to fly to Puerto Rico, where he has family ties, so the department's Scorpion Unit got on the move.After a search Garcia-Ortiz was found at a hotel in East Point and brought into custody without incident.Garcia-Ortiz is charged with three counts of rape, three counts of aggravated rape of a child, and one count of rape of a child with force.He remains in custody at the Fulton County Jail while he awaits extradition back to Massachusetts.Advertisement

FALL RIVER, Mass. - A Massachusetts man says he has the answer for those singing the blues about stratospheric gas prices.Rick Madeira, of Fall River, has taken to riding his electric unicycle to work, saving on gas and cutting his commute time in the process."It’s just more convenient and it’s obviously more fun," he told The Herald News.RELATED: Gas prices: US national average to soon hit highest ever recorded, experts sayMadeira's Gotway Nikola Plus, with no seat or handle bars, just places for his feet, can go 70 or 80 miles (113 or 129 kilometers) on one charge and reaches speeds of up to 40 mph (64 kph), although he rarely goes that fast."It literally takes me four minutes to get to work, versus about eight minutes in a vehicle," he said.FILE-A rider steers an electric unicycle on a sidewalk. Electric unicycles have become a popular mode of transportation.

BOSTON – Adult entertainment. A personal trainer. A helicopter tour of historic mansions in Newport, Rhode Island. Those were some of the things a former young Massachusetts mayor bought with money from investors who believed they were supporting the creation of a smartphone app, a federal prosecutor told jurors Monday.

[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]“Unchanged is the requirement for residents of long-term care facilities to only have visits from their two designated caregivers and can only leave the facility for medical appointments or for a drive with a designated caregiver,” the province stated.This restriction remains in effect until March 27 in HRM and surrounding municipalities.Affected by the restrictions were the suburban and urban areas of Halifax, including Halifax, Dartmouth, Bedford, Sackville, Cole Harbour, Eastern Passage, Middle Porters Lake, Fall River, Enfield, Lantz, Hammonds Plains, Herring Cove, the Prestons, Lake Echo, Timberlea, Tantallon, Mount Uniacke and St.

A CVS Pharmacy worker administers a COVID-19 vaccine to a patient in Fall River, Mass., Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021.

promised inspections, repairs and upgrades would be completed on those systems as part of the plan to make schools safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.The education department assures the work has been done, but without the results in front of them, Nova Scotia Parents for Public Education — an online advocacy group with more than 17,000 members — says families are being left in the dark.“We want to know that there are measures in place, we want to know that if we were to come across some outbreaks, there is some sense of security in the schools,” said Stacey Rudderham, co-chair of the group and a mother of two junior high school students in Fall River, N.S.“It is concerning, especially because this is the time of year where they expect more

Brothers Tim and Tony Hart, the ‘Ditch Divers,’ talk about their initiative to keep their Nova Scotia community of Fall River clean.

Nova Scotia’s chief medical officer of health says he “very much” appreciates signs that are popping up in his Fall River neighbourhood thanking him for his efforts in managing the COVID-19 outbreak.