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Invest 97L is being monitored in the northern Gulf of Mexico as forecasters warn that the system could bring heavy rain to parts of the Texas and Louisiana coasts this week. The National Hurricane Center said on Sunday that the area of low pressure was about 125 miles south of south-eastern Louisiana. Its thunderstorms had become more concentrated, although surface observations showed that it had not yet strengthened into a tropical cyclone. The system is expected to drift westwards to west-north-westwards across the northern Gulf over the next few days. The NHC puts the chance of tropical formation at 30…

Two tropical disturbances are being monitored in the Atlantic basin, including Invest 97L in the Gulf of America, with forecasters warning that heavy rain could reach the Houston area this week. The National Hurricane Center said on Sunday, August 30, that the low-pressure system was about 125 miles south of south-eastern Louisiana and drifting west to west-north-west across the northern Gulf. It gave the disturbance a 30% chance of developing into a tropical depression or storm over both the next 48 hours and the coming seven days. ([nhc.noaa.gov](https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/mobile/text/refresh/MIATWOAT%2Bhtml/301136_MIATWOAT.html?utm_source=openai)) Interests along the Louisiana and upper Texas coasts have been advised to…

Detroit ballerina Christen Devani Elliott has won a national gold medal in ballet at the NAACP’s Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics competition. Elliott discussed the achievement with Jamie Sherrod in a FOX 2 Detroit interview, reflecting on her success at the prestigious ACT-SO contest. The Cass Technical High School alumna represented Detroit Central Branch in the 49th national ACT-SO competition, where she took gold in the Dance: Ballet category, according to the NAACP’s official list of 2026 medalists. ([fox2detroit.com](https://www.fox2detroit.com/video/fmc-0sii7kk07ox1wa5x)) Her result marked a significant improvement on the previous year, when she won bronze at the Detroit branch competition and…

Leah Stewart, 35, spent 10 days in an induced coma after being mauled by a shark at Sydney’s Coogee Beach — the first attack there in more than a century. The mother was swimming between the flags, about 30 metres from the shore, when the suspected white shark struck on June 13. She suffered severe injuries to her arms and left lower leg, multiple fractures and extensive blood loss. Ms Stewart was pulled from the water by an off-duty lifeguard and other lifesavers, who brought her to the beach on a rescue board. Tourniquets were applied before she was taken…

Josey Dorsey, the son of late Glee actress Naya Rivera, is set to make his film acting debut alongside his father, Ryan Dorsey. The nearly 11-year-old has been cast in The Burning Valley, a new independent film being shot in Pennsylvania’s Rust Belt. Josey, who turns 11 on September 17, is listed as ‘Boy’ on the project’s IMDb page, while Ryan, 43, is credited as ‘Father’. Production is under way in communities along the Allegheny River, with the film making use of the region’s industrial landscape and local locations. Written and directed by Evan Curry in his feature debut, The…

A police shooting in Gary, Indiana, has left a 67-year-old security guard dead after officers responded to reports of an armed man behaving erratically near a train station. Kenneth Williams, a Gary resident, was confronted by police at about 11.20pm on Friday, 28 August, following a call to the station at Broadway and 4th Avenue, according to Indiana State Police. Gary Police Department officers and Lake County Sheriff’s deputies had been sent to the scene shortly before 11pm after reports that the security guard was displaying “unusual and erratic behaviour”. Officers initially attempted to de-escalate the situation. Authorities said a…

US-born Claire Kellerman, the adopted daughter of late M*A*S*H actress Sally Kellerman, has launched legal action over being refused entry to a community café with her dog on Great Bernera in the Outer Hebrides. The case was initially brought against the Great Bernera Community Development Trust (GBCDT), despite the organisation having no connection with the café. The action is being funded through legal aid, meaning the legal costs are backed by public money. The trust is understood to have incurred more than £7,000 defending itself before Kellerman’s legal representatives acknowledged that the wrong organisation had been named. The court action…

Nearly one in three US women aged between 20 and 44 could have some form of cardiovascular disease by 2050, according to projections from the American Heart Association. The forecast, published in the association’s scientific statement in the journal Circulation, suggests the sharpest increases will affect younger women as rates of high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity continue to rise. At present, fewer than one in four women in the age group are estimated to have cardiovascular disease. By 2050, the proportion is projected to approach a third. The report estimates that more than a third of women aged 20…

A new cellulite treatment is offering hope to women who have spent years covering up dimpled skin on their legs, including one woman who said she looked forward to wearing tights when the weather turned cooler because she felt self-conscious about her appearance. She described cellulite as the reason she avoided showing her legs, saying she had long associated the return of autumn clothing with relief from the pressure of wearing shorts or swimwear. The latest procedures aim to address the structural bands beneath the skin that contribute to the familiar uneven, “orange-peel” appearance. One minimally invasive treatment, Avéli, uses…

Home insurers in Australia have used discounted quotes from preferred builders to calculate cash payouts, potentially leaving storm-damaged homeowners thousands of dollars short, according to the corporate regulator ASIC. An ASIC review found that cash settlements were used in more than 63 per cent of the home insurance claims examined. In many cases, the offers were based on a single quote, often supplied by a builder or repairer in the insurer’s preferred network. The regulator warned that discounts available to insurers may not be available to policyholders who accept a cash payment and must arrange the work themselves. In one…