NEW YEAR'S EVE

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People may see The Wheel at ICON Park in Orlando lit up for the first time in weeks since it lost power on New Year’s Eve, but the attraction is not welcoming riders back on yet.

Dmitry Rogozin, the former Director General of Roscosmos [a state corporation of the Russian Federation responsible for space flights, cosmonautics programs and aerospace research - ed.], who was wounded in a restaurant in Donetsk on New Year's Eve, said that with the help of satellite images, he had precisely located the howitzer that fired at him and was preparing a "take revenge" operation.

A celebration to start the new year ended with one teen in the hospital, missing pieces of his right hand.

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LOS ANGELES — (AP) — The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Friday that it is investigating after a deputy drew a gun and threatened to shoot the driver of a parked car on New Year's Eve. Deputies stopped the man at 5:45 p.m. in an unincorporated area of South Los Angeles, the Sheriff's Department said in a statement. Video released by the department from the deputy's body camera shows the driver sitting in the car with the door open and another deputy next to him. When the driver fails to get out of the car, that deputy pulls a pepper spray cannister and threatens to spray the driver. The Sheriff's Department didn't immediately say why the car was stopped and declined to identify the driver because of the ongoing investigation.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Friday that it is investigating after a deputy drew a gun and threatened to shoot the driver of a parked car on New Year's Eve. The driver was handcuffed and placed in a patrol car but not arrested. Deputies stopped the man at 5:45 p.m. in an unincorporated area of South Los Angeles, the Sheriff's Department said in a statement.

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Lake Mary police are investigating after they say a woman was hit in the face with a bullet on New Year’s Eve.

The twins were born on differing sides of midnight New Year's Eve.

The mayor of Berlin plans a youth violence summit after police and firefighters come under attack.

Trevor Bickford will make his first virtual appearance in court Wednesday for allegedly slashing two New York police officers on New Year's Eve.

TMZ has released video of UFC Pesident Dana White slapping his wife, Anne.

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UFC president Dana White admitted on Monday to slapping his wife on New Year's Eve. White acknowledged the incident while speaking with TMZ after video surfaced of White slapping a woman in the face. In the video obtained by TMZ, White is seen at a night club standing with a woman on a balcony. White spoke with TMZ on Monday and confirmed that he was the man in the video and that the woman is his wife. White has overseen the rise of UFC as a mainstream sport and has been president of the company since 2001.

Residents in California's vast Central Valley region are bracing for another round of powerful storms this week after flooding from a New Year's Eve deluge killed one person and forced the evacuation of people in low-lying areas. (Jan 2)

Trevor Bickford, a 19-year-old man from Maine, is charged with attempted murder and assault for the attack that injured three New York City police officers near Times Square on New Year's Eve. Sources say he had recently been added to an FBI terror watchlist. CBS News' Lana Zak has more.

The New York City Police Department arrested a 19-year-old who injured two officers with a machete on New Year's Eve.

The New York City Police Department arrested a 19-year-old accused of injuring two officers with a machete on New Year's Eve.

Inmates were taken to nearby jails with no timetable for their return, according to Sacramento County Sheriff's Department spokesperson Amar Gandhi. The rain had mostly stopped by Sunday afternoon, with another smaller storm forecasted to hit the region on Monday night. In Southern California, several people were rescued after floodwaters inundated cars in San Bernardino and Orange counties. Near Lake Tahoe, dozens of drivers were rescued on New Year's Eve along Interstate 80 after cars spun out in the snow during the blizzard, the California Department of Transportation said. The rain was welcomed in drought-parched California as the past three years have been the state's driest on record.

He was awaiting arraignment, and it wasn’t immediately clear if he had a lawyer who could speak to the allegations. They are examining whether he made the trip specifically to attack police at the Times Square festivities, the official said. The machete attack happened about two hours before midnight on Saturday, just outside the area where people are screened for weapons before gaining entry to one of the world's biggest and most famous New Year's celebrations. Two of the officers were struck with the machete before an officer shot the suspect, authorities said. The attack briefly sent some people running, but the festivities in Times Square continued.

Flood warnings and watches remained in effect in the Sacramento County area due to widespread flooding and levee breaches in the agricultural region.

Flood warnings and watches remained in effect in the Sacramento County area due to widespread flooding and levee breaches in the agricultural region.

NEW YORK — (AP) — A man accused of attacking police with a machete near New York's Times Square on New Year's Eve was arrested on charges of attempting to murder officers, police said Monday as authorities continue to investigate whether he was motivated by Islamic extremism. A law enforcement official familiar with the matter told The AP on Sunday that investigators believe Bickford traveled to New York City earlier in the week. They are examining whether he made the trip specifically to attack police at the Times Square festivities, the official said. The official could not publicly discuss details about the ongoing investigation and spoke to The AP on condition of anonymity. The violent attack briefly sent some people running, but the festivities in Times Square continued.

A swarm of Russian kamikaze drones harassed Kyiv early Monday morning, with air-raid sirens blaring and at least two explosions being heard in the heart of the Ukrainian city.

BERLIN — (AP) — The German government on Monday condemned incidents on New Year's Eve in which police officers and firefighters were attacked, mostly with fireworks. People across Germany on Saturday resumed their tradition of setting off large numbers of fireworks in public places to see in the new year. The celebrations were accompanied by a large number of cases in which emergency officials were assailed with fireworks. In Berlin, the fire service counted at least 38 such attacks and said 15 officers were injured. Police said they had 18 injured officers, German news agency dpa reported.

The German government on Monday condemned incidents on New Year's Eve in which police officers and firefighters were attacked, mostly with fireworks. People across Germany on Saturday resumed their tradition of setting off large numbers of fireworks in public places to see in the new year.

Around 400 Russian soldiers were killed and another 300 wounded in a precision Ukrainian strike on a school housing mobilized troops in the Donbas, Ukraine’s military has reported.

KYIV, Ukraine — (AP) — Russia deployed multiple drones overnight to attack parts of Ukraine and dozens were shot down, Ukrainian officials said Monday, in a series of relentless attacks through the weekend that killed three civilians on New Year's Eve. Klitschko said 22 drones were destroyed over Kyiv, three in the outlying Kyiv region and 15 over neighboring provinces. In the outlying Kyiv region, which was also attacked with drones, a “critical infrastructure object” and residential buildings were hit, Gov. Seven drones were shot down over the southern Mykolaiv region, according to Gov. Vitali Kim, and three more were shot down in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, Gov.

Even after the storm moved through, major flooding occurred in agricultural areas about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Sacramento, where rivers swelled beyond their banks and inundated dozens of cars along State Route 99. Sacramento County authorities issued an evacuation order late Sunday for residents of the low-lying community of Point Pleasant near Interstate 5, citing imminent and dangerous flooding. A so-called atmospheric river storm pulled in a long and wide plume of moisture from the Pacific Ocean. In Southern California, several people were rescued after floodwaters inundated cars in San Bernardino and Orange counties. Another round of heavy showers was also forecast for Southern California on Tuesday or Wednesday, the National Weather Service's Los Angeles-area office said.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — (AP) — Evacuation warnings were in place in rural Northern California on New Year's Day after a powerful storm brought drenching rain or heavy snowfall to much of the state, breaching levees, snarling traffic and closing major highways. “The roads are extremely slick so let’s all work together and slow down so we can keep I-80 open,” the California Highway Patrol said on Twitter. A so-called atmospheric river storm pulled in a long and wide plume of moisture from the Pacific Ocean. In Southern California, several people were rescued after floodwaters inundated cars in San Bernardino and Orange counties. Another round of heavy showers was also forecast for Southern California on Tuesday or Wednesday, the National Weather Service's Los Angeles-area office said.

From Dolly Parton with Paris HIlton to Sofia Vergara with Joe Manganiello, the stars partied hard to celebrate New Year's Eve.

Evacuation warnings were in place in rural Northern California on New Year's Day after a powerful storm brought drenching rain or heavy snowfall to much of the state, breaching levees, snarling traffic and closing major highways. Major flooding occurred in agricultural areas about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Sacramento, where rivers swelled beyond their banks and inundated dozens of cars along State Route 99. Emergency crews rescued motorists on New Year's Eve into Sunday morning and the highway remained closed.

KYIV, Ukraine — (AP) — Ukrainians woke up to a grim 2023 Sunday, reeling from more sirens and fresh missile attacks as the death toll from Russia’s massive New Year's Eve assault across the country climbed to at least three. Ukrainian officials say Russia is now deliberately targeting civilians, seeking to create a climate of fear and destroy morale. Multiple blasts rocked the capital and other areas of Ukraine on Saturday and through the night, wounding dozens. Ukrainian forces reclaimed the city in November after Russia's forces withdrew across the Dnieper River, which bisects the Kherson region. “We already know the sound of rockets, we know the moment they fly, we know the sound of drones.

New York City investigators are reportedly looking into whether Trevor Bickford, the suspect accused of stabbing two NYPD officers, has ties to Islamic extremism.

Donald Trump hosted a "media availability" slot at Mar-a-Lago. Cable news networks didn't cover it and half of his remarks were inaudible.

You may have noticed after seeing fireworks displays late in the evening (or setting off your own) that the smoke just seems to sit there long after the show’s over.

A shooting in downtown Mobile, Alabama on New Year's Eve left at least one person dead and nine others injured as thousands flocked to the city for the annual MoonPie Over Mobile event.

Multiple New York City Police officers were stabbed near Times Square on New Year's Eve. The suspect was identified as a 19-year-old from Maine.

The new year began in the tiny atoll nation of Kiribati in the central Pacific, then moved across Russia and New Zealand before heading deeper, time zone by time zone, through Asia and Europe. Yet Russian attacks continued New Year's Eve, and Ukrainian soldiers spent the day — and night — in the trenches. With millions without electricity, no big celebrations were planned, and a curfew was in effect as the clock struck at midnight. New York City prepared to join the glow of the new year with a dazzling Saturday night spectacle in iconic Times Square, anchoring celebrations across the United States. Ali Thompson, who was showing her brother around Times Square the day before, said people should do their part to take care of their corner of the world.

New York City is ready to usher in 2023 for the first time in two years without COVID restrictions.

Others in Ukraine returned to the capital, Kyiv, to spend New Year’s Eve with their loved ones. As Russian attacks continue to target power supplies, leaving millions without electricity, no big celebrations were planned. The celebrations in New Zealand’s largest city were well-received after COVID-19 forced them to be canceled a year ago. It was the “party Sydney deserves,” the city’s producer of major events and festivals Stephen Gilby told The Sydney Morning Herald. In Melbourne, Australia’s second largest city, a family-friendly fireworks display along the Yarra River as dusk fell preceded a second session at midnight.

Russia has stationed air defenses over Moscow and handed out shelter directives to residents living in Belgorod on Ukraine's border ahead of the New Year.

Revelers are celebrating the traditional ball drop in New York City’s Times Square, ushering in 2023 in the largest New Year’s celebration in the United States.

Businesses and police are getting ready to say hello to 2023 in downtown Orlando, and that means crowds, celebrations and security.

The preparations to ring in 2023 are underway across Central Florida.

Watching the ball drop in Times Square will cost a pretty penny, but New York isn't the most expensive city for New Year's celebrations.

AAA is providing tow services for free through New Year’s weekend to help keep the roads free of impaired drivers.

usinesses in downtown Orlando and neighboring areas are preparing for one of the biggest celebrations of the year — New Year’s Eve.

With the new year fast approaching, we compiled a comprehensive list of Central Florida events to help you celebrate New Year’s Eve no matter what your bedtime is.

Hope for the Warriors, a nonprofit, is bringing 40 veterans and their families to New York City for a "bucket list" New Year's Eve celebration in the Big Apple.

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"She was radiant and beautiful and as happy as ever," her assistant said.

Always remember to tip your server, if you know what's good for you. A tourist made a big impression in a Key West bar by ordering drinks three times on New Year's Eve without leaving a tip. The arson caused more than $5,000 in damage to the city's landmark buoy marking the southernmost point in the United States, and sent the island's “coconut telegraph” gossip chain into high alert, the Miami Herald reported Tuesday.

Bob Saget died just a little more than a week after Betty White, whom he called "a remarkable talent and human being."

Despite a record amount of COVID-19 cases in the state, several block parties and other events were expected to draw in large crowds.

Boisterous New Year’s Eve celebrations have kicked off in Serbia’s capital of Belgrade, where mass gatherings have been allowed despite fears of the fast-spreading omicron variant.

Muted New Year’s Eve celebrations around the world ushered in the fourth calendar year framed by the global Covid-19 pandemic.

The annual New Year's Eve ball drop in New York City's Times Square has arrived just as the year prior began, with the pandemic clouding an already uncertain future.

Safety is key for so many restaurant and bar owners ahead of their New Year’s Eve festivities amid the latest omicron surge.

The Big Orange isn’t rising up the side of the Intercontinental Hotel in Miami this year, and a festival with food trucks and performers in a northeast Florida beach town has been canceled.

You might think you know everything there is to know about New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, but there’s actually some cool history behind the big days.

New Year celebrations are approaching and across the world there is an urge to party.

Revelers will still ring in the new year in New York’s Times Square next week, there just won’t be as many as usual under new COVID-19 restrictions.

The end of 2021 is approaching and it’s time to ring in the new year.

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says crowds will once again fill Times Square this New Year’s Eve.

NBC was the highest-rated broadcast network last week, averaging 4.6 million viewers in prime time. Fox News Channel had 1.7 million viewers, CNN had 1.6 million, Hallmark had 1.42 million, MSNBC had 1.4 million, HGTV had 1.3 million and TNT had 1.2 million. ABC’s “World News Tonight” won the evening news ratings race, averaging 9.75 million viewers. College Football Bowl Studio, ESPN, 16.1 million. College Football Playoffs Semifinal, ESPN, 13.4 millionCollege Football Bowl Studio, ESPN, 13.5 million.

A quiet Wardour Street in London, as the New Year's Eve fireworks display has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)LONDON – British hospitals around the country face a perilous situation in January, medical workers warned Friday amid surging coronavirus infections blamed on a new virus variant. “In the short term, the additional increase of vaccine efficacy from the second dose is likely to be modest. The U.K.'s main union for doctors warned that delaying the second dose causes huge scheduling problems for thousands of partially vaccinated elderly and vulnerable people. ___Follow AP coverage of the coronavirus pandemic at https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic and https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-vaccines and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak

BEIJING – Thailand's capital is shutting down venues including schools and entertainment areas as coronavirus cases continue to spread. Seven provinces including Bangkok have been designated red zones where places including entertainment venues, boxing rings, gyms and flea markets are ordered closed. Bangkok reported 180 cases in the last 24 hours. The requirements by the Shenyang and Dalian airports come amid a small but persistent growth in cases in the two cities located in Liaoning province just north of the capital Beijing. China on Friday reported a total of 19 new virus cases, including 10 that were brought from outside the country.

Many South Africans will swap firecrackers for candles to mark New Year's Eve amid COVID-19 restrictions including a nighttime curfew responding to President Cyril Ramaphosa's call to light a candle to honor those who have died in the COVID-19 pandemic and the health workers who are on the frontline of battling the disease. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)JOHANNESBURG – Many South Africans swapped firecrackers for candles to mark New Year’s Eve amid COVID-19 restrictions including a nighttime curfew. Urging all South Africans to battle the virus, Ramaphosa called on the nation to celebrate New Year’s Eve in a different way. Instead, the mayor of South Africa's largest city will light a candle on the landmark Nelson Mandela Bridge. At midnight he will light a candle with his family and pray for everybody who has suffered from the pandemic.

ORLANDO, Fla. – As they do every year, Orlando Police want people to be safe as they ring in 2021, not just on the road but also staying safe from the virus. Officers don’t anticipate big crowds as they have in other years, there will still be extra patrol units in Downtown Orlando on Thursday night. The department collaborated with the Orange County business Strike Team to make sure businesses are doing everything they can to try and keep people safe on New Year’s Eve. “We’ve been going to all the businesses that are downtown all the bars and nightclubs that will be open tonight. To report a business to the Orange County Business Compliance Teams, residents should call 311 or go toOCFL.net/311.

A man wears a protective mask during the coronavirus pandemic in Times Square Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020, in New York. Small groups of revelers, some wearing glittery hats, filmed their distant view of Times Square on their phones and broke out in cheers at midnight. Preparing for the worst, the New York Police Department deployed its bomb-sniffing dogs and sand-filled sanitation trucks intended to guard against explosions. “It’s dead,” said Ali Jameel early Thursday, who owns a store a block from Times Square. “Coming to Times Square is a family tradition for some.

A different U.K.-EU trade deal will bring new restrictions and red tape, but for British Brexit supporters, it means reclaiming national independence from the EU and its web of rules. Hundreds of millions of individuals in Britain and the bloc also face changes to their daily lives. Britons and EU citizens have lost the automatic right to live and work in the other’s territory. For some in Britain, including the prime minister, it’s a moment of pride and a chance for the U.K. to set new diplomatic and economic priorities. In Scotland, which voted strongly in 2016 to remain, Brexit has bolstered support for separation from the U.K.

(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)LAS VEGAS — Tens of thousands of people were walking on the casino-lined Las Vegas Strip on New Year’s Eve by early evening despite a plea from Nevada Gov. China on Friday reported a total of 19 new virus cases, including 10 that were brought from outside the country. ___LONDON — The coronavirus pandemic canceled London’s annual New Years’ Eve fireworks display, which usually draws tens of thousands of spectators. The nation’s most populated county has about 40% of California’s virus deaths. ___NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee ends the year ranked first in coronavirus cases per capita.

Fireworks and drones illuminate the night sky over London as they form a light display as London's normal New Year's Eve fireworks display was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic Thursday Dec. 31, 2020. As midnight rolled from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the Americas, the New Year’s experience mirrored national responses to the virus itself. Some countries and cities canceled or scaled back their festivities, while others without active outbreaks carried on like any other year. In Chinese societies, the virus ensured more muted celebrations of the solar New Year, which is less widely observed than the Lunar New Year that in 2021 will fall in February. Initial reports about a mystery respiratory illness sickening people in the Chinese city of Wuhan emerged exactly a year ago.

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – As we inch closer to New Year’s Eve, county leaders and business owners alike prepare for another holiday in which crowds could pose a problem. On Tuesday, strike teams visited several businesses, including those that requested a visit as a precaution. On Dec. 4, Mayor Jerry Demings ordered his strike teams to begin fining businesses not in compliance, with penalties ranging from a couple hundred dollars up to $15,000. Since the fines went into effect, Tim Boldig, the deputy director for Orange County’s Community, Environmental & Development Services Department, told News 6 the strike teams issued nine fines and another 40 warnings. “What we find is the fast in-and-out places such as your gas stations and convenience stores, those are the areas we see the most noncompliance.”Boldig said strike teams will continue with unannounced visits as many ring in the new year.

FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2020, file photo, confetti falls at midnight on the Times Square New Year's Eve celebration in New York. If ever a year's end seemed like cause for celebration, 2020 might be it. (Photo by Ben Hider/Invision/AP, File)NEW YORK – If ever a year's end seemed like cause for celebration, 2020 might be it. From New York's Times Square to Sydney Harbor, big public blowouts are being turned into TV-only shows and digital events. The occasion stirs mixed feelings for people like Cesar Soltero, who was taking photos, and taking stock, in Times Square this week.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Sunday is the transition day to warmer times for the last week of 2020. After another cold start, temperatures warm back into the upper 60s. Future radarTemperatures warm back to the 70s Monday and through the middle of the week. Rain chances return later in the day New Year’s Day. Slightly cooler air returns for the first few day beyond New Year’s Day.

Last New Year's Eve, Billy Porter was working in New Orleans. This year he'll still be working — but in New York City. The “Pose” star will join Ryan Seacrest and Lucy Hale on ABC in Times Square on Dec. 31 for Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2020.” The broadcast is closed to the public due to the pandemic. “2020 has been a trying year for the world and I’m thrilled to have Billy and Lucy join me in ushering in a new year with fresh beginnings,” said Seacrest in a statement. As with last year, Ciara will once again oversee the Los Angeles festivities.

Crowds hit downtown Orlando for New Year's Eve celebrations to ring in 2020. If you need help with the Public File, call 407-291-6000.

As the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, many people follow what, from the outside, may look to be odd traditions in order to bring luck and prosperity in the new year.