Florida home of pair killed in Kenya helicopter crash is burglarized, cops say

MIAMI — In the days after a group of South Florida friends, including a seafood entrepreneur and a Telemundo executive, were killed in a helicopter crash in Kenya, burglars ransacked the Coral Gables home of two of the victims, stealing more than $500,000 worth of items, including the couple’s cars, police say.

The crash happened Aug. 19, and some time in between Thursday and Saturday, the Valencia Avenue home belonging to Henry Parra, 55, and Adam Hlavaty, 42, was broken into, Coral Gables police said.

The couple married in 2017, according to The Advocate. Hlavaty was a real estate executive who founded MRKT Group, a development and design firm, the newspaper reported, adding Parra co-founded Trax USA, a Gables-based aviation maintenance software company.

They were among seven people killed when the helicopter went down. José Alberto Suárez, an executive at Telemundo/NBC, and Roger Duarte, who owned George Stone Crab, were among the dead. Also killed were Michele Sensi-Contugi, Stephany Hollihan and pilot Josh Outram.

—Miami Herald

After an 11-year-old stabbed a stranger, Minnesota’s new juvenile justice law faces an early test

MINNEAPOLIS — The first significant test of a new Minnesota law making it illegal to charge children under 13 with a crime came this month when an 11-year-old stabbed an 18-year-old multiple times in the entrance to a St. Cloud grocery store.

The victim and store patrons held the 11-year-old down until police arrived and took the boy to St. Cloud Hospital.

The attack came three days after a law known as “Raise the Age” went into effect on Aug. 1. Previously, children under 10 years old could not be charged with a crime in Minnesota. Now it’s children under 13. The law — which passed the Legislature in 2024 — makes no exceptions for the severity of crime committed and designates the child who committed the crime as being in need of state protection or services.

St. Cloud Police Chief Jeffrey Oxton said his department had been working closely with Stearns County Human Services and the County Attorney’s Office to implement the law change, and he praised the county’s response to the stabbing, especially since it happened so soon after the law went into effect.

—The Minnesota Star Tribune

Appeals court says judge was wrong to pause University of Kentucky professor lawsuit over anti-Israel speech

A federal appeals court on Monday asked a lower court to reconsider a lawsuit from a professor that alleged the University of Kentucky violated his freedom of speech.

Ramsi Woodcock, a UK law professor, is suing UK after he was barred from teaching in July 2025 because he created a petition calling for violence against Israel. The university said he created “a hostile environment for Jewish members of the university community.”

The university opened an investigation into Woodcock’s statements against Israel and barred him from teaching on July 18, 2025, at least until their investigation was complete. Woodcock is still not permitted to teach.

Woodcock sued UK in federal court over what he considered a wrongful investigation and job suspension, but the university argued the court should stay out of the campus’ “internal disciplinary process,” court records show. Judge Danny C. Reeves agreed to pause the case and would reconsider it once UK’s investigation was complete.

—Lexington Herald-Leader

Russia’s escalating hybrid attacks put Europeans in a bind

Russia is expanding its campaign of hybrid attacks against countries that supply weapons and money to Kyiv and has caught Europe without a plan to respond.

From cyber attacks to armed drones and mysterious cases of arson, tensions are rising across the continent as the war in Ukraine is set to enter its fifth winter. Just this month, Poland said it thwarted an attempted assassination of a U.S. citizen originally from Ukraine that was ordered by Russia while Estonia accused Moscow of being behind a fire at a drone maker.

Meanwhile, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that those responsible for hybrid attacks “will pay the price” after an explosive-laden drone was discovered at an airport in Leipzig near a Ukrainian cargo plane, raising speculation that Moscow was involved in attempted strike.

Amid an uptick in sabotage efforts, CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Russia for meetings on Tuesday, according to people familiar with the matter. It was unclear what the talks were about. The Central Intelligence Agency declined to comment.

—Bloomberg News