Powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake kills at least 47 in Indonesia

Good evening, Fairmont. This is KRAK 11 News at the top of the hour. I'm Chip Marlowe.

I'm Deb Sarkissian. Eleven people are dead after Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon. Authorities say the military targeted what it calls Hezbollah infrastructure.

Luigi Mangione has admitted guilt in federal court, reading a statement explaining why he targeted the UnitedHealthcare CEO. That's Criminal Intent.

A Florida man wins three hundred fifty-eight thousand dollars in Michigan and says he's moving there permanently. That is Happy Animals.

It's a lottery story.

It ran there last hour.

And in Sports, a boxer from Tuvalu wins her country's first Commonwealth Games medal without winning a single fight. The World Desk is still ahead with the latest from Lebanon.

We turn now to news from around the world.

Eastern Indonesia.

That's what I said, the southern Pacific islands.

The Ring of Fire is a forty-thousand-kilometer zone around the Pacific Ocean. It does not run through anything. It encircles the entire Pacific basin.

So it does include the southern region.

That region has been tense for decades, going back to the nineteen-eighties when Lebanon was part of the broader Arab Spring movement.

The Arab Spring was twenty-eleven. Lebanon's civil war was nineteen-seventy-five to nineteen-ninety.

Both were periods of significant regional upheaval.

Thirty-six years apart.

Virginia State is located in Petersburg, which is about twenty-five miles south of Richmond, the state capital.

Twenty-three miles south.

I said about twenty-five.

You did.

Koh Samui is one of Thailand's most popular tourist destinations in the Gulf of Siam.

The Gulf of Thailand.

It has been called both names historically.

It has been called the Gulf of Thailand since nineteen-forty-nine.

So historically.

Seventy-six years.

Still ahead, a Fairmont man is facing charges after police say he tried to sell items that were never his to begin with. That story is next.

CRIMINAL INTENT, in two minutes.

Two drivers in California have filed a class action lawsuit against Mercedes-Benz claiming the AMG logo on their driver's seat gave them burn injuries.

The logo is metal. It heats up in the sun.

The lawsuit alleges negligent design.

You pay eighty thousand dollars for a car and the badge leaves a mark. That is not the kind of impression Mercedes was going for.

Christopher Wright, seventy-three, was convicted in July in Sheffield Crown Court. Prosecutors said he shot Richard Dyson and dismembered the remains.

The body was discovered on Wright's farm property during an unrelated investigation.

His state murder trial is currently scheduled to begin September eighth. Legal analysts say the federal guilty plea could complicate that prosecution under double jeopardy protections.

Could. Prosecutors say the charges are distinct.

Prosecutors allege the charges are distinct.

Police have not released further details. The investigation is ongoing.

Back to the Mercedes case for a moment. If you are going to put your logo on something people sit on for extended periods in direct sunlight, maybe run a test.

The plaintiffs are seeking unspecified damages.

I would specify them. Second-degree logo, that is at least medical bills and a new seat cover.

Coming up, we have animals that will not burn you. That is Happy Animals, and it is next.

Stay with us.

Coming up: a veterinary hospital offering something a lot of people need, and three baby goats who don't know how lucky they are.

The hospital says the loss of a pet can be as significant as any other grief, and a lot of people don't have anyone who will say that out loud.

That's — that's exactly right. People act like it shouldn't matter as much and it does. It matters.

The program includes individual sessions and group support. No referral needed.

The sanctuary says all three kids are healthy and Mabel is doing fine. They're asking the public to help name them.

Voting closes Saturday. The names are posted on the sanctuary's website.

The contest has been running annually in Santa Rosa for decades. Roma takes home fifteen hundred dollars and a fire hydrant trophy.

That dog has no idea it won by being ugly. It just knows it won.

Coming up: we'll have SPORTS in a few minutes, including a boxer from Tuvalu who won a medal without winning a fight. We'll explain that.

Stay with us.

Time now for Sports.

Tarona Taafaki advanced to the bronze medal position after her opponent withdrew due to injury. She accepted the medal on behalf of Tuvalu, population twelve thousand.

Sometimes you win by showing up.

She showed up for three scheduled bouts. Two opponents withdrew.

Still counts.

It does.

Homero Calderón, who played professionally in Venezuela's first division, has been in ICE custody for six weeks. His hearing is scheduled for January twenty-twenty-eight.

Two years from now.

The current backlog in immigration courts is approximately three point seven million cases.

O'Connor leads the field heading into the final event. Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson, the defending champion, is out of medal contention after withdrawing from the long jump.

The eight hundred is where you find out what you're made of. Two laps, all guts, no strategy.

The eight hundred meter is widely considered the most strategic middle distance event.

Positioning matters.

Yes.

And in what I'm calling the Marlowe Scoreboard Spotlight, we want to take a moment to recognize Virginia State University's track and field program, which just received a major donation to upgrade their facilities.

We have not confirmed that story.

It's on their website.

The Marlowe Scoreboard Spotlight is not a segment.

It could be.

Virginia State is twenty-three miles south of Richmond and their track program has received alumni funding for resurfacing and timing equipment. The university announced it last Tuesday.

Thank you, Deb. That facility has produced twelve Division Two All-Americans since two thousand and ten.

Thirteen.

Thirteen. And speaking of programs that produce results, the two of us have been bringing you the most accurate sports coverage in Wexler County for a decade.

Coming up on the next KRAK 11 News at the top of the hour, a story about ownership. A local couple is fighting over a boat neither one has used in six years, and the judge presiding over the case has questions about why it matters so much.

Sometimes it's not about the boat.

It's a nineteen-ninety-six Bayliner. Appraised value four thousand dollars.

Still.

That's the next KRAK 11 News, at the top of the hour. I'm Deb Sarkissian.

And I'm Chip Marlowe. Thanks for watching the Scoreboard.