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Chicago officials launch summer safety plan ahead of Cinco de Mayo weekend

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:56 GMT

CHICAGO — While many are looking forward to more spring-like weather and celebrating Cinco de Mayo, Chicago police and other emergency officials are working on a plan to keep people safe.City leaders are trying to avoid a repeat of what happened the last time Chicago saw a weekend of warm temperatures.On April 15, three teenagers were shot and more than a dozen people were arrested when a group of teens and young adults took over parts of downtown. Video showed young people jumping on cars and busses. A number of fights also broke out.Several aldermen said police were outnumbered and there was not sufficient leadership downtown to tell officers what to do. Cinco de Mayo celebrates Mexican culture, not independence Days after the incident, the Chicago Police Department told city council members it would staff captains and lieutenants downtown and stage prisoner transport vans to act as a deterrent at different locations.Several pastors and others marched through downtown the weeken...

Meteor shower peaks this weekend: When to watch

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:56 GMT

(WKBN) - Each year during April and May sky gazers are treated to a dazzling display from the eta Aquariid meteor shower.“A meteor shower is like a normal rain shower, with 50-60 meteors per hour,” said Bill Cooke, lead of NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, in a NASA blog post. “An outburst is like a thunderstorm, with greater than normal meteor activity expected. A meteor storm is like a tornado, where meteor rates are over one thousand per hour.”NASA says the eta Aquariid could be especially impressive this year, with astronomers expecting 120-160 meteors per hour. The 100 best brunch restaurants in the US, according to Yelp The meteor shower starts around April 15 and goes through May 27 each year. Projections for the peak of the eta Aquariid shower tend to vary a bit, but the American Meteor Society predicts it will happen on May 6.How many meteors will we see?People in the Northern Hemisphere will see a fe...

Aspen Dental hit by cyberattack

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:56 GMT

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Aspen Dental, whose headquarters are based in Chicago, has experienced a cybersecurity incident and is currently working to resolve the matter. The issue crippled Aspen Dental's ability to access scheduling systems, phone systems, and other business applications.The Aspen Group has not confirmed if patient information has been compromised. Some Chicago bars drop Bud Light, other beers in protest over company’s handling of transgender partnership The cybersecurity incident was discovered at Aspen Dental on April 25, but the company is not sharing when it expects everything will be back to normal. The issue is preventing Aspen Dental from accepting new patients. However, Aspen Dental says their offices are open and they are continuing to care for patients.Aspen Dental released the following statement:"Our investigation into the scope of the incident is in its early stages and remains ongoing. If it is determined that any sensitive, personal information may ...

Paxton, Travis County DA quarrel over Texas Capitol protest arrest

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:56 GMT

Editor's note: The video above is part of KXAN's coverage following Tuesday's protest at the Texas Capitol.AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Friday, the Travis County District Attorney’s Office said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton made a false allegation against the office regarding the arrest of a protester at the Texas State Capitol earlier this week.Protests popped up Tuesday near the Texas House chambers over Senate Bill 14, a bill that would ban minors from accessing puberty blockers and gender-transition surgery. Advocacy groups decry DPS actions after protesters removed from capitol The protests resulted in Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan clearing the House gallery as groups in opposition to the bill chanted and displayed signs. The Texas Department of Public Safety, which provides security to the Capitol, was called in to remove all members of the public in the gallery, including supporters of the legislation."Rules matter in the Texas House," Phelan said Tuesday. "Today’s [Tuesday] ou...

North St. Paul man sentenced for fatal Brooklyn Park crash in stolen pickup, high on fentanyl and meth

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:56 GMT

A North St. Paul man was sentenced to more than seven years in prison Friday for crashing a stolen pickup truck into the back of a car in Brooklyn Park while high on fentanyl and meth, killing the driver and seriously injuring the driver’s wife.Adam Hunter Pattishall, 22, had pleaded guilty to the May 15, 2021, crash that killed 57-year-old Daniel Fisher of Maple Grove and critically injured his 43-year-old wife, Cathleen Fisher.Adam Hunter Pattishall (Courtesy of the Hennepin County sheriff’s office)Hennepin County District Judge Julie Allyn sentenced him to 92 months in prison on one count each of criminal vehicular homicide-while operating under a controlled substance and criminal vehicular operation-great bodily harm.According to the criminal complaint, an Osseo police officer around 7:20 a.m. saw a Chevrolet Impala with an obstructed license plate pull into a car wash bay. As the officer approached the car, a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck accelerated out of the p...

Their dog was missing for 5 years. Then they got a phone call

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:56 GMT

When a family lost their Yorkshire terrier mix named Blossom Flower, they tried everything to find her for days, but little did they know that about 2,190 days would go by before that happened.It was six years ago that Ami Coleman and her daughter, Dallis Sutton, of Detroit, discovered the dog was missing from their yard.According to the family, they put up fliers and launched an online campaign to help locate the pup.Dallis Sutton burst into tears the moment she realized her lost dog from six years ago is alive and they are about to be reunited. (Screen shot courtesy of Ami Coleman)Related ArticlesNews | North St. Paul man sentenced for fatal Brooklyn Park crash in stolen pickup, high on fentanyl and meth News | An ancient Japanese tradition points a way to healthier aging News | WHO downgrades COVID pandemic, says it’s no longer emergency News | FDA weighing 1st over-the-counter birth control pill News | Co...

Police arrest Hudson man for stealing a vehicle

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:56 GMT

HUDSON, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- On May 4, the Hudson Police Department arrested Darrick Sanchez, 18, following an investigation into a report of a stolen vehicle. Police say the victim parked her 2023 Kia Sorento in the area of Warren and North 5th Street around 1-1:30 p.m. and came back to find it gone a couple of hours later. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! At around 6 p.m., police located the stolen vehicle and the Sanchez around the 100 block of Columbia Street. Police say Sanchez had an illegally possessed .380 revolver, the victim's stolen credit card, and a small quantity of a controlled substance. Police seized $1,769 in cash from Sanchez.Sanchez faces the following charges with more criminal charges pending:Grand Larceny 4th Degree / stolen motor vehicle - a class E felony Criminal Possession of Stolen Property 4th Degree – a class E felony Criminal Possession of Stolen Property 4th Degree / credit card – a class E felony...

Clarence Thomas's problems multiply at Supreme Court

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:56 GMT

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is facing a fresh round of scrutiny after the third blockbuster report in less than a month links him financially to GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.ProPublica reported Thursday that Crow, a Dallas-based real estate developer, paid thousands of dollars in tuition to a private boarding school for Thomas’s great-nephew, whom Thomas has said he raised “as a son.”Federal ethics laws require the justices to report gifts given to a “dependent child,” but that term is defined to only include the justices’ children or stepchildren. Thomas’s allies have insisted the payment doesn’t violate the disclosure law since it was for Thomas’s sister’s grandson.But the revelation has only added to the increasing pressure from Democrats for the justices to adopt a binding code of ethics.“Today’s report continues a steady stream of revelations calling Justices’ ethics standards and practices into question. I hope that the Chief Justice understands that something must be d...

Two arrested for drug trafficking after Rolla raid

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:56 GMT

ROLLA, Mo. -- A long-term investigation led to the arrest of three people in the 1400 block of Highway 72 in Rolla, Missouri. Christian Howard, 26, and Chelsae Wofford, 30, now face drug trafficking charges. They are both being held on $500,000 bonds. Top Story: St. Louis circuit attorney resigns amid controversy Officers executed a search warrant at the home. They found fentanyl, methamphetamine, and prescription pills. The raid was conducted by officers from the Rolla Area Drug Enforcement Task Force, Rolla Police Department, and Phelps County Sheriff’s Department.

Bruce Brown using “meaningful minutes” alongside Kevin Durant to Nuggets’ advantage against Suns

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:56 GMT

PHOENIX – As Kevin Durant’s pick-and-roll partner for two years in Brooklyn, Bruce Brown learned many of the preferences, intricacies and minutiae that, combined with Durant’s all-world talent, make him a lethal offensive threat.These days, Brown is doing his best to turn all of that institutional knowledge into defensive stops rather than easy buckets.“I’ve played a lot of minutes with him, a lot of meaningful minutes with him,” Brown said of working with Durant. “Just having conversations on the court with him about where he wants to be, what he wants to get to. I was playing that big-man role, so a lot of pick-and-rolls with him.”That made it all the sweeter when, in Game 2, Durant took Brown off the dribble to the right late in the fourth quarter, pulled up for a jumper and watched — surprised, in all likelihood — as Brown stretched his fingertips high enough to deflect the shot off course.“That was my first time ever blocking his shot,” Brown said. “I used to try really h...