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Fire retardant drops are polluting streams, judge rules

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:58 GMT

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. government can keep using chemical retardant dropped from aircraft to fight wildfires, despite finding that the practice pollutes streams in western states in violation of federal law, a judge ruled Friday.Halting the use of the red slurry material could have resulted in greater environmental damage from wildfires, said U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen in Missoula, Montana. How much cheaper are suburbs than Denver itself? The judge agreed with U.S. Forest Service officials who said dropping retardant into areas with waterways was sometimes necessary to protect lives and property. The ruling came after came after environmentalists sued following revelations that the Forest Service dropped retardant into waterways hundreds of times over the past decade.Coalition rallies to keep fire retardant use in playGovernment officials say chemical fire retardant can be crucial to slowing the advance of dangerous blazes. Wildfires across North America have gr...

DA refers deadly LaSalle police shooting to grand jury

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:58 GMT

GREELEY, Colo. (KDVR) — When officers shot and killed a man near a store in LaSalle, investigators released little information about what happened. Now, the case will go before a grand jury.Justin Michael Reffel, 38, was inside a vehicle near a Family Dollar store when someone reported him to police as suspicious, according to an initial police narrative. Whatever happened next is unclear, but responding officers eventually shot and killed the Gilcrest man.On Friday, Weld County District Attorney Michael Rourke announced the case will go before a grand jury. Citizens serve on grand juries and decide legal matters, like whether someone should face criminal charges. The proceedings are secret and closed to the public.No further details were offered, like what led prosecutors to this decision. Details on the case were already scant. Man killed in Boulder Police shooting The shooting happened just after 5 p.m. that Wednesday, near the store on Second Street. Here's the initial narrati...

Bodycam video shows tense search for suspected armed robber across Miami Shores

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:58 GMT

Police officers were involved in a dangerous search for an armed robber across Miami Shores that led to the man’s arrest.Officer-worn body camera video captured City of Miami Police officers with their guns drawn as they followed the suspect wanted in connection to an armed robbery in Miami.A heavy police presence, including a helicopter, was seen throughout a neighborhood considered by residents to be a quiet community, May 15, as the search was on for 29-year-old John Alexander Gomez-Cardona.The accused crook bolted north into Miami Shores and surrounding areas, crashing and ditching a Mercedes-Benz, seen with doors open and air bags deployed, in the area of 96th Street, near Biscayne Boulevard.“Where is he? Where’s he at? Where’s he at, though?” an officer is heard saying in the bodycam video.With adrenaline and tension sky-high, officers continued their search for Gomez-Cardona after he allegedly ran from the wrecked Mercedes.“He took off. Whe...

Stranger than fiction: Comedian Bert Kreischer, on-screen dad Mark Hamill spill the beans about ‘The Machine’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:58 GMT

We’ve all had crazy travel stor\ies, but partying with the Russian Mafia is probably not one of them — unless your you’re comedian Bert Kreischer. He’s turned his viral standup — a real one– about the incident into a whole movie. Hold on to your vodka, because this is a wild ride.Standup comedian Bert Kreischer…Bert Kreischer (as himself): “When I was 22, I got involved with the Russian Mafia.”…must have nine lives.Character in “The Machine”: “You stole the only thing my father ever cared about.”Jimmy Tatro (as Young Bert): “Sorry.”Because even if just a fraction of what happens in “The Machine” were true, and a chunk of it actually is…Bert Kreischer: “It mirrored a lot of the stuff I was going through in my life, too: the issues with my daughter, how I deal with my dad, my dad’s acceptance of me. I mean, it was really close.”Then he’s one lucky, or unlucky, cat.Ma...

Terrifying moments as plane door opens midair on Asiana Airlines flight

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:58 GMT

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — The door of an Asiana Airlines jet opened as it was coming in to land in Daegu, South Korea, on Friday afternoon, leaving wind whipping through the plane’s cabin as terrified passengers gripped their armrests, video of the incident shows.An airline official said a man in his 30s who was sitting at the emergency seat seemed to have opened the door when the aircraft was about 700 feet (213 meters) above the ground and about two to three minutes from landing in the city 150 miles (240 kilometers) south of Seoul.However, company officials told CNN the plane had landed safely.Local police said a man had been arrested. They said he confessed to opening the door, but would not say why he did it.South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said in a statement Friday that police and the ministry were investigating an individual over violation of aviation law.Any person who contravenes the Aviation Security Act, which includes passengers operati...

Warm and dry Memorial Day Weekend, cooler coast

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:58 GMT

7Weather- How does sunshine, dry conditions and warm temperatures sound for the holiday weekend? Sounds perfect! 70s and 80s – with Sunday being the warmest of the three-day weekend. Temperatures at the coast and Cape stay cooler. High pressure will be around this weekend. It’ll keep an area of low pressure and any rain to our south. High pressure brings us a northwest wind tomorrow with sea breezes developing for the afternoon. The high pressure will shift and usher in a southwest wind on Sunday. That’ll boost temperatures into 80s inland, but keep the Cape much cooler with the wind coming off the cool South Coast waters. Monday the wind shifts again. This time out of the northeast and that’ll drop temperatures and keep it cooler on the coast.Tomorrow, it will start off cool in the 40s. Temperatures rebound quickly through the 50s with a lot of sunshine.Here’s the temperature in your town on Saturday…You can see how high temperatures soar with a ...

Orioles unravel in new threads as Grayson Rodriguez allows 3 home runs in 12-2 loss to Rangers

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:58 GMT

Entering Friday, 92% of the Orioles’ games this year had been decided by four runs or fewer. Night in and night out, they have played close games, and night in and night out, they have often won.In their series opener at Camden Yards against the Texas Rangers on Friday night, though, the Orioles played by far their most lopsided game of the year. Grayson Rodriguez allowed three home runs — including a fourth-inning grand slam to Rangers star shortstop Corey Seager — and eight earned runs as Baltimore fell, 12-2.Before Friday, the largest margin in an Orioles game this season was a 6-0 loss to the Kansas City Royals earlier this month.With an announced crowd of 20,293 witnessing the Orioles debut their all-black — albeit with a colorful interior — City Connect uniforms, Adley Rutschman gave the Orioles a 1-0 lead with a first-inning home run.But in the next frame, Rodriguez allowed a two-run homer to Leody Taveras, and in a nightmarish fourth inning, the...

Biden says debt deal ‘very close’ with default deadline now set at June 5

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:58 GMT

By LISA MASCARO, SEUNG MIN KIM, KEVIN FREKING and FATIMA HUSSEIN (Associated Press)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said a deal to resolve the government’s debt ceiling crisis seemed “very close” late Friday, even as the deadline for a potentially catastrophic default was pushed back to June 5 and seemed likely to drag negotiations between the White House and Republicans into another frustrating week.The later “X-date,” laid out in a letter from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, set the risk of a devastating default four days beyond an earlier estimate. It came as Americans and the world uneasily watched the negotiating brinkmanship that could throw the U.S. economy into chaos and sap world confidence in the nation’s leadership.Yet Biden was upbeat as he left for the Memorial Day weekend at Camp David, declaring, “It’s very close, and I’m optimistic.”With Republicans at the Capitol talking with Biden’s team ...

Division 4 state track: Pembroke’s Sarah Claflin wins competitive 200-meter race

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:58 GMT

HINGHAM — It was pretty clear before the fact just who would finish in the top three of the girls’ 200-meter dash in Friday’s first day of competition in the Div. 4 Championships at Notre Dame.Pembroke’s Sarah Claflin, Grace Hanafin of Burlington and Tewksbury’s Jayani Santos all cruised to easy wins in their respective heats and each girl dipped under 26 seconds, seemingly setting up a close battle in the final.It was Claflin, though, who saw to it wouldn’t be as close as advertised. The defending champion burst out of the blocks and put plenty of distance between herself and runner-up Hanafin for the win in a scintillating 24.58. Hanafin was clocked in a quick 25.10 and Santos garnered the bronze medal in 25.33.“I got out good and was strong off the turn,” said the junior. “We all had good trials and I had a good sense about it. You can always work on something. I’d like to get faster and shave that time down.”Tewksbury&#...

Family mourns death of 20-year-old father shot, killed outside library

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:58 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A growing memorial outside of San Diego Central Library shows how much Trey Walker meant to people who knew him. The 20-year-old was shot and killed near the East Village building shortly after noon on Tuesday, according to police.Shelley Jameson remembers her son as an amazing friend and father. Woman dead after cement bags fall from overturned truck on I-805 "The most important thing to him was his daughter, she's 10 months old," Jameson told FOX 5.Jameson and two of Walker's sisters visited the memorial on 11th Avenue Friday morning. "The last time I saw him was two and a half weeks ago," said Jasmine Walker, Trey's older sister. "Exactly two weeks from the day that he passed."Two days after the shooting, police arrested 21-year-old Kenneth Chaney on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon, Lt. Jud Campbell with San Diego Police Department said in a news release. Southwest pilot climbs through cockpit window after getting locked o...