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Cat’s out of the bag: Kitten turns up in a stolen car in Connecticut

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:50:14 GMT

MERIDEN, Conn. (AP) — Police who were examining a stolen car for evidence made a surprising find — a kitten — and now they are looking for his owner.The gray-and-white male cat was perched under a seat in the stolen vehicle, which collided with a police car during a chase Thursday, the Meriden Police Department said on its Facebook page and in a news release Monday. Officers were pursuing the car on suspicion that it had been used in armed robberies in several nearby communities hours earlier. After the crash, six suspects fled but were soon arrested. “We are hopeful someone recognizes our adorable feline friend and can help us reunite him with his owner,” the department said. It’s asking for anyone with information to contact Meriden police or animal control. The Associated Press

FBI: PNC Bank robbed in Elgin

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:50:14 GMT

ELGIN, Ill. — A PNC bank in Elgin was robbed Tuesday afternoon, according to the FBI.Federal officials said a single man walked into the PNC Bank found at 850 Summit Street and verbally demanded funds from the teller, while also displaying a note. A gun was implied and the suspect got away with an undisclosed amount of funds.Suspect sought by the FBI in a PNC Bank robbery that happened on Aug. 15, 2023.The FBI said the man is Black, about 5'10" to 5'11", large in build with dreadlocks, and was seen wearing dark pants, a black -shirt with a yellow construction vest on top, a black surgical mask, sunglasses, no gloves and a plain black baseball hat.Anyone with information can report anonymous tips to the FBI at tips.fbi.gov, or call the FBI at 312-421-6700.No injuries were reported in the incident, and the suspect is still considered at-large.

CPD: Missing South Shore man last seen near Lincoln Park Zoo

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:50:14 GMT

CHICAGO -- The Chicago Police Department is asking for the public's help in locating a missing 68-year-old man who was last seen near the Lincoln Park Zoo Tuesday afternoon.Kim Buckner, 68, was last seen near Lincoln Park Zoo on the 2400 block of North Cannon Drive around 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday. CPD: 71-year-old man with dementia missing from West Roseland Buckner is described as 5-foot-8, weighing 130 pounds, with brown eyes and gray hair. He is a resident of the Rainbow Beach Care Center on the 7300 block of South Exchange Avenue in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood.Anyone with information regarding Kim Buckner's whereabouts are asked to contact the Chicago Police Department at 312-747-8380.

Ex-NFL running back Alex Collins dies in Florida crash; 911 audio released

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:50:14 GMT

(NEXSTAR) — Former NFL running back Alex Collins, who played five seasons for the Seattle Seahawks and Baltimore Ravens, was killed in a motorcycle crash in south Florida over the weekend, authorities said. He was 28.Collins was driving a motorcycle that crashed into a sport-utility vehicle Sunday night in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, the Broward County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.The SUV was making a left turn when Collins' motorcycle hit its rear passenger side. The impact caused Collins to go through a window of the SUV and come to rest inside the vehicle, the sheriff's office said. The SUV driver, whose name was withheld, remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators, authorities said.In 911 audio obtained by TMZ Sports, the distraught driver, who wasn't aware that Collins had flown into her vehicle, could be heard telling a dispatcher, "I can't find him!" Clarence Avant, nicknamed the ‘Godfather of Black Music,’ dies at 92 She tells the dispatcher that she...

Judge convicts Fridley man in brutal slaying of girlfriend in St. Paul apartment

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:50:14 GMT

A Fridley man with a history of mental illness and civil commitments has been convicted of beating and stabbing his girlfriend to death inside her St. Paul apartment in 2020 in front of his 2-year-old nephew.Ramsey County District Judge Kellie Charles on Friday found Terrion Lamar Sherman, 27, guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of two counts of second-degree intentional murder — not premeditated and while committing a felony — in the death of 21-year-old Abigail Elise Simpson.Abigail Elise Simpson (Courtesy of the Simpson family)Simpson, who graduated from West Bend High School in Wisconsin in 2017, was a college student in St. Paul and aspired to be an attorney, her family wrote in her obituary.Sherman told investigators who interviewed him after his arrest that the boy had become possessed “as a dog” at Simpson’s Merriam Park apartment and that the boy told him Simpson was “really a guy,” the complaint said.Court proceedings were suspended in 2020 after Sherm...

Road floods again following beaver dam breach

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:50:14 GMT

STEPHENTOWN, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- A recently breached beaver dam in Stephentown broke again on Tuesday and sent heavy waters rushing into the road. It was similar to three weeks ago when officials said a beaver dam that was built upstream on private property gave way. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! Crews had just finished clean up and road reconstruction from the previous flood on Monday. Officials will be meeting with the owner of the private property where the dam is located to devise a solution.In the meantime, Garfield Road will be closed to a single lane for emergency services.

Local libraries receive thousands in funding for upgrades

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:50:14 GMT

CAPITAL REGION, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Some local libraries are getting an upgrade. Local officials celebrated on Tuesday the more than $450,000 in grants going to libraries in Watervliet, Troy, and Waterford.It comes from $38 million allocated in the New York State budget to renovate libraries. Troy and Waterford will be using the funding to fix their library's roofs. In Watervliet, officials are planning on adding a community room. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! "So many people come in every day to learn English, to do homework, to do work," Watervliet Library Dir. Whitney Gitman said. "Especially in our post pandemic world, we really needed a space where people could attend zoom conferences and do tutoring."Other local libraries are using the funding to expand Wi-Fi access. The Southern Adirondack Library System will receive $38,000 to improve broadband services in their Saratoga, Hamilton, Warren, and Washington County libraries.

Missouri AG could take nearly a year to turn over Sunshine records

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:50:14 GMT

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - It's a law requiring public agencies to be open and accountable, but why will it take a year for the state’s top attorney to fulfill a request filed under the Missouri Sunshine Law?In 1973, the United States ended its involvement in the Vietnam War, Nixon was President, and the Supreme Court took up Roe v. Wade for the first time. In Missouri, lawmakers passed an open-records law known as the Sunshine Law."Fifty years ago, Missourians realized the Sunshine Law was the best way to guarantee that kind of transparency and accountability," Dave Roland, director of litigation for the Freedom Center of Missouri, said.Roland said the state's open-record law, which allows citizens to request documents from public agencies, still has problems today.He questions why it may take a year for the Missouri Attorney General's Office to fulfill a Sunshine request."The responses they have been providing, I believe, are inadequate in a matter of law," Roland said. Close ...

Three takeaways from Rapids president Pádraig Smith’s summer media availability

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:50:14 GMT

COMMERCE CITY — With a majority of the schedule in the books, and his team sitting in last place in the Western Conference of MLS, Colorado Rapids president Pádraig Smith faced the music Monday afternoon.A 25-minute news conference meant to be about the Rapids’ moves during the summer transfer window instead became an autopsy on why the season has gone off the rails. Colorado (3-10-10, 19 points) is on pace to have its worst season in club history from a points-per-game perspective (currently at 0.83, 2001 finished 0.88), and the playoffs are a longshot.Here’s a few takeaways from Smith’s news conference with his quotes.2021 is on a pedestal — it should not beSmith’s comment: “We have to look at this holistically at how to get us back on track. 2021 needs to be the standard at which we accept nothing else, and quite clearly we’re not there this year.”Analysis: Smith, who said he’s “bitterly disappointed and is incredi...

Colorado River restrictions eased thanks to “lucky” rain and snow but negotiators race toward long-term fix

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:50:14 GMT

Federal officials on Tuesday temporarily eased Colorado River water use restrictions due to a “lucky” year of increased precipitation, but drought and overuse remain a crisis as officials begin negotiations for the future of the river on which 40 million people in the West rely for drinking, agriculture and water.Colorado’s top water officials on Tuesday submitted the state’s first formal comments on negotiations that will govern the use of the river after current guidelines expire in 2026. They urged change in how Lake Mead and Lake Powell — the two major water storage reservoirs on the river — are operated as the West becomes hotter and drier.“The majority of Coloradans rely on the Colorado River,” said Becky Mitchell, the state’s Colorado River Commissioner. “I cannot overstate our significant interests in protecting, conserving, and managing our namesake river.”Negotiations for a new plan to replace a 2007 agreement began in ...