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Two women charged in $53K jewelry heist at Bridgeton Kohl's

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:48:02 GMT

BRIDGETON, Mo. - Two women face felony charges after they reportedly stole around $53,000 worth of jewelry and other goods from a Bridgeton Kohl's store last year. Prosecutors have charged Lawanda Felder, 29, and Marla King, 29, with one count each of stealing in excess of $25,000. 2nd Missouri man sentenced in death of woman who was caged, dismembered The heist dates back to Dec. 22, 2022. Investigators says Felder and King entered the store and "acted together" to steal jewelry and other merchandise. According to court documents obtained by FOX 2, King retrieved a key to a jewelry case from a Kohl's employee, which facilitated the theft. Surveillance cameras around the store captured the theft on camera. Police later identified Felder and King as two suspects in the heist and learned that King was also linked to various theft cases around Chesterfield. Authorities eventually obtained a warrant which led them to King's home. There, they found jewelry and other items reported sto...

United Airlines troubles worsen at Denver airport with more than 500 cancellations, 1,000 delays over 5 days

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:48:02 GMT

Travelers flying in and out of Denver International Airport on Thursday again faced turbulence as United Airlines grappled with 87 more cancellations and 57 delays as of 9:10 a.m., according to the FlightAware tracking service.United Airlines led all other airlines at DIA, accounting for the bulk of the total 211 delays and cancellations of flights in and out of the airport – persisting air travel troubles even after United officials asserted on Wednesday morning that operations at DIA are fully staffed.RELATED: Was your flight canceled amid bad weather? What you need to know about rebooking, refunds and more The delays Thursday pushed United Airlines’ total at DIA over five days starting Sunday to 550 cancellations and 1,105 delays, the FlightAware data shows.Stranded travelers continued to struggle at DIA and other airports nationwide as widespread disruptions complicate summer vacations.At DIA, United staffers on Monday set up 500 cots and relied on Denver airport officials to p...

California grad student commutes to class by plane to save on rent

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:48:02 GMT

A Los Angeles graduate student is going viral because of how he avoided paying Bay Area rent while attending the University of California, Berkeley.In a now-viral Reddit post, user 'greateranglia' wrote a post titled, "I survived living in LA and commuting to Cal by plane over the past academic year to save on rent, AMA." Bill commuted from L.A. to the Bay Area every day to avoid paying Bay Area rent. (KTLA)In an interview with KTLA, the user, who wishes to only be identified by his first name, Bill, says all his professors and classmates knew he was a super commuter, "My classmates, instead of asking 'What's for dinner?' they would ask 'When's your flight back?'" Bill says he was living in Los Angeles with a rent he could afford when he got accepted into a one-year Master of Engineering program at Cal. Knowing he would return to Los Angeles after graduation, he wanted to avoid having to pay rent in the Bay Area.Bill commuted between LAX and SFO at least three times a week during th...

California Black reparations task force to submit final report

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:48:02 GMT

California's first-in-the-nation slavery reparations task force wraps up its historic work Thursday with the official submission of a report two years in the making, one that documents the state's role in perpetuating discrimination against Black residents and suggests dozens of ways to atone.The report heads to lawmakers who will be responsible for turning policy recommendations into legislation. Reparations will not happen until lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom agree. The recommendations include a formal apology to descendants of people enslaved in the U.S. and financial compensation for harms descendants have suffered, such as overpolicing and housing discrimination. The panel also recommended the state create a new agency to oversee reparations efforts. California task force votes in favor of reparation proposals for Black residents “It’s been a whirlwind, it’s been very work intensive, but also very cathartic and very emotional,” said Kamilah Moore, 31, task force chair and a...

Teacher who forced special needs student to eat vomit has license revoked

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:48:02 GMT

One of two licensed teachers police say were involved in forcing a 7-year-old special-needs student in Brownsburg to eat his vomit has voluntarily revoked her Indiana teaching license, KTLA sister station WXIN reports. Sara Seymour, a 27-year-old former Life Skills teacher at Brown Elementary in Hendricks County, was previously terminated at a Brownsburg Community School Corporation meeting in May. Seymour and four other educators working at the Brownsburg elementary school were criminally charged in April after investigators say they told a 7-year-old student to eat his own vomit and failed to report the incident. All five educators listed by Hendricks County prosecutors in the criminal case stemming from the incident have since resigned or been terminated by the school corporation. However, only two of the people charged criminally were licensed teachers in Indiana: Seymour and Julie Taylor.While Seymour is the one who police say told the 7-year-old Life Skills student that h...

Fireworks thrown into Hermosa Beach nightclub crowd may be a hate crime

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:48:02 GMT

Police are searching for a man who threw an exploding firework into a large crowd at an LGBTQ+ Pride event in Hermosa Beach.On June 17, the suspect was near a silent disco event at a bar/restaurant called Vista around 9:45 p.m. when he pulled out a firework, lit it and threw it into the crowd. The incident was captured on a video shared by police.Fragments of fireworks struck multiple people at the crowded restaurant, located at 11 Pier Ave., police said. Despite the "significant explosion," victims' injuries were not life-threatening.Video released by the Hermosa Beach Police Department shows a man throwing a lit firework into a crowd on June 17, 2023. (Hermosa Beach Police)Jeremy McDermott, the manager of Vista, said hundreds of people were attending the event celebrating LGBTQ+ culture and Pride month when the explosion went off."We had 400 people already here,” McDermott said. “It was pretty rough and a rude awakening for everyone enjoying a silent disco here. It was an unfortun...

Be Bright Coffee Comes To Paloma and A 4th Of July Pool Party – Here’s What’s Popping Up 

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:48:02 GMT

Starting today, Smorgasburg’s favorite roaster, Be Bright Coffee,  comes to Paloma for a  summer residency, kicking the summer off with an exclusive recipe for Paloma in Venice – a Mediterranean-inspired Baklava Latte, featuring a house-made honey syrup infused with cinnamon and orange peel, layered with a spiced foam, and garnished with crushed pistachios.  There’s also a Vivid Cream Latte with iced brown sugar, sweet foam, and cocoa powder as well as a standard coffee and espresso selection. Be Bright Coffee will be available at Paloma from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. for counter service – at the coffee bar, with an entryway located off Abbot Kinney Blvd. This Friday, June 30, Agnes Restaurant & Cheesery will launch an expanded selection of new dishes and large format plates that focus on seasonal ingredients from local purveyors and family recipes.  Executive Chef Thomas Tilaka Kalb curates a menu that celebrates the restaurant’s two-year journey, showcasing the nostalgia...

Where can you buy MODAFINIL?

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:48:02 GMT

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Painter Corey Pemberton’s Portraits Are a Personal Thing

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:48:02 GMT

In Person, place, thing, artist Corey Pemberton’s embrace of classical genres are anything but classical. His disarming portraits and still life paintings both build on and subvert expectations for such traditional categories, infusing wholesome scenes of ordinary life with a lexicon of layered patterns, intimate daily rituals, intimated emotions, hinted-at histories, and an irresistibly lively palette.Corey Pemberton: Time to break out Daddy’s plates, Acrylic, inkjet prints, and graphite on canvas, 48 x 72 in (Courtesy of UNREPD)An expansive suite of these paintings—most so large as to be all but life-size—is currently installed, along with luxe and jaunty pieces of design furniture in domestic vignettes and a host of Pemberton’s hand-blown glass objects, at UNREPD’s sunny and welcoming downtown space. The overall effect of the exhibition is a fantastic feedback loop in which paintings ennobling the narrative potential of the domestic sphere are set in domestic vignettes, int...

Sharks add big winger with second round pick in NHL Draft

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:48:02 GMT

The San Jose Sharks selected Finnish-born winger Kasper Halttunen with their second-round selection at the NHL Draft on Thursday at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee.The Sharks had the No. 36 overall selection and held onto it to draft the 6-foot-3, 207-pound Halttunen, who had 18 points in 14 games for Finland’s U18 team this past year.Still just 17, Halttunen struggled when playing against men in Finland’s top professional league, with just one assist in 27 games. He has to work on his skating, but he plays a heavy brand and possesses a big shot.“I’m satisfied with how he played for the team, and how he makes smart decisions with the puck,” Finland U18 head coach Lauri Merikivi said in April, per Elite Prospects. “I see him as a power forward. During these three years, I’ve loved the passion he has to score goals,drive to the net, and to win pucks.”Halttunen fits the bill as far as the Sharks wanting to have a bigger collection of forwards among the...