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DPS superintendent: Armed officer to be posted at all comprehensive high schools

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:19:29 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Denver Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Alex Marrero said at least one armed police officer will be posted on comprehensive high school campuses.Marrero said he will continue discussions with principals at those schools to address concerns. Two armed Denver Police Department officers will be stationed at Denver East through the remainder of the school year. "I acknowledge this action likely violates Executive Limitations 10.10, which mandates that I 'not staff district schools with school resource officers or the consistent presence of security armed with guns or any other law enforcement personnel,'" Marrero said in a letter to the Board of Education. "However, I can no longer stand on the sidelines. I am willing to accept the consequences of my actions." Denver East High School has history of weapons, violence Marrero proposed in the letter that he and the board have a discussion regarding student resource officers in an executive session on Thursday. Mayor Ha...

Video released showing dog attack on 10-year-old boy in Miami Shores

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:19:29 GMT

A new clue for police has been released showing a violent dog attack on a boy who was walking home from school with his siblings. Now, his mother wants that dog’s owner to come forward.“It wasn’t even a split second and the dog took my child and just shaking him,” said Kiara Brown.It’s been more than a week since Brown’s 10-year-old son’s brutal dog attack, and he says his wounds are still painful.“It’s starting to hurt a little right now,” said Brown’s son, Nehemiah Comer.7News obtained the disturbing and hard to watch March 14 video, which shows Comer and his siblings walking home from school near Northwest 105th and Second Avenue in Miami Shores when the dog, that was on a leash, lunged at his sister.That’s when Comer jumped in the way, to protect her.“It could have went for his neck,” said Browan. “That’s how far the dog jumped up, and instead because my son moved a certain way and had to get his siste...

Police searching for man who robbed Hingham convenience store at gunpoint

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:19:29 GMT

Hingham police are searching for an armed robber who held up a convenience store at gunpoint on Wednesday.Officers responding to the Richdale Food Shops on Lincoln Street around 2 p.m. determined a man entered the store and brandished a semi-automatic pistol while demanding money.He is described as being a white male who is 6 feet tall with a beard. He was wearing a New York Yankees hat, a black jacket with a yellow zipper, black sweatpants, and a surgical mask.Hingham Police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred Wednesday afternoon (3/22/23). The robbery happened at Richdale Food Shops located at 185 Lincoln Street at around 2:00pm. The suspect entered the store and brandished a semi-automatic pistol at the clerk, demanding money.Anyone with information is asked to contact the Hingham Police Detectives at 781-749-1212 or e-mail [email protected]. Anonymous tips can also be submitted at hpd.org.

Rare tornado near Los Angeles rips building roofs; 1 injured

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:19:29 GMT

By JOHN ANTCZAK and CHRISTOPHER WEBER (Associated Press)LOS ANGELES (AP) — A rare tornado touched down in a Los Angeles suburb on Wednesday, ripping roofs off a line of commercial buildings and sending the debris twisting into the sky and across a city block, injuring one person. The National Weather Service sent teams to assess damage in Montebello and later confirmed that a tornado had touched down around 11:20 a.m. “It’s definitely not something that’s common for the region,” said meteorologist Rose Schoenfeld with the weather service. One person was injured and was taken to a hospital in Montebello, said Alex Gillman, a city spokesman. He didn’t know the severity of the injury.Michael Turner could hear the winds get stronger from inside his office at the 33,000-square-foot (3,065-square-meter) warehouse he owns just south of downtown Montebello. When the lights started flickering, he went outside to find his employees gazing up at the ominous ...

Magic embracing season’s final stretch with play-in hopes intact

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:19:29 GMT

The Orlando Magic are playing for something more meaningful and tangible during the season’s final stretch than they did the previous two campaigns.After Tuesday’s 122-112 win over the Washington Wizards at Amway Center, the Magic (30-43) are still in the race for a spot in the play-in tournament.Their chances of qualifying for the play-in appear bleak with nine games left entering Thursday’s home game vs. the New York Knicks.They entered Wednesday 5 games behind the Chicago Bulls for the No. 10 seed in the Eastern Conference standings. Seeds 7-10 in each conference compete in the play-in tournament for the Nos. 7 and 8 seeds in the playoffs.But still being eligible and having the opportunity to compete for postseason play is motivating the Magic, who were already eliminated from playoffs contention by this time in the previous two seasons.“I do think that for a young team, it helps,” big man Moe Wagner said, “because the long-term road seems so f...

Missing UCSD neuroscientist feared dead after Montreal building fire

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:19:29 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- The search continues for victims a week after a massive fire tore through a historical building located in what’s known as the Old Port District of Montreal, Canada. According to Canadian authorities, the fire broke out Thursday morning at about 5:45 a.m., trapping victims inside.One of those victims is believed to be Dr. An Wu, a neuroscientist at UC San Diego. According to a GoFundMe account set up by her colleagues, the 31-year-old was attending an academic conference and was booked into an Airbnb on the third floor of the historic building. 6-year-old boy killed in crash Nine people were taken to the hospital. Two bodies have been recovered and five more remain missing.Canadian authorities say they are using specially designed devices to get to hard to reach areas of the building without jeopardizing their own safety.The three-story building is a total loss with the floors and roof collapsing making it too dangerous for investigators to go inside. They are us...

Big jump in migrants crossing Panama’s dangerous Darien Gap

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:19:29 GMT

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s government said Wednesday that 50,000 migrants crossed the treacherous Darien Gap linking Colombia and Panama in the first two months of 2023, five times more than in the same period last year. For 2022 as a whole, a total of 250,000 migrants made the crossing, with big spikes in September and October, a trend that suggests the number that is likely to increase even more later this year.The increase was particularly noticeable among children and underage migrants. The People’s Defense Office said 9,683 migrants younger than 18 crossed the jungle-clad Darien route in January and February. That was seven times as many minors as crossed in the same period last year. The office said 1,119 of the latest young migrants were not accompanied by adults.The office and U.N. rights organizations said the Darien Gap crossing has now become an established route for migrants heading from South America to the U.S. border. “Year by year the number of migrants crossing thr...

Saskatchewan budget projects $1B surplus, more money for health care

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:19:29 GMT

REGINA — The Saskatchewan government projected a $1-billion surplus in its budget Wednesday, with no new taxes and millions in new spending.The budget for the coming fiscal year is fuelled by higher non-renewable resource and tax revenue, which Finance Minister Donna Harpauer said reflects “balanced management.”Harpauer said the government is to use much of the surplus topay down debt, but there is $431 million in new health-care funding.“When we can, I think it’s very important to break down debt,” she told reporters. “It goes to good balance.” The 2023-24 budget projects revenues of $19.7 billion, a nearly 15 per cent increase from last year’s budget.The government expects to spend $18.7 billion, with $7.1 billion earmarked for health care and $4 billion for child care, as well as primary and post-secondary education.Operating debt is expected to fall to $7.5 billion. Gross debt, which includes the debt of Crown corporations, is pegged at $30.9 billion. Critics said the budg...

Senate votes to keep 2001 authorization for war on terror

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:19:29 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to continue congressional authorization for the use of military force in the global fight against terror, turning back an effort by Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul to repeal the 2001 measure.Senators rejected the amendment 86-9 as they are debating a separate repeal of two authorizations of military force in Iraq. There is broad bipartisan support to withdraw that congressional approval granted in 1991 and 2002 for military strikes against Saddam Hussein’s regime. While those two authorizations are rarely used and focused on just one country, Iraq, the 2001 measure gave President George W. Bush broad authority for the invasion of Afghanistan and the fight against terrorism, approving force “against those nations, organizations, or persons” that planned or aided the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Passed in October 2001, it is still used to this day to justify U.S. military action against terror groups — including al-Q...

A hectic week for abortion policy with laws and lawsuits

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:19:29 GMT

Nine months after the U.S. Supreme Court ended a nationwide right to an abortion, the landscape is far from settled, with lawmakers considering broader bans or stronger protections and legal challenges popping up nationwide.It’s been a hectic week for abortion policy with Republican-dominated states seeking to tighten restrictions, Democratic lawmakers trying to protect abortion access — and court fights playing out on multiple fronts.Here’s what’s happening: WHAT’S THE STATUS OF ABORTION PILLS?This question lies at the heart of the most closely watched current abortion-related lawsuit.A combination of two drugs is the nation’s most common method for ending pregnancies.But Alliance Defending Freedom, which opposed abortion, has asked a Texas judge to revoke or suspend the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s 2000 approval of one of the drugs, mifepristone. The legal question looms as the Biden Administration is working on rules to make the pills more widely av...