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Teen sentenced to 32 years in random shooting of businesswoman driving in St. Paul

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:39 GMT

A teenager who carried out a drive-by shooting in St. Paul, killing a bystander, received a 32-year prison term Tuesday.Yuliya (Julia) Li, a 34-year-old businesswoman driving home from shopping for a dinner party, died last year.Melvin Dump Williams (Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office)Melvin Dump Williams, who was 15 at the time and is now 17, pleaded guilty in June to second-degree murder while committing a drive-by shooting. As part of a plea deal, a charge of second-degree intentional murder, not premeditated, was dropped.Williams agreed to have his case certified to adult court, which is where he was sentenced Tuesday.According to the criminal complaint, Li was shot shortly before 7 p.m. Feb. 16, 2022, after leaving a supermarket where she bought food and other items for a dinner party she had planned for Feb. 20.She was behind the wheel of her 2017 Mercedes‐Benz on Payne Avenue. She was waiting for traffic to clear so she could make a left turn onto Cook Avenue when...

NYSP: Schenectady man arrested on felony drug charges

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:39 GMT

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- A 32-year-old Schenectady man was taken into custody on Thursday night following a traffic stop on Erie Boulevard. State Police observed a Vehicle and Traffic Law violation and discovered the driver, Jeremiah Torres, did not possess a valid driver's license. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! According to police, officers discovered a controlled substance, illicit drug packaging materials, and drug paraphernalia inside the vehicle. Torres was also found to have felony-weight narcotics on his person. Police charged Torres with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the third degree, Criminal Use of Drug Paraphernalia in the second degree, Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the seventh degree, and other Vehicle and Traffic Law violations. He was processed at SP Princetown and transported to the Schenectady County Correctional Facility pending arraignment.

Humble New Hampshirite dies with big secret, leaves town millions

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:39 GMT

HINSDALE, N.H. (AP) — Geoffrey Holt was unassuming as the caretaker of a mobile home park in New England, where he lived a simple but curious life. Residents would see Holt around town in threadbare clothes—riding his lawn mower, headed to the convenience store, parked along the main road, reading a newspaper, or watching cars pass. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! In this photo provided by Ed Smith, Geoffrey Holt rests his leg on top of his riding mower in Hinsdale, N.H., on April 4, 2020. Holt left the town of Hinsdale nearly $4 million when he died last June. (Ed Smith via AP)Town Hall catches the early morning sunlight, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, in Hinsdale, N.H. The small town in southwestern New Hampshire received a gift of $3.8 million from the estate of Geoffrey Holt, a longtime trailer park resident. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)In this photo provided by Ed Smith, Geoffrey Holt smiles on Sept. 12, 2022. Holt left the town ...

Three Amur tiger cubs born at the Saint Louis Zoo

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:39 GMT

ST. LOUIS --Three Amur tiger cubs were born at the Saint Louis Zoo on November 13, marking the first successful tiger births in over a decade. This event is a significant contribution to the population of Amur tigers in North American zoos. They are among the most endangered big cat species globally.The cubs' parents are Reka, a 5-year-old mother, and Maxim, an 11-year-old father. The mother and cubs are healthy and live in a private den within Big Cat Country.The first months of a tiger's life are crucial, and the Animal Care team is closely monitoring the family. Reka is attending to the cubs by cleaning, feeding, and keeping them warm. In the upcoming weeks, the cubs will undergo their first checkup with the Zoo’s Veterinary Care team. This examination will also determine the sex of each cub, with the naming process to follow. FOX 2 reporter, photographer victims of pellet gun drive-by Reka is originally from Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo. She arrived at the Saint Louis Zoo in 20...

Children’s Hospital Colorado needed 10 people to donate part of their livers to sick kids. More than 100 stepped forward.

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:39 GMT

So many Coloradans responded to a call to donate pieces of their livers that Children’s Hospital Colorado expects every child in need of a transplant this year will get one.Hopefully, others will show the same generosity next year, since additional local children will get sick and kids in other parts of the country are still waiting for life-saving organs, said Dr. Amy Feldman, medical director of the liver transplant program at Children’s Hospital Colorado.In early September, the hospital asked healthy adults to consider donating a section of their livers.Ten children were waiting at the time, and the University of Colorado Hospital hadn’t recovered as many livers from deceased donors as in previous years. Some of the children were at risk of becoming too sick to undergo the surgery if organs didn’t become available soon, meaning they would have been out of medical options.“If we could have 10 people step forward and donate to these kids, that would be...

Ridley Scott gives us only a partial picture in “Napoleon” | Movie review

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:39 GMT

“Napoleon” offers so much.The latest effort from the endlessly prolific filmmaker Ridley Scott, the historic epic dramatizes the fascinating life of French figure Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing his rise and eventual fall — only to be followed by a second rise and fall — and examining his love and, perhaps, downright obsession with his wife Josephine.Joaquin Phoenix appears in a scene from “Napoleon.” (Apple TV+)As it does so, “Napoleon” presents us with numerous battle sequences, the kind of spectacle-filled exercises at which Scott is so adept.And while it gets an uneven performance by Joaquin Phoenix — who certainly looks the part at roughly Napoleon’s height at 5-foot-8 and regularly wearing the bicorne hat, ends pointed to the shoulders, that is synonymous with him — it is lifted by the level of excellence from co-star Vanessa Kirby, as Josephine, that we’ve come to expect.It is fast-moving and generally entertaining.“Napoleon” offers so much. And yet it leaves us wanti...

CU Buffs QB Shedeur Sanders “day-to-day” to play in Utah game, Deion Sanders says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:39 GMT

Will Shedeur Sanders play in the Buffs’ regular-season finale at Utah on Saturday?Coach Prime’s got an answer to that one: Tune in and find out.“Sheduer’s not feeling well right now,” CU football coach Deion Sanders said of his son, the Buffs’ starting quarterback, who left last Friday’s 56-14 loss at Washington State in the first half with an undisclosed injury and didn’t return.“Right now, it’s a day-to-day situation with Shedeur. We’re praying he’s healthy and is able to play, because he is who he is. And when he’s on the field, we have a tremendous chance to win.”Sanders, a junior, completed 6 of 10 passes with a touchdown against the Cougars before leaving the game after his father said he couldn’t grip a football.The CU signal-caller was sacked four times in the first quarter. Sanders’ program leads FBS in sacks allowed per game (4.91) heading into the final weekend of regular seaso...

I-70 mountain Express Lanes to open longer hours for Thaksgiving, Christmas holiday travel

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:39 GMT

The Interstate 70 mountain Express Lanes will open for longer hours around Thanksgiving and Christmas to accommodate the expected busy holiday travel.Gov. Jared Polis in a Monday letter requested the Colorado Transportation Investment Office, the CDOT division that owns and operates state express lanes, to open the express lanes through the mountain to provide drivers more choices during the holidays, CDOT said in a news release.#CDOT #News: @GovofCO requests mountain #ExpressLanes be open more days over holiday season. #I70 mountain Express Lanes will be open multiple extra days over #Thanksgiving and #Christmas week.Details: https://t.co/ZhApAO7GmW#KnowBeforeYouGo pic.twitter.com/Ab2zRfLfO1— Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) (@ColoradoDOT) November 21, 2023“The public invested significant dollars to build these lanes, and as a matter of public trust, we need to make sure they are open when people need them,” Polis said in the letter. “This means weekends, holiday ...

Human smuggling boat intercepted off Malibu coast

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:39 GMT

A boat suspected of smuggling people illegally into the United States was intercepted off the coast of Malibu on Monday, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.The vessel was spotted during a routine patrol by the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Blackfin, the agency said in a statement. A smaller vessel, along with aircraft and law enforcement agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection were deployed and towed the boat to shore. Man arrested in alleged Uber human smuggling scheme 23 “undocumented non-citizens” were detained for entering the country illegally, officials said, and the boat was seized."These overloaded vessels are inherently dangerous, and our extensive partnerships in the area are essential to keeping boaters safe and enforcing the nation's customs and immigration laws,” said Commander Keith Robinson, chief of law enforcement at Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles - Long Beach.

Burbank painting business pays almost $500K to employees who worked overtime, DOL says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:39 GMT

A Burbank business kept nearly half a million dollars from more than 100 workers as overtime pay, then lied to investigators and said that the employees did not work overtime hours, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday.The Rodin Group, a paint and wall-covering company, paid more than $481,000 to the DOL after investigators found that 117 "employees worked on weekends routinely and, on occasion, worked double shifts on weekdays to exceed 40 hours in a workweek," the DOL said in a news release.The workers who were paid overtime were paid that amount in cash, and the Rodin Group did not "record or pay employees for required hours spent in travel and replenishing supplies," the release said. As a result of these "willful violations," the Rodin Group was charged more than $55,000 in civil penalties.“Our investigation found The Rodin Group deliberately tried to deny more than 100 employees their hard-earned wages, including overtime wages when some employees worked as many as 7...