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Regional anti-crime summit happening today

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:31 GMT

ST. LOUIS - St. Louis metro officials are meeting Wednesday for a regional crime summit. The East-West Gateway Council of Governments is hosting the event.Leading experts in crime and public safety will talk about ways to prevent crime. The goal of the meeting is to create collaboration between governments to create a regional strategy to fight crime Illinois girl abducted at 9 found safe 6 years later in North Carolina; mom charged FOX 2 spoke with police earlier this week after the chaos that was seen downtown this past weekend. They said they would be discussing plans to fight crime this upcoming weekend during Wednesday's summit and during the weekly press briefing from police Wednesday.

This ice cream shop in south Denver is a life-changing experience

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:31 GMT

Editor’s note: This is part of our series, Hidden Gems, in which we take a look at those restaurants you should know about but may not. They are either tucked away in strip malls or otherwise off the beaten path.Try their Try them out, and if you like what you eat, pass the word.Like the times I slaughtered a turkey, took off my clothes at a nudist camp’s karaoke night, and lobbied for bull testicles to get their own food holiday, it started with a story assignment. In summer 2020 there was a new ice cream delivery operation and I, in what I consider my crowning professional achievement, had somehow netted myself a reputation as one of Denver’s premier ice cream journalists, and so an editor commanded me to check it out. I obliged.In those early pandemic days, David Right packed up his car with his homemade frosty pints and dropped them at customers’ doors. Like so many firsts of summer — first kiss, first leap off the high dive, first bite of Right Cream — I still remember th...

8-year-old boy killed, 2 siblings critically injured in California crash

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:31 GMT

An 8-year-old boy died when the car he was riding in was broadsided by a car that appeared to have crossed into oncoming traffic in Riverside on Tuesday, May 16, the Riverside Police Department said.Two others in the car that was hit, a 10-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy, were in critical condition, said Officer Ryan Railsback, a police spokesman.Riverside police investigate a collision on Arlington Avenue on May 16, 2023, that killed an 8-year-old boy and critically injured two siblings. Police said this white car appeared to have crossed into oncoming traffic. (OCSCENE.TV) A home surveillance video obtained by KABC/7 shows a grey car, in which the children were riding, heading eastbound on Arlington Avenue near Stover Avenue at about 7:30 a.m. A white car, headed west, can be seen skidding on the eastbound shoulder of Arlington and stirring up dust. The driver of the grey sedan brakes and moves to her left. But the white car then hits the grey car on the passenger side.Th...

California man whose hand was severed in sword attack described as polite, helpful

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:31 GMT

A homeless man in his 60s whose hand was severed in a sword attack on Saturday was described Tuesday by a downtown Riverside sandwich shop manager as being polite and helpful.Police, meanwhile, were continuing to search for the person who attacked him.The severed hand was found on a sidewalk at 5th Street and Fairmont Boulevard Saturday evening around 10:30 p.m., about the time the victim showed up at a hospital.Riverside Police spokesman Ryan Railsback said the victim was sent into surgery and is expected to survive. He did not know Tuesday if doctors were able to reattach his hand or if the man remained in the hospital.Michelle Lopez, a 24-year-old Riverside resident and general manager at Cheba Hut in Downtown Riverside, launched a GoFundMe to help support the victim, who is known locally as Jeffrey. She described him as sweet, helpful, and polite and said he came into the shop regularly and helped with tasks in exchange for food.Lopez said she learned about the assault after a p...

New high school basketball rule to eliminate one-and-one free throws

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:31 GMT

 High school basketball players are known to practice free throws but a rule change announced Monday might provide them incentive to take a few more shots.Starting this upcoming season, teams will shoot two free throws for common fouls when in the bonus, the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) announced.The change eliminates the one-and-one scenario for the bonus, and doesn’t stop there.Related ArticlesHigh School Sports | Longtime St. Joseph Notre Dame assistant replaces legendary coach High School Sports | Prep mailbag: Debut edition tackles the age-old question, ‘Will private and public schools ever be separated in the playoffs?’ High School Sports | St. Francis names Rodney Tention as its new boys basketball coach High School Sports | Prep basketball: Burlingame boys coach resigns after cancer diagnosis High School Sports | Another Bay Area high school basketball star transfe...

Opinion: Book bans indicate we really don’t want discussion in schools

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:31 GMT

Do you believe in discussion in our schools? Or do you want the schools to discuss just what you believe?That’s the big question that all Americans need to ask themselves right now. And everything — really, everything — hinges on the answer.Witness two recent news stories, both involving book censorship. In Florida, state officials worked with the publisher of a middle school social studies textbook to remove a passage about Black Lives Matter. A second publisher asked the author of a children’s book on the Japanese American internment to revise her author’s note about racism.We don’t know why Florida objected to the BLM passage, which noted that “many Americans sympathized with the Black Lives Matter movement” while other people criticized looting and violence and denounced BLM as anti-police. But here’s what we do know: The book provided multiple perspectives on BLM, which is exactly what our students need in order to make sense of it themselves.To Gov. Ron DeSantis and his suppor...

California man charged with stealing U.S. trade secrets to do business in China

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:31 GMT

A Rancho Cucamonga man has been charged with stealing sensitive software from two Southern California companies and using it to market his competitive company to work with Chinese businesses, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Tuesday, May 16. The technology can be used in sensitive manufacturing and military applications.64-year-old Liming Li, who was arrested at Ontario International Airport on May 6 upon returning from a trip to Taiwan, could face up to 10 years in federal prison if convicted. Li had been attempting to meet with Chinese contacts on the Taiwan trip, according to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court May 5.Between 1996 and 2019, Li had been working at the two U.S. technology companies working on software development and engineering, according to the affidavit. In 2019, the second company tipped off the FBI after it discovered Li had been downloading software into a folder called “China Government” on his personal hard drive, the affidavit said.The “China Government”...

3 arrested in California jewelry store smash-and-grab after police pursuit ends in crash

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:31 GMT

A 20-year-old Los Angeles man and two juveniles were arrested on suspicion of robbing a Tustin jewelry store Tuesday, May 16, before leading police on a chase that ended with a crash in Westminster, police said.Authorities received calls of a smash-and-grab robbery at The District at Tustin Legacy store around 2:30 p.m. Suspects fled in a white SUV when police arrived, according to the Tustin Police Department.Kristen Tytrell Woods and the two other suspects, also male, eventually crashed in Westminster in the area of Westminster and Bolsa Chica boulevards, but fled on foot before they were finally apprehended, police said. No injuries were reported. #policeactivity UPDATE:We assisted Tustin PD with an area search for robbery suspects who crashed in Westminster after a pursuit. WPD and the other agencies located 3 suspects, who were taken into custody without incident. The traffic impact should be gone within an hour. pic.twitter.com/VGLevsRruY— Westminster Police Departmen...

Lakers’ fourth-quarter rally falls short as Nuggets win Game 1

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:31 GMT

DENVER — Forget the mile-high altitude, the strength-sapping lack of oxygen found here at the base of the Rocky Mountains, the Lakers looked as if they were running through waist-deep mud in the early minutes of Game 1 of the Western Conference finals on Tuesday night.Blame the Denver Nuggets, too. They ran circles around the Lakers while taking a 132-126 victory at Ball Arena, avoiding losing home-court advantage in the best-of-seven series, as the Memphis Grizzlies and Golden State Warriors did in the first two rounds of the playoffs.The Lakers just couldn’t match the Nuggets’ early energy.“It took us a half to get into the game,” LeBron James said. “That was pretty much the ballgame right there. We’ve got to understand we’ve got to start from the tipoff. They punched us in the mouth to start. They had (as many) offensive rebounds (13) as we had total rebounds (13) in the first half.”But then a funny thing happened in the second half.The Lakers rallied, narrowing what had been a 2...

Spurs win NBA draft lottery, right to select Victor Wembanyama

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:31 GMT

By ANDREW SELIGMAN | AP Sports WriterCHICAGO — Victor Wembanyama is set to follow in the footsteps of David Robinson and Tim Duncan, and the San Antonio Spurs are ready to welcome the French phenom.It sure seems like an ideal pairing.The Spurs hit the lottery jackpot on Tuesday, landing the No. 1 pick and the right to draft one of the most highly touted prospects in NBA history.Not since LeBron James made the jump from St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, to the NBA two decades ago has a player come with this much fanfare. At 7-foot-3 and with the ability to shoot like a wing player and pass like a point guard, the 19-year-old Wembanyama is expected to make an immediate impact.And he had a message for San Antonio.“I’m trying to win a ring ASAP,” Wembanyama told ESPN after the lottery results. “So be ready.”It’s the third time the Spurs have won the lottery, and on both previous occasions they made picks that paid off for decades. They chose Robinson in 19...