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Baltimore mayor calls for ‘youth curfew’ after 2 teens shot

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:01:49 GMT

The mayor of Baltimore called for a summer curfew after two teenagers were shot while police were attempting to break up a large crowd of minors Sunday night.A 14-year-old and a 16-year-old were shot and wounded as police attempted to break up fights among a crowd of more than 200 teenagers gathered at the city’s Inner Harbor area around 9 p.m., WBAL-TV reported.One of the victims was in critical condition and the other was stable, WBAL reported.Two suspects were arrested, police said, including one with a loaded gun who matched a description of the shooter and another who was found with a loaded gun in a police garage, WBAL reported.Following the shooting, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott announced his intention to implement a 9 p.m. curfew for anyone 14 years and younger and 10 p.m. for those younger than 17 during the forthcoming summer months, WJZ-TV reported.“I want everyone to hear me and hear me clearly,” Scott said. “We are going back to the old days. We will be enforcing a you...

Palo Alto: Woman’s sexual assault under investigation, police say

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:01:49 GMT

PALO ALTO — Police said they were asking for the public’s help in finding a suspect who sexually assaulted a woman in a pedestrian underpass this weekend, authorities said.In a statement Sunday, police said dispatchers received a call around 2:50 p.m. from a citizen who said he found a woman in the California Avenue pedestrian underpass who told him she had been sexually assaulted.Officers responded to the underpass, where they learned that the woman had been walking her bicycle east through the underpass when a man walking his bike westbound passed her.The woman said the man then struck her, and she fell. As the man then sexually assaulted her, she yelled for help. The man took her cell phone and fled. The citizen then came across the woman and called for help, police said.Other officers found the woman’s phone about a mile away in the 3000 block of Emerson Street and began processing it for evidence. Palo Alto Fire Department paramedics took the woman to a hospit...

Cruise recalls 300 robotaxis after Muni bus crash

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:01:49 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Cruise, the self-driving robotaxi service in San Francisco, has recalled the software on their autonomous cars. The CEO says it's because of an accident that happened back in March.KRON4 spoke with tech experts about what this recall means and the future of driverless cars.The experts say the recall is actually a good thing. It shows Cruise is working to improve its product. 5-year-old girl killed after shooting on I-880 in Fremont: CHP But what prompted the recall is troubling.After this driverless cruise car rear-ended a Muni bus in March, Cruise founder and CEO Kyle Vogt says they filed a voluntary recall with the National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration.The company then upgraded the software on 300 of its cars."The Muni bus has an unusual shape because it is two sections, so the movement was not something it had in its scenarios," San Jose State University professor and tech expert Ahmed Banafa.The cars use a combination of cameras and ...

Más de 30 millones de personas bajo alerta de congelación en todo el Atlántico Medio de EE.UU.

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:01:49 GMT

(CNN) — El invierno todavía se mantiene aferrado a través de la región del Atlántico Medio en Estados Unidos, donde más de 30 millones de personas están bajo alertas de congelación.Las advertencias de congelación están en vigor para Washington D.C. hasta las 10 am hora del Este de EE.UU. de este lunes, donde las temperaturas tan bajas como -1 grado centígrado son posibles. En Mount Holly y algunas zonas del sur de Nueva Jersey las temperaturas mínimas pueden rondar los -7 grados centígrados.Filadelfia está bajo una alerta de heladas hasta las 9 am hora del Este de EE.UU. de este lunes, donde se esperan temperaturas mínimas de -1 grado centígrado. Richmond, Raleigh y Charleston, en Virginia Occidental, pueden registrar temperaturas mínimas de hasta 0 grados centígrados.“Las heladas y las heladas matarán los cultivos, otra vegetación sensible y posiblemente dañarán las tuberías exteriores no protegidas”, advierte el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (NWS, por sus sigla...

Armada de Ecuador detiene a dos sujetos por narcotráfico que navegaban rumbo a México

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:01:49 GMT

QUITO.- La Armada de Ecuador informó este domingo sobre la detención de dos sujetos a bordo de una lancha de alta velocidad que transportaba presuntamente drogas y que navegaba cerca de las islas Galápagos, en una ruta oceánica con dirección a México.La Fuerza Naval, en un comunicado, indicó que gracias a una coordinación con la Policía, tras un vuelo de exploración marítima y la acción de la corbeta “Loja”, se logró la aprehensión de una lancha tipo “go-fast”, de alta velocidad, que en su interior ocultaba sustancias ilegales, presuntamente narcóticos. Enfrentamientos armados con narcos dejan policías muertos en México Golpe al narco: Colombia captura a 12 fabricantes de semisumergibles para traficar cocaína La operación tuvo lugar a 334 millas náuticas al oeste del puerto de Manta (en el oeste del territorio continental ecuatoriano), en el denominado “corredor sur de las islas Galápagos con destino ...

Lebanon still proxy battleground, 50 years after Israel raid

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:01:49 GMT

BEIRUT (AP) — It was a cold night 50 years ago when an Israeli commando team led by a man disguised as a woman infiltrated a posh Beirut neighborhood and shot and killed three top officials from the Palestine Liberation Organization in their apartments.The anniversary is little noted, but the April 10, 1973 operation has a relevance that continues today.The raid was one of the first times that Lebanon became the arena where Israel and its opponents would settle their accounts. Fifty years later, it remains so, as highlighted by last week’s exchange of rocket fire and airstrikes across the border between Israel and Palestinian militant groups in Lebanon.The boldness of the assassinations — by an Israeli team slipping in and out of Beirut with little resistance — stunned the Lebanese. At the time, two years before civil war erupted, their country was mainly known as a tourist attraction where visitors came to party, visit archaeological sites, ski on snow-capped mountains or sun...

78-year-old bank heist suspect: 'I didn't mean to scare you'

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:01:49 GMT

HARRISONVILLE, Mo. (AP) — A 78-year-old woman with two past bank robbery convictions faces new charges after authorities allege she handed a teller a note that said “I didn’t mean to scare you” during a recent Missouri heist.Bonnie Gooch is jailed on $25,000 bond after she was charged with one count of stealing or attempting to steal from a financial institution in the holdup Wednesday in Pleasant Hill, The Kansas City Star reports. No attorney is listed for her in online court records. She also was convicted of robbing a California bank in 1977 and one in the Kansas City suburb of Lee’s Summit in 2020. Her probation in the second heist ended in November 2021. Court documents filed in Cass County in the latest case said the robbery note demanded “13,000 small bills,” adding “thank you sorry I didn’t mean to scare you.” Surveillance video also captured her banging on the counter, asking the teller to hurry, Cass County prosecutors said. She smelled strongly of alcohol when officers s...

Inician proceso a operador de globo aerostático por homicidio y lesiones

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:01:49 GMT

(CNN) –La Fiscalía General de Justicia del Estado de México (FGJEM) informó este domingo en un comunicado que el piloto de una aeronave siniestrada el pasado 1 de abril en el municipio de Teotihuacán, fue vinculado a un proceso legal por los delitos de homicidio y lesiones.En audiencia celebrada este día ante el Juez de Control con sede en Almoloya de Juárez, esa autoridad determinó iniciar un proceso legal contra este individuo por el delito de homicidio en agravio de dos personas, un hombre y una mujer, y lesiones contra una adolescente.Incendio de un globo aerostático en Teotihuacán deja dos muertos y una menor heridaTambién estableció que prevalece la medida cautelar de prisión preventiva y el Órgano Jurisdiccional declinó competencia al Agente del Ministerio Público del fuero federal, por ser hechos de su competencia.Los ilícitos que se le imputan ocurrieron la mañana del 1 de abril, en el municipio de Teotihuacán, donde este sujeto operaba un globo aerostático que se sin...

DC Health asks residents to play a role in addressing ongoing rodent problem

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:01:49 GMT

D.C. leaders are working to address the ongoing rodent problem and are encouraging residents to take steps that will keep critters from coming back to the area.DC Health’s Rodent and Vector Control Division’s latest rodent control initiative includes citywide outreach, community walks and education efforts. Officials also plan to work with schools and private partners to get the word out.More DC NewsMore Local NewsOfficials recommend that residents clean trash cans weekly and the area where containers are kept to prevent rodents from feeding on debris and residue. Residents are also encouraged to keep lids tightly closed at all times, prevent overflowing and repair any damaged cans.Mayor Muriel Bowser’s fiscal year 2024 budget includes $3.4 million to replace every resident’s trash can over the next eight years — a move that is also expected to help keep rodents from feeding on trash.To file a rodent complaint in the District, contact the Citywide Call Center at 31...

France: 2 bodies found after Marseille building collapse

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:01:49 GMT

PARIS (AP) — Two bodies were found overnight in the rubble following an explosion that collapsed a building in the southern French city of Marseille, as rescuers continued searching for at least six people who are unaccounted-for, authorities said Monday. Firefighters noted “the particular difficulties of intervention” and said in a statement the judicial authority will proceed to identify the victims.Marseille mayor Benoit Payan tweeted Monday that “the pain and sorrow are great.” He expressed his thoughts for the families of the victims and “those who are suffering.” “Rescue and search operations are continuing, without respite,” he said.Payan told French media that more than 100 firefighters on site were searching for at least six people believed to have been trapped in the five-story residential building. “There is still hope” to find survivors, he said. The burning debris was too hot for dogs in the firefighters’ canine team to work until Sunday afternoo...