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Ex-officer pleads guilty in Colorado train crash that hurt handcuffed woman

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:34 GMT

DENVER (AP) — A former Colorado police officer pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of reckless endangerment for parking his patrol car on railroad tracks before a handcuffed woman was put inside and seriously injured when it was hit by a freight train.Pablo Vazquez had been charged with five misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment in connection with the crash that injured Yareni Rios last year but reached a plea deal with prosecutors. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox A judge sentenced Vazquez to 12 months of unsupervised probation. If he stays out of trouble during that time, the misdemeanor charge will be dismissed and the case will be sealed, the Weld County District Attorney's Office told FOX31.Another former officer who put the woman in the patrol car after a traffic stop, Jordan Steinke, was found guilty of reckless endangerment and assault for the crash near Platteville. A judge acquitted her of criminal attempt ...

Relatives pack court for Colorado funeral home owners' hearing

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:34 GMT

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Relatives who knew or feared their loved ones were among the 190 abandoned bodies found decomposing in a Colorado funeral home watched in person for the first time Tuesday as the owners of the business appeared before a judge.Jon and Carie Hallford, owners of Return to Nature Funeral Home, are accused of abusing corpses, stealing, laundering money and forging documents. Standing in handcuffs and orange jail clothes, they didn’t speak or enter pleas during a brief hearing. Polis to Biden: Reschedule marijuana before 2024 The Colorado Springs-based funeral home's facility in Penrose, a Rocky Mountain town of about 4,000 people, is where investigators in early October discovered dozens of stacked bodies. Some had death dates as far back as 2019, according to a federal affidavit.Family members were falsely told their loved ones were cremated, receiving substitute materials that were not their ashes, court records allege.'I don’t believe a human coul...

Police investigating after man shot in Brockton

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:34 GMT

An investigation got underway in Brockton Tuesday after a shooting sent a man to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said.A Brockton police spokesperson in a statement said the shooting happened around 6:15 p.m. near the intersection of Lexington Street and Green Street. The spokesperson said an investigation into the shooting was ongoing as of around 8 p.m. and asked anyone with information about the case to contact detectives at 508-941-0200.Investigators were still on scene near 9 p.m., with evidence markers spotted around a vehicle and crime scene tape in place.No further information was immediately available.This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest updates.

Joe Biden wraps up visit to Boston after trio of campaign fundraisers

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:34 GMT

Joe Biden left Boston Tuesday night and headed back to the White House, capping off a day spent at a series of political fundraisers where he spoke on a variety of topics and was met with some protests.Biden arrived aboard Air Force One at Logan Airport just before 12 p.m. Once the plane landed, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu were on the tarmac to greet the president. News cameras from a distance spotted the group exchanging pleasantries for a few minutes before Biden, Healey and Wu got into their motorcades and went their separate ways. Soon speaking at one of three campaign receptions, Biden made news, saying “If Trump wasn’t running, I’m not sure I’d be running.” “We cannot let him win,” Biden said, as reported by the Associated Press.While Biden continued to move through his slate of events, hundreds of pro-Palestinian protestors took to the street outside his third and final stop at the Shubert Theatre. Amid chants of “Free Pale...

Red Sox trade Alex Verdugo to Yankees for pitching

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:34 GMT

Alex Verdugo is heading to the Bronx.As first reported by MLB insider Jeff Passan, the Red Sox and Yankees made a rare trade on Tuesday evening. In exchange for their longest-tenured outfielder, Boston receives three right-handers: Richard Fitts, Greg Weissert, and Nicholas Judice.Judice wasn’t in the Yankees’ Top 30, but Fitts was their No. 12 prospect. According to Double-A managers, the latter exhibited the best control of any pitcher in the Eastern League this season.Of the trio, Weissert is the only one who’s debuted; he made 29 relief appearances in pinstripes between 2022-23, and posted a 4.60 ERA across 31 1/3 innings.Verdugo is in his final year of arbitration, and has been the subject of trade rumors for several months.This is the 49th trade in the storied rivalry’s long and chaotic history, but only the seventh in the last half-century. It’s also notable in the symbolic sense; Verdugo was the centerpiece of the Mookie Betts trade, the most si...

Chicago White Sox agree to 2-year deal with pitcher Erick Fedde, the reigning MVP of the KBO

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:34 GMT

Erick Fedde will look to carry his success in the Korea Baseball Organization back to the major leagues after signing a two-year deal with the Chicago White Sox for $15 million, a source confirmed to the Tribune on Tuesday.The addition is pending a physical. ESPN’s Jeff Passan had the initial report.The right-handed pitcher, 30, isn’t a stranger to MLB, having made 88 starts in 102 career appearances.Fedde has a career 21-33 record with a 5.41 ERA during six seasons with the Washington Nationals. He has 352 strikeouts and 191 walks in 454 1/3 major-league innings.He had a terrific 2023 with the NC Dinos of the KBO, going 20-6 with a 2.00 ERA in 30 starts. He had 209 strikeouts and 35 walks in 180 1/3 innings.Fedde set MLB career highs in wins (7), strikeouts (128) and innings pitched (133 1/3) in 2021. Overall, he went 7-9 with a 5.47 ERA in 29 outings (27 starts).He matched the career-high in starts (27) while going 6-13 with a 5.81 ERA in 2022.Fedde earned MVP honors a...

Man arrested after San Diego school mass shooting threat

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:34 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A man suspected of threatening to commit a mass shooting Friday at Shoal Creek Elementary School in Carmel Mountain Ranch was arrested, authorities said.Police found and apprehended Lee Lor, 38, after the threat was communicated to a third party, Lt. Adam Sharki with the San Diego Police Department said in a news release Tuesday. Lor faces one felony county of making criminal threats, according to SDPD. He has a no-bail hold and is prohibited from possessing or purchasing any firearms. Thieves swarm, rob FedEx truck making deliveries in Chula Vista A criminal protective order was also issued to protect Shoal Creek Elementary School.Anyone with information about the incident should contact the San Diego Police Department’s Northeastern Division at 858-538-8024 or Crime Stoppers. 

Toronto Police seek help identifying vulnerable person

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:34 GMT

Toronto police have released a photo of a vulnerable person in hopes of helping to identify him.Officers first interacted with the man on Monday, December 4, at around 12:15 a.m. in the Queen Street East and Knox Avenue area.“The man was unable to identify himself,” a release states.He’s described as 25 years old, five foot seven with a thin build and brown hair.He was wearing a Toronto Maple Leaf jersey, black pants and running shoes.“Investigators are looking to identify this male to put the minds at ease of any concerned family or friends,” police said.

China raises stakes in cyberscam crackdown in Myanmar, though loopholes remain

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:34 GMT

BANGKOK (AP) — China is ramping up a crackdown on online scams operated by criminal syndicates in border areas of military-ruled Myanmar in an effort that has included a shootout, confession videos and national TV broadcasts of arrests of high-profile suspects.But the drive has been confined to a limited area and appears unlikely to root out the kingpins behind the human trafficking and other illicit activities aimed at cheating people of their savings via phone calls and online overtures, schemes that are thought to generate tens of billions of dollars in revenue a year. Over the summer, China announced a series of joint operations with neighboring countries that led to thousands of people being returned to China, many of whom had been lured by the promise of high-paying jobs. Experts say many are victims who were forced into conducting the scams. Those campaigns did not include arrests of ring leaders in Myanmar.“As soon as we discover them, we hand them over,” said Lu Jiantang, t...

McHenry County Jail inmate found dead in cell

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:34 GMT

WOODSTOCK, Ill. — An inmate at the McHenry County Adult Correctional Facility was found dead in his cell on Tuesday afternoon, authorities say.According to McHenry County deputies, a 74-year-old man was found unresponsive around 4 p.m. in a single-occupied booking cell at the facility, which is located in Woodstock Vinyl record shops report surge in burglaries, shoplifting Deputies say Corrections officers and Woodstock Fire and Rescue crews began performing life-saving but were unsuccessful. The inmate was then pronounced dead at the scene.Authorities have not yet identified the man, and deputies say, in compliance with sheriff’s office protocol and state law, an investigation by the McHenry County Major Investigation Assistance Team is now underway.