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Minnesota man steals semi-truck, leads to police chase in St. Louis County

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:43 GMT

TOWN AND COUNTRY, Mo. - A man was taken into custody Tuesday evening after stealing a semi-truck.According to a spokesperson for the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the vehicle was stolen out of Minnesota, and the truck company had tracked it by GPS.Officers received a call just after 4 p.m. about the stolen vehicle. They had located the semi on Interstate 64 near Highway K and tried to stop the driver, but he refused to pull over, which then led to a chase. The pursuit's speed varied from 20 to 75 miles per hour. Top story: “Easter Miracle” for Lake St. Louis officer critically injured by suspected drunk driver Officers caught up with the suspect around St. Charles County; he then headed east into St. Louis County. The spokesperson said the driver then jumped out of the semi near Mason Ridge, and the truck rolled into a dumpster at Mason Ridge Elementary School to come to a stop.The driver fled on foot, running around the school before Highway Patrol troopers caught up with him a...

Keeler: LeBron James? Don’t care. If Jamal Murray is feeling it, there’s no NBA bully Nuggets can’t beat.

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:43 GMT

LeBron? Don’t care.CJ McCollum and Zion? Don’t care. SGA? Don’t care. Tim Connelly and his Walloping Wolves? Don’t care.Charles Barkley? Don’t care. Kendrick Perkins? Sooooo don’t care.Two words: Jamal Murray.If he’s great, or even just very, very good, nothing else matters when it comes to this Nuggets postseason. Not matchups. Not histories. Not demons. Not grudges. Not the noise.For Denver, the No. 1 seed who’ll inevitably be treated as a plucky inconvenience by a coastal NBA media machine who’d rather be hanging with King James, Kevin Durant or Steph Curry when the ratings come rolling in, this is the money stat:The Nuggets are 14-6 (.700) in postseason games since 2018 whenever Murray scores 20 points or more. They’re 2-11 (.154) when he doesn’t.That’s the kind of whopping, Jekyll-and-Hyde split that the Rockies usually put up when comparing their statistics at Coors Field to everywhere else on the planet. Cripes, the Nuggets are 8-4 (.667) when Murray goes for 25 points ...

Berkeley: UC police arrest suspect in sexual batteries

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:43 GMT

BERKELEY — Police arrested a suspect Tuesday allegedly connected to a series of reported sexual batteries on and around the University of California campus, authorities said.In a statement, a UC Berkeley spokesman said the case looking into the unidentified suspect was complex and still under investigation, and did not share any information about what led to the arrest.“UCPD would like to thank those in the community who have come forward to report encounters with the sexual battery suspect who was described in several previous WarnMe messages,” the statement read in part. “Additional similar crimes that occurred over the last week have been reported.”According to one campus WarnMe system message Monday, which shared images of a possible suspect taken from surveillance-camera footage, female students were approached around 1:30 p.m. last Wednesday in the Eucalyptus Grove and around 9:40 a.m. Sunday near Stephens Hall.“In both cases, the suspect gr...

Digging into SF Giants’ strikeout issues, and what they’re doing to address them

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:43 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants were in a hole Monday night, down to the Dodgers late in their series opener. But after stringing together three straight singles to start the seventh inning, they had the bases loaded with no outs and seemed ready to strike. Instead, they struck out.Bryce Johnson went down swinging on a high heater. Thairo Estrada watched strike three paint the inside corner. Wilmer Flores managed to put the ball in play, but with two outs already, his fly ball to right only served as the third out of the inning. Just like that, the rally was over.If it seems like the Giants have been uniquely bad in these prime scoring situations, you’re not wrong. And if it seems like those rally-killing Ks are coming at a record rate, well, they are. Dating back to the start of last season, no team has struck out more in bases loaded, no outs situations, and through 10 games this year, the only two teams in MLB history to have struck out more to start a season (the 2018 and 2021 ...

Judge in Oakland police oversight hearing avoids Armstrong controversy, seeks way forward

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:43 GMT

OAKLAND — The federal judge overseeing the Oakland Police Department didn’t have much interest Tuesday in discussing Chief LeRonne Armstrong, whose firing amid a misconduct scandal has ensured that he will not lift its oversight anytime soon.Instead, Judge William Orrick described how the cover-up of a police sergeant’s hit-and-run of a parked vehicle reflected a “cultural inability of the Oakland Police Department … to hold itself and its officers accountable without fear or favor.”The judge noted how the lack of accountability echoed “the same kind of problems” found in the infamous Riders brutality cases that first brought OPD under federal oversight two decades ago.“It’s this lack of integrity — this culture that plays favorites and protects wrongdoers — that undercuts the foundations of constitutional policing,” Orrick said. “And 20 years of court supervision hasn’t solved that problem, wh...

Video shows officers under fire from Louisville bank shooter

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:43 GMT

By Dylan Lovan, Rebecca Reynolds and Claire Galofaro | Associated PressLOUISVILLE, Ky. — Police body camera video released Tuesday showed the chaotic moments when police arrived at the scene of a mass shooting at a bank in downtown Louisville, as the shooter they couldn’t see from the street rained bullets down on them.The videos, taken from two wounded officers’ lapels, offer a rare perspective of police officers responding to a massacre that killed five and injured eight others Monday. One, a rookie officer, was shot in the head within minutes of arriving at the scene, as his partner was grazed by a bullet and sought cover while still trying to take down the shooter.Louisville Metro Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey walked reporters through edited footage and still photos at a new conference Tuesday and praised the responding officers for their heroism.They received the call of a shooting at Old National Bank at 8:38 a.m., and the two officers arrived three ...

Waymo vehicles pull over after encountering dense fog in Balboa Terrace

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:43 GMT

(KRON) -- Several Waymo vehicles appeared to be a little unsure of how to handle dense fog that impacted Balboa Terrace in San Francisco on Tuesday morning, Waymo confirmed to KRON4. Pedestrian dies in Tenderloin crash The company said the vehicles pulled over temporarily when they encountered the fog near San Aleso Avenue around 6 a.m. Once the fog in the area started to clear up, the vehicles were back on the move, Waymo said. "We have software updates planned to improve our fog and parking performance to address such situations in the future." -- WaymoThis isn't the first time a Waymo cruiser has had an unexpected response on San Francisco city streets. A self-driving car from the company stopped at a construction site in the city when it was unsure of what to do, Waymo told KRON4. Administrators with Waymo had the car moving again minutes later. KRON On is streaming now.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100...

Flaring event reported in East Bay

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:43 GMT

(KRON) -- A flaring event was reported at the Phillips 66 refinery in the Contra Costa County town of Rodeo on Tuesday. The refinery, located at 1290 San Pablo Ave, told KRON4 that it is experiencing a unit upset. Personnel is working to resume normal operations, but residents will see flaring. Contra Costa Health Services said that they have not received any reports of off-site health issues related to the flaring. A health services hazardous materials team responded to Rodeo to conduct air monitoring. This is a developing story.

California weighs how to improve outcomes for Black students

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:43 GMT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Legislature is weighing a proposal by Gov. Gavin Newsom to set aside $300 million for low-income schools. But some education advocates say it won’t do enough to improve educational outcomes for Black students.Assemblymember Akilah Weber, a Democrat from San Diego, introduced a bill last year aimed at ensuring more education money reaches Black students. But she pulled the bill after conversations with Newsom, citing concerns that it could violate the state or U.S. constitution because it focused on one specific racial group, even though it didn’t mention “Black” by name. The Democratic governor’s new approach, which Weber supports, instead targets money to schools with a high concentration of students who qualify for free lunch under a federal program.“This proposal is exactly what our state needs to work toward repairing the longstanding harms of inequity in education and ensuring our schools are more fair and accessible fo...

Arrestan a un hombre tras el choque que mató a su novia y su hija en Virginia

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:43 GMT

Un hombre del norte de Virginia está acusado de conducir intencionalmente hacia el tráfico que se aproximaba durante una discusión con su novia, matándola a ella y a su hija de 5 años.Mustafa Nofel Aljazairi, de 33 años, conducía hacia el norte por Dumfries Road el miércoles con Dorothy Fontain, de 33 años, y Empress Fontain, de 5 años, en el automóvil, según la policía. Las autoridades informaron que Aljazairi y Dorothy Fontain estaban discutiendo en el automóvil cuando Aljazairi estrelló intencionalmente su Chrysler 300 contra un Chevrolet Suburban que iba en dirección opuesta.Dorothy y Empress Fontain murieron en el incidente.La mujer de 46 años que conducía la Suburban resultó gravemente herida, agregó la policía.“Estábamos en su fiesta de cumpleaños de 5 años. [Ella estaba] llena de vida y del tipo de niña feliz y luego esa mañana tuve que despedirme de la nada”, lamentó el hermano de Dorothy Fontain, Derek Cicheskie.Cicheskie dijo que fue al hospital a despedirse d...