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Englewood officers cleared in fatal police shooting according to DA’s review

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:07 GMT

Two Englewood police officers who fired rifle shots, one of which killed a man inside a home from where a gun was fired at police outside, were justified under Colorado law in their use of lethal force, according to an investigative review of the police shooting that was released Friday.On the night of July 24, 2022, police responded to a home in the 5000 block of South Grove Street on a report of a man who was intoxicated and firing a gun inside the residence, according to the review. Multiple officers arrived, including Dirk Smith and Aaron Jarrett, who fired at Matthew Mitchell and Phillip Blankenship, brothers who were inside the home. Mitchell, 22 at the time, was hit in the chest by gunfire and died at the scene.Blankenship, who allegedly was intoxicated and had fired a gun inside his home prompting a 911 call to police, was arrested on investigation of attempted first-degree murder after he eventually walked out of the home and surrendered to police.Blankenship, according to ...

Harry Edwards, iconic Bay Area athlete and activist, facing the ultimate fight

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:07 GMT

Harry Edwards, a towering figure in Bay Area sports history known for promoting athlete activism, has no plans to stop fighting against racism and injustice despite suffering from bone cancer.“I am very much aware of the severity of the situation I am in and the reality of the circumstance,” he said in an hour-long conversation with the Bay Area News Group. “So you don’t spend a lot of time focused on the condition. You try to focus on the time you have remaining, realizing you are on the clock.”Best known for his role in the 1968 Olympic protests by San Jose State sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, ​Edwards​ also has collaborated over the years with some of the biggest names in pro sports​, including Colin Kaepernick, to give athletes of color a voice.Harry Edwards, a former SJSU sociology professor, speaks at San Jose State University as the school announces the return of the track and field program Monday morning, Aug. 1, 2016. The announcement was made next to the 24-foot-t...

Pristine Bay Area beach on clean-water ‘honor roll,’ but region has five of the grungiest

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:07 GMT

Lapping waves. Sand castles. Colorful umbrellas. Water with poop in it.You might get more than you bargained for at some Bay Area beaches.The annual Heal the Bay report is out this week, and five San Mateo County beaches made the “Beach Bummer” list for having ocean water heavily contaminated with fecal matter. Three were in Foster City, at Erckenbrack Park, Marlin Park and Gull Park. One was in Half Moon Bay, in Pillar Point Harbor at Capistrano Avenue. And one was on the open ocean: Pacifica’s main strand, Linda Mar Beach.“This marks the fifth consecutive report where San Mateo County has multiple Beach Bummers,” according to the report by the Los Angeles-based nonprofit that has been issuing the yearly water-quality Beach Report Cards for more than 30 years.Grades are based on water sampling at more than 500 West Coast beaches by county, state and tribal agencies, sanitation departments and effluent dischargers. For the Beach Bummer list, the water w...

Opinion: Cannabis industry is poisoning our kids just like tobacco has

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:07 GMT

When California voters in 2016 supported the legalization and decriminalization of cannabis, we did not anticipate children would become collateral damage from an improperly regulated industry that prioritizes profit over children’s health.What we now know is the marketing practices of the cannabis industry, which take a page from tobacco companies’ playbook by targeting children, are causing a direct threat to kids’ safety, wellbeing and overall health.Since the passage of Proposition 64, I have seen hundreds of young children become ill because they accidentally ate a product that contained cannabis. One in 10 children who consume cannabis end up in the intensive care unit. Eighty-seven percent of children under the age of 5 who are hospitalized due to cannabis toxicity have consumed the drug in the form of candy.The number of children hospitalized for cannabis toxicity in San Diego, where I practice, has quadrupled since the recreational legalization of cannabis products. E...

On the road again! Maryland’s MVA to resume normal operations for driving tests Tuesday

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:07 GMT

In another sign of putting COVID-19 in the rearview mirror, the Maryland Department of Transportation announced that it’s going back to its pre-pandemic policy for driving tests on Tuesday.The state’s Motor Vehicle Administration will be reopening its normal operations for driving tests on June 20.After the agency finishes observing the Juneteenth federal holiday, drivers taking an exam will have a driving instructor sitting in the passenger seat, the agency said Friday.Test takers will also be driving on an open road with an instructor — a shift from the pandemic-era closed-course driving that Marylanders may have gotten used to.The state’s transportation department previously stationed instructors outside vehicles on those closed courses to test drivers.Source

Retired DC police lieutenant pleads guilty after fatally shooting library officer during training

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:07 GMT

Retired D.C. police Lt. Jesse Porter Jr. pleaded guilty in D.C. Superior Court on Friday to killing a woman during an Aug. 4, 2022, training exercise for library officers at Anacostia Library.Porter was charged with second-degree murder while armed, unlawful discharge and possession of a firearm during a crime of violence or dangerous offense in the death of his trainee, 25-year-old Maurica Manyan. Porter was conducting the training as a private contractor.Under the terms of his plea agreement, Porter pleaded down to involuntary manslaughter while armed and unlawful discharge of a firearm.Involuntary manslaughter while armed carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. The maximum penalty for unlawful discharge of a firearm is one year behind bars. The judge will consider much lighter sentencing recommendations in the plea agreement during an Aug. 25 sentencing hearing, but the judge can impose any sentence up to the maximum.Family members of Manyan said during Friday’s c...

Overnight road closures on Maryland’s Route 90 to smooth over expressway

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:07 GMT

Heads up for beachgoers — part of the Ocean City Expressway will be closed starting Sunday night so that the road can be smoothed over, according to Maryland’s Department of Transportation.Milling and patchwork will be carried out on Maryland Route 90 between Route 50 and Route 113 in Worcester County. The road will be closed in both directions from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sundays through Thursdays.The roadwork could be completed by the end of the month, weather permitting, according to a release from the Town of Ocean City.The state’s department of transportation suggested some detours.Motorists traveling eastbound on Route 50:Continue east on Route 50 to Maryland Route 589 (Racetrack Road)Turn left onto Maryland Route 580 and follow to Route 90Turn either east or west on Route 90Motorists traveling westbound on Route 90:Continue west on Route 90 to Route 589Take a right onto the ramp to Route 589 south (left at light)Follow Route 589 to Route 50 and take Route 50 westEditor’s note...

“Revivió” de la muerte, y cerebros por $200 en Harvard: lo más insólito de la semana

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:07 GMT

Si crees que ya lo viste todo, estás equivocado. Estas son las noticias más insólitas de esta semana.LA ANCIANA QUE REVIVIÓ DE LA MUERTE EN ECUADORImagínate estar en un funeral y escuchar gritos desde el ataúd. Esta fue la aterradora escena que vivió una familia en Ecuador, cuando Bella Montoya “revivió” de la muerte.La mujer de 76 años había sido declarada muerta después de sufrir un derrame cerebral y un paro cardíaco, pero en realidad todavía estaba viva y respirando.“Después de unas cinco horas de velorio, el ataúd empezó a hacer ruidos. Mi mamá estaba envuelta en sábanas y golpeando el ataúd, y cuando nos acercamos pudimos ver que respiraba con dificultad”, dijo uno de sus hijos sobre el aterrador momento.CEREBROS HUMANOS POR $200 EN HARVARDUn aterrador escándalo sacudió a la prestigiosa Universidad de Harvard esta semana después de que se conociera que el gerente de la morgue robó y vendió restos humanos.Cedric Lodge, el gerente de la morgue, fue acusado de permitir que los co...

Police: Suspect pronounced dead after overnight ‘home invasion’ at Doral apartment complex

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:07 GMT

About more than a dozen Doral Police officers are at the scene at an apartment building in Doral after an overnight incident that led to a deadly police-involved shooting. Authorities are conducting an investigation for a home invasion at Amli Doral Apartment Homes on 41st Street and 115th Avenue, closing down part of 41st Street. Police arrived at the scene about three minutes after receiving a call about a break-in around 4:20 a.m. on Saturday.Officials reported that the victims are an elderly couple and a middle-aged man with no serious injuries. They say the suspect returned to the scene approximately one hour later, where officers then entered the residence. The suspect was shot by an officer after confronting the police, then collapsed outside of the residence. Police reported that the subject is deceased and their identity remains unknown. Staging areas were set up in front of the complex as well as across the street at a nearby shopping center. Please check back on WSVN.com ...

Putin meets with African leaders as Russia confirms nukes in Belarus

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:07 GMT

Russian President Vladimir Putin is meeting Saturday with a delegation of African leaders on a peace mission led by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. The meeting in St. Petersburg comes hours after Putin confirmed that Moscow has started moving nuclear weapons into Belarus.The African delegation — which also includes leaders of Senegal, Egypt, Zambia and the Comoros — met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Friday, when the Ukrainian capital was hit by Russian airstrikes.After Friday’s session in Kyiv, Zelenskyy said he could not see any outcome from a meeting between the African delegation and Putin, repeating that peace talks would be possible only after Russia withdraws from Ukrainian territory.Ties between the South African government — which leads the delegation — and Moscow have raised criticisms, especially among American officials, with the U.S. ambassador to South Africa accusing Pretoria of supplying weapons to Moscow.Last month, South Afri...