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Delaware House committee advances police accountability and transparency bills

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:13:39 GMT

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Two bills aimed at greater transparency and public accountability in cases alleging misconduct by police officers cleared a Democrat-led House committee on Wednesday despite concerns by reform advocates that they do not go far enough.One measure targets the current confidentiality provisions in Delaware’s Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights, or LEOBOR, which critics claim have been used to shield information from the public regarding officers who have been disciplined for misconduct.The other bill establishes a new Police Officer Standards and Training Commission, which would replace Delaware’s Council on Police Training. The legislation also shifts responsibility for administrative support and oversight of mandatory training and education programs for police officers from the Delaware State Police to the Department of Safety and Homeland Security. It also requires that every police department, large or small, be accredited by July 2028. Currently only 21 of ...

Holy smokes! How this smog came all the way from Canada

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:13:39 GMT

Haze blankets over monuments on the National Mall in Washington, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, as seen from Arlington, Va. Smoke from Canadian wildfires is pouring into the U.S. East Coast and Midwest and covering the capitals of both nations in an unhealthy haze. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)So how did this smoke get here, and can we expect more? A local scientist says they have been impacted by both local weather and broader climate trends.“I’ve lived in Maryland, about 40 years, and this is the worst air quality from a forest fire I’ve ever seen,” University of Maryland atmospheric and oceanic scientist Russell Dickerson told WTOP.The smoke hails from wildfires burning across the western provinces to Quebec. Dickerson told WTOP that these intense fires are hot enough to create their own weather.“The fires are so big and so hot. They generate a special kind of cloud; we call it pyrocumulus. The air, full of smoke, rises up high in the atmosphere, where it has a longer lifetime and can ...

49ers ‘ecstatic’ to have Javon Hargrave on their side to bolster pass rush

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:13:39 GMT

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Trent Williams had seen more than enough of Javon Hargrave in San Francisco’s NFC title game loss at Philadelphia to know what kind of impact he can have as an interior pass rusher.So when the All-Pro tackle found out this offseason that Hargrave was joining the 49ers’ stellar defense, he was overjoyed about the possibilities. “We know what he can do,” Williams said Wednesday. “I was ecstatic that we don’t have to see him on the other sideline again. That guy’s a heck of a playmaker. It sometimes seems unreal that we got a player like that to add to the type of defense we have. But I said it before, I’ll say it again, those guys up in the front office, they work magic. So we add another playmaker, another great player to the defense. I’m just eager to see him this season.”The Niners signed Hargrave to a four-year, $84 million contract this offseason to strengthen an already talented defensive front that featured Defensive Player of the Ye...

Puerto Rico enfrenta una “situación peligrosa” tras alcanzar un índice de calor de 125 grados

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:13:39 GMT

Puerto Rico soportó temperaturas que alcanzaron los 125 grados Fahrenheit esta semana, según el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, ya que el territorio estadounidense experimenta condiciones de calor excesivo que continuarán durante otra semana. La isla tropical ya experimentó temperaturas mínimas y máximas récord para esta época del año el lunes y el martes, cuando saltó a 95 grados. Pero el índice de calor, que mide cómo se siente la temperatura en el cuerpo humano, superó los 120 grados Fahrenheit el martes en partes de Puerto Rico, llegando incluso a 125 en los pueblos del norte. Hasta 118 grados: Puerto Rico está bajo aviso de calor excesivo Qué hacer cuando quedas atrapado en un golpe de calor La combinación de un sistema de baja presión cerca de Florida y un sistema de alta presión justo al este de Puerto Rico ha formado esencialmente una “cúpula de calor” que ha permanecido estancada en el mismo lugar durante var...

Against all odds, Mexico’s endangered vaquita porpoise is hanging on in Gulf of California

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:13:39 GMT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Against all odds, the remaining handful of Mexico’s endangered vaquita porpoises are holding on in their only habitat in the Gulf of California, according to a new research expedition report released Wednesday.Experts on the expedition estimate they saw from 10 to 13 of the tiny, shy, elusive porpoises during nearly two weeks of sailing in the gulf last month.That is a similar number to those seen in the last such expedition in 2021. Because they are so small and elusive, many of the sightings through powerful binoculars are categorized as probable or likely. The animals also emit “clicks” that can be heard through acoustic monitoring devices.Experts from Mexico, the conservation group Sea Shepherd and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said they sighted at least one and probably two calves, as immature vaquitas are known, raising hopes for the survival of the world’s most endangered marine mammal. They said there may be more vaquitas out the...

Steve Bannon subpoenaed in January 6 probe

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:13:39 GMT

Steve Bannon appears in court in New York, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)(AP/Steven Hirsch) Steve Bannon appears in court in New York, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)(AP/Steven Hirsch) (CNN) — Steve Bannon, a right-wing podcast host and former White House adviser to Donald Trump, was subpoenaed to provide documents and testimony to a federal grand jury investigating January 6, 2021, according to a person familiar with the matter. Bannon was subpoenaed roughly a month ago. Neither Bannon nor his attorney responded to request for comment. The subpoena was first reported by NBC News. Bannon was among the Trump allies spreading falsehoods t...

Soto’s 5 hits, Sánchez’s 4th homer in 9 games lift Padres over Mariners 10-3

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:13:39 GMT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Juan Soto had a career-high five hits with four RBIs, Gary Sánchez hit his fourth home in nine games since joining the Padres and San Diego routed the Seattle Mariners 10-3 on Wednesday.Soto had four singles and a double, raising his average to .265 with 10 homers and 31 RBIs as the Padres tied their season high with 17 hits. Soto had an RBI single in the fourth, a two-run single in the three-run fifth and an RBI double that boosted the lead to 10-0 in the seventh. Every San Diego starter except Trint Grisham had a hit.Matt Carpenter put San Diego ahead with a run-scoring single in the second, giving him 26 RBIs, and Sánchez hit a three-run homer in the third off George Kirby (5-5).Claimed off waivers from the New York Mets on May 29, Sánchez is batting .286 with 10 RBIs. He has four homers in an eight-game span for the first time since 2021 and is the first San Diego player to achieve the feat since Jake Cronenworth, also in 2021.Michael Wacha (6-2) allowed two hit...

Marshall Fire victims anxiously await answers on its cause

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:13:39 GMT

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — The Boulder County Sheriff's Office announced it will release details Thursday about what caused the Marshall Fire.“It's mixed feelings, because it won't change what happened, but maybe it'll bring closure to understand what happened," said Jessica Carson, whose home burned down in the Marshall Fire on Dec. 30, 2021.FOX31 and Channel 2 interviewed Carson back in December 2022, when her family moved into their newly built home on the same property where their house burned down just shy of a year before. She and one other neighbor are the only two back in the neighborhood, while several other homes are under construction and other lots are for sale."We have a yard and chickens, and we are excited to get some neighbors too," Carson said. Bill to cap pet deposits, fees in Colorado signed into law On Wednesday, Carson learned then that the investigation into what caused the fire had finished.“It won’t change the fact that we all lost our homes, but maybe ...

Search underway for missing 70-year-old woman, last seen at FLL airport

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:13:39 GMT

Authorities seek the public’s help in their search for a missing elderly woman who was seen at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office Missing Persons Unit, Caroline Woolery-Walters was last seen near 300 Terminal Drive at FLL, at around 6:30 p.m., Monday. Detectives said the 70-year-old was traveling from Jamaica to visit family in Philadelphia.Woolery-Walters stands about 5 feet, 1 inch tall, weighs around 135 pounds and has black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a yellow head wrap, yellow shirt and blue jeans. Officials urge anyone with information on her whereabouts to contact BSO Detective Leonard Charla at 954-321-4274 or BSO’s non-emergency number, 954-764-HELP (4357).

Stars of ‘The Blackening’ talk subverting horror genre expectations in new slasher comedy

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:13:39 GMT

Laughing and screaming comes from deep emotions … or maybe your vibrating underwear. Whenever we’re riding good vibrations, our thoughts drift to Alex Miranda. Being stranded in a cabin out in the sticks usually means something scary is about to happen. In the slasher comedy “The Blackening,” it’s dead on.Dewayne Perkins (as Dewayne): “What kind of house is this? No. No, thank you.”When it comes to the game of death, these seven friends have to pull it together.Antoinette Robertson (as Lisa): “I will spare your lives if you sacrifice the person you deem the blackest.”Grace Byers (as Allison): “The blackest?”Sinqua Walls (as Nnandi): “Nobody should judge anybody in here, bro.”Sinqua Walls: “This is a movie where you sat in the theater and heard people yell at the screen what they would do to stay alive, and in this movie, everything that people say they would do, we do.”A twisted killer plays so...