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Owner facing animal cruelty charges after 2 dogs saved from hot vehicle in Quincy

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:44 GMT

A dog owner is facing animal cruelty charges after Quincy police say officers broke the window of a car to save two dogs on Friday.Officer Sean Klimas and Animal Control Officer Nicholas Malvesti responded to the parking garage on Hancock Street after receiving word that two dogs had been left unattended in a locked vehicle, according to police.After breaking a window, the dogs were turned over to animal control.The owner is now being charges with two counts of animal cruelty.No additional information was immediately available.

Chicago White Sox at the trade deadline: Lance Lynn, Joe Kelly go to Los Angeles Dodgers as Kendall Graveman sent to Houston Astros

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:44 GMT

Veteran Lance Lynn helped the Chicago White Sox to the playoffs in 2021.He’ll look to aid the Los Angeles Dodgers after the Sox reportedly traded the right-hander Friday.Joining him in Los Angeles will be reliever Joe Kelly, who previously won World Series titles with the Dodgers and Boston Red Sox.USA Today’s Bob Nightengale was the first to report the trade news.According to ESPN’s Jeff Passan, the Sox will receive Double A right-handed starter Nick Nastrini, Double A right-handed reliever Jordan Leasure and veteran outfielder Trayce Thompson, whose big-league career began with the Sox in 2015.The Sox are also reportedly sending right-handed reliever Kendall Graveman to the Houston Astros, according to Passan.With the earlier trade of Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo López to the Los Angeles Angels Wednesday, that’s five pitchers the Sox have traded ahead of Tuesday’s deadline.Lynn has one of the highest ERAs in baseball among qualified pitchers this s...

Teen shot at apartment complex near San Diego library branch

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:44 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A 17-year-old was wounded in a shooting Friday in the Bay Terraces neighborhood, authorities said.The gunfire occurred around 11:42 a.m. at an apartment complex in the 7800 block of Paradise Valley Road, located next to Skyline Hills Branch Library, Officer David O'Brien with the San Diego Police Department said in a news release.Witnesses told police they heard four to five gunshots, as well as the man firing the shots with a handgun prior to running through the complex. Fatal crash prompts road closures along I-805, SR-52 connector When officers arrived on scene, no victims were located. Around an hour later, a teenager walked into the Scripps Mercy emergency room with a gunshot wound to his right shoulder, telling staff he was shot on Paradise Valley Road, per SDPD. The victim's injury was confirmed to be non-life-threatening.Anyone with information related to the above incident is encouraged to call the listedCommand handling the investigation or Crime Stoppers at...

DeSantis shies away from Trump criticism at Iowa Republican dinner where both are speaking

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:44 GMT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vowed “I will get the job done” but shied away from attacking former President Donald Trump as the two top rivals for the Republican presidential nomination were making rare appearances at the same Iowa campaign event on Friday night.Despite Trump being charged a day earlier with additional counts over his retention of classified documents that could shake up the race, DeSantis stuck to his standard campaign speech, mostly targeting President Joe Biden. The Florida governor also repeated his frequent promise to halt the “weaponization” of the Justice Department, an allusion to Trump’s legal troubles, but offered no specific thoughts on the cases against him. That’s despite Trump also bracing to be charged soon in Washington over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.“The time for excuses is over. We must get the job done,” DeSantis said. “I will get the job done.”Trump frequently avoids attending mul...

Churchill Downs to resume racing at fall meet with no changes after horse deaths

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:44 GMT

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Racing will resume at Churchill Downs in September, with no changes being made after a review of surfaces and safety protocols in the wake of 12 horse deaths, including seven in the days leading up to the Kentucky Derby in May.The Louisville track suspended racing operations on June 7 and moved the rest of its spring meet to Ellis Park in western Kentucky at the recommendation of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, the sport’s national overseer.Training continued at Churchill Downs during the track’s investigation.Churchill Downs Inc. CEO Bill Carstanjen called the deaths “a series of unfortunate circumstances” and said the review “didn’t find anything fundamentally wrong or different about our track from previous years.”“That, in a sense, can sometimes be unsatisfying,” he said. “But that’s business, and that’s sports.”Two of the horse deaths occurred in undercard races on Derby day. Another five died later.“The takeaway is, the track is ver...

‘X’ logo installed atop Twitter building, spurring San Francisco to investigate permit violation

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:44 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The city of San Francisco has opened a complaint and launched an investigation into a giant “X” sign that was installed Friday on top of the downtown building formerly known as Twitter headquarters as owner Elon Musk continues his rebrand of the social media platform.City officials say replacing letters or symbols on buildings, or erecting a sign on top of one, requires a permit for design and safety reasons.The X appeared after San Francisco police stopped workers on Monday from removing the brand’s iconic bird and logo from the side of the building, saying they hadn’t taped off the sidewalk to keep pedestrians safe if anything fell.Any replacement letters or symbols would require a permit to ensure “consistency with the historic nature of the building” and to make sure additions are safely attached to the sign, Patrick Hannan, spokesperson for the Department of Building Inspection said earlier this week.Erecting a sign on top of a building also req...

Hundreds allowed to return home as wildfire crews make progress in B.C.

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:44 GMT

VANCOUVER — Evacuation orders and alerts covering hundreds of properties in southern British Columbia were rescinded or downgraded Friday as fire crews fought back against wildfires that have ravaged the province.Crews made good progress containing a wildfire about 10 kilometres south of Kamloops in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, allowing residents of 327 evacuated properties to return home, although they remain under alert and must be ready to leave again on short notice.The 26-square-kilometre Ross Moore Lake wildfire was sparked by lightning one week ago and forced the evacuation of properties from Lac Le Jeune to near the outskirts of Kamloops.The regional district said 18 properties remained on evacuation order but the City of Kamloops ended its evacuation alert for the Knutsford neighbourhood, southeast of the city, as the BC Wildfire Service reported cleanup was underway on the flank of the fire nearest those homes.The blaze was still listed as out of control, but gua...

3 charged in 2021 fatal shooting outside Mississauga restaurant

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:44 GMT

Peel Regional Police charged a 20-year-old man with first-degree murder, while two of his alleged accomplices were also arrested for the fatal shooting of a man outside a Mississauga restaurant.Police were called to the parking lot of a restaurant in the Mid-Way Boulevard and Columbus Road area just before 8:15 p.m. on September 22, 2021.When emergency services arrived, they located a male victim who was pronounced dead at the scene. He was identified as Mohamed Abdirahman.Police said the victim was in a parked vehicle outside a restaurant when a gunman approached and shot him at close range.On Tuesday, investigators arrested three men — 20-year-old Nigel Gutu and 22-year-old Parteek Ghuman, both of Stoney Creek, Ont., and 25-year-old Malachi Riley of Mississauga.Gutu was charged with first-degree murder, while Ghuman and Riley were charged with accessory after the fact to murder.The homicide investigation is ongoing, police said.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch issued for all of Chicagoland until 2 a.m. Saturday

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:44 GMT

A Severe Thunderstorm Warning has been issued for parts of Cook, DuPage and Kane counties until 8:15 p.m.A Severe Thunderstorm Watch has been issued for all of Chicagoland until 2 a.m. Saturday.A Flood Watch has been issued for Cook, De Kalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, LaSalle, Lake, McHenry and Will counties in Illinois, and Jasper, Lake, Newton and Porter counties in Indiana until 3 a.m.It's been a hot, steamy Friday with high temps which made it into the low and mid 90s—with dew points as high as 80-deg at a number of locations.And now we're monitoring for severe weather Friday and potential flooding rains.The Chicago area is at a Level 3 risk of severe weather on the storm prediction center's 5-tier risk scale and also the risk of excessive rainfall. Interactive Radar: Track showers and storm here There is potential for t-storms to train---i.e. fire repeatedly over some areas---thus producing potential flooding.  It appears the period from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. b...

Several K-9s die from heat distress when box truck A/C fails

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:44 GMT

LAKE STATION, Ind. — Authorities believe the combination of dangerous temperatures and malfunctioning air conditioning in a box truck led to the deaths of some police K-9s in Lake Station, Indiana. Police say the driver stopped at the Road Ranger gas station on Ripley Street to get the dogs out of their crates after hearing them bark. Nicole Lubarski witnessed the K-9 in distress.MORE NORTHWEST INDIANA: Indiana woman found guilty of chopping up husband with axe, asking kids to help dispose of body“I saw kennels lined up behind this white box truck and I honestly knew it had to do something with dogs and it was not well,” she said. “It was very chaotic. There were a bunch of people bystanders trying to help these dogs. There were so many people in the gas stations where dogs were cooling off at. A bunch of them had IVs.” As a dog mom of two, Lubarski said witnessing the K-9s in distress broke her heart.  "It dropped immediately because you have to think how intense that heat mus...