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DPS superintendent skips meeting with city council

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:53:20 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Public safety has been a key concern for students, parents and community members alike following several shooting incidents taking place at East High School in recent months. Monday, Denver City Council members hoped to have their concerns and questions addressed by Denver Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Alex Marrero, but that didn't happen.Some members of the city council said they have waited for years for the council and the school board to rekindle their relationship. The DPS superintendent dashed some of those hopes today when he did not show up for their joint meeting. Commerce City to hold council meeting following hit-and-run that killed a teen "I have been working in government for 11 years with the city council and I cannot remember the last time we sat down and attempted to convene with the superintendent of Denver Public Schools and the superintendent doesn't show — it shows me a lot," said Councilwoman Amanda Sandoval, representing District 1 in Den...

Chris Evans and Ana de Armas talk about Ghosted film

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:53:20 GMT

Getting ghosted sucks, I hear…But don’t feel too bad, it even happens to Chris Evans. Well, it happens to him in a movie that’s not really the same thing. However, it does make for a fun film. Especially when you add Ana de Armas, and a little bit of international espionage to the mix.This isn’t the meet-cute you think it is.Listen, Chris Evans and Ana de Armas have a really good reason for not answering the phone in Apple TV plus, Ghosted.Ana de Armas: “And then he screws everything up.”You tell ’em Ana!The actress plays Sadie, a secret agent.Ana de Armas: “The best of the best at the CIA. She’s the agent that, you know, that everyone would send to the most dangerous, you know, difficult mission.”Who gets way more than she bargained for when Chris’ character, Cole, falls for her and follows her across the pond.Chris Evans: “Cole gets kidnapped and then Sadie kinda is burdened with him throughout the movie.”Uh-o...

Police investigating after man allegedly threatens MBTA passengers with mini baseball bat

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:53:20 GMT

MBTA transit police asked for the public’s help Monday after they said a man allegedly entered a train with a mini-baseball bat and threatened passengers. Police said the incident happened on Sunday night around 9 p.m. at the Charles/MGH station on the Red Line. Police said the man began to threaten passengers, “stating he would give everyone a ‘beating.’”Transit police shared photos of a man, describing him as a person of interest in the case. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 617-222-1050. 

Boston police investigate stabbing at park in Roxbury

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:53:20 GMT

An investigation was underway Monday after a stabbing at a park on Ruggles Street in Roxbury, police said.Police said the incident happened Monday afternoon . One person was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest updates.

No charges for officers in Jayland Walker police shooting

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:53:20 GMT

By PATRICK ORSAGOS and JOHN SEEWER (Associated Press)AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio grand jury declined to indict eight police officers who fired 94 shots in the death of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man who fired at least one round at officers during a car and foot chase last summer, the state’s attorney general announced Monday.Walker was shot 46 times in a hail of gunfire that lasted just under seven seconds and roiled yet another city amid heightened tensions with police over the killing of a Black man that started with a routine traffic stop. Akron’s mayor and police chief urged residents Monday to protest peacefully, acknowledging that many are angry with the shooting last June that Walker’s family has called brutal and senseless.“Turn toward one other and not on each other,” said Mayor Daniel Horrigan.Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said the state’s investigation found that Walker jumped out of his still-moving car, ran from police...

Kuwait crown prince says parliament will be dissolved again

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:53:20 GMT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait’s crown prince has said its parliament again will be dissolved and new elections planned for the country after a court decision reinstated lawmakers from 2020. Sheikh Meshal Al Ahmed Al Jaber made the announcement Monday in an address to the nation as the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan draws to an end this week. He called the decision the will of the Kuwaiti people, according to the state-run KUNA news agency. Sheikh Meshal cited a Kuwaiti law allowing its emir to dissolve parliament, though it was him making the speech in the place of the country’s 85-year-old ruler, Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah. In March, Kuwait’s Constitutional Court threw out a 2022 election for parliament, citing “discrepancies” in the decree dissolving the 2020 parliament for its ruling. That briefly reinstated the former lawmakers. It wasn’t immediately clear if the order Monday took effect immediately, though analysts had expected parliament...

CBC ‘pausing’ its use of Twitter after ‘government-funded media’ label applied

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:53:20 GMT

TORONTO — CBC/Radio-Canada said it is “pausing” its use of Twitter, a day after its main account was labelled “government-funded media” by the social media platform.“Twitter can be a powerful tool for our journalists to communicate with Canadians, but it undermines the accuracy and professionalism of the work they do to allow our independence to be falsely described in this way,” CBC media relations director Leon Mar said in a statement announcing the change Monday afternoon.“Consequently, we will be pausing our activity on our corporate Twitter account and all CBC and Radio-Canada news-related accounts.”Mar added in an afternoon email to The Canadian Press that Twitter did not consult the public broadcaster before applying the label Sunday and thus, CBC has sent a letter to Twitter asking the company to re-examine the designation.Twitter updated CBC’s label to “70% government-funded” Monday evening, after a user on the platform ...

Court throws out Berkeley, California’s ban on natural gas

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:53:20 GMT

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday overturned Berkeley, California’s first-in-the-nation ban on natural gas in new construction, agreeing with restaurant owners who argued the city bypassed federal energy regulations when it approved the ordinance.The measure, which took effect in 2020 to cheers from environmentalists, was intended to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses that contribute to global warming. With some exceptions, it banned new residential and commercial buildings from installing natural gas piping in favor of electrical lines. A lawsuit by the California Restaurant Association claimed the regulation violated federal law that gives the U.S. government authority to set energy-efficiency standards for appliances such as stoves, furnaces and water heaters.The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco rejected a lower court judge’s decision two years ago that had upheld the Berkeley ordinance. In her 2021 decision, U.S. District Judg...

Judge seals Alec Baldwin settlement terms in fatal shooting

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:53:20 GMT

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The judge hearing the wrongful death lawsuit against actor Alec Baldwin and an array of producers and crew linked to a fatal film set shooting agreed Monday to seal from public view the terms of a proposed settlement agreement in the case that benefits the son of slain cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.The New Mexico judge said the right to privacy for Hutchins’ 10-year-old son overrides obligations for public disclosure and ordered that settlement documents and approval hearings be sealed in the civil lawsuit that argues that Baldwin and other film crewmembers ignored industry gun safety standards on the set of the Western film “Rust” ahead of the 2021 shooting.“What is driving my decision is really the interests of the minor child. And that is one of the very most powerful reasons to seal a matter,” District Court Judge Bryan Biedscheid said in a videoconference hearing of the Santa Fe-based court.Baldwin, an actor and coproducer of the film, was po...

Twenty-year-old charged with murder following stabbing death of teen on B.C. bus

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:53:20 GMT

SURREY, B.C. — A 20-year-old man from Burnaby, B.C., has been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a teenager on a Metro Vancouver transit bus last week.Seventeen-year-old Ethan Bespflug was killed on a bus in Surrey, B.C., last Tuesday. The province’s integrated homicide investigations team says 20-year-old Kaiden Mintenko was arrested Sunday and the charge was laid on Monday.Police say they are still working to determine the exact nature of the relationship between Bespflug and Mintenko but can confirm this was not a random attack.The teen’s family has said Bespflug’s mother realized something was wrong when she tracked her son’s phone to a hospital in New Westminster. When she arrived she was told he had died. The teen’s murder is among a series of violent incidents on commuter buses and trains in several Canadian cities recently. B.C. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said Monday that he has spoken to his federal counterpar...