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Barrick Gold increases stake in Hercules Silver with $23.4M investment

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:00:01 GMT

TORONTO — Barrick Gold Corp. has signed a deal to increase its stake in Hercules Silver Corp. to more than 10 per cent with an investment of $23.4 million.Under the agreement, the gold miner will acquire 21,265,370 units in a non-brokered private placement at a price of $1.10 per unit.Each unit includes one common share and 0.32 of a common share purchase warrant. Each whole warrant will entitle the holder to acquire one Hercules common share at a price of $1.32 per common share for a period of two years.Barrick currently owns 5,291,500 common shares of Hercules or a 2.73 per cent stake. Following the private placement, Barrick will hold 26,556,870 common shares of Hercules and 6,804,918 warrants, representing a 12.33 per cent stake in Hercules on a non-diluted basis and 15.02 per cent on a partially diluted basis. Hercules is a junior mining company developing the Hercules silver project, northwest of Cambridge, Idaho.Hercules shares were up 19 cents at $1.12 in late-morning tradin...

US orders Puerto Rico drug distribution company to pay $12 million in opioid case

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:00:01 GMT

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — One of Puerto Rico’s biggest distributors of pharmaceutical drugs was ordered to pay $12 million after being accused of not reporting hundreds of suspicious orders for controlled substances, the U.S. Justice Department said Monday.Drogueria Betances, LLC is accused of not reporting at least 655 orders for fentanyl and at least 113 orders for oxycodone from 2016 through June 2019. The orders were considered suspicious given in part their frequency and size, the department said.The company also is accused of hundreds of record-keeping violations and of not submitting reports of its distribution transactions to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, including those involving opioids, from May 2017 to July 2018, officials said.In addition, the company was ordered to improve its compliance program and report suspicious orders to the DEA, among other things.Drogueria Betances did not immediately return a message for comment.The complaint filed by the U.S. g...

Cody Dorman, who watched namesake horse win Breeders’ Cup race, dies on trip home

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:00:01 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cody Dorman, the teenager who watched his namesake horse Cody’s Wish win at the Breeders’ Cup, has died. He was 17.Dorman died Sunday after suffering a “medical event” on the family’s way home to Kentucky after attending the world championships at Santa Anita last week, according to a statement from his parents posted Monday on Godolphin Racing’s social media account.Dorman was born with the rare genetic disorder Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, and the effects include delayed growth and development, intellectual disability, low muscle tone and seizures. He used a wheelchair.“With Cody’s diagnosis at birth, we always knew this day would come, but we were determined to help Cody live his best life for however long we had him,” the boy’s parents, Kelly and Leslie Dorman, wrote.Dorman first met the horse during a Make-A-Wish visit to Godolphin’s Gainsborough Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, when Cody’s Wish was a 5-month-old weanl...

Sex offender Randall Hopley removed his ankle bracelet to avoid court date: police

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:00:01 GMT

Vancouver police say high-risk sex offender Randall Hopley was likely worried about an upcoming court appearance and took “deliberate actions” to avoid it when he walked away from his Vancouver halfway house.Sgt. Steve Addison says at about 3 p.m. on Saturday Hopley told several people that he was going to a nearby thrift store, but removed his electronic monitoring bracelet a short time later and has not been seen since.Hopley has a history of convictions for assault, property and sexual crimes, including three sex offences against children.He was declared a long-term offender and handed a six-year prison term for the 2011 abduction of a three-year-old boy in southeastern British Columbia.Addison says Hopley was accused of violating his supervision orders earlier this year and had been released to a halfway house while awaiting the outcome of that case when he walked away.A Canada-wide warrant has been issued and Addison says the 58-year-old could still be in Vancouver ...

‘Some’ deaths after fire at Canada’s high commission in Abuja: Nigerian official

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:00:01 GMT

OTTAWA — A fire official in Nigeria’s capital said people died after blaze erupted Monday at Canada’s high commission in Abuja.“Some of the (people) were fatally injured, said Sina Abioye, head of operations for the fire service in the capital area said. “We are still trying to carry out our investigation.”He could not confirm how many people died or suffered injuries, nor when exactly the fire took place.Local media reported smoke appearing midday from the building, which is located in the diplomatic quarter of Abuja.Global Affairs Canada did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Data the department filed with the Senate foreign-affairs committee shows that as of August 2022, there were 12 Canadian diplomats posted in Abuja and 32 locally hired staff.This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 6, 2023.The Canadian Press<!– Photo: 20231106111128-65491459d3d41e9f95c4f762jpeg.jpg, Caption: Nigerian officials say there ha...

Car crashes into Naperville Apple Store; burglary investigation underway

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:00:01 GMT

NAPERVILLE, Ill. — A car crashed into the Apple Store in Naperville Monday morning and it was burglarized.Naperville police responded to the store, located in the 100 block of Jefferson Avenue, just after 6 a.m. on the report of a vehicle into a structure.No one was found at the scene. Officers are currently investigating the incident as a burglary and did not share more details. Police offer warning after early-morning carjackings on Far North Side At around 11:30 a.m., SkyCam9 was over the scene showing that the vehicle had been removed.WGN News will update this story once more information becomes available.

Monday Forecast: Temps in upper 60s with breezy conditions

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:00:01 GMT

CHICAGO — Temperatures near 70 degrees with breezy and cloudy conditions. Decreasing clouds with a 20 percent chance of scattered showers. Winds: WSW 15-20 G35. High: 68. Interactive Radar: Track showers and storms here Partly cloudy tonight. Winds: NNW 5-15. Low: 47.Tuesday Forecast: Mostly cloudy Tuesday. Winds: ENE 5-10. High: 54.Full forecast details and more at the WGN Weather Center blog

'Can't keep living like this': Ohio man's home struck by car for 4th time

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:00:01 GMT

ELYRIA, Ohio (WJW) – An Ohio homeowner is frustrated after his home was hit by a car for the fourth time since he's lived there.Dennis Campanalie, of Elyria, remembers waking up around 2:30 a.m., just moments before a speeding car crashed into his truck, car, preventative landscape and home. It was the fourth crash into his home in 30 years.“All of a sudden, I heard a crash inside my house,” Campanalie said. “I knew exactly what it was.” ODOT taking emergency action to help Cleveland homes plagued by crashes Before the crash, an Elyria patrolman heard screeching tires. The officer found a red Dodge vehicle at a nearby Speedway gas station and approached to question the occupant.The driver eventually began to flee from the officer, who was partially leaning inside the vehicle and subsequently dragged a short distance.The driver fled at a high rate of speed, eventually crashing into the home, which previously had been hit on three other occasions.Campanalie said he intentionally par...

Muslim college student at Stanford hurt in possible hit-and-run hate crime

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:00:01 GMT

(The Hill) -- An Arab Muslim student at Stanford University was injured in a hit-and-run incident Friday that is being investigated as a potential hate crime, university officials say.The student sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was receiving medical care, according to an alert Friday from the school’s Department of Public Safety. The alert said, “based on the circumstances reported by the victim,” the California Highway Patrol was investigating the incident as a potential hate crime.“The victim reported that the driver made eye contact with the victim, accelerated and struck the victim, and then drove away while shouting ‘f--- you people.’ The victim is an Arab Muslim student at Stanford,” the official community advisory read.“Stanford is continuing to work to provide a safe and secure campus environment in the context of heightened tensions related to the events in Israel and Gaza. This includes additional security that has been deployed at key locations on ca...

Colin Strickland continues testimony Monday at Kaitlin Armstrong murder trial

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:00:01 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Colin Strickland returned to the witness stand Monday in the murder trial for Kaitlin Armstrong. He began his testimony around 2:30 p.m. Friday. The State is still in its first line of questioning.Armstrong is accused of shooting and killing pro Cyclist Anna Moriah "Mo" Wilson at an east Austin home on May 11, 2022. Strickland was Armstrong's boyfriend at the time, and spent the day with Wilson before the shooting. You can catch up on the Armstrong case here.KXAN's Brianna Hollis will be in court Monday providing live updates of the trial on social media platform X: KAITLIN ARMSTRONG: The murder trial resumes today. Key witness Colin Strickland, in the hat and mask here, will continue his testimony. He was dating Armstrong at the time of the murder + the last person to see victim Mo Wilson. Live updates on this thread this AM @KXAN_News pic.twitter.com/Z18XknMmei— Brianna Hollis (@BriHollisNEWS) November 6, 2023 So far, Strickland has testified about this rela...