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Glacial dam outburst in Alaska’s capital erodes riverbanks, destroys at least 2 buildings

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:54:34 GMT

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Raging waters that ate away at riverbanks, destroyed at least two buildings and undermined others were receding Monday in Alaska’s capital city after a glacial dam outburst last weekend, authorities said. Levels along the Mendenhall River had started falling by Sunday but the city said river banks remained unstable. Onlookers gathered on a bridge over the river and along the banks of swollen Mendenhall Lake to take photos and videos Sunday. A home was propped precariously along the eroded river bank as milky-colored water whisked past. There were no reports of any injuries or deaths. The city said it was working to assess damages.Such floods occur when glaciers melt and pour massive amounts of water into nearby lakes. A study released earlier this year found such floods pose a risk to about 15 million people worldwide, more than half of them in India, Pakistan, Peru and China. Suicide Basin — a side basin of the Mendenhall Glacier — has released water tha...

Attorneys for 3 last-known survivors of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre appeal dismissed reparations case

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:54:34 GMT

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Attorneys seeking reparations for three living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre filed an appeal in the case with the Oklahoma Supreme Court and said a district court judge erred in dismissing the case last month.The appeal was filed Friday on behalf of the last known living survivors of the attack, all of whom are now over 100 years old. They are seeking reparations from the city and other defendants for the destruction of the once-thriving Black district known as Greenwood.“For 102 years… they’ve been waiting,” said Damario Solomon-Simmons, an attorney for the three, during a press conference Monday on the steps of the Oklahoma Supreme Court building. “They’ve been waiting, just like every other victim and survivor of the massacre, for just an opportunity to have their day in court.”Solomon-Simmons, who brought the lawsuit under Oklahoma’s public nuisance law, said he wants the high court to return the case to district court for...

Three-vehicle collision leaves one dead in Brampton

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:54:34 GMT

The Caledon division of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are investigating a fatal collision that left a motorcyclist dead in the Hurontario Street and Mayfield Road area of Brampton on Saturday.Caledon OPP responded to reports of a three-vehicle crash just before 2:00 p.m, where a 20-year-old motorcyclist from Woodstock was transported to a Toronto-area trauma centre. Her was later pronounced deceased.The OPP Technical Collision Investigators and Reconstructionists have assisted with the investigation that is ongoing. Anyone who may have witnessed the collision or has camera footage of the incident is asked to contact Caledon OPP.

MUST-WATCH: Time to stop some hearts

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:54:34 GMT

The second season of a beloved queer romantic drama has returned to the MUST-WATCH! But will it rule from the top spot, or could it go to a movie about making a bucket list in a zombie apocalypse? Perhaps a miniseries about losing your family and finding a new one? You’ll have to keep reading to find out!MixtapeWhere to watch: Paramount+Let’s start with a documentary about a pivotal innovation in musical history!Mixtape is a new documentary about the creation of (you guessed it) the mixtape. It focuses specifically on its role in hip-hop, as many rappers and DJs would share their work through mixtapes instead of going to record labels. Sampling was not yet a commonplace thing when hip-hop began in the late 1970s, so mixtapes were the only way for people to show off their work. This documentary features interviews with tons of legendary musicians, including KRS-One, DJ Khaled, and Lil Wayne.You can watch this documentary on Paramount+ now!Zom 100: Bucket List of the DeadW...

Second body found at Arizona State Capitol in less than two weeks

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:54:34 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — A body has been found on the grounds of the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix for the second time in less than two weeks, according to authorities.Arizona Department of Public Safety officials said the body was discovered Monday morning in the west parking lot of the Capitol.Public Safety officials are working to identify the body and how it ended up at the Capitol’s premises.On July 26, another body was found outside the Capitol by Phoenix police. DPS, which has jurisdiction over state Capitol property, is investigating that case as well. The identity of that individual, as well as their cause of death, hasn’t yet been released.DPS didn’t immediately return a call seeking information about the two cases.The Associated Press

William Friedkin, Oscar-winning director of ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘The French Connection,’ dead at 87

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:54:34 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — William Friedkin, the generation-defining director who brought a visceral realism to 1970s hits “The French Connection” and “The Exorcist” and was quickly anointed one of Hollywood’s top directors when he was only in his 30s, has died. He was 87.Friedkin, who won the best director Oscar for “The French Connection,” died Monday in Los Angeles, Marcia Franklin, his executive assistant for 24 years, told The Associated Press on behalf of his family and wife, former studio head Sherry Lansing. His son Cedric Friedkin told the AP he died after a long illness. “He was role model to me and to (my brother) Jack,” Cedric Friedkin said. “He was a massive inspiration.”He cemented his legacy early with “The French Connection,” which was based on a true story and deals with the efforts of maverick New York City police Detective James “Popeye” Doyle to track down Frenchman Fernando Rey, mastermind of a large drug pipeline funneling heroin into the United...

Two Russian missile strikes hit a city in eastern Ukraine, killing 5 people and wounding 31

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:54:34 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Two Russian missile strikes hit the city center of the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk in the eastern Donetsk region on Monday, killing five people and wounding at least 31 more, Ukrainian officials said.One of the strikes, which targeted the Ukrainian portion of a region partially occupied by Russia, killed four civilians, and the other killed the deputy head of the regional branch of Ukraine’s State Emergency Service, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said in an online statement. At least 31 people — including 19 policemen, five rescuers and one child — have been wounded in the attack, the official said. The strikes damaged a hotel, residential buildings and other civilian structures, Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an online statement accused Russia of trying to leave nothing but “broken and scorched stones” in eastern Ukraine. His remarks accompanied footage of a damaged, five-story residential building w...

NYC plans to house migrants on an island in the East River

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:54:34 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mayor Eric Adams announced a plan Monday to house as many as 2,000 migrants on an island in the East River where a migrant center was set up last year and then taken down weeks later.The state will reimburse the city for the cost of operating a tent city for adult migrants on Randalls Island, Adams said.“As the number of asylum seekers in our care continues to grow by hundreds every day, stretching our system to its breaking point and beyond, it has become more and more of a Herculean effort to find enough beds every night,” Adams, a Democrat, said in a news release.“We’re grateful to Governor Hochul and New York state for their partnership in opening this new humanitarian relief center and covering the costs, and we need more of the same from all levels of government,” said Adams, who has repeatedly asked the federal government to provide more financial support to efforts to shelter migrants in New York City.The city has rented out hotels to hou...

A Florida man is charged with flooding an emergency room after attacking a nurse and stripping

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:54:34 GMT

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — A man in southwest Florida has been charged with flooding a hospital’s emergency rooms after attacking a nurse and stripping off his clothes, authorities said.The 53-year-old became agitated while in a waiting room at the North Collier Hospital in Naples, Florida, on Saturday, according to a report from the Collier County Sheriff’s Office.He barged into the emergency room, pushed a patient and then pushed a nurse in the head. After the hospital staff got him into a room in an effort to keep him from disturbing other patients, he took off his clothes and pulled a high-pressure water pipe from the wall, the report said.The hospital’s emergency rooms flooded, causing tens of thousands of dollars in damage, according to the report.Responding deputies subdued the man using a Taser after he threatened them, and he was taken into custody. He is facing a single charge of aggravated battery and four charges of criminal mischief. The Associated Press

Pregnant woman’s arrest in carjacking case spurs call to end Detroit police facial recognition

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:54:34 GMT

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Detroit woman is suing the city and a police officer, saying she was falsely arrested when she was eight months pregnant and accused of a carjacking based on facial recognition technology that is now the target of lawsuits filed by three Black Michigan residents.Porcha Woodruff, a 32-year-old Black woman, was preparing her two children for school on Feb. 16 when six Detroit police officers showed up at her house and presented her with an arrest warrant for robbery and carjacking, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Thursday. “My two children had to witness their mother being arrested,” Woodruff said. “They stood there crying as I was brought away.”Woodruff’s case was dismissed by the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office in March for insufficient evidence, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit says that Woodruff has suffered, among other things, “past and future emotional distress” because of the arrest. Wood...