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Added security coming to MetroLink platforms

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:14 GMT

ST. LOUIS – Efforts continue to make St. Louis residents and visitors safe and confident in the local transit system.The Bi-State Development Board of Commissioners is spending $52 million on its Secure Platform Plan, adding gates, fencing, and new security cameras at all MetroLink stations in Missouri and Illinois.The security upgrades come after a reported attempted rape at one of the downtown stations, causing a lot of concern for riders.Riders will also notice metal detectors at some of the stations, along with police officers at the metal detector check points.The first phase includes the installation of the gates and fencing at four MetroLink stations in East St. Louis and the eastern edge of Belleville.The new security upgrades are also planned for the new MetroLink station planned at MidAmerica Airport.All the security upgrades are expected to be completed by the end of next year.

Irvine woman charged with animal abuse, accused of taping shut snouts of several dogs

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:14 GMT

An Irvine woman was arrested and now faces multiple felony charges for animal abuse after officers searched her property and found several dogs with their snouts taped shut.On Saturday, the Irvine Police Department received a tip from a concerned resident regarding several dogs who were heard whimpering on the patio of the home of 21-year-old Gabriela Barrera.The resident told police that there were also multiple dogs whose mouths were taped closed.Officers responded to the home and observed one dog with heavy duty masking tape wrapped around its snout on the outside patio. They also reported hearing whimpering in the same area.As they investigated, Barrera arrived home, at which point she admitted to taping the dogs' snouts to keep them from barking or biting at other dogs.She agreed to let officers search her home, where they found a total of seven dogs — three female adult dogs, two male adult dogs, a female puppy and a male puppy.Gabriela Barrera, 21, of Irvine, is shown in this...

Mountain View man sentenced to 12½ years in prison on child pornography charges

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:14 GMT

MOUNTAIN VIEW – A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a 37-year-old Mountain View man to 12½ years in prison for possessing child pornography and enticing underage girls to engage in the production of pornography, prosecutors said.A grand jury indicted Christopher Raymond Campbell last August, charging him with one count each of coercion and enticement of a minor, receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement.In January, Campbell pleaded guilty to the coercion and enticement of a minor and the possession of child pornography charges. U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria dismissed the receipt of child pornography charge at his sentencing Wednesday.According to his plea agreement, Campbell admitted that he used his iPhone and other electronic devices to communicate with multiple underage girls between March 2021 and March 2022, prosecutors said. Campbell used screen names and aliases to trick his victims into taki...

Maryland governor gets firsthand look at Wheaton pedestrian safety concerns

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:14 GMT

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore walked alongside two busy state-run streets in Wheaton, Wednesday afternoon and heard from leaders about the pedestrian and traffic safety concerns in the area.Moore came to Montgomery County after being invited to walk the area by council member Natali Fani-González.During the walk, Fani-González pointed out the narrow sidewalks and the lack of bike lanes. The council member said she’d like to see Georgia Avenue re-imagined as a boulevard that offers those safety features.“That means making sure that you have protected bike lanes, making sure that you have BRT, which is bus rapid transit, making sure that you have enough bus shelters, making sure that you have enough bike racks so people can leave their bike safely, making sure that you have more density near the Metro,” Fani-González said.“We want people to know that we’re prioritizing this,” Moore said about the concerns.According to the county, between 2015 and 2022, five pedestrians were killed in ...

Sallói, Kinda lead Sporting KC to 2-1 victory over Dallas

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:14 GMT

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Dániel Sallói and Gadi Kinda both had a goal and an assist to power Sporting Kansas City to a 2-1 victory over FC Dallas after a lengthy weather delay to begin the match on Wednesday night.Sallói picked up his fourth assist of the season on a goal by Kinda — his second — in the 41st minute as Sporting KC (4-8-4) took a lead into halftime.Sallói scored his fourth goal — with an assist from Kinda — to provide some cushion in the 60th minute. Sallói has scored 11 goals in 18 matches against Dallas in all competitions, more than double his total against any other opponent.Dallas (6-4-5) avoided a shutout when Jesús Ferreira scored in the first minute of stoppage time with an assist from Facundo Quignon. Ferreira’s ninth goal of the season gives him a hand in a goal in four straight matches against Sporting KC. The only Dallas player with a longer streak against Sporting KC was his father David Ferreira, who did it in five straight from 2009-13. Kendall McI...

1 dead, 2 injured in Prince George’s Co. shooting

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:14 GMT

Seat Pleasant, Maryland, police said a man has died and two have been hospitalized after a Wednesday night shooting in Prince George’s County.Officers said it happened at around 8:45 p.m. outside an apartment building in Prince George’s County in the 6000 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Highway.When officers arrived, the department said, they found a man who was shot in the upper body. He was taken to a local hospital, where he later died.Two other men wounded in the same shooting walked into a hospital with injuries but are expected to survive the shooting. A suspect in the shooting has not been identified.An approximate shooting location is included below. Source

Youth group works with police for blunt message on school violence

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:14 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Students are partnering with police, going in together for a start anti-violence billboard on Colfax and Franklin."We really were encouraged by the fact that this really was a youth-led effort to erect this billboard, so we were happy to be a part of it," Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas said.He said the message empowers students who want to share their plight: calling for an end to violence in schools."I identified a way to get their message out," Thomas said. "I think this billboard speaks directly to that." ‘Car surfing’ trend linked to 16-year-old’s death The Denver Police Department shared the $6,000 tab on a billboard with the Office of the Independent Monitor's youth outreach effort, a group called the Denver Teen Empowerment Program."Put a message out there that would get people's attention and get them to realize that they need help, they want it to stop," said Nicole Taylor, with the Office of the Independent Monitor.A billboard at Colfax and Franklin share...

Dreamer Isioma brings viral magic to Boston fans

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:14 GMT

Life is moving fast for the pop/R&B artist Dreamer Isioma. The Chicago-bred, Nigerian-American artist became a viral sensation after posting the single “Sensitive” in early 2021 and attracted some renowned fans, Lizzo and SZA among them. Isioma has since released two albums of otherworldly slow jams and futuristic funk, which will be performed at Sonia on Friday.“I’m glad and grateful if people think I’m cool,” Isioma (who is nobinary and uses they/they pronouns) said this week. “It affected me a lot — All of a sudden I have these eyes on me, so I’d better do something about it. I went right from five to five thousand, that’s for sure. The attention motivated me to work harder, but it didn’t affect my personality. I’m still very much who I was when I started, I just know more and am a little wiser.”To make the new album “Princess Forever,” Isioma investigated a lot of philosophy and music history. “With each project I do, I like to reinvent myself and show a different side...

Lowry: The Bud Light meltdown is good for America

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:14 GMT

We should all be grateful to Anheuser-Busch.Some corporation had to show how “woke” marketing could cost an iconic American brand dearly in terms of its image, its sales and its market capitalization.Through its special beer can produced for transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, Anheuser-Busch, in effect, volunteered for duty.The CEO of General Motors didn’t really say in the 1950s that what’s good for GM is good for the country.Still, to paraphrase the famous misquote of auto executive Charles Wilson, what’s terrible for Bud Light sales is now good for America. With every viral anti-Bud Light video and 12-pack moldering on a store shelf or in a warehouse, the message is being sent to other corporations that they may come to regret their gratuitous forays into the culture war.Now, Target has directly learned the same lesson with its Pride apparel, and has removed some clothes and made associated displays less prominent. Coupled with the ongoing content...

Tee Thursday: Pembroke’s road back

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:14 GMT

A revelation, perhaps: Some of my friends are not perfect. Like me (and most humans when they’re honest about it), they show flaws; moments of glory and flashes of not so great. I think it makes them all the more interesting.I may feel the same way about golf courses. Of course playing an absolutely pristine course with every advantage one could want is more than embraceable – like I said, I’m human. But there’s beauty, too, in a course that’s trying. In a course that has great bones, a decent look overall and tries to be their best.In that spirit, consider a round at Pembroke Country Club (https://www.pembrokegolf.com). I headed there for 18 recently, knowing they’d faced hard times in the semi-recent past (foreclosed and run-down circa 2008; working its way back since).What I found was the course layout set into place by designer Philip A. Wogan back in 1973 and recognized then as one of the best course layouts around still provides the base and challenge that makes a golf day gre...