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French activists protest racism and police brutality while officers are on guard for key events

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:17:26 GMT

PARIS (AP) — Families, community groups and far-left activists marched in cities around France on Saturday to decry racism and police brutality, putting authorities on edge at a time when French police are deployed en masse for a string of high-security events.Lingering anger over the killing by police of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk in June was an impetus for Saturday’s protests, but they included groups with disparate demands for immigrants’ rights, affordable housing and economic justice. More than 100 marches were planned around France, and Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin ordered special police vigilance.Tensions briefly flared at the largely peaceful, boisterous protest in Paris. Members of the crowd smashed windows of a bank along the march route, and police evacuated the rattled employees. At another spot, protesters surrounded a police car and an officer darted out, waving his gun.Some 30,000 police and gendarmes were working Saturday to keep order for a visit by Pope F...

Lebanese and Israeli troops fire tear gas along the tense border in a disputed area

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:17:26 GMT

BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese army said troops fired tear gas at Israeli soldiers in a disputed area along the tense border Saturday. No one was hurt in the incident. The area where the incident occurred is in Chebaa Farms and the Kfar Chouba hills that were captured by Israel from Syria during the 1967 Mideast war and are part of Syria’s Golan Heights that Israel annexed in 1981. The Lebanese government says the area belongs to Lebanon.The Lebanese army said a bulldozer was working on the Lebanese side of the border to remove a sand barrier placed earlier by the Israelis when Israeli troops fired tear gas to force it to stop. The army said Lebanese troops responded by firing tear gas at the Israeli soldiers.The Israeli military said soldiers spotted an engineering vehicle’s shovel crossing the border line from Lebanon into Israeli territory in the area of Mount Dov, as Chebaa Farms are known in Israel. It added that in response, Israeli soldiers used “riot dispersal means” and the veh...

Weekend Break: Oktoberfest 2023

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:17:26 GMT

With fall festivities in full swing, WGN's Christine Flores stops by Oktoberfest for Weekend Break as it returns for the year.Love the WGN Morning News? We love you, too. And you can have all the hijinks delivered to your inbox every weekday morning. Sign up and subscribe to our WGN Morning News newsletter.

Massive house explosion leaves 6 injured in New Jersey: officials

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:17:26 GMT

WEST MILFORD, N.J. (WPIX) – An investigation continues into the cause of a massive house explosion in New Jersey that sent several people to the hospital on Friday.The house, in West Milford, exploded Friday night around 9 p.m., officials said. It was so intense that it rocked homes throughout the rural neighborhood."It was a vibration. It was a shock. It felt like it was going to push my house over. I’m like three-fourths of a mile down, I’m not even that close, and it felt like my house was going to fall over," said local resident Keith Koster. Cause of house explosion that killed NFL player Caleb Farley’s father revealed Images shared by the Hackensack Fire Department appear to show the home had been completely leveled. Officials wrote on Facebook that some of the house's occupants were initially trapped under the rubble.The West Milford Fire Department freed the first five victims, while Hackensack fire officials aided to free the sixth, the department said.Five of the victims...

Dallas mayor switches from Democratic to Republican Party

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:17:26 GMT

(The Hill) – Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced Friday that he is switching his party affiliation and becoming a Republican, citing disconnects with the Democratic Party on crime policy.Johnson announced the switch in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. It makes Dallas the largest city in the country with a Republican mayor, passing neighboring Fort Worth.“Today I am changing my party affiliation. Next spring, I will be voting in the Republican primary,” Johnson wrote. “When my career in elected office ends in 2027 on the inauguration of my successor as mayor, I will leave office as a Republican.” Why Gavin Newsom says he’s not running for president in 2024 Though he wrote that the switch may come as a surprise to many, few Dallas Democrats appeared to be shocked by the move. Texas Democratic Party leadership called the switch “welcome” and said he was dishonest for running as a Democrat for his reelection in May this year.“Given his long-standing affinity with Republican leader...

3 men dead, another in critical condition following shooting, stabbing at Roseville home

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:17:26 GMT

Roseville police are investigating the stabbing and shooting deaths of three men Saturday morning.Officers were called at 2:24 a.m. to a home in the 1600 block of Eldridge Avenue to do a welfare check, according to police.When they arrived they found a man with a cut to his throat and three men who were dead from “apparent knife and gunshot wounds.”The man with the cut to his throat was taken to the hospital and remains in critical condition, Roseville police said Saturday morning.Police said that they don’t believe there is an ongoing safety risk to the public.The Roseville Police Department is partnering with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and will release additional information as it becomes available.Anyone with information is asked to call the Roseville Police Department at 651-792-7008 or to email Detective Mike Kahl at [email protected] ArticlesCrime & Public Safety | Suspected car thief crashes into Grand...

Lynx believe player development, not roster reconstruction, is path to championship contention

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:17:26 GMT

One day after the Lynx’s season ended in a Game 3 loss to Connecticut in the first round of the WNBA playoffs, coach and general manager Cheryl Reeve said players and coaches alike could walk away from the season with their heads held high, knowing they gave everything they had.“As a team, I think what we’re pleased about is that we maximized the group,” Reeve said. “I think we squeezed everything we could.”Frankly, that’s not really up for debate. That a team prognosticated at the season’s outset to finish in the bottom third of the league dug itself out of an 0-6 hole to not only make the playoffs, but push a top-three team such as the Sun to the brink of elimination equates to a remarkable season that exceeded any outside expectations.But those expectations are sure to elevate heading into 2024.“Now those same people go, ‘Oh, wait, Napheesa Collier is a top-five player in the league.’ Kayla McBride had a really fine season for us, and the expectation is Diamond Miller is go...

5 injured, including 1 critically, after shooting breaks out at party in Pomona 

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:17:26 GMT

Five people were rushed to the hospital after a gunfire erupted at a gathering in Pomona on Friday night. According to the Pomona Police Department, calls of a multi-victim shooting came in shortly before 10:45 p.m. near San Lorenzo Street and East First Street. Officers arrived at the location to find a large party, and upon further investigation, learned that at least one suspect fired multiple shots into the crowd. Five people were rushed to the hospital after a gunfire erupted at a party in Pomona on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (KeyNews)Five people were rushed to the hospital after a gunfire erupted at a party in Pomona on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (KeyNews)Five people were rushed to the hospital after a gunfire erupted at a party in Pomona on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (KeyNews)The five victims who were struck by gunfire were all rushed to area hospitals; four are in stable condition while one continues to fight for their life, police said.  Officer struck by car o...

After allegedly dismembering his dead fiancée, Pleasanton man simply moved on with his life. But police were watching

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:17:26 GMT

PLEASANTON — Joseph Roberts didn’t know it, but before authorities found the dismembered body of his fiancée on the Alameda Shoreline, police had spent the past week surveilling him as he played golf, smoked cigarettes with friends and ate Mexican food.They’d listen to voicemails from another women calling him “handsome” and wishing him well, new records show.And now they were ready to arrest him on suspicion of killing Rachel “Imani” Buckner based on DNA evidence, in one of the Bay Area’s most shocking homicides in recent memory.On Sept. 6, police and the U.S. Marshals entered a Pleasanton apartment at 4857 Willow Road where Buckner and Roberts lived and immediately noticed strong indicators that they were standing inside a possible crime scene.There was an open bottle of Drano resting on the edge of a bathtub. The carpets had been removed just days earlier, and FBI cadaver dogs alerted to the scent of human decomposition in the bathroom, b...

Bay Area high school football roundup 2023: Best of Week 5 action

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:17:26 GMT

Welcome back to the Bay Area News Group’s high school football roundup.Here, you’ll find all the details from the weekend’s action in this news organization’s coverage area, which encompasses teams that play in leagues based primarily in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.Check back every Saturday during the season for scores, highlights and top performers, updated throughout the day.If you have not already, please subscribe here for complete digital access all season long. Your contributions keep us going.On to the roundup …Ranked teamsNo. 1 Serra 61, Sacred Heart Cathedral 0The Bay Area News Group’s top-ranked team scored at least one touchdown in every quarter en route to its 16th straight win over Sacred Heart Cathedral. The visiting Padres (4–0) scored their first three touchdowns on the ground, one by Jaden Green and two by Nano Latu. Tight end Cole Harrison caught a TD pass midway through the second quarter to make it 28-0, then quarterback Maealiuaki S...