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Denver cop charged with assault of Northern California man in body-slam incident on Nuggets NBA Finals victory night

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:32:33 GMT

Denver District Attorney Beth McCann announced Thursday that she has filed a criminal charge of assault against a Denver police officer caught on video tackling a man outside a downtown bar where he was working, uniformed but off-duty, the night of the Denver Nuggets NBA Finals victory.Police officer Adam Glasby, 39, has been charged with one felony count of second-degree assault that led to serious bodily injury in connection with the alleged altercation early on June 13.He and another Denver Police Department officer were working off-duty at the Hayter’s & Co. bar at 1920 Blake St. when they saw men fighting outside the bar. Trying to break up the fight, Glasby pulled one of the men away from the others and slammed him to the pavement, leaving him unconscious, according to a district attorney news release.Glasby stayed with the victim — Elijah Smith, 26, from Roseville, Calif. — and tried to help him. When the victim got up about two minutes later, friends walked him away, pol...

$2K worth of merchandise stolen from Children's Place in Brentwood, suspects arrested

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:32:33 GMT

(KRON) – Two people were arrested on Wednesday for stealing over two thousand dollars worth of clothes from a Children's Place store in Brentwood.Around 1 p.m., an officer responded to the store and located a car attempting to flee the scene. The officer pulled over the suspects, Paulosha Glasper, 30, and Amoni Ponnellfontain, 25, both from Antioch. Photo: Brentwood PDPhoto: Brentwood PDPhoto: Brentwood PDAccording to Brentwood police, the officer recognized one of the suspects from a previous theft. Around $2,200 worth of stolen merchandise was recovered. Glasper, who is currently on felony probation for theft, was found to have a warrant for burglary. Both suspects were arrested and transported to the Martinez Detention Facility.

Preparing for Taylor Swift concert at Levi's Stadium

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:32:33 GMT

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (KRON) -- Fans are flocking to Santa Clara to see Taylor Swift perform both Friday and Saturday night at Levi's Stadium. Swifties started lining up on Thursday, sleeping overnight outside of the stadium. The City of Santa Clara has welcomed Taylor Swift with open arms. They have renamed the city to "Swiftie Clara" in anticipation of her performances and even named her honorary mayor. Here's what you need to know ahead of Friday and Saturday night:Time frameParking at Levi's Stadium will open at 2 p.m. with gates opening at 4:30 p.m. The concert is set to begin at 6:30 p.m. with Swift expected to take the stage at 8 p.m. She will be performing 45 songs which should take around a total of three hours. Elon Musk wants to turn tweets into ‘X’s’. But changing language is not quite so simple TransportationTraffic and delays are expected and fans are strongly encouraged to take public transportation. Caltrain is offering additional post-event trains and the Santa Clar...

Union effort to purchase beloved SF brewery could be losing steam

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:32:33 GMT

CORRECTION: A previous version of this story misstated the status of the union's bid to purchase the brewery. We regret the error. (July 28, 2023)SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Union workers at Anchor Brewing Company say they weren't given a fair shot at purchasing the historic San Francisco brewery from its current owner, Sapporo Breweries. A press release issued Thursday night by Warehouse Union Local 6, which represents workers at Anchor, states an outreach had been made to Sapporo on July 19 informing them that workers intended to make a bid to purchase the brewery. Large fire burns in SF's Sunset District "Our request was simple: work with us fairly and transparently. Give us a fair shot," the press release read.The union members went on to say that Sapporo told them it would consider an offer, as long as a bona fide source of funding was in place and would provide financial information accordingly.However, according to the press release, Sapporo refused to grant access to financial...

Homes that become deadly: Tornadoes kill disproportionately more in mobile homes, AP analysis finds

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:32:33 GMT

ROLLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — Many were not just killed at home. They were killed by their homes.Angela Eason had visited Brenda Odoms’ tidy mobile home before. It was a place where Odoms, who had many tragedies in her life, felt safe.In March, a tornado ripped through this small Mississippi town and people in mobile or manufactured homes were hit the hardest. Inside a mobile morgue, Eason, the county coroner, examined Odoms’ gaping fatal head wound. Odoms was found just outside of her collapsed mobile home that was tossed around by a tornado. Blunt force trauma killed her.“The one place she felt safe she was not,” Eason said. Fourteen people died in that Rolling Fork tornado, nine of them, including Brenda Odoms, were in uprooted manufactured or mobile homes.Tornadoes in the United States are disproportionately killing more people in mobile or manufactured homes, especially in the South, often victimizing some of the most socially and economically vulnerable residents. Since 1996, to...

Md. oversight board approves first reform plans for all local school systems

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:32:33 GMT

This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today.The Blueprint for Maryland’s Future Accountability and Implementation Board approved all 24 school systems’ initial plans as part of the state’s goal to reform public education.The documents approved Thursday are the first submission of Blueprint plans, summarizing the reform work that is complete, currently underway or that will be implemented through the 2023-24 school year.All documents include details on the Blueprint’s focus on early childhood education, hiring and retaining high-quality and diverse teachers, preparing students for college and technical careers and providing additional resources for students in need.Board Chair Isiah “Ike” Leggett thanked employees at the implementation board and the state Department of Education and members of the state Board of Education for Thur...

G20 ministers reach agreement on most, but not all, climate issues

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:32:33 GMT

BENGALURU, India (AP) — The final meeting of climate and environment ministers from the world’s largest economies ended without an agreement or joint statement Friday despite pleas from leading figures for nations to show a united front on climate change as weather records shatter across the globe.In a gathering in Chennai in India, ministers from the Group of 20 countries — who emit around 80% of the world’s planet-warming gases — failed to agree on four of 68 points of discussion. A document published by the group shows countries did not agree on aiming to peak emissions by 2025, moving to clean energy and a tax on carbon as a way to reduce emissions.“We couldn’t get a consensus but we agreed on a lot,” said Canada’s climate minister Steven Guilbeault at a virtual press conference after the meeting.The ministers’ decisions will now be passed on to country leaders ahead of a summit in New Delhi in September this year. It will be the group’s last chance...

NASCAR plans to make The CW the exclusive home for Xfinity Series starting in 2025

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:32:33 GMT

The NASCAR Xfinity Series plans to make The CW its exclusive home.NASCAR announced Friday a deal that will have The CW airing 33 live Xfinity Series races each year starting in 2025 and running through 2031. The CW also will televise practice and qualifying events each weekend.That 2025 season will mark the first time that every Xfinity Series race will be available on free, over-the-air broadcast television. Additional contact will be available through The CW’s digital platforms.The Xfinity Series features drivers trying to work their way up to the Cup Series.Six of the last 11 Cup Series champions have been won by former Xfinity Series champions, a list that includes Chase Elliott, Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr., Kevin Harvick and Brad Keselowski. There are 13 former Xfinity Series champions currently active in the Cup Series.NASCAR says Xfinity Series races draw an average of about 1 million viewers per race each season, typically on a combination of cable and broadcast television....

Correction: Starship-Test Flight story

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:32:33 GMT

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — In a story published May 1, 2023, about a lawsuit filed after a SpaceX megarocket launch from South Texas, The Associated Press gave the wrong metric conversion for how far debris spread. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said it spread up to 6.4 miles, which is about 10 kilometers, not 4 kilometers.Source

“Te voy a hacer tomar unos buenos mates”: Messi bromea con Beckham en publicación en Instagram

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:32:33 GMT

(CNN Español) — La amistad de David Beckham, uno de los dueños el Inter de Miami, y el astro argentino del fútbol, Lionel Messi, que recientemente llegó al cuadro rosa de la MLS, al parecer va por buen camino con bromas que van y vienen.Este jueves, Beckham, a quien se le ha visto muy feliz por la llegada de Messi al cuadro rosa de Miami, publicó una fotografía en su cuenta de Instagram tomando mate y dirigiéndose al argentino con la frase “Si esto es suficientemente bueno para Leo”, a lo que el argentino le respondió: “Yo te voy a hacer tomar unos buenos mates”.Así puedes preparar el mate perfecto para tiUna captura de pantalla de la cuenta de Instagram de Lio Messi respondiendo a David Beckham. (Crédito: Instagram)Tras la llegada de Messi al Inter de Miami, Beckham se ha mostrado muy satisfecho diciendo que cuando el delantero argentino hizo su anuncio de jugar en la Liga de Estados Unidos, “fue un momento emotivo”, le dijo a CNN en Españo...