After a speeding train collided with a semi-truck carrying pears in the Netherlands, authorities have released video of the incident to “raise awareness and improve behavior.”Jeremy Roth for CNN’s “Take a Look at This (TALAT)” reports that authorities are using the truck driver’s ill-timed hesitation as a cautionary tale about safety at railroad crossings.The train’s collision with the truck’s cargo trailer sent thousands of pears flying across the scene.See the TALAT video in the player above, and learn what happened when a bear got trapped in an SUV in ColoradoVideo released by Pro Rail shows the truck approaching the crossing, pausing, and then reversing as safety arms closed around it.The driver appeared unsure of what to do and attempted to move just as the commuter train bore down. Pro Rail reported minor injuries and shared the video on social media. They advised drivers to move through lowered safety arms if they become stuck.
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After a speeding train collided with a semi-truck carrying pears in the Netherlands, authorities have released video of the incident to “raise awareness and improve behavior.”
Jeremy Roth for CNN’s “Take a Look at This (TALAT)” reports that authorities are using the truck driver’s ill-timed hesitation as a cautionary tale about safety at railroad crossings.
The train’s collision with the truck’s cargo trailer sent thousands of pears flying across the scene.
See the TALAT video in the player above, and learn what happened when a bear got trapped in an SUV in Colorado
Video released by Pro Rail shows the truck approaching the crossing, pausing, and then reversing as safety arms closed around it.
The driver appeared unsure of what to do and attempted to move just as the commuter train bore down.
Pro Rail reported minor injuries and shared the video on social media. They advised drivers to move through lowered safety arms if they become stuck.
One of the monkeys that escaped last week after a truck overturned on a Mississippi highway was shot and killed early Sunday by a woman who says she feared for the safety of her children.Jessica Bond Ferguson said she was alerted early Sunday by her 16-year-old son who said he thought he had seen a monkey running in the yard outside their home near Heidelberg, Mississippi. She got out of bed, grabbed her firearm and her cellphone and stepped outside where she saw the monkey about 60 feet away.Bond Ferguson said she and other residents had been warned that the escaped monkeys carried diseases so she fired her gun.“I did what any other mother would do to protect her children,” Bond Ferguson, who has five children ranging in age from 4 to 16, told The Associated Press. “I shot at it and it just stood there, and I shot again, and he backed up and that’s when he fell.”The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office confirmed in a social media post that a homeowner had found one of the monkeys on their property Sunday morning but said the office didn’t have any details. The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks took possession of the monkey, the sheriff’s office said.Before Bond Ferguson had gone out the door, she had called the police and was told to keep an eye on the monkey. But she said she worried that if the monkey got away it would threaten children at another house.“If it attacked somebody’s kid, and I could have stopped it, that would be a lot on me,” said Bond Ferguson, a 35-year-old professional chef. “It’s kind of scary and dangerous that they are running around, and people have kids playing in their yards.”The Rhesus monkeys had been housed at the Tulane University National Biomedical Research Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, which routinely provides primates to scientific research organizations, according to the university. In a statement last week, Tulane said the monkeys do not belong to the university, and they were not being transported by the university.A truck carrying the monkeys overturned Tuesday on Interstate 59 north of Heidelberg. Of the 21 monkeys in the truck, 13 were found at the scene of the accident and arrived at their original destination last week, according to Tulane. Another five were killed in the hunt for them and three remained on the loose before Sunday.The Mississippi Highway Patrol has said it was investigating the cause of the crash, which occurred about 100 miles from the state capital, Jackson.Rhesus monkeys typically weigh about 16 pounds and are among the most medically studied animals on the planet. Video recorded after the crash showed monkeys crawling through tall grass beside the interstate, where wooden crates labeled “live animals” were crumpled and strewn about.Jasper County Sheriff Randy Johnson had said Tulane officials reported the monkeys were not infectious, despite initial reports by the truck’s occupants warning that the monkeys were dangerous and harboring various diseases. Nonetheless, Johnson said the monkeys still needed to be “neutralized” because of their aggressive nature.The monkeys had recently received checkups confirming they were pathogen-free, Tulane said in a statement Wednesday.Rhesus macaques “are known to be aggressive,” according to the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. It said the agency’s conservation workers were working with sheriff’s officials in the search for the animals.The search comes about one year after 43 Rhesus macaques escaped from a South Carolina compound that breeds them for medical research because an employee didn’t fully lock an enclosure. Employees from the Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, had set up traps to capture them.
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One of the monkeys that escaped last week after a truck overturned on a Mississippi highway was shot and killed early Sunday by a woman who says she feared for the safety of her children.
Jessica Bond Ferguson said she was alerted early Sunday by her 16-year-old son who said he thought he had seen a monkey running in the yard outside their home near Heidelberg, Mississippi. She got out of bed, grabbed her firearm and her cellphone and stepped outside where she saw the monkey about 60 feet away.
Bond Ferguson said she and other residents had been warned that the escaped monkeys carried diseases so she fired her gun.
“I did what any other mother would do to protect her children,” Bond Ferguson, who has five children ranging in age from 4 to 16, told The Associated Press. “I shot at it and it just stood there, and I shot again, and he backed up and that’s when he fell.”
The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office confirmed in a social media post that a homeowner had found one of the monkeys on their property Sunday morning but said the office didn’t have any details. The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks took possession of the monkey, the sheriff’s office said.
Before Bond Ferguson had gone out the door, she had called the police and was told to keep an eye on the monkey. But she said she worried that if the monkey got away it would threaten children at another house.
“If it attacked somebody’s kid, and I could have stopped it, that would be a lot on me,” said Bond Ferguson, a 35-year-old professional chef. “It’s kind of scary and dangerous that they are running around, and people have kids playing in their yards.”
The Rhesus monkeys had been housed at the Tulane University National Biomedical Research Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, which routinely provides primates to scientific research organizations, according to the university. In a statement last week, Tulane said the monkeys do not belong to the university, and they were not being transported by the university.
A truck carrying the monkeys overturned Tuesday on Interstate 59 north of Heidelberg. Of the 21 monkeys in the truck, 13 were found at the scene of the accident and arrived at their original destination last week, according to Tulane. Another five were killed in the hunt for them and three remained on the loose before Sunday.
The Mississippi Highway Patrol has said it was investigating the cause of the crash, which occurred about 100 miles from the state capital, Jackson.
Rhesus monkeys typically weigh about 16 pounds and are among the most medically studied animals on the planet. Video recorded after the crash showed monkeys crawling through tall grass beside the interstate, where wooden crates labeled “live animals” were crumpled and strewn about.
Jasper County Sheriff Randy Johnson had said Tulane officials reported the monkeys were not infectious, despite initial reports by the truck’s occupants warning that the monkeys were dangerous and harboring various diseases. Nonetheless, Johnson said the monkeys still needed to be “neutralized” because of their aggressive nature.
The monkeys had recently received checkups confirming they were pathogen-free, Tulane said in a statement Wednesday.
Rhesus macaques “are known to be aggressive,” according to the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. It said the agency’s conservation workers were working with sheriff’s officials in the search for the animals.
The search comes about one year after 43 Rhesus macaques escaped from a South Carolina compound that breeds them for medical research because an employee didn’t fully lock an enclosure. Employees from the Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, had set up traps to capture them.
Video footage that appears to show federal immigration agents using their vehicle to ram into the truck of an immigrant rights activist has sparked controversy and public outrage in the city of Oxnard, an agricultural town that has been the frequent target of immigration raids.
At the center of the controversy is a claim by federal agents that the activist was the aggressor, ramming into the agents’ vehicle.
The incident began shortly before 8 a.m. Thursday when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents notified the Oxnard Police Department that their vehicle had been rammed by a civilian’s vehicle near the intersection of 8th and A streets, according to Sgt. Martin Cook.
“We responded, and ICE agents detained an individual, and a crowd started to gather,” Cook said. “We were there to keep the peace and prevent any type of altercation with ICE or any other federal agency.”
Cook said that federal agencies took control of the investigation. He did not know if the person arrested by agents requested a police report and referred all questions to the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees several agencies including ICE and Customs and Border Protection.
VC Defensa, an immigrant rights group that has been documenting immigration raids in the region, said on Instagram that one of its volunteers, whom the group identified as Leo Martinez, had been arrested.
The group also released video footage taken by eyewitnesses that they said showed that the allegation by federal agents against Martinez was false.
“ICE intentionally struck Leo’s truck and blocked his exit while Leo was exercising his right to observe ICE activity,” the group stated in one of its Instagram posts.
The video starts with a Jeep Cherokee with tinted windows tailing a dark gray truck before ramming into the passenger door on the driver’s side. The driver of the truck then pulls into a dirt lot, where the group says Martinez was arrested.
“This shameful escalation by ICE is nothing more than an attempt to intimidate those of conscience who are standing up against Trump’s assault on immigrants,” the group said on Instagram. “We will not be deterred, and we will continue to keep our communities safe.”
The incident is the latest controversy involving federal immigration agents that has not only sparked outrage among activists and residents but also raised questions about some of the claims agents previously have made.
Two months ago, federal immigration officers stopped Francisco Longoria in San Bernardino. During the encounter, Longoria, who was in his truck with his 18-year-old son and 23-year-old son-in-law, said he feared for their safety after masked officers shattered his car window, then he drove off and an officer fired several rounds at the truck.
Department of Homeland Security officials have said officers were injured during the encounter when Longoria tried to “run them down,” prompting one officer to “discharge his firearm in self-defense.”
In June, Arturo Hermosillo was accused of ramming his van against a federal agent’s vehicle when he was instructed by the agents to move his van back to make room for an ambulance for a woman who had been injured during an immigration sweep.
Hermosillo was reversing when he said a federal agent standing near the vehicle pushed in his side view mirror, blocking his view; Hermosillo subsequently bumped into a vehicle behind him. Shortly after, agents pulled him out of the van.
Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin told The Times in an email at the time that a person “rammed his vehicle into a law enforcement vehicle” during the June 19 operation
“CBP Agents were also assaulted during the operation and verbally harassed,” she said.
Videos of that day did not capture any assaults; they showed residents yelling at agents.
The incident in Oxnard mirrors a level of aggression by federal agents seen on the streets of Chicago.
The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment from The Times. In a statement to CNN, however, DHS said that claims that agency is using “harsher approaches” are “smearing” federal agents who “put their lives on the line every day to enforce the law.”
In downtown Los Angeles on Thursday, just outside of the Metropolitan Detention Center where a crowd had gathered with “Free Leo Now!” and “ICE out of L.A.” signs, they listened to Martinez as he thanked them for their support and their work.
“I knew I didn’ t do anything f— wrong; that’s why they released me with pending charges,” he told the crowd. “That’s what they do with pretty much a lot of our volunteers cause we didn’t do s— wrong.
“They smashed into me,” he continued as people clapped. “And then they tried to accuse me of assaulting them, what kind of bulls— is that?”
CRIME STOPPERS. WELL, THEY’RE NOT JUST FIGHTING FIRES TODAY. THEY’RE DELIVERING PIZZA. DOMINO’S PIZZA TEAMS UP WITH THE PAPILLION FIRE DEPARTMENT TO PROMOTE FIRE SAFETY. KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN’S PETE CUDDIHY WENT ON THE DELIVERY ROUTE AND FOUND OUT THEY WERE BRINGING MORE THAN JUST YOUR FAVORITE SLICE. WHEN CUSTOMERS IN PAPILLION ORDERED THEIR DOMINO’S TODAY, THEIR DELIVERY CAME WITH A SURPRISE VISIT FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND A CHECK ON THEIR SMOKE DETECTORS TO ENSURE THEIR SAFETY. A NORMAL DAY IN DOMINO’S KITCHEN IS FILLED WITH SPRINKLING GARLIC KNOTS WITH PARMESAN, CUTTING UP PIZZAS INTO SLICES AND FOLDING THEIR FAMOUS BOXES UP READY FOR DELIVERY. BUT SUNDAY WAS NO ORDINARY DAY FOR DOMINO’S PAPILLION STORE. THE PIZZA CHAIN TEAMED UP WITH THE PAPILLION FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR FIRE PREVENTION WEEK, ADDING A NEW VEHICLE TO THEIR DELIVERY TEAM. NOW FOLLOWING BEHIND THEIR FAMOUS DELIVERY CARS MARKED WITH THE RED AND BLUE GAME PIECE WAS A PAPILLION FIRE ENGINE TEAMED UP WITH DOMINO’S PIZZA THIS YEAR. TO CHECK RESIDENTS FOR SMOKE DETECTORS IF THEY HAVE WORKING SMOKE DETECTORS. CREDIT TO THEM, THEY GOT A FREE PIZZA WHILE EMPLOYEES IN THE KITCHEN PRESSED THE DOUGH AND LAID THE TOPPINGS. FIREFIGHTERS BRIAN O’SHEA AND TODD CREWS WAITED FOR THEIR MOMENT TO DELIVER CUSTOMERS ORDERS WITH A SIDE OF SAFETY. GIVE US ABOUT 15 MINUTES. WHEN EVERYTHING WAS BAGGED, IT WAS TIME FOR PAPILLION FIRE DEPARTMENT TO ROLL OUT. HI. HOW ARE YOU DOING TODAY? GOOD. HOW ARE YOU? NOT TOO BAD. IS THAT FOR YOU? THANK YOU. HELLO. HI. HOW ARE YOU? GOOD. JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A WORKING SMOKE DETECTOR. YEAH. FIRE THE DELIVERY. RESULTING IN A WIN WIN SCENARIO. WORKING ALARMS. IT’S GOOD. MEANING? FREE PIZZA FOR THE CUSTOMER. GREAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. APPRECIATE IT. A POSITIVE DAY TEAM LEAD AT DOMINO’S JONATHAN GLENN IS HAPPY HE WAS A PART OF. I GREW UP HERE MY WHOLE LIFE, SO BEING ABLE TO GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY YOU GREW UP IN IS ALWAYS SPECIAL. TO DO AN EVENT, REWARDING THE COMMUNITY FOR TAKING PRECAUTIONS. ONE FREE PIZZA AT A TIME. WE APPLAUD PEOPLE FOR TAKING STEPS TO MAKE SURE TO KEEP THEIR FAMILY AND THEIR HOMES SAFE. THE PAPILLION FIRE DEPARTMENT SAYS THAT IF YOU DON’T HAVE A WORKING SMOKE DETECTOR OR IF YOU NEED ONE REPLACED, YOU CAN CONTACT THE MAYOR’S HOTLINE AND THEY’LL COME OUT AND INSTALL ONE FOR YOU. REPORTING FROM PAPI
Fire department in Nebraska teams up with Domino’s to deliver fire safety
When customers in Papillion, Nebraska, ordered their Domino’s Sunday afternoon, their delivery came with a surprise visit from the Papillion Fire Department and a check on their smoke detectors to ensure their safety.A normal day in a Domino’s kitchen is filled with sprinkling garlic knots with parmesan, cutting up pizzas into slices, and folding their famous boxes up ready for delivery. But Sunday was no ordinary day for the Domino’s store in Papillion, which is a suburb of Omaha.The pizza chain teamed up with the Papillion Fire Department for Fire Prevention Week, adding a new vehicle to their delivery team. Now following behind their famous delivery cars — marked with the red and blue game piece — was a Papillion fire engine.”Teamed up with Domino’s Pizza this year to check residents for smoke detectors. If they have working smoke detectors, credit to them — they got a free pizza,” said Battalion Chief of Papillion Fire Department Brian Oshey.While employees in the kitchen pressed the dough and laid the toppings, firefighters Brian Oshey and Todd Groose waited for their moment to deliver customers’ orders with a side of safety. When orders were bagged, it was time for the Papillion Fire Department to roll out, knocking at the door with pizza in hand, ready to check the customer’s smoke alarms.The delivery resulted in a win-win scenario: working alarms meant free pizza for the customer — a positive day.Team lead at Domino’s, Jonathan Glynn, is happy he was a part of it.”I lived in Papillion my whole life, so doing this is really cool,” said team lead at Papillion Domino’s, Jonathan Glynn.Rewarding the community for taking precautions, Oshey said, “We applaud people for taking steps to make sure they’re keeping their family and their home safe.”
PAPILLION, Neb. —
When customers in Papillion, Nebraska, ordered their Domino’s Sunday afternoon, their delivery came with a surprise visit from the Papillion Fire Department and a check on their smoke detectors to ensure their safety.
A normal day in a Domino’s kitchen is filled with sprinkling garlic knots with parmesan, cutting up pizzas into slices, and folding their famous boxes up ready for delivery. But Sunday was no ordinary day for the Domino’s store in Papillion, which is a suburb of Omaha.
The pizza chain teamed up with the Papillion Fire Department for Fire Prevention Week, adding a new vehicle to their delivery team. Now following behind their famous delivery cars — marked with the red and blue game piece — was a Papillion fire engine.
“Teamed up with Domino’s Pizza this year to check residents for smoke detectors. If they have working smoke detectors, credit to them — they got a free pizza,” said Battalion Chief of Papillion Fire Department Brian Oshey.
While employees in the kitchen pressed the dough and laid the toppings, firefighters Brian Oshey and Todd Groose waited for their moment to deliver customers’ orders with a side of safety.
When orders were bagged, it was time for the Papillion Fire Department to roll out, knocking at the door with pizza in hand, ready to check the customer’s smoke alarms.
The delivery resulted in a win-win scenario: working alarms meant free pizza for the customer — a positive day.
Team lead at Domino’s, Jonathan Glynn, is happy he was a part of it.
“I lived in Papillion my whole life, so doing this is really cool,” said team lead at Papillion Domino’s, Jonathan Glynn.
Rewarding the community for taking precautions, Oshey said, “We applaud people for taking steps to make sure they’re keeping their family and their home safe.”
A couple in Keene, New Hampshire, is thanking the fire department for their swift action when their baby boy decided to make an early entrance into the world, arriving before they could reach the hospital.Stephanie Weston, the mother, said, “I was like, oh, I think we need to go.”As they began driving towards Cheshire Medical Center, Noah Weston, the father, realized they wouldn’t make it in time.”We start driving toward Cheshire and then she goes, ‘Oh, we’re not making it to Cheshire.’ You got to call 911,” he said.Stephanie Weston recounted the urgency of the situation, saying, “We called 911 at 2:11. And then I had him by 2:17. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I was like, I’m pushing out a baby right now, and I’m not kidding. It’s happening. And it’s happening now.”Noah Weston had prepared for the birth by watching videos on how to support his wife in the hospital room, but those plans quickly changed.”Thought I had done all the studying I needed to when it came to watching videos of like, bedside manner for the dad. What should the dad be doing to support mom in the hospital room? And I had to throw all that information away,” he said.The couple drove directly to the fire department, and shortly after arriving, their baby was born.”All of a sudden, the chief walks away from the side of our truck and goes time of birth, 2:17,” Noah Weston said.Their son, Walker, arrived happy and healthy, weighing 7 pounds, 14 ounces.”Holy cow, did this really just happen? And they took care of pretty much everything. They were fantastic,” Noah Weston said.The Westons expressed their gratitude to the fire department and the staff at Cheshire Medical Center. The family is now back home, resting and recovering.
A couple in Keene, New Hampshire, is thanking the fire department for their swift action when their baby boy decided to make an early entrance into the world, arriving before they could reach the hospital.
Stephanie Weston, the mother, said, “I was like, oh, I think we need to go.”
As they began driving towards Cheshire Medical Center, Noah Weston, the father, realized they wouldn’t make it in time.
“We start driving toward Cheshire and then she goes, ‘Oh, we’re not making it to Cheshire.’ You got to call 911,” he said.
Stephanie Weston recounted the urgency of the situation, saying, “We called 911 at 2:11. And then I had him by 2:17. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I was like, I’m pushing out a baby right now, and I’m not kidding. It’s happening. And it’s happening now.”
Noah Weston had prepared for the birth by watching videos on how to support his wife in the hospital room, but those plans quickly changed.
“Thought I had done all the studying I needed to when it came to watching videos of like, bedside manner for the dad. What should the dad be doing to support mom in the hospital room? And I had to throw all that information away,” he said.
The couple drove directly to the fire department, and shortly after arriving, their baby was born.
“All of a sudden, the chief walks away from the side of our truck and goes time of birth, 2:17,” Noah Weston said.
Their son, Walker, arrived happy and healthy, weighing 7 pounds, 14 ounces.
“Holy cow, did this really just happen? And they took care of pretty much everything. They were fantastic,” Noah Weston said.
The Westons expressed their gratitude to the fire department and the staff at Cheshire Medical Center. The family is now back home, resting and recovering.
Newly released body camera video shows the moment first responders worked to free a man from an unmarked Orlando police truck. We know from an arrest report that Detective Moulton was trying to pull a suspect over for having an unreadable license plate on Feb. 12. The driver, Dornell Bargnare, failed to navigate a turn onto Indiana Street, according to police. Driving onto a sidewalk and hitting 56-year-old Gerald Neal. Body camera footage released earlier this year shows the officer getting out of his truck. Chasing after the suspect. Not seeming to realize Neal was under his truck. In body camera video released to WESH 2 Thursday, you see first responders working to free Neal from underneath the truck. Based on the time on Moulton’s body camera video in the previously released footage compared to the time on the footage released Thursday, Neal was underneath the truck for about 15 minutes. Based on body camera video released earlier this year, it appeared the detective didn’t know someone was under his truck. “There was a guy under your truck,” another officer can be heard telling the detective. “Under my truck?” he says back to them. When they reply, “Yeah,” the detective asks, “Hiding?” Before saying, “OK, yeah, I’ll go check right now,”In the video released Thursday, you can see first responders working to revive Neal and talking about getting him to Orlando Regional Medical Center. But he wouldn’t survive. In an arrest warrant for Bargnare filed five days after the crash, it says his car struck Neal, but makes no mention of Neal being stuck under an officer’s truck. Bargnare was later charged with Vehicular Homicide on top of other charges.The Florida Highway Patrol was handling the investigation into Neal’s death and had handed over their findings to the state attorney’s office. The state attorney’s office told WESH 2 this week to expect a decision soon on whether more charges could be coming. That could potentially include charges for the detective involved. He is currently on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation, according to the Orlando Police Department.
ORLANDO, Fla. —
Newly released body camera video shows the moment first responders worked to free a man from an unmarked Orlando police truck.
We know from an arrest report that Detective Moulton was trying to pull a suspect over for having an unreadable license plate on Feb. 12.
The driver, Dornell Bargnare, failed to navigate a turn onto Indiana Street, according to police. Driving onto a sidewalk and hitting 56-year-old Gerald Neal.
Body camera footage released earlier this year shows the officer getting out of his truck. Chasing after the suspect. Not seeming to realize Neal was under his truck.
In body camera video released to WESH 2 Thursday, you see first responders working to free Neal from underneath the truck.
Based on the time on Moulton’s body camera video in the previously released footage compared to the time on the footage released Thursday, Neal was underneath the truck for about 15 minutes.
Based on body camera video released earlier this year, it appeared the detective didn’t know someone was under his truck.
“There was a guy under your truck,” another officer can be heard telling the detective.
“Under my truck?” he says back to them.
When they reply, “Yeah,” the detective asks,
“Hiding?” Before saying, “OK, yeah, I’ll go check right now,”
In the video released Thursday, you can see first responders working to revive Neal and talking about getting him to Orlando Regional Medical Center. But he wouldn’t survive.
In an arrest warrant for Bargnare filed five days after the crash, it says his car struck Neal, but makes no mention of Neal being stuck under an officer’s truck.
Bargnare was later charged with Vehicular Homicide on top of other charges.
The Florida Highway Patrol was handling the investigation into Neal’s death and had handed over their findings to the state attorney’s office.
The state attorney’s office told WESH 2 this week to expect a decision soon on whether more charges could be coming. That could potentially include charges for the detective involved. He is currently on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation, according to the Orlando Police Department.
Forensic tests confirmed that human remains found on a remote mountain in Washington state this month were those of Travis Decker, a former soldier wanted in the deaths of his three young daughters last spring, officials confirmed Thursday.His remains were discovered on a steep, remote, wooded slope partway up Grindstone Mountain in central Washington, less than a mile from the campsite where the bodies of 9-year-old Paityn Decker, 8-year-old Evelyn Decker, and 5-year-old Olivia Decker were found on June 2, the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office said.Law enforcement teams had been searching more than three months for Decker, 32, before the sheriff’s office announced last week it had located human remains believed to be his. Sheriff Mike Morrison said Thursday that DNA tests on clothing found at the scene, as well as from the remains, matched Decker.The sheriff said investigators wanted to honor the girls’ memory by solving the case, and he apologized to their mother, Whitney Decker, for it taking so long.“I hope you can rest easier at night knowing that Travis is accounted for,” Morrison said.Decker had been with his daughters on a scheduled visit but failed to bring them back to his former wife, who, a year ag,o said that his mental health issues had worsened and that he had become increasingly unstable.He was often living out of his truck, she said in a petition seeking to restrict him from having overnight visits with them.A deputy found Decker’s truck as well as the girls’ bodies three days after Decker failed to return them to their mother’s house. Autopsies found the girls had been suffocated.Decker was an infantryman in the Army from March 2013 to July 2021 and deployed to Afghanistan for four months in 2014. He had training in navigation, survival, and other skills, authorities said, and once spent more than two months living in the backwoods off the grid.More than 100 officials with an array of state and federal agencies searched hundreds of square miles, much of it mountainous and remote, by land, water, and air during the on and off search. The U.S. Marshals Service offered a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to his capture.At one point early in the search, authorities thought they spotted Decker near a remote alpine lake after receiving a tip from hikers.Officials say the coroner’s office continues to work on determining the cause and time of his death.
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Forensic tests confirmed that human remains found on a remote mountain in Washington state this month were those of Travis Decker, a former soldier wanted in the deaths of his three young daughters last spring, officials confirmed Thursday.
His remains were discovered on a steep, remote, wooded slope partway up Grindstone Mountain in central Washington, less than a mile from the campsite where the bodies of 9-year-old Paityn Decker, 8-year-old Evelyn Decker, and 5-year-old Olivia Decker were found on June 2, the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office said.
Law enforcement teams had been searching more than three months for Decker, 32, before the sheriff’s office announced last week it had located human remains believed to be his. Sheriff Mike Morrison said Thursday that DNA tests on clothing found at the scene, as well as from the remains, matched Decker.
The sheriff said investigators wanted to honor the girls’ memory by solving the case, and he apologized to their mother, Whitney Decker, for it taking so long.
“I hope you can rest easier at night knowing that Travis is accounted for,” Morrison said.
Decker had been with his daughters on a scheduled visit but failed to bring them back to his former wife, who, a year ag,o said that his mental health issues had worsened and that he had become increasingly unstable.
He was often living out of his truck, she said in a petition seeking to restrict him from having overnight visits with them.
A deputy found Decker’s truck as well as the girls’ bodies three days after Decker failed to return them to their mother’s house. Autopsies found the girls had been suffocated.
Decker was an infantryman in the Army from March 2013 to July 2021 and deployed to Afghanistan for four months in 2014. He had training in navigation, survival, and other skills, authorities said, and once spent more than two months living in the backwoods off the grid.
More than 100 officials with an array of state and federal agencies searched hundreds of square miles, much of it mountainous and remote, by land, water, and air during the on and off search. The U.S. Marshals Service offered a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to his capture.
At one point early in the search, authorities thought they spotted Decker near a remote alpine lake after receiving a tip from hikers.
Officials say the coroner’s office continues to work on determining the cause and time of his death.
Francisco Longoria, a San Bernardino man who was driving his truck when a masked U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer shot at it, has been arrested and charged by federal authorities. They allege he assaulted immigration officers during the incident.
In a statement, Longoria’s attorneys said Homeland Security Investigations agents arrived at the Longoria household at 4:18 a.m. Thursday, with an armored personnel carrier, a type of military vehicle, and deployed more than a dozen “fully armed and armored” agents to swarm the home, breaking the locks on his gate. An agent called out to Longoria to come out, using a bullhorn, as agents stood at each door and pointed their rifles at the door and at the occupants inside, the attorneys said.
“These are the type of tactics reserved for dangerous criminals such as violent gang members, drug lords, and terrorists,” the attorneys said. “It was clearly intended to intimidate and punish Mr. Longoria and his family for daring to speak out about their attempted murder by ICE and CBP agents on August 16th.”
On that day, federal immigration officers stopped Longoria in San Bernardino. During the encounter, Longoria, who was in his truck with his 18-year-old son and 23-year-old son-in-law, feared for his safety and drove off after masked officers shattered his car window, his attorneys said.
Department of Homeland Security officials have said officers were injured during the encounter when Longoria tried to “run them down.” Longoria’s attorneys dispute their client injured the officers or attempted to hit them, and earlier this week they called for an investigation of the shooting.
On Friday morning, the U.S. attorney’s office confirmed that Homeland Security Investigations agents arrested Longoria the day before. Word of his arrest was earlier reported by the San Bernardino Sun.
Ciaran McEvoy, spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles, said Longoria made an initial appearance before a U.S. District Court judge in Riverside, and is set to be arraigned on Sept. 30. The federal magistrate judge ordered him released on a $5,000 bond.
Longoria was being held at the San Bernardino County jail, in custody of the U.S. Marshals Service, as of Thursday afternoon, McEvoy said in an email.
“Since Longoria is an illegal alien, ICE has a detainer on him,” he said. Longoria’s attorneys said their client was transferred into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody as of Friday.
An unnamed Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed federal agents arrested Longoria at his home.
“CBP and ICE remain committed to enforcing the law, protecting officers, and keeping dangerous criminals off America’s streets — even as local officials in California undermine those efforts,” the official said.
According to a criminal complaint submitted by a Homeland Security Investigations agent, whose name is redacted, Longoria is facing a charge of assault on a federal officer with a deadly/dangerous weapon.
In the complaint, the agent, who interviewed the officers who stopped Longoria, said the officers had stopped Longoria’s GMC pickup truck to conduct “an immigration check.” Two of them were ICE officers and the other two were CBP officers.
The complaint states that the officers were identifiable by their visible clothing marked with “police.”
After they stopped Longoria’s truck, the complaint states, he refused to comply with the demands to turn off his vehicle and roll down the window. One of the CBP officers, identified as J.C., decided to break the window after Longoria refused the commands, and was allegedly struck by the driver’s door on his left elbow and left calf. The passenger side window was also shattered by agents during the encounter.
Another CBP officer was allegedly struck by the front bumper/fender of the truck on his right leg. “The Truck kept pushing Officer S.T., and Officer S.T. shot at the Truck, afraid for his life,” according to the complaint.
Longoria’s attorneys had previously released surveillance video of the incident, which appears to dispute a key claim by Homeland Security — that Longoria drove his truck toward officers and injured them.
In the surveillance video, the moment Longoria drives away, officers on both sides of the truck remain in sight of the video, and they then pile into their vehicles and pursue Longoria’s truck down a side street.
After Longoria drove off, the family called 911. While San Bernardino police were questioning Longoria, the immigration officers arrived, and family members identified the one they believed had shot at the truck.
At the initial court appearance, the judge questioned the assistant U.S. attorney prosecuting the case, Cory Burleson, about the government’s claim that it was conducting an “immigration check,” a term he couldn’t clarify when asked by the court, according to Longoria’s attorneys. Burleson also claimed Longoria was stopped due to a traffic violation, but couldn’t identify the violation, his attorneys said. When the judge asked Burleson to identify the alleged injuries of the officers, Burleson said he was “not aware of any injuries,” Longoria’s attorneys said.
Longoria’s attorneys said their client was granted bond, but because of the ICE hold, has since been transferred into ICE custody, which they believe is the “true purpose of this false and baseless charge.”
“No reasonable prosecutor could believe that a conviction would be secured against Mr. Longoria for the August 16th stop, when every video supports Mr. Longoria’s version of events and directly contradicts DHS’ story,” his attorneys said. “Yet [the Department of Justice] will not drop the charges; it has been their practice during this Administration to pursue charges based on unsubstantiated and false affidavits in order to arrest individuals and then turn them over to ICE.”
His attorneys said they intend to continue advocating for Longoria, his son and son-in-law.
“We are in contact with local and State authorities and are encouraging a state investigation and criminal charges against the ICE/CBP agents,” the attorneys said.
This article is part of The Times’ equity reporting initiative,funded by the James Irvine Foundation, exploring the challenges facing low-income workers and the efforts being made to addressCalifornia’s economic divide.
Photo credit to Corbin Henderson, Lebanon Fire Photographer
3:30PM Update – Linn County Sheriff Michelle Duncan is removing the Level 1 evacuation status for the area near Rice Road in Sweet Home.
SWEET HOME, Ore. – A fast-moving wildfire ignited by a pickup truck operating in tall, dry grass burned 25 acres near the Holley area west of Sweet Home on Monday afternoon, prompting evacuations and a major multi-agency firefighting response.
Sweet Home Fire District and the Oregon Department of Forestry’s South Cascade District responded to the blaze just after 4 p.m. on Rice Road. The fire spread quickly through grass, brush, and timber, reportedly moving toward homes and threatening structures.
The incident commander immediately called for a second alarm, and later a third, bringing in resources from Brownsville, Halsey, and Lebanon Fire. Additional coverage was provided by Scio and Albany fire crews. A Pacific Power team shut down power lines in the area as a precaution.
A Type 1 helicopter was deployed for aerial support, and a bulldozer was brought in to assist with constructing containment lines. The Linn County Sheriff’s Office, with help from Sweet Home Police, conducted evacuations.
Level 3 evacuation orders were issued for Rice Road and Crescent Hill Road but were downgraded to Level 1 by 5:24 p.m. after crews successfully halted the fire’s forward progress. As of Tuesday morning, Level 1 evacuations remain in effect while crews continue mop-up operations.
The fire destroyed one RV, damaged the siding of a pumphouse, and caused minor heat damage to several structures. No injuries or casualties were reported.
Authorities confirmed the fire was sparked underneath a pickup truck that was operating in dry grass. The vehicle itself was not damaged, but the fire quickly spread to surrounding vegetation and the nearby RV.
Crews from Scio and Albany are assisting with mop-up efforts. The fire is currently 60% contained, with full containment expected by the end of the day. All evacuation orders will be lifted once containment is complete.
In total, ODF South Cascade deployed six engines, one water tender, one dozer, and four overhead team members, totaling 18 personnel. Structural fire response included nine engines, three water tenders, and five overhead personnel, for a total of 32 firefighters on scene.
OVER THE GAZA STRIP — The Jordanian air force C-130 Hercules cargo plane banked in a slow arc over the Mediterranean, pointing its nose toward Gaza for its approach — the final stage of the intricate ballet that is dropping aid over the war-ravaged enclave.
Earlier, in a cavernous hangar at a Royal Jordanian Air Force base, soldiers from Jordan, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, United Arab Emirates and Singapore assembled to prepare the 79 tons of rice, sugar, pasta, tomato paste, dates and other basic foodstuffs set for the day’s drop.
Despite the sweltering heat, the soldiers stationed at King Abdullah II Air Base worked quickly, the hangar an ants’ nest of activity as they secured 1-ton piles of aid boxes to pallets, wrapped them in protective fabric, then tightened the rigging before using a forklift to hoist a parachute above each one.
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No less active were the crews of the seven dark-gray C-130s arrayed on the tarmac nearby, their bellies open as loadmasters prepared the planes for their cargo.
“We have to get a 100% success rate for the drops,” said Phille, a Belgian soldier whose tattoos, muscular build and clean-shaven head belied the gentle way he spoke as he tied a low-velocity parachute to a pallet. He gave his nickname, in line with the Belgian military’s policy.
“Everyone works in a chain, and knows exactly what they need to do,” he said.
Despite all that effort, everyone at the base that day knew that the multinational air bridge to Gaza was a wildly inefficient solution to a problem that by rights should never have existed.
Since March, Israel has kept the enclave under a near-total blockade, justifying the move as necessary to prevent aid from benefiting Hamas. The United Nations, dozens of aid organizations and Western officials have all rejected that claim and accuse Israel of deliberately starving the enclave’s 2.1 million people.
In May, Israel created, with U.S. assistance, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and charged it with delivering aid to Gaza. Aid groups and governments have excoriated the GHF’s efforts as paltry, inefficient and haphazard.
Health authorities in the Strip say more than 1,800 people have been killed near GHF sites, with rights groups describing the GHF’s methods as “orchestrated killing.” Israel and the U.S. insist the GHF is working.
In the face of blistering international pressure and daily reports of deaths from starvation — aid groups said last weekend that more than 100 children have died from malnourishment — Israel allowed airdrops to resume last month.
A number of world governments have signed on for air deliveries, their thinking being that some aid entering Gaza is better than nothing. But humanitarians generally view the drops as a last resort. The U.N. and aid groups say the best option is overland — a tried-and-true method that before the war brought 500 truckloads into the Strip per day from Jordan and Egypt.
The contrast with air deliveries is stark. A truck carries 25 tons, but planes can handle only a little more than half that amount, and even less in the case of hot weather due to strain on the engines.
Cost is another issue: Operating a C-130 cargo plane — the most common type of aircraft in the Gaza airlift — amounts to roughly $15,000 per hour of flight. A truck costs a fraction of that. The result is that an average food delivery by truck costs $180 per ton, while airdropping is a whopping $16,000 per ton, according to a U.S. Air Force study from 2016.
This isn’t aid. It’s chaos
— Nasra al-Rash, Gaza Strip resident
Once the 18 pallets were loaded, the C-130 heaved itself into the air, then circled lazily over Amman, the Jordanian capital, while the pilots waited for Israeli authorities to coordinate their entry into Gazan airspace.
Roughly 30 minutes later, the plane headed southwest toward Tel Aviv — the cue for the crew to secure the pallets to the long steel cables running along the body of the C-130 that would deploy the chutes once dropped. Loadmaster Mohammad clipped a line to the cable, then secured himself and waited for the green light as the plane flew over the Mediterranean and positioned itself for the flight somewhere over central Gaza and lowered its altitude to 1,500 feet.
“Ten minutes to drop,” the loadmaster said.
The C-130’s cargo doors yawned open, letting in a rush of sea air before Gaza came into view. Moments later, it emerged as a landscape denuded of all color save brown and gray and the occasional red-rimmed maw of a destroyed brick rooftop. Almost every structure appeared damaged or in ruins.
It was a sobering sight. Though all of the crewmen had seen it many times — Jordan alone has run more than 150 airdrops since July — they pressed their faces to the windows to glimpse the devastated landscape.
Dropping the aid is a delicate process. The attached parachutes have no GPS guidance systems, and though the pallets descend at a relatively slow 5 meters per second, their weight — 1 ton in most cases — makes them potentially lethal. This weekend in central Gaza, 14-year-old Muhannad Eid was crushed by an aid pallet as he ran toward it.
“We have to perform the airdrop as a surprise, so people don’t gather below,” Phille said earlier. “If we see people under the plane, we don’t give the green light.”
When the signal came, one line of pallets raced down the hold’s railing, their chutes ripping open in a flurry of motion as they fell out of the back, one after another. The sound of the engines increased as the pilot climbed higher and swung his way toward the King Abdullah II Air Base once more.
The parachutes floated down toward the coastline, not far from a cluster of makeshift tents, grapevines, fig trees and the outer edge of residential buildings.
Waiting for them on the ground was a group of men and boys. Once they saw the parachutes’ bloom, they sprinted toward the landing site. One of the pallets smashed onto the roof of a building. The rest settled nearby.
That building was private property, but some of the men rapidly scaled the walls. Two reached the roof, cut the parachute cords and dragged down supplies. They divided them. Minutes later, they each walked away, carrying small shares.
Not far from there, in al-Amer tent camp, dozens of families — about 50 in total — watched in despair.
“I’m an old man with 10 children and grandkids. What can these airdrops do for us? The poor, the elderly — they get nothing,” said Mutlaq Qreishi, a 71-year-old man displaced from the al-Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City, tears streaking down his face.
“It’s only the strong ones, the looters,” he added. “Every time I try, I can’t make it. My wife just wants tea, some milk — anything from a can. Look at that pallet — it fell in someone’s yard. People are fighting over it like wild dogs.”
Nearby was Nasra al-Rash, 48, who was displaced from Gaza City with her three boys and two girls.
“We’re not even allowed to run for them. Every time they drop food, we get nothing,” she said, a quiet rage in her voice. She added people needed a “fair distribution system,” like the one used by the U.N. and other groups.
“This isn’t aid,” she said. “It’s chaos. A performance for cameras. I’ve never received a single sack of flour, not one can of food, not a spoonful of sugar. We’re being starved, tortured. Enough.”
Four more planes appeared above and dropped their loads. Several of the pallets, residents said, landed on tents; others snagged on rooftops.
Standing near her tent, Hanan Hadhoud, 40, shouted at the sky.
“This can’t go on. I sent my kids to get something — anything — for us. But the young men, they just push children aside,” she said. Now, when she sees the planes coming, she added, she and her family run from their tents.
“That’s how we live now.”
Its cargo dispatched, the plane with the loadmaster Mohammad made good time back to base. Though the distance to Gaza could be covered by air in 15 or so minutes, the trip had taken an hour and 50, at an estimated cost of $200,000 to $250,000.
Mohammad and the other crewmen secured the loose rigging and packed their equipment before walking to their pickup truck for the ride home. They drove off, giving one last look at the plane as the ground crew scurried around, readying it for the next day’s drop. In the hangar, the ballet started anew.
Times staff writer Bulos reported from Jordan. Shbeir, a special correspondent, from Gaza.
If the new apartment tower had been planned for another plot of land, chances are good the concrete plant in the middle of the city would have helped build it.
But, as it happens, the century-old facility on La Brea Avenue that has provided concrete for buildings and roads across the Los Angeles region sat where the tower is to go up.
Now, the West Hollywood facility has ceased operating in order to make way for a new apartment tower.
A worker sprays water to keep dust down at the Cemex concrete plant in West Hollywood. A 34-story apartment building is being planned for the site.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
The mixing plant that routinely filled fleets of trucks with ready-to-pour concrete stood out as an urban oddity in its final years, a dusty, noisy industrial yard on busy La Brea Avenue near Santa Monica Boulevard, across the street from a shopping center with a Target store.
Straddling the border between West Hollywood and Los Angeles, it backed up against L.A.’s burgeoning Sycamore District that includes upmarket stores, restaurants and art galleries that have sprung up in the former industrial district.
The Cemex Hollywood Concrete Plant was one of the last industrial businesses operating in West Hollywood, said Jennifer Alkire, the city’s assistant director of community development.
The Cemex concrete plant in West Hollywood was described as “the pioneer mixing plant in the West” in a 1924 issue of Concrete magazine.
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“It was definitely an unusual use, particularly as the city continued to develop and change and grow,” she said. “Obviously, it was there long before the city incorporated” in 1984.
A 1924 issue of Concrete magazine said that the operation at 1000 La Brea Ave. appeared to be “the pioneer mixing plant in the West,” the first of its kind offering “ready-mixed Portland cement concrete in quantities sufficient for a flagpole foundation or a 12-story building, and delivered right on the job when required.”
While concrete had been a preferred construction material for hundreds of years, it was 20th century advances in truck technology that made it practical to be delivered instead of mixed on-site.
By 1924, concrete from the La Brea plant was being used to pave streets in Los Angeles, the magazine said. Customers included the Standard and Union oil companies, along with the Famous Players-Lasky, Buster Keaton and Vitagraph movie studios.
Ready-mix concrete plants continued to support development in the Southern California region during the building boom of the post-World War II era, according to research prepared for a draft environmental impact report on the planned development of the La Brea Avenue site. The plant there was upgraded in the 1930s and 1960s and operated continuously until its closure a few weeks ago.
As mechanical plants go, it was a pretty simple one. Nearly vertical conveyor belts lifted dry ingredients high up to be deposited into hoppers where they were mixed with water and then the wet concrete was poured into waiting trucks below. Concrete trucks routinely queued up on nearby streets before departing right on La Brea Avenue with their agitator drums turning.
Its last operator, Mexican multinational building materials company Cemex, declined to comment on the closure. The company’s landlord, Los Angeles developer CIM Group, said Cemex’s lease on the property was set to expire at the end of November and that it would clear the site of structures and vacate. By the end of October, most of the plant had been disassembled and carted away.
CIM Group is seeking approval from the city of West Hollywood to build a 514-unit apartment complex that would fill much of the former plant site and another parcel on La Brea Avenue. Called 1000 La Brea, it would rise 34 stories and include floor retail space for shops and restaurants.
It would have rooftop gardens, a swimming pool, fitness center, yoga room and library. There would be subterranean and above-ground parking, and at least 20% of the units are expected to be designated as affordable with subsidized rents.
An artist’s rendering shows the apartment tower planned for the site of the Cemex concrete plant at 1000 Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood.
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Shaul Kuba, co-founder of CIM Group, said he expects being situated on the edge of the upscale Sycamore district will help the apartment building land tenants. Neighbors would include Hollywood production facilities such as the former Warner Bros. studio now known as the Lot and other entertainment businesses, including broadcaster Sirius XM studios and Jay-Z’s entertainment company.
“This should become a place where people in the entertainment industry in the neighborhood can live and actually be close to their work,” he said. “The entertainment industry is very focused in this area right now.”
The east side of West Hollywood has evolved from being a collection of mostly low-rise commercial buildings, Alkire said, to including several multistory mixed-use residential buildings and neighborhood-serving retail properties such as the Movietown Square apartments and the West Hollywood Gateway shopping center.
California cities need more apartments to meet housing goals, she said. “It’s definitely been made a priority by our City Council and by the state.”
CIM hopes to break ground on the project next year and complete it by 2028, Kuba said.
A witness reported seeing a bicyclist fall off his bike at 6:55 p.m. at the intersection of Lovett and Ives streets. Police said the cyclist appears to have gotten his jacket tangled in the spokes. He was not wearing a helmet or carrying identification but was later identified as a 36-year-old area resident. He was transported to Beverly hospital with minor injuries and his bike was left in the station sallyport for safe keeping.
Wednesday
A man flagged down a cruiser at 2:07 a.m. at the intersection of Park and Pleasant streets and asked to be taken to the hospital. He was transported to Salem Hospital via ambulance.
Officers were sent to the intersection of Cabot and Myrtle streets at 10:55 a.m. to check on a disabled green pickup truck. Detail officer arrived first on scene and found the vehicle with a disabled front -right wheel and axle. The driver was out of the truck and not suffering from any health episode or signs of impairment from drugs or alcohol. A check of his records found only civil moving violations, and a search of the vehicle yielded nothing of value. It was towed by New Beverly.
The general manager of a building on Park Street reported chalk graffiti on the brick wall of the depot. The names Brenda, “Donalad” and Kristen were chalked on the building along with other barely legible writing. The officer spoke with the homeless group across the street and asked who was responsible for it. One of the males, whose name was not on the wall, took responsibility, but it may have been one of the females. The officer told to wash it off immediately, and if it is done again, they will be charged with vandalism/tagging. The officer watched the male to remove the chalk.
An officer went to 490 Rantoul St. at 2:02 p.m. to take a report on harassment by a tenant. The tenant said he gave the landlord two weeks’ notice that he was moving, and the landlord reciprocated by telling him to leave immediately. The tenant said he had a long history of issues with the landlord that’s why he was moving out. He was advised how to proceed in Salem District Court for the civil components and also in regard to obtaining a harassment prevention order.
At 5:34 p.m. an officer came across a minor motor vehicle accident. The officer said he inspected the rear bumper of the vehicle in close detail and observed there was no damage at all, and it was very clear the operator was lying. He advised her that if she tried to file a claim, the other driver could use this narrative as proof there was no damage.
Fire and EMS were sent to Cabot Street at 7:27 p.m. for a person with an injured leg. The woman said she fell and scraped her shin on some rocks on the beach, and when she saw the blood, she fainted. Friends helped her to her feet, and she was able to walk off the beach to EMS and fire who evaluated her. She refused medical treatment.
Thursday
Police responded to the intersection of Cabot and Federal streets at 1:05 a.m. for a disturbance. A 49-year-old Beverly woman was arrested and charged with assault and battery on a family or household member.
An officer was sent to the intersection of Church and Cabot streets at 6:06 p.m. to make a wellbeing check after a possible assault. The female was transported to Beverly hospital with the officer riding in the ambulance with her.
Peabody
Thursday
A caller reported at 12:42 p.m. she went to check on her mother’s residence and found the door unlocked, and lights and TV on inside. No one should have been there at the time. Officers checked the residence, and all was in order with no signs of forced entry, it appeared the TV was just left on.
IStorage, 137 Summit St., reported at 2:15 p.m., that a trailer had been stolen.
A Hamerick Road woman called police at 6:40 p.m., to report that her father, who had possible memory issues, left home at 9:30 a.m., in a Green Cab and had not returned. The taxi took him to Apollo Travel in Cambridge, the daughter said, but they told her he did not book any plane tickets and left around 12:30-1 p.m., direction of travel unknown. The daughter left a voicemail on his cellphone after getting no answer. T-Mobile was attempting to ping the phone. Her father was last seen wearing a green hat, brown plaid shirt and green or brown pants. He was carrying a brown suitcase, a pink suitcase and a duffle bag. T-Mobile advised it had pinged the phone at Logan Airport within and gave the coordinates within a radius of 299 meters. Mass. State Police Troop F at Logan was notified to attempt to make contact with the father and to call his daughter. His picture was sent to Sgt. Maguire at the Troop F Barracks.
Friday
A woman called police at 2:32 a.m. from Independent Electric Supply, 34 Railroad Ave., to report she had put her purse down to get something and the suspect picked it up and fled toward Dunkin’ Donuts. The suspect was described as a white female with dark hair and blond highlights, possible facial piercings, blue eyes and a dark sweatshirt.
Police stopped a vehicle at the Knights of Columbus, 96 Main St. and, after a brief investigation, they arrested the driver, a 44-year-old Peabody man. He was charged with drunken driving or with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs and with possessing Class B drugs.
A caller left a voicemail with Animal Control complaining his neighbor allows his dogs to run loose in the neighborhood. The 9 Oran Circle neighbor was mailed a copy of the leash law, license application and citation warnings for the unrestrained and potentially unvaccinated/unlicensed dogs. There is no history of dogs at that address.
An ambulance was dispatched at 10:11 a.m., to New England Orthopedics, 4 Centennial Drive, for a patient who was unable to move his legs.
Marblehead
Thursday
Two officers were sent to a Pond Street location at 8:20 p.m., to investigate a complaint.
An officer was called to a Russell Street address at 8:32 a.m. to report on a larceny, forgery or a fraud.
Police, fire and ambulance were sent to the intersection of Ocean and Atlantic avenues at 1:29 p.m. for a motor vehicle crash.
Officers were sent to Garden Road at 2:30 p.m., and to Atlantic Avenue at 3:04 p.m., to report on separate cases of larceny, forgery or fraud.
An officer was sent to Heritage Way at 4:06 p.m. for a larceny, forgery or fraud.
A report of a general complaint brought police to Broughton Road at 8:10 p.m.
Salem
Wednesday
An officer was sent to Leach St. at 4:55 p.m., and another to 55 Summit St. at 5:49 p.m. to report on separate frauds or scams.
Police were sent to 39 Upham St. at 6:42 p.m. to end a disturbance. After a brief investigation, they arrested a 67-year-old Salem man. He was charged with assault and assault with a dangerous weapon.
The report of a larceny brought officers to 13 Read St. at 7:30 p.m.
Also at 7:30 p.m., police took a report on a stolen or missing motor vehicle license plate from 63 Jefferson Ave.
Police were sent to 41 Bridge St., at 8:37 p.m. to deal with a juvenile issue.
A missing juvenile was reported at 10:53 p.m., from 85 Valley St.
A larceny was reported from 52 Northey St. at 11:33 p.m.
Thursday
Officers were called to 4 Colonial Terrace at 12:01 a.m., to end a dispute.
Police went to 106 Linden St. at 7:50 a.m. to end another dispute.
Officers were sent to 190 Bridge St. at 8:04 a.m. for a motor vehicle accident with airbag deployment and possible injuries.
The report of a fraud or a scam brought police to Pickman Road at 11:36 a.m.
Police arrested a person on School Street at 12:56 a.m., but no further information was provided.
Officers were called to The Home Depot, 50 Traders Way at 1:20 p.m., for a larceny.
The report of a dispute brought police to the vicinity of the North and Mason streets intersection at 3:31 p.m. for a dispute.
The report of a suspicious item brought police to the vicinity of 170 North St. at 5:08 p.m. No issue was reported.
Police were called to a Cedarcrest Avenue address at 5:11 p.m., for a juvenile issue.
Police arrested a man at 5:12 p.m. in the vicinity of 211 Washington St. After a brief investigation, they arrested the 62-year-old Salem man and charged him with violation of a miscellaneous municipal ordinance or bylaw.
An officer was sent to North Street at 7:28 p.m. to handle a juvenile issue.
Friday
Police were called to 211 Washington St. at 7 a.m. for a larceny.
At 8:54 a.m., reports of a disturbance brought police to 75 Boston St.
Officers were called to 1000 Loring Ave. at 9:11 to end a dispute.
Police were sent to 1000 Loring Ave. at 9:16 a.m. for an assault in the past.
The report of a larceny brought police to Salem Hospital, 81 Highland Ave., at 9:27 a.m.
A Florida truck driver is facing reckless endangerment charges after he’s accused of engaging in a fight with two men — while they drove along Interstate 95, Connecticut investigators say.
The out-of-control box truck crashed when it plummeted off the interstate around 4:30 p.m. Sunday, May 12, near Greenwich, Connecticut State Police reported in a news release.
Investigators say the driver was a 46-year-old man from Lake Worth, and the fight involved two co-workers who were desperate for a pit stop.
“The collision occurred during a physical altercation between the vehicle’s operator and two adult passengers,” state police said in the release.
“An argument began when (the driver) stopped at a shopping plaza after driving for several hours. According to the passengers, (he) left the vehicle briefly to purchase food and quickly returned. … When they asked (him) for some additional time for them to take a break, (he) allegedly began yelling that they did not need breaks and immediately began driving.”
The dispute escalated when the driver struck one passenger in the face and the second passenger intervened, officials said.
“While the altercation was occurring, the vehicle began to swerve from the right lane into the right shoulder before striking a metal beam guardrail and traveling down an embankment,” police said.
“The passenger allegedly struck (by the driver) had visible injuries to his face,” according to police. “The second passenger … reported minor injuries.”
Dash camera footage corroborated the victims’ stories, officials said.
The driver was arrested and charged with third-degree assault, two counts of second-degree reckless endangerment and failure to maintain lane, officials said.
Mark Price is a National Reporter for McClatchy News. He joined the network of newspapers in 1991 at The Charlotte Observer, covering beats including schools, crime, immigration, LGBTQ issues, homelessness and nonprofits. He graduated from the University of Memphis with majors in journalism and art history, and a minor in geology.
The new 2025 RAM 1500 RHO is a new behemoth from Dodge with a high-output 540-horsepower twin-turbo 3.0 liter Hurricane inline-six. While that is mouthful, the RHO is here to fill the gap left from the TRX. While it doesn’t have the V8 as the TRX, it still possesses formidable power under the hood. It compromises for loss of power with a lighter body, Baja-ready suspension, better weight and balance and improved fuel economy.
A Tesla Cybertruck crashed into the sign marking the entrance to the fabled Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunday night, prompting Elon Musk to post about the incident on X, formerly Twitter.
The massive, stainless steel behemoth bonked into the sign around 11:45 p.m. Sunday after it was involved in a collision with another vehicle, according to the Beverly Hills Police Department.
“Cyberbeast is faster than a Porsche 911, but looks like a truck, so perhaps the valet wasn’t expecting so much acceleration,” Tesla founder Musk joked on X, the social media site he owns.
Musk was responding to a claim that went viral, suggesting that a Beverly Hills Hotel valet crashed the truck, which later turned out to be a joke by an X user.
The Beverly Hills Police Department did not have information Monday afternoon about injuries or damage resulting from the accident.
Video posted online showed the truck sustained significant damage to its front left wheel. The truck also damaged the poles holding up the sign as well as the pink sidewalk wall in front of it, according to images from the scene.
“There was not an employee or member of our valet team involved in the accident,” said Brittany Williams, the director of communications for the Dorchester Collection, which operates the hotel.
A suspected drunk driver last week slammed into spectators waiting to watch a Christmas parade in downtown Bakersfield, injuring three people, police said.
On Thursday evening, about half an hour before the start of the annual Bakersfield Christmas Parade, a man in a white pickup truck drove backward through an alleyway near the parade route at a high rate of speed, coming to a stop next to a city fire station on 21st Street, the Bakersfield Police Department said in a statement.
The Ford F-150 hit three male parade spectators, ages 21, 42 and 77. Authorities have not released their names.
Bakersfield firefighters who were nearby “immediately rendered medical aid” to the men, who were taken to a local hospital and were in stable condition, authorities said.
The driver, Alan Booth, 72, of Bakersfield, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol, police said.
Officer Francisco Esguerra, a Bakersfield police watch commander, told the Times on Saturday night that Booth was at a hospital being treated for injuries related to the crash and had not yet been booked into jail.
Booth could not be reached for comment.
Police officers who were preparing for the parade nearby heard the truck accelerate before the collision, authorities said.
The collision also damaged a food truck, Poppi’s Pastrami & More.
“He pushed my whole truck. He pushed it like 8 [feet],” Misti Cole, the food truck owner, told KBAK Fox58.
Photos on the Poppi’s Pastrami & More Facebook page show the Dodge Ram pickup truck that was hauling the food trailer with a smashed front end.
Cole told the news station that her children were in the food trailer at the time of the crash and that other children had been sitting in chairs nearby to watch the parade.
“Trucks can be replaced. Those people who got hit, they can’t be replaced,” Cole told KBAK.
Ram is making the biggest changes in its lineup history. The sixth-generation Ram 1500 will go on sale next year as a 2025 model year truck and feature no V8 or diesel engines, but will have a battery-electric model with a range extender.
Electric power without range anxiety
Ram will be the first automaker to offer an electric truck with a range extender. This powertrain set up sees a battery and engine work together to continously charge the battery, allowing owners to have access to far more range than they would typically get from a battery-electric truck. It will be called the Ram 1500 Ramcharger.
This model is not to be confused with the Ram REV all-electric truck, which will come with electric motors and battery like a Ford F-150 Lightning, competing directly with it and the forthcoming Chevrolet Silverado EV and GMC Sierra EV.
“I would call this the ultimate battery electric vehicle. Think about the business side of that: a 92-kilowatt-hour battery that never worries about range or towing. It functions as a pure battery-electric truck, with all the instantaneous torque, all the power, but without any of the downsides,” said Tim Kuniskis, head of the Ram brand.
“I think it becomes obvious to a customer because there’s so many advantages to a battery electric vehicle. But there are certain things that are slowing people down. And if I can say the things that are slowing you down are charge time and range anxiety and infrastructure, you don’t have to worry about it with this.”
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The 2025 Ram 1500 adds a Tungsten trim to the top of the lineup. Stellantis
Ram says the combination powertrain in the Ramcharger will deliver 663 horsepower (hp) and 615 pound-feet (lb-ft) of torque with a tow rating up to 14,000 pounds. It thinks this is the bridge truck buyers need to ease into electric vehicle ownership.
“It’s an electric vehicle because the power is flowing from the battery, or the 130-kilowatt generator through electric drive modules. There’s no connection between this generator assembly and the wheels like one might find in even a plug-in hybrid. All the propulsion is electrical,” Doug Killian, Ram chief engineer said at the launch event.
The generator is powered by a 3.6-liter V6, known as the Pentastar engine, which parent brand Stellantis has been putting in everything from Jeep to Dodge since its inception in 2010.
Ramcharger will offer owners 145 miles of all-electric power, with a total range of 690 miles when the battery and engine team up. This is designed to help alleviate some of the consumer anxiety surrounding towing with electric vehicle power.
The 2025 Ram 1500 RamCharger has an all-electric range of 145 miles. Stellantis
The truck’s liquid-cooled battery pack is positioned under the floor in the center of the truck.
The 400-volt electrical system works with DC fast charging stations to add 50 miles of all-electric range in approximately 10 minutes.
Heavy-duty presence of a light-duty truck
Ram designers said they had three main pillars of upgrades in mind for the next generation of its 1500 pickup truck.
“The first was to increase and amplify the heroic presence that the Ram has been known for. So what we wanted to do was bring a measure of the heavy-duty presence into the light duty space with this truck. We also wanted to increase the visual modularity of the trucks through the use of technology. So on the exterior we do that we do that typically through lighting technology,” said Jeffrey Ross, chief exterior designer for the Ram truck brand.
“As designers we know that lighting technology and lit signature elements are very powerful ways to telegraph brand identity and brand equity, really making the trucks recognizable as Ram products. And thirdly, we wanted to amplify the most no-compromise, upscale, aspirational luxury truck in the market,” he said.
The 2025 Ram 1500 RamCharger offers an illuminated Ram badge. Stellantis
The new look encompasses a fresh fascia, with different styling cues for different Ram models, along with a new logo treatment and new rear end. The Ram insignia is bigger on all models than in the previous generation, and offered with illumination on the Ramcharger. Ram says this truck is more aerodynamic than its predecessors.
A new ultra-premium Tungsten model joins the 2025 Ram 1500 lineup that also includes Tradesman, Big Horn/Lone Star, Laramie, Rebel, Limited Longhorn and Limited grades.
In addition to the Ramcharger’s powertrain, Ram will offer the Pentastar V6 as a standalone engine option. Buyers can also opt for a 3.0-liter Hurricane engine that’s rated at 420 hp and 469 lb-ft. of torque or the new High Output Hurricane that’s rated at 540 hp and 521 lb-ft. of torque.
The high-output pickup comes with a maximum towing capacity of 11,580 pounds, a maximum payload of 2,300 pounds and up to 24-inches of water fording.
The 2025 Ram 1500 RamCharger comes with screens for both driver and passenger. Stellantis
The cabin features a familiar layout with added luxury touches. Ram will offer new 24-way adjustable, massaging seats as well as the Uconnect 5 infotainment system with a new 14.5-inch touchscreen, 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster and a segment-first 10.25-inch passenger screen.
The passenger screen is shuttered so the driver can’t see what’s playing. This is similar to how similar technology is presented in the Mercedes-Benz E-Class and in the Grand Wagoneer.
A digital rearview mirror, head-up display (HUD) and a Klipsch Reference Premiere audio system are also available.
Pricing and fuel efficiency numbers for the new-generation Ram 1500 are expected to be revealed closer to the truck’s on sale date.
Deliveries of the 2025 Ram 1500 will begin in the first quarter of 2024.
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I am grateful. I am soooo grateful. I have a warm and wonderful home, and a partner to share my life with, and I have a beautiful and healthy little boy who literally makes my heart sing every single day. I was thinking about a church homily I heard once about planning for the future but also finding a balance living in the present as well, and taking stock in what you do have in your life. I try to do that every day, numerous times a day. And I want to teach my son gratitude.
That entails being observant. When we’re surrounded by his toys and books and things, we often stop to look around us and pause to see how lucky we are that we have so many toys. I want my son to realize how much we have (and it’s too much, really).
We also look at what’s going on around us, and we talk about how can we help these people in any way possible (we recently gathered loads of clothes and toys for donation). We reflect on our own blessings and, again, how lucky we are to have a roof over our heads, food on the table, etc.
We acknowledge when we receive gifts by writing thank-you cards or even making artwork for the person. My son is quite popular with the church-goers of my parish, and they would frequently pick up little cars and trucks for him. And we would always go home and make them something for the following Sunday to thank them. We’d talk about how nice it was for that person to stop and take time to think about our bean. And I think he genuinely feels lucky to receive these little gifts.
We buy for others, together. If we know it’s someone’s birthday, the bean always helps me choose the gift. Yes, I may encounter the requests to buy him something too, but I’m adamant about not doing so, because he has to learn that we do for others. And he’s usually very good about it.
We stop and thank people. Food vendors and store employees. We hold doors for people. We wave “thank you” when cars let us cross the street. If there’s one way to raise a conscientious, thoughtful child, it’s by teaching gratitude. Every day.
How do you teach your child gratitude?
A full-time work-from-home mom, Jennifer Cox (our “Supermom in Training”) loves dabbling in healthy cooking, craft projects, family outings, and more, sharing with readers everything she knows about being an (almost) superhero mommy.
I am grateful. I am soooo grateful. I have a warm and wonderful home, and a partner to share my life with, and I have a beautiful and healthy little boy who literally makes my heart sing every single day. I was thinking about a church homily I heard once about planning for the future but also finding a balance living in the present as well, and taking stock in what you do have in your life. I try to do that every day, numerous times a day. And I want to teach my son gratitude.
That entails being observant. When we’re surrounded by his toys and books and things, we often stop to look around us and pause to see how lucky we are that we have so many toys. I want my son to realize how much we have (and it’s too much, really).
We also look at what’s going on around us, and we talk about how can we help these people in any way possible (we recently gathered loads of clothes and toys for donation). We reflect on our own blessings and, again, how lucky we are to have a roof over our heads, food on the table, etc.
We acknowledge when we receive gifts by writing thank-you cards or even making artwork for the person. My son is quite popular with the church-goers of my parish, and they would frequently pick up little cars and trucks for him. And we would always go home and make them something for the following Sunday to thank them. We’d talk about how nice it was for that person to stop and take time to think about our bean. And I think he genuinely feels lucky to receive these little gifts.
We buy for others, together. If we know it’s someone’s birthday, the bean always helps me choose the gift. Yes, I may encounter the requests to buy him something too, but I’m adamant about not doing so, because he has to learn that we do for others. And he’s usually very good about it.
We stop and thank people. Food vendors and store employees. We hold doors for people. We wave “thank you” when cars let us cross the street. If there’s one way to raise a conscientious, thoughtful child, it’s by teaching gratitude. Every day.
How do you teach your child gratitude?
A full-time work-from-home mom, Jennifer Cox (our “Supermom in Training”) loves dabbling in healthy cooking, craft projects, family outings, and more, sharing with readers everything she knows about being an (almost) superhero mommy.
