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Homeowner has box of bees thrown at her from 'nightmare RTD bus stop'

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:26:34 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A local homeowner is fighting for her safety living next to an RTD bus stop that she said has become a nightmare. Along Colorado Boulevard, by Bruce Randolph Avenue, people have made themselves comfortable at a bus stop just feet from what should be Gwendolyn Kasnoff’s safe space.“People sleep on top of it. They jump, they climb up on it,” Gwendolyn Kasnoff said. “They urinated on my fence, they defecate in my yard. This isn't how people are supposed to live in Denver.”Kasnoff has lived at her home for a year. She was excited to stop renting and have a place to own in Denver County. Colorado renters make half what it would take to afford a starter home “But then I started to hear the fighting and hear the drug talk and hear, you know, just so many things that were very disturbing,” she said.Her home camera has captured some of the daily and nightly disturbances: music blaring from the stop before 8 a.m. and late at night. Then, earlier this month, Kasnoff captured ...

Caught on camera: Vandalism on Miami gravesite of 2 killed in 2021 New Year’s crash

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:26:34 GMT

Grave concern once again for a South Florida family after a video captured an act of vandalism at the Miami cemetery on the gravesite of two people killed in West Miami-Dade on New Year’s in 2021.Last month, a similar cellphone video showed someone defacing a gravestone with a white spray instead of the black spray that was used in the previous act of vandalism.Moments later, the vandal is seen spray-painting the flowers, hammering the grave and a memorial honoring the victims. The subject kicked everything that was placed over the grave repeatedly at the Caballero Rivero Woodlawn North Cemetery. A surveillance video captured a man in a hoodie carrying the spray paint bottle in his hand.He had a blurred face because officials have yet not identified the subject and confirmed with 7 News that they have the image and they are still investigating. A heartbroken family member Ingrid Diaz, one of the victim’s sisters spoke with 7 News about the recurring act of vandalism. ...

Exclusive: CNN obtains the tape of Trump’s 2021 conversation about classified documents

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:26:34 GMT

(CNN) — CNN has exclusively obtained the audio recording of the 2021 meeting in Bedminster, New Jersey, where President Donald Trump discusses holding secret documents he did not declassify.The recording, which first aired on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” includes new details from the conversation that is a critical piece of evidence in special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump over the mishandling of classified information, including a moment when Trump seems to indicate he was holding a secret Pentagon document with plans to attack Iran.“These are the papers,” Trump says in the audio recording, while he’s discussing the Pentagon attack plans, a quote that was not included in the indictment.In the two-minute audio recording, Trump and his aides also joke about Hillary Clinton’s emails after the former president says that the document was “secret information.”“Hillary would print that out all the time, you know. Her private emails,” Trump’s staffer sai...

Investigation continues after 2 teenagers killed in shooting in Braintree

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:26:34 GMT

An investigation continued Monday after two teenagers were killed in a shooting in Braintree early Sunday morning. Authorities said a 19-year-old and a 16-year-old were shot and killed while sitting in a car. The car was left riddled with bullet holes and on Monday, community members spoke out as police continued their search for a shooter.“It’s just a very sad thing that two young lives have been lost,” said neighbor Maria Santoro.People who live near Alfred Road, where the shooting happened, said they heard gunshots around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday. “They were so close together that it was almost like one huge, long bullet,” Santoro said. “It wasn’t ‘Boom, boom.’ It was just one constant blast.”Braintree police said they found the two teenagers shot in the car. A third teenager inside wasn’t injured. The two teens who were shot were rushed to South Shore Hospital where they died. “This is a very, very bad tragedy we’ve had here in ...

Prospects Spencer Jones, Clayton Beeter named to 2023 Futures Game roster

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:26:34 GMT

Yankees farmhands Spencer Jones and Clayton Beeter were named to the American League’s 2023 Futures Game roster on Monday.Jones, the Yankees’ first-round pick out of Vanderbilt in 2022, is considered the organization’s third-best prospect by MLB.com. The 22-year-old thrived over a 25-game introduction to pro ball last season, and he is currently playing for High-A Hudson Valley.A centerfielder, Jones is slashing .268/.327/.496 with 19 doubles, four triples, 10 home runs, 36 RBI and 18 stolen bases over 60 games this season. He’s also struck out 91 times.At 6-6 and 225 pounds, Jones has been physically compared to Aaron Judge, though no one is expecting the youngster to win an MVP award just yet. Jones’ swing also differs from Judge’s, as it comes from the left side of the plate.“Jones features impressive strength and leverage,” per his MLB.com scouting report, “and he also generates plenty of bat speed and makes a lot of hard con...

Patrice Bergeron wins record 6th Selke Award

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:26:34 GMT

We don’t know whether Patrice Bergeron will retire or not. But we do know that he can still play the game of hockey.On Monday at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Bergeron won his record sixth Selke Award as the NHL’s best defensive forward and his second straight. Bergeron has been a finalist for the last 12 seasons.It was not a close race. Bergeron pulled in 187 first place votes while the other two finalists, New Jersey’s Nico Hischier and Toronto’s Mitch Marner each recoreved three first place votes. The only other players to receive first-place votes were Los Angeles Kings’ Anze Koptiar (two) and Carolina’s Jordan Staal (one).Bergeron did not attend the ceremony in Nashville because he he and his wife are expecting the couple’s fourth child, sending an acceptance video that thanked teammates, family, the organization and his agency.Bergeron led the B’s with a plus-35 and SAT percentage with the B’s taking 59.7 percent of shot ...

Boston politicians ‘come together’ to rescue drug-ridden Southie housing complex

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:26:34 GMT

An apparent overdose near four children in a rundown South Boston apartment has politicians calling for an immediate cleanup of the drug activity and squatting that had already been proliferating at that particular public housing complex.While Mayor Michelle Wu maintained Monday that some of the details surrounding last week’s incident are “rumors,” a U.S. congressman joined city and state officials for a tour of the Mary Ellen McCormack housing complex, at the request of the building’s concerned residents.City Council President Ed Flynn said the tour included discussions about public safety challenges, planned redevelopment of the housing complex, open drug dealing that’s been occurring throughout the facility, substance use and treatment programs, and the building’s close proximity to the troubled Mass and Cass area.“We came together this afternoon as a neighborhood and community leaders to discuss the recent horrific incident on Old Colony Avenue,” Flynn told the Herald. “This me...

Man sentenced for stabbing elderly woman to death

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:26:34 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- In a downtown San Diego courtroom Monday, a judge sentenced Anthony Dwayne Siddle to 36 years to life for stabbing to death 87-year-old Peggy Brandenburgh, and stabbing her daughter, Patricia Labarge.Through tears, many family members and friends shared emotional victim impact statements to remember and honor the life of Brandenburgh, but also to convince the judge to give Siddle the maximum sentence possible for the crimes.During the victim impact statements, FOX 5 learned Brandenburgh was a mother of seven, a Navy wife and a loving grandmother who spent her time volunteering. Man shot in leg near Chicano Park According to the family, Siddle stabbed Patricia 26 times, mainly in the head, face and neck. She's since recovered from her injuries and was in the courtroom Monday. The other woman that was in the house at the time of the attack was in the shower at the time. When she got out and saw what was happening through her window, she yelled for him to stop, and then ...

New mural unveiled at Chicano Park

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:26:34 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A new mural was unveiled at Chicano Park over the weekend.The mural commemorates a California Supreme Court ruling in 1975 that banned a short-handled hoe known as "el cortito." The tool was also referred to as "el brazo del diablo," or "the devil's arm." The tool forced fieldworkers to stoop over for hours at a time and was the cause of debilitating back and spinal deformities for generations of laborers, according to the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center.The Chicano Park Steering Committee revealed the new artwork Sunday in Barrio Logan.

Peg Yorkin, feminist leader and philanthropist, dies at 96

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:26:34 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peg Yorkin, who donated $10 million to a feminist foundation she co-founded and pushed to bring the most common method of abortion to the United States, died Sunday night. Yorkin died at age 96 after a long illness, her daughter Nicole Yorkin said.Peg Yorkin was chair of the Feminist Majority Foundation, a national organization she co-founded in 1987 that is dedicated to women’s equality, reproductive health and non-violence. “Above all, Peg was a feminist philanthropist, leader and activist, who also was a truth teller,” Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation and publisher of Ms., told the magazine.Yorkin, along with other feminist leaders from the foundation as well as prominent scientists, in 1990 traveled to Europe to present petitions to pharmaceutical companies demanding the release of mifepristone to the U.S., where anti-abortion groups were working to stop that from happening, according to the organization. In 1991, Yorkin announced s...