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Migrant families rally for end to New York’s new 60-day limits on shelter stays

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:49 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Migrant families and their advocates marched outside New York City Hall on Tuesday to demand Mayor Eric Adams end his plan to limit the number of days newly arrived immigrants can remain in city-run shelters. The late afternoon demonstration of students and parents at City Hall Park was in response to an order Adams issued in October limiting homeless migrants and their children to 60 days in city housing. The Democrat said the move was necessary to relieve a shelter system overwhelmed by asylum-seekers crossing the southern U.S. border. Liza Schwartzwald, a director at the New York Immigration Coalition, one of the groups that organized Tuesday’s rally, said the time limits only serve to uproot families who have already made the dangerous journey across the border after fleeing poverty and crime in their homelands. “There’s no excuse to retraumatize these families,” she said.Karen Alford, a vice president at the United Federation of Teachers, said the policy will fo...

Group turned away at Mexican holiday party returned with gunmen killing 11, investigators say

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:49 GMT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Survivors of a Sunday massacre in central Mexico told investigators that a group of people turned away from a holiday party returned later with gunmen who killed 11 and wounded 14, authorities said Tuesday.Navigio Agustín Gallardo Romero, a Guanajuato state prosecutor, said nine men and two women were killed. The state prosecutor’s office had revised the death toll down to 11 Monday night from 12, explaining that there was confusion with a victim from a separate case at the hospital.Authorities recovered shells from seven different guns at the scene, Gallardo said in a recorded video message. He said investigators are focusing on a group that operates in the area without providing more detail.Families carried the caskets of some of the victims through the streets of Salvatierra Tuesday.Guanajuato has been the scene of bloody turf battles between the Jalisco cartel and local gangs backed by the Sinaloa cartel. The state has long had the highest number of homicides ...

Counselors get probation for role in teen’s death at a now-closed Michigan youth home

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:49 GMT

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — Two former youth counselors charged in the death of a teenager more than three years ago who was restrained at a Michigan youth home have been sentenced to 18 months on probation.Michael Mosley, 50, and Zachary Solis, 30, both of Battle Creek, pleaded no contest in March to involuntary manslaughter in the May 1, 2020, death of 16-year-old Cornelius Fredericks at Lakeside Academy in Kalamazoo. Two counts of second-degree child abuse were dropped.A no contest plea is not an admission of guilt but is treated as such at sentencing.Fredericks, 16, died two days after he lost consciousness while being restrained by staff at Lakeside. Prosecutors said at the time that he was being restrained for throwing a sandwich.The restraint resulted in Fredericks losing consciousness due to a lack of blood flow and oxygen, authorities said. He never regained consciousness, and died of a heart attack May 1, 2020, at a Kalamazoo hospital. The Kalamazoo County Medical Examiner’s O...

Plane breaks through thin ice on Minnesota ice fishing lake, 2 days after 35 anglers were rescued

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:49 GMT

WASHKISH, Minn. (AP) — A light plane carrying ice anglers broke through thin ice as it tried to land on a large lake in northwestern Minnesota on Tuesday, the same lake where authorities had to rescue dozens of anglers who became trapped on an ice floe two days earlier.Upper Red Lake is considered one of Minnesota’s premier ice fishing lakes, but the ice remains thin amid higher-than-normal temperatures.In Tuesday morning’s incident, according to the Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office, the pilot of the Cessna 172 identified what he believed was a safe landing area. But he had difficulty slowing down because of the lack of snow. The plane slid onto thin ice, and its nose broke through into open water. While the plane did not sink, both anglers got wet from the waist down. They were taken to a nearby resort, where they were given dry clothing.On Sunday evening, emergency responders used an airboat to rescue 35 people after they became stranded on a piece of ice that br...

DNA may link Philadelphia man accused of slashing people on trail to a cold-case killing, police say

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:49 GMT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say a man accused of slashing people with a large knife while riding a bicycle on a trail in Philadelphia in recent weeks is now a person of interest in the cold-case slaying of a medical student that occurred among a series of high-profile sexual assaults in a large city park two decades ago.Elias Diaz, 46, is charged with aggravated assault and other counts in the attacks or attempted attacks in late November and early December, where police say he used a machete-type knife against people on the Pennypack Park Trail in northeast Philadelphia.Interim Police Commissioner John Stanford Jr. said Diaz’s DNA appeared to connect him to the 2003 strangulation killing of a medical student in the city’s sprawling Fairmount Park and perhaps to several other sexual attacks there. Stanford said Diaz is now a person of interest and charges were pending final confirmation of the DNA link. Rebecca Park, 30, a fourth-year student at the Philadelphia Coll...

Why is the CTA Yellow Line still closed 1 month after crash?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:49 GMT

CHICAGO —  More than a month after a CTA Yellow Line train hit a piece of snow removal equipment sending more than a dozen people to the hospital, the line remains closed and the transit agency won’t say when it may re-open.National Transportation Safety Board investigators are back at the scene this week performing accident reconstruction.  NTSB’s preliminary investigation of the November 16 crash indicated the braking distances programmed into the CTA’s signaling system may not have been long enough. High-rise residents still out one year after fire The finding prompted the CTA to examine pre-programmed systems on all of its rail lines and the agency said it determined the potential flaw is unique to the Yellow Line. Investigators say the train operator immediately engaged braking systems when signals indicated there was danger ahead. The train slowed from 54mph to 27mph at the moment of impact.Meanwhile, the rail line that connects Skokie with Chicago’...

Emergency crews battle fire at high rise on Far North Side

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:49 GMT

CHICAGO — Three people were hospitalized after a fire broke out at a high rise on the Far North Side on Tuesday evening.SkyCam9 was over the scene in the 4600 block of North Sheridan Road in Uptown around 5:35 p.m. when several emergency vehicles could be seen outside of the 27-story building. Read more: Latest Chicago news headlines According to Chicago fire officials, the blaze started in an apartment on the fourth floor and crews say it was contained to a single unit thanks to a sprinkler system in the hallway.Officials say three people suffered injuries in the blaze and were taken to the hospital. Two of those people, a man and a woman, were transported in critical condition.Currently, it is unclear how the fire broke out.

Bulls forward Torrey Craig to miss at least next 2 months because of right foot injury

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:49 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bulls expect veteran forward Torrey Craig to miss at least the next two months because of a right foot injury.Craig will be immobilized for about four weeks and need an additional four to six weeks of rehab due to an acute sprain of his plantar fascia, the team said Tuesday. He was injured in a loss at Miami on Saturday night. Blackhawks D Kevin Korchinski rejoins team after father’s death Craig is averaging 6.1 points and 4.8 rebounds in his first season with the Bulls. He has averaged 6 points and 4 rebounds over seven seasons with Denver, Phoenix, Indiana, Milwaukee and Chicago.The Bulls, who host LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday, are 11-17. They have won six of nine after beating Philadelphia on Monday.

Night sweats linked to sleep apnea — and more

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:49 GMT

For Tuesday, Dec. 14, WGN’s Dina Bair has new medical information, including: More Coverage: WGN's Medical Watch Type of IVF linked to child obesity The impact of fertility treatments on a child's weight. Most assisted reproductive technologies do not impact the body mass index of offspring, but there is one exception. Using frozen-thawed embryos for in vitro fertilization is associated with an increased risk for obesity in children compared to fresh embryo transfer. The number of children born after IVF is increasing, and Danish cohort study doctors wanted to determine the long-term health implications of fertility treatments.  Researchers say in most cases, the data is reassuring. However, they believe further study regarding metabolic health outcomes for frozen embryos IVF is necessary.Monoclonal antibody treatment reduces food allergies in childrenThere may be some relief for children who suffer from food allergies. A National Institutes of Health study found a monoclonal...

Austin substitute teacher arrested, accused of indecency with a child

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:49 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A substitute teacher was arrested and charged with indecency with a child after alleged incidents at an Austin school, according to court documents obtained by KXAN.According to an arrest report, Austin police officers arrived at the IDEA Public Schools campus on Wilcab Road in east Austin on Nov. 1 after a report of a sex crime.According to the arrest report, IDEA Public Schools told police it gets their substitute teachers from Kokua Group, which had assigned Alexander Jeffrey Hill to be a sub at the school that day.A few hours into the school day, a Kokua representative called the school saying the Texas Department of Family Protective Services had flagged Hill for a prior incident at a different Idea Public School campus and warned them to get Hill off campus immediately, according to the report.KXAN is working to find attorney information for Hill.Documents said the school removed Hill from the fourth-grade classroom he was in, but shortly after three students i...