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Ottawa announces new framework for 5G spectrum licensing to improve connectivity

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:59:17 GMT

Ottawa says a new licensing policy will make it easier for small internet service providers and rural, remote and Indigenous communities to access 5G spectrum.Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne says the non-competitive local licensing framework will provide a broad range of users, including businesses and industries, with the opportunity to acquire spectrum licences in localized areas across the country.This will mean users benefit from improved connectivity in areas as small as a single farm, factory, university campus or shopping centre.Ottawa says a farm could use this spectrum for a private network to bolster automated operations such as crop tracking or product traceability.Last June, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada launched a licensing framework consultation with the goal of promoting competition and innovation in the lead-up to a spectrum auction planned for 2024.ISED says it is working to implement the new framework for users by next year.This ...

Patrick Mahomes’ brother Jackson charged with sexual battery

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:59:17 GMT

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Jackson Mahomes, the brother of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, was booked into jail Wednesday on aggravated sexual battery charges over an alleged altercation at a Kansas restaurant in late February.Jackson Mahomes, 22, was charged Tuesday with three counts of aggravated sexual battery and one count of battery, online court records show. He was being held on $100,000 bond and was due to make an initial court appearance Wednesday afternoon. Under his bond conditions, he won’t be allowed to discuss his case publicly once he’s released.The probable cause affidavit in the case was not immediately available. But The Kansas City Star reported that police previously confirmed they were investigating a Feb. 25 incident involving Jackson Mahomes at a restaurant in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, Kansas.Jackson Mahomes’ attorney, Brandan Joseph Davies, said in a statement that the court prohibited him and his client from comment...

Ukraine denies Russian claim Kyiv sent drones to hit Kremlin

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:59:17 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia claimed it foiled an attack by Ukrainian drones on the Kremlin early Wednesday, calling it an unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Vladimir Putin and promising retaliation for what it termed a “terrorist” act. The Ukrainian president denied it, saying: “We don’t attack Putin or Moscow.”Putin wasn’t in the Kremlin at the time and was at his Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti.There was no independent verification of the purported attack, which Russia authorities said occurred overnight but presented no evidence to support it. Questions also arose as to why it took the Kremlin hours to report the incident and why videos of it also surfaced later in the day.A video posted overnight on a local Moscow news Telegram channel, shot from across the river from the Kremlin, appeared to show smoke rising over the buildings. It wasn’t possible to ascertain its veracity. A...

Teamsters oust suburban board after more than $1M in questionable expenses

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:59:17 GMT

BURR RIDGE, Ill. — The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has removed leaders of Local 731 based in suburban Burr Ridge after an audit turned up questionable and excessive spending on everything from steak to booze and bonuses. It totaled well over $1 million.A letter sent by Teamsters general president Sean O’Brien to local members said an audit found Local 731’s board gave itself nearly $304,000 in bonuses over five years without the required approval of membership.  More Coverage: WGN Investigates Auditors also questioned nearly $66,000 in spending they said was excessive or unrelated to union business. It includes two visits to Gibsons Bar and Steakhouse that racked up a total tab of $37,000, including nearly $16,000 in alcohol. The audit also questioned $924,000 in donations and contributions the union made in recent years without membership approval.“The violations and wrongdoing identified above are not a complete list,” O’Brien wrote in the letter to members. “It is cl...

US approves 1st vaccine for RSV after decades of attempts

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:59:17 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. approved the first vaccine for RSV on Wednesday, shots to protect older adults against a respiratory virus that’s most notorious for attacking babies but endangers their grandparents, too.The Food and Drug Administration decision makes GSK’s shot, called Arexvy, the first of several potential vaccines in the pipeline for RSV to be licensed anywhere.The move sets the stage for adults 60 and older to get vaccinated this fall — but first, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must decide if every senior really needs RSV protection or only those considered at high risk from the respiratory syncytial virus. CDC’s advisers will debate that question in June.After decades of failure in the quest for an RSV vaccine, doctors are anxious to finally have something to offer — especially after a virus surge that strained hospitals last fall.“This is a great first step ... to protect older persons from serious RSV disease,” said Dr. William Schaffner, medical di...

Convicted sex offender accused of loitering near Elmhurst school

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:59:17 GMT

WHEATON, Ill. — A Villa Park man currently on probation for possession of child porn is accused of loitering near an Elmhurst high school on at least three occasions, prosecutors in DuPage County said. The arrest comes after Elmhurst police said the department received several reports of young girls being watched and followed by a man while leaving school. Police identified the suspect as 36-year-old Yuusef Husain.SEE ALSO | Sheriff: Wisconsin man pretended to be in Marines while in prison, takes thousands from girlfriend and her familyAccording to police, from April 12 through April 28, between 3:45 p.m. and 3:55 p.m., Husain was within five hundred feet of the school on multiple occasions for several minutes.Husain was taken into custody Tuesday morning while allegedly driving around York Community High School neighborhoods while students were waiting at their bus stops, prosecutors added. Read more: Latest Chicago news headlinesHusain is charged with one felony count of unlawful ...

10-year-olds found working at McDonald's in Kentucky: Labor Department

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:59:17 GMT

(The Hill) – The Labor Department found two 10-year-olds among more than 300 minors working at numerous McDonald’s locations in four states. The department said in a Tuesday release that its Wage and Hour Division found the two 10-year-olds working at a location in Louisville, Ky. The division found that three franchisees — Bauer Food LLC, Archways Richwood LLC and Bell Restaurant Group I LLC — employed 305 children to work more hours than legally permitted and perform tasks that federal law prohibits. The children were found to be working in 62 locations operated by the three franchisees in Kentucky, Indiana, Maryland and Ohio. The franchisees were fined more than $212,000 in total. “Too often, employers fail to follow the child labor laws that protect young workers,” said Karen Garnett-Civils, the Labor division's district director in Louisville. “Under no circumstances should there ever be a 10-year-old child working in a fast-food kitchen around hot grills, ovens ...

Watch: Thieves use 'a little lasso' to pull ATM out of bar

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:59:17 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) - Early Tuesday morning, three thieves used a truck and rope to pull a bolted-down ATM out of Spot Bar and Grill in Denver. “It's just violating,” Meagan Maly, the bar's general manager, said. Security video shows one of the suspects breaking the glass door to get into the bar. The thief never hit the lock on the door, which Maly said is why the alarm wasn't originally triggered.The suspect inside went straight to the ATM and attempted to pick it up before appearing to realize the ATM was bolted to the ground. While that was happening, a red truck backed up onto the curb just outside the front door and another suspect brought a rope inside. "He put a little lasso on our ATM and hooked up to the truck and pulled it right out through our door, breaking the door," Maly said.From there the video shows the suspects dragging out the ATM and lifting it into the back of the red truck.“It was a different-looking truck with a lot of flood lights on it. It'll have a lot of ...

Police: 2 taken into custody, large 'police presence' at Leander apartment complex

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:59:17 GMT

Editor’s Note: The video above shows KXAN News Today’s top headlines for May 3, 2023.LEANDER, Texas (KXAN) — Leander police took two people into custody after a search Wednesday near an apartment complex on Ronald Reagan Boulevard, LPD said on Twitter.Around 12 p.m., police said they had a large presence of officers in the 16760 block of Ronald Reagan Blvd., which is between Hero Way and Crystal Falls Parkway. Police said one person was taken into custody around 11:50 a.m., while another remained at large.In an update on Twitter at 12:23 p.m., LPD said the other person was taken into custody and there was "no further threat to the community."Leander police said it will provide additional information "soon."

Scorpion truck blocks 18-wheeler from crashing into work zone on I-35

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:59:17 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A vehicle specifically designed to protect construction workers and equipment may have saved lives this morning after an 18-wheeler crashed into a work zone on I-35 in south Austin.Around 4 a.m. Wednesday morning, an 18-wheeler traveling northbound on I-35 crashed into the I-35 Capital Express South Project work zone near Onion Creek Parkway. It slammed into the back of a safety vehicle, known as a Scorpion truck, designed to protect construction workers and construction equipment. It acts as a crash cushion and creates a safety barrier between moving traffic and a work zone.KXAN Traffic Anchor Erica Brennes sat down with Bradley Wheelis, a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Transportation to learn more about these Scorpion trucks.Construction work zone safety is a top priority for TxDOT. Last year 205 people were killed in work zones in Texas. Only one of those people was a construction worker. The rest were drivers, their passengers, pedestrians and cyclists....