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Body camera video shown to family of 14-year-old killed by police

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:59 GMT

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — Aurora's police chief reviewed body camera video with the family of Jor'Dell Richardson, the 14-year-old boy killed by police after a reported armed robbery last week.Interim Police Chief Art Acevedo met with Richardson's family representatives and lawyers on Tuesday afternoon, according to the police department.Colorado law requires police to wait 72 hours to publicly release body camera video after providing it to the family in the case, police said. Acevedo expects to meet with the news media on Friday afternoon.FOX31 requested the video last week, after the shooting. Did you witness this deadly road-rage shooting in Aurora? Richardson's family members have called for the body camera video to be released. In an interview with FOX31 on Friday, the boy's father, Jameco Richardson, said police shot his son in the back.Police say Richardson was among a group of teens suspected of robbing a convenience store near 8th Avenue and Dayton Street to get vape cartri...

Multiple people injured in shooting outside high school graduation in Virginia

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:59 GMT

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- Two people are dead and multiple others are injured in a shooting outside a high school graduation near Virginia Commonwealth University’s Monroe Park campus Tuesday evening, sources tell Nexstar's WRIC.Interim Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards said during a Tuesday evening press conference that officers who were working inside the Altria Theater during Huguenot High School's graduation around 5 p.m. ET when they reportedly heard gunfire outside the building.Those officers notified additional officers who were stationed outside the theater. Seven individuals were found outside the theater with gunshot wounds, Edwards said. Three suffered life-threatening injuries while four have non-life-threatening injuries. Additional victims transported themselves or were taken via Richmond Ambulance Authority to nearby hospitals with other injuries. That includes two who fell during the incident, one that was hit by a car, and three people for anxiety. Sources tell Nexst...

Eva Longoria makes directorial debut in dramedy ‘Flamin’ Hot’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:59 GMT

Sometimes, you just got to spice things up. When it comes to snacks, that is. And Flamin Hot Cheetos are so hot, they made a movie about the guy who says he invented them.Things are heating up in the new biographical dram-edy “Flamin’ Hot.”Because this movie about the creation of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. also happens to be Eva Longoria’s directorial film debut.Eva Longoria: “My agent sent me the script, and she was like, ‘Hey you should read this script. I don’t think you’ll get the job because there’s a lot of directors they’re already meeting with and everybody wants to direct this story. It’s a great story, but you should go in and just impress them. Just impress them, so they’ll hire you for something else.'”Turns out there was nothing to worry about because producer Devon Franklin says he knew Eva was it after their meeting.Devon Franklin: “I was like, ‘This is the director.’ You k...

7 wounded in shooting after high school graduation ceremony in Virginia capital

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:59 GMT

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Seven people were shot, three of them with life-threatening injuries, after gunfire rang out near Virginia Commonwealth University in downtown Richmond following a high school graduation ceremony Tuesday, according to police and school district officials.Two suspects were taken into custody after the incident, Interim Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards said at a news conference.Edwards said officers inside a theater where the graduation was taking place heard the gunfire, went outside and saw multiple victims with gunshot wounds.Four had injuries that were not life-threatening, he said.Police did not believe there was any ongoing threat to the community.“We’re going to do everything we can to bring the individuals involved in this to justice,” Mayor Levar Stoney said at the news conference. “This should not be happening anywhere.”Richmond Public Schools said in a message on its website that the shooting took place in Monroe Park, which is near the college campus...

Mets react to ex-teammate Jacob deGrom’s UCL tear

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:59 GMT

ATLANTA — The last time the Mets were in Atlanta, they had their three best pitchers lined up to try and hold off the surging Braves for a chance to win the NL East. One by one, they all fell to the team that eventually won the division. It was Jacob deGrom’s final regular season appearance for the Mets, and though he kept the team’s title hopes alive with a Wild Card win over the San Diego Padres, ultimately, that was the end for the dominant, homegrown right-hander in New York.Now, the Mets are back in Atlanta, and they arrived just in time to find out that deGrom, now a member of the AL West-leading Texas Rangers, will have to undergo his second Tommy John surgery.“You feel awful for him,” Mets manager Buck Showalter said Tuesday at Truist Park. “I know how much it means for him to pitch and he enjoys pitching. It’s certainly sad news for all of us.”His former Mets teammates reached out right away.“I sent him a text and said t...

Somerville students to be released for summer break on time even after concrete crumbled and closed their school

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:59 GMT

Hundreds of Somerville students will be released for summer on time despite finishing their academic year in a new learning environment after concrete crumbled inside their school, forcing it to close.The state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has given a waiver for the city district to excuse the four days that have been missed at the Winter Hill Community Innovation School after a “small section of concrete fell onto a stairwell inside of the school” last week.That means the 422 students at Winter Hill, which teaches pre-kindergarten-grade 8, will be having their last day on June 16.Wednesday will be the last day of the closure before students in grades 1-8 transition into classrooms at Tufts University’s Olin Hall in Medford on Thursday. Buildings within Somerville will host pre-k and kindergarten students and specialized programming.“I am glad that the four days have been waived because it seems to me imposing that would be just punishing the students and staff t...

Chris Christie pulls no punches, attacks Trump in launching 2024 campaign

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:59 GMT

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Former Gov. Chris Christie made clear from the start that his campaign for the White House will not be the same as other Republicans, launching his run for the presidency with direct attacks on the leading conservative candidate, former President Trump.Where other GOP hopefuls have attempted to strike a very delicate balance — stuck somewhere between making clear that they should be the party’s pick to face President Biden in November of 2024, while not insulting the 45th president directly lest they alienate his MAGA-movement base — Christie launched his campaign with broad-ranging historical references to successful political leaders from the past and then promptly began an unapologetic assault on Trump’s record and public scandals.“A lonely, self-consumed, self-serving, mirror hog is not a leader,” he said. “So now we have pretenders all around us, who want to tell you ‘pick me, because I’m kind of like what you picked before...

How long will the smoke last in Massachusetts? ‘It’s going to stick with us’ as state issues air quality advisory

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:59 GMT

Those hazy skies and that smoky smell from the Canadian wildfires is unfortunately not going to get wiped away by some scattered rain showers.After the region’s air quality plummeted on Tuesday due to the wildfire smoke, Bay State environmental officials are yet again warning that the smoke will impact the area on Wednesday.And local meteorologists expect the smoke to linger through at least Saturday.“It’s going to stick with us for the next few days, based on the trajectory of the plume,” Bill Simpson, meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Boston office, told the Herald on Tuesday. “Probably through at least Saturday.”“Smoke is not healthy, so if you can avoid being outside and avoid strenuous activity, that’s a good idea,” he added.The wildfire smoke from Canada will continue to influence fine particle levels across the region on Wednesday, according to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.&#...

Court moment: Alleged rapist Gary Zerola bumps Herald photographer on his way out of court

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:59 GMT

Covering the justice system is a full-contact sport, as one Herald photographer learned Tuesday when alleged rapist Gary Zerola shoulder bumped him in the hallway while exiting the courtroom during the first day of his trial.Zerola, 51, is a former prosecutor and defense attorney accused of sexually assaulting a 23-year-old victim in 2016.One, two, three frames tell the story of how the Herald photographer got bumped — as does a video tweeted by 7News reporter Steve Cooper — that shows Zerola walk into the Herald photographer as he exits the court at the lunch break with his entourage. Zerola offers a quick “sorry.”One of the women in Zerola’s group starts laughing immediately after the incident, and Zerola appears to smile back at her. While waiting for the elevator, the woman stares at the photographer and laughs as she says something to the effect of “He walked straight into the guy who was taking his picture!”A Boston-based news videographer said that that Zerola later in ...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu involved in car crash

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:59 GMT

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu was inside a police car that collided with another vehicle on Tuesday, officials said.The two-car crash occurred on Hyde Park Avenue, a spokesperson for the Boston Police Department said.“We can confirm the mayor was a passenger in a vehicular crash earlier today,” a Wu spokesperson said in a statement Tuesday night. “Thankfully no one sustained any major injuries.“The Boston Police Department will conduct an investigation of the incident as they do with all crashes involving departmental motor vehicles.”The BPD spokesperson described injuries sustained in the crash as “non-life-threatening,” but could not speak to the mayor’s condition, as the incident report had not yet been completed.A video obtained by Fox25 shows the police car driving the mayor was flashing its blue emergency lights when it was T-boned by an oncoming vehicle traveling in the opposite direction.The cause of the crash is under investigation, the BPD spokesperson said.Related Articl...