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San Francisco shuts down 'problematic' COVID test sites

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:24 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- An outdoor COVID-19 testing operator will cease all virus testing operations in San Francisco after the city took enforcement actions.For months, Gentech operated out of its characteristic green tents advertising COVID-19, flu, and RSV tests. "In addition to a lack of personal protective equipment and compliance with sanitation requirements, Gentech paid members of the public $5 in cash for every test taken," the City Attorney's Office wrote.Many of the tents popped up and operated near open-air drug markets. Cash payments appeared to facilitate illicit drug sales and activity, according to city officials.San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott described the green COVID testing sites as "highly questionable." Chief Scott said, "Our officers worked with the DPH (Department of Public Health) to identify operators in violation of the city’s health order before citing them and seizing their property. Since Gentech has ceased operations, less money is being funneled...

Tense moments at outgoing Denver school board members' final meeting

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:24 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Outgoing board members for Denver Public Schools held their final meeting Thursday night, and there was some serious tension.It was a chance to put a bookend on their time governing the largest school district in Colorado, but it was not without controversy. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox This was a meeting attended by friends or family of the outgoing board members, but a group of parents who voted them out, couldn't get into the main room."Every two years, we do a celebration to honor those who are leaving," said Auon'tai Anderson, outgoing Board of Education member at large.He and other outgoing board members were met by family and friends."We were planning on sitting very peacefully in the back for the last board meeting of this board, and we were barred from coming in," DPS parent Heather Lamm said.Frustrated parents were not allowed into Denver Public Schools board chambers during the final board meeting for members who wer...

Auto thefts decline in the Denver metro, where task force is ramped up

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:24 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Wheat Ridge Police officers made an arrest after tracking down a stolen U-Haul.On Wednesday, a Wheat Ridge officer spotted a U-Haul that seemed out of place. Turns out it had been reported stolen that same morning. The truck was tracked into Denver and an arrest was made on the spot. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox The Colorado Metropolitan Auto Theft Task Force closed in to make the arrest. The task force is a full-time, multi-jurisdictional task force focused on auto theft. This arrest was just one example of how they track down some of these thieves after keeping an eye out for suspicious vehicles."Let's say we have an occupied stolen vehicle in one of those participating agencies at the time the team is working," said John Pickard, a task force commander with the Lakewood Police Department. "We can send out recourses and then we can go after those occupied stolen vehicles to try and apprehend those suspects with minimal risk t...

How to get sacked from government

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:24 GMT

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Acast Amazon Music In the week U.K Home Secretary Suella Braverman was finally sacked, host Aggie Chambre asks what you actually have to do to get fired from the government — and what the calculations are for the leaders doing the firing. Neil Kinnock, the former Labour leader, rec...

Spain’s Pedro Sánchez to form new government as prime minister

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:24 GMT

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Acast Amazon Music Ending months of political paralysis, we bring you up to speed on the turmoil in Spain that has left Pedro Sánchez clinging to power. The Socialist leader secured another term as Spain’s prime minister thanks to a controversial amnesty deal with Catalan separatists, which...

Boston College falls 24-16 at Pittsburgh

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:24 GMT

Boston College let a winnable game against a bad team slip away on Thursday night in Pittsburgh.The Pitt Panthers snapped a five-game losing streak with a 24-16 victory over BC at Acrisure Stadium. The Eagles dropped to 6-5 and 3-4 in the ACC and close out the season on Nov. 23 against Miami at Alumni Stadium.Pitt quarterback Nate Yarnell efficiently managed the game and made timely passes in his second career start and first of the season. Yarnell completed 11-of-19 throws for 207 yards and a touchdown. Eagles’ QB Thomas Castellanos completed 13-of-25 for 171 yards and a touchdown with two picks.Both teams produced a 100-yard rusher. Pitt tailback Rodney Hammond rushed for 145 yards on 15 carries and a touchdown. BC’s Kye Robichaux had 118 yards on 24 runs coming off an injury.“We are very disappointed, this was a missed opportunity,” said BC coach Jeff Hafley. “I don’t think we played well enough to win the game and we had multiple opportunities to do so.“We didn’t play well enoug...

Seidler's business partner to become Padres interim point person

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:24 GMT

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Padres confirmed that one of Peter Seidler's long-time business partners will be taking over as the team's interim point person for Major League Baseball after the chairman's passing earlier this week.Eric Kutsenda, a co-founder and managing partner at Seidler's private equity firm, was appointed as the team's interim control person, as required by Major League Baseball.However, it is unclear how long he will serve in that capacity. League sources told The Athletic and the San Diego Union-Tribune that the late chairman's wishes were for ownership of the franchise to remain with his family. Prior to Seidler assuming the role of chairman in November 2020, Ron Fowler served in the position for eight years before stepping down.Eric Katsenda pictured in this undated image. (Courtesy of the San Diego Padres)Kutsenda is a co-founder of Seidler Equity Partners and is a member of the firm's executive and investment committees. San Diego remembers Padres owner Pete...

Vaughan community centre evacuated due to potential threat

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:24 GMT

An Islamic community centre in Vaughan was evacuated due to what police called a potential threat.York Regional Police said they responded to the community centre near Bathurst Street and Ner Israel Drive on Thursday night.The building was evacuated, and officers conducted a search of the area. No injuries were reported.A police spokesperson tells CityNews that Jaffari Community Centre was the building that was cleared by responding officers.No threat was found, police noted, and the property is secure.There is no threat to the public, and police are expected to remain in the area.Jaffari Community Centre, also considered a mosque, is described as an Islamic multi-faceted facility that hosts religious, educational, cultural, athletic, and recreational events.YRP responded to a potential threat to a community centre near Bathurst St. and Ner Israel Dr. in Vaughan. Police evacuated a building and checked the area. No threat was found. The property is secure. There is no safety risk. P...

Thousands of bodies lie buried in rubble in Gaza. Families dig to retrieve them, often by hand

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:24 GMT

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The wreckage goes on for block after devastated block. The smell is sickening. Every day, hundreds of people claw through tons of rubble with shovels and iron bars and their bare hands.They are looking for the bodies of their children. Their parents. Their neighbors. All of them killed in Israeli missile strikes. The corpses are there, somewhere in the endless acres of destruction.More than five weeks into Israel’s war against Hamas, some streets are now more like graveyards. Officials in Gaza say they don’t have the equipment, manpower or fuel to search properly for the living, let alone the dead.Hamas, the militant group behind the deadly Oct. 7 attack that killed about 1,200 people in Israel, has many of its bases within Gaza’s crowded neighborhoods. Israel is targeting those strongholds.But the victims are often everyday Palestinians, many of whom have yet to be found. Omar al-Darawi and his neighbors have spent weeks searching the ruins of a pai...

New drill bores deeper into tunnel rubble in India to create an escape pipe for 40 trapped workers

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:15:24 GMT

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Rescuers drilled deeper into the rubble of a collapsed road tunnel in northern India on Friday to fix wide pipes for 40 workers trapped underground for a sixth day to crawl to their freedom.Drilling with a new machine started on Thursday and has covered a stretch of 24 meters (78 feet) so far, Devendra Patwal, a disaster management official, said. It may require up to 60 meters (195 feet) to enable the trapped workers’ escape, Patwal told The Associated Press on Friday.Patwal said the rescuers hoped to complete the drilling by Friday night and create an escape tunnel of pipes welded together.Some of the workers felt fever and body aches Wednesday, but there has been no deterioration in their condition, he said. Nuts, roasted chickpeas, popcorn and medicine are being sent to them via a pipe every two hours.The construction workers have been trapped since Sunday, when a landslide caused a portion of the 4.5-kilometer (2.7-mile) tunnel they were building to ...