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Native American groups ask state lawmakers for help at outdated Twin Cities facilities like Ain Dah Yung youth shelter in St. Paul

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:11 GMT

Sheri Riemers houses children as young as five years old at the Ain Dah Yung Center’s emergency youth shelter on St. Paul’s Portland Avenue, a 13-room, brick-faced residential property that, after 116 years, could use more than a little TLC of its own.A visible crack in the exterior cement stairway is large enough to squeeze a child’s shoe through. This winter, the shelter’s sinking foundation created a tunnel of sorts, allowing water to seep in through a disjointed back wall and pool in the basement laundry room. Around the same time, a sinkhole formed near the alleyway by a corner of the former garage, which has been converted into a community meeting space.From brick tuckpointing to a section of missing handrail, the 1907 structure’s needs can be summed up in a single word — money.THIS OLD HOUSE on St. Paul’s Portland Avenue is actually a Native American residential community center, offering youth housing/services and other outreach. Multiple ...

Why is the sky hazy in Lake George?

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:11 GMT

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (NEWS10) - If you live in the North Country or Adirondacks, you may have noticed some haze in the sky on Tuesday morning. Warren County says the reason for the cloudy visuals comes from across the northernmost border. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! The county Department of Public Health put a notice on Facebook on Tuesday morning highlighting hazy conditions in the sky around some parts of the North Country, turning the sun blurry and the sky pale. The department pointed to wildfires coming from western Canada, with smoke following jet streams to hit the Adirondacks.Over the last week or more, wildfires in and around the Canadian province of Alberta have torched at least 964,000 acres of forest, causing evacuations and creating an enormous amount of smoke. Although north of a different part of the U.S., the smoke finds its way through changing air channels.The AirNow Fire and Smoke Map draws the path, sho...

Siena student credited with saving bus driver's life

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:11 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- A Siena College student has been credited with saving the life of a shuttle bus driver who suffered a medical episode while behind the wheel.Mike Koch has been driving buses for Yankee Trails for 43 years. In his decades of shuttling people around and training new drivers, he never thought he’d have to take the wheel from someone. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! This was, until Saturday, on the way from the Siena campus to the College Suites in Troy, when the woman he was training suffered a cardiac episode behind the wheel near the intersection of Routes 9 and 378. She stopped breathing.“I stood up, and basically steered the bus," Koch recalled. He made a complete stop and called 911.A few rows back, Prince Asante, a Siena College senior who had felt the bus swerving, and heard the commotion, ran to the front.A woman in a car behind the bus stopped and got out to help as well.Asante couldn't feel ...

Two plead guilty to money laundering and drug trafficking

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:11 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- On Tuesday, two Capital Region residents pleaded guilty to their roles in a conspiracy to distribute drugs and commit money laundering. Latrice Mumphrey, 42, of Albany, and Victor Turner, 68, of Troy, admitted to being in an organization that shipped marijuana and THC from Fresno, California, to locations including the Capital Region. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Mumphrey admitted that she conspired with her husband, Lawrence Mumphrey, and Dwight A. Singletary to launder the proceeds of drug sales via cashier's checks. $37,150 in drug proceeds was used to purchase four cashier checks in varying amounts. The checks were made payable to Singletary, a law firm used by Singletary; a company from which Dwight Singletary and McKenzie Merrialice Coles purchased real estate; and to a person from whom Dwight Singletary and his company, DAS Empire, Inc., purchased real estate.Turner admitted to receiving m...

Skidmore College presenting Senior Thesis Art Exhibition

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:11 GMT

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Skidmore College’s annual studio art majors’ Senior Thesis Art Exhibition has been announced. It will take place from May 11 through May 20 at the Tang Teaching Museum, located in the college at 815 N Broadway #1632, Saratoga Springs, NY. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Thirty senior studio art majors will display their work as a capstone project to their studies at Skidmore College. The Skidmore Art Department provides courses in numerous studio art disciplines, including ceramics, communication design, drawing, painting, digital media, fiber arts, jewelry and metals, photography, printmaking, and sculpture.  The 2023 senior art majors at Skidmore College. Governor speaks at Police Memorial service Full List of Student ExhibitorsAllaura BarrettWilliam CarterAlison CottinghamJane CrowleyAki Kodama DavisSasha FishsteinCaroline ForteSarah FranzelJeremy FreedmanJamie GutinKatherine Knight...

Illinois trooper wounded, motorist killed in I-64 shootout

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:11 GMT

MT. VERNON, Ill. - Investigators with the Illinois State Police have identified a man killed by a state trooper during an early-morning shootout on Interstate 64.The shootout occurred shortly after 3 a.m. on eastbound I-64 at milepost 72, near Mt. Vernon.According to a report from the ISP Division of Internal Investigation, a trooper stopped to assist a stranded motorist along the shoulder.The trooper spoke with the driver, identified as Brandon Griffin of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and a female passenger. A second trooper arrived a short time later.During the ordeal, state police claim Griffin and a trooper got into an altercation, leading to an exchange of gunfire. Jennings man pleads guilty to killing girlfriend over $36 One trooper, a 16-year veteran of the Illinois State Police, was wounded. Griffin was shot and killed at the scene. The trooper was taken to a regional hospital. His injuries were not life-threatening.The other state trooper and the female passenger in the car we...

Trump found liable for sexual battery, defamation in E. Jean Carroll trial

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:11 GMT

A jury found that former President Trump sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s and later defamed her by denying her claims, marking the first time that Trump has been found liable for sexual misconduct at a trial.The nine-member jury found that Trump did not commit rape, but jurors found him liable for sexual abuse, another form of sexual battery, according to the Associated Press. He was also ordered to pay Carroll a total of $5 million in damages.As a civil case, Carroll had to prove her claims by a preponderance of evidence. Trump faces no related criminal charges, which would have required a higher standard.“I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO THIS WOMAN IS. THIS VERDICT IS A DISGRACE – A CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.The jury arrived at the verdict on Tuesday after beginning deliberations earlier in the day.During the nearly two-week-long trial in federal court, Carroll told jurors that Trump raped her in a Bergdo...

Ready for another St. Louis-Chicago sports rivalry? A soccer one starts Tuesday

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:11 GMT

CHICAGO - The inaugural season of St. Louis CITY SC reaches another milestone Tuesday; the beginning of a third active St. Louis-Chicago professional sports rivalry.St. Louis CITY SC is set to take on Chicago Fire FC twice this week. The first time in a tournament setting Tuesday, the second four days later as part of the MLS regular season schedule. The new St. Louis-Chicago rivalry begins as part of the oldest ongoing national soccer competition in the United States. CITY and Fire go head-to-head in The U.S. Open Cup, a single-elimination tournament launched in 1914. RELATED - Blues miss No. 1 pick by one lottery number; Instead, it goes to Blackhawks Chicago Fire FC has won the U.S. Open Cup four times as an MLS franchise, though the competition has had quite a few winners from the Gateway to the West and the Windy City in the 20th century. In the tournament's early days, from the 1920s to the 1950s, several St. Louis-based amateur or club teams took home U.S. Open Cup titles....

Downtown St. Louis ranks 2nd last in pandemic recovery

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:11 GMT

ST. LOUIS -- For decades, downtowns in many major cities have been dealing with major issues like crime, traffic, parking, homelessness, litter, and more. The pandemic dealt an especially hard blow to many of them because of the rise of remote work. It emptied out major office buildings. The rise of online shopping is continuing to clear out storefronts.Downtown St. Louis recovery from 2020-2023New research from the University of Toronto shows that Downtown St. Louis is having an especially hard time recovering from the events of 2020 to the present day. The city is second last, with San Francisco at the bottom of the list.Many tech workers in San Francisco started working remotely and never returned to the office. Nordstrom is also closing both of its downtown San Francisco stores. Crime stats for the city are very low, but there is a perception that the city is the wild west.Ranking from the University of TorontoThe situation is compounded in St. Louis. The city has one of the hig...

Stretch of U.S. 40 in Grand County closed as firefighters clean up wildfire

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:11 GMT

A wildfire sparked in Grand County on Tuesday afternoon when hay bales along U.S. 40 caught on fire. A stretch of the roadway remains closed.Westbound U.S. 40 is closed at Colorado 134 and eastbound is closed at milepost 164, according to the Grand County Sheriff’s Office.No structures are threatened and no injuries were reported, the sheriff’s office said.The fire started about 12:45 p.m. Tuesday when hay bales along the roadside caught fire and spread to surrounding sage, according to the sheriff’s office.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Helicopter crew assessing Gageby Creek fire burning on 1,680 acres in southeastern Colorado Crime and Public Safety | North Creek fire burning near Beulah is 100% contained Crime and Public Safety | North Creek fire near Beulah now 80% contained Crime and Public Safety | Evacuations lifted for Northcreek fire near Beulah Crime and Public Safety | ...