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Vermont State Police investigating fatal shooting involving Fair Haven cop

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:45:26 GMT

FAIR HAVEN, Vt. (NEWS10) -- Vermont State Police are investigating a fatal officer-involved shooting in the town of Fair Haven. The shooting took place around 7:40 p.m. Monday at a Washington Street home. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Police said a Fair Haven officer was responding to a report of an ongoing altercation. When the officer arrived, there was an alleged altercation between the officer and a man outside the home. The officer then shot the man with his department-issued handgun. The man was taken to Rutland Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.Vermont State Police is leading the investigation. Investigators will be at the scene on Tuesday to process the location. The Fair Haven officer involved in the shooting will be identified within 24 hours.Anyone with information is asked to call the VSP Rutland Barracks at (802) 773-9101 or leave an anonymous tip online.

St. Louis lawmakers push for state gun laws to reflect federal rules

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:45:26 GMT

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - After a violent weekend in St. Louis that left one teenager dead and 10 others injured, the state's gun laws are in the spotlight. Back in 2016, the Missouri General Assembly reversed a state law to allow open carry, meaning conceal carry permits are no longer needed to possess a gun. While federal law has an age requirement to buy a firearm, Missouri doesn't."The legislature's lack of action on gun safety laws encourage the proliferation of guns in our streets and puts our responding officers directly in harm's way," St. Louis Mayor Tishuara Jones said Sunday. "This is a no-win situation."St. Louis City is in the headlines again for gun violence following a horrific scene in downtown early Sunday morning after gunfire broke out at a party."This is the first city and state that I've come to where a juvenile is not prohibited," St. Louis Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Tracy said. "It should at least mirror federal law. Let's start there." Missourians fr...

Suspect barricaded in home after allegedly stabbing 2 people in Porter Ranch

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:45:26 GMT

Police in Los Angeles are searching for a suspect who allegedly stabbed two people in Porter Ranch on Monday. According to the LAPD, officers responded to reports of an assault with a deadly weapon in the 19100 block of Salt Lake Place around 5 p.m.When they arrived on scene, they found a 45-year-old woman suffering from an apparent stab wound and a 50-year-old man suffering from a contusion. The suspect barricaded himself into a home and is refusing to come out. Video footage from the scene shows an unknown substance flowing from the garage that authorities believe could be potentially dangerous. The neighborhood has been evacuated as police surround the home where the suspect is hiding. The conditions of the victims are unknown, and the investigation into what led up to the stabbing remains ongoing.

Police looking for man who broke into 2 San Bernardino homes   

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:45:26 GMT

Yucaipa deputies are searching for a suspect who broke into two homes Friday night. According to the San Bernardino Police Department, around 9:55 p.m., Gage Cochrane, 24, of San Bernardino, drove to a home on the 12700 Block of 5th Street looking for his girlfriend. When she refused to come out, he allegedly kicked in a window air conditioning unit and climbed through the opening, grabbed some car keys and then ran back out of the home. While fleeing, Cochrane allegedly jumped into several backyards, attempting to enter at least three homes in the area. He climbed through a doggie door and into the garage of a home on Emerald Bay Court, but was unable to get inside, police said.He was last seen jumping a fence into the drainage ditch near Hidden Bay Cove, between 5th and 6th Street. Deputies from the Sheriff’s Aviation and the Rancho Cucamonga Police Department tracked Cochrane into the Aladdin Mobile Home Park on 6th Street, but were unable to locate him.Cochrane was believed...

Oakland NAACP President explains importance of Juneteenth

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:45:26 GMT

(KRON) – Monday marks the second annual recognition of the Juneteenth national holiday here in the United States. KRON4 spoke to the Oakland President of the NAACP about the best ways to celebrate the holiday"I think we should have a party. I think we should have talks. Roundtable discussions. Celebrations. Everything,” said Cynthia Adams, the president of the Oakland branch of the NAACP. That includes, Adams says, reflecting on what Juneteenth is. Biden in Bay Area this week for fundraising, climate announcement "I think the best way to celebrate June 19th is to know the history,” she said.History reveals that in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved Black people in the U.S. However, Black folks in Galveston, Texas didn’t get the message until sometime around June 19, 1865. It was a glorious day, says Adams, because it meant the end of over 300 years of chattel slavery.“I can’t even imagine how happy they were,” Adams said. “If we both pu...

'Panic and fear': Witness recounts Pier 39 shooting

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:45:26 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – A Bay Area resident says he was in San Francisco with several family members to celebrate Father’s Day on Sunday when they heard gunshots. Robert Coles gave KRON4 a chilling recount of the terror at Pier 39. “First thing we could experience was the sound of bullets, then the whizzing of bullets,” he said. Coles says he and his family were heading to Fisherman’s Wharf for a Father’s Day dinner when he says he heard dozens of gunshots.  Early morning Oakland shooting being investigated police “We knew we needed to look for cover, and then we heard the other round of gunfire, semi-automatic. And at that point, we needed to find shelter and protection,” he said. The family had spent the weekend together visiting Napa and taking a cruise, but now they were running for their lives.“A celebration of joy within seconds turned into fear, concern and a complete different range of emotions,” he said. Coles says his sister, father and cousin ran into a ne...

Scherzer throws 8 innings and Lindor has 5 RBIs as the Mets rout the slumping Astros 11-1

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:45:26 GMT

HOUSTON (AP) — Francisco Lindor homered and drove in five runs, and Max Scherzer pitched eight fantastic innings for his longest outing with the New York Mets in their 11-1 victory over the skidding Houston Astros on Monday night.The win was New York’s first over the Astros since Sept. 28, 2014, at Citi Field, snapping a seven-game skid. The Mets had lost eight in a row in Houston, with their previous win here coming in May 2011.Scherzer (6-2) gave up just four hits and struck out eight to bounce back from consecutive rough starts against the Braves and Yankees. He was tagged for seven hits and six runs in 3 1/3 innings last week in a no-decision at home against the Yankees.Daniel Vogelbach, who tied a season high with three RBIs, homered off rookie Hunter Brown (6-4) to start the third. The Mets were up 2-0 with one out in the inning when Lindor’s three-run shot made it 5-0. Vogelbach has homered twice in his last four games after the slumping slugger was benched for six games.New ...

Jung hits 15th homer, Rangers hang on to beat White Sox 5-2

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:45:26 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Rookie Josh Jung hit his 15th home run, Jonah Heim had a late two-run single and the Texas Rangers beat the Chicago White Sox 5-2 on Monday night.A day after wiping out six-run deficit in a win over Toronto, the Rangers hung on after Jung helped them grab a 3-0 lead. Heim broke open a 3-2 game with a two-run single in the seventh.Andrew Heaney (5-4) pitched neatly into the sixth after struggling in three previous starts, and the Rangers opened the three-game series on a winning note after taking two of three from the Blue Jays.Chicago lost for the seventh time in nine games.Jung had three hits. He singled and scored in the first and hit a solo homer in the third. Nathaniel Lowe singled and scored in the fourth against Tanner Banks (0-2) to make it 3-0.Chicago closed to to 3-2 in the sixth when Andrew Vaughn and Luis Robert Jr. hit consecutive homers against Andrew Heaney, the third time this season the White Sox went deep back to back. Robert’s 18 homers are sec...

New Zealand marks 1 month to Women’s World Cup with match near Mount Cook

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:45:26 GMT

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand has marked the one month countdown to the start of the Women’s World Cup by creating a full-sized football pitch in the remote southern highlands of the South Island, in the shadow of New Zealand’s highest mountain Aoraki Mount Cook.The 105-meter long, 68-meter wide (114 yards by 74 yards) was built by hand on the tussocky plains of the McKenzie Country in front of the 3,724-meter (12,217-foot) mountain on which Sir Edmond Hillary trained for his successful assault on the summit of Mount Everest.Two teams of local girls, named Pukaki and Tekapo after pristine alpine lakes nearby, were invited to play the first friendly match on the pitch on Tuesday, refereed by New Zealand Football National Referee Development Manager Lindsey Robinson.“I came here today to referee the game in the most beautiful place on earth,” Robinson said. “Aside from the stunning landscape it was a great game of football.“I’m incredibly excited about so many visitors co...

Victim of Coal Creek moose attack feels lucky to be alive

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:45:26 GMT

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — A man in the Coal Creek community is recovering after getting attacked by a cow moose near his home.Rob Standerwick has lived in his home on Hummingbird Lane for 24 years. He walks the trail along Coal Creek three times a day with his dogs and has never had an encounter quite like this. Moose dies after jumping from 2nd-story deck He was walking his two dogs, Phantom and Magic, when he surprised the cow moose. "I heard a couple of branches break and looked up and saw this cow, female moose, and she was already at full speed running right at me. I didn’t have a chance to even turn to run or get behind a bigger tree. By the time I recognized she was coming, I was on the ground," Standerwick said, Next thing he knew, the cow was on top of him. So with some quick thinking, he decides to pull out the firearm in his pocket and fire two shots into the ground to scare her off. It worked and he was able to get away. Thankfully, some neighbors heard the gunsho...