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Downtown fire station closes — is it a dangerous move?

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:00:59 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The temporary closure of a downtown Austin fire station has some people worried about response times.According to the Austin Firefighters Association, Fire Station 1 located on Fifth and Trinity streets closed suddenly after the building was condemned during construction.Both EMS and Austin Fire Department crews who work out of the station were moved to other stations around the city until the building is remodeled."It has three units in it," said Austin Firefighters Association President Bob Nicks. "It is the busiest unit in the city of Austin."Nicks said while the closure is just temporary, not having an operating station in the core of the city can impact response times all over."I can't emphasize how much — what a dangerous condition this is to have no units downtown in the 10th largest city in the nation," Nicks said. "All these other stations that surround this block are pulled in. What is called coverage calls, so what happens is their response times become lo...

Killeen PD: One dead in officer-involved shooting

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:00:59 GMT

KILLEEN, Texas (FOX 44) - UPDATE: The Killeen Police Department and Texas Rangers are investigating a Friday morning officer-involved shooting that left one man dead.Killeen PD spokesperson Ofelia Miramontez said it happened in the 900 block of Southside Drive. Officers got a call at 5:39 a.m. Friday about a stabbing at this location. Temple Police search for suspect in drive-by shooting When officers arrived, they found one stabbing victim lying in the street and another man on scene still armed with a knife. While the sequence of events is still under investigation, Miramontez said at one point a five-year veteran of the force fired his service weapon, striking the armed man.Both men were transported to Baylor Scott and White Hospital. The armed man, identified initially only as a 38-year-old male subject, died from the wound received when he was shot. The stabbing victim's condition was not immediately availalble.Body cam video was being reviewed on Friday morning, and office...

Israel's war on Hamas: A conversation with a Middle East expert

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:00:59 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — There were several developments this week as the war between Israel and Hamas enters another day. Senior Middle East analyst Ryan Bohl with the RANE Network, a risk intelligence company, sat down with KXAN’s Sally Hernandez for an in-depth conversation.Hernandez: "Tell me a little bit about the humanitarian crisis that is unfolding right now, about the Rafah crossing and some history behind it?" How Texas is supporting Israel Bohl: “So the Egyptians don't want to open up the Rafah crossing for fear that it could cause a refugee flood into the Sinai Peninsula, their territory where they've been fighting an Islamist militant group. They've been fighting a version of ISIS there for over a decade.So they don't want to cause a humanitarian crisis of the Sinai; they could destabilize the security situation.They're also worried that if Palestinians move into the Sinai, they may never go home, and that the Gaza Strip may end up being essentially ethnically cleansed of Pale...

Police recover stolen patrol rifle, give update on investigation

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:00:59 GMT

RUTLAND, Vt. (NEWS10) -- Vermont State Police have announced they recovered a stolen patrol rifle that was taken Tuesday. Timothy Gabriel was arrested Thursday in connection to both the patrol rifle and a cop car being stolen. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! Vermont State Police Police say a cop car was stolen outside of a Rutland City home between 2 and 4:40 a.m. on Tuesday. The cruiser was located elsewhere in the city, but a patrol rifle was missing from the car.Around 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Vermont State Police found Gabriel walking on Cherry Street in Burlington. Police say he ignored commands directing him to surrender and was subdued by troopers. At the time, the patrol rifle wasn't accounted for. Search warrant yields firearms and drugs in Albany Police say the rifle was found abandoned in a pull-off in the vicinity of Exit 3 in Arlington, Vermont. Vermont State Police say uniformed officers are assigned take-home c...

Smoke from scrap metal recycling center fire near Warrenton can be seen for miles

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:00:59 GMT

JONESBURG, Mo. -- Smoke from a scrap metal recycling center fire can be seen for miles. The center is located along I-70 around the 185-mile marker. Bommarito Automotive SkyFOX Helicopter captured images of firefighters working to put out the fire.Drivers can see the smoke rising high into the air. The fire does not seem to be slowing traffic in the area.It is not clear what started the fire. The recycling center owners say that there are no injuries associated with this fire. More details will be posted here as they come into the FOX 2 newsroom.

Burglars smash through wall to get into pharmacy

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:00:59 GMT

A group of thieves smashed a glass door and broke through a wall to burglarize a pharmacy in Van Nuys early Friday morning.At about 12:30 a.m., a group of two or three people wearing masks broke the glass door of a tax services company at 13745 Victory Blvd., then used a sledgehammer to smash through a wall and get into the neighboring pharmacy, a witness told the Los Angeles Police Department, as reported by stringer service OnScene.TV.Footage from the scene shows drywall and boxes strewn about the entry point for the bandits.The burglars took merchandise from the pharmacy, though the exact amount has yet to be determined, and also rifled through office cabinets before fleeing in a red sedan.No further information was available.

Sorry, Barbie: SAG-AFTRA issues Halloween costume rules amid strike

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:00:59 GMT

Sorry, Barbie. Sorry, Ken. SAG-AFTRA is handing out some strict Halloween costume guidelines for members currently on strike. On Wednesday, the union posted the rules to its website.Via: SAG-AFTRA A-list actors offer $150M to end SAG strike Members are prohibited from dressing up as popular characters from struck content and then posting the images to social media. This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Ryan Gosling, left, and Margot Robbie in a scene from "Barbie." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)So that means anything from "Barbie" to "Wednesday" will be frowned upon. Instead, the guild recommends costumes based on general characters and figures like ghosts, zombies, spiders, etc. Members are also encouraged to dress up from characters from "non-struck content" like an animated television show. The actors' strike is nearing its 100th day after talks with studios fell apart last week with no deal.

2 hurt when driver slams into tobacco shop in Brea

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:00:59 GMT

Stunning surveillance video shows the moment a vehicle crashed into the front of a tobacco store in Brea Thursday evening.The crash happened around 4:40 p.m. at Tobacco Buzz on West Imperial Highway.Video shows a BMW crash into the store, hitting two people and knocking down store shelves.The two people, a maintenance worker and a customer, were injured in the crash. Security camera footage captured the moment a vehicle slammed into the front of a tobacco store in Brea on Oct. 19, 2023. (OnScene.TV)The extent of their injuries was not immediately known.The store owner said the building sustained major damage and it was red-tagged by the city code enforcement.The driver of the vehicle, identified by witnesses as a middle-aged woman, was taken away from the scene. Police have not said if she suffered any injuries or if she is expected to face criminal charges.

Deputy in stable condition after getting hit by fleeing suspect in West Hollywood

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:00:59 GMT

A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputy was seriously injured Thursday evening after they were injured by a vehicle driven by a fleeing burglary suspect.The incident unfolded around 4:40 p.m. near the intersection of San Vicente Boulevard and Cynthia Street in West Hollywood.According to the Sheriff's Department, deputies from the West Hollywood station responded to a report of a burglary. Deputies eventually located the suspect's vehicle and a brief pursuit began.The injured deputy was standing beside his vehicle when the suspect hit him, slamming into the patrol car's door in the process, officials said. Video from Sky5 showed what appeared to be the deputy sitting in the front passenger seat of an LASD cruiser before paramedics from the Los Angeles Fire Department arrived on scene to render first aid.The deputy suffered serious injuries and was transported to a hospital. He is currently listed as being in stable condition, according to Sher...

Katie Von Schleicher Gets Down in Nashville

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:00:59 GMT

Katie Von Schleicher Gets Down in Nashville: Brooklyn-based songwriter and musician Katie Von Schleicher told us about her Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings experience.Katie Von Schleicher: I’m not the finest concert goer. I’ve fallen asleep for the duration of a Grouper show I was psyched to see, spaced out watching Ahmad Jamal, talked over Big Thief in a room that holds 30 people.Still, I’ve seen a lot of good ones, and enjoyed the ones I slept during. For my “favorite” I’ll choose a formative experience, seeing Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings in Nashville in 2007 or so.I was majoring in songwriting at college and they shipped us down on a bus to sit in the Warner Bros offices daily and get lectured by some mainstays like Rodney Crowell and the woman who wrote “This Kiss” for Faith Hill.One evening they closed down a small dive and let this small group of us, songwriting idiots, experience a duo Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings set. I cried like a baby, doing that thing w...