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Pro-EU group projected to win Montenegro snap parliamentary election

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:44:42 GMT

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A recently formed centrist group that advocates Montenegro joining the European Union was projected to win the small Balkan country’s early parliamentary election held Sunday, but without enough support to form a government on its own, according to independent vote monitors.The Center for Democratic Transition pollsters group said that based on all of the votes counted, the Europe Now movement won 26% percent of the vote, while the coalition led by the Democratic Party of Socialists of former President Milo Djukanovic got 23%.The unofficial results are based on pollster projections and on results from representative samples from individual polling stations. The state election commission will announce the official election results in coming days.The vote Sunday was expected to put an end to deep political divisions and years of instability that have hampered the small NATO-member country on its route to joining the European Union.But, the political ...

SIU investigating after police discharge firearm following car theft in Little Italy

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:44:42 GMT

The province’s Special Investigations Unit has been called in following an incident involving Toronto police Sunday morning. Police say they were called about a car theft just before noon in the area of Roxton Road and College Street, just east of Ossington Avenue.“While responding, a police firearm was discharged,” police said in a brief tweet without elaborating as to what led up to the officer firing their weapon. Photos from the crime scene show a vehicle protected by police tape with at least one bullet hole in the front windshield.Two suspects have been arrested, according to police. It’s unclear how many shots were fired or if police were fired upon and if any injuries were sustained in the encounter. The SIU has yet to comment on the case. The SIU is called in investigates the conduct of officials that may have resulted in death, serious injury, sexual assault and/or the discharge of a firearm at a person.

13 hurt when large weekend street party turns violent in Syracuse, New York, police say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:44:42 GMT

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — An apparent street party that attracted hundreds of people turned violent early Sunday in Syracuse, New York, leaving at least 13 people injured, authorities said.At least four people suffered gunshot wounds and five others had apparent knife wounds, among other injuries, Syracuse police Lt. Matthew Malinowski said. Other victims were apparently accidently struck by vehicles while fleeing what the department said was a “large gathering of hundreds of people” on the city’s West Side.Malinowski said all of the injured, three males and 10 females ranging between the ages of 17 and 25, are expected to survive. The 13 known victims were located on the street or later at hospitals, he added.Those shot include a 22-year-old woman who was struck in the abdomen, a 17-year-old girl who suffered a wound to her hip and midsection; a 20-year-old woman who was shot in her right hip and a 20-year-old man with a gunshot wound to a forearm.The stabbing victims inclu...

Protest derails planned celebration of 20-year ban on oil drilling near Chaco national park

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:44:42 GMT

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It was supposed to be a homecoming of sorts for U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, after her agency spent many months hosting public meetings and talking with Native American leaders about curbing the pace of oil and gas development in the San Juan Basin and protecting culturally significant sites.But her return to Chaco Culture National Historical Park on Sunday was derailed when a group of Navajo landowners blocked the road, upset with the Biden administration’s recent decision to enshrine for the next 20 years what previously had been an informal 10-mile (16-kilometer) buffer around the World Heritage site.Social media posts showed protesters yelling “Go Home!” as some held signs that read no trespassing on allottee land.The landowners and Navajo leaders have said Haaland and the Biden administration ignored efforts to reach a compromise that would have established a smaller buffer to protect cultural sites while keeping intact the viability of tr...

10 dead, another dozen injured in Australian bus crash

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:44:42 GMT

As many as 10 people are dead and at least a dozen more are injured after a bus crashed on the east coast of Australia.According to the New South Wales Police Force, the crash happened late Sunday night when the bus rolled over near a highway in the town of Greta, which is two hours north of Sydney.“Initial inquiries indicate 10 people have died. 11 people were transported to hospital via helicopter and road, and 18 passengers are uninjured,” police said in a brief statement. The 58-year-old driver of the bus was among those injured and taken to hospital. According to investigators he is under police guard pending mandatory testing and assessment. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

Oldest of 4 siblings who survived Colombian plane crash told family their mother lived for days

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:44:42 GMT

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The four Indigenous children who survived 40 days in the Amazon jungle after their plane crashed have shared limited but harrowing details of their ordeal with their family, including that their mother survived the crash for days before she died.The kids, aged 13, 9 and 4 years and 11 months, are expected to remain for at least two weeks in a hospital receiving treatment after their rescue Friday, but some are already speaking and wanting to do more more than lying on a bed, according to family members.Manuel Ranoque, father of the two youngest children, told reporters outside the hospital Sunday that the oldest of the four surviving children — 13-year-old Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy — told him their mother was alive for about four days after the plane crashed on May 1 in the Colombian jungle. Ranoque said before she died, the mother likely would have told them: “go away,” apparently asking them to leave the wreckage site to survive. He provided no more detail...

CFD: 4 in hospital after shooting near CTA Red Line Station

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:44:42 GMT

CHICAGO — Four people are in the hospital after a shooting that happened near a CTA Red Line Station Sunday afternoon, according to the Chicago Fire Department.Fire officials said an EMS plan one was called around 2:40 p.m. where four people total were taken to various hospitals from 15 West 95th Street.One man was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition, while two other men were taken to Trinity Hospital in fair condition, according to fire officials.One adult female was taken to Trinity Hospital in good condition as well. Man, 70, found dead in house fire on far South Side ID’d It is unclear what led up to the shooting and the circumstances surrounding the incident at this time.No further information is available at this time.Stay with WGN News as this article will be updated once more information becomes available.

'Unabomber' Ted Kaczynski died by suicide in prison medical center, AP sources say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:44:42 GMT

Ted Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber,” who carried out a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died by suicide, four people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.Kaczynski, who was 81 and suffering from late-stage cancer, was found unresponsive in his cell at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, around 12:30 a.m. on Saturday. Emergency responders performed CPR and revived him before he was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead later Saturday morning, the people told the AP. They were not authorized to publicly discuss Kaczynski’s death and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.Kaczynski’s death comes as the federal Bureau of Prisons has faced increased scrutiny in the last several years following the death of wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, who also died by suicide in a federal jail in 2019.Kaczynski had been held in the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998, when he w...

FDNY veteran drowns trying to pull daughter from ocean

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:44:42 GMT

NEW YORK (WPIX) – A father who drowned Friday near Sylvania Avenue Beach in Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey, has been identified as FDNY firefighter Mark Batista.The FDNY said Batista, a veteran assigned to Engine Company 226 in Brooklyn, lost his life while he and his family visited the Jersey Shore. The tragic incident occurred when Batista reportedly rushed into the water 8:30 a.m. Friday when he noticed his teenage daughter struggling to swim. Dad drowns, daughter pulled from ocean at Jersey Shore beach A rescue team searched the waters for about 10 minutes before finding his daughter and pulling her from the ocean, according to police. She was rushed to an area hospital. Batista, 39, was found submerged in the water around 10 a.m. He was taken to Jersey Shore University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.Lifeguards were not on duty when the incident happened, according to authorities, but many were seen rushing over from area beaches to help with...

$45M settlement reached in case of Randy Cox, man paralyzed in police van

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:44:42 GMT

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – A joint settlement of $45 million has been reached in the civil case of Richard Cox v. the City of New Haven, according to New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker.Richard “Randy” Cox was paralyzed while he was being transported in the back of a New Haven police transport van last June. Five officers were charged after failing to intervene when it became apparent he was injured. The five officers pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges of reckless endangerment and cruelty. Two of those officers were terminated by the New Haven Police Commission on Wednesday.All parties in the civil case participated in a settlement conference on Friday, and with the judge's assistance, agreed on a settlement of $45 million to resolve all of the claims against the city, officials said. Of the $45 million, the New Haven city insurance covers $30 million of the total settlement. The city of New Haven will pay the rest of the settlement amount."What happened to Randy Cox was unaccepta...