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5 things to know this Thursday, May 11

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:39:32 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Happy almost Friday! According to Meteorologist Jill Szwed, we're in for a treat, as today should feel like a summer preview. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! The former store manager of the Mavis Discount Tire on South Broadway in Saratoga Springs testified on day three of the Schoharie Limo Trial on Wednesday. Also, Dino Savoca, the man accused of causing the Albany Medical Center lockdown, pleaded not guilty to an indictment on Wednesday that alleged he intentionally caused the death of his mother. These stories, and more, are covered in your five things to know this Thursday morning. 1. Former Mavis Discount Tire manager testifies in Schoharie Limo TrialWitness testimony continued on day three of the Schoharie Limo Trial. Susan Mallery, Schoharie County District Attorney, called Virgil Park, the former store manager of the Mavis Discount Tire on South Broadway in Saratoga Springs, to the stand.2...

Taking you inside the Architectural Parts Warehouse 

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:39:32 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) - From doors to windows, knobs to light fixtures, a treasure trove of historic gems are waiting to be uncovered at the Architectural Parts Warehouse in Albany. Since 1978, it's been serving as the Capital Region’s only nonprofit architectural salvage warehouse. Off the Beaten Path: Gus’s Hot Dogs The set designer for The Gilded Age was a regular customer during filming in the Capital Region, according to Warehouse Manager David Ritrovato. With new items coming in weekly, you never know what you’ll find while shopping. When wooden booths from Albany’s beloved long-time establishment Lombardo’s showed up, those relics were gone in just two hours.The Historic Albany Foundation is always in need of volunteers to help out! If you have an interest in preservation, advocacy, or history and want to get involved with their efforts, contact them. Albany tool library growing in size and popularity The Architectural Parts Warehouse is located at 89 Lexington Avenue in ...

Fire burns three homes in Washington Park, Illinois

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:39:32 GMT

WASHINGTON PARK, Ill. - A massive fire in Washington Park, Illinois, burned three houses early Wednesday morning.The Washington Park Police Department got the call of the three-alarm fire around 4:15 a.m. located on Portland Place, just north of I-64. Seven different fire crews are now on the scene, getting control of the flames.Washington Park Assistant Fire Chief Ronnie Harris shared that the fire initially engulfed two vacant houses, then spread to an occupied home. Three occupants were sleep when the fire spread to their home, but escaped without injuries. Circuit Attorney refuses charges to woman arrested in Cherokee St. shooting One firefighter from Fairmont City was treated for heat exhaustion. He is expected to recover. The cause of the fire has not yet been reported. The Illinois State Fire Marshal is expected to take over the investigation.Our Bommarito Automotive Group SkyFOX helicopter was flying over the area. FOX 2 will update this story with more information as it ...

Crews responding to vacant building fires in south St. Louis city

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:39:32 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Emergency crews are at the scene of two vacant house fires in south St. Louis City.Our Bommarito Automotive Group SkyFOX helicopter is flying over the area located on the 3100 block of Ohio Avenue, where firefighters can be seen dumping water onto the flames damaging two vacant brick buildings. Circuit Attorney refuses charges to woman arrested in Cherokee St. shooting The cause of the fire has not yet been revealed. So far, no injuries have been reported. FOX 2 will update this story with more information as it becomes available.

Verizon innovative learning lab opening today at St. Louis City middle school

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:39:32 GMT

ST. LOUIS - A Verizon innovative learning lab opens Thursday at Long International Middle School on Morganford Road.It gives students and teachers access to technology they need in today's digital world. St. Louis man says American Airlines lost prosthetic leg, won’t reimburse him The lab includes free internet access, plus virtual reality, 3D printing, and artificial intelligence.

Editorial: Colorado TABOR refunds will be fairer if voters pass HH in November

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:39:32 GMT

Colorado has long suffered under the yoke of the unworkable, regressive monstrosity of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights.Starting in tax year 2022, Colorado Democrats figured out the ultimate trump card to Douglas Bruce’s scheme to restrict spending on public education, roads, bridges, police, and fire departments all while requiring the wealthiest Coloradans to pay the exact same tax rate as the poorest.Related ArticlesEditorials | Democrats tie in renters to property tax, TABOR refund proposal Editorials | In deal for property tax relief, Democrats look again to make TABOR refunds equal Editorials | Letters: Demand lawmakers address these ballistic property taxes Editorials | Opinion: Ouch! Property tax increase will hurt, despite Democrat’s Rube Goldberg plan Editorials | Here’s how Colorado Democrats ranked their spending priorities Gov. Jared Polis and state lawmakers decided tha...

Death toll from wildfires in Russia's Urals hits 21, authorities suspect

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:39:32 GMT

The death toll rose to 21 in a series of fires raging in Russia’s Urals region on Tuesday (9 May), some resulting from suspected arson, and medical officials warned the tally was likely to increase, state news agency TASS said.The emergencies ministry in Kurgan region near the border with Kazakhstan said 46 suspects had been identified and seven criminal cases had been initiated against alleged arsonists.Some of the suspects were minors, it said. The motives of the suspected arsonists were not clear.Wildfires have long plagued Russia’s forests and steppes during hotter months, but have grown in intensity in recent years. The 2021 fire season was Russia's largest ever, with 18.8 million hectares of forest destroyed, according to Greenpeace Russia. Last year, wildfire smoke blew hundreds of miles to Moscow, choking city residents.Fires began in late April in the Kurgan and neighbouring Tyumen regions. Russian Emergencies Minister Alexander Kurenkov flew to Kurgan on Monday as the blaz...

Niantic’s ‘Peridot’ brings believable augmented reality to gaming

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:39:32 GMT

“Peridot” is Niantic’s most experimental game, and also, it’s most intriguing. The original title from the “Pokemon Go” developer is touted as a modern-day spin on Tamagotchi, those virtual pets that became popular in the 1990s.As a member of the Peridot Keeper Society, players hatch the titular creature, which has unique characteristics, and they raise the virtual pet. They feed them. They teach them tricks. They play with them. They can take them on walks to explore the world, said Ziah Fogel, “Peridot” director of production. With each interaction, they gain experience and grow. That sounds like normal fare for a Niantic game. It hits the touchstones of exploration and simple gameplay, but what sets “Peridot” apart is that the game is completely in augmented reality. The creature melds with the world seen through the smartphone, so that the screen is almost like a lens.FROM PROTOTYPE TO GAME“Peridot” was orig...

Barabak: California kingmaker Michael Berman preferred anonymity

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:39:32 GMT

A visit with Michael Berman, the political savant and California kingmaker who died last week, was a throwback to another time.He worked from a shabby office, blinds drawn to thwart any ray of sunlight. A blue pall of smoke hung from the ceiling, like a nicotine curtain.Lunch might have involved a distilled drink, or two.But it’s not Berman’s defiantly unhealthy lifestyle that stood out among the tanned and beautiful who surrounded him in the glossy climes of Beverly Hills and the Westside.Rather, it was his extraordinary political acumen, coupled with a passion for anonymity.It was a striking trait decades ago, when Berman was at the height of his powers as the operational brains behind Los Angeles’ powerful Berman-Waxman political machine.It is all the more notable in today’s era of relentless self-promotion, when even the most middling political strategist turns up at postelection seminars, in podcasts and on the gaseous cable talk-show circuit.Berman spoke sparingly to reporters...

Goldberg: The fury of #MeToo finally comes for the man who inspired it

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:39:32 GMT

With the $5 million verdict against Donald Trump for sexual abuse and defamation in the E. Jean Carroll trial, the #MeToo movement comes full circle.Trump’s election in 2016, after he’d been heard boasting of sexual assault on the “Access Hollywood” tape and accused of sexual assault by more than a dozen women, set off a tsunami of female fury. That fury powered the Women’s March. It inspired countless women — some of them previously apolitical suburbanites — to put their lives on hold and throw themselves into activism or to run for office themselves. And that fury, that intolerable sense of incredulous disgust and civic violation, was the spark that set off the #MeToo movement, as women, unable to do anything about the abuser running the country, turned their energy toward those in their own institutions, including the entertainment industry. I’ve long been convinced that Trump was the reason revelations about Harvey Weinstein led to a nationwide paroxysm.The #MeToo movement is wh...