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EMS vehicle rollover crash in Black Jack

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:31 GMT

BLACK JACK, Mo. – An emergency vehicle responding to a house fire in Florissant overturned in a rollover crash Tuesday evening.The crash occurred near the intersection of Old Halls Ferry Road and Country Club Court.The vehicle was from the Black Jack Fire Protection District.Sources told FOX 2 that three firefighters were injured in the crash and had to be taken to a local hospital.

Father of Marine killed in Afghanistan believes government is lying about son's death

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:31 GMT

ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. – Family members of the 13 service members killed in the Aug. 26, 2021, U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan say the government is lying to them.A St. Charles County father tells FOX 2 he believes videos of their son’s final days and moments have been wiped clean.Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz of Wentzville was one of the 13 killed that day. Nearly two years later, Mark Schmitz is still not sure what to believe about Jared’s death.“To this day (I) don’t have an answer to whether or not my son dropped, felt no pain, and was just killed instantly, or he was one of these others,” Mark said. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Daily News SIGN UP NOW Kelly Barnett, mother of Marine Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover, who was among those killed, says witnesses tell ...

61-year-old man reported missing in Arvada

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:31 GMT

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation issued a missing person alert Tuesday for a 61-year-old man last seen in Arvada on Aug. 4.Howard BruinHoward Bruin was on foot without access to a vehicle when he was last seen in the 8700 block of Kendall Court. Bruin is described as 6 feet tall, weighing 140 pounds with salt-and-pepper hair and blue eyes. He has a cognitive disability and has previously walked away but returned a short time later.Bruin was last seen Aug. 4 but was heard from his cell phone Tuesday before it died or was turned off.Anyone who has seen Bruin is asked to call 911 or Arvada police at 720-898-6900.Please share this missing senior alert for Howard Bruin who was last seen August 4 in Arvada. He is on foot. His phone has been shut off or dead. If seen please call Arvada Police or 911. pic.twitter.com/Vbx5Yj2tzA— CBI (@CBI_Colorado) August 9, 2023Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Missing man found dead in canal at Harmony Golf Club in Timnath ...

Keeler: CSU Rams’ best conference realignment option? Follow (gasp!) San Diego State’s lead. Build biggest monster you can.

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:31 GMT

Only Frankenstein’s Monster can save CSU now. One leg, shuffling painfully, is Oregon State. The other — same shuffle, same pain — is Washington State.The torso of the beast comprises the best football brands from the Mountain West. The left arm is Memphis; the right is UT-San Antonio. The head is Tulane, a green wave with metal bolts attached to either side of its neck.Is it an abomination? Absolutely. But the Atlantic Coast Conference is now talking, with a straight face, about adding two teams — Stanford and Cal — from northern California. Oregon’s volleyball team will soon to be flying to Maryland for a conference match. Sense went out the window two golems go.“I’m just dumbfounded at how quickly this all moved and transpired,” Craig Thompson, the former longtime commissioner of the Mountain West, told me as our convo turned to realignment. “It’s like, ‘Oh, man, we better do something.’ I don’t know if we’re going to rue (this) day.”The painful truth? The boat the Rams nee...

Pasadena woman shot, killed following early morning fight

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:31 GMT

The Pasadena Police Department is investigating after a woman was shot and killed following reports of a fight at an apartment complex early Tuesday morning. Police responded to an apartment complex on the 2000 block of North Fair Oaks Avenue around 1:11 a.m. after receiving a call regarding a fight and shots fired. When police arrived on scene, they found 34-year-old Tynisha Houston suffering from at least one gunshot wound. The Pasadena woman was transported to the hospital but later died from her wounds.Police searched the same apartment complex where Houston was found and eventually arrested a suspect. That suspect has been identified only as a 54-year-old resident of Pasadena.Additional details regarding the suspect are being withheld due to the developing nature of the investigation, police said. Police did confirm that a search warrant was served and a firearm was recovered.The Pasadena Police Department's Robbery-Homicide Bureau is handling the investigation. Anyone with inf...

78-year-old hiker missing for days rescued

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:31 GMT

A 78-year-old man who had been missing in the Chumash Wilderness area of Ventura County for two days has been rescued, authorities announced on Tuesday.  Calls about Balaji Keshava’s disappearance came in at around 3 p.m. on Aug. 5, officials with the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department said.  According to investigators, Keshava had been hiking with a group of individuals when he somehow became separated from the group near Grouse Mountain. “Dispatchers were able to determine Balaji’s general location using information gathered from the cell phone call he placed after dialing 911,” a VCSO news release stated.  Members of the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue Team, assisted by a Kern County Sheriff’s Office helicopter, began their search in the area of Cerro Noroeste where a trailhead was located. The teams searched through the night, even deploying a Ventura County helicopter equipped with a thermal imaging camera.  The following day, on Aug. 6, search...

Reward offered for thieves escaping with $300,000 of jewelry in La Verne

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:31 GMT

A $20,000 reward is being offered for the suspects who escaped with $300,000 worth of jewelry after a smash-and-grab robbery in La Verne.The break-in took place on July 1 when four men crashed through the entrance of Rodeo Jewelers on the 1500 block of Foothill Boulevard around 12:16 p.m.A reward of $10,000 is being offered by the La Verne City Council and another $10,000 is being offered by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, totaling $20,000 for information leading to the suspects’ arrest and conviction.Security video captured a white sedan smashing through the front glass doors as four men hopped out. Armed with hammers, the thieves shattered display cases while grabbing handfuls of jewelry luxury watches before loading them into large bags.As the store owner confronts the suspects, one thief is seen picking up a chair and knocking the owner in the head twice.The thieves crashed through the front of the jewelry store with a car and began smashing display cases. July 1, 2...

'Senseless violence': 7 men indicted in string of fatal shootings in L.A. County

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:31 GMT

Seven men have been charged in connection with a string of fatal shootings that occurred in Los Angeles, Compton and Inglewood in late 2021 and early 2022, officials announced Tuesday. The charges stemmed from a 37-count grand jury indictment that was unsealed on Monday and involved four separate incidents in which seven victims lost their lives to "senseless violence," according to the L.A. County District Attorney's Office. Authorities called the investigations into the shootings “complex,” and the men were described as gang members. Seven men charged in a string of shootings in Los Angeles County are seen in images released by the DA's Office on Aug. 8, 2023. (KTLA) The first in the series of shootings occurred at an RV park in South Los Angeles on Dec. 6, 2021.Two victims, Jose Palma and Hector Cervantes, were killed when shots were fired into an RV.Six of the seven defendants were charged in the case: Kendale Taylor, Cory Ervin, Kalil Santos, Kevin Salter, Terrance Adams and Ma...

'I want a ride': Investigation on San Jose Pink Poodle strip club scandal released

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:31 GMT

(KRON) -- The City of San Jose released a 100-page final investigation report into the Pink Poodle strip club scandal involving four on-duty firemen who gave a bikini-clad woman, and a photographer, a ride in their engine.The scandal blew open last year when an Instagram video exposed a San Jose Fire Department engine with its emergency lights on parked at The Pink Poodle's entrance. The video posted by "San Jose Foos" showed a woman wearing only a bikini and high heals stepping out of the fire engine and walking into the strip club."Only in San Jose do you see a stripper come out of a firetruck," the video's caption wrote.Investigators discovered that The Pink Poodle was one of two adult entertainment establishments that Fire Engine 4 went to on the night of October 5, 2022, despite receiving zero calls for service during that time period, according to the report.The report released by the city to KRON4 on Tuesday identifies the four firefighters as: Fire Captain William Tognozzi, ...

Missing woman last seen in Fremont

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:31 GMT

(KRON) -- The Oakland Police Department is searching for a missing woman who was last seen in Fremont. Clara Sevilla Erazo, 28, has been missing since Sunday morning. She was last seen on the 45000 block of Fremont Boulevard at about 8 a.m. At that time, she was wearing a black Tesla polo shirt, black pants and black shoes. She is 5'7" and 180 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. Erazo's family says she is in good mental and physical condition. Anyone who knows where she might be is asked to call OPD's missing persons unit at (510) 238-3641.