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Meet SPOT, MDPD’s cutting-edge robot intended for enhanced operations

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:52 GMT

In a move to enhance their capabilities and better serve the residents of Miami-Dade County, the Miami-Dade Police Department’s Special Response Team unveiled their latest technological addition, a robot named SPOT. Developed as the next evolution in robot control robotics, SPOT promises to revolutionize law enforcement operations.MDPD made the announcement in a video posted to Twitter. In the video, Lieutenant Francis Rego said SPOT would be operated by a trained police officer through a user-friendly touchscreen pad. He also mentioned a number of capabilities, including two-way communications.Not only can it perform tasks such as opening doors, retrieving objects, and climbing stairs, but SPOT can also provide invaluable visual feedback to the operator.The deployment of SPOT will be geared towards barricaded subjects and hostage-rescue incidents, where introducing technology can gather critical information without endangering the lives of officers. By utilizing SPOT in these...

Dillard High School senior receives full scholarship for exceptional achievements

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:52 GMT

Dillard High School’s graduation season honored some of South Florida’s most outstanding students.Meet Tamijah Scriven, a superstar student whose impressive resume earned her a full-ride scholarship to college. “Here at Dillard, I’m involved in the dance magnet program, I’m also part of a club called Youth Behind the Shield,” said Scriven. “I’m also part of the track and field and cross-country team, and also played volleyball here.”And through all that participation in school, this 18-year-old maintained a 4.0 GPA and won a Silver Knight Award for giving back to the community.“I have over 493 community service hours,” said Scriven.Her mentor, Officer Ashley Williams from the Youth Behind the Shield club, beams with pride when she talks about Tamijah.“You look at her and you’re just like wow,” said Williams. “Everything she accomplishes, from being a sub-stellar student to being a stellar athle...

Plymouth police commend three Good Samaritans who prevented apparent kidnapping attempt

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:52 GMT

The Plymouth Police Department is commending the work of three men, including a former corrections officer, who stepped in and tackled a man who allegedly tried to kidnap a woman holding a child.Authorities said it was around 9 a.m. on Friday when the department received multiple calls for “a man chasing a woman down the street with a gun.”The department said that prior to receiving the calls, a 39-year-old resident had allegedly violated a restraining order by appearing at the home of his estranged wife.“Possessing a face mask and handcuffs, he tried to kidnap her by picking her up and grabbing her by the head and neck while she was holding one of their children,” the department said on its Facebook page.According to police, the woman was able to scream and get the attention of another resident and former corrections officer, Jamie Costa, who immediately began to confront the suspect.At that point, police say the 39 year old allegedly pulled a handgun from h...

Investigation finds officers justified in deadly New Hampshire shooting

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:52 GMT

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Six New Hampshire police officers who fatally shot an armed man were justified in their use of deadly force and will not face criminal charges, the state attorney general said Friday. The man was struck at least 11 times.The “initial threat of the imminent use of deadly force against the police, and their subsequent responsive deadly force, is established not only by the consistent account of events provided by the police officers present, but also from the available police digital evidence,” the investigation released by Attorney General John M. Formella’s office said.The officers went to the parking lot of a pharmacy in Manchester in response to a domestic violence 911 call in the early morning hours of June 19, according to the report.There they encountered Adnan Husejnovic, 33, of Manchester, inside a vehicle and his wife outside. She told officers that he had assaulted her inside the vehicle.Husejnovic refused police orders to surrender peacefully ...

7 rescued after building partially collapses near Yale medical school

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:52 GMT

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A building under construction near the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven partially collapsed Friday, injuring several people who were pulled from the debris. Officials, however, said there were no fatalities.City firefighters and other authorities responded to Lafayette Street at about 12:30 p.m.Seven people were trapped in the one-story building and were injured, including two who were in critical condition, said Mayor Justin Elicker. All were removed from the rubble and taken to the hospital.Fire officials were heard on a radio scanner saying all people who were at the site were accounted for.Multiple ambulances responded to scene. TV news footage showed first responders removing one person from the scene on a stretcher.Lafayette Street is a short distance from Yale New Haven Hospital and the Yale School of Medicine and is home to several medical offices.

Chicago Bears hear plan to build a stadium in Naperville. Arlington Heights ‘no longer our singular focus,’ team says.

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:52 GMT

Chicago Bears officials met with Naperville Mayor Scott Wehrli Friday morning to discuss the possibility of abandoning their plans for a new stadium development in Arlington Heights in favor of building it in Napervile.Plans to build “the largest single development project in Illinois history” are “at risk” in Arlington Heights, the Bears said in a statement they released Friday in conjunction with their meeting.The Cook County Assessor’s property assessment of the former horsetrack, which is five times the 2021 tax value and three times higher than the recent assessment settlement for the Churchill Downs racetrack in Kentucky, fails to reflect that the property is not operational and not commercially viable in its current state, the statement said.“We will continue the ongoing demolition activity and work toward a path forward in Arlington Heights, but it is no longer our singular focus,” team officials wrote. “It is our responsibilit...

Jailed Kremlin critic Navalny pokes fun at prison officials with demands of moonshine and a kangaroo

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:52 GMT

MOSCOW (AP) — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny released excerpts of his correspondence with prison administrators Friday, detailing his sarcastic demands for things like a bottle of moonshine, a balalaika and even a kangaroo. His requests were denied.Responses from prison officials, posted on his social media account apparently by his team, came after he has spent almost 180 days in solitary confinement since last summer at Penal Colony No. 6 in the Vladimir region east of Moscow.Navalny, 46, is serving a nine-year sentence after being convicted of fraud and contempt of court — charges he says were trumped up for his efforts to expose official corruption and organize anti-Kremlin protests. He was arrested in January 2021 upon returning to Moscow after recuperating in Germany from nerve-agent poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin.“When you are sitting in a punishment isolation cell and have little entertainment, you can have fun with corresponde...

Giants’ Kayvon Thibodeaux becomes minority owner of New York Warriors T10 pro cricket team

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:52 GMT

Kayvon Thibodeaux says he has always thought outside the box.He attributes the origin of his curiosity to his father Angelo’s creativity and unorthodox mindset in the construction business growing up in South Central Los Angeles.“I watched him build houses, I watched him fix things, and I think for him there was an understanding that nothing is actually broken,” Thibodeaux, 22, the Giants’ pass rusher, told the Daily News on the phone Thursday. “There’s a way to fix it.”The story of how Thibodeaux became a minority owner and equity partner in a professional, New York-based cricket team, the New York Warriors, is not about fixing something that’s off.But Friday’s launch of Thibodeaux’s involvement in this new, six-team, USA Masters T10 cricket league is about the Giants defender gravitating towards opportunity, approaching life a bit differently than the next guy and approving of a slight fix, let’s call it, to a world...

Passenger trains derail in India, killing at least 50, trapping many others

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:52 GMT

By ASHOK SHARMA (Associated Press)NEW DELHI (AP) — Two passenger trains derailed in India on Friday, killing at least 50 people and trapping hundreds of others inside more than a dozen damaged coaches, officials said.About 400 people were taken to hospitals after the accident, which happened in eastern India, about 220 kilometers (137 miles) southwest of Kolkata, officials said. The cause was under investigation.Dattatraya Bhausaheb Shinde, the top administrator in the Balasore district, said at least 50 people were dead.Nearly 500 police officers and rescue workers with 75 ambulances and buses responded to the accident, said Pradeep Jena, the top bureaucrat of the Odisha state.Rescuers were attempting to free 200 people feared trapped in the wreckage, said D.B. Shinde, administrator of the state’s Balasore district.Amitabh Sharma, a railroad ministry spokesperson, said 10 to 12 coaches of one train derailed, and debris from some of the mangled coaches fell onto a nearby...

Dead body found in burning car in Lynn

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:52 GMT

Police officers in Lynn said they found a dead body in a car on fire outside a dry cleaner’s shop.Police responded to a reported car fire at 43 Boston St. in Lynn, which matches the listed address for a dry cleaner’s shop, at around 9:22 p.m. Thursday. When the fire was extinguished, the police said in a statement, they found one dead victim inside who has yet to be identified.Buildings surrounding the car sustained minor damage, the police report.Representatives of the Lynn Fire Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Detectives from Lynn Police, Lynn Fire Arson Squad and Massachusetts State Police are investigating the incident.This is a developing story.