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Eagle County jail was aware of mental health issues of recent inmates who died by suicide, reports show

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:53 GMT

A man who is suspected to have died by suicide while in custody at the Eagle County detention facility had threatened suicide on numerous occasions leading up to the incident, according to police reports.The reports date back to Dec. 5, when the man called a crisis line saying “he would 100 percent kill himself when he hung up,” according to a report from the Avon Police Department.After attempting to locate the man and making contact with his family, a ping to his phone revealed he was in Adams County at the time, and the information was passed along to Adams County. But it wouldn’t be long before he popped up in Eagle County again.On Jan. 30, Avon police responded to a disturbance in progress call at the man’s home and found that he had a warrant out for his arrest for failure to appear in court on a driving under the influence case. He was placed in custody, at which time he became violent and threatened suicide.On Feb. 4, Avon police responded to a trespassing call at a residenc...

Gabriel Landeskog will miss another season. What does it mean for Colorado Avalanche in free agency?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:53 GMT

Timing might be a crummy silver lining, but the last seven months have shown the Avalanche just how important it is.Gabriel Landeskog is out for the year, again. Colorado’s captain is expected to miss the entire 2023-24 season after a cartilage transplant in his right knee scheduled for Wednesday in Chicago. Landeskog, whose most recent appearance was Stanley Cup-clinching Game 6 in June 2022, maintained Tuesday that “I have not contemplated retirement at all” despite this being his fourth surgery since September 2020 attempting to repair the chronic injury to his patellar cartilage.This particular transplant procedure was first brought up to him last September, while he was deciding on a course of action for the 2022-23 season. He ultimately settled on an arthroscopic surgery in October that was supposed to take 12 weeks to recover from. Instead, Landeskog only started skating individually Feb. 21 and hasn’t made significant progress on the ice since then.Re...

Details emerge in Summit County snowmobiler assault case involving social media influencer David Lesh

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:53 GMT

A Denver-area man notorious for controversial social media stunts and snowmobile-related offenses allegedly strangled a man during a dispute while snowmobiling in Summit County in March, according to court documents.David Lesh, 37, is facing charges of second degree assault by strangulation, a Class 4 felony, and third degree assault, a Class 1 misdemeanor. He is scheduled to appear in Summit County court in Breckenridge on Wednesday, May 10, for an appearance on bond.JB Katz, a defense attorney representing Lesh, declined to comment on the assault charges he is facing beyond stating, “Facts will come out in court, not in a newspaper.”On March 25 around 1 p.m., a Summit County Sheriff’s Deputy responded to the west end of Spring Creek Road, north of Heeney, according to an affidavit in support of an arrest warrant filed in the assault case.Read the full story at SummitDaily.com.Sign up to get crime news sent straight to your inbox each day.

LAPD chase ends with a crash on the 10 Freeway

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:53 GMT

A police chase involving a stolen car suspect ended with a crash that closed the 10 Freeway in Los Angeles Tuesday afternoon.The chase started around 2:30 p.m. and ended a short time later in the westbound lanes of the 10 Freeway at Arlington Avenue where the driver of a dark-colored sedan apparently collided with at least three other vehicles.  Sky5 footage showed the suspect in custody and receiving medical attention at the scene.All westbound lanes were blocked for the investigation and accident cleanup. It was not clear if any innocent drivers or passengers were hurt.

San Bernardino County prison camp walkaway apprehended in Arizona

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:53 GMT

An inmate missing from a prison camp in San Bernardino County for more than a month was apprehended this week in Arizona, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has announced.Casey J. Lyons, 30, was reported as a walkaway from the Prado Conservation Camp near Chino on the morning of April 7. Prison staff searched all camp buildings and the grounds but were unable to locate Lyons, who was serving a multiyear sentence at the camp for the second time.A search was conducted by CDCR officials, Cal Fire and other local law enforcement agencies, but he continued to elude capture. California to close Riverside County prison, deactivate other facilities On Monday, more than a month after he disappeared, Lyons was located and apprehended by special agents in Bullhead City, Arizona, a town located on the Arizona-Nevada border, about 100 miles south of Las Vegas.He is awaiting extradition to California where he will likely face new charges for his escape.Lyons has two pre...

LAPD officers kill dog that bit person in South Los Angeles

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:53 GMT

A dog suspected of biting a person in the Vermont-Slauson neighborhood of South Los Angeles was shot and killed by L.A. police officers Tuesday morning.Police responded to the area of Vermont Avenue and West 70th Street around 10:25 a.m. for a report of a person who was bit by a dog.Officers arrived and immediately encountered the dog, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.Details are limited, but police confirmed that shots were fired and the dog was struck and killed. It's unclear whom the dog belonged to or whether or not the owner was present at the time of the shooting. Police also did not specify the extent of the injuries suffered by the person who was bitten.No further details were made available by police.

Grace Bumbry dies at 86; singer was ‘one of the first great African American stars’ of opera

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:53 GMT

By Ronald Blum | Associated PressNEW YORK — Grace Bumbry, a pioneering mezzo-soprano who became the first Black singer to perform at Germany’s Bayreuth Festival during a career of more than three decades on the world’s top stages, has died. She was 86.Bumbry died Sunday at Evangelisches Krankenhaus, a hospital in Vienna, according to her publicist, David Lee Brewer.She had a stroke Oct. 20 while on a flight from Vienna to New York to attend her induction into Opera America’s Opera Hall of Fame. She was stricken with the plane 15 minutes from landing, was treated at NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens and returned to Vienna on Dec. 8. She had been in and out of facilities since, Brewer said Monday.Bumbry was born Jan. 4, 1937, in St. Louis. Her father, Benjamin, was a railroad porter and her mother, the former Melzia Walker, a school teacher.She sang in the choir at Ville’s Sumner High School and won a talent contest sponsored by radio station KMOX that included a s...

Rep. George Santos charged by DOJ in federal probe

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:53 GMT

By Mark Morales, Evan Perez and Gregory Krieg | CNNFederal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against New York Rep. George Santos, the Republican lawmaker whose astonishing pattern of lies and fabrications stunned even hardened politicos, according to three sources familiar with the matter.Santos is expected to appear as soon as Wednesday at federal court in New York’s eastern district, where the charges have been filed under seal.The exact nature of the charges couldn’t immediately be learned but the FBI and the Justice Department public integrity prosecutors in New York and Washington have been examining allegations of false statements in Santos’ campaign finance filings and other claims.The congressman’s attorney declined to comment. Spokespeople for the Brooklyn US Attorney’s Office, the Justice Department and the FBI declined to comment.The freshman congressman, who was elected last year to represent a district that includes parts of Long Isla...

This university is the first in the Bay Area to unveil a free Narcan vending machine

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:53 GMT

As lawmakers in Sacramento debate solutions to the fentanyl crisis, public health students at Santa Clara University unveiled their own unique approach on Tuesday: a free on-campus vending machine that dispenses canisters of the opioid-overdose reversing medication Narcan to anyone who wants it.It’s the first of its type on a Bay Area campus, with Stanford University expected to introduce one in a few weeks.Students who helped lead the effort say its an important first step in addressing growing use of the powerful drug, which is blamed for one-in-five youth deaths statewide.“SCU (Santa Clara University) is a party school, so drug use is something that we know happens on campus, off campus or near campus,” said Setareh Tehrani, one of the public health majors who championed the project.School officials say that the vending machine is designed to solve one of the biggest barriers that students face in acquiring Narcan — its high cost. The drug, which is also k...

Athletics get good news on rookie right-hander Mason Miller — no structural damage to elbow

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:53 GMT

The Athletics got some welcome news Tuesday regarding prize rookie right-hander Mason Miller.Miller returned to the Bay Area after starting Sunday in Kansas City with elbow soreness, but tests indicated no major problems.“It’s a clean, structural MRI and based on the soreness level, the best case scenario is he starts playing catch Friday,” Kotsay told reporters before faced the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium.Miller has made four starts, pitching 21 1/3 innings, with pitch counts of 86, 81, 100 and 98. No determination has been made when Miller, 0-2 with a 3.38 earned run average, will make his next start or how the A’s will adjust their starting rotation.“It’s too early to tell and make a move right now,” It could be better than that, the soreness could be gone and we could have a different plan, but right now that’s kind of the outlook.”On May 2, Miller threw seven no-hit innings against the Seattle Mariners but left with n...