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Family travel 5: Skills to sharpen before an outdoor adventure

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:43:54 GMT

Lynn O’Rourke Hayes | FamilyTravel.com (TNS)If your upcoming getaway plans include outdoor adventure, make sure your family’s skills, gear and intel are up to speed. Here are five ideas to consider:1. Be bear awareYour goal during a hiking, fishing or camping experience is to avoid getting up close and personal with a bear. So while making plans, inquire about recent bear activity at your intended destination. Research shows that bear spray is effective, so have yours at the ready and know how to use it. Travel in groups of three or more and sing, tell stories, or take turns shouting “Hey, bear!” to let wild creatures know you are in the area. Hike during daylight hours, stay on trails and avoid berry patches and animal carcasses. Look for signs of bear activity including scat, tracks or overturned rocks. When camping, keep your tent and spaces clean and free of odors. Remind the kids that stashing candy bars in sleeping bags could result in unintended consequences! Don’t slee...

Popular chicken pie eatery in North Park celebrates anniversary with delicious deal

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:43:54 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Famous in the community for its chicken and turkey stuffed pot pies that come smothered in gravy, the San Diego Chicken Pie Shop is celebrating its 85th year in business with a delicious deal for its customers. This eatery first opened in 1938 and was originally located on Fifth Avenue downtown. It later moved locations to Robinson Avenue in Hillcrest before finding its current home at 2633 El Cajon Blvd. in North Park. Sam the Cooking Guy hosting free popup cookout in Little Italy It's become an annual tradition for the establishment to celebrate its anniversary by offering deals for both dine-in and take-out Chicken Pie Dinners. This meal comes with a pot pie blend of chicken, turkey and gravy served with whipped potatoes, daily vegetable, coleslaw, a pie shop roll, and dessert."Once a year, giving a promotion to our customers symbolizes how grateful we are to still be the fourth oldest restaurant in San Diego and how we appreciate the amazing support over the decad...

3 officers who defended Capitol from rioters are in court for Trump’s hearing. Follow live updates

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:43:54 GMT

Follow along for live updates as Donald Trump appears in federal court Thursday after being indicted by the Justice Department for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. It’s the third criminal case brought against the former president as he seeks to reclaim the White House. WHAT TO KNOW— Here’s a breakdown of the sprawling election indictment— Trump lawyer hints at a First Amendment defense in the Jan. 6 case— Republicans are remaining silent about the latest charges against Trump— The judge assigned to Trump’s case is a tough punisher of Capitol rioters— Here’s where the various cases involving Trump standOFFICERS WHO DEFENDED CAPITOL AT TRUMP HEARINGThree police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol against violent rioters on Jan. 6, 2021 are in the courtroom for Donald Trump’s hearing Thursday.Daniel Hodges and AquilinoGonnell were injured, and Harry Dunn was chased by violent protesters. Hodges was a District of Columbia police officer, an...

Bombardier CEO says business jets still in high demand, but stock price descends

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:43:54 GMT

MONTREAL — Despite supply chain snarls, Bombardier boosted its second-quarter revenues amid ongoing demand for business jets as deliveries and aftermarket services ramped up, said CEO Éric Martel.“Our team successfully navigated a highly dynamic business environment that saw sustained demand for new and pre-owned jets, as well as steady service growth, all while supply chain pressure persisted,” Martel said in a statement Thursday.In the quarter ended June 30, the plane maker boosted revenue by eight per cent year over year on the back of 29 jet deliveries and a big leap in income from repairs and parts replacement for some of the 5,000-odd Bombardier planes that ply the skies globally.The number of shipments allowed Bombardier to maintain a “line of sight” toward reaching its 2023 forecast of at least 138 jet deliveries by the end of the year, Martel told analysts on a conference call. “I am very comfortable with our more than 138 total delivery targets.” But he qualifi...

National Ballet of Ukraine to tour Canada, celebrate ‘art and beauty over tyranny’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:43:54 GMT

MONTREAL — The National Ballet of Ukraine says an upcoming tour of Canada will celebrate “art and beauty over tyranny and destruction.”Prima ballerina Olga Golytsia says the company intends to show the spirit of Ukraine in a tour starting January 2024 in Québec City.Dancers will highlight Ukrainian culture with traditional dance as well as perform excerpts of famous ballets such as “Le Corsaire,” “Giselle” and “Don Quixote.” Montreal producer Paul Dupont-Hébert says the tour will include stops in Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver.Tickets go on sale mid-September for “Nadiya Ukraine.” Nadiya means hope in Ukrainian. The National Ballet of Ukraine is comprised of 150 dancers. Before the Russian invasion in February 2022, the company staged 16 productions a month at Kyiv’s Taras Shevchenko National Opera House.Golytsia said Thursday in a release that the Canadian tour “means so much as...

Investigators name the trooper who fatally shot a Black Minnesota man during a traffic stop

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:43:54 GMT

Investigators identified on Thursday the Minnesota State Patrol trooper who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop, a day after family and activists called for all three troopers involved in the stop to be fired. Trooper Ryan Londregan shot 33-year-old Ricky Cobb II after he refused to leave his car during a Monday stop on a Minneapolis freeway, according to the Minnesota Public Safety Department’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. The agency handles cases of officer-involved shootings.Trooper Brett Seide initially pulled Cobb over when he saw the taillights were out on the Ford Fusion Cobb was driving, the bureau said in a statement. The bureau said Seide checked Cobb’s record and found he was wanted for a “probable cause arrest for a felony order-for-protection violation” issued by the nearby Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office.Londregan and Trooper Garrett Erickson arrived later and helped as Seide tried to pull Cobb out of the car before Londregan shot him and Cobb...

Delaware county agrees to pay more than $1 million to settle lawsuit over fatal police shooting

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:43:54 GMT

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Officials in Delaware’s largest county have agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle a lawsuit stemming from a fatal police shooting in 2021.The settlement, obtained from New Castle County on Thursday by The Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request, calls for the county to pay $1.05 million to a law firm representing the family of Lymond Moses. It also calls for the dismissal of all claims against the three officers involved in the incident.Moses, 30, was shot shortly after 1 a.m. on Jan. 13, 2021, as he drove toward the three county officers, who were patrolling in a Wilmington neighborhood where several stolen vehicles had been found.Moses’ family sued New Castle County and Officers Roberto Ieradi, Robert Ellis and Sean Sweeney-Jones for wrongful death and excessive force. They also alleged that the officers acted recklessly and violated Moses’ constitutional rights. The lawsuit claimed the county failed to train police properly and that...

Ex-police union boss gets 2 years in prison for $600,000 theft

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:43:54 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The former president of one of the nation’s largest police unions was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday for stealing $600,000 from a fund made up of contributions from members of the Sergeants Benevolent Association.Ed Mullins was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by Judge John G. Koeltl, who said he was balancing the four decades of police work and numerous charitable deeds Mullins had carried out against the crime he engaged in from 2017 through 2021. Mullins was also ordered to forfeit $600,000 and pay the same amount in restitution.Mullins, 61, of Port Washington, admitted the theft in January when he pleaded guilty to a wife fraud charge.He said Thursday that he had “lost” himself in carrying out the crime.“My regret cannot be put into words,” Mullins said. “I make no excuses. I made an incredibly bad decision.”His deal with prosecutors called for a sentence of up to 3 1/2 years in prison, which is what prosecutors requested.The SBA, which...

Ex-Mississippi officers plead guilty to racist assault on 2 Black men during raid

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:43:54 GMT

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Six white former law enforcement officers in Mississippi who called themselves the “Goon Squad” have pleaded guilty to a racist assault on two Black men who were brutalized during a home raid that ended with an officer shooting one man in the mouth, federal prosecutors say.The civil rights charges were unsealed Thursday as the officers — five former Rankin County sheriff’s deputies and an ex-Richland police officer — appeared in federal court and pleaded guilty.The charges come after an Associated Press investigation that linked the deputies involved in the episode to at least four violent encounters with Black men since 2019 that left two dead and another with lasting injuries.Court documents show that on Jan. 24, the officers burst into the home without a warrant, then handcuffed and used a stun gun on the two men, Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker. The officers assaulted them with a sex object, beat them and used their stun guns repeatedly over ...

US Rep. Manning, of North Carolina, is injured in a car accident and released from hospital

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:43:54 GMT

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Kathy Manning, a North Carolina Democrat, was injured in a car accident Thursday in her district and was treated at a hospital, her office said. The second-term congresswoman was traveling in Greensboro in a car driven by a staff member when the accident occurred between 9 and 9:30 a.m., according to a news release and a spokesperson. “They sustained non life-threatening injuries, were taken to the hospital, and have been discharged,” the news release said. Manning was on her way to High Point for a roundtable discussion on gun violence, spokesperson Gia Scirrotto said. The news release thanks first responders and health care workers.Scirrotto said that the staff member driving was not at fault but didn’t have other details. Greensboro police didn’t immediately respond to an email.Manning, who was first elected to Congress in 2020, represents north-central North Carolina’s 6th Congressional District, which covers Guilford, Rockingham and...