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Man arrested in Mechanicville over shots fired

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:18:33 GMT

MECHANICVILLE, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- The Mechanicville Police Department arrested a Stillwater man after an occurance of shots being fired. Kevin Masterson, 51, is facing multiple charges. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Late in the evening on May 5, officers responded to the area of Frances Street and North Main Street following reports of gunfire. Evidence was found at the scene confirming the reports, which prompted the start of an investigation. During the investigation, officers took a call for a burglary in which handguns were stolen from a city residence, and police additionally located a stolen handgun in the Anthony Kill. Families of Schoharie limo victims react to guilty verdict Police were able to quickly indentify a suspect who had fled to Troy. On May 10, Mechanicville Police arrested Masterson on the following charges: ChargesSecond-degree criminal possession of weaponThird-degree criminal possession of weaponFi...

Missouri officials, prosecutors react to new St. Louis Circuit Attorney selection

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:18:33 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Gabriel “Gabe” Gore was officially named the newest St. Louis Circuit Attorney on Friday. He was appointed by Missouri Gov. Mike Parson following the abrupt departure of Kim Gardner earlier this week.Gore brings more than 23 years of experience in private law practice to the table. He has served with the Dowd Bennett law firm since 2010. He also has experience as an assistant U.S. Attorney and as a member of the Office of Special Counsel John C. Danforth’s Waco Investigation. Road rage fight sends 73-year-old man to hospital with life-threatening injuries Gov. Parson, who appointed Gore to the position, said "Mr. Gore has shown he is a strong manager, talented attorney, proud community leader, and even prouder husband and father who is ready to work hard and be a leader for the people of St. Louis.”Missouri state officials, in addition to regional leaders and groups, have offered the following comments after Parson’s appointment of Gore:Tishaura Jones - St. ...

Mid-Missouri man matches state record with longear sunfish catch

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:18:33 GMT

CRAWFORD COUNTY, Mo. - A Mid-Missouri man matched a state record with his longear sunfish catch from earlier this month. Jefferson City resident John Goad reeled in a 5-ounce longear sunfish on May 8 on Frieda Lake in Crawford County. The Missouri Department of Conservation says most fish of this species aren't larger than seven inches or 4.5 ounces. The previous state record was caught on a private pond in Franklin County in July 2021. Road rage fight sends 73-year-old man to hospital with life-threatening injuries “I’ve been fishing this lake for around 10 years, and I’ve caught crappie, bass, bluegill – all pretty good sizes,” said Goad via MDC. “But I’ve known there are good-sized sunfish for about seven or eight years, and I’ve been trying to catch a record ever since.”Goad says he was five years old when he caught his first longear sunfish and has been striving to catch a state record for 70 years.

Man killed after reported shootout with Kansas City police

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:18:33 GMT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A man died after reportedly shooting at Kansas City police officers and triggering a standoff in a Westside neighborhood near West 17th and West Pennway streets Thursday night into overnight Friday. The Missouri State Highway Patrol is investigating after KCPD officers initially went to the scene at about 11:30 p.m. Thursday for reports of a man who was firing a gun.The highway patrol says when officers arrived that man fired shots inside a residence and then fired in proximity of the officers, who shot back. The suspect wasn't hit and retreated. A SWAT team responded and the standoff began.After negotiations for a surrender started around 12:30 a.m., investigators say the man began shooting at officers again, who returned fire, striking and killing the man. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Two arrested in South Dakota for shooting death of KCK boy The highway patrol identified him as 40-year-old Tyrone Payne of Kansas City.MSHP will lead the investigation ...

Colorado to study feasibility of an alternative to the Outdoor Retailer show

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:18:33 GMT

Denver lost the the tug-of-war over the Outdoor Retailer trade show, which moved back to Salt Lake City this year after a five-year run in the Mile High City.Emerald Expositions, the organizer of winter and summer trade shows, made the call last year, removing events that generated $40 million to $60 million a year in economic activity prior to the pandemic. But Denver isn’t going to go sulk on the couch, binge-watch Warren Miller videos and whine about what could have been.Instead, Visit Denver and Outside Inc., a Boulder-based leader in recreational media, are teaming up to study the feasibility of a festival that backers envision as a recreational industry equivalent of the tech-focused South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, which has film and musical festivals attached to a tech confab.The Outside Festival, or RecFest, or whatever catchy name sponsors finally land on, has the potential to be bigger, better and draw more people than the Outdoor Retailer trade shows, ...

Toddler finds baggie containing 20 blue fentanyl pills in Edgewater McDonald’s play area

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:18:33 GMT

A baggie with about 20 pills of fentanyl were found Wednesday morning by a toddler in a play area of an Edgewater McDonald’s.A woman, the toddler’s mother, turned the disturbing find over to the Edgewater Police Department about 10 a.m. Wednesday, according to a news release.Police went to the McDonald’s, 1701 Sheridan Blvd., to investigate — hoping to find a witness or to obtain video surveillance images on how the baggie wound up there — but were unsuccessful.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Colorado lawmakers defeat bill to add penalties for drug dealers linked to fatal overdoses Crime and Public Safety | Polis signs bill that expands immunity protections for people who report overdoses Crime and Public Safety | “El Chapo” sons charged with smuggling cheap fentanyl to US Crime and Public Safety | Drug dealers who sell lethal fentanyl doses rarely prosecuted under new Colorado l...

Football legend and civil rights activist Jim Brown dead at 87

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:18:33 GMT

Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown, the unstoppable running back who retired at the peak of his brilliant career to become an actor as well as a prominent civil rights advocate during the 1960s, has died. He was 87.A spokeswoman for Brown’s family said he passed away peacefully in his Los Angeles home on Thursday night with his wife, Monique, by his side.One of the greatest players in football history and one of the game’s first superstars, Brown was chosen the NFL’s Most Valuable Player in 1965 and shattered the league’s record books in a short career spanning 1957-65.Brown led the Cleveland Browns to their last NFL title in 1964 before retiring in his prime after the ’65 season to become an actor. He appeared in more than 30 films, including “Any Given Sunday” and “The Dirty Dozen.”An unstoppable runner with power, speed and endurance, Brown’s arrival sparked the game’s burgeoning popularity on television.As Black Americans fought for equality, Brown used his platform and voice ...

Jim Brown's life and legacy in photos

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:18:33 GMT

NFL legend, actor and social activist Jim Brown has died at the age of 87. Brown shattered records during a relatively short NFL career, leading the Cleveland Browns to their last championship in 1964 -- and retired in his prime to become an actor. (Original Caption) Nation's top Negro athletes gathered for a meeting at the Negro Industrial and Economic Union to hear Cassius Clay's view for rejecting Army induction. News conference shows (front row) Bill Russell, Boston Celtics; Cassius Clay; Jim Brown and Lew Alcindor. Back row (left to right): Carl Stokes, Democratic State Rep.; Walter Beach, Cleveland Browns; Bobby Mitchell, Washington Redskins; Sid Williams, Cleveland Browns; Curtis McClinton, Kansas City Chiefs; Willie Davis, Green Bay Packers; Jim Shorter, former Brown and John Wooten, Cleveland Browns.(Original Caption) 9/1965-: Jimmy Brown, Cleveland Browns football.(Original Caption) Jim Brown (32) has just taken hand off from Quarterback Frank Ryan (13) in game against the...

Border Patrol agents targets of two separate shootings this week in San Diego

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:18:33 GMT

SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- The Border Patrol is reporting that twice this week, some of its agents in the San Diego Sector had to evade gunfire coming from south of the border as they patrolled the border with Mexico.One incident reportedly occurred just yards north of the border on Monday night less than a mile east of the San Ysidro port of entry. According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, agents were rendering aid to an injured 4-year-old boy when they had to take cover to avoid being hit by bullets.The boy had been dropped from the primary border barrier by an unknown individual who was entering the United States, officials with Border Patrol say. Two drug tunnels — one under construction — discovered along border in Tijuana The agency reports its agents heard both the impact and ricochet of several bullets bouncing off of the secondary border barrier just north of their location.  CBP reports that agents — with the child still on scene — directed emergency me...

California to receive more federal aid to combat homelessness

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:18:33 GMT

Five major U.S. cities and the state of California will receive federal help to get unsheltered residents into permanent housing under a new plan launched Thursday as part of the Biden administration's larger goal to reduce homelessness 25% by 2025.The All Inside initiative will partner the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness and its 19 federal member agencies with state officials in California and local governments in Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle and the Phoenix metro area. The goal is for the federal government to provide “knowledge, resources and elbow grease” to population centers where nearly half the nation's unhoused residents live, said Susan Rice, President Joe Biden's domestic policy advisor. The administration will offer “tailored support” for two years to improve efforts toward housing unsheltered people in the participating communities, including embedding a federal official in each area, officials said.A homeless encampment in Woodland Hills is now part o...