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BET Awards host party-like tribute to hip-hop, performance honoring legends like Takeoff, Markie

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:46 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 2023 BET Awards celebrated 50 years of hip-hop with tributes to the genre’s earliest voices, late legends, and new talent during a performance-packed show that consistently felt like a party.Sunday’s biggest surprise was a rare public performance by Quavo and Offset, the surviving members of Migos, who did a rendition of “Bad and Boujee” in front of an image of Takeoff, who died in a shooting last December. He was 28.Throughout the show, whether it was Tupac, Warren G, Notorious B.I.G., Biz Markie or Pop Smoke, performers and emcee Kid Capri paid homage to late hip-hop stars, often by quickly highlighting a taste of their best-known hits. In a show where the awards are few and far between, Capri and BET kept the emphasis on the music.Old school hip-hop heroes and modern stars mixed it up onstage, performing tracks celebrating rap’s most influential cities and innovation. For Miami, Trick Daddy and Trina rocked through “Nann” and Uncle Luke took on “I Wan...

Australia’s High Court dismisses Russia’s bid for injunction to stop its embassy’s eviction

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:46 GMT

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s highest court on Monday dismissed Russia’s application for an injunction that would have prevented Moscow’s embassy being evicted from a site in the national capital Canberra.In dismissing the application, High Court Justice Jayne Jagot described Russia’s challenge on constitutional grounds to a law terminating the lease as “weak” and “difficult to understand.”Parliament passed emergency legislation on June 15 that terminated Russia’s lease on the largely empty block on security grounds because the new embassy would have been too close to Parliament House.Russia’s lawyer Elliot Hyde had argued that the Ambassador Alexey Pavlovsky would not have confidence in the integrity and security of a consular building already on the site if the embassy was not allowed to maintain possession until the challenge to the validity of the lease termination was decided.Elliot said a man who has been living on the site in a portable cabin at least since las...

Regulators say no sign of threat from hazardous railroad cargo that plunged into Yellowstone River

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:46 GMT

COLUMBUS, Mont. (AP) — Preliminary testing of water and air quality along a stretch of the Yellowstone River where train cars carrying hazardous materials fell into the waterway following a bridge collapse did not indicate any threat to the public, state and federal officials said Sunday. The seven mangled cars that carried hot asphalt and molten sulfur remained in the rushing river a day after the bridge gave way near the town of Columbus, about 40 miles (about 64 kilometers) west of Billings, Montana. The area is in a sparsely populated section of the Yellowstone River Valley, surrounded by ranch and farmland. Preliminary results of water quality sampling did not show petroleum hydrocarbons, which would have come from the asphalt, or sulfur, Kevin Stone, a spokesperson for the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, said. Both do not dissolve when they enter water, he explained.“Water quality testing will continue until the cleanup is complete and at this time there are no kn...

E. 6th St. reopens after APD bomb squad investigation

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:46 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Police Department's bomb squad has cleared the scene of a concerning item in downtown Austin on Sunday.APD officers initially blocked off San Jacinto Boulevard and Brazos Street between East Sixth and Seventh streets in order to investigate, "something that caused concern," APD Watch Command said.APD's bomb squad responded to East Sixth Street and San Jacinto Boulevard on Sunday. (KXAN photo/Frank Martinez)APD's bomb squad responded to East Sixth Street and San Jacinto Boulevard on Sunday. (KXAN photo/Frank Martinez)APD's bomb squad responded to East Sixth Street and San Jacinto Boulevard on Sunday. (KXAN photo/Frank Martinez)APD's bomb squad responded to East Sixth Street and San Jacinto Boulevard on Sunday. (KXAN photo/Frank Martinez)Those roads have been reopened.APD told KXAN that they were alerted to a suspicious item in a backpack that was in an alley between San Jacinto Blvd. and Brazos St. The bomb squad determined that the item was not an explosiv...

Drone finds accident victim on railroad tracks with oncoming train just two miles away

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:46 GMT

The use of an unmanned aerial vehicle, or drone, with infrared imaging capabilities helped law enforcement locate a man who had left the scene of an accident, and it very likely saved his life when authorities were able to stop a train on its way to where the man had collapsed on railroad tracks.The aircraft spotted him as he collapsed west of Sacred Heart and, because of it, the Renville County Sheriff’s Office was able to contact the Twin Cities & Western Railroad, which halted a train en route to the man’s location, and only two miles away.Juan A. Chaparro-Larsen, 37, of Granite Falls, was located by the aerial craft walking on railroad tracks about one mile west of where his vehicle had rolled over near U.S. Highway 212 and 150th Street in Renville County, or about one mile west of Sacred Heart in Hawk Creek Township, at around 5:56 a.m. Friday.The 2005 Buick Rendezvous was fully engulfed in flames as emergency responders reached the site of the rollover. After extinguishing...

Losing grandparents to COVID may be increasing youth violence

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:46 GMT

ST. LOUIS --- A health expert says the death of grandparents during COVID is contributing to the youth violence crisis, with too many kids ending up in foster care. Dr. Kendra Holmes says the pandemic is having a lasting effect on the Black community and is contributing to the current chaos."We lost a lot of grandparents, and those were caregivers providing that structure. That support and discipline that children need where many of those were lost, due to COVID-19," said Dr. Kendra Holmes, President/CEO Affinia Healthcare. "We're seeing an increase of those children in the foster care system in the foster care system." Life in Illinois gets more expensive on July 1 with multiple tax increases, new laws Even the Missouri Department of Social Service admits there's a huge problem in the foster care system saying there are, "Too many children going into foster care and remaining there too long."I also talked to Missouri Senator Mary Elizabeth Coleman who is the chair of the senate h...

Long Beach Cultural Dance Festival held at Museum of Latin American Art

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:46 GMT

More than 100 dancers from across Southern California performed Sunday as part of the Long Beach Cultural Dance Festival held at the Museum of Latin American Art.  The first annual event combined workshops, competitions and performances of many different dance styles, including belly dancing, Bollywood routines, Afro-contemporary dance and many others.  “We’re here to basically celebrate multi-cultural dance and the performing arts as well,” Chelsea Diaz, a co-producer of the festival, told KTLA. “The dance industry is kind of lacking in cultural representation, so we really wanted to bring an event together that can invite all of the smaller, marginalized groups like ours to be able to have the experience of a dance competition.”  Solimar Salas, with the Museum of Latin American Art, told KTLA that the museum was honored to be a part of the festival.  Festival attendees take part in a dance workshop on the Long Beach Cultural Dance Festival on June 25, 2023. (KTLA)Da...

Serial burglary suspect nabbed by San Mateo police

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:46 GMT

A suspected serial burglar who’s eluded capture was arrested by the San Mateo Police Department after authorities say evidence shows him entering at least three different apartments, alarming residents.A Daly City man, 29, was arrested after a residential burglary on Saturday morning while fleeing a Caltrain platform between 28th and 31st avenues.Police said the suspect, on parole for a previous burglary offense, carried an unsheathed knife. He is now in San Mateo County Jail.The burglary spree started on the morning of June 21, when police say the suspect used a brick to shatter a window in an attempted entry in the 3000 block of Los Prados Street. The homeowner confronted the suspect, who fled the scene. Surveillance footage captured a Black male with dreadlocks, dressed in all black clothing, wearing a balaclava, and carrying a skateboard leaving the area.At 6:10 a.m. on the morning of June 24, authorities say the suspect threw a rock through the sliding glass window of an apartm...

VIDEO: Cashier held at gunpoint during robbery at Oakland donut shop

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:46 GMT

(KRON) -- Three suspects are at large from an armed robbery that happened overnight on Friday. The armed robbery happened around 12:50 a.m. at Colonial Donuts.Video obtained by KRON4 (above) shows the robbery in which three unknown individuals walked into the front door and robbed the donut shop at 3318 Lakeshore Ave. Around the 10-second mark in the video, one of the suspects is pointing a gun at the cashier. In fear for their lives, the employee complied with the suspects' demands.The suspects then began to steal from the cash register. The Oakland Police Department is investigating the robbery and said the suspects ran away from the area with an unknown amount of cash. Man dies after Saturday night shooting in Oakland "We've been in situations where we've been robbed (before)," Colonial Donuts owner told KRON4. "They'll point a gun and whatnot, give them the cash and they'll leave. For the fact that they were so aggressive and having them jump over (the counter) is number one,...

Ross Chastain holds off Martin Truex Jr. to win Ally 400, 3rd NASCAR Cup Series victory

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:46 GMT

LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) — Ross Chastain held off Martin Truex Jr. and won the Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway on Sunday night, his third career NASCAR Cup Series victory.This was Chastain’s first win since Talladega in April 2022, and he drove his Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet to the team’s first victory this year at its home track. Chastain had started on the pole for the first time in his career.Chastain entered fourth in the season points race and wound up leading a race-high 100 laps at the 1.33-mile, D-shaped concrete oval. That included the final 34 laps as the 30-year-old had to weave by some slower traffic to hold off Truex by 0.789 seconds.The driver known as “Melon Man” celebrated clinching a playoff berth with a burnout before smashing a watermelon onto the start-finish line.Truex led 50 laps as the season points leader tried to string together back-to-back wins. He won at Sonoma going into NASCAR’s lone break in the 38-race season. Truex finished ahead of...