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Community members address security concerns for street vendors

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:54:57 GMT

CHICAGO -- A presser is being held Monday morning with Alderman Sigcho-Lopez to address the community's growing security concerns for street vendors.Community members plan to discuss the challenges they face while running their businesses from crime to food licensing requirements. Over the past year, there have been a string of attacks on street vendors, some reporting they had been robbed at gunpoint multiple times.Street vendors are especially vulnerable because they work alone and usually only deal with cash. 16-year-old shot and killed over the weekend grandson of South Side pastor, activist Former Mayor Lori Lightfoot had suggested vendors go cashless to help diffuse the risk, but several vendors responded that it would not be feasible for them citing technological challenges as an obstacle. Aldermen and community leaders asked the 10th district police to step up patrol in early mornings. Volunteers also organized a citizen's patrol to provide more security. Food licensing a...

Man, 79, with dementia missing out of Irving Park, police say

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:54:57 GMT

CHICAGO — A man with dementia has been missing for more than 24 hours, according to an endangered missing person alert issued by Chicago police on Monday. SEE ALSO: Chicago police say missing West Ridge man was last seen April 17Carlos Fernandez, 79, was last seen leaving his home in the 3800 block of N. Sacramento Ave., around 10 a.m. on Sunday, July 23. The Hispanic male is 5'2", weighs 140 pounds, and has brown eyes and grey hair.According to police, Fernandez frequents the 2800-3000 block of W. Irving Park Rd. He is known to ride a bike loaded with trinkets. READ MORE: North Side teen missing since June 25Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or Chicago police at (312) 746-6554.

Chicago braces for summer's hottest weather

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:54:57 GMT

CHICAGO — Chicago could see the hottest weather of the summer this week. Tom Skilling reports heat indices could reach or exceed 100-degrees as steamy weather settles in. Tom Skilling: Hottest weather of the season on the way — and storms too The City of Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications is advising residents to be prepared for the hot weather.Cooling Centers Open in ChicagoThe city's six community service centers are activated. The are open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. all week. Englewood Center – 1140 W. 79th Street  Garfield Center – 10 S. Kedzie Ave. (24 Hours) King Center – 4314 S. Cottage Grove  North Area Center – 845 W. Wilson Ave.  South Chicago Center – 8650 S. Commercial Ave.  Trina Davila Center – 4312 W. North Ave.  During hours of operation, residents can also find relief in one of the City’s Chicago Public Library locations and Chicago Park District fieldhouses as well as splash pads located throughout the city.Full forecast...

Video shows LA deputy punch transgender man

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:54:57 GMT

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) - Surveillance footage from a 7-Eleven store in California captured the violent arrest of a transgender man by a deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department earlier this year.  The Feb. 10 incident occurred in the parking lot of the convenience store around 12:30 p.m.  Footage of the arrest shows an LASD deputy, identified by the Los Angeles Times as Deputy Joseph Benza, pulling into the parking lot directly behind 23-year-old Emmet Brock’s black Honda Civic, blocking him in.  The deputy is then seen exiting his cruiser and approaching Brock as he was getting out of his Honda. Audio of the arrest was captured by the deputy’s body-worn camera.  “Come here. I just stopped you,” the deputy is heard saying.  “No, you didn’t,” Brock replies as he turns toward the entrance of the store.  “Yeah, I did,” the deputy replies as he grabs Brock and quickly takes him down.  “Oh, my god. What the f–– is happening,” Brock is heard s...

Hottest weather of the season on the way — and storms too

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:54:57 GMT

Heat, humidity and potential severe weather is ahead for the Chicago area this week along with Chicago’s hottest weather of the season.Heat and the sporadic threat of severe weather could arrive as soon as Wednesday.The Wednesday through Saturday period is to see an anomalously strong jet stream take up residence across the Midwest on the northern flank of a dome of hot air, a heat dome likely to bring the Chicago’s hottest weather of the season while supporting sporadic "ring of fire" t-storm clusters. Chicago braces for summer’s hottest weather Hot and HumidThe temp/dew point combo from Wednesday forward through Saturday and into early Sunday is likely to produce a set of hottest, most humid "feeling" days of Summer, 2023--potentially tempered on occasion by t-storm outflows.The consensus of the late week model forecasts strongly suggests, barring a change in forecast trends since last week, is that Thursday and Friday will see an organized southwest wind flow likely to whisk he...

Police dig up suspect's backyard in Gilgo Beach serial killing investigation

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:54:57 GMT

MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. (WPIX) – Police in New York have dug up the backyard of Rex Heuermann, who is accused of killing three women in the Gilgo Beach murder investigation.A yellow excavator that had been seen scooping dirt in the backyard Sunday was still at the house Monday morning. In Associated Press drone footage, a man could also be seen operating a piece of equipment that can be used to scan for buried objects.Over the weekend, police dismantled a wooden deck at the house.Investigators with shovels could be seen scraping through the freshly upturned earth in Heuermann's yard.Investigators were also using ground-penetrating radars and police dogs to help with the search. Police haven't commented on what evidence, if any, they've found so far.Heuermann is charged in the killings of three women whose bodies were discovered along Gilgo Beach in 2010. He's also suspected in the death of a fourth woman whose body was found in the same area. However, he has not been charged in that c...

ATCEMS: Adult found 'unresponsive' in downtown Austin tent

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:54:57 GMT

Editor's Note: The video above shows KXAN Live’s top headlines for July 24, 2023AUSTIN (KXAN) — An adult was found dead in downtown Austin Monday morning, Austin-Travis County EMS said.ATCEMS said it responded to an area near Interstate 35 and Seventh Street after someone was found in a tent unresponsive.The person was pronounced dead at 8:26 a.m. Monday.KXAN reached out to the Austin Police Department for more information. This story will be updated with a response.

Air traffic audio: Other pilot helped search for missing plane after 'engine failure'

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:54:57 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Air traffic control audio and an early Federal Aviation Administration investigative report indicate and engine failure occurred before a plane crashed into a Georgetown home Sunday.The FAA's report notes the damage to the plane, a Beech model 35 Bonanza (BE35), was "substantial" but that injuries were "minor." Three people, including the pilot, were on board at the time. 3 injured after plane crashes through roof of Georgetown house Audio between the Georgetown Executive Airport control tower and the pilot show it was cleared to land on runway 36, which is at the south side of the airport."You gonna make the runway?" the air traffic controller said at one point, soon after instructing another pilot to "plan to go around" because of an aircraft "with an engine failure.""We believe we lost a Bonanza off the approach end of 36," the air traffic controller instructs another pilot. "Go around, the airport's closed until we find this guy."A second pilot offered to circl...

'Texas will see you in court,' Abbott tells President Biden over border buoys

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:54:57 GMT

AUSTIN (Nexstar) -- In a hostile letter to President Joe Biden, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott rebuked the Department of Justice's threat to sue Texas over the buoy barriers he ordered into the Rio Grande River and welcomed a federal lawsuit."Texas will see you in court, Mr. President," Abbott wrote Friday. "The fact is, if you would just enforce the immigration laws Congress already has on the books, America would not be suffering from your record-breaking level of illegal immigration." State of Texas: Buoys, razor wire sparks fight on Texas border issues The open hostility between Austin and Washington D.C. ignited over the thousand feet of floating barriers that Abbott ordered into the Rio Grande earlier this month. The bright-orange buoys are floating in the river just outside Eagle Pass, a border city that has seen about 270,000 encounters with migrants this year.The Department of Justice on Friday warned Texas the state does not have the authority to erect such a barrier in internat...

Roughly 300 people to be housed at Austin's Marshalling Yard, here's what we know

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:54:57 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- The City of Austin is moving forward with a one-year, $9.1 million contract with Family Endeavors to run homeless shelter operations at the Marshalling Yard after Austin City Council signed off on the funding Thursday. The nearly $10 million will come from the city's allotment of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding. Council Member Zohaib Qadri -- who ultimately ended up being the lone vote against the resolution -- attempted to introduce an amendment that would have brought the contract back to council before being executed. That amendment failed. Austin to use Marshalling Yard as homeless shelter, doubling up at existing shelters "I don’t believe the item that was passed today will bring long lasting help to our community who are unhoused. A community that needs and deserves help with dignity. That’s why I voted NO. At its worst, I fear that an unintended consequence could be loss of human life," Qadri tweeted.Several groups, including the Texas Ha...