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Secret lounge discovered in Rikers Island jail, stashed with unused equipment

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:27:06 GMT

NEW YORK (WPIX) -- Employees from the Department of Correction allegedly built a secret lounge stocked with stolen equipment inside Rikers Island jail, according to a city investigation.New York City investigators discovered a secret lounge filled with leather couches, a giant TV screen and a stash of Correction Department equipment in 2020, according to New York Daily News. The lounge was stocked with unused snow blowers, air conditioners and other supplies that could have been used in the jail."The items were, in some cases, hidden in a hallway behind a false wall made out of plywood blocked with equipment, or in rooms behind doors secured with combination locks," the Daily News reported. Prospect Park Zoo closes indefinitely due to damage from Tropical Storm Ophelia The Legal Aid Society says a secret lounge built on Rikers Island by the Department of Correction is a "declaration of war on authority -- and the perpetrators got away with it."“While incarcerated people suffer in ...

Israel Instagram account blasts Gigi Hadid

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:27:06 GMT

(The Hill) -- Israel's government’s official Instagram account called out model and personality Gigi Hadid for a post she shared on the Israel-Hamas war. Hadid, who is half-Palestineian, took to her Instagram over the weekend to share a graphic that read: “There is nothing Jewish about the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians. Condemning the Israeli government is not antisemitic and supporting Palestinians is not supporting Hamas,” according to Variety.“Have you been sleeping the past week?” the State of Israel wrote on Instagram in reaction to Hadid’s post. “Or are you just fine turning a blind eye to Jewish babies being butchered in their homes? Your silence has been very clear about where you stand. We see you.”The State of Israel’s post also included a graphic that revised the original post to call out Hamas. The revised text reads: “There is nothing valiant about Hamas’ massacre of Israelis. Condemning Hamas for what it is (ISIS) is not anti-Palestine and support...

Hays County Sheriff's Office able to recruit civilians to hire more deputies

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:27:06 GMT

Editor’s note: The above video shows KXAN Live’s top morning headlines for Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023.HAYS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) --- The Hays County Sheriff's Office can now hire candidates that are not licensed peace officers and send them to a peace officer academy. It was a change approved by the Hays County Commissioners Court at its Oct. 10 meeting. “Right now for our recruiting, all we can do is recruit licensed peace officers,” Chief Deputy Mike Davenport said to the court. “By making this change, we will be able to recruit civilians to send them to an academy, which opens up a very broad net for recruiting versus the very isolating way that we have right now.”According to the agenda item, there were 12 deputy slots open. "Vacant slots filled with civilian candidates will be paid at a lower salary which could result in an overall savings to the operating budget," the agenda item read.

SP: Bennington man recklessly shot firearm after argument

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:27:06 GMT

PETERSBURGH, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- A Bennington, Vermont, man was arrested after recklessly firing a gun after an argument with a victim, according to New York State Police. Maclain Campbell, 19, faces several charges. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! On Friday, October 13, around 2:11 a.m., troopers responded to a home in Petersburgh for a report of a dispute involving a handgun. Police say their investigation determined Campbell got into an argument with the victim, brandished a handgun, and threatened the victim with it. Police say Campbell discharged the firearm recklessly into the air. The victim was able to flee the location and contacted law enforcement. No one was injured.Charges:Second-degree criminal possession of a weaponSecond-degree criminal use of a firearmSecond-degree menacingSecond-degree reckless endangerment Volleyball team’s bus catches fire after crash on I-84 Campbell was found a short time later and was arres...

109th airlift wing departs for Antarctica

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:27:06 GMT

SCOTIA, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Members of the 109th airlift wing took off for Operation Deep Freeze. The annual mission focuses on transporting scientists and supplies back and forth from the Continental U.S. to Antarctica for the National Science Foundation. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! The long trips do not come without challenges, with time spent training year-round and six-day work weeks, throughout the mission. “As the worlds only ski-equipped C-130s, we can land at places that no one else can," Lt. Col. Drew Brewer said. "We can go further, we can go deeper across the continent, which is what they need to get to the different locations for their studies.” Governor Hochul travels to Israel The one-way trip from Scotia to Antarctica takes about five days. Operation Deep Freeze takes place every year from October to March.

First inductees join Queensbury sports hall of fame

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:27:06 GMT

QUEENSBURY, N.Y. (NEWS10) - The community around Queensbury Union Free School District is vast, and runs deep - in few places as much as in its sports teams. In the last year, 75 years of Queensbury school athletics history have been dusted off for new celebration - one team, and often one person, at a time. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! On Saturday night, a group of those alumni were honored at Queensbury's first-ever induction ceremony for its new Athletics Hall of Fame. At the Courtyard by Mariott in Lake George, 41 individuals and two entire teams were honored. The group spanned athletes and coaches, covering three decades of school history, ranging from the 1980s all the way back to the '60s. Some were there across all three, and more.“I showed up every day, and I worked hard, and I was very intense, and I loved the kids, I loved the school, I loved everything about it,” said John "Jack" LaBombard, an inductee who taught...

5-alarm fire destroys convenience store near Cahokia Heights

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:27:06 GMT

CAHOKIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - Investigators are trying to figure out what caused an intense overnight fire that destroyed a Metro East convenience store.It happened at the 'County Line Quick Stop' on Camp Jackson Road at Carol Street, very close to Cahokia Heights. A quick-moving and destructive fire completely destroyed the building. Crews got the first call just before 2:30 a.m. The Camp Jackson Fire Department was very close to the scene so crews from there were the first to arrive.Camp Jackson Fire Department Chief Chris Davis told FOX 2 that flames were already pouring from the building when he and his crews got to the scene. The fire quickly grew to five alarms, with some 30 firefighters responding from 10 different departments. There was a full second floor to the building with an apartment before the fire.The business owner did not want to speak on camera. However, he did share with FOX 2 off camera that one of his workers was sleeping upstairs when this all happened. He revealed ...

Don't dump deer carcasses around roads or waters of St. Louis, MDC warns

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:27:06 GMT

ST. LOUIS - It's one of the busiest times of the year for deer hunters, and it comes with a warning from the Missouri Department of Conservation: Think twice before dumping deer carcasses just anywhere around the St. Louis area. MDC is advising hunters and others who encounter deer carcasses of illegal dumping. Anyone linked to the offense of unlawful disposition of a dead animal faces a class C misdemeanor in St. Louis. When should Missouri expect the first snow? According to MDC, illegal dumping happens when people knowingly place carcasses or cause them to be placed in a variety of locations, including:On any public road or highway, river, stream, or watercourse Into any well, spring, brook, branch, creek, pond, or lakeUpon premises not his or her own for the purpose of annoying another or othersNot only is dumping of this nature illegal in Missouri, but agents are also concerned it could lead to the spread of chronic wasting disease. Long after infected carcass remains decomp...

This St. Louis restaurant's reels of flying rice are Insta-famous

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:27:06 GMT

MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. -- A viral Instagram video featuring a hibachi chef performing tricks for customers launched Kobe Steakhouse to internet popularity. At Kobe, located in Westport Plaza they train their chiefs to work the hibachi. A lot of chefs start in the kitchen and work their way up to the tables.At the table, hibachi cooks work on big flat griddles and perform a show when they cook. They cut up and cook different kinds of food right in front of the customers, like meat, seafood, veggies, and rice.This video has 2.4 million views. Tyson Santos was the cook who was performing the trick. As a favorite trick, he likes to "feed" people shrimp by throwing them into their mouths.The General Manager of Kobe Steakhouse, Jasper Pascua, said that Kumeo Komazaki's dream of opening Kobe Steak House of Japan began during his tenure as a hibachi cook at Benihana in New York. He realized this dream in 1991 by opening the restaurant in St. Louis, and it has remained a popular establishment...

Roti, a shape-shifting global staple, takes a new form: convenience food

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:27:06 GMT

By Priya Krishna, The New York TimesChef Peter Prime has been eating roti all his life. But asked to define what exactly roti is, he laughed and launched into a long-winded answer.It could be a plain round of blistered bread, he said. Or the flaky version also known in his native Trinidad and Tobago as buss up shut. Or a floppy specimen stuffed with split peas, also known as dhal puri.“We call everything roti,” said Prime with a laugh as he smeared a mixture of coconut oil and butter onto a paper-thin piece of dough in his home kitchen in Washington, D.C. It was destined to become buss up shut — or roti, depending on whom you ask.Roti is one of the world’s most ubiquitous and shape-shifting foods, a round, unleavened bread of uncertain origin that has spread around the world, changing every time it reaches a new country, region or even household.There are the simple wheat-flour-and-water versions found across India, the stretchy, layered variety known as roti canai in Malaysia...