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Charges against parents in co-sleeping death of 2-day-old baby draw condemnation from pregnancy justice groups

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:50 GMT

The criminal case of an Aurora couple charged in the co-sleeping death of their 2-day-old baby has spurred outcry from state reproductive justice groups who describe the prosecution as part of a growing trend across the country in which pregnant and postpartum people are facing more criminalization.Brittany Diekneit, 27, and her husband Sean Byrne, 26, are each facing a felony charge of child abuse resulting in death. Diekneit and baby Walker returned home from the hospital on Sept. 22, and Walker died sometime that night or early morning. In April, three months after the autopsy was completed, arrest warrants were issued for the pair. The Aurora police arrest affidavits allege that the couple was drinking alcohol before sharing a bed with the baby and “ignored the substantial and unjustifiable risk of co-sleeping with Walker while being incapacitated and they were thus unable to check on him.”The 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office also upped the detective’s initial charge of ...

U.S. teen on grad trip lost overboard from sunset cruise boat off Bahamas

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:50 GMT

Three days after graduating from high school, a Louisiana teen went missing from a sunset cruise in the Bahamas, the Coast Guard has reported.Cameron Robbins, 18, was among of group of Baton Rouge teens on a graduation trip to the Atlantis resort, near Nassau. He jumped or fell from a boat Wednesday evening near Athol Island and disappeared in the water, the Royal Bahamas Police Force said.The U.S. Coast Guard is assisting Bahamian teams in the search, it said Thursday.Robbins graduated Sunday, May 21, from University Laboratory School, which is run by Louisiana State University. He had been there since kindergarten, a school official told TV station WBRZ.The trip was not a school-sanctioned event but a commercial package arranged for students from the Baton Rouge area.Related ArticlesNational News | Body found in Alabama woods in 1997 identified as 20-year-old California man National News | Map: Where the new search for Madeleine McCann has led Natio...

Terrifying moments as man opens plane door midair on Asiana Airlines flight

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:50 GMT

By Yoonjung Seo and Brad Lendon | CNNSeoul, South Korea  — The door of an Asiana Airlines jet opened as it was coming in to land in Daegu, South Korea, on Friday afternoon, leaving wind whipping through the plane’s cabin as terrified passengers gripped their armrests, video of the incident shows.An airline official said a man in his 30s who was sitting at the emergency seat seemed to have opened the door when the aircraft was about 700 feet (213 meters) above the ground and about two to three minutes from landing in the city 150 miles (240 kilometers) south of Seoul.However, company officials told CNN the plane had landed safely.Local police said a man had been arrested. They said he confessed to opening the door, but would not say why he did it.South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said in a statement Friday that police and the ministry were investigating an individual over violation of aviation law.Any person who contravenes the Aviation Security Act, which ...

Parents of Banko Brown sue Walgreens, security company, Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony for wrongful death

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:50 GMT

(KRON) -- Twenty-four-year-old transgender man Banko Brown was fatally shot and killed by a private security officer at a Walgreens in San Francisco after being accused of shoplifting in April. Now, Brown's parents have decided to sue Walgreens, the private security firm Kingdom Group Protective Services Company, and the killer Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony for wrongful death, the family's lawyer announced Friday."Anthony was on edge, a powder keg waiting to explode. Banko's apparent shoplifting was the spark that set Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony off," said attorney John Burris. "Walgreens and Kingdom Protective Services ordered their security to be more aggressive, causing their unfit security guard to blow up and kill Banko over nothing."Brown and the security guard got into a deadly confrontation inside a Walgreens store on Market Street on April 27. Brown was unarmed when the guard opened fire. Anthony told detectives that Brown threatened to stab him and that he felt like his life w...

All lanes open on southbound Highway 17 in San Jose after fatal crash

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:50 GMT

(KRON) -- A fatal crash between a gray minivan and a gray Honda Civic snarled traffic on southbound Highway 17 Friday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol incident page. The accident was first reported around 4:12 a.m. near the Hamilton Avenue offramp in San Jose.The accident temporarily shut down all lanes but all lanes have since reopened as of around 7 a.m., CHP reported.Officials reported at least one fatality as a result of the crash.

Katherine Legge carries hopes of women into Indianapolis 500

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:50 GMT

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Katherine Legge remembers returning to the Indianapolis 500 for the second time a decade ago, and the unmistakable feeling of satisfaction she experienced walking through Gasoline Alley and knowing that she was not alone.For the third time in four years, a record-tying four women were in the 33-car field that day.“That was the era of Sarah Fisher and then Danica Patrick came along and then, you know, there’s me and Simona de Silvestro and I just thought it would kind of snowball and grow,” Legge recalled, before pausing for a moment. “But it hasn’t.”Instead, Legge is the only female driver who will start “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” on Sunday.The women’s movement that began when Janet Guthrie qualified for the first time in 1977, gained traction with Lyn St. James in the 1980s and hit its stride with the arrival of Patrick in the early 2000s has stalled out. By 2020, not only was there no female driver in the field for the first time since...

DC-area airports get busy as Memorial Day weekend begins

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:50 GMT

Whether you plan to fly in to or out of BWI Marshall, Dulles or Reagan National airports, pack plenty of patience as many other travelers have similar plans this Memorial Day weekend.At Dulles International Airport, early morning flyers were picking up their boarding passes at ticket kiosks. Many of them came arrived extra early for their flights, anticipating the additional time it can take to find vehicle parking and passing through security during busy travel periods.Are you flying for this holiday weekend? Don’t forget to snap a photo of where you park, for when you return. Here at Dulles this morning, @WTOP pic.twitter.com/uzBuY3XF3C— Neal Augenstein (@AugensteinWTOP) May 26, 2023WTOP’s Neal Augenstein reported available parking spots were difficult to locate. He suggested if once your vehicle is parked, save a photo of where you parked it on your mobile phone. That way, it will be easier to locate when you return.Some passengers told Augenstein they were heading out to w...

KHSC and Providence Care to scale back COVID-19 restrictions

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:50 GMT

Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) and Providence Care say they’re moving to the next step of their step-down approach to COVID-19.Kingston hospitals have maintained masking within all patient care areas, but during the first phase of the step-down plan staff were allowed to remove masks where they could maintain a metre of distance in areas where there were no patients, clients, or visitors. Now, KHSC and Providence Care are considering two main changes in on-site COVID-19 related restrictions.KHSC is proposing removing mandatory physical distancing and mandatory masking for staff and others in the hospital, however patients can still request their healthcare provider wear a mask and staff and visitors will continue to be asked to mask up in more vulnerable areas including the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Dialysis Clinics, Oncology, Emergency Department, Urgent Care Centre, and the Children’s Outpatient Clinic.Masks will continue to be made available at the entran...

Do you recognize this man wanted in a Denver bar shooting

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:50 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Police need help identifying a man who was allegedly involved in a shooting at a Denver bar in the Westwood neighborhood.According to the Denver Police Department, the shooting happened on May 21 just after 9:30 p.m. at the Boogie Down Bar and Grill in the 5100 block of Morrison Road.The suspect was caught on camera holding out a gun and possibly aiming it at other patrons who were outside on the patio. Man killed in shooting involving Boulder Police officers No injuries have been reported from this shooting.Denver Police need help identifying the man pictured. He is wanted in connection to an alleged shooting at a Denver bar. (Metro Denver Crime Stoppers)Denver Police need help identifying the man pictured. He is wanted in connection to an alleged shooting at a Denver bar. (Metro Denver Crime Stoppers)Now, police want to identify the man in the video. He is described as the following:White manIn his 30s6 feet, 1 inch tallBaldHas tattoos on head, face, neckLast see...

Pope Francis skips meeting because he is running a fever, the Vatican says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:50 GMT

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis skipped meetings Friday because he was running a fever after a particularly busy day, the Vatican said.The Vatican No. 2, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, said Francis was tired and attributed the fever to the fact that Francis had greeted, one by one, a particularly big crowd of his school foundation Thursday afternoon.“He wanted to greet all of them and probably at a certain point lost his resistance,” Parolin was quoted as saying by the LaPresse news agency.The last time Francis spiked a serious fever, in March, the 86-year-old pontiff was rushed to the hospital where he was diagnosed with acute bronchitis. He received intravenous antibiotics and was released three days later.A Vatican official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak about the pope’s health, had confirmed Francis didn’t receive anyone in audience Friday “because of a feverish state.”There were no formal audiences scheduled Friday, but Francis keeps a sepa...