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Capital Pride Parade and Festival 2023 announced

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:19:58 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- The Pride Center of the Capital Region has announced the 2023 Capital PRIDE Parade and Festival. The annual event, which is the largest pride celebration in the northeast outside of New York City and Boston, is scheduled for June 11. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! The festival will be held at Washington Park in Albany. The parade will kick off at 11:45 a.m., starting down State Street, onto Lark Street, and then Madison Avenue. Hosted by Fly 92.3's Shawn Gillie, this year will feature performances from Martha Wash, Nina Sky, and Erin Harkes' band Hark (formerly the Erin Harkes Band). Additionally there will be appearances from the Gay Men's Chorus, Carmie Hope & Frieda Munchon, and the Capital Pride Drag Revue. New York State invests $5M into local arts centers Capital PRIDE and the Capital Pride Parade and Festival benefit the critical programs and services of the Pride Center of the Capit...

Common Roots buys CH Evans Albany brewery

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:19:58 GMT

SOUTH GLENS FALLS, N.Y. (NEWS10) - Common Roots Brewing Company has come a long way since the fire. After losing its original space in a spring 2019 blaze, the South Glens Falls brewery has rebuilt, with a second building now on the rise across the street. Next, the company is looking to plant new roots further south. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Common Roots is set to purchase CH Evans Brewery at the Albany Pump Station. In a joint announcement on Thursday, the company announced that it would purchase the pump station building and take over operations starting in November.“We are both excited and humbled to be continuing the CH Evans legacy while bringing this historic building into the Common Roots family,” said owners Christian and Bert Weber in a release. “We are thrilled to be able to continue the historic operations at the Albany Pump Station while expanding the Common Roots brand there.” Queensbury restaurant ra...

Teen dead after being trapped under sand at North Carolina beach

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:19:58 GMT

FRISCO, N.C. (WNCT) — A 17-year-old boy died Saturday after being trapped under several feet of sand at a beach in Frisco, North Carolina, according to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Family and friends were looking for the teen, who was only identified as being from Chesapeake, Virginia, and found him buried under several feet of sand. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Officials said law enforcement rangers responded at around 2 p.m. to a 911 call of a male teen trapped in a hole. The hole was dug in a back-dune area behind the primary dune and could not be seen from the beachfront, a press release from the park explained. Officials said the teen became buried after part of the adjacent dune collapsed into the hole.Rangers worked with family members to get the teen out while also performing CPR. Dare County Emergency Medical Services personnel and Hatteras Island Ocean Rescue staff assisted but the teen died at the scen...

Fatal shooting near Grand and Gravois in Tower Grove South

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:19:58 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Homicide detectives with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department are investigating a fatal shooting that occurred Monday afternoon in the Tower Grove South neighborhood.According to Sgt. Charles Wall, a police spokesman, the shooting happened prior to 1:50 p.m. in the 3600 block of South Grand Boulevard, near Gravois Avenue. Trending: 150 years later, Illinois bridge tragedy among nation’s worst Officers found the victim, an adult male, in a parking lot with a gunshot wound to the head.The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, Wall said. He has not been identified.Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to contact the police department’s Homicide Division at 314-444-5371. Tipsters who wish to remain anonymous or be eligible for a cash reward can call CrimeStoppers at 866-371-TIPS.

Good Samaritan and Illinois first responders help save a life near I-64

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:19:58 GMT

O'FALLON, Ill. -- Police are sharing some good news about a group effort to save someone's life Sunday. A Good Samaritan and first responders helped restart someone's heart after a medical emergency on I-64.A couple was driving on the highway Sunday morning when they passed out. Their spouse, who was driving, pulled off of I-64 onto the shoulder of Green Mount Road. They called 911 to report that the victim was not conscious or breathing. Trending: 150 years later, Illinois bridge tragedy among nation’s worst A Good Samaritan stopped and started to help provide medical aid. Officers with the O’Fallon Police Department and Shiloh Police departments arrived and discovered the patient had no pulse. They helped provide CPR.An Automated External Defibrillator device was used to stabilize the heart's rhythm. The patient was taken to the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery.

Jury finds Letecia Stauch guilty of murder in death of 11-year-old stepson Gannon Stauch

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:19:58 GMT

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children via APGannon StauchAn El Paso County jury on Monday concluded that Letecia Stauch was sane when she killed her 11-year-old stepson in the basement of the family’s Colorado Springs home three years ago.Jurors found Stauch guilty of first-degree murder, rejecting Stauch’s defense that she suffered a mental break and was legally insane when she stabbed and shot Gannon Stauch on Jan. 27, 2020.The 39-year-old will be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.Stauch was also found guilty of tampering with a human body and tampering with evidence. She did not appear to visibly react when the verdict was read in El Paso County District Court on Monday.Gannon’s disappearance three years ago prompted national attention during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Letecia Stauch reported the boy missing on Jan. 27, 2020, saying he had gone to a friend’s house to play and never returned home, but a...

Candi CdeBaca says her comments about taxing white-owned businesses were taken out of context

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:19:58 GMT

Denver City Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca said she has been weathering a storm of criticism — some of which is racist and includes death threats — since an election forum on Thursday when she described a reparations strategy of taxing white-owned businesses.The barrage of hate speech particularly ramped up after a far-right and anti-LGBTQ social media account shared a clip of CdeBaca — who is running for reelection — at the forum, hosted by the Greater Metro Denver Ministerial Alliance.In that clip, CdeBaca discusses taxing white-owned businesses and offering the money to businesses owned by people of color.“Capitalism was built on stolen land, stolen labors and stolen resources,” CdeBaca, whose district covers much of Denver’s inner core, including Five Points and Globeville, said. “You could be collecting those extra taxes from white-led businesses all over the city and redistributing them to Black and Brown-owned businesses.”But CdeBaca told The Denver Post those c...

American Elm reopening Friday, two weeks after double homicide

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:19:58 GMT

American Elm is reopening for Mother’s Day weekend, two weeks after two of the restaurant’s employees were killed in a tragic double homicide.The West Highland restaurant, located at 4132 W. 38th Ave., will reopen from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday this week and open for brunch starting at 10 p.m. on Mother’s Day this Sunday. Chef Daniel Mangin and the American Elm team have also curated a to-go brunch offering for $98, which is available to order by May 11 at noon online.American Elm will then be closed May 15-17, but will resume service seven days a week for happy hour, dinner and weekend brunch on May 18. Reservations are available here.Police are still looking for a suspect, or suspects, in the ongoing case of the deaths of Emerall Vaughn-Dahler, American Elm’s general manager, and Ignacio “Nacho” Gutierrez Morales, a prep cook. Gutierrez Morales, 58, had worked for the restaurant since it opened in 2019. He is survived by three children, Cinth...

Denver museum cancels Jane Goodall exhibit citing damaged artifacts

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:19:58 GMT

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science has canceled its upcoming Jane Goodall exhibit, citing “damage to exhibition components discovered upon arrival.”The exhibit, “Becoming Jane: The Evolution of Dr. Jane Goodall,” was scheduled to open May 19, and was billed as a celebration of the life and work of the esteemed scientist.Related ArticlesArts | Contemporary Native American photographers tell their story their way at the Denver Art Museum Arts | Author Dave Eggers, visiting Colorado in May, continues to surprise Arts | Two new interactive art pieces downtown invite visitors to play, reflect on the world around them Arts | Exhibition at Museo de las Americas offers emotional tour of present-day Colombia Arts | Music, art and some excellent shopping will join global mayors at Cities Summit next week The museum announced its cancellation Monday. Reached by email, a representative did not offer comment on ...

Russia bans jet skis, ride-hailing before WWII tributes

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:19:58 GMT

By SUSIE BLANN (Associated Press)KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia enacted a major security clampdown before Tuesday’s annual commemorations marking the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, curbing the use of drones and ride-sharing services in its largest cities — even jet skis on the canals of St. Petersburg — amid its 14-month war with Ukraine.At least 21 Russian cities canceled May 9 military parades — the staple of Victory Day celebrations across Russia — for the first time in years, Russian media said. Regional officials blamed unspecified “security concerns” or vaguely referred to “the current situation” for the restrictions and cancellations. It wasn’t clear whether their decisions were taken in coordination with the Kremlin.Last week, Russia — which hasn’t witnessed the carnage endured by Ukraine during the invasion — was rattled by ambiguous official reports that two Ukrainian drones flew into...