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Person falls off Baltimore bridge and dies after crash on I-395

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:48 GMT

A person has died after falling off a bridge on an interstate into the water below in Baltimore, Maryland, on Sunday night.The person fell over the jersey wall after a crash on Interstate 395 and Interstate 95, the city’s fire department said in a news release.Baltimore City fire spokesman Kevin Cartwright told WBAL-TV that paramedics were called to a crash around 9:45 p.m.While crews were assessing a crash victim, a second multivehicle crash occurred, causing one person at the scene to fall over the ledge, WBAL-TV reports.Crews recovered the person’s body from the water. Fire officials confirmed that person was a civilian — not a first responder.The interstate closed just before 11 p.m. and reopened by 1:45 a.m., according to the Maryland Transportation AuthoritySouthbound/ I-395 @ I-95 Police activity. ALL LANES CLOSED pic.twitter.com/G0IfdRxTMm— MDTA (@TheMDTA) August 14, 2023It isn’t clear what led up to the crashes.Source

Sunesis: Q2 Earnings Snapshot

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:48 GMT

CARDIFF, Calif. (AP) — CARDIFF, Calif. (AP) — Viracta Therapeutics, Inc. (VIRX) on Monday reported a loss of $12.5 million in its second quarter.On a per-share basis, the Cardiff, California-based company said it had a loss of 32 cents.The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 30 cents per share._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on VIRX at https://www.zacks.com/ap/VIRXSource

Police search for missing Florida woman in Grand County

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:48 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Officers in Grand County are looking for a missing Florida woman who has not been heard from in at least 14 days.Svetlana Ustimenko is considered a missing and endangered woman. She is in her mid-50s and is originally from Florida. Grand County Sheriff's officers and a United States Forest Service law enforcement officer located a parked rental car at the Deadhorse Trailhead on July 30. The trail is near the Town of Fraser in the Arapahoe National Forest. 1 dead, another critically injured after falling 300 feet at RMNP Deputies said the vehicle appeared to have been parked there for an extended period of time with no signs of recent activity.The car is described as a white 2022 Nissan Sentra with Louisiana license plates. Police in Grand County located this rental car at the Deadhorse Trailhead but have not found the Florida woman who rented it. (Grand County Sheriff's Office)Following an investigation, deputies discovered the car was scheduled to be returned to ...

Leadville Trail 100 cycling record beat by 15 minutes

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:48 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- On Saturday, nearly 2,000 riders biked 100 miles with 12,000 feet of elevation gain for the Stages Cycling Leadville Trail 100 MTB. One biker surpassed the 2015 record by 15 minutes. Keegan Swenson, 29, from Utah, broke the male record by 15 minutes and 4 seconds with a time of 5:43:31. The previous record was 5:58:35 which was held for eight years. Swenson held the lead, racing almost 30 minutes in front of second place who crossed the finish line a few minutes after six hours. How many acres have burned in Colorado wildfires this year? “I was so short of the record (last year), so this year I just went all in and if I blew up in the end, I blew up,” said Swenson in a press release. The original race began in Leadville in 1983 with a small number of runners trekking through 100 miles of the Rocky Mountains. Since then, the race expanded into a series with seven running events and four mountain biking events. The cycling race started in 1994 with only 150 riders, ...

Hawaii mourns the dead in ferocious wildfires; officials warn full toll not yet known

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:48 GMT

HONOLULU (NEXSTAR) - As Hawaii residents mourned those killed in ferocious wildfires, officials warned that the full human and environmental toll was not yet known and the recovery only just beginning from the destruction wrought by flames that galloped a mile every minute.Twenty dogs and dozens of people will make their way through neighborhoods reduced to ash, searching burnt out cars and homes for the dead. With the toll at 96, this is already the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. Two fires have not yet been completely contained, including the one that demolished the historic town of Lahaina, according to an update from Maui County late Sunday. $5.52 billion estimated cost to rebuild Lahaina after fire Even where the fire has retreated, authorities have warned that toxic byproducts may remain, including in drinking water, after the flames spewed poisonous fumes. And many people simply have no home to return to — so authorities plan to house them in hotel...

61-year-old Florida man arrested after posing as a veterinarian and operating on a pregnant dog that later died, sheriff’s office says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:48 GMT

(CNN) — A Florida dog groomer who posed as a veterinarian has been arrested after performing a cesarean section on a Chihuahua who later died of “multiple complications from the surgery,” police say.Osvaldo Sanchez, 61, was arrested Friday and charged with animal abuse and practicing veterinary medicine without a license, according to a news release from the Collier County Sheriff’s Office.Sugar, a 6-year-old Chihuahua, was having difficulty delivering her puppies in May when her owners contacted Sanchez, who had previously introduced himself as a veterinarian to the couple, the sheriff’s office said.Sanchez visited the home on May 18 to evaluate Sugar and performed a C-section and spay procedure on the 6-pound dog in his mobile office. During the surgery he removed a stillborn puppy and charged Sugar’s owners $600 for the procedure, the sheriff’s office said.After the surgery, Sugar got an infection and became ill. She stayed at a licensed veterinary clinic for a week in “dire...

David Krejci announces retirement from professional hockey

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:48 GMT

Longtime Boston Bruins center David Krejci has announced his retirement from the National Hockey League.“After 15 full NHL seasons I have decided to retire from the best league in the world,” Krejci said in a statement shared by the team Monday morning.Drafted by the B’s in 2004, Krejci made his debut in 2006 and was part of Boston’ Stanley Cup winning team in 2011. The Czech national also spent a season in Czechia’s top league with HC Olomouc in 2021, before returning to TD Garden for his last season on a one-year deal.Krejci’s retirement announcement came after the 37-year-old player officially logged over 1,000 games with the Bruins during his final year in the NHL.“When I was drafted in 2004, I had no idea that I would be working with such incredible and driven people who would lead us to 3 Stanley Cup Finals, and winning the ultimate goal in 2011,” Krejci stated. “I have made so many great friendships throughout the...

Coast Guard and Navy rescue 4 divers off coast of Carolinas

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:48 GMT

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — The Coast Guard and Navy rescued four divers who were reported missing Sunday off the Carolinas, officials said Monday. The U.S. Coast Guard Mid-Atlantic announced the rescue on social media. It said the divers were rescued about 46 miles (74 kilometers) southeast of North Carolina’s Cape Fear River.The four men were reported missing after they did not resurface on Sunday. They dove from a pleasure craft named Big Bill’s. The Coast Guard said Sunday in a news release that the vessel was about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Cape Fear, North Carolina, and about 63 miles (101 kilometers) east of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.The many shipwrecks off the coasts of both states are a popular draw for divers. The area is known for hundreds of shipwrecks and is called the “Graveyard of the Atlantic.”The Coast Guard said it sent several aircraft and boats to search for the divers. The Associated Press

Russia’s currency hits the lowest level since the early weeks of the war in Ukraine

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:48 GMT

LONDON (AP) — The Russian ruble has reached its lowest value since the early weeks of the war in Ukraine as Moscow increases military spending and Western sanctions weigh on its energy exports.On Monday, the Russian currency passed 101 rubles to the dollar, continuing a more than 25% decline in its value since the beginning of the year and hitting the lowest level in almost 17 months.President Vladimir Putin’s economic adviser, Maksim Oreshkin, on Monday blamed the weak ruble on “loose monetary policy” in an op-ed for state news agency Tass. He said a strong ruble is in the interest of the Russian economy and that a weak currency “complicates economic restructuring and negatively affects people’s real incomes.”Oreshkin said Russia’s central bank has “all the tools necessary” to stabilize the situation and said he expected normalization shortly.The bank is adhering to a floating exchange rate because “it allows the economy to effectively adapt to changing external conditions,” centra...

Clarence Avant, ‘Godfather of Black Music’ and benefactor of athletes and politicians, dies at 92

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:48 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Clarence Avant, the judicious manager, entrepreneur, facilitator and adviser who helped launch or guide the careers of Quincy Jones, Bill Withers and many others and came to be known as “The Godfather of Black Music,” has died. He was 92.Avant, inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2021, died Sunday at his home in Los Angeles, according to a family statement released Monday morning.Avant’s achievements were both public and behind the scenes, as a name in the credits, or a name behind the names. Born in a segregated hospital in North Carolina, he became a man of lasting and wide-ranging influence, in part by minding two pieces of advice from an early mentor, the music manager Joe Glaser: Never let on how much you know, and ask for as much money as possible, “without stuttering.”He broke in as a manager in the 1950s, with such clients as singers Sarah Vaughan and Little Willie John and composer Lalo Schifrin, who wrote the theme to “Mission: Impossible.” In...