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41 workers stuck in a tunnel in India for 10th day given hot meals as rescue operation shifts gear

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:10 GMT

NEW DELHI (AP) — The 41 construction workers who have been trapped in a collapsed tunnel in northern India for over a week are finally getting hot meals Tuesday, provided through a newly installed steel pipe, as rescuers work on an alternate plan of digging toward them vertically.The meals, made of rice and lentils, were sent through a 6-inch-(15.24 cm) pipe pushed through the rubble late Monday, said Deepa Gaur, a government spokesperson.For the last nine days, the workers survived off of dry food sent through a narrower pipe. Oxygen is being supplied to them through a separate pipe.Officials on Tuesday released a video, after a camera was pushed through the pipe, showing the workers in their construction hats moving around the blocked tunnel while communicating with rescuers on the ground through walkie-talkies. Their families have been growing more worried and frustrated as the rescue operation dragged on. The tunnel collapsed in Uttarakhand state, a mountainous region that has p...

Road fatalities by region in 2021

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:10 GMT

In 2021, there were 19,917 road fatalities on EU roads, equivalent to 45 road fatalities per million inhabitants. The EU region with the highest rate of road fatalities at NUTS 2 level was the French outermost region of Guadeloupe, recording 159 road fatalities per million inhabitants, followed by Severozapaden in north-west Bulgaria (133) and Guyane, another French outermost region (120). In total, there were 24 EU regions with at least 80 road fatalities per million inhabitants, indicated by the dark blue colour on the map. These regions were primarily located in Romania (six regions), outermost and island regions of France (four regions), Bulgaria and Greece (three regions each), Croatia, Poland, and Portugal (two regions each), with the remaining regions situated in Belgium and Italy (2020 data). Some of the highest incidence rates for road fatalities were recorded in rural regions, while urban and capital regions tended to report much lower rates of road fatalities.Two EU regio...

High-speed pursuit suspects in custody

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:10 GMT

Officers with the California Highway Patrol have taken several suspects into custody after a high speed pursuit that ended in the San Gabriel Valley.The driver, who was clocked at speeds of 100 miles an hour, was leading authorities in chase on the westbound 60 Freeway shortly after the pursuit was initiated and later transitioned to surface streets. As the car turned onto Lorenza Court and East Broadway, several suspects jumped out of the car. Officers quickly tackled one of them and took another passenger into custody. Two more suspects were eventually tracked down and arrested. Sky 5 was over the scene.

San Mateo: Second suspect in Sept. 15 carjacking arrested

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:10 GMT

SAN MATEO – A second suspect in an armed carjacking two months ago in San Mateo was arrested last week, according to police.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Jury reaches guilty verdict in San Carlos beheading case Crime and Public Safety | San Mateo County man found guilty of murder in connection to deadly 2018 shooting Crime and Public Safety | Woman sentenced to 18 years in prison for 1993 murder of San Carlos store owner Crime and Public Safety | ‘A man enraged’: San Carlos beheading case goes to jury after erratic trial Crime and Public Safety | Daly City man pleads no contest to cop assault charge The suspect, identified as an 18-year-old Antioch man, was arrested Nov. 16, the San Mateo Police Department said in a news release Monday.Police said the incident happened around 12:15 p.m. on Sept. 15, when the victim parked his work van near the intersection of 42nd Avenue and Ediso...

One arrested after rollover crash in Tenderloin

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:10 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- One person was arrested after a crash in San Francisco's Tenderloin District Monday night, the San Francisco Police Department said. The crash happened in the area of Golden Gate Avenue and Jones Street at 7:54 p.m. The occupants of the car that caused the crash fled the scene, SPFD said. Southbound Highway 17 lanes closed due to collision An SFPD investigation revealed that the suspect vehicle was driving fast when it struck two cars and landed on its side. California Highway Patrol officers were on the scene during the crash, and one suspect was arrested, SFPD said."This information is all preliminary as officers are still on scene conducting an investigation, and further information will be release when it becomes available," SFPD said. Police did not say what the suspect was arrested for. Anyone with additional information is asked to call SFPD at (415) 575-4444.

Police say shooter wounded 4 in Ohio Walmart store before killing himself

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:10 GMT

BEAVERCREEK, Ohio (AP) — A shooter opened fire Monday night at a Walmart in Ohio and wounded four people before killing himself, police said.The attack was reported at around 8:30 p.m. at the Walmart in Beavercreek, a town of about 50,000 in the Dayton metropolitan area. “The conditions of the victims right now is unknown” but all were taken to hospitals for treatment, police Capt. Scott Molnar said at a news conference.Police also said the gunman died after apparently shooting himself. His name, a motive for the attack and other details weren’t immediately released.Police earlier said on social media that the store had been cleared and secured and there wasn’t any “active threat.” “We’re heartbroken by what’s happened at our Beavercreek, Ohio store. This remains a developing situation, and we’re working closely with investigators on the scene,” Walmart said in a statement.Source

Rasmus Andersson’s overtime goal lifts Flames to 4-3 win over Kraken

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:10 GMT

SEATTLE (AP) — Andrew Mangiapane scored the tying goal with 4:07 left in regulation, and Rasmus Andersson scored the winner 3:28 into overtime as the Calgary Flames rallied for a 4-3 win over the Seattle Kraken on Monday night.Mangiapane scored on a rebound past Seattle goalie Joey Daccord to pull the Flames even late. In overtime, Andersson had a clean chance saved by Daccord in the opening moments of the extra session. After Seattle was unable to get any of its chances past Dan Vladar in Calgary’s net, Andersson cleaned up his own rebound on a wraparound attempt for the winner.Andersson’s goal was his third of the season. Elias Lindholm scored his fourth of the season 1:16 into the game and Jonathan Huberdeau scored on the power play midway through the first period.Vladar made 28 saves for the Flames as Calgary won for the third time in four games with the only loss in that stretch coming in a shootout. The Flames also improved to 6-0-0 all-time against the Kraken in Seattle...

En detalle: revelan fechas y lugares para los debates presidenciales de 2024

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:10 GMT

WASHINGTON DC – Se han organizado tres debates para las elecciones presidenciales estadounidenses del próximo año, entre el 16 de septiembre y el 9 de octubre en Texas, Virginia y Utah. Lo que no se sabe es si alguno de los candidatos participará.La Comisión de Debates Presidenciales anunció el lunes que el primer debate será el 16 de septiembre en la sede de la Universidad Estatal de Texas en San Marcos, al sur de Austin. El debate vicepresidencial será nueve días después en el Lafayette College en Easton, Pensilvania.A ello le seguirá un debate en la Universidad Estatal de Virginia en Petersburg el 1 de octubre, y el tercero y último en la Universidad de Utah en Salt Lake City el 9 de octubre, menos de un mes antes del día de las elecciones el 5 de noviembre. Precandidatos republicanos cuestionan a Trump por su ausencia en el debate en Miami Ataques a Trump y polémicas propuestas antimigratorias: así fue el segundo debate republicano ...

Moore scores twice as Kings extend road winning streak with 4-1 victory over Coyotes

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:10 GMT

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Trevor Moore scored two goals and the Los Angeles Kings extended their season-opening road winning streak to eight games with a 4-1 victory over the Arizona Coyotes on Monday.Anze Kopitar and Phillip Danault also scored and Pheonix Copley made 30 saves for the Kings, who are tied for the third-longest such streak in NHL history. Buffalo holds the record by winning its first 10 road games in 2006-07.“We are a veteran team,” Kings coach Todd McLellan said. “We have been together as a group for a long time. We understand what our structure is. Our game management skills have gotten better from the start of the year until now.“All of those things are really important when you play on the road. We seem to play a simpler game. Everybody pulls on the rope the right way. We don’t need outstanding games from everybody every night. We just need good games, and we’ve been getting them.”Lawson Crouse scored and Connor Ingram made 21 saves for the Coyotes, who played their se...

La grasa abdominal oculta está relacionada con la inflamación cerebral y la demencia, según un estudio

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:10 GMT

(CNN) —  La inflamación causada por la grasa abdominal puede estar relacionada con las primeras etapas de la enfermedad de Alzheimer décadas antes de que comiencen los síntomas, según una nueva investigación.“Sabemos desde hace tiempo que a medida que aumenta el tamaño del abdomen, los centros de memoria en el cerebro se hacen más pequeños”, dijo el investigador de la enfermedad de Alzheimer, el Dr. Richard Isaacson, neurólogo preventivo del Instituto de Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas de Florida.“Este estudio muestra un marcador de neuroinflamación en imágenes cerebrales que no había visto antes”, dijo Isaacson, que no participó en el nuevo estudio. “Las imágenes cerebrales vinculan la grasa abdominal o visceral con la disfunción cerebral a través de una cascada inflamatoria”.El estudio encontró que las personas de entre 40 y 50 años con una mayor cantidad de grasa abdominal oculta “tenían una mayor cantidad de una proteína anormal ll...