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Chicago Bears Q&A: Is it time to add an edge rusher? What young players are standing out at OTAs?

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:39:31 GMT

The Chicago Bears are finishing their second week of organized team activities at Halas Hall. Despite their offseason additions, they still have some roster deficiencies. Brad Biggs addresses concerns in his weekly mailbag.It’s June 1. Do you think the Bears will be active this week or next for edge help? — @just_acyJust because the Bears have not added a defensive end with a track record does not mean general manager Ryan Poles and his staff have not been working on this initiative. I expect the team to add a veteran edge defender at some point.“We’re interested in a lot of free agents,” coach Matt Eberflus said Wednesday when asked if he would like to get some help at the position. “We’re interested in a lot of guys at all positions. We’re just excited about being able to look at those guys and potentially add as we go through camp and getting closer to the season.”Does this mean something will happen this week or next? Maybe. ...

La Jolla restaurant burglarized two days after grand opening

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:39:31 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Just days after the grand opening event, a man broke into the Beeside Balcony La Jolla early Saturday morning and stole the restaurant's cash register.Beeside Balcony chef and owner, Christophe Cevasco, first started serving his specialties at the Del Mar location with La Jolla next in line. After years of hard work, he was excited for the opening of his La Jolla location last Thursday, June 1. But, that excitement quickly turned to frustration just two days later when someone was caught on security camera around 6 a.m. Saturday, stealing the cash register from behind the restaurant's bar after breaking in through the delivery entrance."He walked right in, grabbed the register, pulled the whole set up, ripped everything off the wall," Cevasco told FOX 5.According to the owner, the suspect was in and out of the restaurant within a minute, taking with him about $500 that was inside the register. Cevasco said, "He was on a mission … he was in and out." Man struck by vehi...

One dead after being shot by police at South Bay transit center

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:39:31 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- One person is dead after being shot by a police officer at a South Bay transit center Sunday night, San Diego police said.Around 8:56 p.m., officers were called to the transit center in the 700 block of East San Ysidro Boulevard for an undisclosed reason.One person was confirmed dead by SDPD. Authorities have not disclosed if they were the only individual shot at in the incident.The transit center was closed Sunday night as authorities investigated the incident, but of of 5:39 a.m. normal operations had resumed, according to MTS.Deputies from the San Diego County Sheriff's Office are headed to the scene to investigate the incident, per the countywide memorandum on officer-involved shootings, Lt. Adam Sharki with SDPD said.This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

Conservatives call on feds to see killer Bernardo returned to maximum-security prison

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:39:31 GMT

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the federal government to use whatever tools it can to reverse a decision by the Correctional Service of Canada to transfer killer Paul Bernardo to a medium-security prison. Bernardo’s move to a facility in Quebec was made public last week after the correctional service notified the lawyer representing the families of 15-year-old Kristen French and 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy, whom Bernardo kidnapped, tortured and murdered in the early 1990s.The killer and serial rapist had been serving a life sentence at Millhaven Institution, a maximum-security penitentiary near Kingston, Ont. Tim Danson, a lawyer for the victims’ families, says it was unacceptable that the prison service refused to answer questions about the reason for the Bernardo’s move or details of his custody conditions, citing his privacy rights. Speaking to reporters in Ottawa, Poilievre called Bernardo a “monster” and said Prime Minis...

A man wants to trademark ‘Trump too small’ for T-shirts. Now the Supreme Court will hear the case.

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:39:31 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a case in which a man tried to trademark a phrase mocking former President Donald Trump as “too small.”The Justice Department is supporting President Joe Biden’s once and possibly future rival in urging the court to deny a trademark for the suggestive phrase “Trump too small” that a California man wants to put on T-shirts.The case will be argued in the fall, one of two disputes on the court’s upcoming agenda that involve Trump or one of his businesses. Government officials said the phrase “Trump too small” could still be used, just not trademarked because Trump had not consented to its use. But a federal appeals court said refusing trademark registration violated free speech rights.The high court has considered a raft of Trump-related cases in recent years. The justices have dealt with cases about Trump’s claims of fraud in the 2000 election and with his efforts to shield his tax records from Congress and to keep oth...

U.S. sanctions Russia-backed actors over Moldovan destabilization protests

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:39:31 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. sanctioned a group of Russian-intelligence linked individuals Monday for their role in allegedly helping the Kremlin destabilize Moldova’s democratically-elected government through protests in Moldova’s capitol earlier this year. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated seven members of a group linked to sanctioned Moldovan oligarch, Ilan Shor, currently in exile in Israel, and leader of Moldova’s pro-Russia Shor Party. The Shor Party supports a group calling itself Movement for the People, which organized the anti-government protest in Moldova’s capital earlier this year. The protestors demanded that the country’s pro-Western government fully subsidize citizens’ winter energy bills and to “not involve the country in war.”Moldovan police in March said they foiled a plot by groups of Russia-backed actors who were trained to cause mass unrest during the protest.Brian E. Nelson, Treasury’s under secretary for terrorism and fina...

Man charged for sexually assaulting woman multiple times at Vaughan Mills mall

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:39:31 GMT

York Regional Police have arrested and charged a man in the alleged sexual assault of a woman while she shopped with her children at a mall in Vaughan.Investigators received reports of a sexual assault at Vaughan Mills in the Rutherford Road and Jane Street area just after 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 4.It’s alleged that a 48-year-old woman was shopping with her children when an unknown man sexually touched the victim while she was in a shoe store.Police said she left the store, and the suspect followed her to the food court, where another assault occurred. The victim informed mall security, and the police were called.Responding officers located the man in the mall and arrested him a short time later.The accused was identified as 27-year-old Tyrone Medeiros of Forest, Ont. He’s facing two counts of sexual assault.Police said they released the man’s photo, hoping other victims would come forward.

Wildfire on German military training site contamined with ammunition

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:39:31 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — Strong winds have fanned flames at a wildfire on a German military training site that is known to contain large amounts of ammunition, causing it to double in size, officials said Monday.The fire near Jueterbog, south of Berlin, had been simmering for days as authorities scrambled to prevent it reaching surrounding villages.Firefighters have cleared large strips of land to contain the blaze but are avoiding the training grounds itself, where several explosions were heard Monday, officials said.Weeks of dry weather have increased the risk of wildfires in eastern Germany, with some regions on the second-highest alert level.Meteorologists say rain predicted for the coming days may lower the threat of wildfires again.The Associated Press

California attorney general blames Florida for charter flight that took migrants to Sacramento

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:39:31 GMT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Florida appears to have arranged for a group of South American migrants to be transported from Texas to California and dropped off in Sacramento, California’s attorney general said, noting that he’s looking into whether any crimes may have been committed.If true, the 16 Colombian and Venezuelan migrants who turned up at the Roman Catholic Church diocese’s headquarters in Sacramento on Friday would be the latest to have been moved from a Republican-led state to one led by Democrats.Attorney General Rob Bonta said that although the circumstances surrounding their arrival in the California capital are still being investigated, the migrants had documentation that appeared to have been issued by Florida.He also said he’s evaluating whether violations of civil or criminal law took place.“While we continue to collect evidence, I want to say this very clearly: State-sanctioned kidnapping is not a public policy choice, it is immoral and disgusting,...

Three bodies recovered in Iowa building collapse; lawsuit accuses city and owners of negligence

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:39:31 GMT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The bodies of three men have been removed from the site of a collapsed six-story apartment building, the police chief in Davenport, Iowa, announced Monday. “We don’t have any other information at this time that there are any additional people missing,” Chief Jeff Bladel said.One of the residents injured in the collapse of an apartment building sued the city of Davenport and the building’s current and former owners on Monday, alleging they knew of the deteriorating conditions and failed to warn residents of the risk.The complaint filed on behalf of Dayna Feuerbach alleges multiple counts of negligence and seeks unspecified damages. It also notes that additional lawsuits are likely. “The city had warning after warning,” attorney Jeffrey Goodman said in an interview with The Associated Press. He called it a common trend in major structural collapses he’s seen. “They had the responsibility to make sure that the safety of the citizens comes first. It is very...