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Is forcing San Francisco drugs users into treatment through jail effective?

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:55:23 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- San Francisco is trying a controversial new tactic for battling the city's fentanyl overdose crisis by giving law enforcement officers a green light to arrest some drug users. Mayor London Breed proclaimed, "Compassion is killing people. We have to change what is happening on the streets. It’s too easy getting drugs … they are dying under our watch."A 2023 surge in fentanyl overdose deaths, unbridled open-air drug markets operating in plain sight, and overwhelmed San Francisco Police Department officers combined into a humanitarian crisis in the city. Within the first five months of 2023, 346 people died in San Francisco from accidental drug overdoses. Police Chief Bill Scott said a crackdown on open-air drug use in the Tenderloin resulted in dozens of recent arrests. JJ Smith is an anti-drug advocate who frequently talks to unsheltered residents and tries to connect them with addiction treatment services. On Friday, Smith asked people living in tents along s...

Megill, Vogelbach snap out of slumps as the Mets deck the skidding Cardinals 6-1

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:55:23 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Tylor Megill won for the first time in almost a month, slumping Daniel Vogelbach homered in his return to the lineup and the New York Mets beat the skidding St. Louis Cardinals 6-1 on Friday night in a series opener between two of baseball’s most disappointing teams.Brett Baty hit a two-run double off Miles Mikolas in a three-run first inning, and Tommy Pham added a pair of two-out RBI singles against his former team as the fourth-place Mets (33-36) won their second straight after losing nine of 10.Willson Contreras homered for the Cardinals (27-43), who have dropped six in a row and 13 of 16. After winning the NL Central last season, St. Louis has the worst record in the National League and is off to its worst start in 45 years. Megill (6-4) allowed four hits in six innings, striking out seven and walking none for his first victory since May 18 against Tampa Bay. He was 0-2 in his previous four outings, including a dreadful performance last Friday in Pittsburgh when...

North Korea opens key party meeting to discuss its struggling economy and defense strategies

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:55:23 GMT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — With leader Kim Jong Un in attendance, North Korea opened a key political conference to discuss improving its struggling economy and reviewing defense strategies in the face of growing tensions with rivals, according to state media reports Saturday. The enlarged plenary meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party’s Central Committee came as the United States sent a nuclear-powered submarine to South Korea in the allies’ latest show of force against the North, which has ramped up its testing of nuclear-capable missiles to a record pace in recent months. During the first day of meetings Friday, North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said, party officials reviewed the country’s economic campaigns for the first half of 2023, and discussed foreign policy and defense strategies to “cope with the changed international situation.”The agency didn’t specify what was discussed or mention any comments made by Kim. It said the meeting will continue for at least anot...

Boston’s Houck hit on face by liner off bat of Yankees’ Higashioka

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:55:23 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — Red Sox pitcher Tanner Houck left Friday’s matchup with the Yankees after being struck on the face with a line drive. With Boston leading 10-1 in the fifth inning, New York’s Kyle Higashioka led off and fell behind 1-2 in the count, before lining Houck’s 92 mph sinker straight up the middle and hitting Houck.Houck immediately went to the ground and stayed down for a few minutes while he was attended to by athletic trainers. The right side of his face was bleeding, but he was able to get to his feet and walk off the field on his own power. The team announced his injury as a facial contusion.Houck covered his cheek with a towel and raised his left fist to the crowd as he walked down the steps into the dugout. Houck was replaced by Joe Jacques. Houck allowed one run and four hits, with two strikeouts and a walk. ___AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsSource

Retired DC police lieutenant pleads guilty in death of woman during training exercise

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:55:23 GMT

Maurica Manyan's father, along with other family members, walks out of the courthouse Friday after a hearing during which his daughter's killer pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. (WTOP/Matt Kaufax) Maurica Manyan's father, along with other family members, walks out of the courthouse Friday after a hearing during which his daughter's killer pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. (WTOP/Matt Kaufax) Retired D.C. police Lt. Jesse Porter Jr. pleaded guilty in D.C. Superior Court on Friday to killing a woman during an Aug. 4, 2022, training exercise for library officers at Anacostia Library.Porter was charged with second-degree murder while armed, unlawful discharge and possession of a firearm during a cri...

Wyndham Clark gets a little help from a good friend for US Open at LACC

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:55:23 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wyndham Clark felt so good about Los Angeles Country Club he thought he didn’t even need a practice round when he arrived this week for the U.S. Open.It has shown through 36 holes, with Clark opening with rounds of 64-67, right in contention going into the weekend.His secret weapon was a caddie. And not just any caddie.Preston “P.J.” Fielding played college golf at Penn and was named to the All-Ivy League first team his final two years. He now works as a portfolio manager and senior analyst at Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors. And he’s a member at LACC.“He’s a good friend of mine. I’ve known him for probably six, seven years,” Clark said. “Every time I’m in LA, I hang out with him. We go play some golf either at Brentwood or here. We hang out and have dinner.”Clark, who beat an elite field at the Wells Fargo Championship for his first PGA Tour title last month, came to LA for that small matter of the U.S. Open. It was a perfect time to...

He fled the Taliban. Now he’s running an Afghan restaurant in Md. where refugees find work — and hope

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:55:23 GMT

My Kabul in Laurel, Maryland, says all refugees dining at their restaurant will receive up to 50% off their meals. (Courtesy, My Kabul)When Khalis Noori fled his home in Afghanistan two years ago, he had one goal: to get his family away from the Taliban.Starting a business in the U.S. to help and hire refugees such as himself never crossed his mind.“I would have laughed,” he said, when asked about considering a business in America back then.“But I used to hear about the American dream from the movies,” he told WTOP. “I see that there is a reality behind the concept. And it has a bigger meaning than just those two words.”What he thought was impossible is now brimming with opportunity. My Kabul, Noori’s authentic Afghan restaurant in Laurel, Maryland, opened a few months ago.He saw a need for the restaurant after arriving in the U.S. and being hired as a field operations director for Lutheran Social Services, a nonprofit that assists refugees and those seeking asylum. His ...

Insólitos decomisos en cárcel de Ecuador: desde armas y licor hasta cerdos y gallos

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:55:23 GMT

(CNN Español) — Entre los productos prohibidos que ingresan a las cárceles más temidas de Ecuador no solamente figuran armas, municiones y artículos tecnológicos, sino también animales.Las Fuerzas Armadas de Ecuador informaron este viernes en Twitter que decomisaron 26 armas blancas, 16 dispositivos electrónicos, 8 estufas, 12 gallos de pelea y 2 cerdos en el pabellón de máxima seguridad en la cárcel “Bellavista” de Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas. El Ministerio de la Defensa le dijo a CNN que los operativos de control fueron ejecutados entre este jueves y este viernes.El parte castrense incluyó fotos en las que se ve a los cerdos acostados en una especie de criadero clandestino que tenía un bebedero, así como también a los gallos de pelea amarrados a una cerca metálica. Posteriormente, las Fuerzas Armadas compartieron un video con los periodistas en el que se observa a los cerdos en jaulas cuando eran retirados de la cárcel.Las Fuerzas Armadas de Ecuador informaron que decomis...

Se enamoraron en un viaje por Europa, pero por un momento se perdieron el uno del otro. Así se reencontraron y ahora llevan 24 años casados

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:55:23 GMT

(CNN) — Cuando Tom Latkovic despertó, no podía creer su suerte. Había encontrado a la mujer de sus sueños y, menos de 12 horas después, la había perdido, quizá para siempre.Era el verano de 1998 y Tom, un joven de 22 años recién titulado por la Universidad de Michigan, estaba en una aventura europea de seis semanas como mochilero.La noche anterior se había cruzado en un hostal de Munich con Kim Morgan, que acababa de terminar sus estudios de posgrado en la Universidad de Memphis. La chispa fue instantánea. Tom y Kim pasaron toda la noche juntos, primero en grupo con John, el compañero de viaje de Tom, y Amanda, la amiga de Kim, y más tarde paseando solos por la ciudad.Los dos jóvenes viajeros acabaron tumbados uno al lado del otro en la hierba del Jardín Inglés de Munich, mirando las estrellas, hablando de sus vidas, sumidos en lo romántico del momento.Se conocieron haciendo el Camino de Santiago. Dos semanas después estaban comprometidosPero era el día siguiente y Kim no apa...

CNBC: condonación de préstamos estudiantiles: qué está en juego ante el fallo de la Corte Suprema

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:55:23 GMT

Se espera que la Corte Suprema emita un fallo sobre el plan de condonación de préstamos estudiantiles del gobierno de Biden este mes. Esa decisión desempeñará un papel en la configuración del futuro financiero de 40 millones de estadounidenses.Si los jueces aprueban el alivio del presidente Joe Biden, a muchos prestatarios se les cancelarán de inmediato $20,000 de su deuda estudiantil, si recibieron una Beca Pell en la universidad, un tipo de ayuda disponible para familias de bajos ingresos, y hasta $10,000 si no.Unos 14 millones de personas saldrían del plan sin deudas como estudiantes, lo que podría facilitarles la compra de una primera casa, por ejemplo, formar una familia o abrir un negocio. Cómo pagar tus préstamos estudiantiles cuando finalice la pausa por la pandemia este verano EEUU aprobó millones en condonación de préstamos estudiantiles para trabajadores públicos “La decisión podría cambiar la vida”, dijo Co...