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Texas border policies take center stage in Ron DeSantis' RGV rally

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:53:14 GMT

AUSTIN (Nexstar) -- As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hosted his first presidential rally on the Rio Grande River on Monday, he made a promise to deliver on an immigration policy the state's top Republicans sought all legislative session."The states should be permitted to send people back," the second-most-popular candidate for the Republican nomination told supporters. "As president, we are going to fully deputize all state and local governments to be able to enforce immigration law. You will be able to have that authority."In the audience was State Rep. Matt Schaefer, R-Tyler, who carried major legislation that would have asserted Texas' powers to police the federal border. His House Bill 20 would have established the Border Protection Unit, deputizing state police to use force against unauthorized immigrants independent of the federal government. It failed late in the legislative session among concerns that it would amount to an unconstitutional insubordination of federal power.But th...

Longhorns men's hoops sign former Kansas signee Chris Johnson

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:53:14 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — After losing two prized recruits earlier in the year, the Texas Longhorns announced the signing of one Monday who previously committed to a Big 12 rival.Chris Johnson, a 4-star 2023 combo guard according to 247Sports, is now a Longhorn after being released from a National Letter of Intent with the Kansas Jayhawks. The Missouri City, Texas, native is the No. 11 combo guard in the country and the third-best recruit in Texas according to 247Sports.MORE THAN THE SCORE: Stay up to date on sports stories like these, and sign up for our More than the Score sports newsletter at kxan.com/newslettersJohnson graduated from one of the premier high school basketball programs in the country, Florida's Montverde Academy. It's the same high school Texas sophomore Dillon Mitchell played at. Johnson averaged 3.6 assists per game for Montverde and helped the squad get to the quarterfinals of the GEICO High School Nationals.During his freshman-junior seasons, he played for Fort Bend Elk...

Twins third baseman Royce Lewis adapts on the fly

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:53:14 GMT

Royce Lewis’s development path was anything but traditional.Lewis should’ve been heading back to Double-A Wichita, where he had played in 33 games to cap the 2019 season, when the pandemic hit. Instead, he was rerouted to the alternate site, where he spent the summer training at CHS Field.His entire 2021 season was wiped out by his first anterior cruciate ligament tear in his right knee. By the time he reached the majors last season, he had only played in 24 games at Triple-A. He ended up tearing his ACL once more in late May, requiring a second surgery and robbing him of another year.And so the former No. 1 overall pick has had to spend a lot of time learning on the fly, adjusting to the majors after spending very little time in the high minors. He’s handled that challenge well.Lewis, who hit a go-ahead single in Sunday’s win, entered Monday’s series opener with the Braves hitting .333 with a .357 on-base percentage, .506 slugging percentage and .863 on-base plus sluggi...

Forest Lake man charged in St. Paul woman’s hit-and-run death

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:53:14 GMT

A Forest Lake man was charged with murder Monday in connection with the hit-and-run killing of a 51-year-old St. Paul woman last week at a Wyoming gas station.Mark Andrew Wiosky, 37, was charged with murder in the third degree and criminal vehicular homicide, according to the Chisago County Attorney’s office. The victim was identified Monday by authorities as 51-year-old Heidi Lynn White, of St. Paul.Mark Andrew Wiosky (Courtesy of the Chisago County Attorney’s Office)The criminal complaint gave the following details:Shortly before 10:30 p.m. Thursday, police received reports that a man and woman had been arguing at the Holiday Gas Station on Kettle River Boulevard in Wyoming and that the man had then run the woman over before fleeing the scene.When police arrived, the woman had lost consciousness and had labored breathing. The responding officer grabbed his medical gear and went to take over from witnesses who were trying to provide first aid to the woman, who was bleed...

Police corral loose horses near Albany airport

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:53:14 GMT

COLONIE, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Some horses that were spotted near Albany International Airport Monday morning are back home safe. Colonie police officers helped to corral the animals and reunite them with their owners. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Drivers were urged to use caution as they drove through the area. Police have not said how the horses escaped.

NY forest rangers return from fighting Canadian forest fires

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:53:14 GMT

(NEWS10) -- There are currently more than 400 active wildfires across Canada. To help fight those raging fires, New York recently sent a group of forest rangers over the border.The crew of seven spent 14 days in Quebec fighting fires that burned about 58,000 acres of land. The crew arrived back in New York over the weekend. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! A ranger from Warren County, who served as a crew boss in Nova Scotia, said that even though the fires continue, they made a big impact."We're feeling really good for the people here," New York Forest Ranger Art Perryman said. "That the weather got a break and that we've been able to chase down the areas that were still burning and put those out. And we're leaving on a good note, feeling really good about that."The first wildfire in Canada this year started in April. Since then, more than 2,600 fires have burned an estimated 13 million acres.

Amtrak Adirondack Line temporarily suspending North Country service

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:53:14 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Nearly three months after Amtrak resumed service to it's Adirondack route, the rail service will once again be suspended. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Amtrak said that it's rail partner, Canadian National, has implemented reduced speed regulations because of the heat from their ongoing wildfires.The line, which runs from New York City to Montreal, is terminating all stops north of Albany until further notice.

Aurora police release additional footage related to fatal shooting of Jor’Dell Richardson

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:53:14 GMT

Aurora police on Monday released five additional videos of the events leading up to the shooting of 14-year-old Jor’Dell Richardson earlier this month.The videos, all of which are less than three minutes, show various angles of the teens fleeing what police called suspicious activity at an Aurora strip mall. One video, taken from the alley, shows officers chasing Richardson and taking him to the ground. The video, though, is blurry during the time in which Officer Roch Gruszeczka shot and killed the teen. Another video does not show any of the teens or officers, but a gunshot can be heard.Richardson’s family had called for Aurora to release all videos of the incident. Chief Art Acevedo disclosed two body camera videos during a June 9 news conference after showing the family three days earlier (State law mandates that police departments wait 72 hours between showing videos to families of people killed by police and releasing the footage publicly).The 18th Judicial District Crit...

Keeler vs. Saunders: If Rockies fire manager Bud Black, then what?

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:53:14 GMT

Sean Keeler: You enter a Yugo in the Daytona 500, the Yugo gets lapped in said Daytona 500, and this is somehow the driver’s fault? Joe McCarthy couldn’t win with this Rockies roster. John McGraw couldn’t win with this Rockies roster. So after a 25-1 loss to the Angels, the temple somehow needs to fall on manager Bud Black’s head? Now as much as we enjoy chewing the fat with the skipper, we get it — Buddy ain’t no Bobby Cox. Jurickson Profar should never hit higher than seventh in a serious batting order. But then again, this isn’t a serious roster. Ownership and the front office have tag-teamed to parallel park the Rox into one of the tightest spaces in baseball purgatory. The end result? A clubhouse torn between high-priced veterans who can’t stop getting hurt (Kris Bryant, Charlie Blackmon) and kids who need to play (Ezequiel Tovar), play a lot, learn to fail at the big-league level and, most importantly, learn how to recover from that failure while still keeping their head...

Denver airport scores RTD EcoPasses for restaurant and retail workers who rely on transit

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:53:14 GMT

Nearly 3,000 people who work at restaurants, shops and kiosks at Denver International Airport have received access to cheaper or subsidized transit passes this year under an EcoPass deal that received formal approval Monday from city leaders.Some concessionaires who operate businesses in the airport had provided workers with passes to use the Regional Transportation District’s A-Line train or buses to get to work. But others couldn’t afford it — or were too small to qualify for the lower per-worker EcoPass rates given to large employers.So DIA negotiated an arrangement with RTD in which the airport serves as a master contractor for EcoPasses and then passes the cost along to operators who hold 74 concessions contracts.The Denver City Council approved the one-year, $1.9 million deal as part of a block vote, but the arrangement actually took effect Jan. 1. Concessionaires paid $632 per employee for 2023, a rate that slashes up to $442 off what they would pay on their...