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Can't drive with that: Illinois police find 3 garbage bags of marijuana during traffic stop

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:57:12 GMT

MARION, Ill. - Just because marijuana is legal in Illinois, doesn't mean you can transport as much as you want around the state. A Mississippi man was arrested in rural Southern Illinois after three garbage bags filled with cannabis were found during a traffic stop.According to Chief David Fitts, Marion Police Department, the incident happened overnight Monday on Interstate 57, just north of Marion.A Marion police officer saw a vehicle speeding through an interstate construction zone just before 1 a.m. and conducted a traffic stop. Top story: Overland armored car robbery video reveals surprising actions While talking with the driver, the officer noticed a large bag in the rear of the vehicle of what seemed to be marijuana. Fitts said the officer had the driver exit the vehicle and requested assistance.Police claim to have discovered three clear plastic bags containing a total of 82.9 pounds of cannabis, as well as 30 bottles of THC syrup, and 40 vape pens.The driver, William Davis...

Pro-Parson PAC has spent $110K on private plane expenses so far in 2023

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:57:12 GMT

Mike Parson has made it clear to anyone who will listen that he’s done with elected office when term limits force him from the Missouri governor’s mansion next year. Yet the political action committee created by his supporters continues taking five-figure checks, with the lion’s share of that money spent on private plane travel. Uniting Missouri PAC paid more than $110,000 during the first three months of 2023 to an aviation company connected to lobbyist and longtime Parson adviser Steve Tilley.  The other large 2023 expenditure was $56,000 to the Kansas City Chiefs for a fundraising event on Feb. 12. Uniting Missouri reported raising $173,000 during the first quarter, most of that from four sources — $50,000 from Protection Plus LLC; $50,000 from Evergy Metro Inc.; $35,000 from Martin Grain Company; and $35,000 from J & J Ventures Gaming.Parson’s campaign committee, which unlike Uniting Missouri must abide by campaign donation limits, reported raising onlly ...

GOP rivals in Missouri attorney general race draw even in fundraising

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:57:12 GMT

The two Republicans vying to be Missouri’s next attorney general continue building their campaign war chests, with both reporting more than $1 million cash on hand. Incumbent Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who was appointed to the job in January when his predecessor won a U.S. Senate seat, raised $305,000 during the first three months of 2023. He has $293,000 cash on hand. The political action committee supporting his run, called Life and Liberty PAC, raised $644,000 and has $710,000 cash on hand. Independent PACs don’t have to abide by the same contribution limits as candidates. Meanwhile, Will Scharf — a former assistant U.S. attorney and policy director in Gov. Eric Greitens’ brief administration — reported raising $107,000, with $875,000 cash on hand. The PAC supporting him, called Defend Missouri, raised $575,000.The largest donors to Bailey’s campaign are the family of Pauline MacMillan Keinath, whose grandfather founded Cargill. Life and Liberty PAC received $...

Barry Morphew’s attorney accuses DA of misrepresenting, withholding evidence in dismissed murder case

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:57:12 GMT

Suzanne Morphew (Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office)A defense attorney on Tuesday accused the prosecutors who brought a first-degree murder charge against Barry Morphew of misrepresenting evidence, withholding exculpatory evidence from the defense and committing numerous ethical violations in the case.Attorney Iris Eytan called for state authorities to discipline or disbar 11th Judicial District Attorney Linda Stanley and six other prosecutors involved in the case in an 86-page request for investigation filed with the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel last month and made public Tuesday.Stanley later dropped all charges against Morphew.The Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, or OARC, is the state office responsible for investigating professional misconduct by attorneys. Eytan’s complaint is one of several recently lodged against Stanley that currently are under investigation by the office.“This is not a series of oopsies or mistakes; there were too many not to be inte...

Missing Glen Haven man found dead after days-long search

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:57:12 GMT

A Glen Haven man who went missing in Larimer County on Friday evening has been found dead.Jerry Allbright, 53, was last seen April 14 after he left his home on foot and did not return, the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post. Allbright texted family members early the next day saying he was lost in the mountains, and they called the sheriff’s office that afternoon after they couldn’t find him.Cellphone data indicated the text message came from a mile and a half away from the road Allbright’s house is on, but search and rescue attempts were unsuccessful.The sheriff’s office on Wednesday said a search crew found a man’s body believed to be Allbright on Tuesday evening, but due to the hazardous terrain and fading light, the team couldn’t recover the body.The Larimer County Coroner, investigators and a ground recovery crew returned to the location Wednesday morning to complete the recovery.“While this isn’t the outcome w...

Denver brewery stalwart opening second restaurant in Lone Tree

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:57:12 GMT

Great Divide Brewing, one of the oldest beer-makers in Denver, will open a second location of its Great Divide Brewery & Roadhouse in partnership with restaurant operator Vibe Concepts.When it opens, potentially by the end of 2023, the Roadhouse — at 9899 Schwab Way in Lone Tree — will be “similar in scope” to the first location, which opened in Castle Rock in 2020, the brewery said.Related ArticlesRestaurants, Food and Drink | New downtown bars, restaurants replace year-old El Tejano, Smash Face and Loaded Restaurants, Food and Drink | How to celebrate 420 in Denver with music, munchies, beer, comedy and drink specials Restaurants, Food and Drink | El Rancho’s brewery, Pygmy Stallion, is now pouring house-brewed beer Restaurants, Food and Drink | Goed Zuur chef and co-owner leaving for job in California Restaurants, Food and Drink | Denver brewery closing just seven months a...

Kangaroo, stork, camel, African porcupine among 13 Colorado-bound animals from Puerto Rico zoo airlift

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:57:12 GMT

A landmark zoo rescue airlift to save captive wildlife intensifies this month as the Colorado-based Wild Animal Sanctuary takes in more than a dozen newcomers.These include seven lions, two bears, a camel, a stork, a kangaroo, and an African porcupine — scheduled to arrive in Colorado next week.They’re flying to Denver International Airport from Puerto Rico, where a troubled government-backed zoo — targeted by animal rights activists for a decade and battered by Hurricane Maria in 2017 — has shut down. More than 300 animals, including elephants, hippos, and rhinos, face an uncertain future unless they are accepted at U.S. facilities.“It is a monumental project to get all of these animals placed and to deal with so many different species,” said Pat Craig, director of the Colorado Wild Animal Sanctuary, a 160-acre facility located 30 miles northeast of Denver near Keenesburg. “It is one of the largest zoo rescue transfers in history.”Sanctuary crews and v...

When you see the terrible consequences of the war with your own eyes, you understand that Western countries should help more.

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:57:12 GMT

Three courageous young volunteers describe their experiences delivering vital aid to Ukraine's front line.On Sunday, April 2nd, 2023, the All-Ukrainian Charitable Foundation “Peace and Good” delivered another batch of 20 tons of humanitarian aid, part of which was transferred to the front-line. Several foreign volunteers joined the Ukrainian philanthropists in their trip to Chasiv Yar, they handed over tourniquets to the volunteer battalion and a repeater for the 79th brigade.Ukrainian News managed to communicate with Manfredi Magnano from Italy, Graham Holkey from America and Oleksandr Rietveld from the Netherlands, who have been helping Ukraine since the very beginning of the full-scale war unleashed by Russia; in particular, two of the volunteers also cooperated with the Italian Charitable Foundation Hope.Graham Holkey is an American student who studied in the Netherlands and, with the beginning of the war, went to the Polish-Ukrainian border, where he actively helped refugees. T...

Video shows Bellflower taqueria being burglarized twice in less than a month

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:57:12 GMT

A Bellflower taqueria was burglarized twice in less than a month, and both incidents were caught on surveillance video.The break-ins occurred at Tacos La Rueda at 16900 Lakewood Blvd.The first incident occurred around 3:15 a.m. on March 23, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.Videos from Tacos La Rueda shared with KTLA show break ins that occurred on March 23 and April 17 2023. Video shared by the businesses shows two men wearing all dark clothing breaking the front glass door and running inside. It is unclear what was taken during the burglary.Then, around 5:20 a.m. Monday, video shows yet another break-in at the location. This time, only one man wearing dark clothing and a blue surgical mask broke through the glass door, ran in and out, and got away in the back of a black vehicle waiting outside.No injuries were reported during either incident, and no arrests have been made.The restaurant posted surveillance video on Instagram after each incident.In the captio...

Orange County woman gets more than 2 decades in prison for murder, lying to investigators

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:57:12 GMT

An Orange County woman has been sentenced to more than two decades in prison for a man's shooting on her boat and her attempts to mislead investigators.San Juan Capistrano resident Sheila Marie Ritze, 42, was sentenced to 21 years and 10 months in federal prison on Monday in connection with the death of a victim identified only as Dao, according to the United States Department of Justice. She faced a maximum charge of life in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the U.S. and making false statements to investigators. O.C. woman found guilty in killing of man whose body was found floating in ocean In October 2019, Ritze and Fountain Valley resident Hoang Xuan Le, 41, aka “Wayne” or “Wangsta,” got Dao out onto the open ocean under the ruse of a lobster-fishing trip, prosecutors said. Le, who was owned money by Dao, shot the victim, who went overboard. Ritze and Le then returned to Dana Point Harbor, leaving Dao t...