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just now (889+ words) OAKLAND " Devon Wenger, a former Antioch policeman, was sentenced Tuesday to seven-and-a-half-years in federal prison for scheming to give other cops steroids and conspiring to violate the rights of people he was supposed to protect and serve. White said he was also shocked that throughout Wenger's case,I have not heard one word from anybody about some sort of feeling for these victims, who were victims of the defendant's crimes." He added he feared the police community at-large hasn't gotten the word" that there will be repercussions for officers who violate their oath of service. He needs to be deterred from doing these kids of acts," White said, as one of Wenger's supporters scoffed from the courtroom gallery. Wenger didn't address the court, citing his pending appeal. Wenger's lawyer, Michael Schwartz, asked for a three-year prison term. Prosecutors wanted nine…...

just now (658+ words) Have you heard about "single-stair reform," the idea sweeping the urbanist community of developers and housing-density proponents? Culver City just became the first municipality in the state of California to change its building code with an ordinance that allows buildings up to six stories high to be constructed with just one staircase, departing from the two-staircase requirement for buildings taller than three floors. "A multiunit residential building over three stories that has only one stairway and one exit is not safe," wrote the California Professional Firefighters in a September 15 letter to Los Angeles City Council president Marqueece Harris-Dawson. CPF is the labor organization that represents "over 35,000 career firefighting and emergency medical service personnel statewide." But what do they know about firefighting? The city council of Culver City, on the other hand, can point to a study by Pew Charitable Trusts,…...

just now (54+ words) The Town of Mount Pleasant has been working for many months on creating a wetland ordinance, meant to conserve isolated areas that are no longer federally protected. The Town of Mount Pleasant has been working for many months on creating a wetland ordinance, meant to conserve isolated areas that are no longer federally protected....

1+ min ago (275+ words) While plaintiffs characterized their move as a win, the case was headed toward a skeptical appeals court. The court filing Tuesday noted that the federal officers led by senior U.S. Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino "are no longer operating in the Northern District of Illinois." Bovino left the Chicago area last month for North Carolina, but sporadic immigration arrests have continued by other federal agents. "We won our case the day they left town," David B. Owens, an attorney representing the plaintiffs, said in a statement. "The people of Chicago stood up to the Trump administration's bullying and intimidation, and showed them they were messing with the wrong city." The attorneys also noted a blistering 223-page opinion by U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis last month that outlined her findings in issuing a preliminary injunction restricting federal agents' use of force. The fate of…...

2+ min ago (369+ words) Most IoT projects today lean heavily on Python, C, or Node.js, and that's fine. But during my recent academic paper selection process, I came across "The Benefits of Tierless Elixir/Potato for Engineering IoT Systems, and it completely shifted how I think about building IoT architectures. The paper raised a question that stuck with me: why do we keep separating the logic, runtime and UI layers in IoT systems if functional, tierless architectures can unify everything? That curiosity, combined with the influence of a professor(Adolfo Neto) who strongly advocates for functional programming and the BEAM, pushed me to test this idea in practice. So I built a complete IoT prototype using Elixir, Circuits, Raspberry Pi, and Phoenix LiveView. And honestly? It felt like IoT the way it should be: supervised, fault-tolerant, reactive, and consistent from the edge to…...

3+ min ago (89+ words) Maine State Police say they have responded to more than 30 crashes on the interstate and turnpike Tuesday due to the snow and ice. Maine (WABI) - Maine State Police say they have responded to more than 30 crashes on the interstate and turnpike Tuesday due to the snow and ice. This includes an accident on I-95 in Hampden involving a jack-knifed tractor trailer which blocked both northbound lanes. They say if you must travel, take it slow, leave plenty of room, and give plows space to work....

3+ min ago (36+ words) A Kenosha apartment fire on Thanksgiving night killed three children. Public records reveal new details about the investigation. A Kenosha apartment fire on Thanksgiving night killed three children. Public records reveal new details about the investigation....

3+ min ago (325+ words) ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Concertgoers who prepaid for parking through Ticketmaster found their cars booted at a Buckhead Theater show despite having valid parking receipts. The incident occurred in late August after a Chris Fleming comedy performance at the Buckhead Theater on Roswell Road. About a dozen people purchased tickets through Ticketmaster and used the app's prepaid parking option for the closed IHOP parking lot on Peachtree Road. According to bodycam footage from Atlanta police, Empire Parking Services (EPS) booted approximately a dozen vehicles during the show's 2:30 p.m. performance, leaving attendees stranded for about an hour and a half. Mark Mobley said he and other attendees had confirmation receipts from Ticketmaster showing they paid for parking spaces. "We all had the confirmation from Ticketmaster. In some cases, the confirmation included a picture of the lot," said Mobley, whose car had…...

3+ min ago (53+ words) Two Little Caesars employees, 32-year-old Shaquille Simmons and 21-year-old Mary Visser, were fatally shot Monday morning at the restaurant in Tempe. Police say the suspect is married to one of the ... A local man faces attempted murder charges for allegedly shooting a man who followed him to his job....

3+ min ago (44+ words) Metro Transit says the forthcoming Bronze Line will connect Union Station in Downtown St. Paul to the transit hub at Maplewood Mall. Metro Transit says the forthcoming Bronze Line will connect Union Station in Downtown St. Paul to the transit hub at Maplewood Mall....