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Cedar Park Police Department starting 'Citizens on Patrol' program

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:14:50 GMT

CEDAR PARK, Texas (KXAN) -- A black and white truck, equipped with blue and yellow lights on top and marked with an emblem depicting a handshake, is the newest vehicle in the Cedar Park Police Department's fleet, but it's not for police officers. The department is preparing to start its Citizens on Patrol (COP) program. The program consists of citizen volunteers and acts like a "mobile neighborhood watch," as Sergeant Jessie Campbell explained. Citizens on Patrol program The idea of a COP program is not a new one. Pflugerville, Round Rock, and Leander police departments all have a COP program. Sgt. Campbell says it gives the police department an extra set of eyes and ears in the community. Here's how it works: A team of two volunteers will patrol neighborhoods and shopping centers in the specifically marked COP trucks with the job of looking for any suspicious activity. The team cannot take any police action, only observe and report. The trucks are equipped with radios connected to ...

Georgetown Police investigating deadly crash

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:14:50 GMT

GEORGETOWN, Texas (KXAN) – Georgetown Police said a deadly crash shut down a portion of Leander Road near Interstate 35 early Wednesday morning. According to a Georgetown PD post at 4:15 a.m., officers shut down Leander Road between South Ridge Circle and River Ridge Drive because of the deadly crash. That is just southwest of I-35 and northwest of Inner Space Cavern. Police warned of delays in the morning commute and asked drivers to avoid the area and find alternate routes.

APD: West Campus crash leaves 2 hurt, 1 in custody

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:14:50 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Austin Police said two people were hurt after being hit by a vehicle in the West Campus neighborhood late Tuesday night. Police said one person is in custody. According to police, the crash happened at West 24th and Nueces Streets just before 11 p.m. Austin-Travis County EMS said paramedics took two adults to the hospital; one was in serious condition, the other was in potentially serious condition, according to ATCEMS.ATCEMS said two other adults refused transport to the hospital.

Clifton Park man builds tall bike turning heads

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:14:50 GMT

CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. (NEWS10) - For his final class project at the Modern Welding School in Schenectady, Erik Herrero designed a 8.5-foot tall bike. When he found out the cost of building it, a bike shop in Schenectady donated bike frames to help him execute his vision.Videos of Erik riding the bike have garnered millions of views on TikTok. The biggest question he always gets asked is, "How do I get on it?" A running start is always involved. Meteorologist from Bolton Landing goes viral after touchscreen discovery Erik's career endeavors is allowing him to follow in his family's footsteps. Both of his grandfathers were welders, and one of them was a mechanic. The gears are already turning for his next design. He wants to build a tall tandem tricycle for him and his girlfriend, Scotlynn Burke, to ride to their weekly ice cream trips to Stewart's Shops. To see more videos of Erik riding his bike, visit his TikTok account.

98.3 TRY Social Dilemma: Can I Sell My Daughter's Car Now That She's At College? 

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:14:50 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Today's 98.3 TRY Social Dilemma came from Mark. Here's the email: Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Hi Jaime. I need some ammo to help me win this argument with my wife. We’ve got a ten-year-old car that we’ve been letting my daughter use until she graduated. That time has come, and she’s now off to college. Right now, people are paying way more than cars are worth to get inventory on their lots, and I want to sell that car. My wife’s insisting that we keep it, though, just in case our daughter needs it. She’s moving three states away from us and living on campus…where she doesn’t need a car. I say there’s no reason we shouldn’t get an extra $15K for ourselves by selling it, but my wife insists we need to keep it “just in case” our “little girl” needs it. To that, I suggested we sell it to her for $11K, and you’d think I’d just told my wife that she had lipstick on her teeth in front of her boss. Am I...

Clinton Market Collective project underway

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:14:50 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- The construction of the Clinton Market Collective project has begun, which is a part of the Albany Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI). The project will renovate Federal Park at the Corner of Clinton Avenue and Broadway into the Clinton Market Collective, according to the Press Office for Governor Hochul. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! The Clinton Market Collective will expand Clinton Square's strengths and opportunities through the DRI, as it serves as the gateway to the Capital City. The project will enhance the area with an already rich, historic heritage that shows diverse architectural styles and landmarks, such as the Albany Union Station and Quackenbush House. The project will cost $3.56M overall and receive $1.16M as part of the $10M Albany Downtown Revitalization Initiative. The project was also recommended for a $750,00 Empire State Development capital grant from the Capital Regional...

Ask Amy: Survivor with PTSD tries to cope with family

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:14:50 GMT

Dear Amy: Growing up my childhood was not horrible — just bad.I have PTSD, dissociation, and sleep paralysis because of things that happened during my childhood.Whenever the subject of childhood is brought up, my parents say it was good.If my siblings or I say otherwise it just starts a fight.We were raised “Christian.” We went to church between three and seven days a week.I hate church now and do not go.Eight years ago, our grandmother died. She also attended this church.I decided to go into the church building for her funeral (big mistake).A few days later I started getting flashbacks of things that had happened to me as a child at that church.My PTSD got worse, and I had bad dreams and night terrors.My doctor put me on medication to suppress these nightmares. After seven years, my anxiety is finally at a tolerable stage.Related ArticlesAsk Amy | Ask Amy: A widow ponders the source of her bitterness Ask Amy | Ask Amy: Roomies trespass and are caugh...

Serbs in north Kosovo boycott local elections

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:14:50 GMT

Serbs from northern Kosovo boycotted Sunday's (23 April) local elections in protest at not being able to get their demands for greater autonomy met. This is another sign that the peace agreement signed between Kosovo and Serbia a month ago has not worked.Serbian List, the main political party in northern Kosovo's serb-dominated region, called on Serbs to not vote on Sunday."Except for very rare cases, Serbs boycott the elections," a central election commission official, who declined to be identified, said on Sunday.Before they can vote, Serbia and Kosovo Serbs demand the creation of an Association of Kosovo Serb Municipalities, as per a decade old EU-brokered agreement with the Kosovo Government in Pristina.The central election commission, fearing violence, abandoned plans to install voting booths in school and instead installed mobile huts in 13 locations. NATO troops from Latvia, Italy and more than 3,000 peacekeeping forces in Kosovo patrolled the roads near voting areas.Zubin Po...

First-ever ranking of EU Parliament members vote on Israel presented in Brussels

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:14:50 GMT

One of the takeways of the survey results is that political ideology and, to a lesser extent, nationality that determine how a particular member of the European Parliament will cast his vote on Israel-related issues. While Ireland ends up last on the list on its support for Israel, followed by Spain, support for Israel is more common in the new EU member states. Among the four largest EU member states, Italy and Poland score some of the highest points in support for Israel, which is also symptomatic for the fact that they are currently governed by the right-wing parties.For many years, political commentators have been asking themselves how is the European Parliament relating to issues related to Israel.The answer to this question was given on Tuesday (25 April) in the framework of the presentation in Brussels of the first ever survey on the support for Israel among the 199 national political parties represeented in the European Parliament.The survey, commissioned by the European Coa...

Bonny Doon residence no home for sexually violent predator, court affirms

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:14:50 GMT

SANTA CRUZ — The state Supreme Court will not consider an effort to overturn a lower court’s ruling to deny a violent sexual offender’s placement in a Bonny Doon residence.Bonny Doon residents rallied in November 2021 at the Santa Cruz County Superior courthouse to speak out against “sexually violent predator” Michael Cheek being housed on Wild Iris Lane in Bonny Doon. (Shmuel Thaler — Santa Cruz Sentinel file) The Department of State Hospitals and its contractor Liberty Healthcare Corp. sought to place 71-year-old Michael Cheek in a rented rural Iris Lane home, one among several unsuccessful locations identified throughout the state, upon his release.“From our perspective, he was about to be placed, based on the court’s order, in a location that was unsafe,” said Santa Cruz County Assistant District Attorney Alex Byers. “The thought that they could have appropriately supervised him at that location over time just bore out to be unrealistic. So, we’re glad that that didn’t happ...