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'Could have been a lot worse': Police hail NJ school bus driver as 'hero' after brakes fail

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:30:17 GMT

EDISON, N.J. (WPIX) -- A school bus driver in New Jersey is being called a hero after her quick thinking prevented a bad situation from becoming much worse.Police said two students suffered minor injuries after the school bus crashed into a home in Edison on Wednesday morning. A preliminary investigation of the crash indicated that the brakes failed, authorities said."I think that the school bus driver should be referred to as a hero here," said Edison Police Chief Thomas Bryan. Woman shoved into moving NYC subway train: NYPD For the 28 students on board, it was a normal Wednesday bus ride to John Adams Middle School in Edison. They were about a mile or so out from school when the bus driver tried to stop at an intersection, but the brakes failed, police said.Home surveillance video shows the bus crashing into a fence, then clipping the garage of a home before coming to a rest in the grass."It was incredible what she did," said Edison police officer Evan McNamara. "She avoided man...

Dean's A-List Interviews: Director Martin Scorsese on 'Killers of the Flower Moon'

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:30:17 GMT

Check out Dean's A-List Interview with grammy winning director Martin Scorsese on his new film "Killers of the Flower Moon."Get Dean's reviews and A-List interviews delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for Dean's Downloads weekly newsletter. You'll also get his Dean Cooks recipes too!

DoorDash driver arrested and charged after attempted sexual assault

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:30:17 GMT

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - An alleged sexual assault by a DoorDash driver in north St. Louis County.FOX 2 warns viewers that the details are disturbing. DoorDash driver Travaye Gaines has been arrested and charged after prosecutors say he sexually assaulted a customer in her apartment in Spanish Lake.Police revealed that when the victim opened the door for her food, Gaines forced his way inside, pulled off her towel, and grabbed her. She was able to get away and run to a neighbor for help. Sex offender banned from rec centers after FOX 2 tip After Gaines left, the victim said she received a FaceTime call from an unknown number, and when she answered, it was Gaines masturbating. Police were able to learn Gaines' location with the help of DoorDash.Gaines has been charged with burglary, attempted rape, sexual misconduct, and resisting arrest.

Ballwin police chief on paid leave until further notice after unanimous vote

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:30:17 GMT

BALLWIN, Mo. - The Ballwin police chief has been placed on paid leave until further notice and FOX 2 is working to find out why.FOX 2's partners at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch obtained the minutes for a Ballwin board of aldermen meeting on October 9. That's when the board voted unanimously in a closed session to put Police Chief Douglas Schaeffler on leave. Sex offender banned from rec centers after FOX 2 tip Ballwin Mayor Tim Pogue, all eight aldermen, and Schaeffler himself have not responded to requests for comment. Ballwin's city administrator told the post that city officials cannot comment on the matter because it is a personnel issue.

Su Teatro’s “Wolf at the Door” a grim and gratifying fable | Review

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:30:17 GMT

It was the evening of last weekend’s solar eclipse and a full moon hung above the set of “Wolf at the Door,” at Su Teatro Arts and Culture Center.On stage, in a modest hacienda, two women prepare for the arrival of a baby. It is a chilly night in 1800s Mexico. Between her intermittent moans, a pregnant Isadora (Paola Miranda) paces the room, hoping to ease her contractions. Her Rocio (Magally Luna), once her nanny and now her housekeeper, makes preparations. The two talk with hope about the baby and Isadora’s family’s impending visit. They speak less enthusiastically about Isadora’s husband, Séptimo (Camilo Luera). He hits his wife, even when she is pregnant. When the baby arrives early and stillborn, the fault for the heartbreak is his.While Isadora is still holding the swaddled infant, Séptimo comes through the door and proves just what kind of man he is. When Rocio tells him the child was a boy, he quips at Isadora, “At least you got that right.” Then adds with disgust, “bu...

Things to do this weekend: Spooky Halloween parade, bloody marys, flannel fest

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:30:17 GMT

Halloween townSaturday. The 6th annual Broadway Halloween Parade will once again creep its way down Broadway, bringing with it spooky floats, bands, music and marchers. The parade, which is typically a spectacle to behold, will run along Broadway in Denver, between 5th Avenue and Alameda Avenue, with various stores and businesses participating.Hosted by the Broadway Merchants Association, the family-friendly event starts at 6 p.m. Wear a costume and be prepared for anything. More information at thebroadwayhalloweenparade.com.Cheers for beerGoldspot Brewing Company is located in Denver’s Regis neighborhood. (Patrick Traylor, The Denver Post)Sunday. Denver’s Goldspot Brewing hosts its third annual Queertoberfest from noon to 7 p.m., with delicious beers from more than a dozen breweries like Bierstadt Lagerhaus, Novel Strand Brewing, Our Mutual Friend, Celler West, Woods Boss Brewing and Burns Family Artisan Ales. There will be two food trucks (Little Red’s Kitchen an...

Garfield County leaders tell library to keep “pornographic materials” away from kids in latest salvo over Japanese graphic novels

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:30:17 GMT

Garfield County’s elected commissioners this week directed the county’s library board to ensure “pornographic materials” aren’t accessible to children at public libraries and can’t be checked out by young people.How the commissioners would enforce that order — the latest flare-up in a fight over library materials in the Western Slope county — and how the county even defines pornography were unclear when the board voted unanimously to approve the message Monday.Commissioner Tom Jankovsky acknowledged in an interview with The Denver Post on Wednesday that the Garfield County Public Library District’s Board of Trustees is an independent body that doesn’t have to follow the county’s directive. But, he said, “the reason that motion was made is because we do have the ability to remove all board members from the library board.”The commissioners “don’t want to go there,” Jankovsky said, but it is...

Music mega-stars Drake, Beyoncé, Harry Styles and more continue to snub Denver

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:30:17 GMT

If you’re a fan of Beyoncé, Drake, Adele, Harry Styles, Janet Jackson, Metallica, The Chicks, Pearl Jam, or Billy Joel, you have no choice but to leave Colorado for their current run of shows.Why is that? Especially when Colorado is getting concerts from undisputed heavyweights such as Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Madonna, Zac Brown Band, Olivia Rodrigo, Foo Fighters and Morgan Wallen?Fans and critics have posed the question often. U2 hasn’t played Colorado since 2015, skipping us with its last couple of tours despite previously playing here regularly. As a colleague of mine pointed out, they used to love us, having filmed “Under a Blood Red Sky” (at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in 1983) and part of “Rattle & Hum” (at McNichols Sports Arena in 1987) in Colorado.Drake performs at the Pepsi Center in Denver on Oct. 2, 2016. (Seth McConnell, The Denver Post)How ridiculous is it that Drake and 21 Savage, three days before their Sept. 8 show at Ball Arena, ...

DPS pushes back as city officials, including Mayor Johnston, seek to influence policy, board elections

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:30:17 GMT

Despite an anodyne name, the dormant City-School Coordinating Committee that Denver city officials are seeking to revive has become a flashpoint in a seeming power struggle with leaders of Denver Public Schools.The intent of the committee is simple enough, as city officials want to establish a formal channel for regular discussion of safety challenges and other school issues of public concern. But debate that played out in public Wednesday between district officials and City Council members — including over who will serve on the new panel and how it will operate — underlined potentially higher stakes, especially as Mayor Mike Johnston this week took sides in the contentious fall DPS board elections.Johnston previously referred to the fractious school board as “a public embarrassment” during this year’s mayoral campaign. He called for change Tuesday when he endorsed a trio of reform-minded candidates backed by Educate Denver, a civic group that also supp...

Colorado hardly regulates funeral homes and crematories. That could soon change.

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:30:17 GMT

When Colorado state Sen. Dylan Roberts first heard details about the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, he expressed profound disappointment.“I can’t believe Colorado is going through this again,” the Avon Democrat said. “Why is this continuing to happen in our state? It doesn’t seem to happen in most other states.”The situation was gruesome: Authorities found at least 189 improperly stored bodies in the funeral home specializing in green burial, an operation its owners had been running without a license. State regulators seemed to have no idea.The grisly news from the southern Colorado mortuary shined a spotlight on the state’s lax oversight of funeral homes and crematories. Colorado remains the only state in the country that doesn’t license funeral directors or require some certification. State officials don’t regularly inspect funeral homes and only devote one-quarter of one full-time position to regulate 220 funeral ho...