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Randy Roedema sentenced to 14 months in jail for involvement in death of Elijah McClain

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:52:27 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- On Friday, former Aurora officer Randy Roedema was sentenced to 4 years of probation, 90 days of jail and 200 hours of community service for criminally negligent homicide in the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after a confrontation with Aurora Police in August of 2019. The judge also sentenced him to 14 months in jail with work release for his third-degree assault conviction. The sentences are to run concurrently.An attorney for Roedema said Friday in court during sentencing statements his client intends to file an appeal.Sheneen McClain, Elijah's mother, also spoke during the sentencing hearing."Randy Roedema stole my son's life away," Sheneen McClain said. What to know about Elijah McClain’s death and the criminal trial of 2 officers BackgroundOn the night of Aug. 24, 2019, Elijah McClain was walking home from a convenience store when Aurora Police confronted him after a 911 caller told police McClain looked "sketchy" because he was wea...

Driver sentenced for crash on I-25 that killed mother

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:52:27 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The man behind the wheel of a big rig at the time of a deadly crash on Interstate 25 in 2022 has been sentenced to four years in prison.Darnell Yingling pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter in November and was sentenced on Friday in court. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox Yingling was driving a truck under a bridge when the excavator he was pulling crashed into the structure. The crash occurred on northbound I-25 at mile marker 246 near Mead.Megan Mirella Arneson was driving with her son in the car when the crash happened and a piece of the bridge fell onto their vehicle. She was killed but her son survived.In addition to Yingling's prison sentence, a judge has ordered him to complete 300 hours of community service.

Fort Lauderdale women’s walking group promotes fitness and friendship

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:52:27 GMT

It’s officially 2024, and many people are resolved to get in shape. One group is helping women do just that, one step at a time.Fitness and friendship. They are top of mind for these women who are leaving tracks throughout Fort Lauderdale.Runsi Patro, co-founder, Pretty Girls Who Walk: “A lot of the girls are also new to Fort Lauderdale. A lot of the girls work from home, so they’ve also looked at the walk as a way to get outside and make friends.”Almost every Saturday, members of Pretty Girls Who Walk lace up to get in their miles.Jenna Rappaport and Runsi Patro started the group in 2022.Jenna Rappaport, co-founder, Pretty Girls Who Walk: “I live here in downtown Fort Lauderdale. I work from home as well. The only thing I could do during the COVID time was go on walks.”Runsi Patro: “When I first moved down here, which was a year ago, it was a new city. I didn’t know anyone here.”At the time, they didn’t know each other, bu...

The Supreme Court will decide if Trump can be kept off 2024 presidential ballots

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:52:27 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether former President Donald Trump can be kept off the ballot because of his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, inserting the court squarely in the 2024 presidential campaign.The justices acknowledged the need to reach a decision quickly, as voters will soon begin casting presidential primary ballots across the country. The court agreed to take up Trump’s appeal of a case from Colorado stemming from his role in the events that culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.Arguments will be held in early February.The court will be considering for the first time the meaning and reach of a provision of the 14th Amendment barring some people who “engaged in insurrection” from holding public office. The amendment was adopted in 1868, following the Civil War. It has been so rarely used that the nation’s highest court had no previous occasion to interpret it.Colorado’s Supreme Court, b...

Police arrest homeless man accused of exposing self, touching 6-year-old girl at Sunny Isles Beach resort

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:52:27 GMT

A homeless man was arrested after, police said, he exposed himself and inappropriately touched a 6-year-old girl while loitering at a Sunny Isles Beach resort over Thanksgiving weekend. The suspect, 42-year-old Alejandro Londono, was charged with three counts of lewd and lascivious conduct on a child and one count of lewd and lascivious exhibition on a child. According to police, on Nov. 28, Londono committed the act at the Marco Polo Beach Resort, located along the 19200 block of Collins Avenue.Several days after the encounter, the victim told her father that Londono exposed himself to her and also asked her to see her underwear. Surveillance video from Nov. 28 showed the victim and her father entering the resort and Londono entering right after they arrived. The victim was seen saying hi to Londono. Afterward, Londono was sitting on a couch in the resort’s lobby. He began to charge his phone when the victim approached him and started talking to him.During their conversation...

‘Thank God it didn’t come through the windshield’: Driver says canoe flew off vehicle, struck truck on I-95

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:52:27 GMT

A sudden smash recently played out in Lynnfield Friday where a driver said a canoe flew off a truck and slammed into his vehicle. The incident happened on I-95. Uninjured in the crash, driver Stephen Cunningham later described the incident.“It just flew out and slammed into me,” he said. Somehow, the canoe did not break through the windshield of Cunningham’s truck, instead smashing onto the highway itself. While his windshield was smashed and while there was some damage to his truck, Cunningham was left without a scratch. “I’m OK,” he said. “I couldn’t see too good after,” he continued. “I had to pull over…Thank god it didn’t come through the windshield.” Cunningham said the crash happened so fast, he never had time to get out of the way. Soon flying over the scene, SKY7-HD spotted the canoe resting on the opposite side of the highway near the center barrier, often shaking as traffic flew by. It was unclear as of Friday night what happened to ...

Supreme Court will hear arguments about Trump ballot eligibility

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:52:27 GMT

(CNN) — The US Supreme Court said Friday it will review the Colorado Supreme Court’s unprecedented decision removing former President Donald Trump from that state’s ballot.The court scheduled oral arguments for February 8.Trump remains on the ballot as the lower-court ruling disqualifying him has been put on hold pending Supreme Court action.The high court’s decision to hear the case puts the nine justices squarely in the middle of the 2024 election as voting starts in the early primary contests and represents the court’s most significant involvement in a presidential race since its highly consequential decision 23 years ago in Bush v. Gore.The state court’s ruling last month all but ensured that the justices would have to take up the politically fraught case and resolve the controversial question of whether Trump can be removed from the ballot. Though the Colorado ruling only applies to that state, courts in several other states have also reviewed challenges to Trump’s eligibi...

Former police officer sentenced to 14 months in jail, 4 years probation in Elijah McClain’s death

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:52:27 GMT

Elijah McClain (Courtesy of McClain family)The only police officer convicted in Elijah McClain’s death was sentenced Friday to 14 months in jail and four years of probation.Adams County District Court Judge Mark Warner sentenced former officer Randy Roedema during a two-hour hearing in Adams County District Court.The 41-year-old was convicted in October of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault in McClain’s 2019 death. Roedema faced between one and three years in prison on the homicide conviction and up to 24 months in jail on the assault conviction.Warner sentenced Roedema to four years of probation with 90 days in jail, during which he will be eligible for work-release, on the homicide charge, and 14 months in jail, also with work-release eligibility, on the assault charge.The sentences are to be served concurrently.Roedema must report to the Adams County Jail by March 22, the judge said.He also most complete 200 hours of community service.Roedema did not appear to...

New Red Sox 2B Vaughn Grissom calls trade to Boston a ‘full circle’ moment

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:52:27 GMT

Vaughn Grissom’s big league debut was like something out of a dream. Playing the Red Sox at Fenway Park in August of 2022, the then-Atlanta Braves rookie stepped to the plate in the bottom of the seventh and hit a towering home run over the Green Monster to effectively seal the win.Two years later, Grissom will now call Fenway Park home as his big league career truly begins.“I’m really excited, it’s pretty funny how full circle (it is),” Grissom said. “It’s really fun, the stadium was obviously the first one I’d played in and seen, and I was in a dream state. I have a pretty good recollection of what everything looks like and feels like from second base, so that was pretty cool to obviously get the call and to get the call from a team like that where everything started for me.”Acquired last week in exchange for veteran left-hander Chris Sale, Grissom was officially introduced as the Red Sox newest infielder on Friday. After two y...

Lucas: Cucumber cost an inflation stomach ache

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:52:27 GMT

Four weeks ago, cucumbers at Market Basket, my go-to store, were two for a dollar, or 50 cents each.Three weeks ago, they were 59 cents each.Two weeks ago, they were 69 cents per cuke.Last week the price rose to a whopping 79 cents a cucumber. I may be the world’s worst shopper, but even I knew that something was going on, and that it was not good.The cost of the cucumber, you see, is my barometer on inflation and the rising cost of living under President Biden. I shop. He doesn’t.In my past life — prior to living alone — I had a mate. So, I never did any grocery shopping. Shopping malls and vast supermarkets were foreign territory. I avoided them at all costs.The only stores I frequented back then were the package store and the hardware store.Since I was never good at fixing anything that required a tool, I gave up the hardware store. That left the packy.But one day, when I suddenly found myself living alone, I had to shop at stores that I had avoided most of my life. Starving was ...