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10-year-olds found working at McDonald's in Kentucky: Labor Department

Published Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:02:59 GMT

(The Hill) – The Labor Department found two 10-year-olds among more than 300 minors working at numerous McDonald’s locations in four states. The department said in a Tuesday release that its Wage and Hour Division found the two 10-year-olds working at a location in Louisville, Ky. The division found that three franchisees — Bauer Food LLC, Archways Richwood LLC and Bell Restaurant Group I LLC — employed 305 children to work more hours than legally permitted and perform tasks that federal law prohibits. The children were found to be working in 62 locations operated by the three franchisees in Kentucky, Indiana, Maryland and Ohio. The franchisees were fined more than $212,000 in total. “Too often, employers fail to follow the child labor laws that protect young workers,” said Karen Garnett-Civils, the Labor division's district director in Louisville. “Under no circumstances should there ever be a 10-year-old child working in a fast-food kitchen around hot grills, ovens ...

Watch: Thieves use 'a little lasso' to pull ATM out of bar

Published Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:02:59 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) - Early Tuesday morning, three thieves used a truck and rope to pull a bolted-down ATM out of Spot Bar and Grill in Denver. “It's just violating,” Meagan Maly, the bar's general manager, said. Security video shows one of the suspects breaking the glass door to get into the bar. The thief never hit the lock on the door, which Maly said is why the alarm wasn't originally triggered.The suspect inside went straight to the ATM and attempted to pick it up before appearing to realize the ATM was bolted to the ground. While that was happening, a red truck backed up onto the curb just outside the front door and another suspect brought a rope inside. "He put a little lasso on our ATM and hooked up to the truck and pulled it right out through our door, breaking the door," Maly said.From there the video shows the suspects dragging out the ATM and lifting it into the back of the red truck.“It was a different-looking truck with a lot of flood lights on it. It'll have a lot of ...

Police: 2 taken into custody, large 'police presence' at Leander apartment complex

Published Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:02:59 GMT

Editor’s Note: The video above shows KXAN News Today’s top headlines for May 3, 2023.LEANDER, Texas (KXAN) — Leander police took two people into custody after a search Wednesday near an apartment complex on Ronald Reagan Boulevard, LPD said on Twitter.Around 12 p.m., police said they had a large presence of officers in the 16760 block of Ronald Reagan Blvd., which is between Hero Way and Crystal Falls Parkway. Police said one person was taken into custody around 11:50 a.m., while another remained at large.In an update on Twitter at 12:23 p.m., LPD said the other person was taken into custody and there was "no further threat to the community."Leander police said it will provide additional information "soon."

Scorpion truck blocks 18-wheeler from crashing into work zone on I-35

Published Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:02:59 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A vehicle specifically designed to protect construction workers and equipment may have saved lives this morning after an 18-wheeler crashed into a work zone on I-35 in south Austin.Around 4 a.m. Wednesday morning, an 18-wheeler traveling northbound on I-35 crashed into the I-35 Capital Express South Project work zone near Onion Creek Parkway. It slammed into the back of a safety vehicle, known as a Scorpion truck, designed to protect construction workers and construction equipment. It acts as a crash cushion and creates a safety barrier between moving traffic and a work zone.KXAN Traffic Anchor Erica Brennes sat down with Bradley Wheelis, a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Transportation to learn more about these Scorpion trucks.Construction work zone safety is a top priority for TxDOT. Last year 205 people were killed in work zones in Texas. Only one of those people was a construction worker. The rest were drivers, their passengers, pedestrians and cyclists....

Austin Sobering Center effective in diverting people away from the hospital or jail

Published Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:02:59 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Sobering Center in downtown Austin has been effective in diverting people from jails and hospitals, officials from the program said during Tuesday's Travis County Commissioners Court meeting. The Austin Travis County Sobering Center has operated for five years. Since it opened its doors, center staff have assisted over 8,000 clients. The Sobering Center was opened as an alternative to jails or hospitals for intoxicated people and has been successful in diverting around 2,700 people from hospitals and over 5,224 people from going to jail, per the center’s data.The Sobering Center reported that with the first 4,000 people diverted from jail, it saved taxpayers $50,000 in booking fees. Further, the program relieves pressures from jails while helping clients with behaviors that stem from a substance abuse disorder. “[The Center] has been a lot more successful than we thought it would be,”Laura Elmore, Executive Director of the Sobering Center, said Tuesday at Travis ...

Memorial Day parade set in South Glens Falls

Published Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:02:59 GMT

SOUTH GLENS FALLS, N.Y. (NEWS10) - Every Memorial Day, the community of South Glens Falls has a tradition. The annual South Glens Falls Memorial Day Parade is set to take to the village this month. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! The parade will gather on Friday, May 26, the parade will gather at 6 p.m. at the intersection of Main Street and Haviland Avenue in South Glens Falls. The parade will head north, ending at Veteran's Memorial Park, where a wreath-laying ceremony will be held at 7 p.m. Words of remembrance will be shared by Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner.This year, Wayne "Beanie" Bruce will serve as Grand Marshal leading the parade. Bruce is a 1967-71 Air Force veteran and has also served in the South Glens Falls Police Department for nearly three decades, including seven years as Saratoga Sheriff Deputy.The parade will include faces from local American Legion chapters, VFWs and fire departments, as well as the Sout...

Hubbard Hall awarded $279K for artist housing and sound equipment

Published Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:02:59 GMT

CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- The Hubbard Hall Center for the Arts and Education has been awarded $279,000 in support of artist housing and sound equipment. The funds were made available by the NY State Council on the Arts and are part of a $42 million investment statewide in Small and Mid-Sized Capital Projects for Arts and Cultural Organizations. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! "In the last two years, with NYSCA's extraordinary support, we have completed several facilities projects that have greatly improved patrons' experiences, including new HVAC systems in three of our buildings and new restrooms in Hubbard Hall," says Executive & Artistic Director David Snider. "The addition of artist housing and new sound equipment are critical steps in our growth in serving our community and the field at large."Renovations and restoration will begin on the Lovejoy Building on the Hubbard Hall campus. Work is expected to be complet...

Comedian Bert Kreischer to perform at MVP Arena

Published Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:02:59 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Comedian Bert Kreischer is coming to Albany. He is set to perform at MVP Arena on December 10 at 7 p.m. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! This stop is part of Kreischer's "Tops Off" World Tour. Kreischer is known for often performing stand-up without a shirt on. He has three Netflix specials: "Bert Kreischer: Secret Time" released in 2018, "Bert Kreischer: Hey Big Boy" released in 2020, and "Bert Kreischer: Razzle Dazzle" released in 2023.Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, May 5 at 10 a.m. You can buy tickets on the Ticketmaster website.

Nootbaar reunites with Ohtani before highly-anticipated St. Louis start

Published Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:02:59 GMT

ST. LOUIS - It's almost Sho-Time in St. Louis, but not without one special reunion at Busch Stadium. Shohei Ohtani, the pitcher-hitter phenom of the Los Angeles Angels, reunited with Lars Nootbaar on Tuesday for the first time since both won the World Baseball Classic title in March with Team Japan. Before the Cardinals-Angels series opener, Ohtani and Nootbaar shared some laughs and enjoyed a pregame chat on the field. Pepper Grinder 🤝 ShoTime pic.twitter.com/Dn0dKhKr34— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) May 2, 2023Nootbaar waited a just little longer than he hoped for the reunion. "I asked him if he wanted to go eat yesterday, he said he was sleeping," said Nootbaar laughingly to media members ahead of Tuesday's game. Ohtani, one of few players in MLB history to excel as a hitter and pitcher at the same time, is set to take the mound Wednesday against the Cardinals, and likely slot into the Angels lineup at designated hitter. Ohtani’s decorated resume includes an MVP and MVP ...

Triple shooting leaves 1 woman dead in St. Louis County

Published Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:02:59 GMT

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - One woman is dead following a triple shooting Tuesday evening in north St. Louis County.The shooting happened just before 9:30 p.m. in the 10400 block of Halls Ferry Road, just outside the municipality of Castle Point.According to a spokesperson for the St. Louis County Police Department, officers arrived to find a gunshot victim outside a residence. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Her name has not been released, pending notification of family members. Grieving mom alleges CAO ‘negligence’ in daughter’s murder case Police found two more victims inside the home: an adult woman and a teen boy. Both were hospitalized. Their injuries were not life-threatening. The boy was eventually released from the hospital.Investigators with the department's Crimes Against Persons unit believe the shooting happened as a result of an altercation between people outside the home.Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to contact the St. Louis County Police Depart...