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What are the lights placed above traffic signals?

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:50:58 GMT

(WHTM/NEXSTAR) – On many traffic signals found throughout the United States, there is a small light that is placed in between or off to the side of the traffic signal lights. Sometimes you see them blink when emergency vehicles are passing through. So, what are they? These are called priority or preemption signals. The lights are part of a system that allows the operator of a vehicle to override the normal operation of a traffic light. Maricopa County, Arizona, Emergency Vehicle Preemption (EVP) systems were first installed in the early 1980s in hopes that they would reduce response times. Fire engines and other emergency vehicles are equipped with emitters that communicate with receiving devices on traffic signals.When an emitter is activated, the device will cause the traffic lights in the path of the vehicle to immediately cycle and grant the right of way in the direction the vehicle is traveling. These preemptive indicators allow emergency vehicles to get to scenes faster and cl...

Gophers’ P.J. Fleck upset by players’ muscle cramps in 31-13 loss to North Carolina

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:50:58 GMT

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — P.J. Fleck almost bit his tongue after the Gophers’ 31-13 loss to North Carolina on Saturday.The Gophers head coach was asked about a handful of players dealing with muscle cramps, including quarterback Athan Kaliakmanis, running back Darius Taylor and cornerback Justin Walley, vital contributors who each missed playing time as the U tried to mount a comeback in the third quarter.“I used to be able to say things like, ‘That’s inexcusable’ and stuff like that,” Fleck said. “I don’t — we can’t be cramping up. There is a reason why we prepare the way we prepare, the way we have to prepare. And if we don’t prepare that way, that’s what happens. It’s unfortunate.”Texas Christian coach Sonny Dykes said Sept. 2 that he felt a few of his players suffering from muscle cramps played a role in TCU’s 45-42 loss to Colorado in the Horned Frogs’ season opener.“Guys started cramping at the end of the game,” Dykes lamented. “That is something that w...

2 incarcerated women walk away from Southern California reentry program 

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:50:58 GMT

Officials with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation are seeking two women who walked away from the Custody to Community Transitional Reentry program Saturday night. According to a CDCR release, staff at the reentry program were alerted that two participants were seen leaving the San Diego-area facility around 10 p.m. Shortly after, CDCR officials received tamper alerts for the two women’s ankle monitors. Staff immediately conducted an emergency head count, which confirmed that two people were not present. The two escapees have been identified as 31-year-old Diana Sanchez and 32-year-old Janelle Rice. Diana Sanchez (right) and Janelle Rice (left) seen in booking photos. (California Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation)According to CDCR, Sanchez is 5 feet, 7 inches tall, weighs 230 pounds and has brown eyes and brown hair. She was received from Los Angeles County in March to serve a five-year sentence for burglary and the use of an ID other than to obtai...

San Rafael police call for emergency aid to break up sideshow

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:50:58 GMT

Seven police departments were called to help break up a large sideshow in San Rafael early Saturday, according to authorities.Police said that hundreds of vehicles and over a thousand onlookers gathered in the Canal neighborhood of San Rafael. Earlier in the day, large crowds had peacefully celebrated Guatemalan Independence Day.But around midnight, authorities said the sideshow turned violent as police moved in to break up the crowd at Canal street and Medway road.San Rafael Police broadcast an emergency request for aid, which was answered by The Marin County Sheriff’s Office, California Highway Patrol, Novato Police, Central Marin Police Authority, Fairfax Police, Ross Police, and Mill Valley Police.Police cleared the area by 1:45 a.m. It is unclear how many arrests were made, if any.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | They said it: Sideshows and social media Crime and Public Safety | San Jose mayor wants Facebook, Snapchat and TikTok to shut...

San Rafael: Two dead after canal crash

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:50:58 GMT

Two people died Saturday morning after their car drove off a dead end street into the San Rafael Canal, according to authorities.According to a witness, the vehicle drove into the canal at about 70 mph.Related ArticlesCrashes and Disasters | Motorcyclist dies on rural East Bay road after truck pulls out in front of him Crashes and Disasters | Teen arrested on suspicion of intentionally striking 3 bicyclists in Southern California, leaving 1 dead Crashes and Disasters | 3 cyclists hit, 1 killed, in Southern California by perhaps the same driver Crashes and Disasters | Vehicle driver still sought in hit-and-run death of East Bay bicyclist Crashes and Disasters | California mother of 6-year-old boy accused of manslaughter after her car hits and kills him The San Rafael Fire Department and Southern Marin Fire Department Dive team were dispatched to recover the occupants of the vehicle, which was submerged. B...

Prince George’s Co. man indicted for sexually assaulting woman 9 years ago

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:50:58 GMT

A grand jury in the District has indicted a D.C. and Prince George’s County, Maryland, resident nine years after he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman in an alley, prosecutors said.Officials said Dawayne Joseph Spriggs, 37, was arraigned on charges from a cold case in 2014 after a rape test kit matched his DNA to another victim’s rape kit in nearby Anne Arundel County, Maryland.Court documents argue that Spriggs physically and sexually assaulted a victim in an alley near the Minnesota Avenue Metro Station around 1 a.m. After the assault, the victim was given a rape kit, tested for DNA in 2014 and entered into a national database.“In 2016, the database reported a match between the DNA profile obtained from the rape kit and another sexual assault offense that had been reported in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, in 2013,” the department said in its release.Officials said detectives in the District’s cold case investigators identified Spriggs as the match ...

Drew Barrymore postpones premiere of her daytime talk show amid writers strike after intense criticism

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:50:58 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Drew Barrymore postpones premiere of her daytime talk show amid writers strike after intense criticism.Source

Muere una niña al estrellarse un avión de la Fuerza Aérea de Italia tras el despegue en un vuelo de prácticas

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:50:58 GMT

(CNN) — Un avión del escuadrón acrobático de la Fuerza Aérea de Italia se estrelló este sábado durante un vuelo de prácticas cerca de la ciudad de Turín, y dejó a una niña de 5 años muerta y a su hermano de 9 con quemaduras graves cuando el auto en el que viajaban fue impactado por los restos ardientes de una enorme bola de fuego.El avión MB-339 había explotado instantes después de despegar, hacia el mediodía hora local, según informaron las autoridades, de acuerdo con el Cuerpo de Bomberos italiano.Accidente de helicóptero de rescate deja al menos 6 muertos en ItaliaEl piloto, que sobrevivió, pudo ser visto cuando saltó con su paracaídas que se abrió momentos antes de que el jet impactara contra el suelo, dijeron los bomberos.Actualmente es atendido por quemaduras en el Hospital Giovanni Bosco de Turín, añadieron las autoridades.Los aviones acrobáticos Frecce Tricolori, de las Fuerzas Aéreas de Italia, estaban practicando una formación antes de las celebraciones del centenari...

Brussels calls on EU countries to ‘engage constructively’ on Ukraine grain

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:50:58 GMT

The European Commission on Sunday urged Poland, Hungary and Slovakia to be constructive after announcing they would impose their own bans on Ukrainian grain following the EU executive’s decision to let its restrictive measure end.“We are aware of some member states’ announcements in respect to unilateral measures. What is important right now is that all countries work in the spirit of compromise and engage constructively,” a Commission spokeswoman said, according to Reuters. “Our focus now is to put in place and make work the new system just announced.”She added that a meeting on the subject with all interested EU countries would take place on Monday.Brussels announced on Friday that it would not extend a ban on Ukrainian grain imports that applied to Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria — a measure that expired on Friday.Imports of Ukrainian grain, including wheat and maize, had been blocked from the territory of these five c...

NATO chief warns Ukraine allies to prepare for ‘a long war’

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:50:58 GMT

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned that the war Russian President Vladimir Putin is waging on Ukraine won’t be over any time soon. “Most wars last longer than expected when they first begin,” Stoltenberg in an interview with Germany’s Funke media group published Sunday. “Therefore we must prepare ourselves for a long war in Ukraine.”“We all want a quick peace,” said Stoltenberg. “At the same time, we must recognize that if [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy and the Ukrainians stop fighting, their country will no longer exist. If President Putin and Russia stop fighting, we will have peace.”The head of Ukraine’s Security Council Oleksiy Danilov, in an opinion piece published Saturday evening, said the only way to end the war is if Kyiv’s allies speed up deliveries of weapons. “Refusing or delaying the transfer of modern weapons to the Ukrainian armed forces is a direct encouragement to the kremlin to continue the war, not the other way ...