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NORAD Santa Tracker gets help from local company with adding new language translation

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:56:31 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- The famous North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) online Santa Tracker has added a new language to its site that is visited by millions of people every Christmas Eve.With the help of Interpreters Unlimited, a language services company with an office in Miramar, NORAD’s Santa tracker has added Korean to its list of languages. The Santa Tracker now has nine languages for visitors.  “What started off really just being a few languages has now expanded,” said Shamus Sayed, Interpreters Unlimited Vice President.  Millions of kids across the world will now be able to track Santa online in nine languages, some include English, Spanish, French, plus the newly added Korean language.  “You’re doing it for the fun of doing it for the kids,” Sayed said. The Santa tracker is ran by NORAD. NORAD has been partnering with Interpreters Unlimited for more than a decade for the online translations. Interpreters Unlimited also does the voice over translations for the NORAD Sa...

London police investigate the alleged theft of a Banksy stop sign decorated with military drones

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:56:31 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Detectives are investigating the alleged theft of a Banksy work of art after witnesses shot photos and video of a man removing a red stop sign adorned with three military drones, London police said Saturday.The sign was taken less than an hour after the elusive street artist posted a photo of the work on his Instagram page Friday.Video showed a man with bolt cutters climbing up on a bicycle to remove the work from a sign post on a street corner in the Peckham area of south London while another man steadied the bike. The man who cut the sign free then ran off with it in his hand.A voice on a video of the incident could be heard saying, “it makes me so annoyed,” as the man ran away. A witness who only wanted to be called Alex told the PA news agency that the small crowd of people that had shown up to view the work stood around watching as the scene unfolded. “We said, ‘What are you doing? But no one really knew what to do, we sort of just watched it happen,” Alex s...

Americans beg for help getting family out of Gaza. “I just want to see my mother again,’ a son says

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:56:31 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fadi Sckak has already lost his father to the violence in Gaza. He wants to help his mother escape that fate.“I just want to see my mother again, that’s the goal,” said Sckak, a university student in Sunnyvale, California. The 25-year-old is one of the Palestinian couple’s three American sons, including an active-duty U.S. soldier serving in South Korea. “Being able to hold her again. I can’t bear to lose her.” His mother, Zahra Sckak, 44, was holed up Saturday with an older, ailing American relative in a Gaza City building along with 100 others. She is among what the State Department says are 300 American citizens, permanent legal residents or their parents and young children still trapped by the fighting between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza.Relatives in the United States and other advocates are pleading for the Biden administration and Congress to help them flee.Gaza’s Health Ministry has reported more than 20,000 deaths in the fighting and more than ...

Leaders of two Quebec teachers unions approve partial deal with provincial government

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:56:31 GMT

QUEBEC — Two Quebec teachers unions say their leadership has approved a partial agreement with the government after weeks of participating in larger public sector strikes.The Fédération des syndicats de l’enseignement and Quebec Provincial Association of Teachers, which together represent over 100,000 educators, say they won’t make the details of the proposal public until their members have a chance to voice their opinions.But the unions do make clear the tentative deal doesn’t cover teacher salaries.That and other issues are still the subject of the unions’ joint negotiations with the government under a broader alliance of labour groups known as the common front, which represents hundreds of thousands of Quebec public sector workers.The common front has already carried out several multi-day strikes in the last two months and has threatened an unlimited strike next year if it’s unable to reach an agreement with the provincial government.A separate union repre...

Want to get through airport security faster? Avoid these 3 common mistakes

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:56:31 GMT

(NEXSTAR) – Going through airport security can be a frustrating yet unavoidable part of traveling, especially during the holidays.The Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday that this holiday season is shaping up to be one of its busiest on record. While large airport crowds are far beyond your control, you can help ease slowdowns by avoiding some common mistakes.A recent study from USA TODAY Blueprint, the news outlet’s financial team, identified the top three mishaps people experience at TSA checkpoints. Experts surveyed 5,000 Americans in October 2023 who have traveled by air within the past five years. The holiday rush to airports and highways is underway Passengers forgetting to take off their belts or shoes at security checkpoints is considered the most common mistake, with 28% of survey respondents admitting this, according to the study. The second common mistake? About 28% of respondents also confessed to going through a metal detector with a phone, jewelry,...

Motor vehicle crash snarls Thruway

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:56:31 GMT

CATSKILL, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Avoid the Thruway in Greene County for your holiday travels, for now. That's the message from traffic officials and police responding to a crash. Get the latest news, weather, sports and more delivered right to your inbox! Before 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, police responded to a crash involving multiple vehicles around mile marker 114, near exit 21 on Route 23. The crash involved a tractor-trailer, which at one point was blocking lanes and slowing down or stopping traffic in both directions.Currently, the taffic cameras on 511ny.org show that the obstruction has been cleared, but the southbound side is being diverted from the Thruway. The backup stretch for miles.Check out NEWS10's traffic tracker. You can plan your route and see traffic delays in real-time!

12/23/2023: Clouds, then light rain/snow

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:56:31 GMT

The latest Storm Tracker Forecast from meteorologist Matt Mackie:After a chilly start, we do gradually climb to the mid or upper 30's today under mostly cloudy skies.Clouds give way to showers around sunset. While light snow is expected in the mountains, it will likely start as a cold rain in the valleys. While it could briefly flip over to mix or plain old snow, don't expect much accumulation. This will likely wrap up with on and off light rain during the day Sunday as temperatures warm to around 40.Throughout this period, a decent coating of snow is possible in the Catskills, Greens, northern Berkshires, and perhaps even the Rensselaer Plateau. Up to an inch of fresh snow could fall in parts the Adirondacks.Then we're dry with some sun for Christmas Day itself. While it may not be a White Christmas (one inch or more of snow on the ground) it will be pleasantly mild with highs in the mid 40's.Warmer temps stick around for much of the rest of the forecast, with periods of rain start...

Moore's 29 guides Catholic Central past La Salle

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:56:31 GMT

MECHANICVILLE, NY (NEWS10) -- The Catholic Central and La Salle boys basketball rivalry had an added family rivalry element on Friday night. Crusaders head coach Guy Di Bacco was pitted against his brother Orlando, in his first year leading the Cadets. La Salle jumped out to a 13-12 lead after the first quarter. Catholic Central erupted in the second quarter, outscoring the Cadets 29-8 to grab a 41-21 lead at the half. That paced them to a 73-52 win. Catholic Central sophomore Darien Moore led the way with 29 points, 21 of them coming in the first half. Tra'Dell Faison led La Salle with 22 points.

Vehicle kills pedestrian on Watervliet Avenue Extension

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:56:31 GMT

Update: Initial information from the Albany Police Department misidentified the victim as a 74-year-old woman. A police update sent Saturday morning corrected her age, and NEWS10 regrets the error.ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- The Albany Police Department said a 53-year-old woman was hit by a car and killed on Friday night. The collision and investigation took place around 1389 Washington. Get the latest news, weather, sports and more delivered right to your inbox! Just after 5 p.m., officers responded to the area after getting a report that a vehicle hit someone. When they arrived, they found the victim in the road. Police initially reported that she was pronounced dead at the scene when they found her body, but their update said she was sent to Albany Med, where she died.Police said they believe that the woman was crossing Washington Avenue when the vehicle hit her. They said that the driver stopped and cooperated with them. No identities have been revealed, nor charges filed. Pede...

Two killed in overnight north metro shootings

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:56:31 GMT

Two men were killed overnight in separate shootings in Thornton and Westminster that appear to have started with arguments in parking lots.The first shooting happened about 10:30 p.m. in the 8900 block of Harlan Street in Westminster, according to a Westminster Police Department news release. Officers found a man with a gunshot, and he was taken to a hospital where he later died.Police later learned another man was also at a hospital in critical condition with gunshot wounds.Police believe several men were arguing with each other in a parking lot before shooting at each other.The second shooting happened a couple hours later about 12:50 a.m. in the 16000 block of Grant Street in Thornton.Thornton police reported in a news release there was a “disturbance” between two employees of an area business, and one man, identified as Victor Salazar-Guarache, 26, shot at a 22-year-old man.The 22-year-old was taken to hospital and died.Weld County deputies later located and arrested...