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CBS News
12 hours ago
- General
- CBS News
Approximately 200 people displaced in Baldwin, N.Y. building fire
A large fire destroyed an apartment building in Nassau County Thursday, and now dozens of families on Long Island have no place to call home. The three-story apartment building on Merrick Road in Baldwin went up in flames Thursday afternoon. The Baldwin Fire Department says the fast-moving fire broke out on the top floor. CBS News New York Panicked tenants in all 48 units had to evacuate. Officials say close to 200 people lived in the building. Heavy smoke and flames could be seen shooting out of the roof. Video shows large parts of the roof collapsed, with large holes. The fire chief said more than 100 first responders worked together for two hours to get it under control. Three firefighters suffered minor heat-related injuries. "The fire was ahead of us, when we got here. They brought lines up, they opened up the roof," Baldwin Fire Chief Doug Everhart said. CBS News New York The Arson Bomb Squad and Nassau County Fire Marshals partnered up to investigate, according to the Nassau County Police Department. They determined the cause of the fire is not suspicious, and is related to an accidental electrical malfunction. Resident Derick Martin said the fire started in his unit. "There was smoke coming out of the switch in my apartment," Martin said. Martin said that after he and the super called 911, that small amount of smoke quickly became a massive fire. "There was nothing I could say, just watch the fire go at it," Martin said. CBS News New York Resident Angelina De Los Santos said she lost everything. "I had to put on clothes quickly, my little brother was still sleeping, and we just had to run out, and couldn't get anything," De Los Santos said. "Everything burned down. Our entire apartment is completely ruined." Friday, many residents were looking to collect important items left behind, but were still not allowed back. Fire officials say a crew is going to have to condemn the entire building due to that roof collapse. "Everything was burned. I have to go to the store yesterday, to buy to put something on, change the clothes," Martin said. "I can handle myself, but some of these people can't," resident Blair Abuor said. Building management has not yet responded to CBS News New York's request for a statement.
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
'Rust' crew settles lawsuit against film producers and Alec Baldwin in fatal shooting
SANTA FE, N.M. -- A settlement has been reached in the civil lawsuit alleging negligence in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western movie 'Rust', according to court documents released Friday. The lawsuit was brought by three 'Rust' crew members seeking compensation for emotional distress from producers of 'Rust," including Alec Baldwin as co-producer and lead actor. The civil suit accused producers of failing to follow industry safety rules — allegations they denied. Terms of the settlement were not available. Attorneys for 'Rust' producers and the plaintiffs could not immediately be reached by phone or email. Plaintiffs to the lawsuit included Ross Addiego, a front-line crew member who witnessed at close range the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins at close during a rehearsal on October 2021 on a filmset ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe. A charge of involuntary manslaughter against Baldwin was dismissed at trial last year on allegations that police and prosecutors withheld evidence from the defense. Separately, 'Rust' armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and completed an 18-month sentence in May. Prosecutors accused Gutierrez-Reed of unwittingly bringing live ammunition on set and failing to follow basic gun safety protocols. Baldwin was pointing a gun at Hutchins during a rehearsal on a movie set outside Santa Fe when the revolver went off, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. Addiego testified at Gutierrez-Reed's trial and appeared before the grand jury that indicted Baldwin. The filming of 'Rust' was completed in Montana. The Western was released in theaters in May.
San Francisco Chronicle
14 hours ago
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
'Rust' crew settles lawsuit against film producers and Alec Baldwin in fatal shooting
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A settlement has been reached in the civil lawsuit alleging negligence in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western movie 'Rust', according to court documents released Friday. The lawsuit was brought by three 'Rust' crew members seeking compensation for emotional distress from producers of 'Rust," including Alec Baldwin as co-producer and lead actor. The civil suit accused producers of failing to follow industry safety rules — allegations they denied. Terms of the settlement were not available. Attorneys for 'Rust' producers and the plaintiffs could not immediately be reached by phone or email. Plaintiffs to the lawsuit included Ross Addiego, a front-line crew member who witnessed at close range the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins at close during a rehearsal on October 2021 on a filmset ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe. A charge of involuntary manslaughter against Baldwin was dismissed at trial last year on allegations that police and prosecutors withheld evidence from the defense. Separately, 'Rust' armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and completed an 18-month sentence in May. Prosecutors accused Gutierrez-Reed of unwittingly bringing live ammunition on set and failing to follow basic gun safety protocols. Baldwin was pointing a gun at Hutchins during a rehearsal on a movie set outside Santa Fe when the revolver went off, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.
CBS News
4 days ago
- General
- CBS News
Blessed Trinity Parish holds celebration to commemorate blessing of bell tower
The Blessed Trinity Parish held a special celebration on Tuesday to commemorate the blessing of its new Trinity Bell Tower. The three bells in the newly erected tower at St. Albert the Great Church in Baldwin were the original bells from nearby St. Wendelin Church, which was built in 1897. Bishop David Zubik of the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese was on hand to bless the bell tower Tuesday morning before it was lifted outside the church. "It's nice to know that these bells will be ringing in this community again, since they've been doing that since 1897," said Rev. Stephen Kresak, pastor of St. Albert the Great Church. "The people that have heard them all those years will now hear them again, and even more people now on the other side of the hill will hear them, so it's nice to have them back." After 127 years, St. Wendelin Church closed its doors and was subsequently demolished in June 2024. But Kresak said the parish wanted to preserve certain items from the church that were important, not only to the parishioners, but to the community as well. The three bells from the bell tower were among the items removed, as well as an altar and a number of statues. The bells were then placed on a flatbed truck and shipped to Cincinnati to the Verdin Company, which repairs and restores bells for churches, universities and community organizations across the country. "They clean them, polish them really good, and if they need re-tuned, they would re-tune them," said Kresak. The once black-colored bells are now fully restored with a fresh gold shine and retrofitted with new ringers that are operated by an automated computer system. That program allows the bells to ring either on a timer or remotely, even through an app on a smartphone, and they were ringing again by the afternoon. "It's a good sign of hope," Kresak said. "This is a reminder that it's just a church building. When we can save pieces from our past — kind of like we do when our parents and grandparents move on — we all have something that we cherish from them that we hold onto. It was really exciting for the parish to be able to see that something this significant is being saved, and that the whole community can share in that."
Yahoo
18-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Queer Wisconsin lawmakers Tammy Baldwin's and Mark Pocan's names found on Minnesota shooting suspect's list
Two of Wisconsin's top LGBTQ+ lawmakers — U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan — were among more than 45 Democratic officials named in writings recovered from the vehicle of a man accused of killing Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband in what officials are calling a politically motivated act of terror. Keep up with the latest in + news and politics. The suspect, 57-year-old Vance Boelter, was taken into custody Sunday after a statewide manhunt and appeared in federal court Monday on six charges, including two counts of murder with a firearm. Local prosecutors have also announced plans to file first-degree murder charges. Authorities say Boelter fatally shot Hortman and her husband, Mark, and critically injured state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, after reportedly showing up at the homes of at least four Democratic lawmakers early Saturday. Related: Man arrested for killing Minnesota Democrat gave anti-LGBTQ+ speech in Africa According to law enforcement and federal prosecutors, Boelter left behind notebooks naming dozens of current Democratic officeholders. Both Baldwin and Pocan confirmed that they had been notified their names were among those listed. 'Senator Baldwin was informed by law enforcement that she was included on the alleged shooter's list of names,' Baldwin's communications director, Eli Rosen, said in a statement to The Advocate. 'She is grateful for law enforcement's swift action to keep the community safe and remains focused on the things that matter most here: honoring the legacy and life of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, praying for the other victims who are fighting for their lives, and condemning this abhorrent, senseless political violence.' Baldwin, the first out gay person elected to the U.S. Senate, also responded on social media shortly after the shooting, calling the events 'stunning, terrifying, and heartbreaking.' 'Political violence like this is not who we are as a country,' she wrote. 'It's on all of us to condemn and stop it at every turn.' Pocan, a longtime out member of the House and former chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus, said that the U.S. Capitol Police informed his office that his name appeared on additional documents found after the initial notebook was discovered. He said he learned of the connection on Sunday and that no further details had been shared with him. 'I'm appreciative that law enforcement apprehended the suspect,' Pocan said in a statement to The Advocate. 'I will not back down in the face of terror. However, we as elected officials must do better to lower the temperature. That said, my schedule remains unchanged.' Federal prosecutors have not yet identified a motive, but Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said the evidence paints a clear picture of a politically charged intent. 'Obviously, his primary motivation was to go and murder people,' Thompson said during a Monday press conference. 'They were all elected officials. They were all Democrats.' As The Advocate previously reported, Boelter's public record shows a pattern of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and Christian nationalist ideology. In 2023, he gave a speech in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where he railed against queer and transgender people, declaring that 'people in America… don't know what sex they are. They don't know their sexual orientation — they're confused. The enemy has gotten so far into their mind and their soul.' That same rhetoric has now been distorted and weaponized further: in a recent appearance with right-wing pundit Benny Johnson, Donald Trump Jr. falsely claimed Boelter was aligned with the 'radical transgender movement,' labeling trans people 'the most violent domestic terror threat.' Related: Trump Jr. falsely blames 'radical transgender movement' for Melissa Hortman assassination In reality, trans people are far more likely to be victims than perpetrators of violence. A 2021 study by the Williams Institute found that transgender people are more than four times as likely as cisgender people to experience violent victimization, while cisgender individuals have committed 99.9 percent of mass shootings since 2014. The violence sent shockwaves through the Midwest and LGBTQ+ communities nationwide. Hortman, who previously served as Speaker of the Minnesota House, was known for championing LGBTQ+ rights and reproductive freedom. Her assassination has prompted vigils, condemnations, and calls for urgent federal action against political violence.
