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Supply chain lessons learned; preparing for the next disruption

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:01:51 GMT

ST. LOUIS – “The stresses that were put on the supply chain were extreme. It definitely was a giant stress test,” said Logan Cooper, senior regional traffic manager at OEC Group’s St. Louis bureau.Logistical nightmares Cooper and his colleagues navigated that don’t yet feel like distant dreams.“Containers coming into the West Coast. Trying to get them on the rail was a huge challenge. We had containers that sat for six months in some cases,” Cooper said.Cooper says the experience helped them better understand what worked, what didn’t, and what needed to change. A tall order, even for one of the leading cargo logistics providers from Asia to North America. Top Story: When and where to expect storms Thursday near St. Louis “One of the big things for us is what we call transloads. A container that’s coming to the Midwest, instead of using rail to get to the Midwest, which is going to be one of those choke points, we will transload it,” he said. “We will unload the cargo container, pu...

Stampede in Yemen at Ramadan charity event kills at least 78

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:01:51 GMT

By AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY (Associated Press)SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A crowd apparently spooked by gunfire and an electrical explosion stampeded at an event to distribute financial aid during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Yemen’s capital late Wednesday, killing at least 78 people and injuring at least 73 others, according to witnesses and Houthi rebel officials.The tragedy was Yemen’s deadliest in years that was not related to the country’s long-running war, and came ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan later this week.Armed Houthis fired into the air in an attempt at crowd control, apparently striking an electrical wire and causing it to explode, according to two witnesses, Abdel-Rahman Ahmed and Yahia Mohsen. That sparked a panic, and people, including many women and children, began stampeding, they said.Video posted on social media showed dozens of bodies, some motionless, and others screaming as people tried to ...

Authorities shed more light on stabbing that preceded crash that took teen's life Ventura County

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:01:51 GMT

A day after a 15-year-old boy was killed when a vehicle plowed into a group of teens near Westlake High School in Thousand Oaks, authorities in Simi Valley have released more information about a violent stabbing that took place in the city less than a hour earlier at the hands of the same suspect.Just after 2:40 p.m. Tuesday, Simi Valley police responded to a Walmart located at 255 West Cochrane St., for a report of an incident involving a customer.When they arrived on scene, the found an employee of the store had been pepper sprayed and stabbed by a man believed to be Austin Eis, a 24-year-old homeless man.Austin Eis is seen in this undated photo provided by the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.Witnesses told police that Eis entered the store, pepper sprayed the employee and then stabbed him several times with a large knife. He then turned his attention to a second employee, attacking her and then attempting to "drag her away." He was confronted by several other employees who tried ...

Family speaks out after teen missing for months in L.A. County found safe

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:01:51 GMT

The family of a 16-year-old girl who had been missing since Jan. 1 and who was recently found safe and reunited with her mother, held a press conference Wednesday to thank the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for their efforts in finding the teen.  Alinka Castaneda, 16, left her family’s home in Carson on New Year’s Day and was seen “entering an unknown vehicle” in the 23000 block of South Carodale Avenue at 5 a.m., officials with the sheriff’s department said.   Footage from a Ring doorbell camera captured an unidentified man walking toward Castaneda moments before she disappeared. While the teen’s family initially believed her disappearance may have been an attempt to run away, they later received several distressing calls from the 16-year-old, which prompted fears that she may have been a victim of sex trafficking. Moses Castillo, a retired LAPD detective and a private investigator who worked on the case, told NewsNation that there was at...

Police search for 12-year-old girl who disappeared in Ventura

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:01:51 GMT

Police are searching for a young girl who disappeared in Ventura on Wednesday.The missing child, 12-year-old Canela Hernandez, was last seen being dropped off at Anacapa Middle School around 8 a.m., according to the Ventura Police Department.The school is located at the corner of Mills and Telegraph Roads.Hernandez is described as a female standing 4 feet 8 inches, weighing 90 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.She was last seen wearing a black sweatshirt and black jeans, police said.She has not been heard from since being dropped off at school, authorities said.Missing child, Canela Hernandez, 12, in a photo from the Ventura Police Department.Anyone who may have spotted Hernandez or knows of her whereabouts is asked to call Ventura police at 1-805-339-4312 or simply call 911.

Beau is Afraid Scares up an Overbearing Freudian Nightmare

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:01:51 GMT

A few years back, writer/director Ari Aster broke the horror mold with his films Hereditary and Midsommar, his Polanski-inspired sense of dread and interest in psychological nuance bolstering a genre that was subsisting on paranormal scares and torture porn. He employs those familiar tropes in his latest horror-comedy, Beau is Afraid, but instead of utilizing restraint, which is his strength, he flings us down a wormhole of Freudian anxiety, nightmarish surrealism, and extreme hyperbole.Although Aster’s tireless ambition is on display, his slow-burn style is nowhere to be found in the A24 release. Beau is a long, exhausting pilgrimage through one man’s shortcomings ripped straight out of a Philip Roth novel and filtered through Clive Barker’s imagination. It’s a fairy tale rendering of adult hell.A four-part episodic journey, the movie opens in a birth canal (yep, get ready) where our hero (sort of) Beau Wassermann (Joaquin Phoenix) sees the world for the first time and is immediate...

E-40, Kings say rapper’s Game 1 ejection was ‘unfortunate misunderstanding’

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:01:51 GMT

The Sacramento Kings and E-40 said the Bay Area rapper’s ejection from a playoff game over the weekend was the result of an “unfortunate misunderstanding.”E-40, an avid Warriors fan, was removed from his seat near the Warriors bench in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s loss to the Kings. A day later, the rapper, whose real name is Early Tywone Stevens Sr., alleged that his ejection was racially motivated, prompting the Kings to open an investigation into the incident.On Wednesday, the two released a joint statement that explained the incident was a mix-up between both parties.“After a series of thoughtful and transparent conversations, both parties agree that there was a miscommunication regarding the circumstances that occurred during the Kings vs. Warriors game on Saturday night,” the statement read. “Contrary to speculation, Mr. Earl ‘E-40’ Stevens did not stand excessively from his ticketed courtside seat; the outcome resulted...

3.8 magnitude earthquake reported in Antioch

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:01:51 GMT

(KRON) -- A preliminary 3.8 magnitude earthquake was reported in Antioch Wednesday night, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The earthquake was reported at 8:35 p.m.The depth of the earthquake is 16.4 km. The preliminary epicenter reported by USGS is roughly three miles west of Kaiser Permanente located at 4501 Sand Creek Road.This story will be updated.

Pirates romp 14-3 for sweep, send Rockies to 8th loss in row

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:01:51 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Rodolfo Castro hit a 458-foot homer and drove in four runs, leading Pittsburgh over the Colorado Rockies 14-3 Wednesday to complete the Pirates’ first three-game sweep at Denver since 2019.Colorado has lost eight straight games, its longest skid since nine in a row last Aug. 27 to Sept. 4. The Rockies are a National League-worst 5-14 and the game drew 18,511, the smallest crowd for a Coors Field game with unrestricted ticket sales since 18,341 on April 18, 2013.Pittsburgh won the first and third games of the series by identical scores and outscored Colorado 33-9 this week, the Pirates’ most runs in a three-game series since July 28-30, 2000, against San Diego.“I’m pretty excited right now, not because of myself, but the whole group,” Castro said. “All the work that we have put in together since spring training, it’s showing up now, and we’re winning some games. That’s always exciting.”Andrew McCutchen put the Pirates ahead in the first with an RBI double off Austin Gom...

Garcia dominant, Peña homers as Astros beats Toronto 8-1

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:01:51 GMT

HOUSTON (AP) — Luis Garcia tied a career high with nine strikeouts in seven shutout innings, Jeremy Peña capped a six-run eighth with a three-run homer and the Houston Astros defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 8-1 on Wednesday night.Mauricio Dubón extended his career-long hitting streak to 14 games with a single in the eighth that started Houston’s two-out rally. Alex Bregman singled, and Yordan Alvarez walked before José Abreu hit a two-run single. Kyle Tucker followed with an RBI single before Peña launched his third home run of the season into the Crawford Boxes.Jake Meyers hit a two-out, two-run double in the second to give Houston a 2-0 lead. Garcia (1-2) scattered two hits and walked one. He lowered his ERA from 7.71 to 5.14. The right-hander retired 11 of the first 12 batters he faced. He struck out six of the first seven batters.Garcia had allowed at least three runs in each of his first three starts while going no more than five innings in any of them.After Garcia exited, the B...