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Warby Parker in Stuyvesant Plaza sets opening date

Published Tue, 17 Dec 2024 02:51:18 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Warby Parker, an eyeglasses, sunglasses, and vision store, has set the opening date for its new location in Stuyvesant Plaza. The store will have its grand opening on Saturday, June 3. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Its was announced in February that Warby Parker would be opening a store in the Plaza. The store will offer eye exams, eyewear, contact lenses and more. This store will also have exclusive custom store artwork by Albany-based artist Caroline Corrigan.“Our goal is to always meet our customers where they are, and we’re excited to continue expanding our retail presence in New York with our first store in the Albany area," said Warby Parker Senior Vice President of Retail Sandy Gilsenan. "Stuyvesant Plaza is at the heart of the Albany community and we’re so happy to join this center and help make it more convenient for our Albany customers to access affordable, holistic vision care.” Be...

Super Bowl goes back to Bay Area; 49ers to host in 2026 at Levi's Stadium

Published Tue, 17 Dec 2024 02:51:18 GMT

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The Super Bowl will return to the Bay Area in 2026 at the home of the San Francisco 49ers, following a vote of approval by NFL owners on Monday at their spring meetings. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! This will be the third time for the big game in the Bay Area. Levi's Stadium, which opened in Santa Clara in 2014, also hosted Super Bowl 50 when Denver beat Carolina. The 49ers won Super Bowl 19 at Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto when they beat Miami after the 1984 season. The 2026 game will be Super Bowl 60.Niners team president Al Guido said he hopes the NFL's decision to return to the Bay Area 10 years after the Super Bowl was last here is a sign that the region will be part of the regular rotation along with other Western cities like Los Angeles and Las Vegas.“We needed a facility that had the size and scale that this one had,” Guido said. “There’s been a lot of changes that have happened around ...

'Person of interest' in police custody for St. Peters triple shooting

Published Tue, 17 Dec 2024 02:51:18 GMT

Update: Police say that a person of interest is in custody. More information is expected to be released later today.ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. - The Major Case Squad has been activated following a triple shooting inside a St. Peters home. One man is dead, and two others are wounded, including a 13-year-old girl.The shooting occurred at the Country Creek Solutions Subdivision on Country Acres Drive around 1:40 a.m. Monday. Investigators said when officers arrived on the scene, they discovered a man dead from an apparent gunshot wound and two others also suffering from gunshot wounds.Police later identified the deceased as 57-year-old Darin Gosejohn. One victim is 13 years old, and the other is a 45-year-old woman. Police said they were transported to a nearby hospital with no life-threatening injuries. St. Louis County man charged after crashing truck near the White House Some St. Peters residents are reacting to waking up to crime scene tape and multiple police vehicles in their no...

Search for suspect stops Illinois MetroLink trains

Published Tue, 17 Dec 2024 02:51:18 GMT

ST. LOUIS -- MetroLink trains were not running between many Illinois stations at around 8:45 a.m. Tuesday morning. A police chase ended near one of them while officers looked for a suspect. A person of interest is now in police custody.MetroLink trains are now running between all stations again. Riders may see some delays as the trains get back on schedule.This is a developing story. More details will be posted here as they come into the FOX 2 Newsroom.

Security concerns at a Central West End parking garage

Published Tue, 17 Dec 2024 02:51:18 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Customers of a city-owned garage in the Central West End complain about the lack of security there. One woman described encountering a naked man as she went to her car.Another said two men followed her to her vehicle and then knocked on the window, trying to get her to open the door.The St. Louis Treasurer's Office is responsible for managing and owning the garage. Some of the women work at a local university and said it’s the most convenient place to park, even though they said it’s not the safest. They said there’s no one in the parking garage office, so if something happens, they are on their own.Patrons really got angry when the city raised the monthly parking fees from $65 a month to $85 with a promise of more security that never came. St. Louis County man charged after crashing truck near the White House Some of the women who are complaining said they’ve called the city for answers."Within the last month, I contacted them three times for answers about this price ...

LeBron questions retirement after Lakers are eliminated from playoffs

Published Tue, 17 Dec 2024 02:51:18 GMT

By GREG BEACHAM (AP Sports Writer)LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James questioned retirement after his Lakers were swept by the Denver Nuggets despite the highest-scoring postseason half of James’ matchless NBA career.James set a personal record with 31 points in the first half of Game 4 of the Western Conference finals on Monday night, but he missed two potential tying shots in the final minute as the Nuggets ended the Lakers’ season with a 113-111 victory.The 38-year-old James finished with 40 points, 10 rebounds, nine assists and immense frustration after Los Angeles’ remarkable late-season surge ended with four consecutive defeats. Although the top scorer in NBA history spoke about himself as part of the Lakers next season, James also said he hasn’t made up his mind on retirement.“We’ll see what happens going forward,” James said in the final answer of his postgame news conference. “I don’t know. I don’t know. I’...

Woman kidnapped at gunpoint off bus in East Los Angeles: Sheriff's Department

Published Tue, 17 Dec 2024 02:51:18 GMT

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is hoping the public can help investigators identify and track down a woman who appeared to have been kidnapped at gunpoint while trying to board a bus in East Los Angeles on Monday.The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department provided this image of a man accused of a kidnapping on May 22, 2023.The woman was boarding a Montebello Transit bus in the 3800 block of East Third Street at about 8:38 p.m. when she was "confronted from behind" by a man, the LASD said in a news release.Surveillance footage shows a passenger and the bus driver tried to step in to help, but the man broke a window on the bus and pointed a handgun at the driver, then "appeared to coerce the female into" a nearby white Honda Civic, authorities said.The man then drove off east on Third Street to the 60 Freeway.Deputies are searching for the woman, man and the Civic, which they believe is a four-door car possibly from the 2022 model year.The woman is believed to in her mid...

Summer sunscreens for 2023, ranked for safety and effectiveness

Published Tue, 17 Dec 2024 02:51:18 GMT

(CNN) — Eeny, meeny, miny, moe — choosing a sunscreen for summer used to be child’s play. Today, market shelves are packed with dozens of options, each promising to be better than the others at protecting skin from the sun’s harmful rays.However, most sunscreen options contain one or more of a dozen chemicals the US Food and Drug Administration said should be researched by manufacturers before the ingredients can be considered GRASE or “generally regarded as safe and effective,” according to a new analysis.“We found only 25% of sunscreens on the market offer good broad-spectrum protection without troublesome chemical ingredients,” said Emily Spilman, Healthy Living Science program manager for the Environmental Working Group, a non-profit consumer advocacy group that has investigated sunscreen products for 17 years.This year’s report, entitled “EWG 17th Annual Guide to Safer Sunscreens,” was released Tuesday.The 2023 report has some good news too, for both people and the planet. Use ...

Shooting victim sues gas station after clerk locks customers inside with armed robber

Published Tue, 17 Dec 2024 02:51:18 GMT

By Kara Berg | The Detroit NewsOne of the three men who was shot inside a Detroit gas station May 6 has filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil Corp. and the owner of the gas station for failing to properly train a clerk who locked the men inside with an armed man who threatened to shoot everyone inside if the clerk did not let him out.Anthony Bowden, 60, had gone into the gas station in the 12800 block of West McNichols in Detroit at about 3 a.m. May 6 to get money from the ATM before his early shift began at Dollar Tree, according to the lawsuit, which was filed last week in Wayne County Circuit Court.When Bowden entered the gas station, he saw the alleged shooter, Samuel McCray, arguing with gas station clerk Al-Hassan Aiyash, who was in a bulletproof vestibule, according to the lawsuit. McCray’s card had been declined for an approximately $4 purchase and he was angry, police said.Aiyash locked the gas station doors with a button in the vestibule, trapping McCray, Bowden and two...

UPS strike looms in a world grown reliant on everything delivered everywhere all the time

Published Tue, 17 Dec 2024 02:51:18 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Living in New York City, working full time and without a car, Jessica Ray and her husband have come to rely on deliveries of food and just about everything else for their home. It has meant more free time on weekends with their young son, rather than standing in line for toilet paper or dragging heavy bags of dog food back to their apartment. “I don’t even know where to buy dog food,” said Jessica Ray of the specialty food she buys for the family’s aging dog.There are millions of families like the Rays who have swapped store visits for doorstep deliveries in recent years, meaning that contentious labor negotiations now underway at UPS could become vastly more disruptive than the last time it happened in 1997, when a scrappy upstart called Amazon.com became a public company.UPS delivers millions more packages every day than it did just five years ago and its 350,000 unionized workers, represented by the Teamsters, still seethe about a contract they feel was forced o...