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Bottomless Bricks reopens in Pittsfield

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:49:44 GMT

PITTSFIELD, Mass. (NEWS10) - After competing on season 3 of the FOX show "LEGO Masters", Pittsfield native Erin Laundry is preparing for the grand reopening of her store specializing in all things LEGO, Bottomless Bricks. Her LEGO-focused business originally opened in Adams, but closed during the pandemic. Store specializing in LEGO products opening in Pittsfield NEWS10 interviewed Laundry in when we featured Bottomless Bricks in our Off the Beaten Path series back in 2020. Despite its closure during the pandemic, Laundry always planned to reopen the business when the time was right. Pittsfield resident competes on ‘LEGO Masters’ season 3 “Being on LEGO Masters was incredible, it was a lot like summer camp for adult LEGO fans. If honestly we hadn't closed down, I wouldn’t have had that experience, so there’s a silver lining,” said Laundry.Introducing the NEWS10 Morning Team in LEGO form! Off the Beaten Path: Bottomless Bricks Bottomless Bricks is located at 163 South Str...

Man found unresponsive in Hawthrone Ave. home, police investigating

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:49:44 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Police are investigating after being called to a home on Hawthorne Avenue on Thursday around 5:40 p.m., for a medical call and reports of a possible weapon inside the house. Once police got inside, they found a man unresponsive. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Police were able to wake the man and bring him to the hospital to be evaluated. There is no word at this point regarding any charges filed. Stick with News10 as more information regarding the case becomes available.

Police chase on I-70 in Lake St. Louis causing traffic delays

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:49:44 GMT

LAKE ST. LOUIS -- A police chase is causing stopped traffic on I-70 WB past Lake Saint Louis Blvd. The car that was chased is now on fire blocking the left lane. One person is in custody.Bommarito Automotive Skyfox is on the scene. They are giving us exclusive aerial views of 70 WB past Lake Saint Charles Blvd. Crews are trying to out the fire out. All lanes shut down

Early morning fire damages vacant apartment building in North St. Louis

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:49:44 GMT

ST. LOUIS -- An early morning fire damaged a vacant two-story apartment building in the Kingsway West neighborhood of North St. Louis. Firefighters got the call around 2:30 this morning at the building on Union Boulevard at Wabada Avenue. The roof caught fire, and the walls of the building began to collapse. Crews worked to keep the fire from spreading to a building next door. No word on a cause

LASD investigating after man killed in South L.A. shooting

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:49:44 GMT

Authorities are investigating after a man was killed in a shooting in South Los Angeles on Thursday evening. According to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, deputies responded to the 1100 block of East 93rd Street around 7:55 p.m. on calls of a gunshot victim. Upon arriving on scene, they located a Black male adult suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel rendered aid to the victim at the scene before he was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced deceased. Neither the victim nor a suspect has been identified. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the LASD’s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500. Tips can be submitted anonymously by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. Anonymous tips may also be submitted online by visiting the Crime Stoppers website. 

Elias: Redefining homelessness for Medi-Cal coverage bold but may not fly

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:49:44 GMT

Settled in for his second and last term in Sacramento, not needing to worry about re-election and possibly looking to establish himself as America’s leading progressive long before a potential future run for president — that’s Gov. Gavin Newsom, who lately does not hesitate to push on many fronts for the priorities he vocally espoused back in 2018 during his first run for governor.Related ArticlesLocal Opinion | Elias: Beware yet another customer-paid utility bailout by state Legislature Local Opinion | Elias: Friction between state and cities such as Atherton intensifies over ‘builder’s remedy’ provision Local Opinion | Elias: California’s new housing laws, green energy mandates in conflict There was his call for reviving much of the state mental health program and infrastructure that was dismantled for financial reasons in the 1960s and ’70s by Govs. Ronald Reagan and Jerry Brown.There’s his sometimes he...

California jury returns $63 million verdict against Chevron over chemical pit

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:49:44 GMT

A California jury has returned a $63 million verdict against Chevron after finding the oil giant covered up a toxic chemical pit on land purchased by a man who built a house on it and was later diagnosed with a blood cancer.Kevin Wright, who has multiple myeloma, unknowingly built his home directly over the chemical pit near Santa Barbara in 1985, according to his lawsuit.Starting in 1974, Chevron subsidiary Union Oil Company of California had operated a sump pit for oil and gas production, a process that left the carcinogenic chemical benzene on the property, court papers said.Wright bought the land and built the house in 1985. Nearly three decades later, he was diagnosed with the cancer that attacks plasma cells in the blood and can be caused by benzene exposure, court documents said.Related ArticlesBusiness | Opinion: Consumer convenience is key to making bottle bills work Business | Flooding from dam break strands hundreds and leaves thousands with no ...

Highway 1 crash claims life of 34-year-old motorcyclist

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:49:44 GMT

SANTA CRUZ — A 34-year-old Santa Cruz motorcyclist died Wednesday evening after a two-vehicle collision on Highway 1.According to a release from the California Highway Patrol, Juan Manuel Maldonado Carranza was driving a 2013 Kawasaki motorcycle southbound along the highway. He began passing traffic on the left by crossing the solid double yellow lines and traveling in the northbound lane. Ahead of him, the driver of a 2001 Toyota Solara slowed and began making a left turn into a private driveway.Related ArticlesCrashes and Disasters | 18-year-old passenger killed in Interstate 880 car wreck Crashes and Disasters | Wrongful death lawsuit filed in connection with Redwood City street-racing crash that killed parents of twin girls Crashes and Disasters | Public’s help sought in identifying woman killed in San Jose crash Crashes and Disasters | Person dies at East Bay BART station, causing shutdown Crashes and Disasters | ...

Who is Jack Smith, the special counsel behind the Donald Trump classified documents indictment?

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:49:44 GMT

(CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith’s monthslong investigation into Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents has entered a new chapter with the indictment of the former president, sources familiar told CNN Thursday.Trump has been charged with seven counts in the indictment, according to another source familiar with the matter. The former president wrote on Truth Social that he had been informed by the Justice Department he was indicted and that he was “summoned to appear at the Federal Courthouse in Miami on Tuesday, at 3 PM.”Smith, appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland, was tasked in November to look into whether Trump or his aides committed crimes by taking classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago resort after he left the White House and whether they obstructed the investigation. The probe had escalated in recent weeks with several high-profile interviews and a former White House official telling prosecutors that Trump knew the proper process for declassifyi...

El Chapo’s wife transferred to Southern California halfway house to complete prison sentence

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:49:44 GMT

Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, has been transferred to a halfway house in the San Pedro area to carry out the rest of her prison sentence for helping Guzmán’s massive drug empire, officials say.Coronel Aispuro was transferred on May 30 from the Federal Medical Center at the Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas to the Bureau of Prisons’ Long Beach Residential Reentry Management Office in San Pedro, according to a spokesperson from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Where the halfway house is located was not specified.The facility is known as “community confinement,” or a halfway house, a type of supervised release that is reserved for inmates at the tail end of their sentence.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Baking instructor arrested on suspicion of bringing drugs into Bay Area jail Crime and Public Safety | Cardiologist now faces 34 felony counts for drugging or sexually assaulting 16 women Crim...