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NYC Dashboard Shows 45,789 Released Individuals Awaiting Trial

By Veronica Tan 5 days ago

Photo by janinsanfran via Flickr

Photo by PROjaninsanfran via Flickr

In August of this year, New York City had 45,789 individuals awaiting disposition of their case — a vast majority of them accused of misdemeanor crimes, according to  the Pretrial Release Dashboard, a new service launched Monday by the New York City Criminal Justice Agency (CJA) in partnership with the New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice and leading national pretrial justice consultants Luminosity, Inc.

The Pretrial Release Dashboard illuminates the fact that many people in New York are still awaiting the final disposition of their case, and

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Honolulu car wreck: Sedan sideswipes several cars and sends sparks flying at midnight, video shows

By Veronica Tan 1 week ago

Residents of Honolulu’s idyllic Waikiki neighborhood were woken up by a loud car crash and alarms shortly after midnight in the early hours of Sunday morning. 

Video captured by KITN shows a white sedan sideswiping several cars and sending sparks flying before finally coming to a stop with police on its tail. 

WARNING: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC LANGUAGE

Jennifer Walsh, who lives on the 26th floor of a building overlooking the crash site, said that her whole building was woken up by an initial wreck right after midnight. 

“He left the scene immediately, only to return to clip about eight

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Eagle County COVID dashboard now shows case incidence by vaccination status, number of children infected

By Veronica Tan 3 months ago
The 7-day case rate by vaccination status graph, showing the rate of infections per 100,000 in Eagle County, as of Tuesday. The data will be updated weekly.
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Eagle County’s community COVID-19 monitoring dashboard now shows case incidence by vaccination status, as well as child case rates by age groups. The dashboard was updated to provide the info over the Labor Day weekend in Eagle County.

The dashboard also shows active hospitalizations — as of Sept. 6, there are three in Eagle County, down from nine on Aug. 31.

No new deaths have been added to the dashboard since

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NASCAR 21: Ignition trailer shows new gameplay in Unreal Engine 4

By Veronica Tan 3 months ago

Stock car racing has a new engine — Unreal 4 — with NASCAR 21: Ignition, and it gets a close-up in this gameplay trailer Motorsport Games released during Gamescom 2021. The first look at the game’s cars shows presentation and detail that Ignition’s predecessor, the NASCAR Heat series, would struggle to meet with the Unity engine.

NASCAR 21: Ignition is a from-the-ground-up effort, Motorsport Games chief executive Dmitry Kozko told Polygon earlier this month. The new publishing label (a subsidiary of Motorsport.com’s publishing company) picked up the NASCAR franchise last year. This year’s game uses Unreal 4 as

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Updated Horry County Schools dashboard shows 6,800 students in quarantine

By Veronica Tan 3 months ago

HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WMBF) – Horry County Schools updated its COVID-19 dashboard to show just how many students are currently in quarantine in the district.

The latest update at 4:47 p.m. on Monday shows there are 6,800 students in quarantine, out of the nearly 43,400 students that opted into face-to-face instruction in the district.

MORE INFORMATION | Horry County COVID-19 Dashboard

The dashboard used to only show the number of staff in quarantine. Horry County Schools explained that it only showed staff quarantine because that impacted operations at the schools.

But the district decided to provide information about students in

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Mazda patent drawing shows coupe resembling stunning RX-Vision concept

By Veronica Tan 3 months ago

Mazda shocked the automotive world in 2015 with its RX-Vision concept, a stunning sports car with rear-wheel drive and rotary power unveiled to highlight Mazda’s latest design language and reaffirm the automaker’s commitment to rotary powertrains.

The automaker has since ruled out a rotary-powered sports car (choosing instead to use rotaries for range-extending duty in electric vehicles), but could we still see something like the RX-Vision with a different powertrain?

Japanese website Hatena Blog has dug up a patent drawing that hints at the possibility. The patent, which was filed with the Japan Patent Office in January 2020, shows the

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New COVID-19 Dashboard Shows Higher Incident Rate for Unvaccinated People + Need to Continue Testing

By Veronica Tan 4 months ago

by Pitkin County

In this blog post, we want to provide key context for understanding the latest Case & Testing Data Dashboard additions that show rates of cases by patient vaccination status and COVID-19 variant cases. Federal, State and local mask recommendations for vaccinated and unvaccinated people are shifting rapidly in response to the impact of the Delta variant which is more easily spread than previous variants of COVID-19. The key takeaways of our new dashboard additions are:

  • Twenty-eight day incidence rates of COVID-19 cases among unvaccinated residents are nearly twice as high as incidence rates among
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Video shows baby trapped under alleged drunk driver’s car being rescued by bystanders, police

By Veronica Tan 4 months ago

Police and bystanders freed a baby stuck under a car in Yonkers, New York, on Friday after an allegedly intoxicated driver drove through a storefront and trapped the infant.

Video released by the Yonkers police shows the horrifying incident, where the driver rammed into a parked car, then hit a woman carrying her child and drove straight into a barber shop with the woman on the hood of the car.

Bystanders and police officers work to rescue a mother and her baby trapped under a car in Yonkers, N.Y., on July 23, 2021. (Yonkers Police)

Two police officers were nearby

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State COVID-19 dashboard update shows no increase in cases or deaths | Coronavirus

By Veronica Tan 4 months ago

The state Department of Health’s midday Sunday COVID-19 dashboard update showed no increase in cases or deaths.

It has been more than a month since state officials provided weekend updates beyond updating statistics on its dashboard. The dashboard also showed no change in hospitalizations.

New infections from the novel coronavirus have been trending up. In the previous five days, the state averaged 369 new cases per day, including 425 on July 15, the largest increase since June 15. The state averaged 201 new cases per day from June 13 through July 12.

New deaths linked to the novel coronavirus have

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Video shows Virginia deputy lifting car to save trapped woman

By Veronica Tan 6 months ago

A decorated sheriff’s deputy in Virginia is being praised for acting quickly — again — to save a person trapped in a potentially life-threatening situation.

On May 7, Deputy J. Holt, with the Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office, responded to a report of an overturned automobile with an entrapment.

“The driver was laying underneath the vehicle with her head pinned by the sunroof,” , which contains brief, graphic footage of the accident, the woman trapped motionless under the car, and her child screaming from the back seat.

“Seeing the trauma her child was

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