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Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Yahoo
Tampa man leads trooper on high-speed pursuit over Gandy Bridge: FHP
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A man was arrested after authorities say he fled a traffic stop Sunday, leading police on a pursuit. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a trooper was on patrol along the Gandy Bridge around 1 a.m. when he spotted a Toyota Supra traveling at 93 mph in a 55 mph posted speed zone. The trooper said he attempted a traffic stop, which the driver ignored, then continued fleeing east on the bridge at speeds over 100 mph. At the east end of the bridge, the trooper said he conducted a PIT maneuver, which was successful. This caused the vehicle to rotate onto the shoulder of the bridge, where it collided with a light pole and caught fire. FHP identified the driver as 31-year-old Brandon Ramnarine from Tampa. Ramnarine, along with a passenger who was also traveling in the vehicle, both suffered non-life-threatening injuries. They were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. The Florida Highway Patrol has charged Ramnarine with fleeing and eluding at high speed. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
04-05-2025
- Yahoo
Trooper conducts PIT maneuver on suspect driving over 100 MPH on Gandy Bridge: FHP
The Brief A suspect was seen driving over 100 MPH on the Gandy Bridge before an FHP trooper conducted a PIT maneuver on his car on the east end of the bridge, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Investigators say that 31-year-old Brandon Ramnarine was driving a Toyota Supra at 93 MPH in a 55 MPH speed zone early on Sunday morning. Both men in the car were taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. TAMPA - A Tampa man driving over 100 MPH was injured along with a passenger in the car after a Florida Highway Patrol trooper conducted a PIT maneuver on the east end of the Gandy Bridge, according to FHP. Investigators say that 31-year-old Brandon Ramnarine was driving a Toyota Supra at 93 MPH in a 55 MPH speed zone on the Gandy Bridge early on Sunday morning. When the trooper attempted to stop Ramnarine, he fled across the bridge. READ: Spring Hill teen driver arrested with loaded gun after fleeing traffic stop: FHP That's when the trooper in pursuit conducted a PIT maneuver, causing the Toyota to rotate onto the shoulder, collide with a light pole, and catch fire. Both men in the car were taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. What's next Ramnarine was charged with fleeing and eluding at high speed. CLICK HERE:>>>Follow FOX 13 on YouTube The Source Information for this story was provided by the Florida Highway Patrol. STAY CONNECTED WITH FOX 13 TAMPA: Download the FOX Local app for your smart TV Download FOX Local mobile app: Apple | Android Download the FOX 13 News app for breaking news alerts, latest headlines Download the SkyTower Radar app Sign up for FOX 13's daily newsletter
CBC
31-03-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Could the influx of new Albertans affect voting in Edmonton ridings this election?
After moving to Edmonton two years ago, Kieran Ramnarine will be voting federally for the first time as an Albertan. He's stressed ahead of the April 28 election, though, because the stakes seem higher than in previous votes. "With threats to democracy, and then seeing this political and social charge behind politics in general these days, it just feels like there's more impact behind my vote, and my vote is going to lead to something much more tangible in the future," he said in an interview. "Picking what that might be is going to be tough." The Edmonton census metropolitan area — which includes the city and satellite communities like Leduc and Sherwood Park — has grown by more than 159,000 since 2021, when the last federal election was held, Statistics Canada data shows. The record increase has been driven mainly by an influx of migrants, like Ramnarine, who arrived from other countries and from other provinces — especially B.C. and Ontario. Federal electoral district boundaries, including several Edmonton area ridings, were redrawn in 2023 to adjust for growth. The changes led to Edmonton's nine electoral districts being within the city's limits. The St. Albert-Edmonton riding, for example, no longer exists; the redrawing separated St. Albert from the city's northwest, forming the new St. Albert-Sturgeon River and Edmonton Northwest ridings. Edmonton Mill Woods has also been split into two new ridings: Edmonton Southeast and Edmonton Gateway. StatsCan used 2021 census data to calculate population and demographic information for each new riding, but the numbers aren't available yet for how much the population counts in those ridings have changed in the past four years. Elections Canada recently analyzed how the 2021 election could have played out with the 2023 ridings. But according to Jared Wesley, a University of Alberta political scientist, it's unclear whether migrants to Alberta will have any impact on the upcoming election. "There is no real sense that an influx of people is going to have a real impact on one riding or another," he said. Historically, Alberta mostly votes conservative in federal elections. In 2021, 30 of 34 ridings in the province went to the Conservative Party. Six of the nine Edmonton-area ridings went blue. Some migrants may come from places with more political parity, but voting behaviour is so individualized and people come to Alberta for many different reasons, Wesley said. "Some of them are attracted to the small-c conservative values of entrepreneurialism, free markets and small government," he said. "Folks move here for other reasons as well. They might be drawn here because of quality-of-life factors, or robust systems of public support or social services. "It really depends on who we're talking about — and those folks tend to scatter across ridings fairly randomly." To properly track the potential impact of newcomers, researchers would have to study people before they moved, where they came from and where they landed in Alberta, he said. In this case, that work would take months after the election. Danyal Niro, born and raised in Calgary, was first eligible to cast a ballot in the 2015 election. He did so in the Calgary Shepard riding, he said. Niro, who has since moved within and outside of Alberta, expects migrants could have an impact in ridings in the cores of Alberta's major cities, he said. "The vast majority of these migrations are going into the city centres, which are typically the more diverse battleground ridings that exist here," said Niro, who now lives in Beaumont, southeast of Edmonton. The political preference in Niro's riding — the new Leduc-Wetaskiwin electoral district, south of Edmonton — is more set "and doesn't seem to be moving anytime soon," he said. Under its previous name, Edmonton-Wetaskiwin, the riding has been held by Conservative MP Mike Lake since 2015. For Ramnarine, the Edmonton newcomer, the lead-up to the election has been a learning experience: people he has had conversations with are learning more about Ontario politics from him, while he is learning more about the Alberta landscape from them, he said. WATCH | Could a population boom impact the federal election in Alberta? Could a population boom impact the federal election in Alberta? 3 days ago Duration 2:58 Federal electoral districts have been redrawn to account for Alberta's population boom. The bulk of new Albertans are from other countries and places like Ontario and B.C. What remains to be seen is how that could impact the upcoming federal election. "People are getting a wider perspective and that's changing their impressions of who to vote for in the next election," Ramnarine said. Voters don't often cast ballots based on a party's policy platform, said Wesley. Instead, they tend to focus on things like identity and how they — or even their parents — voted in the past, he said. Policy could have even less influence this election, partially because the parties' platforms have many similar initiatives, he said. But this election, in particular, Wesley expects voters will focus more on which leader they most trust can take on U.S. President Donald Trump, who has imposed tariffs on some Canadian imports and has said repeatedly that he wants to make Canada the 51st state.
