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Axios
23-05-2025
- Business
- Axios
Arizona leader warns Diamondbacks could be poached by Utah
Last year, Utah swiped a professional sports team from Arizona. Now, there's concern from our southern neighbor that it could happen again. State of play: Arizona Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Danny Seiden appeared on the "The Mike Broomhead Show" this week to discuss legislative negotiations over a bill that would take sales tax money generated by the Arizona Diamondbacks and use it for ballpark renovations. What he said: "If we are not careful, we are going to see the Arizona Diamondbacks become the Utah Pika or whatever awful animal they will change it to," said Seiden, who supports the legislation. "They took our Coyotes and turned it into the Mastodon, Elephant or something. It is something terrible, I don't even want to say it. It hurts my heart. Some Utah nonsense," he said of Arizona's former NHL team, now called the Utah Mammoth. "We can't allow that to happen to the D-backs."
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Yahoo
Alpharetta dealership employee says she was kidnapped after customer had his car serviced
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Generate Key Takeaways A north Fulton County man is behind bars after police say he kidnapped an employee at a car dealership. Deputies say Barinuaadum Bariyiga, 39, brought his car to the RBM of Alpharetta for a routine service appointment. But when he got back, they say he asked the service advisor to show him the features on his loaner. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] But deputies told Channel 2's Michael Seiden that when she got in the car, Bariyiga took off. Investigators say he drove her around for 40 minutes despite her begging him to take her back to the dealership. 'He persistently asked her personal and inappropriate questions about her love life, relationship status and appearance,' the responding deputy wrote in his report that Seiden obtained. They say he also asked her on a date and called himself from her phone so he could save her phone number. Eventually, he drove her back to the dealership, where he stayed until deputies arrived. They say after they found him in the service area, he attempted to leave with his child who stayed back during the chaos. TRENDING STORIES: Bariyiga is charged with several crimes, including kidnapping, false imprisonment and obstruction. Seiden reached out to RBM of Alpharetta to see if they plan to make any changes to ensure their employees' safety, but the dealership declined to comment. He also exchanged text messages with Bariyiga's wife who said she would call him about the allegations after she got off work, but he has not yet heard back. [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Exclusive: Inside high-speed driving training new GA officers are getting to improve safety
Starting this year, new law enforcement officers in Georgia are getting high-speed driving training aimed at making our roads safer. Channel 2's Michael Seiden got an exclusive look at the training that could lead to fewer deaths, injuries, and crashes. If you travel about an hour south of downtown Atlanta, you will find hundreds of recruits who are training for some of the most dangerous scenarios that law enforcement can face – including high speeds on the interstate. 'The criminals out here are driving Camaros, Mustangs, Corvettes, Hellcats – 500, and 600, and 800 horsepower cars,' said Brian Stokes, an instructor at Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth. Challenges are also found on congested suburban streets. 'They can be people, they can be mailboxes, they can be other vehicles,' said Kevin Angell, another instructor at GPSTC. Instructors are now teaching new officers how to drive safely in any environment. 'We want to prevent or help lower the incidents of officers being injured in the line of a vehicle crash. That's a very high statistic across the country. And also, the citizens that are involved in those as well,' said Ara Baronian, Director of Basic Training at GPSTC. He said since the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council voted last year to increase the minimum training requirements to become a certified police officer, recruits are now required to log at least 56 hours of drive time. MORE STORIES FROM 2 INVESTIGATES: A study finds long EMS response times in DeKalb. What are the reasons? 'Emergency message' orders Social Security withhold 50% of benefits for those who were overpaid Popular apps could be collecting your data, affecting car insurance prices Used car sales spiking over tariffs, but you need to read the fine print, or it could cost yousplit-second In April, Seiden got the opportunity to play recruit for the day. The training starts with the basics: how to navigate the roads when you are dealing with obstacles. Seiden started on the cones course, with each cone representing a person, mailbox or even another car. 'They've got two minutes and 40 seconds to move their way through this course and really the skills that it's focused on is turning left, turning right, braking, backing up, being able to accelerate and being able to decelerate safely,' Angell said. But it didn't take long before Seiden got into some serious trouble. 'Once we get around them. Oops, I almost hit them. I gotta go back up. I feel I'm 16 again. Yeah, it's pressure,' Seiden said. Ultimately, Seiden failed the test. 'If this were a real-life situation, I'd be in a lot of trouble right now,' Seiden said. Channel 2 Action News also took a ride on the urban track where recruits are forced to make split-second decisions in real-life scenarios. 'What we wanted to add to that was the additional variables, like manipulating a high-priority call through traffic, right through a city street,' Baronian said. Seiden also rode along for a couple of laps around the high-speed course. 'Wow! Wow! We're going over 100 miles per hour right now,' Seiden said. This is a vital part of the training because it teaches the recruits how to maintain control of their cars as they fly around curves. On this day, we also found several recruits practicing their pit maneuvers, a law enforcement tactic that is used to force a fleeing car to stop. The state is only 16 weeks into this new training, but so far, the feedback is positive. In fact, instructors believe that these tactics are going to make Georgia roads much safer. 'We're not rushing to any conclusions yet, but so far, we've had a lot of success,' Baronian said. Seiden asked them how they are going to measure success and they told him that they don't track outside statistics, but they stay in constant communication with local, state, and federal partners and use it to tweak their training programs.
Yahoo
22-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Mother describes horrifying moments as she watched her SUV burst into flames along GA 400
A local mother says she is grateful to be alive after her SUV caught fire. Amy Strauss said she watched as her vehicle burned in the middle of Georgia 400. Since then, Strauss told Channel 2's Michael Seiden that she feels like she is still living in a never-ending nightmare. 'I kept thinking, 'That's not my car. Surely, that's not my car. It's supposed to be a safe family vehicle,'' Strauss said after her 2023 Subaru Ascent broke down in the middle of Georgia 400. It then erupted into flames. 'Even to this day, I cannot stop thinking about what if I had the kids with me in the car?' Strauss said. The wife and mother-of-two was headed to pick up her kids from school on March 18, when all of a sudden her SUV died in the middle of the highway near the Northridge Road exit in Sandy Springs. 'All of the warning lights came on in the car and the car completely died,' Strauss said. Her husband told her to call 911 and the dispatcher helped her get out safely. TRENDING STORIES: 'I remember seeing a boot to my face': Gwinnett teen explains brutal Little Caesars beating Catholic group calls for Marjorie Taylor Greene to be censured over Pope comment GA couple sentenced for padlocking fridge, allowing son to molest half-sister in exchange for food 'I was actually very apologetic because it felt like it was not an emergency, and I was taking resources that didn't need to be taken,' Strauss said. 'That super brief four-minute call I think, effectively saved my life.' As soon as she stepped out… 'I was stunned to see smoke pouring out of the engine,' Strauss said. 'The tires blew. There were a lot of noises, and then within seconds, it was completely engulfed.' Strauss said she watched helplessly as the fire melted her Subaru. Thankfully, her children were still at school. 'I think the time that I would've needed to unbuckle my young kids would've been too late,' Strauss said. She told Seiden that it's been more than a month since she reported what happened to Subaru, but still hasn't gotten a definitive answer. 'I would have thought that Subaru would have immediately come to our aid and just provided some kind of solution,' Strauss said. Strauss said that Subaru issued a recall in 2022 on more than 250,000 Ascent vehicles due to an increased fire risk. Seiden emailed and called Subaru's corporate office to see if there is a bigger problem, but he has not heard back.
Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Binghamton judge censured, returning to bench in April
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – Judge Daniel Seiden is returning to Binghamton City Court after being censured for contributing to a hostile work environment. Seiden was escorted from City Hall by security on July 23, 2024, as he was coming off the bench from hearing a case and was forced to clear out his office several days later. He was transferred to Cortland City Court under the guise of needing to assist that court because it was understaffed. According to court filings, Seiden was not told that he was the subject of an administrative complaint and the Unified Court System refused to acknowledge to News 34 that he was under investigation. Thus, Binghamton voters were unaware of the accusations against him when they re-elected him unopposed to another 10-year term in November. It was only then that Seiden says in a court filing that he was informed of the accusation against him. It all stems from a meeting he had with the Binghamton Court Clerk Jennifer Katz back in April of 2023 in which Seiden admits that he strenuously objected to an administrative switch from a manual to a web-based tracking system for criminal cases. During that heated argument, Seiden said 'stay out of my shorts' which he claims is a colloquial way of saying 'stay out of my business.' According to the state's Commission on Judicial Conduct, which released the censure today, Seiden also made disparaging comments about his fellow judges, blamed Katz for the loss of capable staff and refused to use the new system. Nevertheless, the 6th Judicial District's Administrative Judge Eugene Faughnan waited 15 months to have Seiden removed under armed guard in an apparent effort to embarrass him. After January 1, when the Cortland Court returned to full staff and when Binghamton had lost a judge, Seiden remained in exile. So, he filed an Article 78 procedure seeking to be returned to the jurisdiction that he was re-elected to and complaining about his 500-mile-per-week commute. In that filing, he accused Faughnan, Katz and Katz's husband Joshua Shapiro, who is Faughnan's Special Counsel, of fostering a corrosive culture. Ultimately, the CJC finally came to a determination that Seiden should be censured for his behavior and Seiden voluntarily completed a course on appropriate workplace communication and accepted the censure. He is now scheduled to return to City Court on April 28. His term is set to expire at the end of 2028 because he will have reached the mandatory retirement age of 70. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
