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Victims found shot inside SUV at Schuylkill Expressway crash scene before New Year's - WPVI-TV
It happened around 11 p.m. Thursday, shortly before the start of the new year.
The Acura MDX SUV was found rolled over in the westbound lanes of I-76 near the Girard Avenue Bridge, authorities said.
Investigators said they discovered that someone was inside suffering from a gunshot wound to the head.
A 21-year-old man and a 20-year-old man were rushed to Temple University Hospital where they were listed in stable condition.
The crash caused a backup as there were many cars on the road just before midnight.
Police are working to determine what led to the crash and shooting.
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12 things we hope to see from the food and drink scene in 2021 - Minneapolis Star Tribune
It could almost go without saying that one of the first things we can't wait to do in a post-COVID world is be seated — maskless and carefree — at a table, with four solid walls surrounding us.
Who would have imagined a year ago that we'd long for something as basic and integral to restaurants as the ability to eat inside of one?
We don't know when that wish will come true, but 2021 is looking promising. In the meantime, here's what the Taste team is waiting (and hoping) to see in the new year.
Sizzling debuts
Even amid a pandemic, big names are taking even bigger chances on new restaurants. Look for Sean Sherman's Owamni by the Sioux Chef, Karyn Tomlinson's Myriel, Ann Kim's Sooki & Mimi, Yia Vang's Vinai, Houston White and Dogwood's Get Down Coffee Co., the Schram team's AxeBridge winery, the Rand Tower Club, a distillery from the Earl Giles team, the Market at Malcolm Yards food hall and the Fair on 4, the Mall of America's latest eatertainment venue.
Downtown destination
Will 2021 be the year that the Dayton's Project — the $200 million remake of what was once the city's largest department store — is finally opened to the public? Here's hoping. A key component of the mammoth undertaking is a basement-level food hall, accessed via a new three-story atrium and featuring up to 55 vendors. This post-pandemic people magnet should help restore 700 Nicollet to its rightful place as the beating heart of downtown Minneapolis. Another promising amenity is a makers' market. The first-floor retail incubator will showcase up-and-coming vendors; hopefully that includes a place for Minnesota-made food products.
Equity for all
The impact was instant. The start of the pandemic brought crushing unemployment to the hospitality industry, and revealed just how close to the edge many workers were already living. Then, the police killing of George Floyd sparked global conversations about equality and racial justice that extended to almost every aspect of daily life. In the food world, from kitchens to magazine editors' suites, those conversations lifted the veil on the disparities and indignities shouldered by many workers in the hospitality industry, especially Black people, Indigenous people and people of color. What could equity look like in 2021? That the people working to bring us food are taken care of: Living wages, health insurance and unfettered access to opportunity are all a good start.
More ghost kitchens
We got pizza, burgers, tacos and a whole lot of fried-chicken sandwiches from new takeout-only restaurants-within-restaurants, known as ghost kitchens. The phrase "virtual food hall" is now a thing. Ghost kitchens emerged from their shroud of mystery and have become part of the dining lexicon. They've proven to be a smart way for restaurants to diversify and find new revenue, while chefs get to flex their culinary muscles with totally new menus. And customers get to try it all. First up in January: Viva Cubano, a new gourmet sandwich setup operating from St. Paul's French Hen Cafe.
Comebacks
When Surly Brewing Co. owner Omar Ansari shuttered his massive beer hall and pizzeria in November, he (thankfully) invoked the word "indefinitely." Fingers crossed that a post-COVID world includes a revitalized Surly.
Grand Cafe chef/owner Jamie Malone exited her contemporary French restaurant in November. Malone, a two-time James Beard nominee, continues to create (appropriately named) Keep it Grand meal kits from her downtown Minneapolis restaurant, Eastside. She's also promising a new iteration of the Grand, and we can only hope that this new brick-and-mortar setup — one that's as seductively charming as its predecessor — materializes in 2021.
Also on the wish list: a sooner-rather-than-later end to the hiatus at Breaking Bread Cafe. And three cheers to the news that Midori's Floating World Cafe (closed since the restaurant was heavily damaged in the riots following the killing of George Floyd) has started a takeout pop-up at the Seward Cafe.
The great outdoors
If there was ever a time to get Minnesotans to embrace winter, it's 2021, when we will be living our best lives in the great outdoors. Thankfully, a few sterling examples of the Bold North aesthetic are popping up as role models. Mill Valley Market in Theodore Wirth Park is going all in on its year-round outdoor commitment to a patio packed with heaters and five wood-burning fire pits. On weekends, the ultra-charming biergarten at Waldmann Brewery & Wurstery is maximizing winter enjoyment, complete with beer and food service (yes, you should order the spaetzle) and lots of heaters. And in the North Loop, the roomy patio at lobster-centric Smack Shack sports a slick overhead infrared heating system. More kudos to the farmers markets — Mill City, Northeast, Fulton, St. Paul and Minneapolis — that are staging outdoor formats. Residents of Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo and other cold-climate cities celebrate their winter weather and dine outdoors; isn't it time that we finally follow their lead?
Hearing, helping each other
On a different kind of cold-weather note, we should all be doing more than wishing that Twin Cities restaurants successfully navigate the perilous winter months that lie ahead. Next time you order takeout, ask your server/chef/restaurateur how they're doing, what their restaurant needs in order to survive and how you can help.
Cocktails everywhere
More people turned to liquor stores as bars were off-limits for most of the year, and local distilleries met the moment by releasing shelf-stable cocktails at a steady clip. And they're great. But the magic of a drink mixed by an expert bartender and served seconds later? That's reserved for a seat at the bar, something we can't wait to get back into in 2021. As a consolation prize, we'd accept full-strength cocktails with takeout.
Creativity galore
Curbside pickup. Subscriptions. The aforementioned ghost kitchens. Provision markets. The hospitality industry was constantly reinventing itself in 2020 out of necessity, and customers went along for the ride. The reasons behind such innovations are lamentable; this year was all about survival. At the same time, diners were introduced to exciting new ways to enjoy good food. We can't wait to see what daring, mold-breaking concepts stick around, and what surprises are yet to come.
Getting serious in the suburbs
It was very good news when Revival owners Thomas Boemer and Nick Rancone announced plans to open an outpost of their fried-chicken-focused operation in St. Louis Park. Ditto the announcement that former Bachelor Farmer chef Jonathan Gans is helping launch Churchill Street in Shoreview. The vast majority of Twin Citians are suburbanites. Logic follows that these communities should be crawling with independently owned restaurants, but they're not. Perhaps this year will spark a surge in suburban dining options of the non-chain variety.
Adding voices
Two vital Twin Cities food-and-drink media platforms were extinguished in 2020: City Pages and the Growler. But it's not all bad news. After a two-year hiatus, James Norton, the Growler's food editor, revived Heavy Table (heavytable.com), his insightful and lively online magazine and newsletter. And thoughtful, high-style Meal Magazine (meal-magazine.com), which debuted last spring, is coming out with its second edition in January. Perhaps it's the start of a new wave of coverage, because the more that people are publishing, broadcasting and podcasting about restaurants, food, libations, farming, baking, brewing and distilling, the better.
The return of the State Fair
The drive-through food parade was fun, but we'd prefer ordering our bucket of cookies on foot next year.
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Rick Nelson • @RickNelsonStrib
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Brexit Customs Checks Make a Quiet Debut at U.K. Ports - The New York Times
Starting the new rules on a holiday helped, with some predicting more confusion and backups in the days ahead.
LONDON — At the ports and terminals on Britain’s southeastern coast, a new era began on Friday morning without much fuss. Ferries and trains that carry goods to France from Dover and Folkestone were running on time, and drivers snaked their trucks into the port unencumbered by congestion.
To all appearances, little may have changed on Jan. 1, the country’s first day outside the European Union’s single market and customs union. It was, after all, a public holiday and not much business was taking place.
But for the first time in over 25 years, goods traveling between Britain and the European Union will no longer move freely and customs checks will be enforced for goods entering the bloc.
A trade deal, signed into law in Britain in the early hours of Thursday, less than 24 hours before it took effect, means the country and the European Union will trade goods without tariffs. Businesses, however, will still face significant changes that they had been urged to prepare for even during the lockdowns, closures and other social restrictions that the government has introduced to contain a surging coronavirus pandemic.
The changes are bound to bring “bumpy moments,” a top cabinet minister predicted this week. The government expects new customs paperwork alone to cost British businesses 7 billion pounds (about $9.6 billion) a year. The European Union is Britain’s largest trading partner, with £670 billion of imports and exports, and Britain imports far more goods from the bloc than it exports. (It has a trade surplus in services, which aren’t covered by the trade deal.)
Britain has at least 150,000 exporters who have never sent their goods beyond the bloc, according to data from the country’s tax agency, and will therefore need to make customs declarations for the first time. Border checks within the European Union were scrapped in 1993.
This is a change that will be immediately felt at Britain’s ports, especially the busy Port of Dover and the Eurotunnel terminus at Folkestone, which connect the country to France. But on Friday, with most business halted for New Year’s Day, trains and ferries were reported to be running smoothly. Eurotunnel reported that 200 trucks had used its shuttle train by 8 a.m., with all the correct documents.
“It does seem pretty calm,” Elizabeth De Jong, the policy director of Logistics U.K., a trade group, told Sky News on Friday morning.
But she added that businesses now faced “a new, different language of customs arrangements” that would need to be understood. She described the next few weeks as a live trial, as companies must ensure they have the correct paperwork for themselves and the goods onboard, and traffic has to be managed into the area.
Away from the Dover-Calais crossing, there were some early hiccups.
Six trucks bound for Ireland, a member of the European Union, were turned away from boarding a ferry at Holyhead, a port in Wales, according to Stena Line, a ferry operator. The drivers did not have the authorization now required for trucks crossing from Britain into Ireland — in this case, a digital “pre-boarding notification,” from Ireland’s tax bureau.
The ferry company, sensing an opportunity in Brexit’s potential headaches, has increased the number of direct sailings it offers between Ireland and France, bypassing Britain and the need for customs checks.
In what the British government has described as a worst-case scenario, 40 to 70 percent of trucks heading to the European Union might not be ready for the new border checks. This could lead to lines of up to 7,000 trucks heading to the border and delays of up to two days, according to a government report.
Britain has only recently cleared a huge backlog of trucks from the border. Late on Dec. 20, the French government suddenly closed its border for 48 hours to stop the spread of a new coronavirus variant from England. Thousands of trucks and their drivers were stranded for days. Once the border reopened, the drivers were then required to show a negative coronavirus test result before being allowed to enter France.
The delays at the normally fast-moving port also raised concerns about Britain’s supply of fresh food, much of which is imported from the rest of Europe in the winter. One fruit supplier urgently arranged to fly goods into the country, and British exporters of fish and shellfish scrambled to send their goods into France before they spoiled.
The spectacle amplified concerns about trade after Dec. 31, the end of the Brexit transition period. Even though goods are already moving more slowly because drivers’ coronavirus tests can take about 40 minutes to deliver results, it is unlikely that trucks will be waiting in their thousands to enter France on Friday thanks to the quieter holiday period.
“We would expect sustained disruption to worsen over the first two weeks as freight demand builds,” the government report says. This could last about three months.
Frictionless trade has been replaced by a myriad of electronic and paper declarations for exporters, importers and logistics companies. Goods entering the European Union from England, Scotland and Wales now require customs checks, including safety certificates, and truck drivers will need a permit to enter Kent, the county containing Dover and Folkestone, to confirm that they have the necessary documents.
Truck drivers coming the other way face fewer requirements for now. Britain has relaxed the rules for goods arriving into the country from the European Union for six months.
Antonella Francini contributed reporting from Paris.
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Police searching for driver who left the scene of I-91 crash - WCAX
ROCKINGHAM, Vt. (WCAX) - Police say a Massachusetts man is hospitalized following a crash on I-91 in Rockingham early Friday morning.
It happened around 3:45 a.m. Police say Kyle Uhlman, 25, of Massachusetts appeared to be having a mental health crisis when he rear-ended a tractor-trailer on I-91 south in Rockingham. The driver of the tractor-trailer told police that Uhlman got out of his van and began wandering around the scene of the crash and was struck by a passing box truck that did not stop.
Uhlman was taken to the Springfield hospital and later airlifted to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical with serious injuries.
Police are asking anyone with information about the white, six-wheeled box truck, to give them a call.
I-91 southbound was down to one lane around mile marker 38.
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