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L.A. Councilman Price denies corruption allegations

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:28:28 GMT

Los Angeles City Councilman Curren Price's arraignment on corruption charges has been delayed until December, but in the meantime, his attorney is pushing back against the allegations.Price's arraignment was set for Friday, but it was delayed until December, the Los Angeles Times reports. Price, 72, faces five counts of grand theft by embezzlement, three counts of perjury and two counts of conflict of interest, according to MyNewsLA.com."Price, a 10-year veteran of the City Council, is accused of having a financial interest in development projects that he voted on, and receiving tens of thousands of dollars in medical benefits from the city for his now wife while he was still married to another woman," the Los Angeles Times reports. Price's wife, Del Richardson Price, allegedly received more than $150,000 from developers of projects that the councilman later voted to approve. L.A. City Councilman Curren Price facing corruption charges, steps down from leadership role In addition, ...

Luis Vitales Killed, Two Injured in Two-Vehicle Collision near 35th Avenue [Phoenix, AZ]

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:28:28 GMT

24-Year-Old Driver Dead and Two Women Hospitalized after Vehicle AccidentPHOENIX, AZ (October 13, 2023) – Early Sunday morning, officers were dispatched to a car accident that claimed the life of Luis Vitales.The incident took place near 35th Avenue and Roosevelt Street just after 2:15 a.m., October 8th.According to the Phoenix police, the collision involved a Didge Charger and a Jeep Liberty. Investigation showed that 24-year-old Vitales ran over a stop red light while approaching 35th Avenue and collided with the other vehicle.Furthermore, Vitales was ejected from his vehicle and he suffered life-threatening injuries. He later succumbed to his injuries and he was pronounced dead.Moreover, two female occupants of the involved vehicle suffered injuries but police did not state the severity. They were expected to survive.No additional information was added by the investigators, and the incident is currently under thorough investigation.Sincere sympathies to the family and frien...

Crossing Guard Hospitalized after Pedestrian Accident on Vineyard Avenue [Pleasanton, CA]

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:28:28 GMT

One Severely Injured in Pedestrian Collision near Adams WayPLEASANTON, CA (October 13, 2023) – Thursday morning, a crossing guard was hospitalized due to a pedestrian accident that occurred on Vineyard Avenue.The incident took place near Adams Way, close to Valley View Elementary School, prompting a swift response from police. Reports indicate that a crossing guard was struck by the driver of a midsize SUV in the vicinity. The driver of the SUV remained at the scene and fully cooperated with the ongoing investigation.Emergency responders arrived at the scene and transported the injured male pedestrian to a nearby hospital due to the severity of his head injuries. However, the identity of the pedestrian has not been released by authorities at this time.Following preliminary investigations, law enforcement officers ruled out alcohol, drugs, and excessive speed as contributing factors to the incident. During the cleanup and initial investigation, the surrounding area was temporar...

SJSU Spartans tune out negative chatter in pursuit of much-needed win at New Mexico

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:28:28 GMT

SAN JOSE — The negative chatter from San Jose State football fans is getting louder with every loss, but Tre Jenkins said he hasn’t heard any of it.“I just don’t go on social media,” Jenkins said. “That’s just all bad stuff, there’s really nothing good on social media.”In the days leading up to Saturday afternoon’s crucial game at New Mexico (3 p.m. kickoff), SJSU coach Brent Brennan emphasized the need for his players to “block out the outside noise.”“I think (social media) has made it harder than ever to be a college football player because anyone can get directly to you via direct message,” Brennan said this week.“The truth is, our record is what it is, and looking backward does nothing for us,” said Brennan, whose team is 1-5 overall and winless in its first two Mountain West games. “Letting outside people that we don’t know, don’t respect and don’t care about impact how we feel about ourselves does nothing for us. We have to trust the people you love, tr...

Daycare owners arrested in San Jose child drownings

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:28:28 GMT

SAN JOSE — The mother-daughter owners of an Almaden-area daycare where two children drowned in a pool earlier this month have been arrested on suspicion of child-endangerment crimes, authorities said Friday.Shahin Gheblehshenas, 64, and Nina Fathizadeh, 41, were booked at the Santa Clara County Main Jail and were released after posting bail, records show. They are expected to be arraigned at a later date.The arrests are the culmination of an investigation closely watched both locally and across the country after the deaths garnered national headlines and looming questions about how two 1-year-old girls — identified as Payton Cobb, of Hollister, and Lillian Hanan, of San Jose — ended up in a pool at the Happy Happy Home Daycare on Fleetwood Drive the morning of Oct. 2.Both children died after being rushed to a hospital. A third child who was found in the water with them survived.In the wake of the drownings, the state Department of Social services suspended the license for the ...

Opinion: End Israel’s colonial occupation and apartheid system

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:28:28 GMT

Last weekend, Palestinian fighters in Gaza broke through the illegal wall that imprisons them into the ancestral lands from which their families were driven. Some Palestinians who have never experienced a single day of freedom were outside a cage for the first time.For more than 75 years, Israel — purporting to act in the name of all Jews, myself included — has been forcing Palestinians from their homes and killing and kidnapping Palestinians of all ages. I’m 44 years old and on Saturday, for the first time in my lifetime, Palestinians used these same tactics at a large scale against Israelis, killing more than 1,200 people and capturing an estimated 150 others.I know what you’re wondering: Am I writing to celebrate the killing of civilians? No. I am haunted when I see a photo of any civilian killed, my throat involuntarily choking up every time. My question is, if you were more shaken by the Israeli lives lost in one day than 75 years of killing and kidnapping of Palest...

Opinion: Attack on Israel was designed to spread fear and inflict pain

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:28:28 GMT

The terrorist killing and wounding of thousands of Jews in the homeland of the Jewish people — a day after the holiday Sukkot ended — expressed a darker desire.Sukkot celebrates how God protected Jews who wandered the desert for 40 years. Yet, not even under the supposed protection of a modern Jewish state, were these people safe. And that was certainly the point.But it’s a point that has no purpose other than spreading fear and inflicting pain. Mothers and babies were killed, according to witnesses and the Israeli government. In some cases, the babies were killed and then burned.This wasn’t the killing of soldiers on a battlefield, shot from afar. There was no military or political objective. This was wanton and homicidal. The victims saw their killers. Watched them murder loved ones. Locked eyes with their tormentors before dying themselves.While massacres are nothing new in the Middle East, how do we, as supposedly civilized human beings, react to this, how do we handle our desir...

By the numbers: Women’s sports in 2023

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:28:28 GMT

Victoria Stavish | Baltimore Sun (TNS)Women’s sports have been making headlines throughout 2023. Viewership of women’s games, the pay of female athletes and the diversity of sports that female athletes participate in are all higher than in decades past, but gender gaps still exist and some gains may look impressive until they’re put in perspective.High school girls’ participation in some traditionally male-dominated sports is growing in Maryland.Between 2014 and 2022, overall participation in high school sports in Maryland declined among both girls and boys. More girls are participating, however, in some traditionally male-dominated sports like wrestling, golf, ice hockey and football. Though their numbers are growing, girls playing those four sports represented only 1.7% of all roster sports held by girls during the 2021-22 school year.More than four in 10 NCAA athletes are women.After making up 30% of NCAA athletes in 1982, women have seen their representation increase more than 1...

Two arrested in San Jose daycare drowning deaths

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:28:28 GMT

(KRON) -- Two people have been arrested in connection to drowning deaths at a San Jose daycare earlier this month, the San Jose Police Department announced Friday. Nina Fathizadeh and Shahin Gheblehshenas were arrested on suspicion of neglect of two children resulting in death and neglect of a child resulting in non-life threatening injuries.The incident occurred on Oct. 2 when SJPD patrol officers responded with the San Jose Fire Department to a welfare check at a residential day care located in the 1000 block of Fleetwood Drive.Officers were notified that several children had fallen into a pool. Medics were summoned and the children were transported to the hospital in critical condition. Two of the children were pronounced deceased at the hospital. The third child's status was upgraded to non-life-threatening.According to protocol for children's deaths, the SJPD Homicide Unit began a joint investigation into the incident with the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.Fathi...

11 Santa Rosa thieves fooled by 'bait bike,' police say

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:28:28 GMT

(KRON) -- In response to a recent spike in bicycle thefts around Santa Rosa, police planted a "bait bike" downtown and arrested anyone who decided to steal it.Eleven alleged thieves took the bait and were arrested by the Santa Rosa Police Department Property Crimes Investigations Team."This 3-day proactive operation involved officers surveilling a bicycle left unattended as 'bait' and contacting anyone deciding to take the bicycle. SRPD PCI specifically focused on city parking lots and garages downtown," SRPD wrote. Because the bicycle was valued at $1,100, suspects who took the "bait bike" were booked into jail on felony grand theft charges. According to police, the following people were arrest and booked into jail:Shane Hulbert, a 29-year-old transient, was booked for felony grand theft and violation of probation.Emily Christopher, a 31-year-old Ukiah woman, was booked for grand theft, possession of narcotics, and possession of a bladed throwing star called a "shuriken."Edwin Sier...