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Race For L.A. Council District 6 Seat May Lead To Runoff

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:50:50 GMT

The race to fill the vacant district 6 seat left by former Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez is likely headed toward a runoff.While district 6 candidate Imelda Padilla led the way in voting after the April 4 election, she has only received 25% of the vote, with at least 51% needed for victory. When the remaining ballots are counted, it is likely Padilla will compete in a runoff against either Marisa Alcaraz, who has earned 21% of the vote, or Marco Santana, who was received 18% of votes and fewer than 300 votes behind Alcaraz, as of this writing.“Today’s update, in which I remain the frontrunner to be the next Councilmember of the 6th District, solidifies that the voters acknowledge my life-long dedication to serving the needs of our working families in the San Fernando Valley,” Padilla said in a statement after an April 7 vote update by the Los Angeles County Clerk. “We will continue to push forward with our positive campaign for change into t...

Gunman livestreamed mass shooting at Louisville bank that left 4 dead and 9 wounded, police say

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:50:50 GMT

A 23-year-old bank employee opened fire at his workplace in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday morning and livestreamed the attack that left four dead and nine others wounded, authorities said.The gunman was identified as Connor Sturgeon, an employee at Old National Bank, according to interim Louisville Metro Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel. He was killed by police after a shootout with authorities.The four victims, all between the ages of 40 and 64, were identified as Joshua Barrick, Juliana Farmer, Tommy Elliott and James Tutt, the chief said. The victims included a close friend of Gov. Andy Beshear, who he credited with helping him both professionally and in his personal life.Of the nine people injured, three are hospitalized in critical condition, three are in non-critical condition and three have been released, the chief said.A 26-year-old officer who graduated from the police academy 10 days ago was one of those wounded; he was shot in the head and is in critical ...

The best hikes in the Bay Area you can get to using only public transit

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:50:50 GMT

Love to hike but don’t have a car — or prefer not to use one? Evan Tschuy has you covered with Hiking by Transit, a new website of fantastic Bay Area hikes you can access using buses, trains and ferries.“Living in the Bay Area – perhaps the region of the country with the most convenient and immediate access to hiking – without a car really made me feel like I was missing out on a lot of what made this place special,” says Tschuy, who lives in Berkeley. “I slowly found more and more transit-accessible hikes, until I realized how much access to these wonderful places I really had, if I only knew how.”AC Transit. BART. WestCAT. VTA. Tri Delta. The Vine. They’re all represented, plus others, on Tschuy’s map of dozens of hikes, a list that grows ever-longer as he takes in suggestions from readers. His picks range as far north as Mendocino National Forest and south as Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail, which runs all the way to the U.S-Mexico border. Of...

Seymour Stein dies at 80; music exec launched careers of Madonna, Talking Heads, the Ramones and more

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:50:50 GMT

Associated PressNEW YORK — Seymour Stein, the brash, prescient and highly successful founder of Sire Records who helped launched the careers of Madonna, Talking Heads and many others, died April 2 at age 80.Stein, who helped found the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation and was himself inducted into the Rock Hall in 2005, died of cancer in Los Angeles, according to a statement by his family.Born in 1942, Stein was a New York City native who as a teenager worked summers at Cincinnati-based King Records, James Brown’s label, and by his mid-20s had co-founded Sire Productions, soon to become Sire Records.Obsessed with the Billboard music charts since childhood, he was known for his deep knowledge and appreciation of music and would prove an astute judge of talent during the 1970s era of New Wave, a term he helped popularize, signing record deals with Talking Heads, the Ramones and the Pretenders.“Seymour’s taste in music is always a couple of years ahead of everyone...

California woman who was cited for honking loses her First Amendment case

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:50:50 GMT

Honking a car horn is not protected as free speech, the federal appeals court in San Francisco has ruled.The decision, filed Friday, was in the case of Susan Porter, an Oceanside woman who was cited for “unreasonable use of a vehicle horn” after she honked an estimated 14 times as she drove past a protest outside the office of Rep. Darrell Issa in 2017.Though the citation was dismissed because the sheriff’s deputy who issued it did not show up in traffic court, Porter filed a civil suit in 2018 alleging that her subsequent fear of again being cited resulted in her “censoring herself by refraining from using her vehicle horn for expressive purposes, including but not limited to expressing support for political protests, rallies, or demonstrations.”She sought to have declared unlawful the enforcement of Vehicle Code section 27001 against what she calls “expressive honking,” which she argued falls under First Amendment protections.Section 27001...

Oakland authorities begin clearing out last vestige of Wood Street homeless camp

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:50:50 GMT

Tamara Rosselli strapped her belongings to an orange dolly as public works crews a few hundred yards away began clearing out the last vestiges of one of the Bay Area’s largest homeless encampments on Wood Street in West Oakland.As she secured a sleeping bag to the top of the bundle, Rosselli was approached by outreach workers who promised her a spot at a new city-run tiny-home cabin shelter. After a few months living at the camp on a vacant city lot near the I-880 freeway, she was ready for the chance to put her life back together and hopefully find a housing voucher for an apartment.“Look at this place,” she said, motioning to the bicycle parts, propane tanks and broken appliances strewn across the property. “This is not paradise. We can get a fresh start down there.”But not everyone was ready to leave. As authorities began the weeks-long process of cleaning up the encampment on Monday, a few dozen camp residents and homelessness activists called on th...

Berkeley campus police looking for help in identifying sexual battery suspect

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:50:50 GMT

(KRON) -- The UC Berkeley Police Department is asking for the public's assistance in identifying the suspect or suspects in two recent sexual battery incidents that took place on campus. The first took place on Wednesday, April 5 in the Eucalyptus Grove around 1:30 p.m., police said in an alert notification. 5-year-old girl killed in shooting on I-880 in Fremont: CHP The second occurred on Sunday, April 9 at around 9:40 a.m. In both incidents, the suspect grabbed a female student's private body parts over their clothing, police said. Campus police are investigating the cases, including the possibility that they may be related.Photos of the suspect(s) are below:UCPD has released photos of the suspect or suspects. Anyone with any information related to the incidents is asked to contact UCPD at (510) 642-6760.

Man gets life sentence for killing of Georgia whistleblower

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:50:50 GMT

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A Mexican citizen was sentenced Monday to life in a U.S. prison for killing a man who reported him and his brother to authorities for cheating migrant workers out of millions of dollars. A U.S. District Court judge in Brunswick, Georgia, sentenced 46-year-old Juan Rangel-Rubio nearly six months after a jury convicted him of conspiring to kill a witness and other criminal counts. According to federal prosecutors, Rangel-Rubio and his brother recruited migrant workers living illegally in the U.S. to work for a tree-trimming business in southeast Georgia, then routed more than $3.5 million of the workers’ earnings to their own accounts. Employee Eliud Montoya filed a complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and was fatally shot in August 2017 outside his home near Savannah. Prosecutors said Rangel-Rubio pulled the trigger after plotting the killing with his brother, Pablo Rangel-Rubio, and a getaway driver, Higinio Perez-Bravo.Both co-def...

Mother of 6-year-old who shot teacher indicted by grand jury

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:50:50 GMT

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A grand jury in Virginia has indicted the mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher on charges of child neglect and failing to secure her handgun in the family’s home, a prosecutor said Monday.A grand jury sitting in Newport News charged the boy’s 25-year-old mother with felony child neglect and a misdemeanor charge of endangering a child by reckless storage of a firearm, Commonwealth’s Attorney Howard Gwynn said in a news release.The Associated Press isn’t naming the mother to shield the identity of her son.The boy shot first-grade teacher Abby Zwerner on Jan. 6 inside her classroom at Richneck Elementary School. Police said the boy’s mother legally purchased the gun. Her attorney, James Ellenson, has said the gun was secured on a top shelf in her closet and had a trigger lock.Ellenson said Monday that his client plans to turn herself in later this week. He did not comment on the indictments, which were first reported by the Daily Pr...

Los disturbios del 8 de enero en Brasilia fueron un “intento de golpe”, dice Lula da Silva

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:50:50 GMT

(CNN) — El presidente de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, dijo que los disturbios en edificios gubernamentales el pasado 8 de enero representaron un “intento de golpe” por parte de grupos de extrema derecha.“No fue un acto cualquiera, eso fue un intento de golpe de Estado, hecho con la mayor insolencia por un grupo de reaccionarios, por un grupo de fascistas, por un grupo de derecha que no quería dejar el poder, que no quería aceptar el resultado electoral”, aseveró Lula en su discurso durante una reunión ministerial con motivo de los primeros 100 días de su presidencia.Lula da Silva dice que algunas fuerzas de seguridad conspiraron con los manifestantes del 8 de enero en BrasiliaLas autoridades de Brasil investigan los hechos del 8 de enero después de que cientos de simpatizantes del expresidente Jair Bolsonaro irrumpieran en edificios gubernamentales en la capital, Brasilia, para protestar por los resultados electorales.Lula también acusó a Bolsonaro de gastar ...