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Map: The 11 shootings by California police this year that are under investigation

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:06:00 GMT

A fatal shooting by police last week at a Newark hotel was the year’s 10th entry on California’s list of AB 1506 investigations, and an 11th was added on Sunday.The legislation, which took effect in July 2021, requires the state’s Department of Justice to investigate all fatal shootings by law enforcement officers in which the person killed is apparently unarmed.There are now 40 incidents on the list, with nine from the last half of 2021 and 20 from 2022. Final reports have been issued for only two, both determining that no criminal charges against the officers were warranted.Besides the Newark case, the list has three from the Bay Area: a man shot by Antioch police in 2021 after a standoff at his house; a man shot in 2022 at San Francisco International Airport; and the fatal shooting by San Francisco police in 2022 of two men who were fighting.AB 1506 investigations so far in 2023:1/ Samuel Arredondo, shot Jan. 11, 2023, by San Bernardino County sheriff’s de...

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Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:06:00 GMT

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Weekend recap: Menlo School breaks track record, girls flag football update, Oakland throws parade

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:06:00 GMT

Track and fieldMenlo School relay sets a new markThe Menlo School boys 4×1,600 relay team broke a 44-year Central Coast Section record, placing second at Mt. SAC Relays with a time of 17 minutes, 19.22 seconds.Torrey Pines finished first in 17:10.10.Menlo senior Justin Pretre, sophomore Landon Pretre, senior Aiden Deffner and sophomore Will Hauser broke the CCS record event that Leigh held since 1979. The Longhorns’ time was 17:24.84.Landon Petre ran his leg in 4:17.0, Deffner in 4:27.8, Hauser in 4:21.0 and Justin Petre in 4:13.4. “It is a really good sign as we approach the postseason,” Justin Pretre said in a statement provided by the school. “We’re going to keep pushing for the next few weeks and then it’s all about competing and maintaining until the end of the year.”Girls flag footballNorth Coast Section sets guidelines for new sportThe NCS Board of Managers voted Friday to set Aug. 7 and Nov. 4 as the start and end dates for the inaugural girls flag football ...

Boston Marathon: Kenyan racers claim men’s, women’s titles

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:06:00 GMT

There was double delight for Kenya at the 2023 Boston Marathon as Evans Chebet and Hellen Obiri won the men’s and women’s races, respectively.Chebet claimed his second consecutive Boston Marathon — the first man to defend his title since Robert Cheruiyot did so in 2008 — in an unofficial time of two hours, five minutes and 54 seconds, while Obiri took the honors in only her second official marathon.Tanzanian Gabriel Geay came in second, finishing in 2:06:04, while Kenyan Benson Kipruto placed third in 2:06:06.More than 30,000 athletes from all 50 states and more than 100 countries participated in the famed 26.2-mile course, starting in rural Hopkinton and finishing on Boylston Street.This year’s race marked the 10-year anniversary of the double bombings that took place near the finish line, killing three people and injuring at least 264.Obiri won the women’s elite race to claim her first Boston Marathon title in an unofficial time of two hours, 21 minutes and 38 seconds.An exuberant...

Coachella 2023: Blackpink’s success has K-pop fans hoping for more Asian music and representation

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:06:00 GMT

When Xander Benitez learned that Blackpink was headlining the Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival this year the decision for him and two friends to travel from their small town near Sarasota, Florida was a simple one.“It’s insane,” Benitez, 21, said. “The first K-pop headliner at Coachella? Hello!”He, Jony Leyva, 21, and Edward Sebastian, 31, were easy to spot on the festival grounds on Saturday, April 15, the first of Blackpink’s two weekends there. Like many fans of the K-pop girl group, they’d taken Blackpink literally when it came picking their outfits for the day.“It’s a phenomenon,” Sebastian said of the emergence in recent years not just of K-Pop artists such as Blackpink and BTS, the latter of which could easily headline Coachella some day, but of Asian artists in general. Blackpink will be back to headline the second weekend of the Coachella on Saturday, April 22 and announced a tour stop at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Aug. 26.Blackpink fans Jenny Zhou, left, and ...

Traffic signal blocks roadway after crash in San Jose

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:06:00 GMT

(KRON) -- A traffic signal is down at the scene of a two-vehicle crash that also involved a pedestrian in San Jose, according to the San Jose Police Department. E-40 escorted out of Warriors vs. Kings game The crash happened near Keyes and 3rd streets, just a few blocks from Kelley Park. Police say the pedestrian was taken to a local hospital for non-life threatening injuries. The traffic signal is in the roadway, police said. There are some road closures on Keyes Street between 3rd and 5th streets. Drivers are asked to use other routes.

Elon Musk launches AI company in Nevada, state business filings show

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:06:00 GMT

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- Elon Musk has launched what appears to be an artificial intelligence company in Nevada, according to a business filing with the Secretary of State.A.XI Corp. was incorporated in the state on March 9, according to a search of filings at the Nevada Secretary of State website.The filing lists Musk as the director and Jared Birchall, considered by many business analysts to be Musk's right-hand man, as secretary. San Francisco Restaurant Week begins The filing says X.AI Corp. has authorized the sale of 100 million shares for the privately held company.A report in the Financial Times says Musk has been hiring engineers and talking with investors of Tesla and Space X to launch an AI startup that would rival Open AI.

Mountain View PD arrests burglary suspect while homeowners out of town

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:06:00 GMT

(KRON) -- Officers with the Mountain View Police Department arrested a burglary suspect while they were attempting to rob the house of someone who was out of town, Mountain View PD said. Neighbors called police on Saturday just after 11:30 p.m. to report the incident, officials said.Police said they responded to reports of a burglary in progress at a house on the 300 block of Shelby Drive. The suspect, identified as Rolando Costilla, jumped out a bedroom window and hopped a fence trying to evade police, officials said. The suspect was detained without incident. Sideshows hit San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland over the weekend Police said they found Costilla in possession of property from the house and that Costilla had been inside the house several other times that day and taken property.Costilla was booked into the Santa Clara County jail and the stolen property was recovered.As spring break approaches, Santa Clara County officials want to remind people to find trustworthy neighbor...

Israel president urges unity on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:06:00 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s president appealed for national unity as the country marked the beginning of Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday after months of mass protests that have roiled the nation. Yom Hashoah, the day Israel observes as a memorial for the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and its allies in the Holocaust, is one of the most solemn dates on the country’s calendar. Official observances began after sundown on Monday with a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. Six survivors, including one of the few remaining survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, lit torches for the memory of the six million killed in the Holocaust.Speaking at the ceremony, President Isaac Herzog called on participants in the more than three months of weekly protests against the government’s plan to overhaul the judiciary to lay their differences aside during the coming week of national mourning. “Let us leave these sacred days, which begin tonight and end...

Experimental cancer vaccine combined with immunotherapy delayed return of melanoma, Moderna and Merck say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:06:00 GMT

New data from a trial of an investigational mRNA vaccine shows that it reduced the risk of recurrence of the serious skin cancer melanoma when combined with immunotherapy, according to drugmakers Moderna and Merck.In a trial of 157 people who had had surgery to treat melanoma, 78.6% of those who received the personalized vaccine and the immunotherapy Keytruda were free of cancer at 18 months, while 62.2% of people who got only the immunotherapy were recurrence-free. Cancer recurrence or death happened in 22.4% — 24 out of 107 — who received the combination treatment and 40% — 20 out of 50 — who received only the immunotherapy.No serious side effects from the experimental vaccine have been reported. The most common side effects were fatigue, injection site pain and chills.Dr. Kyle Holen, Moderna’s senior vice president and head of development, therapeutics and oncology, said in a statement that the results “provide further encouragement for the pot...