Home

Fleeing suspect causes violent crash; 3 in critical condition

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:00 GMT

SOUTH LOS ANGELES - An armed robbery suspect trying to escape arrest caused a collision that sent seven people, including three children, to the hospital Wednesday, authorities said.Three of the victims were in critical condition.The crash occurred just after 1 p.m. at Broadway and West 81st Street.According to Los Angeles Police, officers with LAPD's Community Safety Unit were trying to arrest a man on an armed robbery warrant when he sped away in a BMW."The officers were in proximity but not behind him," Lt. Kenneth Busiere told KTLA. “Their lights and sirens were not activated … The helicopter was overhead, and he may have been aware of the helicopter’s presence."The scene of a four-car crash in South L.A. that sent seven people to the hospital. Oct. 4, 2023. (Citizen)When the suspect reached the intersection of Broadway and West 81st, he slammed into a silver Hyundai Elantra carrying three adults and three children, Busiere said.Another vehicle was also damaged in the collision....

Two girls got into a fight at San Leandro High School. Three days later, one of their cousins allegedly shot up the other girl’s home

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:00 GMT

SAN LEANDRO — Usually when adults get involved in quibbling between teenage relatives, it’s to act as a peacemaker or a positive role model.But not this San Leandro resident, who allegedly shot up the home of a 14-year-old girl who’d fought his teenaged cousin at school days earlier. No one was injured in the shooting, but the girl’s father was nearly struck by gunfire, police say.Now the suspect, a 32-year-old San Leandro man, is facing felony charges of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and two counts of illegal gun possession — one count related to the shooting, and another for allegedly having a weapon when police came to arrest him, court records show.The problems started on Sept. 14, when two 14-year-old girls had a fistfight at San Leandro High School. A full three days later, at around 4 a.m., one of the girl’s dad heard a man’s voice outside his San Leandro residence and went outside to investigate, authorities said.He was greete...

Powerball ticket worth more than $1.2M sold in Vacaville

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:00 GMT

(KRON) -- The drawing for the $1.2 billion Powerball jackpot happened Wednesday night, and while no California players won the whole thing, a couple of players won a pretty good consolation prize. A ticket worth $1,220,123 was sold at Cigarettes 4 Discount at 973 Alamo Drive in Vacaville, according to the California Lottery website. That player had all five winning numbers, but not the Powerball number. Another ticket worth the same amount was sold in Elk Grove. 20,000 Kaiser healthcare workers on strike in the Bay Area Fourteen players got four correct numbers and the Powerball number. Those tickets are worth $17,500.Wednesday's winning numbers were 9, 35, 54, 63, and 64. The Powerball number was 1. The $1.2 billion jackpot is the third-largest in Powerball history. The largest pot, at $2.04 billion, was won last November in California. The odds of winning this jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million. There have been 33 consecutive drawings since someone hit the jackpot.

Denis Bouanga has hat trick, propels LAFC past Minnesota 5-1 and into a playoff spot

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:00 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Denis Bouanga scored three times in a first-half barrage to take the Major League Soccer goals lead, and Los Angeles FC clinched a playoff spot with a 5-1 victory over Minnesota United on Wednesday night.Bouanga ended LAFC’s four-match, 372-minute scoreless streak in the fourth minute of its regular-season home finale. He added two more goals before the halftime whistle, and the defending MLS Cup champions cruised through the second half to move into third place in the Western Conference.Filip Krastev added his first MLS goal for LAFC in the second half. LAFC is unbeaten in its last seven matches against Minnesota.Hassani Dotson scored in the fourth minute of the worst defensive game of the season by Minnesota, which has flopped down the stretch with a seven-game winless skid (0-4-3) since August. That matches the Loons’ longest winless skid in MLS play, set in 2018.Bouanga’s hat trick gave him 17 goals this season, pushing him ahead of Cincinnat...

Pavia leads New Mexico State to 34-17 victory over FIU

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:00 GMT

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Diego Pavia threw two touchdown passes and ran for a score to help New Mexico State pull away in the fourth quarter for a 34-17 victory over Florida International on Wednesday night.Pavia raced 43 yards for a touchdown on the first play of the fourth quarter for a 24-17 lead. NMSU forced a punt and Monte Watkins’ 32-yard run set up a 3-yard scoring run by Star Thomas for a 31-17 advantage with 10:35 left to play. Pavia completed 20 of 31 passes for 256 yards with one interception. Watkins had 89 yards on five carries.New Mexico State (3-3, 1-1 Conference USA) took a 7-0 lead midway through the first quarter when Pavia capped an 11-play, 76-yard drive with an 11-yard touchdown toss to Chris Bellamy. FIU (3-3, 0-3) pulled even on the ensuing drive on Keyone Jenkins’ 6-yard touchdown run at the end of a seven-play, 75-yard drive.The Aggies moved back in front on Pavia’s 49-yard scoring strike to Jordin Parker midway through the second quarter. Shomar...

Japan lifts a tsunami advisory issued after an earthquake hit near its outlying islands

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:00 GMT

TOKYO (AP) — Japan issued a tsunami advisory Thursday after a strong earthquake struck near its outlying islands in the Pacific Ocean, but lifted it about two hours later. No damage was reported.The advisory, the second-lowest of a four-stage warning system, asked people on islands in the Izu chain, which stretches south from the Tokyo region, to stay away from the coast and river mouths.The U.S. Geological Survey said a series of offshore earthquakes hit the area on Thursday morning. The strongest measured magnitude 6.1 and was located at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles), it said.The quake was not felt on the islands or in the Tokyo region, but the Japan Meteorological Agency warned that a tsunami as high as 1 meter (3.2 feet) could hit the coasts of the islands. A small tsunami measuring about 30 centimeters (1 foot) was observed at Yaene on Hachijo island, the agency said. No damage was reported and the agency lifted the tsunami advisory about two hours later.Japan is one of th...

Elite pilots prepare for ‘camping out in the sky’ as they compete in prestigious gas balloon race

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:00 GMT

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It’s been 15 years since the world’s elite gas balloon pilots have gathered in the United States for a race with roots that stretch back more than a century. The pilots will be launching for this year’s Gordon Bennett competition during an international balloon fiesta that draws hundreds of thousands of spectators to the heart of New Mexico each fall. The race has been held in the United States only 13 times before, and this will be the fifth time the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta has played host.The launch window opens Saturday evening for what is billed as one of the most prestigious events in aviation. Some worry that the massive spheres could be mistaken for Chinese spy balloons as they traverse the upper reaches of America’s airspace. But the pilots who will be racing aren’t worried. They’re more concerned about charting a course that will keep them out of bad weather and give their hydrogen-filled balloons a path to victory.There...

Georgia state Senate to start its own inquiry of troubled Fulton County jail

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:00 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia state Senate committee says it will start its own investigation of jail conditions in the state’s most populous county, three months after the U.S. Justice Department unveiled its own inquiry of Fulton County jail conditions.State Sens. John Albers of Roswell and Randy Robertson of Cataula will make the announcement in a Thursday news conference, accompanied by Lt. Gov. Burt Jones. All three are Republicans.“Now, we can’t solve all the problems that Fulton County may have, or any other county for that fact,” Albers said. “However, we can go in there and hopefully get them on the right track.”Albers, who chairs the Senate Public Safety Committee, told The Associated Press on Wednesday he would appoint a subcommittee with hearings to begin in November.Fulton County’s main jail, which opened in 1989 in a neighborhood west of downtown Atlanta, has been plagued by overcrowding, unsanitary conditions and violence. Six people have died in Fulton County ...

France is bitten by a fear of bedbugs as it prepares to host Summer Olympics

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:00 GMT

PARIS (AP) — They creep, they crawl, they feast on your blood as you sleep. They may travel in your clothes or backpacks to find another person worth dining on — on the subway, or at the cinema. Bedbugs go where you go, and they have become a nightmare haunting France for weeks.The government has been forced to step in to calm an increasingly anxious nation that will host the Olympic Games in just over nine months — a prime venue for infestations of the crowd-loving insects.Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne called a meeting of ministers for Friday to tackle the bedbug crisis. The country’s transport minister, Clement Beaune, met this week with transportation companies to draw up a plan for monitoring and disinfecting — and to try to ease what some have called a national psychosis inflamed by the media.“There is no resurgence of cases,” Beaune said, telling reporters that 37 cases reported in the bus and Metro system and a dozen others on trains proved unfounded — as did viral vid...

New children's book charts 'key dates' in Belgium history

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:00 GMT

The battle of the golden spurs, the birth of Brueghel, the entry of women into university, the invention of the praline and the independence of the Congo, writes Martin Banks.Question: do you know when these key dates in the history of Belgium happened?You could of course add to this list countless other times and events that have shaped the country.And that is exactly what a new book called “100 Grande Dates de la Belgique” does.The new title, from publisher Quelle Histoire, whose works may already be well known to families and schools, carefully chronicles significant dates in Belgium history to take children from 6 years old and upwards on a journey back in time.Here you can discover 100 dates, “big” or “small”, which have marked the history of Belgium - and sometimes even that of Europe or the world. Each page is devoted to a different year and the informative and succinct texts are accompanied by colourful illustrations.The 100 dates have been carefully selected and classified ...