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A look at California's brief history with hurricanes and tropical storms

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:10 GMT

With Hurricane Hilary likely to hit Southern California as either a weak Category 1 hurricane or a tropical storm, meteorologists are revisiting some of the previous tropical cyclones to hit the Golden State in recorded history.There haven’t been many.Thanks to cooler ocean water temperatures and a semi-permanent high-pressure system, storms rarely gain or maintain enough strength to make landfall as a tropical storm or a hurricane in California. On the few occasions when they have, they originated south of the United States and traveled northward.The 1939 Long Beach Tropical StormSeptember 1939 saw the only tropical storm to make landfall in California in the twentieth century.The storm began as a tropical depression off the coast of Panama and quickly grew into a hurricane.“The lowest pressure (28.67") occurred on September 22, when the storm was centered approximately 300 miles southwest of Cabo San Lucas,” according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).T...

Retail Theft Task Force Introduced In Los Angeles

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:10 GMT

With a recent string of retail theft in Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass announced the formation of a combative task force.The Organized Retail Crime Task Force will consist of multiple law enforcement agencies, including the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, LAPD, California Highway Patrol (CHP), Glendale PD, Beverly Hills PD and Santa Monica PD. The apprehension task forces for the U.S. Marshals and FBI will also collaborate with local law enforcement.“Our number one job is to keep Angelenos safe and to feel safe,” Bass said at a press conference inside Los Angeles City Hall Thursday. “No Angeleno should feel like it is not safe to go shopping in Los Angeles. No entrepreneur should feel like it is not safe to open a business in Los Angeles.”LAPD Chief Michel Moore explained that the task force will consist of detectives with specific experience in theft investigations and theft prevention.“As chief of police, my primary duty is to ensure the safety...

‘This is what they get’: Long-ignored Antioch residents feel vindicated over police indictments

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:10 GMT

ANTIOCH – They insisted the Antioch cops were dirty all along, that the officers targeted and mocked their sons and fiancés and loved ones because they were Black, but no one believed them.When Kathryn Wade heard the news Thursday morning that six Antioch officers were among the 10 indicted in a wide-ranging police corruption scandal in federal court Thursday – with reams of racist text messages bolstering some of the charges – she broke into tears. Her son, she said, had been beaten five times by Antioch police, who joked about it.Kathryn Wade, of Antioch, embraces a graduation photograph of her son Malad Baldwin while at her home in Antioch, Calif., on Thursday, May 4, 2023. Malad graduated from Antioch High School in 2012. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group) “Thank you, Jesus,”  she said. “I know God answered my prayers because we weren’t just saying this was happening, we weren’t just putting in complaints, I wasn’t just protesting, I wasn’t going to...

Michael Parkinson, Britain’s talk show king, dies at 88

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:10 GMT

By Pan Pylas | Associated PressLONDON — Michael Parkinson, the renowned British broadcaster who interviewed some of the world’s most famous celebrities of the 20th century from Muhammad Ali to Miss Piggy, has died. He was 88.His family said in a statement to the BBC on Thursday that Parkinson died “peacefully at home last night” after a brief illness.After training and working as a journalist, Parkinson got his big television break in 1971 when the BBC offered him his own eponymous talk show.Hosting “Parkinson” over three spells through to 2007, he earned his status as Britain’s talk show king by putting his guests at ease, drawing out insights others could not. Flirty, funny and serious by turns, he would spar with his guests, rather than seeking anecdotes, although those were welcome when they came.Over four animated interviews with the great heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, Parkinson knew he had met his match.“I’m not going to argue with you,” Parky tol...

Trader Joe's crackers product recalled, may contain metal

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:10 GMT

(KRON) -- Trader Joe's is recalling a product named "Multigrain Crackers with Sunflower and Flax Seeds," the grocery chain announced Thursday. Boxes with "Best If Used By" dates between 03/01/24 and 03/05/24 may contain metal. Dutch Bros opens new location in East Bay There have been no injuries reported to date, Trader Joe's said. All potentially affected products have been removed from the shelves and destroyed.Trader Joe's advises anyone who purchased or received donations of this product to not eat it. "We urge you to discard the product or return it to any Trader Joe's for a full refund," the company wrote. Last month, Trader Joe's recalled two cookie products.

Abogados de Trump piden que el juicio federal por interferencia electoral se retrase hasta el 2026

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:10 GMT

WASHINGTON – El expresidente Donald Trump, el favorito en las encuestas para la nominación republicana de 2024, busca retrasar su juicio federal por cargos relacionados con sus supuestos esfuerzos para detener la transferencia pacífica del poder y retener la Casa Blanca luego de su derrota en las elecciones de 2020.En un documento judicial presentado el jueves, los abogados de Trump recomendaron comenzar el juicio en abril de 2026, más de dos años después de la fecha en que los fiscales intentan iniciar el proceso.El pleito judicial de interferencia electoral presentado contra Trump en la capital de la nación por el fiscal especial Jack Smith es uno de los cuatro casos penales que el expresidente enfrenta ahora, y uno de los dos presentados a nivel federal por los fiscales del Departamento de Justicia. Él es Jack Smith, el fiscal especial que se ha convertido en el dolor de cabeza de Trump Uno por uno, cuáles son los cuatro casos penale...

Hacker brasileño dice que Bolsonaro le pidió que interviniera las máquinas de votación y le prometió un indulto

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:10 GMT

(CNN) — El hacker brasileño Walter Delgatti Neto afirmó este jueves que el expresidente de Brasil Jair Bolsonaro le preguntó si podía intervenir las máquinas de votación, según su testimonio en la investigación del Congreso sobre los resultados de las elecciones y el asalto a edificios gubernamentales el 8 de enero de 2023.Delgatti le dijo a la Comisión Parlamentaria Conjunta de Investigación (CPMI) que durante una reunión de agosto de 2022 con Bolsonaro, el expresidente le ofreció el indulto en caso de enfrentar alguna consecuencia legal.Los disturbios del 8 de enero en Brasilia fueron un “intento de golpe”, dice Lula da SilvaDelgatti relató que Bolsonaro le dijo: “Tenga la seguridad de que si por casualidad alguien lo arresta, haré detener al juez”. También le habría dicho que recibiría “un indulto si el arresto fue por acciones relacionadas con las máquinas de voto electrónico”.El expresidente de Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro.En la audiencia, De...

Colorado fugitive takes plea deal in dramatic Vegas Strip casino standoff

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:10 GMT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A fugitive from Colorado who was arrested after a spectacular standoff on the Las Vegas Strip last month that had furniture flying from a window at Caesars Palace has taken a plea deal that is expected to send him to his home state to serve any prison sentence, his attorney said Thursday.Matthew John Ermond Mannix, now 36, pleaded guilty to felony property destruction and misdemeanor negligence charges and has agreed to pay nearly $55,300 in restitution, attorney David Roger said. Police: Customer shot employee at Santiago’s restaurant in Commerce City The judge in Nevada could also fine Mannix up to $12,000 and sentence him to one-to-five years in prison concurrent with a 364-day jail term.Prosecutors agreed to drop more serious felony kidnapping and coercion charges, according to court documents. A conviction in Nevada on the kidnapping charge can carry the possibility of life in prison.Mannix is from Golden, Colorado. Roger said his client would be transferred ...

Deion Sanders-led Colorado is driving a lot of college football betting

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:10 GMT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The excitement of Deion Sanders taking over at Colorado is making the Buffaloes an unlikely favorite of bettors for this college football season.At least with what is considered the betting public. For the pros, not so much. Here's when the Denver Nuggets will raise their championship banner Colorado has a win total of 3 1/2 at FanDuel Sportsbook and other books for its final Pac-12 Conference season. The professional gamblers are the reason why that number isn't higher, and they're the ones who carry the most influence when determining lines.“We're seeing a lot of over action from the public,” said Chuck Esposito, Red Rock race and sportsbook director in Las Vegas.Sanders overhauled the vast majority of that roster, bringing in 86 new players — 56 since Colorado's spring game — to revive a once-proud program that went 1-11 last season. This isn't the first rebuild for the charismatic Sanders, who calls himself Coach Prime after a Hall of Fame playing career in wh...

The volunteers vital to Colorado's state parks

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:10 GMT

BRIGHTON, Colo. (KDVR) — There are people who love the outdoors. There are people who work in the outdoors.And then there are people who love to work in the outdoors — for free. Those are the folks who keep Colorado state parks running. They are the volunteers. Artist gets his inspiration from the Colorado outdoors Pull up to the entrance at Barr Lake State Park and volunteer Linda Reitz will greet you with a smile. She is just one of over a hundred volunteers that you might say has the right stuff. They play a major role in keeping the park just about perfect. Volunteers lead school groups, work at the entrance station, check boats, teach hunter education and teach archery classes, to name just a few of the things that volunteers perform every week. And, yes, they even clean the toilets. The one thing volunteers do not do is perform law-enforcement duties.Barr Lake State Park in Brighton, Colorado (Getty Images)'We could not do it without volunteers'Michelle Seubert, manager at B...