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With Mayor Lamar Thorpe absent, Antioch council pushes for rule changes

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:52 GMT

(BCN) -- Members of the Antioch community came out Tuesday night to defend Mayor Lamar Thorpe at a special meeting called by two City Council members to examine how the council does its business. Turns out, it was much ado about almost nothing, at least when it came to a proposal to consider Antioch switching from four to five council districts and annually rotating the mayor's position among council members, instead of electing one mayor for a four-year-term. There were two proposals up for discussion: the first, the realignment of power on the council, from a more-dominant mayoral system to power-sharing of rotating mayors. The latter wouldn't have gone into effect until after the 2024 election, when Thorpe's current term ends. This Bay Area city is the best place in the country to raise a family: study Members of the public still accused the council of trying to undermine the mayor, with one person calling it a "coup d'etat." The idea immediately lost steam after the...

Zogg Fire: PG&E reaches settlement with Shasta County DA

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:52 GMT

(KRON) -- Pacific Gas and Electric Company has reached a multi-million dollar settlement with the Shasta County District Attorney's Office in connection to the 2020 Zogg Fire. This Bay Area city is the best place to raise a family, new study says CalFire ultimately determined that the Zogg Fire was caused by a tree that fell onto a PG&E powerline. As a part of the settlement, the Superior Court dismissed more than half of the original 31 criminal charges against the company, and a later ruling from the judge tentatively dismissed the remaining felony charges. A tree burns from embers in Igo on September 27, 2020 (Photo by ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images)PG&E, citing the court order, states that there were several inspections near the area before the fire, and there was no evidence which showed PG&E's efforts "fell below the industry standard of care." The inspections did not lead anyone to believe that the tree was a risk, PG&E said. The fire burns a home alon...

Body of Missouri ER doctor had apparent gunshot wound, was found in Arkansas lake

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:52 GMT

A missing emergency room doctor from Missouri was found dead in Arkansas from an apparent gunshot wound, authorities confirmed Wednesday, but they’re still investigating what happened in the week since he was last seen.A kayaker discovered the body of 49-year-old Dr. John Forsyth on Tuesday in Beaver Lake, a large reservoir in northwestern Arkansas, the Benton County Sheriff’s Office said. No further information would immediately be released, authorities said, and they didn’t specify if he was shot by someone else or if the wound was self-inflicted. The doctor’s unlocked vehicle with his wallet, two phones, a laptop and other items had been found Sunday near an aquatic park in Cassville, the town in the Missouri Ozarks where he worked, said his brother Richard Forsyth. The body was found at a location about 20 miles (32 kilometers) away, Arkansas authorities say.Surveillance video from the aquatic park shows John Forsyth’s black Infiniti pulling into the parking lo...

La “dama del baúl” finalmente tiene nombre: policía identifica el cadáver desconocido que encontró un día de Halloween hace 53 años gracias al ADN

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:52 GMT

(CNN) — Después de que la policía encontrara un cadáver en un baúl de vapor negro en una zona boscosa de Florida hace 53 años, el misterio de la “dama del baúl” se convirtió en un caso sin resolver que captó la atención del público durante décadas. Pero gracias a las pruebas de ADN, la policía acaba de identificar a la víctima como Sylvia June Atherton, madre de cinco hijos nacida en Tucson, Arizona.En Halloween de 1969, la policía de St. Petersburg recibió una llamada para acudir a una zona boscosa situada detrás de lo que entonces era un restaurante llamado Oyster Bar, explicó el subjefe Michael Kovacsev en una conferencia de prensa celebrada este martes. Según él, dos niños dijeron haber visto a dos hombres blancos en una camioneta descargar el baúl en el campo y marcharse.Cuando los agentes abrieron el baúl, encontraron el cuerpo de una mujer envuelto en una gran bolsa de plástico, dijo la policía en un comunicado. Tenía heridas visibles en la cabeza y estaba p...

Cubs’ Steele leaves start against Rays because of left forearm tightness

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:52 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Cubs starter Justin Steele left Wednesday’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays after three innings because of left forearm tightness.Steele retired all nine batters he faced.He got a visit from manager David Ross and an athletic trainer with one out in the third.Steele retired the next two batters, with third baseman Patrick Wisdom making a lunging stab on Taylor Walls’ line drive foul and stopping Jose Siri’s hard grounder before throwing him out.Hayden Wesneski came in to start the fourth inning. Steele is 6-2 with a 2.65 ERA in 12 starts.___AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsSource

Top MLB prospects Crews, Skenes lead LSU into NCAA tournament

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:52 GMT

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — When 6-foot-6, 247-pound right-hander Paul Skenes steps on the mound at LSU’s Alex Box Stadium — as he will this weekend in the NCAA baseball tournament — sellout crowds 13,000 strong buzz with anticipation of 100 mph fastballs and strikeouts galore.Taking in that scene from center field is Dylan Crews, who might be even more coveted by Major League Baseball teams than his fire-balling teammate.Crews, hitting .420 and named the SEC player of the year, is the consensus top prospect in this year’s MLB amateur draft, which will be held in Las Vegas from July 9-11. Next is Skenes (10-2), who leads the nation with 167 strikeouts and was named SEC pitcher of the year. If they are the first two drafted, it will be the first time the top two picks came from the same college baseball team.Crews embraces the hype.“I love it. It’s what I’ve worked for every day, really,” he said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “Every time I come ...

Esto podría significar el acuerdo sobre el techo de la deuda para los pagos de préstamos estudiantiles

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:52 GMT

Washington (CNN) — Si el acuerdo bipartidista sobre el techo de la deuda se convierte en ley, echará por tierra cualquier esperanza que pudieran tener los prestatarios de que se extienda por novena vez la pausa federal para el pago de los préstamos estudiantiles.El Gobierno de Biden ha dicho en repetidas ocasiones que la pausa en los pagos de préstamos federales a estudiantes por la pandemia terminaría a finales de este año, pero los funcionarios han dicho eso antes y han vuelto a prorrogar la pausa.Manchin podría obtener un gasoducto del acuerdo sobre el techo de la deuda, y los defensores del medio ambiente están furiososEsta vez, es posible que el secretario de Educación, Miguel Cardona, no pueda hacerlo. El acuerdo para abordar el límite de la deuda incluye una disposición que le impide específicamente volver a prorrogar la pausa en los pagos, según el texto del proyecto de ley.La pausa “dejará de ser efectiva” 60 días después del 30 de junio, según el proyecto...

Tigers’ Riley Greene on injured list with left leg stress fracture

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:52 GMT

DETROIT (AP) — Centerfielder Riley Greene was put on the 10-day injured list Wednesday by the Detroit Tigers because of a stress fracture in his left leg.Greene was injured during Detroit’s 10-6 loss to the Texas Rangers on Tuesday and left the game in the third inning. He was sent for tests and an MRI showed a stress fracture in his left fibia.“Obviously, there’s going to be a rest period of at least 10 days,” Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said. “For me to speculate what it means beyond that is just guessing.”Greene has been Detroit’s best hitter this season, leading the team in batting average (.296), hits (60) and runs (29). He is also tied for second on the team with five home runs.The move came one day after the Tigers placed their best pitcher, Eduardo Rodriguez. on the 15-day injured list with a ruptured ligament in his left index finger. Rodriguez is expected to miss at least a month.Detroit currently has 12 players on the injured list, including four-fifths of its ideal startin...

Unprecedented wildfire on Canada’s Atlantic coast still burning after four days

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:52 GMT

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — An unprecedented string of wildfires in Canada’s Atlantic-coast province of Nova Scotia continued to burn out of control for a fourth day on Wednesday, preventing thousands of evacuees from trying to see if their homes have been destroyed. Fire officials were hoping for a break in the dry, windy weather, but that’s not forecast to happen until Friday night at the earliest.Halifax deputy fire chief David Meldrum made it clear that none of the 16,000 evacuees from the suburbs around Halifax will be able to return home for now. Another 2,000 people who fled a much larger uncontained fire in southwestern Nova Scotia also are being kept away from their properties. Fire officials say an estimated 200 structures, including 151 homes, have been destroyed since the fire started in the Upper Tantallon area on Sunday afternoon. No deaths or injuries have been reported, but “it’s the site of a tragedy,” Meldrum said.“There’s widespread destruction, and th...

2nd teen charged in Fairfax Co. Memorial Day shooting, stabbing that left 2 dead

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:52 GMT

Two people were shot dead and two others stabbed in a Fairfax County, Virginia, apartment complex on May 29, 2024. (WTOP/Kyle Cooper) Two people were shot dead and two others stabbed in a Fairfax County, Virginia, apartment complex on May 29, 2024. (WTOP/Kyle Cooper) A second teen has been arrested in what police have described as a drug-related shooting and stabbing incident at an apartment complex in Fairfax County, Virginia, on Memorial Day that left two dead.Fairfax County police said Wednesday that Vladimir Garcia Montes, 18, of Falls Church, has been arrested and charged with robbery resulting in death.On Tuesday, police arrested another teen — a 17-year-old who they did not publicly identify — and charged h...