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Shyayn Bass Dead, Ali Aponte Arrested after DUI Accident on Dean Martin Drive [Las Vegas, NV]

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:30:00 GMT

22-Year-Old Woman Pronounced Dead after DUI Collision near West Tompkins AvenueLAS VEGAS, NV (December 19, 2023) – Shyayn Bass was killed Saturday night, and Ali Aponte was arrested after a wrong-way crash on Dean Martin Drive.Just before 10:30 p.m. on December 2nd, the incident unfolded near West Tompkins Avenue. According to accounts, the southbound driver of a 2003 Honda Odyssey unexpectedly crossed into the northbound lanes, resulting in a head-on collision with a 2017 Toyota Yaris. The 22-year-old Toyota driver, identified later as Bass, sustained critical injuries.First responders transported her to UMC Trauma for immediate medical attention. Simultaneously, the 50-year-old Honda driver, Ali Brandy Aponte, and the 26-year-old passenger were taken to UMC as a precautionary measure. Aponte faced charges of DUI and reckless driving leading to substantial bodily harm.Police later received a report on December 12th confirming Bass’s passing due to the severity of her in...

Joshua Paul Weber Arrested after Hit-and-Run on Chestnut Avenue [Carlsbad, CA]

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:30:00 GMT

15-Year-Old Girl Hospitalized after Pedestrian Crash Near Highland DriveCARLSBAD, CA (December 19, 2023) – Police arrested Joshua Paul Weber Tuesday afternoon following a hit-and-run crash on Chestnut Avenue.Police responded to reports of the collision around 3:30 p.m. at the intersection of Chestnut Avenue and Highland Drive.Upon arrival, the officers learned that a southbound vehicle on Highland Drive hit the pedestrian crossing in an unmarked crosswalk.Following the collision, the driver exited his vehicle and moved the victim off the roadway and onto the sidewalk. The suspect then fled the scene before the authorities arrived.Responding units from the Carlsbad Fire Department transported the 15-year-old girl to a hospital for significant injuries.Later, the Carlsbad Police Department managed to identify and arrest 42-year-old Joshua Paul Weber of Winchester. Officials booked Weber into the San Diego County Jail for felony hit-and-run.Additionally, a portion of the road was...

High school football: Why James Logan coach made difficult choice to step down

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:30:00 GMT

UNION CITY — Eddie Smith called it a tough decision but one that needed to be made.He has stepped down as James Logan’s football coach after four seasons and two league championships, telling the Bay Area News Group on Tuesday that the long commute from his home in Brentwood became too challenging for him and his family.“I live in Brentwood and I work in Brentwood,” Smith said. “I was traveling every day for football. My family needs me, man. I have a 6-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wonderful wife. The stress that I put on my family was a little too much.“Do I think I could do it? Yeah. But I just had to make a tough decision.”Smith, 41, broke the news to the team on Monday and made a public announcement on X (formerly Twitter) later in the day.He thanked the Logan administration for its support and players for their commitment to the program, which now has three levels of football. That is up from two when Smith took over from his friend,...

Brazil sues meatpackers over Amazon deforestation

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:30:00 GMT

By Fabiano Maisonnave | Associated Pressand Rubens Valenta | Agencia PublicaJACI-PARANA, Brazil — Meat processing giant JBS SA and three other slaughterhouses are facing lawsuits seeking millions of dollars in environmental damages for allegedly purchasing cattle raised illegally in a protected area in the Brazilian Amazon.The lawsuits, filed December 5 to 12 by the western Brazilian state of Rondonia, target the exploitation of a protected area known as Jaci-Parana, once rainforest but now mostly transformed into grassland by decades of misuse by land-grabbers, loggers and cattle ranchers. Despite a law forbidding commercial cattle in the reserve, some 216,000 head now graze on pasture there, according to the state animal division.The lawsuits contain a type of evidence that is getting the attention of deforestation experts and veterans of Brazil’s illegal cattle trade: transfer documents showing cows going straight to the slaughterhouse from protected areas, with the informa...

Pair of men killed Monday in Campbell crash

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:30:00 GMT

CAMPBELL — A crash in Campbell killed two men on Monday amid stormy, wet weather, according to police.The single-car collision took place around 1 p.m. on San Tomas Expressway near Budd Avenue. The men, both occupants of the same vehicle, were pronounced dead at the scene.Related ArticlesCrashes and Disasters | Driver killed in Newark freeway crash is identified Crashes and Disasters | Concord: Man killed in collision on Kirker Pass Road Crashes and Disasters | Three killed, five injured in crash on I-680 in Pleasanton Crashes and Disasters | Child killed in alleged Martinez DUI highway crash is identified Crashes and Disasters | Driver says he hit a deer, police found a dead body in his car The crash left a portion of San Tomas Expressway closed for about four hours.Police did not immediately release any other details, including how investigators believe the crash might have unfolded.The identity of the...

Kuwait’s ruling emir, Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah, dies at 86

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:30:00 GMT

By Jon Gambrell | Associated PressDUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah, Kuwait’s ruling emir, died on Saturday after a three-year, low-key reign focused on trying to resolve the tiny, oil-rich nation’s internal political disputes. He was 86.Kuwait state television broke into programming with Quranic verses just before a somber official made the announcement.“With great sadness and sorrow, we — the Kuwaiti people, the Arab and Islamic nations, and the friendly peoples of the world — mourn the late His Highness the emir, Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, who passed away to his Lord today,” said Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah Al Sabah, the minister of his emiri court, who read the brief statement.Authorities gave no cause of death.Kuwait’s deputy ruler and his half-brother, Sheikh Meshal Al Ahmad Al Jaber, now 83, had been the world’s oldest crown prince. The state-run KUNA news agency said Sheikh Meshal, a longtime leader in the country’s sec...

San Jose: Homicide declared for April death of two-month-old baby after findings of malnourishment, physical abuse

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:30:00 GMT

SAN JOSE — The death of a 2-month-old boy earlier this year in San Jose is now being investigated as a homicide after coroner’s officials declared that he was malnourished and had suffered serious head blows, authorities said.No arrests have been made, according to San Jose police. Santa Clara County officials told this news organization that the child, Charles Zheng, and his family had not received any attention from the Department of Family and Children’s Services prior to his death.Officers were called to a local hospital the evening of April 4 regarding the Charles’ death, in accordance with county child-death protocols. San Jose police said homicide detectives — who are summoned as standard procedure for child death cases — interviewed the infant’s parents and collected evidence.However, the child’s cause of death was not declared until Dec. 8, when the county Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office finalized its autopsy and death...

‘Potted Potter,’ a parody of all things Hogwarts, returns to Bay Area

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:30:00 GMT

It’s hard to believe that there’s anyone in a large portion of the world — let alone in the Bay Area — entirely unaware of Harry Potter. Even those who haven’t read the children’s novels by J.K. Rowling or seen the movie versions have probably heard of the wizard school Hogwarts, the broomstick sport Quidditch, and quite possibly the four “houses” into which the students are sorted.For any as yet uninitiated and for diehard Potter fans alike, there’s a madcap summary coming to town.A West End hit created and originally performed by Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner, “Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience — A Parody by Dan & Jeff” speeds through all seven Harry Potter novels in 70 minutes. While touring the show hither and yon, either performing it themselves or passing it along to other pairs, Clarkson and Turner created similar parodies, such as “Potted Pirates,” “Potted Panto” and “Potted Sherlock.”Currently performed by an Englishman, Joseph Ma...

Well over 100 delinquencies jolt downtown San Jose housing highrise

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:30:00 GMT

SAN JOSE — Notices of well over 100 delinquencies for unpaid homeowners dues have jolted a prominent housing highrise in downtown San Jose, raising ominous new specters of possible foreclosures at the troubled tower.The housing tower at 188 West St. James Street in downtown San Jose was built by a China-based real estate firm, Z&L Properties, whose top boss Zhang Li has been linked to a Bay Area fraud case.The owners association for the 188 West St. James tower has filed notices of at least 190 delinquencies for non-payment of homeowners’ dues for unsold condominiums in the highrise, according to documents filed on Dec. 13 with the Santa Clara County Recorder’s Office.The two-tower project totals 640 units. Each tower contains roughly 320 residences. The delinquencies involve the western highrise in the housing development.A review of a document totaling 184 pages that’s on file with the county revealed that a Z&L Properties affiliate that owns the un...

Ex-Proud Boy who cooperated gets reduced Jan. 6 sentence

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:30:00 GMT

By Holmes Lybrand | CNNA former Proud Boys lieutenant and US Marine, whose cooperation was key to the prosecution of the far-right group’s leaders for conspiring to stop Joe Biden from becoming president on January 6, 2021, was sentenced Tuesday to 40 months in prison.Charles Donohoe, 35, was the first of the Proud Boys leadership to enter a guilty plea and assist the prosecutors in their case, which resulted in the conviction of several leaders in the group of seditious conspiracy.Donohoe pleaded guilty to two felony charges related to the US Capitol attack for conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding on January 6 and assaulting an officer by throwing two water bottles at police during the riot.During Donohoe’s sentencing Tuesday, prosecutor Jason McCullough cited his “contribution to” the investigation into the group’s leadership and their plot to stop Biden’s election, adding that Donohoe detailed “the scope of that conspiracy.”Prosecutors asked for a significant reduction i...