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DA Pamela Price seeks removal of ‘overly zealous’ lawyer from San Leandro officer’s manslaughter case

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:54:39 GMT

Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price wants to keep a well-known Bay Area defense attorney from representing the San Leandro police officer charged in a 2020 manslaughter case — claiming the lawyer “acted overzealously” and sought to “undermine public confidence in the criminal justice system,” according to court documents filed this week.Price’s request this week targeting attorney Michael Rains — as well as his firm, Rains, Lucia, Stern, St. Phalle & Silver — comes just months after Rains himself tried unsuccessfully to have Price booted from the case over concerns that she was deeply biased against police officers.In a press release announcing the move, Price pilloried Rains for an “unethical and improper breach of the professional rules of professional conduct as well as a violation of the standards of ethics that apply to lawyers.”“Today my office took at stand for justice,” Price’s statem...

Danville bank robbed, police searching for suspect

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:54:39 GMT

(KRON) -- The Danville Police Department is asking for the public's help with finding a suspect who robbed a bank on Tuesday afternoon. The robbery happened at Wells Fargo, located at 3402 Camino Tassajara, just before 12:30 p.m. The robber passed a note to the staff demanding money and did not display a weapon, the Town of Danville said. Thieves who appear to rob elderly San Jose couple caught on camera The suspect was described as a Black man with a light complexion. He is believed to be in his early 20s, standing about 5-foot-7 and weighing about 150 pounds. He was wearing black clothing, including a black beanie, a black surgical mask and a black fanny pack or sling. He fled the area on foot and has not been captured, town officials said. The Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office and Danville Police Department are investigating the case. Anyone with information can call (925) 314-3703 or email [email protected].

Muere Tyler Christopher, estrella de “General Hospital”, a los 50 años

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:54:39 GMT

(CNN) –– El actor Tyler Christopher, recordado por sus papeles en “General Hospital” y “Days of Our Lives”, murió a los 50 años.El representante de Christopher, Chi Muoi Lo, dijo a CNN en un comunicado que el actor falleció la mañana de este martes.“Esta noticia fue increíblemente impactante, y estoy devastado por su pérdida. Era un actor muy talentoso y, lo que es más importante, un amigo increíble. Mi corazón está con sus amigos y familiares que lo amaron tanto”, se lee en el comunicado.El coprotagonista de Christopher en “General Hospital”, Maurice Bernard, también rindió homenaje al actor este martes y escribió: “Tyler era un individuo verdaderamente talentoso que iluminaba la pantalla en cada escena que interpretaba y disfrutaba llevando alegría a sus fieles seguidores a través de su actuación”.“Tyler era un alma dulce y un amigo maravilloso para todos los que lo conocieron”, añadió.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Disco...

Thousands of Bangladesh’s garment factory workers take to the streets demanding better wages

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:54:39 GMT

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Thousands of garment factory workers took to the streets of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, and the industrial district of Gazipur on Tuesday to demand better wages. Bangladesh is the second largest garment-producing country in the world after China with its nearly 3,500 factories where some 4 million workers are employed — most are women — according to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, or BGMEA. The workers get 8,300 takas, or $75, as monthly minimum wage and they often need to work overtime to make ends meet, labor unions and workers say. Protests erupted over the weekend after BGMEA offered to increase the monthly minimum wage by 25% to reach $90, instead of the $208 demanded by the workers.While Bangladesh has been maintaining stable annual economic growth for years, rising inflation has become a major challenge. Gazipur district, which houses thousands of factories, saw thousands of protesters on the streets with some throwing...

Joran van der Slot regresa a Perú a terminar de cumplir su condena por asesinato

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:54:39 GMT

(CNN Español) –– El neerlandés Joran van der Sloot ––quien confesó a mediados de octubre ante una corte estadounidense haber matado a Natalee Holloway, una joven desaparecida en Aruba en 2005–– aterrizó este martes en Lima procedente de EE.UU., de acuerdo con una publicación de la Policía Nacional de Perú en X, antes Twitter.¿Quién es Joran van der Sloot, el asesino confeso de Natalee Holloway y Stephany Flores?Van der Sloot seguirá cumpliendo en Perú la condena de 28 años de prisión que le impusieron en 2012 por el asesinato de Stephany Flores, de 21 años, en la habitación de un hotel en Lima.Van der Sloot había viajado a Estados Unidos el 8 de junio, tras la aprobación por parte de la justicia peruana de un traslado temporal para ser juzgado en una corte de Birmingham, Alabama.Joran van der Sloot confesó que asesinó a Natalee Holloway en una playa de Aruba, según un expediente judicialVan der Sloot confesó el asesinato de Holloway en una declaración relacionada con su acuerdo de c...

Children return to school and trick-or-treat as Maine community starts to heal from mass shooting

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:54:39 GMT

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Children were back in school in Lewiston and on the streets dressed as dinosaurs and princesses for Halloween, after a chaotic week that saw the deadliest mass shooting in Maine’s history and a massive search for the suspect as people sheltered indoors.Hundreds of students returned to Lewiston High School, petting therapy dogs and signing a large banner that read “Lewiston Strong.” Days earlier the campus had been transformed into a law enforcement command post, with helicopters utilizing athletic fields and 300 vehicles filling the parking lot.“Today’s going to be hard,” Superintendent Jake Langlais said. “But I think there’s strength in gathering, in unity, in getting back together.”Jayden Sands, a 15-year-old sophomore, said one of his football coaches lost four friends. One of his best friends also lost a friend, and his mom’s friend was shot four times but survived. Sands is glad to be back at school though safety was in the back of his ...

What is ‘community conferencing?’ And how does it work in Charles and Prince George’s Co.

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:54:39 GMT

People who work in the field of restorative justice say two things have to happen to make the practice work: all parties have to agree to the process, and once a resolution is decided upon, all parties have to agree to that as well.As the Montgomery County Council examines “community conferencing” as a way to deal with some juvenile offenses, WTOP reached out to two facilitators in two different Maryland counties to ask about the process.Dana Coles, who runs the Prince George’s County Community Conferencing Program said, “The most important part is to talk to people and make sure that they really want to participate” and that “they’re prepared for what the process is going to look like.”She said the process doesn’t look to be punitive, but she insists, it’s not done without accountability. “If you are the party that caused the harm, you have to acknowledge that you participated in the harm in some way.”Coles sai...

Diamondbacks’ Ketel Marte extends record postseason hitting streak to 20 games

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:54:39 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — Ketel Marte wasted little time extending his postseason-record hitting streak to 20 games, ripping a single to lead off the bottom of the first inning in Game 4 of the World Series on Tuesday night.The Arizona Diamondbacks second baseman’s 20-game on-base streak is the third best to begin a postseason career, trailing Boog Powell’s 25 games from 1966-71 and Daniel Murphy’s 21 games from 2015-17.Marte came into the game hitting .333 this postseason with two homers, 11 RBIs, six doubles and three stolen bases. He got his base hit on Tuesday off Texas Rangers left-hander Andrew Heaney. He was thrown out trying to steal second to end the inning.Marte broke the postseason record with a two-run single in Saturday’s Game 2, pushing his streak to 18 games. His two-out hit was part of a three-run eighth, sending him past Derek Jeter and Hank Bauer of the New York Yankees and Boston’s Manny Ramirez for the longest streak.Jeter’s run came in 1998-99, while Baue...

Rangers slugger Adolis García and pitcher Max Scherzer to miss the rest of the World Series

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:54:39 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — Texas Rangers slugger Adolis García and pitcher Max Scherzer will miss the rest of the World Series after getting hurt in Game 3 against the Arizona Diamondbacks.García, the AL Championship Series MVP, has a moderate strain of his left oblique. Scherzer, who had been in line to pitch a possible Game 7, has a muscle spasm on the right side of his back. They were replaced on the active roster by infielder/outfielder Ezequiel Durán and left-hander Brock Burke before Game 4 on Tuesday night.“They’ve worked their entire lives to be on this stage and be in this moment and they’ve both suffered injuries that are going to take them out of that,” Rangers general manager Chris Young said. ”I have great empathy for them in terms of that.”García grabbed his left side while coming out of the batter’s box on his flyout against Luis Frías in the eighth inning Monday.“Adolis did everything he could today,” Young said. ”He came in, was the first guy in today. He got ...

Bodycam video shows police saving residents from Maui wildfire, keeping people out of burn zone

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:54:39 GMT

HONOLULU (AP) — An officer sprinted from house to house in the historic town of Lahaina, Hawaii, alerting people to the approaching inferno. Another coughed and swore as he drove through thick smoke past burning buildings with people he rescued crammed in the back seat. With no ambulance available, one officer offered to bring a severely burned man to a hospital.While police frantically tried to save people from what would be the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, they also faced another challenge: keeping people from heading back toward the flames, newly released video from body cameras shows.“No more waiting! Too much people have died already!” one frustrated officer shouted at a line of stopped cars. “Turn around and get out of Lahaina! Stop being stubborn and get out of Lahaina now!”The roughly 20 hours of video depict the actions of Maui police officers on Aug. 8, when strong winds from a hurricane passing far to the south drove flames that quickly leveled Lahaina ...