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Man sentenced in deadly 2021 crime spree

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:22 GMT

A judge Tuesday sentenced the man who “terrorized” people in Aurora and Denver during a two-hour deadly 2021 crime spree to 85 years in prison.Andrew Jacobs, 34, received the sentence in Arapahoe County after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and aggravated robbery in the Nov. 10, 2021 spree in which he committed several violent crimes that included murder, multiple carjackings and two home invasions, the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday in a news release.Jacobs claimed he was high on methamphetamine and fentanyl during the crime spree.The spree started when Jacobs attempted to carjack a woman, stealing her purse and firing shots in her garages, about 3:20 a.m. Nov 10, 2021.Police then responded to a possible carjacking at 14082 East Iowa Drive in the Florida Station Apartments complex a few minutes later at 3:29 p.m. where they found a man, Albarracin, shot. He died after being taken to a hospital.Albarracin’s six-year-old son...

Orange County student suspended for saying ‘Free Palestine,’ family says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:22 GMT

The family of a student in Newport Beach is outraged after he was allegedly suspended for saying “Free Palestine” to another student.Video posted to social media by one of the student’s family members shows the 8th grader’s mother asking if what her son said was worthy of being suspended for three days. A school official is heard in the video saying that he could not comment on the matter due to not knowing the full story.The post indicated that the boy had told a girl “Free Palestine” and that she responded by calling him a “terrorist.” Paperwork signed by Jacob Haley, the principal of Corona del Mar Middle and High School, shows that the school says the student made “threatening remarks to a young lady in class.”  Some schools in Tustin reopening as hangar fire continues to burn A book titled "Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth" was seen on the principal’s desk while the student’s mother was picking her son up, the family member’s s...

Woman killed, man injured in Arlington Heights hit-and-run

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:22 GMT

A woman is dead and a man injured after a hit-and-run in Arlington Heights Tuesday night, the second such incident in the neighborhood in one day.At about 8 p.m. in the 1500 block of Arlington Avenue, a young couple was crossing the street outside of a crosswalk when they were hit by a speeding car headed southbound, said Sgt. Greg Whorton of the Los Angeles Police Department.The man was knocked down, but the woman was "unfortunately struck ... pretty directly," Whorton said."It knocked her a ways down the street and she was struck by another car headed northbound and died at scene," Whorton said. Woman killed in Arlington Heights hit-and-run crash; suspect at large The first car, believed to be a black four-door Infiniti, continued south, but the second vehicle that struck the 24-year-old woman stayed at the scene.That second vehicle was just "an innocent driver going the other way, happened to be the wrong place, wrong time," Whorton said.The man's condition is unknown.Earlier o...

Apple extends free Satellite SOS for iPhone 14 users

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:22 GMT

Smartphones have been saving lives ever since they’ve were introduced.Last year, Apple upped the ante with a feature called Emergency SOS via Satellite, which can call for help over satellites.Now, on the one-year anniversary of the feature, they're extending free use of the service, which has been key in various rescues since its launch.Follow Tech Reporter Rich DeMuro on Instagram for more tech news, tips and reviews.iPhone user Juana Reyes was two hours into a birthday hike when she stepped onto ground that gave away."It was the worst pain I’ve ever experienced," Reyes told me over Zoom. "I remember feeling a pop in my ankle," explained the San Diego resident, who was visiting Los Angeles at the time.Suddenly, she found herself stuck with a broken ankle in the Angeles National Forest.Courtesy Juana ReyesHer friend tried calling 911 on their smartphone, but cellular didn’t work. That's when Reyes handed over her phone, thinking they might have different cellular carriers and perha...

Waiting for LP Giobbi

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:22 GMT

Waiting for LP Giobbi: Dance music superstar-in-the-making LP Giobbi grew up playing jazz and classical piano and graduated with a Jazz Piano Performance degree from UC Berkeley. “After college I would play solo jazz piano gigs at a bar in San Francisco every weekend and one night an engineer and producer for Daft Punk heard me playing and asked if I wanted to join an all female electronic band in LA that the Daft Arts team was putting together,” she says. “The other women in the band were also jazz musicians and together we learned about synthesis and electronic gear and I started using Ableton and Protools to produce for the band. I have always personally taken it seriously because I loved it and because I wanted to be a visual representation for other women considering only 2% of producers are women. My first real ‘break’ came when Sofi Tukker asked me to go on tour with them and that is when I learned how to DJ and read a dance floor. I was horrible...

San Francisco homicide: Suspect caught 3 months later by police on patrol

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:22 GMT

The suspect in an August homicide in San Francisco was arrested Sunday after being spotted by officers on patrol, the police said.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Bay Area homicides 2023: Map and details The 32-year-old man was wanted in connection with a fatal assault Aug. 16 in the South of Market neighborhood. Officers had been called shortly before 4 a.m. that day to Rausch and Howard streets, where they found a 25-year-old man with unspecified injuries that the police report described as life-threatening. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.On the morning of Nov. 12, officers on the 100 block of Larkin Street, next to City Hall, saw a man matching the suspect description from the investigators’ bulletin. He was detained and arrested on suspicion of homicide.

Does it feel like November yet? ‘Unorganized’ rain and strong winds are due for the Bay Area on Wednesday

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:22 GMT

Fluctuating forecasts and near-unpredictable weather patterns have been the story in the Bay Area so far this week but even though residents woke up without rain Wednesday morning, the consensus remains the same — the rest of the week will likely be wet and windy, according to the National Weather Service.The NWS forecast for Wednesday called for between half of an inch to one-quarter of an inch of rain between about 5 a.m. and midnight in Oakland, San Francisco, San Mateo County, Santa Cruz County and the East Bay Hills. In the Santa Cruz Mountains, that figure was pushed up to about one inch, while in the Santa Clara Valley it was between one-quarter and one-half.Related ArticlesWeather | Bay Area forecasts trending drier than previously predicted, but wet Wednesday anticipated Weather | Storm tracker map: Where it’s raining in the Bay Area Weather | San Jose officials urge residents to prepare for incoming rainfall with possible fl...

Searching for the chicken in Petaluma, the former Egg Basket of the World

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:22 GMT

Kingdom of 10,000,000 White Leghorns. Chickaluma. The Egg Basket of the World.These were all once nicknames for Petaluma, a charming little city in the agricultural bosom of Sonoma County. By the early 1900s, a booming poultry industry, driven by a locally designed egg incubator, saw the area producing 120 million eggs a year. There were Egg Day parades led by Egg Queens, the world’s only poultry pharmacy and more money on deposit in the banks, per capita, than any other place on earth.But how chickeny is Petaluma… now?To find out, my partner and I drive into the countryside under a misty sun that looks like a big egg yolk. We carry the determination of Cool Hand Luke to eat 50 eggs or explode trying. Entering Petaluma, evidence of its feathered past peeks out from every corner. Chickens are painted on fading shop walls, metal roosters stand outside a restaurant, and the fairground harbors a huge sculpture of a white hen. That last one requires occasional repairs, becaus...

Lanes of Highway 84 close due to crash in Sunol

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:22 GMT

(BCN) -- Lanes of state Highway 84 in Sunol were closed to motorists early Wednesday morning due to a crash.The eastbound and westbound lanes of Highway 84 from Interstate Highway 680 to Main Street have been shut down, the California Highway Patrol said on social media around 5:45 a.m.The portion of Pleasanton Sunol Road from Paloma Way to Koopman Road is also closed, the CHP said. San Francisco undergoes transformation as APEC kicks into high gear The crash on Tuesday night impacted power lines in the area, according to the CHP. There is no estimated time yet for when the affected roadway will reopen.Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

$28K recovered after SF resident arrested for computer scam

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:22 GMT

(KRON) -- A San Francisco resident was arrested in connection to a computer scam that involved telling victims that their computers were compromised and asking them to send large amounts of money to safeguard their information, according to the Daly City Police Department.On Nov. 4, a victim of the scam contacted Daly City police after they sent money to a Daly City address, authorities said. Investigators worked with the mail service to track the package’s delivery to a vacant residence. Oven, toilet stolen from Piedmont home, 2 arrested Officers surveilling the residence witnessed a 24-year-old San Francisco resident collect two packages containing the scammed money, Daly City PD said. The suspect was arrested for fraud charges and for the possession of drugs.$28,600 was recovered from the two packages and will be returned to the victims, police said.