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Cannabis Banking Moves Closer to Finish Line

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:37 GMT

The decade-long saga of legal cannabis businesses having access to legitimate financial services may come to an end as a key Senate committee passed The SAFER Banking Act earlier this week. The bill is the Senate’s answer to The SAFER Banking Act first passed by the House. It was passed by the House in various forms during the 116th Congress and the 117th Congress.The new SAFER Banking Act is being spearheaded by Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Steve Daines (R-MT). They have heavy support from the Senate leadership. That’s likely one of the reasons the chains have moved further than ever toward the end goal. This is the biggest first down that activists in support of the issue have ever seen. Now they prepare for the bill to reach a floor vote with a lot of positivity in the air. From there it would be back to the House, hopefully by the end of the year according to one congressional insider with knowledge of the bill. There the House would likely make its own tweaks, pass it, and ...

Trump co-defendant takes plea deal in Georgia case

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:37 GMT

By Zachary Cohen, Jason Morris and Nick Valencia | CNNOne of former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants has pleaded guilty to five counts in the 2020 election subversion case in Georgia.Bail bondsman Scott Hall, 59, is the first defendant in the case brought by the Fulton County district attorney’s office to take a plea agreement with prosecutors. The agreement, entered in Fulton County Superior Court on Friday afternoon, recommends a sentence of five years probation.Hall was accused of conspiring to unlawfully access voter data and ballot counting machines at the Coffee County election office on January 7, 2021.He spent hours inside a restricted area of the election office when voting systems were breached, which was connected to efforts by pro-Trump conspiracy theorists to find voter fraud. Hall was captured on surveillance video at the office on the day of the breach. He testified before the special grand jury in the Fulton County case and acknowledged that he gained access to...

The 10 most expensive homes reported sold in Milpitas in the week of Sep. 11

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:37 GMT

A condo in Milpitas that sold for $1.6 million tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Milpitas in the past two weeks.In total, 11 residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past two weeks, with an average price of $1.2 million, $807 per square foot.The prices in the list below concern real estate sales where the title was recorded from the week of September 4 to the week of Sep. 17 even if the property may have been sold earlier.10. $926,000, condominium in the 800 block of South Abel StreetThe property in the 800 block of South Abel Street in Milpitas has new owners. The price was $926,000. The condominium was built in 2007 and has a living area of 1,259 square feet. The price per square foot is $736. The condominium features two bedrooms and two bathrooms.South Abel Street9. $1.1 million, condominium in the 1800 block of Snell PlaceThe 1,359 square-foot condominium in the 1800 block of Snell Place, Milpitas, has been sold. The ...

Gabe Kapler fired as SF Giants manager after 4 seasons

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:37 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — Just weeks after earning the endorsement of the club’s chairman, Gabe Kapler was fired by the Giants on Friday, the result of a spectacular September collapse that saw his club, in the words of top baseball boss Farhan Zaidi, “play our worst baseball when it mattered most.”The indictment from Zaidi came Thursday in a conciliatory 15-minute interview on the club’s flagship network, KNBR, in which Zaidi took personal accountability for the club’s shortcomings but also stopped short of affirming his hand-picked manager would be back for the next season.Less than 24 hours later, Zaidi said in a statement issued by the club that he made the recommendation to fire Kapler and received the approval of ownership.“In his tenure as Giants manager, Gabe led our team through an unprecedented pandemic in 2020 and a franchise-record 107 wins and postseason berth in 2021,” the statement read. “He has been dedicated and passionate in hi...

Blast in Pakistan kills dozens at rally celebrating Muhammad

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:37 GMT

By Abdul Sattar | Associated PressQUETTA, Pakistan — A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of people celebrating the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 52 people and wounding nearly 70 others, authorities said, in one of the country’s deadliest attacks targeting civilians in months.An open area near a mosque was left strewn with the shoes of the dead and wounded, TV footage and videos on social media showed. Bodies lay covered with bedsheets. Residents and rescuers were seen rushing the wounded to hospitals.No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack in Mastung, a district of Baluchistan province. But suspicion is likely to fall on the militant Islamic State group’s regional affiliate, which has claimed previous deadly bombings around Pakistan. IS carried out an attack days earlier in the same area after one of its commanders was killed there.On Friday, around 500 people had gathered for ...

SF Giants fire manager Gabe Kapler

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:37 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- The San Francisco Giants announced Friday they have fired manager Gabe Kapler. Kapler has been the Giants' skipper since the 2020 season. He replaced three-time World Series champion Bruce Bochy who was San Francisco's manager from 2007 to 2019. In Kapler's four-season tenure, the Giants made the playoffs once in 2021 when they won a franchise-record 107 games before losing in the NLDS. That was the only season the team finished above .500. The Giants' record under Kapler was 295-248 (.543 winning percentage).The announcement comes with three games left in the 2023 regular season. Giants President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi released the following statement.The Giants (78-81) play archrival Los Angeles Dodgers (98-61) Friday night at Oracle Park for the first game of a three-game series to finish the 2023 season. First pitch is scheduled for 7:15 p.m. San Francisco is out of playoff contention. The Dodgers clinched the NL West. This story will be upda...

San Francisco prosecutors: 'Prolific' serial thief arrested, denied bail

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:37 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A 24-year-old San Francisco woman was arrested and charged with shoplifting from several Walgreens stores around the city.Savannah Church, aka Ashely West, pleaded not guilty in court Thursday to eight counts of organized retail theft, commercial burglary, and grand theft. "Prolific, serial retail burglars, have an outsized impact on our community and must be held accountable. Organized retail theft deeply impacts our residents, shoppers and businesses," District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said.Church allegedly participated in eight retail theft incidents between June 10 and September 4. Prosecutors wrote, "She and others stole approximately $34,000 worth of goods from three Walgreens locations (at) 456 Mission Street, 1189 Potrero Avenue, and 2494 San Bruno Avenue." Security guard who shot Banko Brown felt ‘on edge’ before Walgreens killing Church's suspected criminal activities also stretched across San Mateo and Alameda counties, according to investigators....

2 robbery suspects arrested at the Petaluma Outlets Sunglass Hut 

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:37 GMT

(KRON) – The Petaluma Police Department arrested two suspects who allegedly attempted to steal $18,000 of merchandise.Petaluma officers were dispatched to Sunglass Hut at the Petaluma Outlets for a robbery on Sept. 28. According to police, suspects gathered $18,000 worth of merchandise and attempted to flee the scene without purchasing the products. The outlet’s security guard made an effort to detain the suspects. According to police investigation, the suspects pushed through a door past the security guard and attempted to flee. The suspects were detained by two citizens outside of the store when Petaluma police arrived on the scene. One of the suspects assaulted one of the citizens detaining them with pepper spray.     SF leaders, Gov. Newsom react to passing of Sen. Feinstein The suspects were identified as Antioch residents, Casey Canion, 20, and Keiarra Spencer, 20. Canion and Spencer were arrested and booked into the Sonoma County Jail for felony robbery and felony conspirac...

Texas Anti-Abortion Crusader Demands Abortion Patient Information In Court

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:37 GMT

Abortion rights demonstrators gather near the State Capitol in Austin, Texas, on June 25, 2022.Photo: Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty ImagesThe notorious far-right attorney who helped craft Texas’s bounty-hunter abortion ban, Senate Bill 8, is now attempting to force abortion funds to hand over reams of information on every abortion the organizations have supported since 2021. This includes the city and state where each patient lived, the names of the abortion providers, and the identities of nearly every person who helped the patients access abortion care.Earlier this month, Jonathan Mitchell — himself not a Texan but based in Washington state — served requests to nine Texas abortion funds and one Texas doctor. The brazen attempt to acquire sensitive information about abortion patients and the funds that assist them is a disturbing turn in the ongoing legal battle over Texas’s six-week abortion ban.In August of last year, a coalition of abortion funds and doctors filed a class acti...

Uneven Dortmund holds on with 10 men to beat Hoffenheim 3-1 in the Bundesliga

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:37 GMT

SINSHEIM, Germany (AP) — Borussia Dortmund held on with 10 men to beat Hoffenheim 3-1 in the Bundesliga on Friday but it was another unconvincing win ahead of a potentially crucial Champions League game against AC Milan.The win put Dortmund top of the table — though only until other teams play Saturday — but the game continued a pattern of Dortmund edging wins in tight games after giving its opponents plenty of chances.Some Dortmund players were clearly frustrated as Ramy Bensebaini was sent off for a second booking after kicking the ball away at a routine throw-in in the 71st minute with the score 2-1. Marco Reus had scored Dortmund’s second goal but was later booked for throwing a water bottle onto the field from the bench.Dortmund coach Edin Terzic acknowledged Thursday that his team was struggling to find its “magic” and key figures at Dortmund have spoken of needing to get over losing the Bundesliga title to Bayern Munich in the final minutes of last season.Niclas Füllkru...