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Residents blast city leaders for fire at vacant West Hollywood home

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 16:26:12 GMT

Residents in a West Hollywood neighborhood are demanding answers and action from city officials after a massive fire on Thanksgiving Night destroyed a vacant home that’s been the subject of repeated complaints about squatters and trespassers.  The dilapidated and vacant home on North Sierra Bonita Avenue, which is surrounded by apartment buildings, erupted in flames on Nov. 23 jarring neighbors from gatherings with their loved ones.  Fortunately, fire officials said no one was injured during the blaze, and while the fire has sent shockwaves through the nearby community, some of the residents tell KTLA that the property was a public safety hazard waiting to happen and that’s why they’re fuming.  At a West Hollywood City Council meeting on Monday, many residents were speaking their minds.  “The landlord did not secure his property,” one speaker said.  “I wish that WeHoans who ask the city for help could actually get it,” another told the council.  Neighbo...

Sideshow backs up traffic at busy San Francisco intersection

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 16:26:12 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – A sideshow stopped all traffic in a busy intersection in San Francisco over the weekend. It went on far longer than neighbors would have liked.The sideshow woke people up in the middle of the night, disturbing not only people who live around there but also all the people stuck in traffic while the intersection was shut down. The sideshow happened at Mission Street and South Van Ness Avenue. People who live near this intersection say they got woken up by people doing “donuts” around 1 a.m. Sunday. Kimberly Chin said it was extremely loud. Oakland police investigate fatal shooting near 7-Eleven “I heard a lot of screeching, then about a little bit later I heard fireworks go off multiple times,” she said.The sideshow also backed up traffic in all directions. Dozens of people parked in the middle of the street to go watch.Eventually, police responded and shut it all down with people and cars dispersing quickly. Other video online showed a Waymo being trappe...

250,000 birds euthanized in Petaluma due to bird flu

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 16:26:12 GMT

PETALUMA, Calif. (KRON) – Avian or “bird” flu is hitting Bay Area poultry farms hard, with a quarter of a million birds euthanized in Sonoma County this week alone.Mike Weber, the co-owner of Sunrise Farms in Petaluma, says around 82,000 of his egg-laying chickens had to be euthanized after birds started testing positive for Avian Flu.“They are posing a risk to the neighboring farms, so we are sacrificing the life of these birds so we can remove the risk of spreading like a wildfire,” he said. VIDEO: Person steals Christmas tree from parked car in San Mateo Weber says there are about 800,000 chickens left at the farm, but just down the street from him, a duck farm lost all 170,000 of its ducks due to the bird flu. Wildcare is a non-profit wildlife hospital in San Rafael. Its director of animal care, Melanie Piazza, has been monitoring the spread of the bird flu. She believes it’s coming from wild birds migrating south for the winter.“It’s so contagious. It’s harder to stop and it’...

Faculty at Sacramento State, other CSU campuses, to strike for better pay

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 16:26:12 GMT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Faculty at California State University, the largest public university system in the U.S., kicked off a series of one-day strikes starting Monday across four campuses to demand higher pay and more parental leave for thousands of professors, librarians, coaches and other workers.Hundreds of faculty members picketed at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, also known as Cal Poly Pomona, to launch the latest push by the California Faculty Association to fight for better pay and benefits for the roughly 29,000 workers the union represents across the university system's 23 campuses.The union is seeking a 12% salary raise and an increase in parental leave from six weeks to a full semester. They also want more manageable workloads for faculty, better access to breastfeeding stations and more gender-inclusive restrooms."What we're doing is in the spirit of maintaining the integrity of what the public education system should be for," said Maria Gisela Sanc...

Buchnevich scores 38 seconds into overtime, Blues top Golden Knights 2-1

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 16:26:12 GMT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Pavel Buchnevich scored 38 seconds into overtime and the St. Louis Blues beat the Vegas Golden Knights 2-1 on Monday night.Alexey Toropchenko scored in regulation for the Blues and Jordan Binnington made 33 saves.The Blues improved to 12-0-0 when scoring the first goal of the game, and are 3-0-1 in their last four straight trips to Vegas.“We feel real good when we score first, that’s for sure,” Blues coach Craig Berube said. “We haven’t done a great job when we haven’t scored first so far this year and that’s something we got to improve upon and correct. But when we have the lead we play confident.”Jack Eichel scored for the Golden Knights while Logan Thompson made 25 saves.In the extra period, Buchnevich was alone at the right corner when he took a pass from Robert Thomas and slammed the puck past Thompson.Binnington was easily the star of the game after struggling over his previous six starts, during which he had the league’s sixth-highest goals-against aver...

Guerra entre Israel y Hamas en vivo: ataques en Gaza, muertes, noticias y más

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 16:26:12 GMT

Para ver las entradas más recientes haz clic aquíLos palestinos huyen de Khan Younis a Rafah, en el sur de Gaza, el 4 de diciembre, después de que el ejército israelí dijera a los civiles que abandonaran ciertas zonas. Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty ImagesThe-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source

Brandon Ingram leads the Pelicans past the Kings 127-117 to advance to In-Season Tournament semis

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 16:26:12 GMT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Brandon Ingram scored 30 points and the New Orleans Pelicans beat the Sacramento Kings 127-117 on Monday night in the quarterfinals of the NBA’s In-Season Tournament.Ingram helped New Orleans erase an early deficit and the Pelicans never trailed in the second half as they advanced to play the winner of Tuesday night’s game between Phoenix and the Los Angeles Lakers in the semifinals Thursday in Las Vegas. “It’s a growth moment for us to have an opportunity to be one of the first,” New Orleans coach Willie Green said. “This is the first time we’ve had the In-Season Tournament. You put a game in front of us that’s meaningful, I don’t care who it is, where it is, we want to win. That’s the type of heart that we have in that locker room.”Herb Jones added 23 points and Jonas Valanciunas had 18 to give the Pelicans their third win over Sacramento in the past two weeks.De’Aaron Fox scored 30 points and Domantas Sabonis added 26 points...

Jake Browning steals spotlight as Bengals stun Jaguars 34-31 in OT. Trevor Lawrence injures ankle

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 16:26:12 GMT

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jake Browning insists his first career start was the real surprise. Everyone else would disagree.Browning threw for 354 yards and a touchdown in his second start — much better than the four-sack, two-turnover performance a week earlier — and the Cincinnati Bengals stunned the Jacksonville Jaguars 34-31 in overtime Monday night.“He just lit the world on fire,” coach Zac Taylor said.Browning also ran for a score as the Bengals (6-6) won a road game on “Monday Night Football” for the first time since 1990. Evan McPherson’s 48-yard field goal in overtime was the difference and ended a three-game losing streak on the season and a nine-game road skid on MNF.“After you put up 10 points in your first start, you’re excited to get another crack at it,” Browning said.This one was shocking and potentially costly for the Jaguars (8-4), who lost quarterback Trevor Lawrence to a sprained right ankle late in the fourth quarter.Left tackle Walker Little st...

An explosion leveled a home in Arlington, Virginia, as officers tried serve a search warrant

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 16:26:12 GMT

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A massive explosion at a duplex where police were investigating reports of shots fired shook a Washington, D.C, suburb Monday and destroyed the home.All officers escaped serious injury but it was unclear what happened to the suspect who was inside the home when it was leveled by the explosion, Arlington County, Virginia, police spokesperson Ashley Savage said.Officers went to the home at about 4:45 p.m. after receiving reports of shots fired. They later determined the shots came from a flare gun, Savage said. While police investigated, they obtained a search warrant for the home.When police later attempted to execute the warrant the suspect fired several rounds inside the home and the explosion occurred just before 8:30 p.m., shooting flames and debris into the air police said. Savage said it was unclear whether the rounds were fired from a flare gun or a firearm. Police don’t have any evidence that others were in the duplex but can’t rule out the possibility, ...

Lebanon’s Christians feel the heat of climate change in its sacred forest and valley

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 16:26:12 GMT

BCHARRE, Lebanon (AP) — Majestic cedar trees towered over dozens of Lebanese Christians gathered outside a small mid-19th century chapel hidden in a mountain forest to celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration, the miracle where Jesus Christ, on a mountaintop, shined with light before his disciples.The sunset’s yellow light coming through the cedar branches bathed the leader of Lebanon’s Maronite Church, Patriarch Beshara al-Rai, as he stood at a wooden podium and delivered a sermon. Then the gathering sang hymns in Arabic and the Aramaic language.For Lebanon’s Christians, the cedars are sacred, these tough evergreen trees that survive the mountain’s harsh snowy winters. They point out with pride that Lebanon’s cedars are mentioned 103 times in the Bible. The trees are a symbol of Lebanon, pictured at the center of the national flag. The iconic trees in the country’s north are far from the clashes between Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops along the Lebanon-Israel border ...