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Family devastated after wrong-way driver kills 5-year-old, grandmother in Van Nuys

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:03 GMT

A family that suffered unimaginable loss in a violent head-on collision last week in Van Nuys is speaking out, asking the community for support and pleading with authorities to help bring closure.  Anna Cordova Calderon struggled to hold back tears as she remembered her young son, 5-year-old Yeshua, and her mother, both of whom died as a result of the June 29 crash.  “Everything happened really fast,” Calderon said in Spanish. The grieving woman said her son loved soccer and his grandmother, 74-year-old Aura De La Cruz Calderón de Tobar.  “She was with us every minute that she could be,” Calderon said of her mother. “I can’t imagine my life without her.”  The family was on their way to dinner last Thursday night. In the car, Yeshua and his grandmother sat in the back seat. The young boy’s older stepsister and her boyfriend were up front. They were traveling southbound on Woodley Avenue just south of Victory with Anna and her husband a short distance behind in ano...

3 teens arrested for murder of pizza deliveryman helping assault victim in Stanton

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:03 GMT

Three teens were arrested Thursday for a shooting that killed a pizza delivery driver in Stanton who was stopping to help an assault victim in 2022.The suspects were identified as Henry Diep Le, 19, from Garden Grove, Adrian Castaneda, 19, and Damian Ivan Mayorga,18, both from Anaheim.The suspects are accused of their involvement in a shooting that killed Juan Cristalinas, 49, a Santa Ana resident and left a 76-year-old man hospitalized, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.On June 28, authorities responded to the 7000 block of Lessue Avenue on a call of unknown trouble.Arriving deputies found both victims lying on the street with gunshot wounds.It was later discovered that Cristalinas was a pizza delivery driver who had stopped driving and hopped out to intervene when the 76-year-old victim was being assaulted by the suspects.Authorities respond to a fatal shooting in Stanton on June 29, 2022. (OnScene.TV)Both men were transported to the hospital where Cristalinas la...

Charges filed in cyber attack on East Bay water treatment plant

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:03 GMT

DISCOVERY BAY – A 53-year-old Tracy man is facing federal criminal charges in connection with an alleged attack on the computer systems of a Discovery Bay water treatment plant more than two years ago, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.Rambler Gallo was a full-time employee of a private Massachusetts-based company that contracted with Discovery Bay to operate the town’s water treatment plant, prosecutors said, citing an indictment that was filed June 27 and unsealed Thursday.The plant provides treatment for the town’s water and wastewater systems for 15,000 residents.As the company’s “instrumentation and control tech” from July 2016 to December 2020, Gallo was responsible for maintaining the instrumentation and computer systems used to manage electromechanical processes at the plant, according to prosecutors.During that period, Gallo allegedly installed software on his personal computer and the company’s private network that allowed him to gain remote access to the plant’s net...

Airbnb bookings decline in San Francisco

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:03 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Summer is off to a slow start for Airbnb hosts in San Francisco. Some are reporting a major decline in bookings. A long-time Airbnb host in SF tells KRON4 usually this time of year his bookings are full.However, that's not the case right now -- forcing hosts like him to offer lower rates. Over 40 firefighters respond to ‘accidental’ blaze at SF home "Much much less traffic than last year," Hostwell CEO and Airbnb host Keith Freedman said. "The rates are down quite a bit. Occupancy is down about 25 percent."Freedman rents a room in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood on Airbnb. He is also the CEO of Hostwell, a company that manages short-term rentals for homeowners.Freedman says he and other Airbnb hosts in the city have seen a major decline in bookings so far this summer."We are finding that there are fewer business travelers," Freedman said. "Tourism is down too, but business is what really drives the rates. Tourism drives occupancy and business drives rat...

Bay Area company's flying car prototype approved by FAA

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:03 GMT

(KRON) -- Flying cars are closer to becoming a reality. A Bay Area company has been testing a prototype and just got federal approval to take the skies.The vision the company "Alef" has for the near future is something you see in this video they released (above) of cars flying well above the Bay Bridge."I grew up reading Azimov, Bradbury and some other science-fiction writers and mostly watching Back to the Future Fifth Element and Blade Runner," said co-founder Jim Dukhovny Alef. Airbnb bookings decline in San Francisco Innovator Jim Dukhovny was inspired by science fiction to make flying cars a reality. Together with these three men they gathered in a Palo Alto cafe and sketched a rough drawing of what it could look like. Seven years later, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has given them the green light to take their model a prototype to the skies."So this is a limited special airworthiness approval which allows us to fly in very limited spaces for very limited purposes...

Wimbledon 2023: Stan Wawrinka looks forward to facing Novak Djokovic. He doesn’t expect to beat him

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:03 GMT

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Stan Wawrinka never has faced Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon.So for that reason, three-time major champion Wawrinka was pleased to see that he’ll meet 23-time major champion Djokovic in the third round at the All England Club on Friday.But don’t think for a second Wawrinka believes he can win this matchup.“Hopefully I can make a competitive match,” Wawrinka said, “but if you will look at recent results, I don’t really stand a chance.”Sure, Wawrinka beat Djokovic in the 2015 French Open final and again in the 2016 U.S. Open final. Wawrinka, now 38, also has defeated Djokovic, 36, at the Australian Open.But overall, Djokovic leads their head-to-head series by a 20-6 count. WHEN ARE FRIDAY’S MATCHES?Djokovic-Wawrinka will be last on Centre Court, which means they could get started at about 8 p.m. local time, which is 3 p.m. EDT. The schedule starts in the main stadium at 1:30 p.m. local time (or 8:30 a.m. EDT) with No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz aga...

Dodgers beat the Pirates 5-2 to pull within a half-game of AL West-leading Arizona

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:03 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Max Muncy and Freddie Freeman homered and Julio Urias pitched six innings to help the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2 on Thursday night.The Dodgers took three of four from Pittsburgh to pull within a half-game of slumping Arizona for the NL West lead with two games left before the All-Star break.Freeman, who will participate in his seventh All-Star Game, was 3 for 4 with three RBIs and two runs. He made a sliding catch, turned a double play and stole a base.Muncy hit the go-ahead home run in the sixth inning, a two-run shot to center field for his 20th of the season. Freeman led off the inning by legging out a double to the left-field corner, and Muncy then hit the 414-foot home run.Urias (6-5) allowed two runs on three hits, struck out eight and walked one, all in 88 pitches. He retired 11 in a row before walking Ke’Bryan Hayes to lead off the sixth. With Hayes in scoring position with two outs, Freeman made a sliding catch in front of the Pit...

Where has the Energy Bill gone?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:03 GMT

Presented by SSE By RUSSELL HARGRAVE PRESENTED BY View in your browser or listen to audioSNEAK PEEK— The next phase of the Energy Bill is now expected after the summer, creating weeks of delay.— The government goes to court over U.K. net zero plans (for a second time).— The global cost if renewables manufacturing is short of essential minerals? $3 trillion. A very warm welcome to Friday’s POLITICO Pro Morning Energy and Climate UK. Abby is still hunting tulips in Amsterdam and Charlie is busy choosing his outfit to go and see Bruce Springsteen in concert — so this is Russ flying solo for the day.As always, please get in touch with any thoughts, tips and critique at [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]. Or reach us on Twitter: @hargraver; @charliecooper8; @abby_wallace3.If you are not already a Pro subscriber and would like a free trial of this newsletter, sign up here.DRIVING THE DAYWHERE’S THE ENERGY BILL ...

Chula Vista residents not giving up on reopening Harborside Park

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:03 GMT

CHULA VISTA, Calif. – Some Chula Vista residents are not giving up trying to get Harborside Park reopened after it closed last August.“Number one, the park is important and number two, the high-density housing creates more problems in the long run,” Laura Douglas said.Chula Vista residents of all ages attended a neighborhood meeting Thursday strategizing on how to save Harborside Park. Mayor John McCann was also there.“I believe we should be increasing park land in this community and not lowering it,” McCann said.Harborside Park closed August 31, 2022, after concern over public safety like drugs and crime in the area, but also homelessness. The park is notably next to an elementary school.Months of planning went into how to reopen the park, but in May, Councilmember Andrea Cardenas proposed the city to research the park’s potential for housing under the Surplus Land Act with a condition to build a community center as well. Husband suspected of killing woman whose body was found in...

South Korea endorses the safety of Japanese plans to release treated wastewater from Fukushima plant

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:03 GMT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government on Friday formally endorsed the safety of Japanese plans to release treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into sea as it tried to calm people’s fears about food contamination.Seoul’s assessment was based on a 22-month review by government-funded scientists and aligned with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s views. The agency greenlit the Japanese discharge plans this week, saying the treated wastewater would meet international safety standards and that its environmental and health impact would be negligible.Even before Friday’s announcement, South Korean officials have been actively campaigning to dissolve the public’s unease about the wastewater release, holding daily briefings to address what they describe as “excessive fears” and tightening radiation tests on seafood imported from Japan.Conservative lawmakers from President Yoon Suk Yeol’s ruling party have even toured seafood markets to drink sea water ...