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Car flies off freeway, destroys home

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:50:56 GMT

A car veered off the 15 Freeway and crashed into a home in Temecula, causing a massive explosion early Thursday. Siblings Gaby Rivera and Angel Vega were two of eight people inside the home when the crash occurred around 2:45 a.m. “All of a sudden, I heard screeching,” Angel told KTLA’s Rick Chambers. “Then the next you thing know, a loud crash and bang.” He said the car hit the gas line and the fuse box. Within a matter of seconds, they started seeing the flames.  “It was scary. I’m trying to run my grandma out and the flames are right next to us,” Angel explained. “It was definitely very traumatic.”  A home in Temecula burned to ashes after a car on the 15 Freeway veered off the roadway and into the residence on Oct. 12, 2023. (KTLA)Unfortunately, the fire spread rapidly, and the family only escaped with what they could grab on the way to their front door. The family’s dogs made it out okay, but their cat, Stevie, did not survive.  “She was too scared...

Male Rider Dies in Motorcycle Accident on Highway 180 [Fresno, CA]

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:50:56 GMT

32-Year-Old Man Killed in Motorcycle Collision near Highway 41FRESNO, CA (October 13, 2023) – Early Thursday, a motorcycle accident claimed the life of one male rider on Highway 180.Police arrived at the scene near the connector ramp to State Route 41 around 6:30 a.m. As of now, the circumstances leading up to the incident remain unclear. Although, initial reports suggest that a motorcyclist was involved.Paramedics responded and rushed the 32-year-old rider to a nearby hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries. The identity of the victim has not yet been disclosed by authorities.Emergency crews temporarily closed off the surrounding area to facilitate cleanup and carry out preliminary tasks.Additional information will be made available as soon as it is released. Currently, an active investigation is in progress. Fresno Officials will furnish further details regarding the motorcycle accident on Highway 180 as soon as they become accessible.The team at Sweet James offer...

1 Airlifted Following Two-Vehicle Crash on Sutter Avenue [Fresno County, CA]

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:50:56 GMT

Car Collision near Jayne Avenue Left One Person HospitalizedFRESNO COUNTY, CA (October 13, 2023) – Tuesday evening, a two-vehicle crash on Sutter Avenue sent one person to a hospital.Units from Fresno County Fire responded to a collision around 6:00 p.m. at Sutter Ave., just south of Jayne Avenue.At this time, the cause of the incident remains under investigation. However, the crash caused a small fire in a nearby field in the area.In addition, emergency crews airlifted one person to a nearby hospital to treat minor injuries.Authorities shut down the surrounding area to allow for cleanup and preliminary duties but has since been reopened.No further details regarding the two-vehicle crash have been released to the public.Those with additional information regarding the Sutter Avenue collision are encouraged to contact Fresno County officials as soon as possible.One small driving mistake can lead to a car accident. This is why it is important to drive defensively and always abide...

After surprise Grammy nomination, säje takes the next step

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:50:56 GMT

The American music scene is littered with one-hit wonders, acts that briefly catapulted to the top of the charts and then plunged back into oblivion. The jazz vocal ensemble säje put a very different spin on the renown-bounding phenomenon, scoring a 2020 Grammy Award-nomination with the quartet’s first (and, at that time, only) track, a sumptuously lapidary original called “Desert Song.”The tune emerged out of a creatively febrile 2019 weekend session in Palm Springs that was intended as a trial run to see whether it made sense for the four women to sing, compose and arrange together. Instead of following the game plan, spending their time writing and workshopping material, Los Angeles-based Sara Gazarek and Erin Bentlage and Seattle-situated Johnaye Kendrick and Amanda Taylor ended up talking, sharing and bonding over their overlapping and divergent creative practices.Though the women had various ties to each other, it wasn’t a given that some kind of collaboration would emerge. As...

Mailbag: ‘Pac-2’ leadership options, the blame game (Scott vs. Kliavkoff), Pac-12 board moves, CFP scenarios, emergency funds and more

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:50:56 GMT

The Hotline mailbag publishes each Friday. Send questions to [email protected] and include ‘mailbag’ in the subject line. Or hit me on Twitter: @WilnerHotline.Please note: Some questions have been edited for clarity and brevity.So it seems we may have a two-team conference next year while things play out. If that happens, who is going to be commissioner? Do they even need one? — @brycetacomaAppreciate the question because it allows us to address two topics at once: Why George Kliavkoff remains  commissioner of the Pac-12, and who would lead a ‘Pac-2’ if Washington State and Oregon State compete alone in 2024.The Hotline has received numerous questions about Kliavkoff’s continued employment after he steered the conference to ruin in early August and lost all credibility with, well, everyone. Our sense: Nobody is motivated to cut him loose.The two remaining schools aren’t relying on Kliavkoff for strategic advice as they plot their future....

Teacher dead, 2 people wounded in France knife attack

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:50:56 GMT

By John Leicester, Samuel Petrequin and Jeffrey Schaeffer | Associated PressARRAS, France — A man of Chechen origin who was under surveillance by French security services over suspected Islamic radicalization stabbed a teacher to death at his former high school and critically wounded two other people Friday in northern France, authorities said.The attack was being investigated by anti-terror prosecutors amid soaring global tensions over the war between Israel and Hamas. It also happened almost three years after another teacher, Samuel Paty, was beheaded by a radicalized Chechen near a Paris area school.President Emmanuel Macron said France had been “hit once again by the barbarity of Islamist terrorism.”“Nearly three years to the day after the assassination of Samuel Paty, terrorism has hit a school again and in a context that we’re all aware of,” Macron said at the site of the attack in Arras, a city 115 miles (185 kilometers) north of Paris.A colleagu...

With a fresh start, young winger makes impact in San Jose Sharks debut

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:50:56 GMT

SAN JOSE – The San Jose Sharks should be a team filled with motivated individuals.Between the NHL and AHL, the Sharks organization has over 20 players on expiring contracts, including 10 who are set to become unrestricted free agents next summer. Some will land big paydays. Others might simply be hoping for another deal.Few, though, appear to be as motivated as winger Filip Zadina, a 2018 first-round draft choice who gave up millions in guaranteed money from the Detroit Red Wings this summer to become a free agent.After he gave up $4.56 million in actual cash, following the mutual termination of his contract, Zadina signed a team-friendly one-year, $1.1 million deal with the Sharks, simply because he wanted a fresh start elsewhere and a chance to play a bigger role, perhaps alongside Tomas Hertl.In 190 games with the Red Wings, Zadina had just 28 goals and 40 assists, totals not commensurate with a sixth-overall draft pick. One can quibble with how Zadina was developed after he was ...

George Kittle’s ‘(Bleep) Dallas’ T-shirt reportedly draws NFL fine

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:50:56 GMT

SANTA CLARA — George Kittle’s undershirt Sunday night was an ode to Gary Plummer’s 1994 version that made a derogatory statement toward the Dallas Cowboys, and now the NFL has had its say, too.Kittle drew a $13,699 fine, ESPN first reported, for the shirt’s abusive language that, like Plummer’s, read “F*** Dallas,” only without that censor.Kittle said Thursday he expected a fine: “I mean, I wore a personalized T-shirt, maybe with an inappropriate word. It is what it is. It’s a decision I made. If they want to fine me, they fine me.”Kittle added that “100 percent, I’d do it again.”Kittle scored three touchdowns in the 49ers’ 42-10 rout over the Dallas Cowboys, but he did not lift up his jersey to reveal his grey undershirt until after Jordan Mason scored the 49ers’ final touchdowns.Plummer appreciated Kittle’s shoutout to his 1994 fashion, in which Plummer had T-shirts made for the 49ers’ defense before their NFC...

Eastbound direction of Dumbarton Bridge to close for four nights beginning on Halloween

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:50:56 GMT

All eastbound lanes on the Dumbarton Bridge portion of Highway 84 will close for four consecutive nights beginning on Halloween as crews work to repave the roadways, according to Fremont police.Related ArticlesTransportation | ‘Help is coming’ to replace latest destroyed signage in troublesome San Jose spot: Roadshow Transportation | Roadshow reader’s excuse worked: No speeding ticket, plus a free burger Transportation | Map: Highway 101 to be closed in Redwood City all weekend Transportation | Mental health emergency on Highway 242 that closed all lanes has hopeful ending Transportation | How motorcyclists can more safely split lanes: Roadshow The closures, which run between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, 2 and 3, will affect motorists traveling from the East Bay to the Peninsula. The Dumbarton Bridge stretches across the bay from Alameda County’s Fremont to San Mateo ...

Stanford instructor removed from the classroom amid reports they called Jewish students colonizers and downplayed the Holocaust

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:50:56 GMT

By Taylor Romine, Kelly McCleary and Cheri Mossburg | CNNAn instructor at Stanford University has been removed from teaching duties as the school investigates reports that during a discussion on the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the instructor downplayed the Holocaust and singled out students “based on their backgrounds and identities.”“Without prejudging the matter, this report is a cause for serious concern. Academic freedom does not permit the identity-based targeting of students,” Stanford said in a statement Wednesday.“The instructor in this course is not currently teaching while the university works to ascertain the facts of the situation,” the statement continued.The instructor, who is not a faculty member, has not been named. CNN has reached out to the instructor for comment.The university’s action comes as fierce fighting this week between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza has increased tensions beyond the Middle East.Some Jewish people in the US say they fear being t...