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NorCal man threatened Laguna Hills High School multiple times over 6 months, OCSD says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:59:36 GMT

A Northern California man has been arrested for allegedly threatening Laguna Hills High School with violence multiple times after the school's football team won the state championship last year.Beginning in December after the Hawks downed Bellarmine College Preparatory of San Jose 28-27 in the championship game, Eugene Thomas Jenkins, 29, made a series of threats that continued through this month, the Orange County Sheriff's Department said in a news release. The threats "included three false reports of a possible shooter approaching the school’s campus, a bomb threat, a death threat via telephone, and at least 10 known death threats via written letter utilizing the United States Postal Service," officials said. "Two of these threats targeted Laguna Hills High School’s Senior Graduation Ceremony on Thursday, June 1."Deputies investigated each false threat as real, and with that graduation ceremony approaching, the OCSD partnered with police and other law enforcement agencies statewi...

California AG blames Florida for charter flight that brought migrants to Sacramento

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:59:36 GMT

Florida appears to have arranged for a group of South American migrants to be transported from Texas to California and dropped off in Sacramento, California's attorney general said, noting that he's looking into whether any crimes may have been committed.If true, the 16 Colombian and Venezuelan migrants who turned up at the Roman Catholic Church diocese’s headquarters in Sacramento on Friday would be the latest to have been moved from a Republican-led state to one led by Democrats.Attorney General Rob Bonta said that although the circumstances surrounding their arrival in the California capital are still being investigated, the migrants had documentation that appeared to have been issued by Florida.He also said he's evaluating whether violations of civil or criminal law took place.“While we continue to collect evidence, I want to say this very clearly: State-sanctioned kidnapping is not a public policy choice, it is immoral and disgusting,” Bonta said in a statement.The migrants ent...

Harlembling – Best Celebrity Quality Jeweler At Affordable Prices

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:59:36 GMT

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Meet Cut Paper Character Dakota Noot

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:59:36 GMT

Artist Dakota Noot turns scissors, paint, and tape into a lively playland of cut paper characters and scenarios, using his body (and maybe yours) as a stage to activate darkly whimsical drawing, painting, performance, video, and installation. Like a paper doll’s accouterments in a quirky dialog with surrealism, Noot’s exploration of queer and Midwestern identity is at once wholesome and subversive, fantastical and funny, pointed and poignant. A parade of human-animal hybrids and intimate releasing of pop-culture pressures, Noot’s world of finely detailed, exuberantly chromatic, and endlessly inventive expressions range from movement videos to full-room, often interactive, multimedia installations. Noot is currently engaged in a week-long residency at Coaxial Arts, which culminates this weekend in two nights of performance around the theme of cooking meat starring his boisterous character Medora, the Queen of Steaks, with the goal, as Noot says, to “laugh, cry, and question why.”Dako...

Cindy Blackman Santana visits SFJAZZ Center, Blue Note Napa

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:59:36 GMT

Cindy Blackman Santana has been paying tribute to late great drummer Tony Williams for years.She released a full-on homage to the Tony Williams Lifetime jazz-fusion band in 2010 called “Another Lifetime,” which featured guitarists Mike Stern, Fionn O Lochlainn and Vernon Reid, saxophonist Joe Lovano, keyboardists Doug Carn, Patrice Rushen and Carlton Holmes, and bassists Benny Rietveld and David Santos.Blackman Santana, who’s also an all-world drummer in her own right, followed up in 2011 by joining forces with Reid (from Living Colour), organist John Medeski (from Medeski Martin and Wood) and legendary Cream bassist Jack Bruce in the Spectrum Road project to further explore the music of Williams’ Lifetime group.Now, Blackman Santana is back at it once again, set to honor the mighty legacy of Williams — a longtime Bay Area resident who died at the age of 51 in 1997 — and his Lifetime band during a concert with Reid, Medeski and special guests on J...

Two arrested after attempt to outrace police in East Bay ends in crash

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:59:36 GMT

OAKLAND — Two people were arrested last week following a police pursuit that ended when their vehicle crashed into a telephone pole, authorities said.The chase happened about 12:20 a.m. June 1, after a Lafayette police officer tried to pull over a vehicle at Mount Diablo Boulevard and 1st Street in that city, according to a statement from Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Jimmy Lee.Both the vehicle’s driver and passenger were arrested, and Lee said the passenger had more than one felony arrest warrant out for him. Lee did not say what felonies were cited in the warrant.When the officer turned on his patrol-car police lights, the vehicle the officer intended to stop immediately accelerated, Lee said.The pursuit wound up on Highway 24 toward Oakland and then moved onto eastbound Interstate 580 right after the Caldecott Tunnel. The vehicle then took the 35th Avenue exit.Just after exiting, the vehicle crashed near Penniman Avenue, Lee said.Neither the driver ...

Stanford golfer Rose Zhang adds to Tiger Woods comparisons

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:59:36 GMT

The first words from Rose Zhang after the 20-year-old Stanford student capped off one of the more remarkable 13-day stretches in golf were telling.“What is happening?” she said.More tantalizing is what happens next.Hype rules the day in a society built around social media, and Zhang is one of the rare athletes who delivered. The Stanford sophomore won her second straight NCAA title and then 13 days later was awash in wonder when she won the Mizuho Americas Open in her professional debut.Women’s golf has not seen this level of anticipation since Michelle Wie West turned pro at age 15 equipped with blue-chip sponsors like Nike and Sony.Zhang walked, talked and played like it was any other tournament. She is so comfortable with who she is that expectations are not part of the equation.“I honestly didn’t even expect to make the cut,” she said Sunday evening as she sat next to a trophy stuffed with a bouquet of roses. “And the reason why I say this is because I don’t think about my expec...

Man who allegedly sold meth out of tent at San Rafael homeless camp arrested

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:59:36 GMT

(KRON) -- A man who police say was selling methamphetamine out of a tent at a San Rafael homeless encampment was arrested, the Marin County Sheriff's Office announced Monday. Last month, detectives with the Marin County Specialized Investigative Unit developed probable cause to believe the suspect, identified as Jeffrey Grove, was actively selling meth out of a tent in an encampment near San Rafael Creek on Lincoln Avenue. Two SFPD officers slashed with knife in hotel standoff Marin County Sheriff's detectives obtained a search warrant for Grove and his tent. Surveillance of the area was also conducted, police said. During the surveillance, police say they observed what appeared to be drug transactions occurring at the door to Grove's tent.With the assistance of the San Rafael Police Department, Marin County Sheriff's officers detained Grove and several others. Seven ounces of crystal methamphetamine with an estimated street value of $4,000 was found in the tent.Grove was arrested...

Los parches o cremas para la menopausia podrían ser más seguros que las píldoras

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:59:36 GMT

Las mujeres a menudo usan la terapia hormonal para aliviar los sofocos y otros síntomas de la menopausia, y una nueva investigación sugiere que los parches o cremas pueden ser más seguros para la presión arterial que las píldoras. A medida que los cuerpos de las mujeres producen niveles más bajos de hormonas reproductivas durante la menopausia, aumenta su riesgo de enfermedad cardíaca. La presión arterial alta aumenta aún más ese riesgo, pero no está claro si existe un vínculo con la terapia hormonal para los síntomas de la menopausia. Investigadores canadienses se preguntaron si la forma en que se absorben las hormonas (por vía oral, vaginal o a través de la piel) podría desempeñar un papel. La FDA aprueba nuevo medicamento para los incómodos sofocos causados por la menopausia Más mujeres recurren al cannabis para aliviar los síntomas que provoca la menopausia El equipo de la Universidad de Calgary examinó los registros de salud...

Spotify cutting about 2% of its workforce, roughly 200 workers

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:59:36 GMT

Spotify is cutting about 200 people, or 2% of its workforce, as the streaming company reworks its podcast unit.Sahar Elhabashi, vice president, Head of Podcast Business, said in a memo that impacted employees would receive severance packages including extended health care coverage and immediate access to outplacement support.In January Spotify announced that it was cutting 6% of its global workforce, or about 600 jobs.Elhabashi also said Monday that the Stockholm company would be combining podcast networks Parcast and Gimlet into its Spotify Studios operation. “With these changes, we will accelerate into the next chapter for podcasts on Spotify with strong discovery and podcast habits for users, thriving monetization and audience growth for creators, and a valuable, high-margin business for Spotify,” Elhabashi said. In afternoon trading, shares rose nearly 3% and briefly set a 52-week trading high.Source