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Aurora police officer who shot 14-year-old Jor’Dell Richardson cleared of policy violations, two others cited

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:25:21 GMT

The officer who shot and killed 14-year-old Jor’Dell Richardson on June 1 did not violate any department policies, according to an Aurora Police Department internal investigation released Tuesday.The investigation found that two officers violated policies related to conduct and body-worn camera activation when responding to reports of suspicious activity at a strip mall in the 800 block of North Dayton Street.The department’s review of the shooting is separate from the investigation conducted by the 18th Judicial District Critical Incident Response Team, which also cleared the officers of wrongdoing.Police said they suspected Richardson and other teens of threatening a convenience store clerk with a gun and taking several vape canisters when they responded to the scene, according to previous reports.Richardson was running away when Officer Roch Gruszeczka tackled Richardson to the ground and allegedly saw a “semiautomatic firearm pistol,” which turned out to be a pellet gun.Th...

2 deputies injured in mobile shooting range fire at L.A. County training facility

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:25:21 GMT

Two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies were injured in a fire inside a mobile shooting range at Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic Tuesday morning, officials said.The incident occurred around 9:30 a.m. at the facility located at 29320 The Old Road, according to the Sheriff’s Department. Pitchess is among the buildings located at the North County Correctional Facility. It is unknown exactly what led to fire, but the deputies were taken to Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital where they are in critical but stable condition, officials said. Officials respond to a smoking trailer after a training accident at a correctional facility in Castaic on Oct. 10, 2023. (KTLA) At one point, officials said "several" deputies had been injured. The L.A. County Fire Department also responded to the scene, where firefighters were still battling the fire hours later, officials said. Pitchess remains on lockdown until the fire is completely extinguished, upon which a full investigation into the o...

Sailor stationed in Ventura County admits to selling secrets to China

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:25:21 GMT

A Monterey Park man serving in the United States Navy in Ventura County has pleaded guilty to giving a Chinese intelligence officer sensitive military information.Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao, 26, was arrested two months ago and accused of taking bribes in exchange for the information.On Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiring with an intelligence officer and receiving a bribe. Southern California sailor sold military secrets to China, DOJ says Before his arrest, Zhao — also known as Thomas Zhao — worked at Naval Base Ventura County in Port Hueneme, the United States Department of Justice said in a news release."Between August 2021 and at least May 2023, Zhao admitted receiving at least $14,866 in at least 14 separate bribe payments from the intelligence officer," the release added. "In exchange for the illicit payments, Zhao surreptitiously collected and transmitted to the intelligence officer sensitive, non-public information regarding U.S. Navy opera...

Man hit and killed by Amtrak train in Oakland is identified

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:25:21 GMT

OAKLAND — A pedestrian struck and killed by an Amtrak train Friday in the Fruitvale district was identified Tuesday as Cesar Ramos, 41.The Alameda County Coroner’s Office did not have an address for Ramos.He was struck by an Amtrak Capitol Corridor train headed to San Jose about 8:45 a.m. Friday in the area of 37th Avenue and San Leandro Street. Authorities said at the time he was walking on the railroad tracks when the train struck him. He died at the scene.No one on board the train was hurt.The name of a woman struck and killed last Wednesday by an Amtrak train in Berkeley still has not been released. The coroner’s office is working to confirm her name and notify her family before releasing it.The collision happened as she was walking on the tracks near Harrison Street, authorities said.

Sophie Turner can take kids back to England and have them for Christmas under interim agreement

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:25:21 GMT

Sophie Turner and Joe Turner have reached a temporary agreement regarding their two young daughters, which allows the “Game of Thrones” star to take the girls with her to England this month and to have them over the Christmas holidays.On the face of it, this interim custody agreement sounds favorable to Turner, who at one point was being negatively portrayed by Jonas’ P.R. team as an immature, absentee, hard-partying mother while he was left to be their primary caregiver. The agreement basically has the girls, ages 3 and 15 months, splitting time between the two parents through the beginning of next year, People reported. The agreement was reached after a “productive” four-day mediation session last week, People reported. The mediation was designed to cool off the heated rhetoric and aggressive legal tactics that had been coming from both sides in the past month.Under the terms of the agreement, Turner will care for the girls through Oct. 21, during whi...

EU warns Musk about penalties for misinformation on X

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:25:21 GMT

By Brian Fung and Donie O’Sullivan | CNNEuropean officials warned X on Tuesday that the company formerly known as Twitter appears to have been hosting misinformation and illegal content about the war between Hamas and Israel, in potential violation of the European Union’s signature content moderation law.In a letter addressed to X owner Elon Musk, Thierry Breton, a top European commissioner, said X faces “very precise obligations regarding content moderation” and that the company’s handling of the unfolding conflict so far has raised doubts about its compliance.As a platform subject to Europe’s Digital Services Act (DSA), X could face billions in fines if regulators conclude that violations have occurred. X didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.The warning letter highlights X’s potentially vast legal exposure as it battles a wave of bogus claims linked to the war that have been attributed to everything from fake White House press releases to false news reports an...

Pac-12 women’s basketball: Stanford Cardinal a contender as usual, but not picked to win conference’s final regular season title

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:25:21 GMT

Stanford has dominated Pac-12 women’s basketball for nearly four decades and figures to be in the title hunt once again, but the Cardinal is not the favorite to win the conference’s final regular season championship.The Cardinal has been picked by both the Pac-12 coaches and the media to finish third this season, behind Utah and UCLA.This is the first time in four years coach Tara VanDerveer’s group hasn’t been picked as Pac-12’s preseason favorite by the coaches, and it’s just the sixth time it’s happened since the 2000-01 season. The Cardinal was the coaches’ preseason choice (often the easy one) for 15 straight years beginning in 2000-01, and then was No. 2 for five straight preseasons from 2015-16 through 2019-20.Stanford has won 26 regular season titles and 15 conference tournament championships, by far the most of any Pac-12 team, but is coming off a season that saw the Cardinal miss the Pac-12 Tournament championship game for the first time since 2016. Stanford st...

San Jose: Arrest made in connection to deadly July shooting

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:25:21 GMT

SAN JOSE — Police have arrested a man on suspicion of the July slaying of a 19-year-old man in North San Jose, authorities said Tuesday.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | East Oakland’s harsh realities on full display at start of trial over gas station shootout that killed bystander Crime and Public Safety | Two killings outside 24-Hour Fitness may be connected, San Leandro police say Crime and Public Safety | East Bay couple acquitted of murder but convicted of life-eligible assault charge in death of their 5-week-old son Crime and Public Safety | 100-year murder sentence: Dog bite led to fatal shooting on Humboldt County porch Crime and Public Safety | San Francisco homicide: Man shot in Mission Carlos Fuentes, 29, of Santa Clara, was arrested on Oct. 3 on suspicion of killing 19-year-old Ramiro Fierros on July 2.Fierros was shot and killed at around 4:06 a.m. on the 400 block of Queens La...

Harry and Meghan get NYPD escort for their World Mental Health Day event

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:25:21 GMT

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle may no longer serve the British royal family, but they arrived at their World Mental Health Day event in New York City Tuesday like minor heads of state, riding in a fleet of seven blacked-out SUVs and escorted by a marked New York City Police Department vehicle.Its possible that the California-based Duke and Duchess of Sussex took extra security precautions with their transport around Manhattan Tuesday because they felt grievously threatened by paparazzi during their last trip to the Big Apple in May, to the extent they made notoriously disputed claims that “aggressive” photographers forced them into a “near-catastrophic” car chase that put the lives of themselves and others at risk.For their arrival Tuesday at the World Mental Health Day Festival, there appeared to be none of the “chaos” that NYPD officials said accompanied the couple’s last visit. The Daily Mail reported that their seven-vehicle convoy also ...

GOP appears no closer to picking a new House leader

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:25:21 GMT

By Lisa Mascaro and Kevin Freking | Associated PressWASHINGTON — The House Republican majority is stuck, one week after the ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy, with lawmakers unable to coalesce around a new leader in a stalemate that threatens to keep Congress partly shuttered indefinitely.On Tuesday evening, two leading contenders for the gavel, Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, were scheduled to address colleagues behind closed doors at a candidate forum, but they appeared to be splitting the vote.McCarthy, meanwhile, was openly ready to reclaim the gavel he just lost, but was seen by many as a longshot option unlikely to win back the handful of hardliners who just ousted him.“This has been going on for days. Members want to come together,” Scalise said late Monday at the Capitol. “We’ve got to get back on track.”House Republicans took the majority aspiring to operate as a team, and run government more business-like, but h...