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Controversial San Jose State prof who posed with Native American skull to resign after settlement reached

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:51:27 GMT

SAN JOSE – A controversial anthropology professor at San Jose State, who contended she was a victim of a “woke activist mob” for opposing the repatriation of Native American remains and posing in a photo with an ancient skull, has agreed to leave the university next year.Prof. Elizabeth Weiss and the university reached a settlement that allows her to retire with full benefits at the end of the 2023-2024 school year, after she claimed in a lawsuit that the university retaliated against her and violated her First Amendment rights when it locked her out of the collection of skeletal remains.Weiss and the university “have reached an agreement in which she has voluntarily submitted her resignation effective May 29, 2024, and will dismiss her lawsuit,” the university said in a statement.  “Dr. Weiss will remain a member of the SJSU faculty through the 2023-24 academic year.”Instead of working on the San Jose campus, however, she will be in New York City as a fellow at the Heterodox Academ...

Photo gallery: The top moments of the BET Awards 2023

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:51:27 GMT

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 25: Busta Rhymes (C) accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award from Spliff Star (far L) onstage during the BET Awards 2023 at Microsoft Theater on June 25, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 25: (L-R) Busta Rhymes accepts the Lifetime Achievment award from Swizz Beatz onstage during the BET Awards 2023 at Microsoft Theater on June 25, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 25: Patti LaBelle performs onstage during the BET Awards 2023 at Microsoft Theater on June 25, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) US singer Patti LaBelle performs on stage during the 2023 BET awards at the Microsoft theatre in Los Angeles, June 25, 2023. (Photo by Michael TRAN / AFP) (Photo by MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty Images) Best Female Hip Hop artist winner US rapper Latto holds her aw...

$3,500 in Legos stolen from San Mateo mall

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:51:27 GMT

Police arrested four people in connection with a Lego Store theft at a popular San Mateo mall on Friday where police say the suspects walked out with over $3,500 worth of the Danish toy building blocks.At about 11:27 a.m. officers responded to reports of a theft at the Hillsdale Shopping Center Lego Store. Store employees said three suspects stole about $3,500 worth of Legos. One store employee followed the suspects into the parking lot, where the suspects were seen entering a Volkswagen Jetta, police said.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | California attorney general faces tough questions as he touts organized retail theft crackdown Crime and Public Safety | 11 arrested at Great Mall in Milpitas, authorities recover 125 stolen items Crime and Public Safety | Bay Area lawmaker’s bill would discourage California employees from confronting shoplifters The vehicle quickly fled the scene and eluded capture after police searche...

Another massive power outage reported in Richmond, but this time, it's false

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:51:27 GMT

(KRON) -- Another Pacific Gas and Electric Company outage was visible on the PG&E map on Monday afternoon, and it seemed eerily familiar to an outage from last week. Teenage boy shot in Santa Rosa has died, police confirmed The company confirmed to KRON4 that the outage map's numbers were inaccurate, and there is no outage in Richmond at this time. By 12:20 p.m., the outage was removed from the map. Just last week, an outage in the East Bay left 28,000 customers without power. The outage was a result of a vehicle crashing into a power pole near West Ohio Avenue and Richmond Parkway., PG&E confirmed to KRON4.

Bill that would raise Bay Area bridge tolls to fund transit introduced by Sen. Wiener

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:51:27 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and a group of Bay Area lawmakers introduced a bill Monday to raise toll on bridges to fund public transit. At a press conference Monday, Wiener unveiled SB 532, the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Public Transportation Emergency Act. The proposed bill temporarily raises tolls on seven state-owned Bay Area bridges by $1.50 for five years. Funds from the toll increase would be used to provide public transportation funding in order to prevent service cuts while improving safety, cleanliness and reliability, according to Sen. Wiener's office. Fox News overhauls primetime lineup “We’ve made good progress in this year’s budget, but the future of public transportation in the Bay Area is still under threat due to pandemic-related operational deficits that, without help, will lead to severe service cuts,” said Sen. Wiener. “Bay Area transit ridership continues to climb, but it’s not happening quickly enough to make up for the lo...

SF high-rise suffers interior glass break, streets closed in area

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:51:27 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- An interior window broke in a San Francisco high-rise on Monday afternoon, the San Francisco Fire Department confirmed. The building is located at 301 Howard Street. Moments leading up to deadly Oakland Koreatown shooting caught on video The incident was not weather related, the fire department said. Members of the SFFD and San Francisco Police Department were called in to secure the area while repairs were made.No injuries or other damages have been reported as a result of the incident. Streets in the area around Howard and Beale will remain closed while repairs are made. There is no estimated time for the streets to reopen.Initial reports had suggested that glass had fallen from the building. Officials later clarified that this was not the case.Earlier this year, there were several weather-related instances that saw glass windows blown out in the upper floors of SF high-rises.This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

Border Patrol Video of Killing Shows Native Man Had No Gun, Complied With Orders

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:51:27 GMT

The facade of Raymond Mattia’s one-story home on the Tohono O’odham Nation, on the edge of Arizona’s southern border, is still riddled with bullet holes.The 58-year-old was killed in a hail of gunfire last month, after stepping outside to find nearly a dozen Border Patrol agents and at least one tribal police officer advancing on his property in the dark. Late last week, a tensely awaited medical examiner’s report ruled the case a homicide, finding that Mattia was shot nine times. Border Patrol body camera footage released at the same time confirmed that what the authorities thought was a gun was in fact Mattia’s cellphone.For Mattia’s family, more questions arose from the videos than answers, hardening their resolve to find accountability for the loss of a beloved father, brother, and uncle.“If they’re allowed to get away with this now, it’s not going to stop.”“We feel after watching the video that he was trying to comply the best he could,” Mattia’s niece, Yvonne Nevarez, told The...

Samuel Alito’s Wife Leased Land to an Oil and Gas Firm While the Justice Fought the EPA

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:51:27 GMT

A year ago this month, Martha Ann Bomgardner Alito decided to see if a 160-acre plot of land in Grady County, Oklahoma, would produce. In a lease filed with the Grady County clerk, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito entered into an agreement with Citizen Energy III for revenue generated from oil and gas obtained from a plot of hard scrabble she inherited from her late father. It is one of thousands of oil and gas leases across Oklahoma, one of the top producers of fossil fuels in the United States.Last year, before the lease was activated, a line in Alito’s financial disclosures labeled “mineral interests” was valued between $100,001 and $250,000. If extraction on the plot proves fruitful, the lease dictates that Citizen Energy will pay Alito’s wife 3/16ths of all the money it makes from oil and gas sales.In the past, Alito has often recused himself from cases that pose potential conflicts of interest with his vast investment portfolio. Many of these recusals were born f...

Caught on camera: Metro warns against crossing rails in shocking video

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:51:27 GMT

The D.C. Metro system is reminding its riders that crossing the rails can land you in jail — or worse.Surveillance video tweeted by the Metro Transit Police Department on Sunday showed a person climbing down from a station platform and stepping over the tracks to reach the other side, passing over the electrified “third rail” which carries 750 volts of power.“One wrong step could be deadly, don’t cut your life short,” Metro’s captions read, between images of caution tape and a skull-and-crossbones.(new Image()).src = "https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384&cid=c2ffed0c-3624-46c0-b10f-97c976d290a3";cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384",mediaId: "db95d008-a366-4a40-9687-2e9d7b61badc"}).render("00f3b1428b8f4be1b2a6c8a5087d15e9"); });A Metro spokesperson said the incident shown in the video happened on Friday at Alexandria, Virginia’s Eisenhower Avenue statio...

Hawks clear cap room, trade Collins to Jazz for Gay, future 2nd rounder, AP source says

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:51:27 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Hawks cleared significant salary cap space on Monday by agreeing to trade forward John Collins to the Utah Jazz for veteran forward Rudy Gay and a future second-round draft pick, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press.Collins, who had been mentioned amid much trade speculation leading up to last week’s NBA draft, finally was dealt to Utah, according to the person who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the trade cannot become official before July 6.The trade was first reported by ESPN.Collins, 25, was a first-round pick in 2017 and scored in double figures in each of his six seasons with Atlanta. He averaged 21.6 points and 10.1 rebounds, both career bests, in the 2019-20 season and 17.6 points per game for the 2021-21 team that advanced to the Eastern Conference finals.Collins’ scoring declined as Trae Young and other players assumed lead scoring roles. He averaged 13.1 points and 6.5 rebounds this season, ...