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Colorado man sentenced in Nevada power plant fire initially described as terror attack

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:48:22 GMT

By KEN RITTER (Associated Press)LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Colorado man was sentenced Wednesday to prison in Nevada following his arrest last January for setting his car afire at a remote facility in what authorities initially characterized as a terror attack on the electric system serving several Las Vegas Strip casinos.Mohammed Reza Mesmarian, 35, was sentenced to two to 10 years following his plea in November to guilty but mentally ill on charges of felony arson and property destruction in the incident at a remote desert solar array about 25 miles (40 kilometers) northeast of downtown Las Vegas.“This was not so much an act of terrorism as a person going through personal issues during COVID, the loss of a marriage and his business,” Mesmarian’s attorney, Jeffrey Nicholson, told The Associated Press after sentencing. Nicholson said he sought probation, but he called Clark County District Court Judge Ronald Israel’s sentence “a good and fair decision.R...

Woman killed in sledgehammer attack on Torrance college campus

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:48:22 GMT

Loved ones are devastated after a woman was killed in a violent attack on the campus of El Camino College in Torrance.The victim, identified only as a woman in her 60s, was walking her dog on Christmas Eve morning around 7 a.m. when the attack happened, according to campus police.As the victim was collecting recyclables, she was suddenly attacked by a man with a sledgehammer. He fled the scene before authorities arrived.A passerby had spotted the fallen woman next to the gymnasium building. Arriving officers found the woman unconscious and bleeding from her head.Her dog had remained by her side. Paramedics transferred the woman to a local hospital where she died on Christmas Day from her injuries.After reviewing surveillance footage, campus police identified the suspect as Jeffery Davis, 40, a man they’ve spotted in the community before.El Camino College gymnasium building in Torrance, California. (KTLA)El Camino College gymnasium building in Torrance, California. (KTLA)El Camino Co...

Petition to remove Donald Trump’s star on Hollywood Walk of Fame prompts mixed reactions

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:48:22 GMT

A petition to remove Donald Trump’s star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame has received thousands of signatures, but the decision on whether to remove the star is just as controversial as the man whose name is on it. Trump’s star, which he received in 2007, has been destroyed and replaced several times, but no star has ever been permanently removed from the Walk of Fame despite several celebrities’ fall from grace. The man who started the petition to get rid of Trump’s star for good, Andrew Rudick, says that while he has garnered more than 3,800 signatures for his petition, he’s also been the subject of a death threat and an attempted taser attack.  ‘That ’70s Show’ actor Danny Masterson begins lengthy sentence at North Kern State Prison Rudick told KTLA 5’s Mary Beth McDade that in addition to the petition, he has gone to several city organizations in the hopes that they would remove it permanently. “I think the city should take themselves up on that charge and finally stop being ‘...

L.A. neighbors on edge after man damages car in apparent antisemitic hate crime

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:48:22 GMT

Neighbors are on edge after video captured a man yelling antisemitic remarks outside a Pico-Robertson home before vandalizing a family's vehicle.The apparent hate crime incident, which happened on Dec. 23, has left residents concerned as incidents of antisemitism are on the rise in Los Angeles and across the country.The video of the hateful tirade has left neighbors shocked, disappointed and angry.“There’s no logic to it,” said one neighbor.“It was very shocking and frightening, especially so close to our home,” said Chaya Nourafchan, another neighbor.The suspect was heard screaming obscenities and antisemitic rhetoric outside of the Jewish family’s home before launching a brick through the back windshield of the family’s car.A suspect remains at large after smashing a family’s car window while yelling anti-Semitic remarks outside a Pico-Robertson home on Dec. 23, 2023.A suspect remains at large after smashing a family’s car window while yelling anti-Semitic remarks outside a Pico-R...

Trump’s Hitler rhetoric denial is part of a broader pattern

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:48:22 GMT

By Jill Colvin | Associated PressNEW YORK — Donald Trump has centered his unlikely rise from reality television star to onetime — and potentially future — president on the idea that he’s wiser than Washington’s bumbling political class, once going so far as to label himself a “very stable genius.”But when it comes to one of history’s darkest moments, Trump is professing ignorance.Facing criticism for repeatedly harnessing rhetoric once used by Adolf Hitler to argue that immigrants entering the U.S. illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country,” Trump insisted he had no idea that one of the world’s most reviled and infamous figures once used similar words. The Nazi dictator spoke of impure Jewish blood “poisoning” Aryan German blood to dehumanize Jews and justify the systemic murder of millions during the Holocaust.“I never knew that Hitler said it,” Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Friday, ...

Leaked forensics report shows cause of death of Taylor Swift fan at Rio concert

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:48:22 GMT

By AnneClaire Stapleton and CNN Staff, CNN(CNN) — A leaked forensics report shows that the cause of death of a Taylor Swift fan at a concert in Rio de Janeiro last month was heat exhaustion.Ana Clara Benevides Machado, a 23-year-old student, died just before a Swift concert on November 17 amid a record-breaking heat wave.The forensics report details that Machado was exposed to extreme ambient heat that caused diffuse heat exposure, a process that can take from eight to 18 hours, according to the report. Eventually, she died of cardiorespiratory arrest.The report was obtained by CNN Brasil. CNN cannot independently confirm the authenticity of the forensics report.According to the report, Machado had not consumed any alcohol or drugs, and had no preexisting conditions.On the day following Machado’s death, Time 4 Fun, the company organizing the event, issued a statement lamenting Machado’s death and saying she was assisted by paramedics onsite before being brought to the hospital, wher...

Argentina’s unions fill streets to protest president’s actions

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:48:22 GMT

By Almudena Calatrava | Associated PressBUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Thousands of union members and activists took to the streets of Argentina’s capital Wednesday to protest a decree from President Javier Milei that imposes sweeping deregulation and austerity measures meant to revive the country’s struggling economy.Unions had asked a court for a prior injunction to block measures lifting some labor protections, but a judge rejected the appeal, noting the decree had not yet entered into effect. It does so on Friday.Argentine labor activists question whether Milei, a self-described anarcho-capitalist who has long railed against the country’s “political caste,” can impose the measures by way of an emergency decree bypassing the legislature where his party has few seats.“We do not question the president’s legitimacy … but we want a president who respects the division of powers, who understands that workers have the need to defend themselves ...

Woman dies after being hit by car in San Jose parking lot

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:48:22 GMT

(KRON) -- A woman died after she was hit by a car in a San Jose parking lot on Dec. 18, the San Jose Police Department said Wednesday. The woman succumbed to her injuries at a hospital on Christmas Eve. The victim is the 49th person to die in a traffic crash in San Jose in 2023. Twenty-seven of those were pedestrians. 12-year-old boy killed in Antioch hit-and-run collision identified The crash happened at about 6 p.m. on the 6200 block of Santa Teresa Boulevard. A car going out of a shopping center's parking lot struck a woman walking on the sidewalk at the entrance of the shopping center, SJPD said. The victim initially had life-threatening injuries and was stabilized at the hospital. However, she died six days later.The man driving the involved car stayed at the scene and was cooperative with the investigation, police said. KRON ON is streaming news live now.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-cont...

Duke’s Mayo Bowl Winners

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:48:22 GMT

Dec. 27, 2023 — West Virginia 30, North Carolina 10Dec. 30, 2022 — Maryland 16, No. 25 NC State 12Dec. 30, 2021 — South Carolina 38, North Carolina 21Dec. 30, 2020 — Wisconsin 42, Wake Forest 28Dec. 31, 2019 — Kentucky 37, Virginia Tech 30Dec. 29, 2018 — Virginia 28, South Carolina 0Dec. 29, 2017 — Wake Forest 55, Texas A&M 52Dec. 29, 2016 — Virginia Tech 35, Arkansas 24Dec. 30, 2015 — Mississippi State 51, N.C. State 28Dec. 30, 2014 — Georgia 37, Louisville 14Dec. 28, 2013 — North Carolina 39, Cincinnati 17Dec. 27, 2012 — Cincinnati 48, Duke 34Dec. 27, 2011 — N.C. State 31, Louisville 24Dec. 31, 2010 — South Florida 31, Clemson 26Dec. 26, 2009 — Pittsburgh 19, North Carolina 17Dec. 27, 2008 — West Virginia 31, North Carolina 30Dec. 29, 2007 — Wake Forest 24, UConn 10Dec. 30, 2006 — Boston College 25, Navy 24Dec. 31, 2005 — N.C. State 14, South Florida 0Dec. 30, 2004 — Boston College 37, North Carolina 24Dec. 27, 2003 — Virginia 23, Pittsburgh 16Dec. 28, 2002 — Virginia 48, West...

Las fechas clave para Trump en enero: casos judiciales, debates y primarias

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:48:22 GMT

(CNN) — Las primarias presidenciales del Partido Republicano en 2024 comienzan en enero, mientras Donald Trump, el favorito en la contienda por la candidatura, hace campaña para ganar las votaciones en Iowa y Nueva Hampshire, mientras simultáneamente enfrenta sus propios desafíos legales.¿Cómo funcionan las primarias presidenciales en EE.UU.? ¿Cuándo se realizan y por qué son importantes?Estas son las fechas clave para no perder de vista mientras algunos de los problemas legales del expresidente y las jornadas electorales importantes llegan a un punto crítico el próximo mes:4 de eneroTrump debe apelar la decisión de la Corte Suprema de Colorado de retirarlo de la boleta electoral del estado para 2024, y llevar el asunto a la Corte Suprema de EE.UU. antes del 4 de enero. De lo contrario, la pausa impuesta por los jueces del alto tribunal estatal terminará y las boletas para las primarias republicanas empezarán a imprimirse al día siguiente sin su nombre.El Partido Republicano d...