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Concord receives $7.9 million grant to achieve zero traffic deaths by 2033

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:10 GMT

CONCORD — The city of Concord is celebrating a major win after securing nearly $8 million in transportation grants from the California Department of Transportation for a large-scale street lighting and safety improvement project.The grant allocation is the largest awarded to any single Bay Area government agency, the city said in a press release, and is part of Caltrans’ $225 million effort to reduce traffic deaths and serious injuries on city and county roads.In Concord, the funding will be used to install new lighting, upgrade existing street and intersection lighting, install pedestrian countdown signals, modify signal phasing and install new traffic signs to alert motorists to pedestrian crossings and are designed to improve pedestrian safety. Funds will also go toward upgrading uncontrolled crosswalks and install additional bicycle safety improvements.Mayor Laura Hoffmeister expressed gratitude to Caltrans for recognizing the value of these projects to enhance safety in C...

Baby Brandon kidnapper Yesenia Ramirez sentenced to 13 years in prison

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:10 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) -- Baby Brandon kidnapper Yesenia Ramirez has been sentenced to 13 years and four months in prison. Her accomplice, Jose Portillo was sentenced to five years.Both Ramirez and Portillo were ordered to be immediately taken into custody and report to prison.BREAKING: Yesenia Ramirez, right, was sentenced to serve 13 years, 4 months in prison for kidnapping Baby Brandon in San Jose. Ramirez was the mastermind behind the conspiracy. Jose Portillo, left, has not been sentenced yet. He faces a maximum of 5 years in prison. @kron4news pic.twitter.com/i1ltJYkL9y— Amy Larson (@AmyLarson25) March 20, 2023THIS IS A BREAKING UPDATE. STORY FOLLOWS BELOWThe two people who admitted to kidnapping a three-month-old baby in San Jose last year will be sentenced to prison today. Yesenia Ramirez and Jose Portillo pleaded guilty to the kidnapping of three-month-old baby Brandon Cuellar. Anti-trans rant at Cheesecake Factory in San Francisco caught on video Ramirez coul...

Another storm approaching Bay Area: Latest updates

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:10 GMT

(KRON) -- The latest in a series of atmospheric rivers is approaching the Bay Area. As we head overnight into Tuesday, the storm is projected to bring high winds and significant rainfall to the region, parts of which are still picking up the pieces from the last round of storms. After 14 atmospheric rivers, how full are California’s reservoirs? Follow along for the latest Bay Area storm updates:2 p.m. -- Oakland Zoo to close TuesdayThe Oakland Zoo announced it will be closed on Tuesday, March 21 due to weather. "What's going on here?" the zoo tweeted. "Oh, just another rain closure announcement. Unfortunately, the Zoo will be CLOSED tomorrow."Reservations will be refunded automatically, the zoo said. No action will be required from reservation-holders, although refunds can take three to four weeks to process.1:45 p.m. -- Rain and strong wind could bring downed trees, power outagesMore rain and strong, gusty winds are heading to the Bay Area Tuesday morning, according to a tweet fr...

Ampco-Pittsburgh: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:10 GMT

CARNEGIE, Pa. (AP) — CARNEGIE, Pa. (AP) — Ampco-Pittsburgh Corp. (AP) on Monday reported a loss of $463,000 in its fourth quarter.On a per-share basis, the Carnegie, Pennsylvania-based company said it had a loss of 2 cents.The steel maker posted revenue of $93.5 million in the period.For the year, the company reported net income of $3.4 million, or 18 cents per share, swinging to a profit in the period. Revenue was reported as $390.2 million.In the final minutes of trading on Monday, the company’s shares hit $2.42. A year ago, they were trading at $6.46._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on AP at https://www.zacks.com/ap/APSource

Judge delays next week’s execution of Texas death row inmate

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:10 GMT

HOUSTON (AP) — Next week’s scheduled execution of a Texas death row inmate who was convicted in the killing of another prisoner was delayed by a judge.Anibal Canales Jr., 58, had been set to be executed March 29 for the July 1997 strangling death of another inmate, Gary Dickerson, at the Telford state prison, which is located near New Boston in northeast Texas.But on Thursday, state District Judge Bill Miller, in Bowie County, signed an order withdrawing Canales’ execution date. Both prosecutors and Canales’ attorneys agreed to the delay to allow the inmate’s lawyers more time to seek additional evidence in his case, according to the judge’s order.The order was meant to give Canales’ legal team time to “investigate serious flaws in the criminal investigation and prosecutions for the 1997 murder,” Joseph Perkovich, one of Canales’ lawyers, said in an email Monday.Canales had been serving a 15-year sentence for aggravated sexual assault when he joined the Texas Mafia...

Windows smashed at India consulates in London, San Francisco

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:10 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Windows at India’s High Commission in London and at the Consulate General of India in San Francisco were smashed during separate demonstrations by Sikh protesters, police in both cities said Monday. London’s Metropolitan Police force said a man was arrested Sunday afternoon on suspicion of violent disorder outside the diplomatic mission, where two security guards were slightly injured. In San Francisco, dozens of protesters gathered outside the consulate and smashed windows with their flagpoles after a skirmish with embassy workers, a protester said. San Francisco Police Officer Robert Rueca said in an email that embassy workers were injured, though he didn’t say how many or the extent of the injuries. Suspects fled and have not been arrested, he said.The U.S. State Department was working with local authorities to investigate the incident and repair the damage. “We certainly condemn that vandalism,” White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby...

Police: Arrest made in theft of funeral van containing body

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:10 GMT

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Authorities in Wisconsin have arrested a man in connection with the theft last January of a funeral home van containing a body, saying he faces charges of abuse of a corpse and unlawful possession of a stolen vehicle.The van belonging to Collins & Stone Funeral Home in Rockport, Illinois, was stolen from that location on Jan. 21, and found behind a vacant Chicago home on Jan. 23 with the body inside, officials have said.The 23-year-old man was arrested Sunday in Green Bay. He had been charged in late January but had been at large. WLS-TV quotes Rockford police as saying police in Wisconsin took the man into custody after a traffic stop. The body of a 47-year-old man that had been in the van was recovered Jan. 23 behind a vacant home on Chicago’s South Side, Rockford police have said. The body was returned to Rockford by a coroner’s office.Source

What are the poisons allegedly used by an Aurora dentist to kill his wife?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:10 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- There were two poisons alleged in an affidavit to have been used by James Toliver Craig to murder his wife -- arsenic and potassium cyanide.James Craig, 45, is an Aurora dentist who was arrested on a first-degree murder charge Sunday for the death of his wife, Angela Craig. Dentist searched ‘how to make poison’ before wife’s poisoning death, affidavit claims The arrest affidavit claimed he shipped potassium cyanide to his dental office and had arsenic metal shipped to his home.James Craig was also accused of searching for "how many grams of pure arsenic will kill a human?" and “Is arsenic detectable in autopsy?” on Google, among other things.What is arsenic?Arsenic is an element that naturally occurs in the environment. It has been called the "king of poisons" due to its use in the past to kill royalty.There are many uses for arsenic, and it has been used in a variety of ways in the past, such as in agriculture.A compound with arsenic and oxygen -- arsenic trioxid...

Which Denver mayoral candidate got the most from the Fair Elections Fund?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:10 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Denver has distributed just over $7 million in tax dollars to candidates for elected office, with over a quarter going to three mayoral candidates.Voters approved Denver’s Fair Elections Fund by more than 70% of the vote in 2018. The fund is a pool of $8 million designed to encourage small campaign contributions. The city pays candidates who get donations in lower amounts from individuals and small donor committees. Nearly half of Denver crime in 2023 is vehicle-related The city has disbursed the last of the Fair Elections Fund money. Only one managed to reach the city's cap on the fund of $750,000. Kelly Brough, former Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce president, has received the most from the Fair Elections Fund. She is the only candidate to have received the full three-quarters of a million dollars. Mike Johnston, a former Democratic Colorado lawmaker and gubernatorial candidate, has raised the second most from the Fair Elections Fund with $613,539. Denver City ...

Court inclined toward government view in Colorado River water rights case

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:10 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seems inclined to side with the federal government and a group of states in a dispute with the Navajo Nation over water from the drought-stricken Colorado River.The high court was hearing arguments Monday in a case that states argue could upend how water is shared in the Western U.S. if the court sides with the tribe. Feds spend $2.4 million on cloud seeding for Colorado River Water is a critical resource for the Navajo Nation. The mainstream of the Colorado River flows along the northwestern border of the tribe's reservation, which extends into New Mexico, Utah and Arizona. And two of the river's tributaries, the San Juan River and the Little Colorado River, also pass alongside and through the reservation. Still, a third of some 175,000 people who live on the reservation, the country's largest, don’t have running water in their homes.The facts of the case go back to two treaties the tribe and the federal government signed in 1849 and 1868. The ...