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Anti-Semitic flyers distributed in Orange County

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:10:47 GMT

Anti-Semitic flyers were discovered in an Orange County community as the deadly attack by Hamas militants on Israel continues overseas.Residents in the city of Orange discovered the anti-Semitic flyers dispersed across their neighborhood and vehicles on Tuesday morning.Some of the flyers could still be seen on cars parked near Harwood Street and Chapman Avenue.“It's very disturbing,” said Kari Ratkevich, an Orange resident. “Someone is placing propaganda like this on our cars. It doesn't belong here and it doesn't belong in America.”The flyer features a headline saying, “Jews wage war on American freedoms!” while taking aim at the Anti-Defamation League, an anti-hate organization fighting anti-Semitism. The flyer then encourages the public to join a local nationalist group.Anti-semitic flyers were discovered in the city of Orange on Oct. 10, 2023. (KTLA)Anti-semitic flyers were discovered in the city of Orange on Oct. 10, 2023. (KTLA)Anti-semitic flyers were discovered in the city o...

Shooting, pursuit in Hollywood captured on video

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:10:47 GMT

Nearly a month after a fight outside a Hollywood nightclub that involved gunfire, a police shooting and a pursuit, a 25-year-old Los Angeles man has been arrested in connection with the incident, authorities announced Tuesday.  The dangerous incident unfolded on Sept. 9 outside of a club on the southwest corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Ivar Avenue at around 1:45 a.m., according to a news release from the Los Angeles Police Department.  Hollywood Division officers were flagged down by the nightclub’s security guards who pointed out a man who appeared to be causing a fight between patrons.  A portion of the fight, the shootings and the pursuit were captured on video released by LAPD.  The suspect, later identified as Albert Tamrazian, can be seen getting hit in the face by another person and knocked to the ground. He then walks into the street where his Mercedes Benz is parked, backs the vehicle into a turn and fires several rounds at people on the sidewalk from his d...

Man shot and robbed Monday night in South San Francisco

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:10:47 GMT

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO – A man was shot and robbed Monday night in South San Francisco, police said.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | San Mateo: 12-year-old boy arrested in connection with stabbing Crime and Public Safety | Suspects pistol-whip, rob victim of jewelry in Redwood City Crime and Public Safety | San Francisco police arrest suspects during blitz operations against retail theft Crime and Public Safety | Redwood City: Teenager arrested on suspicion of stabbing elderly man Crime and Public Safety | Five people arrested after beating, attempted stabbing in San Mateo Officers were called to the 200 block of Hillside Boulevard around 11:10 p.m. for a report of a person shot, the South San Francisco Police Department said in a statement.The victim was taken to San Francisco General Hospital with a gunshot wound to his lower leg.Police said the suspects got out of a black vehicle and demanded th...

Sunol school board refuses to reverse Pride flag ban as tensions simmer

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:10:47 GMT

The Sunol Glen School board declined to reverse their flag ban or affirm support for their superintendent on Tuesday night, in the first regularly scheduled board meeting since the controversial resolution was approved in September.Wearing cowboy boots, board president Ryan Jergensen opened the meeting by saying that he expected “a civil discussion.” And in fact, in contrast to the last two meetings, tempers seemed to have cooled slightly.Related ArticlesPolitics | Letters: Speed cameras | End occupation Politics | Biden condems ‘sheer evil’ of Hamas attack on Israel Politics | Letters: Russia’s direction | Workers for disabled Politics | EU warns Musk about penalties for misinformation on X Politics | Palestinians scramble for cover as Israel pounds Gaza Strip Sunol Glen, a tiny one-school district set in a bucolic valley south of Pleasanton, has become the Bay Area’s epicenter of an e...

Today in History: October 11, Anita Hill publicly accuses Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:10:47 GMT

Today in History Today is Wednesday, Oct. 11, the 284th day of 2023. There are 81 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 11, 1991, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her; Thomas re-appeared before the panel to denounce the proceedings as a “high-tech lynching.” On this date: In 1614, the New Netherland Co. was formed by a group of merchants from Amsterdam and Hoorn to set up fur trading in North America.In 1809, just over three years after the famous Lewis and Clark expedition ended, Meriwether Lewis was found dead in a Tennessee inn, an apparent suicide; he was 35. In 1884, future first lady Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City. In 1906, the San Francisco Board of Education ordered the city’s Asian students segregated into their own school. (The order was later rescinded at the behest of President Theodore Roosevelt, who promised to curb future Japanese immigra...

Teresa Weatherspoon finalizing deal with the Chicago Sky to be their next coach, AP source says

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:10:47 GMT

The Chicago Sky are finalizing a deal with Teresa Weatherspoon to make her their next coach, a person familiar with the situation said Tuesday night.The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because no announcement had been made.The Sky, who won the 2021 WNBA championship, have been searching for a new coach since James Wade left in the middle of the season to take an assistant job with the NBA’s Toronto Raptors. Chicago announced at the end of the season, after it was eliminated from the playoffs by the Las Vegas Aces, that interim coach Emre Vatanseyer wouldn’t return.The Athletic was first to report the negotiations with Weatherspoon.The Sky will hire a general manager separately. Wade and then Vatanseyer worked as both coach and GM, but the team announced after the season it would separate the positions like every other team in the WNBA now has.Weatherspoon returns to the WNBA after working with the NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans since 2019...

Hensley makes field goal as time expires and Coastal Carolina gets first win at App State

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:10:47 GMT

BOONE, N.C. (AP) — Kade Hensley narrowly made a game-winning 24-yard field goal as time expired to help Coastal Carolina beat Appalachian State 27-24 on Tuesday night for coach Tim Beck’s first Sun Belt Conference victory. Coastal Carolina (3-3, 1-2) won at Appalachian State for the first time in program history — following six straight losses.Grayson McCall threw for 373 yards and two touchdowns to lead Coastal Carolina. It was his 27th career game with multiple touchdown passes. Sam Pinckney and Jameson Tucker each had 100-plus yards receiving. Braydon Bennett added 64 yards on the ground with a TD. CJ Beasley ran up the middle for 21 yards before intentionally going to the ground at the 1-yard line with 52 seconds left in the fourth quarter. After a timeout, McCall took a loss of 4 to wind down the clock and then Beasley ran it to get the clock to 3 seconds. Hensley easily made the initial kick, but it was waived off after Appalachian called its last timeout. His next attem...

Spin aplenty expected for South Africa’s Cricket World Cup showdown with 5-time champion Australia

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:10:47 GMT

Australia has already missed out on an early opportunity and South Africa has showed plenty of batting muscle ahead of their highly-anticipating showdown at the Cricket World Cup on Thursday.There’s a re-laid wicket to contend with at Lucknow, with spinners expected to find assistance. The pitches were dug up at the stadium after the Indian Premier League and the authorities even fired the curator when India played a low-scoring Twenty20 international there against New Zealand in January.“It’s a bit of an unknown here,” Australian allrounder Glenn Maxwell said. “It will be a fresh start for the whole ground, turn up on the day and see how it looks. We are prepared for whatever conditions come our way over the next few games.”Five-time champion Australia lost its opening match to India, while South Africa posted a World Cup record total in its opening win over Sri Lanka.India dismissed the Australians for 199 before Pat Cummins’ lineup had the hosts on the mat in reply with three wic...

Texas executes man who questioned evidence presented at his trial in the fatal carjacking of an elderly woman

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:10:47 GMT

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas executes man who questioned evidence presented at his trial in the fatal carjacking of an elderly woman.Source

AP PHOTOS: Funeral processions and leveled neighborhoods in expanding Israel-Palestinian war

Published Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:10:47 GMT

Buildings turned to rubble. Body bags in the streets. Wailing sirens and shrieking rockets.As the latest Israeli-Palestinian war entered a fourth day of war Tuesday, scenes showed both an expanding offensive and the conflict’s sorrowful results.Israeli soldiers and Hamas fighters geared up and moved into position. Flag-draped coffins were carried by mourners at funeral processions. The images of the devastation on the ground showed windows shattered by bullets and neighborhoods leveled by blasts.The war is expected to escalate with at least 1,900 lives lost so far.Source