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Auditor demands St. Louis Circuit Attorney's cooperation

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:00 GMT

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The Missouri State Auditor says he may file a lawsuit against St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner.Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick said she’s not handing over the information he needs to complete the audit to see if her office is wasting taxpayers' money.He said he’s been after certain documents for some time now and has given the Circuit Attorney’s Office deadlines. He said he'd run out of patience.“If we don’t received that in the next week or so, then we will be going to court," Fitzpatrick said. "We basically have to file a lawsuit to enforce the petition in court, where a judge would essentially order the Circuit Attorney’s Office to comply with the subpoena, and if they fail to do that, we would have to go back to the judge and say they didn’t. Then the judge would have to determine if they were going to be held in contempt of court or what was going to happen there. So the next step is just going to court to enforce the subpoena and force them to comply with...

Family-fight standoff, knife attack leads to fatal shooting by Denver police

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:00 GMT

An investigation began Tuesday following a fatal standoff Monday night during which a man who police say threatened family members with a knife and began assaulting one of them was fatally shot dead by Denver police.Police responded around 8:30 p.m. to reports of a family disturbance in a house near the intersection of Montview Boulevard and North Oneida Street. The officers found a man with a knife holding two family members in a room, threatening them and preventing them from leaving, Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas said at the scene.The police called for a crisis negotiator and an ambulance. But before the crisis negotiators arrived, the suspect, at about 9:30 p.m., began assaulting one of the family members with the knife, Thomas said.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Greeley police shoot, kill man who allegedly shot at them; no officers injured Crime and Public Safety | Four bystanders shot by Denver police officer in LoDo file civil rights law...

Denver weather: Warm and partly cloudy with possible thunderstorms

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:00 GMT

The warm weather pattern settling in this week may bring afternoon and evening thunderstorms, and the National Weather Service on Tuesday issued flash flood warnings for mountain foothills areas along Colorado’s northern Front Range northwest of metro Denver where severe wildfires have ravaged vegetation.The high temperature in Denver will be 73 degrees under partly cloudy skies through 5 p.m., weather service forecasters said. At night, the temperature will decrease to 48 degrees, with possible thunderstorms, before increasing to 79 degrees on Wednesday, forecasters said.In the mountains, mostly cloudy skies with wind gusting at speeds up to 30 miles per hour and thunderstorms here and there are expected.Temperatures on the eastern high plains will exceed 70 degrees, weather service forecasters said.Today: partly to mostly cloudy, scattered showers across the high country, isolated storms possibly embedded, highs mostly in the 70s across the plains and 40s to 60s in the high ...

Woman critically injured after vehicle slams into apartment complex in Santa Ana hit-and-run

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:00 GMT

A woman is in critical condition after a suspected hit-and-run driver slammed into a Santa Ana apartment complex Monday night, authorities said.The crash was reported around 10:20 p.m. along the 1500 block of Memory Lane, according to the Santa Ana Police Department.Responding officers found that a vehicle had struck the building and a female resident was trapped.The Orange County Fire Authority was able to free the woman and she was taken to a nearby hospital in critical but stable condition.A second victim was assessed at the scene and also taken to a hospital. Her condition is unknown, but video from the scene showed her to be conscious and alert.Firefighters worked through the building to get to the van and free the victim, the video showed.Lamar Moorer, whose mother lives in the building, said he was standing in the parking lot when he saw the speeding vehicle crash into the building.“It just kept going,” Moorer said.He jumped into action and tried to get the trapped victim out...

Hollywood writers go on strike after negotiations fail

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:00 GMT

Hollywood writers are now on strike as talks between the Writer’s Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers concluded Monday without an agreement.  This is the first WGA strike in more than 10 years with more than 11,000 television and film writers expected to walk off the job.   “You’re going to see picket signs going up in front of studios, in front of various other offices, as well as you’re going to start seeing a number of shows shut down instantly,” Deadline Hollywood Senior Editor Dominic Patten told KTLA.  ‘SNL,’ late-night shows and more to be impacted by looming WGA strike WGA and AMPTP have been in talks for more than a month, with writers pushing for better base pay and an increase in residual money, saying that half of all writers are currently earning scale – the bare minimum of their contract. They also want higher contributions to their pension plan and health fund. Television and film executives, on the other hand,...

Coi Leray’s Body and Choice

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:00 GMT

Coi Leray’s Body and Choice: Rapper Coi Leray has released new single “My Body” and it’s a destined to be a lively summer anthem.A play on Lesley Gore’s classic “It’s My Party,” Leray sings in the refrain, “It’s my body and I’ll fuck who I want to… it’s nothing new, you’re just sad it ain’t you.”“’My Body’ is a liberating, sex-positive anthem that has Coi unapologetically declare that she and women everywhere can do whatever (and whoever) they want without reservation,” reads the press release. “Sampling the iconic 1963 classic ‘It’s My Party’ by Lesley Gore, Coi throws her own twist to the song while celebrating female empowerment and sexuality, further driving her point that girls can be players too.”It continues: “‘My Body’ follows the release of yesterday’s fittingly-titled single, ‘Bops,’ which proudly proves her...

Prep roundup: Mitty softball rallies at Hollister, Gilroy upsets another top team

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:00 GMT

No. 2 Archbishop Mitty 3, Hollister 2The Monarchs rallied from a deficit with a three-run fifth inning to down host Hollister on Monday afternoon and improve to 17-2. Mitty loaded the bases for McKenna Woliczko, a freshman who is batting over .400 on the season. Woliczko cleared the bases with a single into center, a play aided by an error by the outfielder. Alyssa Onyeagwa, Hannah Kitchener and Corri Hicks ran across home plate. Freshman pitcher Kyleigh Mace pitched all seven innings for Mitty, allowing four hits and striking out three against a Hollister team ranked by MaxPreps as the fifth-best in California.The game might have been a preview of a possible matchup in the CCS or NorCal playoffs. Archbishop Mitty will return to West Catholic Athletic League play on Wednesday with a game against Presentation, and will travel to No. 2 St. Francis on Friday.No. 1 St. Francis 10, No. 14 St. Ignatius 0The Lancers made quick work of WCAL opponent St. Ignatius on Monday afternoon, dispatc...

Antioch: Shooting leaves man dead inside car in 7-Eleven parking lot

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:00 GMT

ANTIOCH — A 31-year-old man was shot to death Monday night, apparently inside a vehicle, police said.Officers responded to the parking lot of a 7-Eleven in the 2700 block of Hillcrest Avenue about 7:40 p.m. after reports of a solo vehicle crash, according to a statement from Antioch police Lt. John Fortner. Once there, they found the man in the driver’s seat with one gunshot wound.Fortner said evidence at the scene indicated the shooting likely happened inside the car.Police called for paramedics and began administering first aid, but authorities pronounced the man dead at the scene.Authorities did not identify him early Tuesday, pending notification of his next of kin.The homicide is the second one this year in the city of Antioch.Citizens that spoke with police reported that two other people ran from the car, Fortner said. Police have not located them. No arrests were made.Detectives with the department’s Violent Crimes Unit have taken over the investigation, and...

Streak of dry weather ends as scattered showers reach Bay Area

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:00 GMT

The blissful run of sunshine and dry days throughout the Bay Area is expected to pause Tuesday as scattered rain showers, and even some brief thunderstorms could touch down through the middle of the week.National Weather Service forecasts predicted that rain showers are likely in most parts of the Bay Area between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Tuesday, including San Jose and the South Bay, San Francisco and down the Peninsula, Oakland and the East Bay and much of Contra Costa County. Most places, besides San Francisco, were predicted for less than one-tenth of an inch of rain total while The City was expected to see between one-tenth and one-quarter of an inch.NWS radar showed the scattered nature of the rain patterns with pockets of dry in-between the storms.Brief, yet intense thunderstorms could pop up throughout the region Tuesday, possibly giving areas more rain than initially forecast, according to the NWS. Even small bouts of hail were deemed possible.Scattered showers and even a few sto...

One man’s quest to diversify our doctors — without considering race — made UC Davis a model for a post-affirmative action world

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:00 GMT

When Dr. Mark Henderson took over admissions at UC Davis School of Medicine in 2007, about 15% of incoming students were Black, Hispanic or Indigenous, groups that are historically underrepresented in medicine.Since then, that number has more than tripled, climbing to 53% — a remarkable turnaround that could inspire other medical schools as they navigate a future post-affirmative action world.The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to rule this spring on a case that challenges race-based admissions programs, jeopardizing affirmative action at public colleges and universities around the nation.California hasn’t allowed affirmative action in admissions since voters approved Proposition 209 in 1996. But a strategy crafted by Henderson, whose commitment to diversity was forged by his working-class childhood in San Jose, shows that it’s possible to create a multiracial campus using alternative means. His team has transformed the university’s School of Medicine into what U.S. News &a...