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John Edward Alevizos Arrested, Gelvy Ortiz Hospitalized after DUI Pedestrian Crash on 26th Street [Santa Monica, CA]

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:04:50 GMT

35-Year-Old Driver Arrested after DUI Pedestrian Accident near Wilshire BoulevardSANTA MONICA, CA (June 19, 2023) – Friday, John Edward Alevizos was arrested and Gelvy Ortiz was hurt in a pedestrian crash on 26th Street.The incident occurred around 8:40 p.m., near Wilshire Boulevard on June 2nd.Per reports, 35-year-old Alevizos was driving a Volkswagen Jetta and veered off the road before slamming into a student sitting on the bus bench.Upon arrival, officers located 18-year-old Gelvy Ortiz with serious leg injuries. Paramedics transported him to UCLA Medical Center where he underwent a leg amputation.Following preliminary duties, police determined that Alevizos was under the influence. Officers arrested him for DUI causing injury.The loved ones of Ortiz set up a GoFundMe page to help with costs during this difficult time.Alcohol and other altering substances impair mental and physical performance. If you find yourself unable to safely drive, you can always request a Lyft, Ube...

Several Hurt in Multi-Vehicle Crash on Seventh Street [Long Beach, CA]

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:04:50 GMT

Injuries Reported after Five-Vehicle Collision near Pepper Tree LaneLONG BEACH, CA (June 19, 2023) – Thursday afternoon, a multi-vehicle crash on Seventh Street left five people hurt.Fire officials responded to the collision around 5:15 p.m. in the area of 7th Street and Pepper Tree Lane near Cal State Long Beach.Upon arrival, units discovered five vehicles in the wreckage, including one that had rolled over from the impact.Based on the report, firefighters rushed three people to a hospital with unknown injuries. Meanwhile, paramedics treated two people at the scene before being released.At this time, the identities of those involved in the crash have not been made public. The Long Beach Police Department continues to investigate the cause of the incident.Anyone with additional information regarding the accident is encouraged to contact Long Beach Officials as soon as possible.One small driving mistake can lead to a multi-vehicle crash. This is why it is important to drive def...

Mary May Killed in Pedestrian Collision on Highway 50 [Sacramento, CA]

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:04:50 GMT

69-Year-Old Woman Dies in Vehicle Crash near Howe AvenueSACRAMENTO, CA (June 19, 2023) – Early Tuesday morning, Mary May was killed in a pedestrian collision on Highway 50.The incident happened on May 30th, at around 4:40 a.m., in the eastbound lanes of Highway 50 near Howe Avenue.According to reports, 69-year-old May was walking in the #1 lane of the highway when a Toyota slammed into her. Investigations showed that the Toyota was driving at 65 mph. The driver tried to avoid hitting May but he was unsuccessful and he struck the victim.Following the collision, the driver immediately called the authorities and waited at Watt Avenue.In addition, it was unknown if any other vehicles struck May while officers are on their way.When officers arrived at the scene, they located May with no signs of life. Officials pronounced her dead, due to the extent of her injuries.Meanwhile, all eastbound lanes of the Highway were blocked during the incident but were later reopened by 7:15 a.m.The...

Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City is as Much Theme Park as Movie

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:04:50 GMT

Wes Anderson is a uniqueness, and we should be thankful he exists. But what is he? With each film, he’s doubled down on his particular battery of obsessive ideas (the chockablock dioramas, the loopy yarn-spinning, the deadpan quasi-farce, the overwhelming retro design), so that after a quarter-century of filmmaking, The French Dispatch (2021) was so intensely Wes-y, with more twitches and textual jokes than anyone could assimilate in one viewing, it felt almost like an experimental film. You have to salute his sui-generis-ness, his cultural curiosity, his subject-matter wanderlust, his distinctive visual craft, his attention to detail (often it feels like his films are all detail), and, honestly, his capacity for indexing some kind of late-Millennial/Gen Z toybox nostalgia, the hermetic pleasure of which, for his legion of devotees, should not be underestimated. If you fight in that pajama-clad army, you don’t ask questions, you just go. His newest confabulation, Asteroid City, is W...

Newsom plan would roll back access to police misconduct records

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:04:50 GMT

By Trân Nguyên | Associated PressSACRAMENTO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has proposed an end to public disclosure of investigations of abusive and corrupt police officers, handing the responsibility instead to local agencies in an effort to help cover an estimated $31.5 billion budget deficit.The proposal, part of the governor’s budget package that he is still negotiating with the Legislature, has prompted strong criticism from a coalition of criminal justice and press freedom groups, which spent years pushing for the disclosure rules that were part of a landmark law Newsom signed in 2021.The law allows the state Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to investigate and decertify police officers for misconduct, such as use of excessive force, sexual assault and dishonesty. It requires the commission to make public the records of decertification cases.The Newsom administration now wants to get rid of that transparency element. The commission says the pu...

New Deal-era school buildings to be demolished in Salinas

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:04:50 GMT

(BCN) -- A pair of New Deal-era schoolhouses in Salinas, the two oldest in the Alisal Union School District, will be demolished starting on Tuesday to make way for more modern accommodations. The buildings slated for demolition are the main building of the Alisal Community School, a Works Progress Administration project built in 1936, and Fremont Elementary, constructed in 1941. Search for missing Titanic wreck submersible continues: what we know about those aboard At the time of their construction, the region had received a massive influx of immigrants escaping the Dust Bowl and seeking work in California. The Alisal Community School building replaced the one-room school building that served the area since the early '30s. The project is Phase II of a $70 million initiative passed in 2016 to repair and update school infrastructure in the district. The two buildings will be rebuilt over the course of the 2023-2024 school year, according to a school district press release. ...

Apuñalan a un perro en el Central Park de Nueva York tras una “disputa verbal” entre dos dueños, dice la Policía

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:04:50 GMT

(CNN) — Un perro fue apuñalado en el Central Park de Nueva York el sábado, luego una “disputa verbal” entre dos dueños, dijo el Departamento de Policía de la ciudad.El altercado comenzó cuando una pareja que paseaba a sus dos perros se encontró con un hombre que paseaba a sus tres perros en el parque, según explicó Antonio Antenucci, agente de la policía de Nueva York, a CNN este lunes.Los perros empezaron a pelearse y se produjo una “disputa verbal” entre los dueños mientras intentaban separarlos, explicó. El hombre supuestamente sacó entonces una navaja y apuñaló a uno de los perros de la pareja.Según Antenucci, todavía no se produjo ninguna detención en relación con el incidente.El perro herido recibió la eutanasia después de que le detectaran una masa cancerígena en una ecografía posterior, según declaró Brian Cornwell, el propietario, a CNN.“Mi perro estaba en un charco de sangre”Cornwell y su esposa salieron a pasear por el parque con sus do...

Bad Bunny y otros artistas buscan que se desestime un caso de derechos de autor sobre ritmos de reguetón

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:04:50 GMT

Nueva York (CNN) — Bad Bunny y otras grandes estrellas de la industria musical buscan desestimar una demanda que asegura que se infringieron los derechos de autor de una canción de 1989.Abogados de Freundlich Law, que representan a Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, mejor conocido como Bad Bunny, presentaron el jueves pasado una moción para desestimar la demanda, bajo el argumento de que los elementos musicales en cuestión no están protegidos por derechos de autor.Exnovia de Bad Bunny lo demanda por US$ 40 millones: ¿de qué se trata el caso?La demanda, presentada por los abogados de los productores jamaicanos de reggae Steely & Clevie, sostiene que más de 100 artistas y discográficas infringieron los derechos de autor de un ritmo de su canción “Fish Market”.Por su parte, los abogados de Bad Bunny sostienen que los demandantes intentan “monopolizar para sí prácticamente todo el género musical del reguetón”, al reclamar la propiedad de los derechos de a...

Police chase ends in Denver with crashes, carjacking

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:04:50 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A police chase that started in Adams County ended in multiple crashes, a foot chase and a carjacking in Denver.The driver, who police say was in a stolen vehicle, hit two cars at the intersection of Marion and Walnut Streets. ‘He had a hoof print on his chest’: Moose attacks man as he walks his dogs The Adams County Sheriff's Office confirmed deputies tried to stop a male in a stolen vehicle in the area of East 58th Avenue and Interstate 25. Deputies pursued the suspect but lost sight of him around East 38th Avenue and Brighton Blvd.A couple of blocks later, the driver hit two cars. Paula Fehringer was on her way to a work lunch when her car got hit."I didn't see a car coming at all because it just happened that quick," Fehringer said. "Next thing I know, the airbags were off, and it was a lot of smoke a lot of chemical smell."Her coworker, Janice Scott, was sitting in the backseat at the time."I heard it hit, yeah, and then I heard it hit something else," Scott s...

Colorado marijuana prices rise for the first time in 2 years

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:04:50 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Rent is likely to grow again in the Denver metro, and marijuana prices may, too. Colorado marijuana has never been cheaper The COVID pandemic sparked a big change in marijuana prices. Sales reached their highest-ever levels between the summers of 2020 and 2021, and the price retailers pay for bulk cannabis has crashed ever since. The average market price for a pound of Colorado marijuana bud has been falling since early 2021, according to Colorado Department of Revenue figures. In January 2021, bud was at its highest price since 2016 at $1,731 per pound. By April 2023, it had shrunk to less than half that price at $649 per pound, the lowest price ever recorded since Colorado began its first legal marijuana sales.This month, though, retail prices have ticked upwards. The price for a pound of bud went from $649 to $703 in June. This is the first time retail has risen since October 2021. This is the longest stretch of time since legalization that marijuana prices ha...