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Juveniles are behind Oakland robbery crime sprees, police chief says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:33:52 GMT

OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) -- Crews of Oakland teenagers carried out brazen robberies this May and fueled violent crime in the city, according to investigators.Oakland Interim Police Chief Darren Allison said, "We've seen a surge in violence. Two weeks ago, our city experienced 100 robberies in one week, 50 of which occurred in 72 hours over a weekend. Some of the robberies included car-jackings, shootings, and other assaults." "A trend we are seeing with robberies has been an increase involvement of minors," Allison said.Robberies are 7% higher compared to this same time period in 2022. "The City of Oakland has been terrorized by violent individuals wreaking havoc and committing robberies upon unassuming community members," the Oakland Police Department wrote. "Robbery crews are brazenly victimizing individuals at alarming rates."Allison said the surge is "unacceptable," and he ordered his officers to prioritize cracking down on young thieves responsible for it. Within just the last we...

Honolulu-bound flight from SFO abruptly turns around, heads back to SF

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:33:52 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A Honolulu-bound flight that left San Francisco International Airport shortly before noon Wednesday has turned around and is heading back to SFO, according to flight tracking platform, FlightAware. The flight, United Airlines 2380 took off just before 11:30 a.m. Pacific time and was scheduled to arrive in Honolulu at 2 p.m. Hawaiian Standard Time.However, less than an hour after taking off, the flight abruptly turned around and headed back to SFO. This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

San Jose mayor introduces affordable housing proposal

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:33:52 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) -- San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and other city officials held a news conference Wednesday morning to announce a new proposal to scale up the city's quick-build communities to increase affordable housing. ‘Wake up America.’: Gov. Newsom weighs in on Target’s removal of some LGBTQ merchandise Mayor Mahan has pledged to provide temporary housing for 1,000 people by the end of the year. The mayor himself has admitted that's an ambitious number and that he's not sure the city will be able to reach the goal.

Leaked Report: “CIA Does Not Know” If Israel Plans to Bomb Iran

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:33:52 GMT

Whether Israel’s escalating threats of war with Iran over its nuclear program are saber-rattling or something more serious is a mystery even to the CIA, according to a portion of a top-secret intelligence report leaked on the platform Discord earlier this year. The uncertainty about the intentions of one of the U.S.’s closest allies calls into question the basis of the “ironclad” support for Israel publicly espoused by the Biden administration.The report — which was first covered by the Israeli channel i24 News and subsequently posted by DDoSecrets, a group that publishes leaked documents — reveals an undisclosed military exercise conducted by Israel. “On 20 February, Israel conducted a large-scale air exercise,” the intelligence report, produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on February 23, states. The exercise, it says, was “probably to simulate a strike on Iran’s nuclear program and possibly to demonstrate Jerusalem’s resolve to act against Te...

Prosecutor: Fatal shooting of Grammy winner by police ‘reasonably necessary’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:33:52 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The fatal shooting of a Grammy-winning sound engineer by police earlier this year was “reasonably necessary,” a Tennessee prosecutor said on Wednesday.The decision in January’s fatal shooting of Mark Capps, 54, comes after a review of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation report, the autopsy and video evidence, Nashville District Attorney General Glenn Funk said in a statement.A Metro Nashville Police officer killed Capps while at his home to arrest him on warrants charging him with two counts each of aggravated assault and aggravated kidnapping, authorities have said. His 60-year-old wife and 23-year-old stepdaughter told police he had held them in the home at gunpoint, according to police.When officers went to the home, Capps opened the front door armed with a pistol, and Officer Kendall Coon yelled at him to show his hands, police said at the time of the shooting.Video of the shooting appears to show the door of the home opening and an officer ...

Were Ukrainian children forcibly transferred to Belarus? Ukraine’s top prosecutor is investigating

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:33:52 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s prosecutor-general says it’s investigating the forced transfer of Ukrainian children to Belarus, adding to allegations that Russia is also transferring them to its territory.Ukrainian law enforcement officers said they are investigating the relocations from the Russian-occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Kharkiv regions to Belarus.Pavel Latushka, a former Belarusian minister of culture now in exile in Poland, heads an opposition group, the National Anti-Crisis Management, which has been documenting the deportations. Latushka and his team turn evidence over to international organizations, hoping that the International Criminal Court will issue an arrest warrant for Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, as it did for Russian President Vladimir Putin.In March, the ICC issued arrest warrants for both Putin and his commissioner for children’s rights. Judges in The Hague said they found “reasonable grounds to believe” that t...

Catholic clergy abuse report could prompt lawsuits, changes to Illinois law

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:33:52 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois’ attorney general has ended a five-year investigation into sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy in the state, releasing a nearly 700-page report that revealed the problem was far worse than the church acknowledged in 2018 at the start of the state’s review. Attorney General Kwame Raoul said Tuesday that state investigators found that more than 450 Catholic clergy in Illinois had sexually abused nearly 2,000 children since 1950. But Raoul and other experts say the finding is unlikely to lead to criminal charges. That follows a familiar pattern — no rush of criminal charges followed the 2018 release of a bombshell grand jury report on clergy abuse in Pennsylvania or last month’s report on abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.Advocates say they believe the report will help more people feel safe to discuss what happened to them with family, friends, support groups and law enforcement. They also say it could prompt people to file civil lawsuits...

Fuzzy falcon chicks who nest at Michigan State football stadium get tracking bands

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:33:52 GMT

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Newly fitted with tracking bands, four peregrine falcon chicks named Pickles, Muhammad, Egbert and Swooper have a nest in one of the best seats — make that perches — at Michigan State University’s football stadium. Scientists and college students on Wednesday carefully attached metal tracking bands to the fluffy white chicks’ legs. At about a month old, they’re still not much bigger than a pigeon and can’t yet fly away from their manmade nest atop Spartan Stadium. But the boisterous birds already have sharp talons and beaks, so the banding process was handled with care. The chicks weren’t too happy about the experience, writhing and squawking. Once a tag was applied to a chick’s leg, the bird was placed back in a box. And the squawking ceased.The chicks have become celebrities in East Lansing and around the globe, thanks to a web camera and livestream by the school’s Fisheries and Wildlife Club, which installed the nest box on the stadium...

South Africa under more scrutiny over Russian ship as ruling ANC says it would ‘welcome’ Putin

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:33:52 GMT

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The South African government was under more pressure Wednesday for declining to release cargo documents relating to the visit by a Russian ship that the United States alleges collected a consignment of weapons for Moscow.Separately, a top official in South Africa’s ruling party added to the scrutiny of the country’s relationship with Russia by saying the party would “welcome” a visit by President Vladimir Putin, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes.The comments by African National Congress Secretary General Fikile Mbalula regarding Putin were made in an interview with the BBC and in the context of the Russian leader attending a summit of the BRICS economic bloc in South Africa in August. The bloc is made up of Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa.“If it was according to the ANC, we would want President Putin to be here, even tomorrow, to come to our country,” Mbalula said in the inter...

Kopech strikes out nine, White Sox roll to 6-0 win over Guardians

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:33:52 GMT

CLEVELAND (AP) — Michael Kopech struck out nine and allowed two hits over seven dominant innings, Romy González had a two-run double and the Chicago White Sox beat the Cleveland Guardians 6-0 Wednesday.Kopech (3-4), who retired the first 16 batters in his last start against Kansas City, did not allow a baserunner until Josh Naylor singled leading off the fifth. The right-hander walked one and extended his shutout streak to 15 innings in his last two outings.The Guardians only pushed one player into scoring position and were blanked for the sixth time. Andrés Giménez had the other hit off Kopech, who held the Royals and Cleveland to a combined three singles while striking out 19 in back-to-back wins.González’s drive into the right-field corner highlighted a five-run fourth against Guardians starter Cal Quantrill (2-3). Jake Burger and Seby Zavala added sacrifice flies in the inning as the White Sox went up by six.Reynaldo López and Jimmy Lambert wrapped up the combined four-hitter fo...