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2 L.A. paramedics among 4 hurt in violent collision 

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:16 GMT

A crash involving an ambulance and a pickup truck sent four people to the hospital, including two responding paramedics, early Sunday morning. According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, an LAFD Paramedic Rescue ambulance was responding to a medical emergency when it was broadsided by the pickup at the intersection of Van Nuys Boulevard and San Fernando Road around 12:35 a.m. As a result of the collision, the pickup truck careened into a nearby utility pole, trapping two men who were inside the vehicle. A crash involving an ambulance and a pickup truck sent four people to the hospital, including the two responding paramedics. (Citizen App)“The two adult male occupants...were badly trapped in the wreckage of their severely damaged truck before being freed by a team of LAFD responders,” LAFD said in a release.  Escaped murderer on the run in Pennsylvania now spotted nearly a dozen times Both men were transported to a nearby hospital in critical condition. ...

Little League World Series-winning El Segundo 12U All-Stars being honored with championship parade 

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:16 GMT

Thousands are expected to attend the championship parade honoring the El Segundo 12U All-Stars who recently won the Little League World Series. Storefronts and residences all throughout the city have been decked out in yellow and blue and signs with phrases like “Let’s go Gundo!” and “Gundo is proud of our boys” have been erected at seemingly every corner.The parade itself begins at noon on Imperial Highway and Main Street, and continues down Main until El Segundo Boulevard, according to El Segundo Director of Parks and Recreation Aly Mancini.  A ceremony celebrating the players will be held at Stevenson Field immediately following the parade. That event requires a wristband, which will be sold beginning at 10 a.m. on Main Street for $10 each.  US Open: Coco Gauff wins 1st Grand Slam title at age 19 “We are going to be introducing all of the players, we got some [members of] the city council making some remarks and some other little fun surprises,” Mancini said...

Unruly crowd sets fires at Hollywood skateboarding event

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:16 GMT

A skateboarding event in Hollywood turned hostile and violent Saturday night when a crowd began setting fire to property and at least one vehicle.The skateboarding competition started around 4:30 p.m. on the 1600 block of Cherokee Avenue and became violent around 7:22 p.m. when the crowd began acting up, police said.A skateboarding event turned violent and unruly as crowds began setting fires in Hollywood on Sept. 9, 2023. (Citizen)The crowds began lighting trash cans and a car on fire while igniting fireworks, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Citizen video from the scene shows graffiti covering an L.A. Fire Department vehicle, a fully charred vehicle sitting in the parking lot, and general vandalism where the event took place.A skateboarding event turned violent and unruly as crowds began setting fires in Hollywood on Sept. 9, 2023. (Citizen)Crowds of people were seen surrounding a raging fire ignited in the parking lot as heavy smoke billowed into the sky.Offic...

When will fall colors peak in California? There's a map for that

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:16 GMT

It’s clear that fall is nearly upon us. Labor Day has passed, pumpkin spice everything is back, and we’re losing daylight. For some, the leaves may have already started changing color. For others, it won’t be long until the trees combust into reds, yellows, oranges, and browns. In just a few weeks, some parts of the country will be seeing peak fall colors, according to a new prediction map. SmokyMountains.com, a travel brand dedicated to promoting the Smoky Mountain region, produces a fall foliage map every year, show when areas in the U.S. will near, reach, and surpass peak colors. They use historical temperature and precipitation data, forecasted temperature and precipitation, the types of trees known to be in the area, and user-reported information to develop their fall foliage forecast. While it may not be completely accurate, it does offer insight into how soon the autumn colors will peak. As of September 7, only a handful of areas, primarily in the northern U.S....

49ers-Steelers pregame: George Kittle will play in season opener

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:16 GMT

PITTSBURGH — Tight end George Kittle will suit up today and have a shot to do something he’s never done: score a touchdown in a 49ers’ season opener.Kittle was listed as questionable because of a groin issue, which he aggravated in the preseason finale after it first surfaced a month ago in training camp. A year ago, Kittle missed the 49ers’ first two games because of a groin injury.Kittle’s availability should be good news from Brock Purdy, who connected with Kittle on seven of his career-high 11 touchdown catches last season. Kittle has at least four catches in each of his previous season openers, including eight receptions (54 yards) in the 2019 opening win at Tampa Bay. Two weeks after that game, Kittle had six catches (57 yards) in the 49ers’ 24-20 win over the Steelers at Levi’s Stadium.INACTIVE LISTCornerback Charvarius Ward, the only other player listed as questionable, is active and expected to start.Inactive are quarterback Brandon...

Man dies after being shot, hit by car in downtown Oakland

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:16 GMT

OAKLAND — A 27-year-old man died Sunday morning after he was first hit by a stray bullet fired during a downtown shootout between other people and was then struck by a car, authorities said.The man’s name has not yet been released. Police said he was an Oakland resident.The deadly violence took place about 2:20 a.m. Sunday in the area of 14th and Webster streets.Police said the man killed was walking in the area when a gun battle erupted between at least two people that resulted in multiple shots being fired.The 27-year-old man was hit by a stray bullet, police said.He was then hit by a car in the 300 block of 14th Street, authorities said. The driver of the car fled the scene on foot.Passersby gave aid to the man before police and paramedics got to the scene. He was taken to a hospital where he later died, police said.At least one parked vehicle and two buildings were also hit by the gunfire but no other injuries were reported.The motive for the shootout is under invest...

This gelatinous Monterey Bay deep-sea creature is the ‘sister’ that took its own evolutionary path

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:16 GMT

We still don’t know what the world’s first animal looked like, but scientists say it arose roughly 700 million years ago from a soup of single-celled organisms floating in the ocean. The multi-celled creature thrived, multiplied and evolved, at some point splitting into two distinct species.One species kept evolving, eventually producing virtually all the animals on Earth — dinosaurs, humans, cats, mosquitoes. The other species, the “sister to all other animals,” took its own, narrower evolutionary path.Now, after years of fierce debate, scientists have the clearest evidence to date which animal alive today is the sister’s true descendant: It’s the mysterious comb jelly, several species of which flourish in Monterey Bay.Left, The California sea gooseberry, photographed in a laboratory, helped Northern California researchers provide key evidence that the comb jelly, not the sponge, descended from the “sister to all other animals.” (Darrin Schultz © 2021 MBARI)Right, A tul...

Guatemalans Guarded the Memory of Democracy Through Years of War and Corruption. Now They See an Opening.

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:16 GMT

On the evening of August 20, election day for Guatemala’s second round of presidential voting, Alba Noe Muñoz’s family was afraid she would have a heart attack. The 90-year-old, mostly blind matriarch listened to the television, rapt, as the results came in and Bernardo Arévalo, progressive candidate for the Semilla party, took a commanding lead. She prayed, she exulted, and then she ran out into the street in front of her home, in the hamlet of San Juan Ostuncalco in Guatemala’s western highlands, and shouted to the neighbors and anyone within earshot. “Arévalo won! Arévalo won!” Alba Noe Muñoz, 90, poses for a portrait in her home in San Juan Ostuncalco, Guatemala, on Aug. 27, 2023.Photo: Victor J. Blue for The InterceptThe last time she felt this deep well of hope, it was 1944, she was 11 years old, and she was cheering the ascension of Juan José Arévalo, the father of the now president-elect. Along with the rest of her country, she had waited decades for a dream deferred: the re...

Top women’s soccer official Nadine Kessler turns down trailblazing job in Germany to stay with UEFA

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:16 GMT

GENEVA (AP) — UEFA’s head of women’s soccer Nadine Kessler has turned down the chance to take a trailblazing job overseeing all of Germany’s national teams, including the men’s, the European soccer body said Sunday.The former FIFA Women’s Player of the Year had talks over the past month with the German soccer federation (DFB) in its search for a managing director to replace Olivier Bierhoff. He left in December after another early exit for the national team at the men’s World Cup.Hiring the 35-year-old Kessler would have been a powerful statement by the DFB amid rapid progress for women’s soccer globally on the field but systemic problems off the field in governance by soccer bodies.Kessler said she was “flattered to have been approached” by her national federation.“I have decided to step back from the conversations last week and wish to continue my current role wholeheartedly,” the former Germany midfielder said in a statement released by UEFA, which is based in Nyon, S...

Gov. Youngkin pardons father of sexual assault victim arrested at Loudoun Co. school board meeting

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:16 GMT

Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Sunday that he’s granting a pardon for a Virginia father who was arrested at a Loudoun County School Board meeting back in 2021 after his daughter was sexually assaulted in a school bathroom.The man’s daughter was raped at Stone Bridge High School — leading to the father’s arrest for disrupting a contentious June 22, 2021 school board meeting.The man, whom WTOP is not naming to avoid indirectly identifying the teenager who was sexually assaulted, had been arrested and convicted in District Court of disorderly conduct.Youngkin called him “a dedicated parent who’s faced unwarranted charges in his pursuit to protect his daughter” in a news release, after the father disrupted a comment period on transgender policy at the school board meeting and resisted arrest.“In Virginia, parents matter and my resolve to empower parents in unwavering,” Youngkin said. “A parent’s fundamental right to be involved in their child’s e...