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Butler, No. 20 SDSU survive Colorado State 64-61 in MW Tournament

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:57:49 GMT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Lamont Butler scored 16 points and No. 20 San Diego State held on to beat Colorado State 64-61 in the Mountain West Tournament quarterfinals on Thursday.The top-seeded Aztecs (25-6) never led by more than five points in the second half, and Isaiah Stevens’ 3-pointer gave the eighth-seeded Rams (15-18) a 59-58 lead with 1:42 left. Jordan LeDee and Matt Bradley each hit two free throws to give San Diego State a 62-59 lead with 16 seconds remaining.“We knew this would be a hard game,” San Diego State coach Brian Dutcher said. “I told the guys whether we made them efficiently or not, we made the plays when the game was on the line. Whether it was the play, or the play after the play, I thought we made enough important ones.”Stevens made a layup to pull Colorado State back within 62-61, but Nathan Mensah sealed the game with a free throw and a block at the basket to send the Aztecs into the semifinals, where they will play fifth-seeded San Jose State on Friday.San Diego ...

Suspected DUI driver in custody after hours-long standoff in Compton

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:57:49 GMT

A suspected DUI driver who led authorities on a chase before a four-hour-long standoff was finally taken into custody late Thursday afternoon in Compton.The pursuit began as an attempted traffic stop shortly before noon in the area of Lime Street and Rosecrans Avenue where the authorities say the driver of the white pickup truck failed to yield.The driver eventually ended up in a dead end on Poplar Street next to a wash with deputies behind him and nowhere to go.Authorities surround a pursuit suspect in Compton on March 9, 2023. (KTLA) Alleged DUI suspect in custody after hours-long standoff in Compton on March 9, 2023. (KTLA)Deputies deployed tear gas, forcing the suspect to jump out of his truck. He was immediately taken into custody. March 9, 2023 (KTLA)A driver suspected of DUI who led authorities on a chase was arrested after a four-hour standoff in Compton. March 9, 2023 (KTLA)Aerial video from Sky5 showed deputies make several attempts to get the driver out of the pickup. At ...

Here’s what Biden’s budget would do – if it had a chance

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:57:49 GMT

By Chris Megerian | Associated PressWASHINGTON — With Republicans in control of the House, there’s no chance that President Joe Biden’s new budget plan will become law as it stands. Instead, the financial blueprint that he announced Thursday in Philadelphia will serve as a political talking point for a president preparing to run for reelection.“I just laid out the bulk of my budget,” Biden said during a stop at a union training center. “Republicans in Congress should do the same thing. Then we can sit down and see where we disagree.”Many of the key proposals are designed to draw sharp contrasts with Republicans.Some of the highlights of Biden’s plan:BIDEN EMPHASIZES FISCAL RESPONSIBILITYBiden’s budget covers the next 10 years. Overall, he expects an additional $4.7 trillion in tax revenues and $800 billion in savings from making changes to government programs. Biden also wants $2.6 trillion in new spending. That leaves him with an esti...

Walgreens pushes back on California contract cancellation over abortion pill plans

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:57:49 GMT

Walgreens said Thursday that California Gov. Gavin Newsom is unfairly targeting the pharmacy over plans for dispensing abortion pills in other states that it says are no different than those of its competitors.Newsom this week said California “won’t be doing business with Walgreens — or any company that cowers to the extremists and puts women’s lives at risk” after the pharmacy indicated last week it would not dispense abortion pills 21 states where attorneys general warned they would consider it illegal.Newsom’s office Wednesday announced the state won’t renew a contract for “specialty pharmacy prescription drugs” mostly used by the state’s correctional health care system that has paid Walgreens $54 million as part of an ongoing “review of all contracts between the state and Walgreens.” Newsom said California will “will explore other options for furnishing the same services.”Walgreens said in a stat...

Cal fires Mark Fox: Five candidates to revive a program adrift in changing college sports landscape

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:57:49 GMT

Cal dismissed coach Mark Fox on Thursday in a move surprising only in that it required 19 hours from the conclusion of the worst season in school history to the announcement of Fox’s termination.The writing has been on this wall since the invention of writing.Fox was a questionable hire from the start, as athletic director Jim Knowlton spent just three days looking for a replacement for Wyking Jones in the spring of 2019 and allowed an East Coast-based search firm, Collegiate Sports Associates, to guide the process despite its questionable track record for West Coast hires.The first red flag: Fox was unemployed at the time, having been fired by Georgia a year earlier.The second red flag: Fox had no ties to Cal.Every Bears fan in captivity — at least, those who haven’t been driven away by six dreadful years under Jones and Fox — should hope Knowlton doesn’t retain CSA this time around.Then again, Pete Newell at the peak of his powers would only get the Bears to medi...

North Korea drill simulates an attack on South Korea

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:57:49 GMT

By Kim Tong-Hyung | Associated PressSEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a live-fire artillery drill simulating an attack on a South Korean airfield and called for his troops to be ready to respond to the enemies’ “frantic war preparation moves” — apparently referring to the U.S.’s largest military exercises with the South in years.The North Korean state media report Friday came a day after South Korea’s military detected the North firing at least one short-range ballistic missile toward the sea from a site near the western coastal city of Nampo. The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff was assessing whether more missiles may have been launched from the area simultaneously.South Korea and the United States are preparing this month for their biggest combined military training exercise in years to counter the growing threat of Kim’s nuclear arsenal, which he has aggressively expanded despite the North’s deepening econ...

Big storm barrels toward a Big Sur school shuttered by landslides for months

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:57:49 GMT

Since early January, Ellen Hall has been teaching in an empty classroom.Hall’s students have been popping in and out of her online lessons since storms rocked Big Sur — and led to massive landslides — on Highway 1 late last year. More than two months later, half of the students at Hall’s school are still blocked from their classes, separated by immense levels of dirt, muck and rock.The situation could get worse this weekend as a new atmospheric river barrels toward Big Sur, with forecasters calling for up to 14 inches of rain. For now, until everyone can get to the classroom, no students are allowed at the school.The landslide at Mill Creek on Feb. 16, 2023. (Photo courtesy of Caltrans District 5). The landslide at Paul's Slide on Feb. 16, 2023. (Photo courtesy of Caltrans District 5). Show Caption of Expand“It’s a very small community as it is, and now we’re completely separated,” said Katie Day, a mother of one of Hall’s students. “It’s looking like it...

Richmond man shot and killed in city’s first homicide of 2023

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:57:49 GMT

RICHMOND — A 43-year-old man was shot and killed here Wednesday morning by a person who fired more than a dozen shots after spotting him in the front of a residence, police say.The victim, identified by authorities as Richmond resident Danny Barnes, was killed at around 11:20 a.m. Wednesday, while standing outside a residence on the 2400 block of Aberdeen Way, police said. Barnes’ death marks Richmond’s first homicide of 2023.Police say it appears to be a targeted shooting; the suspect was driving by, apparently spotted Barnes, stopped the vehicle, and opened fire. Barnes died before paramedics could get there, authorities say.Police continue to investigate and have not made any arrests.Authorities say anyone with information can call Det. Orlando Guzman at 510-965-4966, email him at [email protected] or they can contact Richmond’s anonymous tip line at (510) 307-T1PS (8177)

Biden proposes $500 million boost to Silicon Valley BART

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:57:49 GMT

The Biden administration included a major gift to the Bay Area in its Thursday federal budget proposal: $500 million to build BART through San Jose, a vital revenue boost to a project racked by escalating cost projections.The funding would bring the 6-mile extension, which is supposed to be finished by 2034, a major step closer to reality, although the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority still needs to close a multi-billion dollar gap between project costs and available funding.“It’s definitely significant,” said Carolyn Gonot, VTA’s general manager. “There were only a handful of projects that got very large sums in the president’s budget.”The $9.3 billion extension would have BART trains whizzing underneath downtown San Jose and into Santa Clara. But the cost and time estimates have doubled since 2018, and more recently the VTA turned to Washington asking for a historic $4.6 billion federal grant. So far, the Federal Transit Adminis...

Texas executes inmate for killing 4 during drug robbery

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:57:49 GMT

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas has executed an inmate convicted of the drug-related killings of four people more than 30 years ago, including a woman who was 9-months pregnant.Arthur Brown Jr., 52, insisted he was innocent before receiving a lethal injection Thursday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was condemned for the June 1992 slayings, which took place in a Houston home during a drug robbery.Authorities said Brown was part of a ring that shuttled drugs from Texas to Alabama and had bought drugs from Jose Tovar and his wife Rachel Tovar.Killed during the drug robbery were 32-year-old Jose Tovar; his wife’s 17-year-old son, Frank Farias; 19-year-old Jessica Quiñones, the pregnant girlfriend of another son of Rachel Tovar; and 21-year-old neighbor Audrey Brown. All four had been tied up and shot in the head. Rachel Tovar and another person were also shot but survived.“I don’t see how anybody could have just killed a pregnant woman and then made her suffer so muc...