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Vegas, Phoenix expected to break heat records

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:25:34 GMT

Visitors to Las Vegas on Friday stepped out momentarily to snap photos and were hit by blast-furnace air. But most will spend their vacations in a vastly different climate — at casinos where the chilly air conditioning might require a light sweater.Meanwhile, emergency room doctors were witnessing another world, as dehydrated construction workers, passed-out elderly residents and others suffered in an intense heat wave threatening to break the city’s all-time record high of 117 degrees Fahrenheit (47.2 degrees Celsius) this weekend.Few places in the scorching Southwest demonstrate the surreal contrast between indoor and outdoor life like Las Vegas, a neon-lit city rich with resorts, casinos, swimming pools, indoor nightclubs and shopping. Tens of millions of others across California and the Southwest, were also scrambling for ways to stay cool and safe from the dangers of extreme heat. California all-time heat records could fall this weekend “We’ve been talking about this building...

Mega Millions jackpot up to $640 million; Saturday’s Powerball at $875 million

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:25:34 GMT

The Mega Millions top prize has grown again to an estimated $640 million after there was no winner of the lottery’s latest giant jackpot.The numbers drawn Friday night were: 10, 24, 48, 51, 66 and gold Mega Ball 15.Two tickets sold in California — one in Los Angeles, one in Monrovia — were among four nationwide that matched all five white balls, without the Mega Ball. The California prize was $202,248. The five-of-five ticket sold in South Carolina included an optional multiplier making it worth $2 million. Meanwhile, the Powerball jackpot for Saturday’s drawing has grown to an estimated $875 million — the third-highest it has been.The estimated $640 million Mega Millions jackpot in the next drawing would be distributed to a winner who chooses an annuity paid over 29 years. Nearly all grand prize winners opt to take a cash payout, which for Tuesday night’s drawing is an estimated $328 million.The jackpot is the seventh largest in the game’s history, Meg...

San Mateo County: Man accused of beating, attempting to rape girlfriend had prior domestic violence convictions

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:25:34 GMT

San Mateo County prosecutors are pushing for a man accused of beating and attempting to rape his girlfriend in the bathroom of a Belmont restaurant to get prison time given previous convictions for domestic violence and sex crimes in the past 20 years.Jason Matthew Thornton, 40, got into an argument with his girlfriend over money about 6:40 p.m. on June 26 inside a bathroom at a Panda Express restaurant on El Camino Real, according to San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.Thornton told his girlfriend he wanted sex with her then and there, but when she declined he went on a vicious attack, choking her, pushing her down and punching her multiple times before forcefully pulling her pants down, according to police. The woman was able to fight him off but Thornton took the woman’s cell phone and walked out to the street, leaving her on the bathroom floor with her pants down bleeding “profusely” from her head.When police found Thornton in the area, he denied any attack but of...

Brentwood shooting leaves 2 men injured

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:25:34 GMT

(KRON) -- A shooting in Brentwood left two men injured Friday night, according to police. The shooting occurred around 7:45 p.m. on Marjoram Drive near Caboose Park. Police say the men were involved in an altercation before they started shooting at each other. Fatal crash on Highway 87 in San Jose Both men were taken to the hospital, with one of the two suffering from serious injuries.

Fatal crash on Highway 87 in San Jose

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:25:34 GMT

(BCN) -- Southbound traffic on State Route 87 in San Jose is being diverted onto Interstate Highway 280 northbound following a fatal crash that has left the southbound lanes of Highway 87 blocked early Saturday morning. 1 dead, 1 injured in Pittsburg shooting California Highway Patrol confirms at least one person dead resulting from the crash along Highway 87 southbound, just before the I-280 connector, at 4:52 a.m. on Saturday. Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

Former SF building inspector gets 1 year in federal prison for accepting bribes

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:25:34 GMT

(BCN) -- A former San Francisco building inspector was sentenced Friday to a year and day in federal prison on charges connected to taking bribes, federal prosecutors said. Bernard Curran, 62, pleaded guilty to charges that he accepted cash and charitable donations from developers and property owners whose projects he had responsibility for approving, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California. According to his plea agreement, Curran worked for the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection in 2005 and was promoted to senior building inspector in 2009. In that role, he was responsible for conducting physical inspections of buildings and construction sites in San Francisco to make sure they were completed according to approved permits and plans. 1 dead, 1 injured in Pittsburg shooting "Curran admitted that after he became a senior building inspector, he received improper financial benefits in connection with his employment," pr...

Marketa Vondrousova defeats Ons Jabeur 6-4, 6-4 to win the Wimbledon women’s championship

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:25:34 GMT

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Marketa Vondrousova became the lowest-ranked and first unseeded woman to win Wimbledon, defeating 2022 runner-up Ons Jabeur 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday.Vondrousova is a 24-year-old left-hander from the Czech Republic who is ranked 42nd. She was the first unseeded woman to even reach the final at the All England Club in 60 years.Vondrousova trailed in each set but collected the last four games of the first, then the last three games of the second.This is her first Grand Slam title. She lost in the final of the 2019 French Open as a teenager.Jabeur dropped to 0-3 in major finals. The 28-year-old from Tunisia is the only Arab woman and only North African woman to make it that far in singles at any Grand Slam tournament.But she lost to Elena Rybakina at the All England Club and to No. 1 Iga Swiatek at the U.S. Open last year.Vondrousova’s surge to the trophy was hard to envision two weeks ago.She was 1-4 in previous appearances at Wimbledon before going 7-0 this fortn...

Marketa Vondrousova defeats Ons Jabeur 6-4, 6-4 to win the Wimbledon women’s championship for her first Grand Slam title

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:25:34 GMT

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Marketa Vondrousova defeats Ons Jabeur 6-4, 6-4 to win the Wimbledon women’s championship for her first Grand Slam title.Source

“Moriremos de hambre aquí de todos modos”: el trágico viaje de un niño expone una elección imposible que enfrentan millones

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:25:34 GMT

(CNN) — Pervez Akhtar lucha entre lágrimas al recordar las últimas palabras de su hijo de 14 años.“Todo estará bien”, le dijo Muhammad Abuzar. “Educaré a mis hermanos, haré tu casa. No pasarás hambre. Solo oren por mí”.Akhtar ahora está sentado en su ruinosa casa de una habitación en una aldea en el distrito de Gujrat, en el este de Pakistán, mirando fotos de Abuzar. Su rostro demacrado incapaz de ocultar la angustia y la desesperación.Abuzar iba a bordo de un barco pesquero que volcó en el Mediterráneo el mes pasado, hundiendo con él a cientos de personas que buscaban una vida mejor.El barco transportaba hasta 750 refugiados y migrantes paquistaníes, sirios, egipcios y palestinos. Solo 104 personas han sido rescatadas.El cuerpo de Abuzar no ha sido recuperado.Su padre, un conductor de autobús escolar que gana menos de US$ 90 al mes y tuvo que vender su casa para pagar a los contrabandistas de su hijo, ahora tiene tres hijos que alimentar en una nación que enfrenta una inflaci...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says he has been rushed to hospital

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:25:34 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says he has been rushed to hospital.Source