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Crews battle structure fire in Redondo Beach neighborhood

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:41 GMT

Firefighters extinguished a two-alarm structure fire in a Redondo Beach neighborhood on Tuesday.  While it’s unclear what started the blaze, crews with the Redondo Beach Fire Department, as well as officers with the Redondo Beach Police Department, responded to the scene located on Kingsdale Avenue, south of Artesia Boulevard.  “There are power lines down and several adjacent streets are blocked,” Redondo PD said, adding that those in the area should use alternate routes.  Video posted to the Citizen App showed heavy black smoke and flames coming from the structure.  Aerial footage from Sky5 showed a charred and burnt-out structure as firefighters continued to spray water on it, as well as dousing adjacent buildings.  Footage posted to the Citizen App on Aug. 8, 2023, shows a structure fire in a residential area of Redondo Beach. (Citizen app)Crews with RBFD extinguish a structure fire in a residential area of Redondo Beach on Aug. 8, 2023. (KTLA)Crews with ...

Nevada man files lawsuit against Disneyland after alleged attack by security dog

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:41 GMT

A Disneyland security dog allegedly attacked and bit an elderly Nevada man at the entrance to the Anaheim theme park, according to a lawsuit filed in an Orange County court, the O.C. Register reported.Paul Perez, an 81-year-old grandfather from Las Vegas, filed a lawsuit against Walt Disney Parks and Resorts in Orange County Superior Court for damages stemming from the May 2022 alleged attack from a Disneyland security dog. Disneyland reaches settlement in $5 million lawsuit filed by Magic Key holder The civil lawsuit was filed on Aug. 1 and accused Disneyland and the Walt Disney Co. theme park division of negligence and seeks restitution for a physical wound, pain, suffering, emotional distress and the cost of past and future medical treatment, according to the Register.KTLA reached out to the Disneyland Resort for a comment but didn’t hear back in time for publication.The lawsuit alleges that a Disneyland dog handler caused a security dog to “abruptly step directly in front and ...

First cases of West Nile virus confirmed in San Bernardino County

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:41 GMT

Cases of West Nile virus were confirmed in San Bernardino County on Tuesday as authorities are warning the public to be cautious.The infections mark the first locally acquired human cases of West Nile virus in the county this year and have been confirmed in Rialto and San Bernardino, according to the Department of Public Health.West Nile virus is transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected mosquito.While many people infected with the virus may have no symptoms, older individuals and those with existing health issues are most likely to develop severe symptoms.“West Nile virus can cause a serious illness in humans,” said San Bernardino County Health Officer Michael A. Sequeira. “Therefore, I urge residents to take precautions to protect themselves against mosquito bites.”Those most susceptible to complications from infection include anyone over 50 years old, people with diabetes, cancer, hypertension, kidney disease, those who are immunocompromised, organ transplant recipien...

Now SF Giants teammates, Joc Pederson, Ross Stripling recall time they (almost) became Angels

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:41 GMT

As he packed his bags for spring training three years ago, Ross Stripling didn’t know which team’s complex he would head to when his flight touched down. Already in the desert, A.J. Pollock hosted Joc Pederson but wasn’t sure if that was his teammate taking swings in his batting cage.“It was madness,” Stripling said.“It was weird, for sure,” Pederson said. “It sucked. It was stupid.”“I remember, Joc was coming over to hit,” Pollock said, “and I was trying to figure out if he’s on our team or if he’s not.”Reunited in San Francisco three years later, the contingent of former Dodgers in the Giants clubhouse was reminded this week on their visit to Angel Stadium of what happened there. Or almost did, but didn’t. Of the trade that was, and then wasn’t.For five days in February 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic upended the world, Pederson and Stripling thought they were Angels. Details of the b...

Miami police fishing abandoned cars out of Doral lake

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:41 GMT

WFOR via CNNMIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — Miami-Dade police and Miami police divers are searching the murky waters of a lake in Doral were investigators believe as many as 30 cars are sunk on the bottom.Just after 10 a.m., a wrecker pulled the first car out of the water in the area of NW 90th Avenue and 13th Terrace, not too far from the CBS News Miami studios.Doral police said Sunday that they were alerted to the cars after the volunteer dive team, United Seach Corps, conducted a search of the lake over the water.“We have been informed that a private search company possibly located multiple sunken vehicles in the area of 9064 NW 13th Terrace. Although we cannot confirm at this time, we will continue to gather further information in the coming days and work with multiple entities to investigate this matter,” Doral police said in a statement.The search and recovery process is now in the hands of Miami-Dade police who also received word about the vehicles over the weekend....

‘I don’t buy that’: Questions arise over San Jose fire department’s Pink Poodle investigation

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:41 GMT

A day after the release of an internal probe  into a San Jose fire crew’s infamous visit to the Pink Poodle strip club, experts in personnel investigations and the city’s former mayor are questioning the honesty of the employees involved in the incident — most of whom were not disciplined for behavior that appears to violate fire department policies.While the investigation finally revealed the purported reasoning behind the visit to the Pink Poodle — Fire Captain William Tognozzi claimed he was picking up a flash drive with images of his colleagues taken by a photographer who also worked at the strip club — it also indicated that firefighters never came clean about a subsequent visit to a second adult entertainment establishment.The four firefighters — Tognozzi, Brian Dragges, Zach Clark and Matthew Westcott — initially told investigators that they had simply returned to their station after the visit to the Pink Poodle. But they were later confron...

University of California admits a record number of California freshmen for the fall of 2023

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:41 GMT

The University of California has admitted an unprecedented number of California students for the fall of 2023, with 88,285 first-year applicants coming from the Golden State alone.It’s an increase of 3.5% from last year, and part of an ongoing effort to get more Californians into the state’s higher education system. This year, the state’s budget included a 5% boost for the UC system — part of a multi-year agreement between Governor Gavin Newsom and the University of California — with the expectation that campuses would use that money to enroll more California students, among other educational objectives.Across the UC system, that seems to be exactly what happened. Admission rates for Californians increased to nearly 67% this year, as opposed to 64% in 2022.The surge was more prominent at UC Santa Cruz than any other campus. This fall, the school admitted 10,200 more first-year Californian students than the year prior, a 44.5% jump. Though final enrollment num...

Embattled Antioch Police Department names acting chief

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:41 GMT

ANTIOCH, Calif. (KRON) -- An acting chief has been named for the embattled Antioch Police Department. This is happening as the department's current chief; Dr. Steven Ford is set to retire Friday while dozens of officers remain under federal investigation.Acting Antioch Police Captain Joseph Vigil has been named the new acting police chief.He was among four internal candidates interviewed by Acting City Manager Kwame Reed for the job, who ultimately made the decision. Barricaded suspect with knife arrested in Oakland "There was not an application process," Reed said. "It was looking at our highest-ranking officers over there that I know of and that's what we did.""I think Joe Vigil, given where we're at, is the right choice for the city," said Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe.Reed will be tasked with hiring an interim chief, but he could not provide a timeline for that. As for determining the next permanent chief, Reed intends to hire a consulting firm and solicit input from the communit...

Barricaded suspect with knife arrested in Oakland

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:41 GMT

(KRON) -- On what's turned into a violent afternoon in Oakland, a suspect who police say barricaded himself into a restroom stall with a knife has been arrested, according to the Alameda County Sheriff's Office. Deputies assigned to Social Services at 2000 San Pablo Avenue responded at around 3 p.m. Tuesday to a man in his 40s who police say kicked a hole in the bathroom wall at that location. Home Depot guard shoots suspected shoplifter in San Carlos As deputies went to detain the man, he barricaded himself inside the restroom. The man said he had a saw-like knife, but police say he did not brandish it or threaten anyone with it.Officers from the Alameda County Sheriff's Crisis Intervention Unit, AC Transit Unit and the Oakland Police Department responded to the incident. The suspect surrendered shortly after crisis negotiators arrived, police said.No force was needed to take the man into custody. He was arrested and charged with vandalism and resisting/obstructing, an Alameda Co...

Man who tried to ram cyclist with truck arrested again in Novato

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:41 GMT

(KRON) -- A man who police say tried to ram a bicyclist with a pickup truck last week has been arrested a second time in the span of just seven days, according to the Novato Police Department. Brian Collins, 59, was arrested on Wednesday, Aug. 2 after he allegedly tried ram a cyclist with his truck and shouted racial epithets.In that incident, Collins was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, criminal threats and hate crimes. Person shot dead outside Lake Merritt BART station A few days later, on Saturday Aug. 5, Novato PD received a call regarding a harassment incident in downtown. When officers arrived, they learned that Collins had been repetitively harassing the victim. At the time, Collins was out on bail for the previous incident.Collins was located by police the same day and re-booked into the Marin County Jail. This time he was charged with stalking, making threats, hate crime offenses, and committing a crime while on bail.As this is the second time in a week that Col...