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Disney sues Ron DeSantis, alleging ‘government retaliation’ in Reedy Creek feud

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:45:09 GMT

Skyler Swisher | Orlando SentinelThe Walt Disney Co. is suing Gov. Ron DeSantis and state officials in federal court, accusing them of engaging in a “targeted campaign of government retaliation” in the feud over the Reedy Creek Improvement District.The entertainment giant filed the lawsuit on Wednesday as DeSantis’ hand-picked tourism oversight board declared Disney’s agreements seeking to retain control over development in Central Florida were null and void.“A targeted campaign of government retaliation — orchestrated at every step by Gov. DeSantis as punishment for Disney’s protected speech — now threatens Disney’s business operations, jeopardizes its economic future in the region, and violates its constitutional rights,” the suit filed in Tallahassee reads.The tourism oversight board’s lawyers say the previous Disney-friendly Reedy Creek Improvement District board failed to follow procedural requirements and properly notify affected property owners of the development agreements.B...

For supporting drag performers, likable Kevin Bacon gets dragged into vicious culture wars

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:45:09 GMT

Kevin Bacon, the prolific, acclaimed and non-controversial star of TV and beloved films, is one of the last Hollywood celebrities you’d expect to be caught in a culture wars firestorm or face conservative calls to effectively be canceled.But he and Kyra Sedgewick, his wife of 35 years, are facing a fierce online response after he posted a video of them joyfully dancing together to Taylor Swift’s song “Karma” to show their support for drag performers, amid Republican-led efforts to limit drag shows and transgender rights across a number of states in recent months.In their dance video that has gone viral, the couple both wear T-shirts that read: “Drag is an art and drag is a right.” In a caption on Twitter and Instagram, Bacon wrote: “Drag bans are bad karma. Right now, drag performers and the LGBTQIA+ community need our help”#DragBans are bad karma. Right now, drag performers and the LGBTQIA+ community need our help. Shop the @SixDegreesofKB campaign supporting the @ACLU ...

Five-bedroom home sells for $1.7 million in Fremont

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:45:09 GMT

37963 Canterbury Street – Google Street ViewA 2,005-square-foot house built in 1965 has changed hands. The spacious property located in the 37900 block of Canterbury Street in Fremont was sold on March 17, 2023. The $1,700,000 purchase price works out to $848 per square foot. The property features five bedrooms, three baths, a garage, and two parking spaces. It sits on a 5,446-square-foot lot.Additional houses have recently been sold nearby:A 1,680-square-foot home on the 3500 block of Sutton Loop in Fremont sold in December 2022, for $1,455,000, a price per square foot of $866. The home has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.On Park Place cmn., Fremont, in January 2023, a 1,546-square-foot home was sold for $1,450,000, a price per square foot of $938. The home has 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.In November 2022, a 3,364-square-foot home on Norris Road in Fremont sold for $2,560,000, a price per square foot of $761. The home has 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. 

E. Jean Carroll testifies: ‘Donald Trump raped me’

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:45:09 GMT

By Lauren del Valle | CNNFormer magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll took the stand Wednesday morning in her battery and defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump.“I’m here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he said it didn’t happen,” Carroll testified. “He lied and shattered my reputation and I’m here to try to get my life back.”Carroll is suing Trump for battery and defamation, alleging that he raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the spring of 1996 and then defamed her years later when she went public with the allegations. Trump has repeatedly denied her allegations.On the stand, Carroll recalled being “delighted” to be shopping with Trump, thinking it’d be a great story to tell friends.“Well, it was such a funny New York scene,” Carroll said she thought at the time. “I love to give advice and here was Donald Trump asking me for advice about buying a prese...

Ex-San Francisco fire commissioner attacked homeless people with bear spray, attorneys say

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:45:09 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A former San Francisco fire commissioner attacked homeless people with bear spray in the Marina neighborhood, according to attorneys who spoke in court Tuesday. The defense attorneys spoke on behalf of a 24-year-old unsheltered man, Garret Allen Doty, who is being held in jail without bail. Doty is charged with assaulting former fire commissioner Don Carmignani and accused of beating him with a metal pipe. The April 5 pipe beating was recorded on surveillance video footage obtained by KRON4. New surveillance video footage recently surfaced, however, showing that 53-year-old Carmignani provoked the incident when he allegedly attacked Doty with bear spray, Doty's defense attorneys said. Carmignani was hospitalized with major head injuries. Doty's defense team said a man matching Carmignani's description is suspected of targeting homeless people in at least eight separate incidents since November of 2021, including some incidents in which bear spray was used as...

Crash involving Amtrak train in Fairfield leaves one dead, several hospitalized

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:45:09 GMT

(KTXL) — A crash involving an Amtrak train and at least two vehicles in Fairfield Wednesday morning left one person dead and several others hospitalized, according to Fairfield firefighters and police.The crash happened near the intersection of E. Tabor Avenue and Railroad Avenue, in a residential area in the east end of the city. Fairfield Police said a truck was hit by a train and then struck "several other vehicles." One person inside the truck died. The Fairfield Fire Department said that at least two vehicles were left with major damage, and that "multiple patients" with moderate to major injuries were taken to the hospital.Police said several roadways in the area could be closed for several hours as investigators work on the scene. Service on Amtrak's Capitol Corridor route between the Bay Area and Sacramento was interrupted as emergency crews responded to the crash. This article will be updated as more information becomes available.

Club Deluxe on Haight Street closing for good

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:45:09 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Venerated long-time Upper Haight bar and music venue Club Deluxe is closing for good, according to a social media post Monday from an employee. Deluxe, which has operated in the neighborhood since 1989, was slated to close last summer due to a lease dispute between the venue and leasing company, Veritas Investment, which owns the building. No one is driving this taxi. What possibly could go wrong? However, the club was saved following an all-day mediation between the club and the leasing company which was initiated by Supervisor Dean Preston, whose district the club is located in. Preston, who was once the co-owner of Cafe Du Nord on Market Street, reportedly brought both parties to City Hall for a six-and-a-half hour mediation, during which a deal was struck.But according to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle, the venue closed temporarily for renovations at the time and never reopened. "So long, Club Deluxe," wrote bar employee Joe Anderson in a socia...

Woman accused of assaulting TSA officers at Phoenix airport

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:45:09 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arkansas woman has been arrested for allegedly assaulting three Transportation Security Administration agents at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport after a dispute over apple juice, authorities said Wednesday.TSA officials said Makiah Coleman, 19, allegedly attacked the officers as she was going through airport security just before 6 a.m. Tuesday.Court documents showed Coleman became upset because TSA officers took away her apple juice while she was going through security because large amounts of liquids aren’t allowed.Coleman reportedly was ranting as she tried to retrieve the juice from a disposal bin but was pushed away by a TSA agent.Documents said Coleman then scuffled with other officers — allegedly biting one agent, punching and elbowing another in the head, and grabbing the ponytail of a third.Phoenix police were called to the scene and took Coleman into custody. They said Coleman, of Little Rock, now faces several misdemeanor assault charges, one cou...

UK House of Commons backs controversial migration bill

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:45:09 GMT

LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers on Wednesday approved a sweeping bill that will dramatically curb migrants’ ability to seek asylum in the U.K., despite critics’ allegations that it breaks international law.Members of the House of Commons voted by 289 to 230 to back the Illegal Migration Bill, which the Conservatives government says will will deter tens of thousands of people from trying to reach the country in small boats across the English Channel each year.It now goes to the House of Lords, where it faces strong opposition — though the unelected upper chamber of Parliament can only amend, not block, the legislation.The large Conservative majority in the Commons ensured its passage there, despite opposition condemnation and claims legislators had not had enough time to scrutinize the legislation.“This government has sought to railroad this deplorable, disgusting bill through the House of Commons,” said Stephen Flynn of the opposition Scottish National Party.The legislation bars asy...

Prosecutor wants 1 trial for 10 charged in patient’s death

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:45:09 GMT

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Seven sheriff’s deputies and three hospital workers should be put on trial together in the case of Irvo Otieno, a 28-year-old man who died after he was pinned to the floor as he was being admitted to a Virginia psychiatric hospital, a prosecutor argued Wednesday. All 10 defendants are charged with second-degree murder in Otieno’s March 6 death. An autopsy determined Otieno died of asphyxia while he was in handcuffs and metal leg restraints and held to the floor for about 11 minutes, Dinwiddie Commonwealth’s Attorney Ann Cabell Baskervill wrote in a motion seeking to try all the defendants together.Baskervill argues that the 10 defendants “acted together” and should be tried together.“It is not irrelevant that if one person here had acted differently, then Otieno may very well have been able to survive. Nor is it irrelevant that if one person had encouraged the others to act differently and urged others to stop applying lethal pressure to Otieno, Otie...