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SF Civic Center Carnival to kick off Thursday

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:24 GMT

(BCN) -- A Civic Center Carnival in San Francisco, featuring games and rides for four days, kicks off Thursday. Mayor London Breed and Phil Ginsburg, general manager of the city's Recreation and Park Department, will join community groups and visitors to celebrate the opening at 4 p.m. The four-day event will include a Ferris wheel, a 100-foot super slide, fun house, spinning teacups and more, according to a statement from the mayor's office. Guests can also enjoy treats, including hand-dipped corn dogs, Hawaiian shave ice, funnel cakes, popcorn, cotton candy, caramel apples and French fries. Mayor: ‘Homeless coalition has held SF hostage for a decade’ "Bringing a carnival to Civic Center is one of many ways we are creating joy and celebrating in the heart of our city," Breed said in a statement. "Creating vibrant, lively public spaces with activities people of all ages can enjoy is how we create stronger, safer communities. There is much more to come, and I'm excited see...

List of 'bipping' auto burglary hot spots in San Francisco released

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:24 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- While brazen auto burglars can strike anywhere in the city, San Francisco police released a list of hot spots where "bipping" is most rampant. Popular San Francisco landmarks were listed in the top three spots where thieves most frequently smash into parked cars, and dash away with whatever is inside.Palace of Fine ArtsAlamo SquareFisherman's WharfThe locations are notably all landmarks that attract tourists. "Our world-class sites draw visitors from around the world, but unfortunately, organized criminals also converge on these areas to victimize people," the San Francisco Police Department wrote. Entire city blocks lined with parked cars have been targeted by vandals.10+ cars with their windows smashed on Bay Street between Polk & Van Ness in San Francisco. Some ransacked. Some appear to be random breaks. @kron4news pic.twitter.com/O4D2ulzW78— Dan Thorn (@DanThorn_) February 8, 2023Videos shot by witnesses around the city in 2023 show thieves smas...

Authorities looking for missing man last seen in boat on the Bay

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:24 GMT

(BCN) -- Authorities are searching for a man who went missing in his boat in the Bay after telling someone he was heading to Petaluma last week, police said Thursday. George Ferguson recently bought a 30-foot boat named "Bianca" that he has been living in, a person close to him told Petaluma police. Last Friday, Ferguson's boat ran aground near Alcatraz Island and the U.S. Coast Guard assisted him in getting back on course, police said. What is Trump’s weight after mugshot release? Oddsmakers join in on fun After that, he told the woman who reported him missing that he would be sailing back to Petaluma, but she has not heard from him since and said his cellphone has been turned off. The reporting party told police that Ferguson has cognitive medical issues and limited boating experience. George Ferguson (PPD via BCN)The Coast Guard has tried to hail Ferguson via maritime radio several times but has received no response. Ferguson is a 67-year-old white man stand...

Browns trade backup QB Joshua Dobbs to Cardinals for fifth-round pick in 2024, AP source says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:24 GMT

CLEVELAND (AP) — Joshua Dobbs quickly went from backing up to packing up.The Cleveland Browns shook up their quarterback room Thursday, trading Dobbs, who was named their No. 2 QB earlier in the day, to the Arizona Cardinals, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press.The Browns are getting back a fifth-round selection in 2024 from Arizona for Dobbs and a seventh-round pick, said the person who spoke to The AP on condition of anonymity because the teams have not announced the swap.Dobbs’ departure means rookie Dorian Thompson-Robinson, who has had an impressive summer, will back up starter Deshaun Watson.Also, the Browns have decided to keep QB Kellen Mond, who they intended to waive.The stunning move with Dobbs came only a couple of hours after coach Kevin Stefanski had said the 28-year-old would be Cleveland’s No. 2 quarterback to start this season.However, Thompson-Robinson’s quick development changed the team’s plans and the Browns moved th...

A decade after vigilante uprising, extortion and threats against lime growers return to west Mexico

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:24 GMT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The kind of mass threats and extortion of lime growers in the western Mexico that sparked a civilian vigilante uprising a decade ago have returned, and growers say they can’t get their crops to market. One lime grower who asked to remain anonymous for security reasons said Thursday that the local drug cartel had increased the price of protection payments five-fold in the space of weeks.The government of Michoacan state said Wednesday that it had launched a criminal investigation into the shake-downs. The situation threatens a mainstay of Mexican cuisine, and recalls the darkest days of the country’s 2006-2012 drug war.The grower said that in the last week to 10 days, the cartel has increased its demands from just over a penny per kilogram (2.2 pounds) of limes to about 6 cents. It may not sound like much, but that could be a quarter of the prices farmers are paid. On Tuesday, Carlos Torres, the Michoacan state interior secretary, said the government was launching ...

Billie Jean King’s push for equal prize money in 1973 is being celebrated at this US Open

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:24 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — When Billie Jean King won the U.S. Open in 1972, she didn’t make the usual remarks about hoping to win again. Instead, she threatened to not play at all the next year — and added that no other women would, either.That’s because she earned $10,000 for her championship, $15,000 less than what Ilie Năstase won for his.“I said: ‘This really stinks,’” King recalled Thursday. “And, of course, deep down in my heart of hearts, in my brain, I’m going, ‘I haven’t talked to them yet. You sure you’re doing the right thing here?’ This is the other voice in my head: ‘What if they don’t agree with you on this? I think they do, because we talk about it all the time, but we didn’t talk about this move.’ And so I said, ‘The heck with it. I don’t think we’ll be back.’”That led the U.S. Tennis Association to make the 1973 U.S. Open the first sporting event to offer equal prize money to female and male competitors. The 50th anniversary of that seminal moment will be celebrated this year ...

Video of fatal Tennessee traffic stop shows car speeding off but not deputy’s shooting of driver

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:24 GMT

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Videos released Thursday of a Tennessee traffic stop that ended in a fatal shooting shows a deputy holding on to the car’s steering wheel and being carried away as the vehicle speeds off, but does not show the moment when the deputy shot the driver.Jarveon Hudspeth, 21, was shot and killed June 24 by a Shelby County Sheriff’s Office deputy after the deputy approached his car and tried to stop it from leaving the scene, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.The situation escalated and Hudspeth drove off and “dragged” the deputy about 100 yards (91 meters), the bureau said in a statement, and at some point the deputy fired his gun at least once and hit the driver. The car stopped about a half-mile later (nearly a kilometer).The videos released by the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office are from the deputy’s in-car and body-worn cameras, and a neighbor’s doorbell camera.The body camera video shows the deputy stopping a white two-door car in a res...

Judge OKs updated Great Lakes fishing agreement between native tribes, state and federal agencies

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:24 GMT

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday approved an agreement between four Native American tribes and state and federal regulatory agencies to revise a fishing policy covering parts of three of the Great Lakes.The deal extends for 24 years a system overseeing commercial and sport fishing in sections of lakes Michigan, Huron and Superior covered by an 1836 treaty. Those areas are entirely within the U.S. and under Michigan’s jurisdiction.The agreement “respects and promotes tribal fishing rights and opportunities, yet it also preserves the Great Lakes fishery and recognizes the shared nature of the resource,” U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney said in a written opinion.He overruled objections from the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians — which refused to join the talks because it contends the state has no authority over its fishing operations — and a sport fishing coalition that argued the deal would allow excessive catches of struggling species, particularly wh...

New York City police sergeant throws cooler at motorcyclist, causing deadly crash

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:24 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — A man fleeing New York City police officers on a motorcycle died Wednesday after a sergeant hurled a plastic picnic cooler at his head from close range, causing a violent crash, authorities said.The sergeant, Erik Duran, was suspended without pay just hours after the death of Eric Duprey, 30, in the University Heights section of the Bronx, police said.Surveillance video viewed by The Associated Press showed Duprey driving the gas-powered motorcycle on a sidewalk toward a group of people, including the sergeant, who was not in uniform.As he approached, the video shows Duran pick up a red object — the picnic cooler — and throw it. Duprey is struck hard. He loses control, then is tossed toward a tree as the motorcycle veers into the street. The bike smashes into a metal barricade before coming to rest against a parked car.Duprey was pronounced dead at the scene minutes after the crash, which happened around 5:30 p.m.Police said Duprey tried to flee on a friend’s m...

OAS human rights body demands protection for apparent Guatemalan election winner amid plot rumors

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:24 GMT

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The Organization of American States’ human rights commission asked Thursday that Guatemala provide protection for Bernardo Arévalo, the winner of the country’s Aug. 20 elections, after reports emerged of a possible plot to kill him. The commission said in a statement Thursday that there were reports of “at least one” plan to harm or kill Arévalo and his running mate, Karin Herrera. The Guatemalan government said it has offered protection, and Arévalo told journalists in Guatemala that he was coordinating with the government on protective measures. But the commission wrote in a statement that “nonetheless, there is concern about information on at least one possible plan to attack the life and welfare” of Arévalo and Herrera. “At least thee sources within the government that are considered highly reliable have warned about the existence of a plot codenamed ‘Colosio,’” the commission said, an apparent reference to the 1994 assassination in Mexico of ruling-p...