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Pedestrian seriously injured during Oakland car chase by US Dept. of Homeland Security

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:44:04 GMT

(BCN) -- A pedestrian was injured critically when a U.S. Department of Homeland Security officer was in pursuit of a car in Oakland Thursday evening, police said Friday.The collision, which also involved another car, occurred just after 5:30 p.m. near 23rd Avenue, East 11th Street and Interstate Highway 880. Davis stabbing suspect graduated from Oakland high school A Homeland Security officer was in pursuit of an Acura TL. Its driver, Anton Jackson Jr., 22, of Oakland, allegedly failed to stop at a red light, according to police. The Acura hit a Nissan Altima and a 32-year-old Oakland resident, who was taken to Highland Hospital afterward, police said.Jackson allegedly ran from the area and was quickly apprehended by Homeland Security officers. Police said an illegally modified gun was located nearby. The driver of the Nissan escaped injury and cooperated with the investigation, police said.KRON On is streaming live.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; hei...

Davis stabbing suspect graduated from Oakland high school

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:44:04 GMT

(KRON) -- Just three years ago, the future was looking bright for Carlos Reales Dominguez.He graduated from Castlemont High School in Oakland after playing on the football team in 2020, according to the New York Times. He later enrolled in Laney College in Oakland, university officials confirmed to KRON4. Dominguez was interviewed by Oakland Health Pathways Partnership as a teenager and said, "I want to be a doctor. I got into health care to help my grandmother—she has type 2 diabetes. It makes me happy. I just love seeing her smile."OHPP's website removed Dominguez's profile from its website on Friday, one day after he was identified by the Davis Police Department as a suspected killer who allegedly carried out a series of recent stabbings.Carlos Dominguez appears for his arraignment hearing Friday, May 5, 2023, at Yolo County Superior Court in Woodland, Calif.  He pleaded not guilty. (Fred Gladdis / The Davis Enterprise via AP, Pool) Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel described the s...

Davis stabbings suspect makes first appearance in court on charges of murder, attempted murder

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:44:04 GMT

(KTXL) -- The suspect in the Davis stabbings that occurred over the last week and who was detained Wednesday afternoon made his first court appearance Friday.Carlos Dominguez, 21, of Davis, appeared at the Yolo County Superior Court in Woodland to hear the charges against him: two charges of murder and a charge of attempted murder, with a special circumstance for committing multiple murders.This special circumstance makes the case eligible for a sentence of life without the possibility of parole or the death penalty, according to the Yolo County District Attorney's Office. Dominguez, who is represented by a public defender, pleaded not guilty to all of the charges and the judge decided against bail. "The charges relate to the stabbing deaths of Davis residents David Breaux and Karim Abou Najm, and the attempted murder of Davis resident Kimberlee Guillory," the District Attorney's office wrote in a press release. Ex-UC Davis student arrested as suspect in stabbings Over the course...

DC mayor names new temporary head of troubled crime lab

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:44:04 GMT

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has named another temporary director for the District’s troubled crime lab.In a news release Friday, Bower’s office said she has tasked Dr. Francisco Diaz, the District’s current chief medical examiner, with also serving as the interim director of the D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences.Diaz, a former assistant medical examiner in Wayne County, Michigan, has served as D.C.’s chief medical examiner since 2021.The move comes amid a controversial plan to shift the DFS crime scene unit to the D.C. police department — and just a month before the agency planned to apply to have its accreditation to perform forensic testing restored.The agency lost its accreditation two years ago amid a probe into errors and mismanagement, which has halted the processing of DNA, fingerprints and firearms evidence in the District and forced the city to pay private labs to analyze evidence.The leadership move was announced shortly before 5 p.m. Friday. Susana...

Hockey helped Packers’ Van Ness develop into 1st-round pick

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:44:04 GMT

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The Green Bay Packers hope first-round pick Lukas Van Ness terrorizes quarterbacks the same way he used to intimidate opponents on the hockey rink.Van Ness gravitated to hockey as a child growing up in the Chicago suburb of Barrington, Illinois. Even after football became his primary sport, Van Ness continued playing hockey through his senior year of high school.“Hockey was just a secondary love that I continued to play, again, just because I loved it and I loved the conditioning and the violence and the physicality of the sport,” Van Ness said Friday from the Packers’ rookie minicamp.Van Ness, a lifelong Chicago Blackhawks fan, believes his hockey background made him a better football player.“Hockey is a very fast-paced sport,” Van Ness said. “I’m stick-handling with the puck. I’m looking to make different plays and passes down the ice. It taught me to use my eyes, use my vision, trust in what I’m seeing. My motor. “I have size-17 feet. I was carrying s...

Yankees’ Judge works out, Rodón to get injection

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:44:04 GMT

ST. PETERSBURG. Fla. (AP) — New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge worked out at the team’s minor league complex on Friday in another step in his comeback from a right hip strain.Speaking before New York’s game at Tampa Bay, manager Aaron Boone said Judge hit indoors, ran, threw and did defensive drills at the nearby Tampa facility.Judge is eligible to come off the 10-day injured list on Monday. He is set for another workout on Saturday, and Boone is hopeful Judge will return early next week.Left-hander Carlos Rodón is scheduled to get an injection for his ailing mid-back early next week. Right-hander Luis Severino, sidelined by a right lat strain, pitched in a minor league intrasquad game at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa. He is expected to pitch next for either Double-A Somerset or Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.Center fielder Harrison Bader was in the starting lineup for the Yankees two days after a scary collision with Isiah Kiner-Falefa during Wednesday’s game with...

Anuncian que Freddy Superlano reemplazará a Guaidó en las primarias opositoras de Venezuela

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:44:04 GMT

(CNN Español) –– Freddy Superlano será el abanderado de Voluntad Popular en las primarias presidenciales de la oposición venezolana, informó Desireé Barboza, coordinadora regional del partido en el estado Zulia.Este nuevo aspirante presidencial sustituye a Juan Guaidó, quien actualmente está fuera del país y sin fecha de retorno. “(Superlano) es un ejemplo de organización, compromiso, trabajo y sobre todo de voluntad para transformar realidades”, afirmó Barboza este viernes en una rueda de prensa.Superlano se desempeña como coordinador Nacional de Voluntad Popular. En 2021 ganó las elecciones para la gobernación del estado Barinas, tierra natal del fallecido presidente Hugo Chávez. El Tribunal Supremo de Justicia anuló el resultado argumentando que el candidato opositor se encontraba inhabilitado, pero sin explicar cómo logró inscribirse ante el Consejo Nacional Electoral con esa condición.Tribunal Supremo de Justicia de Venezuela ordena convocar nuevas elecciones en el estado Barin...

Loudoun Co. principal honored for recruiting, retention efforts

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:44:04 GMT

Willard Middle School teachers Damon Laabs, Jennifer Griffin and Whitney Maloy. (WTOP/Scott Gelman)While recently interviewing a job candidate, Willard Middle School Principal Jeff Rounsley responded to the candidate’s question about his vision for the school.Rounsley spoke extensively about the school’s philosophy, and Jennifer Griffin, a sixth grade English teacher who’s in her second year at Willard, said the candidate was so impressed that she asked to applaud Rounsley’s response. She ultimately accepted the position, and will join his staff next year.The Virginia Department of Education recently recognized Rounsley for his ability to recruit and retain teachers and other staff, a task that has become increasingly difficult across the country in the aftermath of the pandemic. Last year, 10 members of Rounsley’s 175-person team left the school.“I tell teachers all the time, ‘Students are going to remember your name. You ask anybody who wa...

El glaciar Perito Moreno, el más importante de Argentina, retrocedió 700 metros en dos años, descubrió un reciente monitoreo

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:44:04 GMT

(CNN Español) — El glaciar Perito Moreno es el único de la Patagonia argentina que goza de un equilibrio en el balance de su masa, una condición que actualmente está en riesgo, debido a que en dos años retrocedió más de 700 metros, según descubrió un reciente monitoreo.Frecuentes desprendimientos de témpanos de grandes dimensiones que caen de la pared norte del glaciar y una leve depresión en su fisonomía fueron los primeros indicios que advirtieron los científicos que hoy estudian si el glaciar más famoso de Argentina comenzó un proceso de retracción. En caso de confirmarse, buscan conocer si este proceso es irreversible.Lucas Ruiz, científico del Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (Ianigla) e investigador del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Conicet), encabezó las expediciones de medición del comportamiento del glaciar en relación con el clima.“En el 2021, cuando nosotros comenzamos con el monitoreo, observamos lo ...

F1 drivers shrug off Red Bull dominance as Miami GP arrives

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:44:04 GMT

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Red Bull rolled into the first of Formula One’s unprecedented three stops in the United States undefeated and its challengers already waving the checkered flag on the championship. Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez have been so strong through the first four races that rival drivers have openly wondered if any other team will win a race this year. Boring? That’s the narrative that followed F1 to the Miami Grand Prix, a highly-anticipated event a year ago when it debuted now working through a bit of a hangover. With F1 races scheduled later this year for Austin, Texas, and Las Vegas, the early Red Bull dominance has created the perception that F1 will have a snoozer of a season that could dull the growing American interest. “What if you go to the cinema and after 15 minutes the movie is (crap), but the last hour-and-a-half is amazing?” asked Alpine driver Pierre Gasly. “I don’t think it’s fair to already make such a claim. I think you n...