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Man who drove Corvette 138 mph gets 30 years to life for drunken California crash that killed 2 women

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:43 GMT

A 27-year-old Irvine man who drunkenly crashed his convertible Corvette while driving at least 138 mph on a surface street, killing his two passengers, was sentenced Friday to 30 years to life in prison.An Orange County Superior Court jury more than a year and a half ago convicted Norman David Martin of two counts of second-degree murder for the July 27 crash at Jamboree Road in Irvine that claimed the lives of Jamie Lopez and Nancy Ortiz, both 26.During a night out drinking with friends, Martin met Lopez and Ortiz outside a club in Costa Mesa. An Uber arrived to pick up Martin’s group, but when the driver determined there were too many people to fit into one car, Martin told his friends that he and the two women would meet them later at an Irvine apartment.A short time later, Martin called a friend to tell him that he had picked up his car and was on his way, with the friend responding “I hope you aren’t driving.”Martin was indeed driving the two-seat convertible, according to test...

Sale closed in Alameda: $1.6 million for a four-bedroom home

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:43 GMT

2080 Hibbard Street – Google Street ViewThe spacious property located in the 2000 block of Hibbard Street in Alameda was sold on April 5, 2023. The $1,550,000 purchase price works out to $718 per square foot. The house, built in 2011, has an interior space of 2,159 square feet. The property features four bedrooms, four bathrooms, and a garage as well as two parking spaces. The unit sits on a 2,277-square-foot lot. 

A few ideas for Vice President Kamala Harris’ Sunnyvale visit

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:43 GMT

We’ve all had our share of whirlwind trips, and Vice President Kamala Harris’ visit to Sunnyvale on Monday will probably be a hurried affair as well. But on the off chance there’s a little free time in her itinerary, here are a few spots the vice president should consider visiting before jetting back to D.C.First, if you want to understand how far Sunnyvale has come after visiting Applied Materials’ advanced labs, take a trip to the Sunnyvale Heritage Orchard and Museum on Remington Avenue. The apricots aren’t quite ready for picking, but the orchard of 800 Blenheim apricot trees spread out over 10 acres is a visual reminder of the days when the Santa Clara Valley was the fruit-production capital of the world. You might even run into Charlie Olson, who continued to work the orchard well into his 80s.The Orchard Heritage Park in Sunnyvale contains about 800 apricot trees, with fruit is picked and sold at a farm stand at the adjacent Sunnyvale Community Center. (Sal Pizarro/Bay Area N...

2 injured during early morning shooting in San Francisco

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:43 GMT

(KRON) -- Early Monday morning, San Francisco police responded to reports of a shooting near Golden Gate Avenue and Larkin Street. Officers got to the scene just before 5 a.m.Police said they found two victims suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. The victims were taken to the hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.Anyone who has information is asked to contact the SFPD at 415-575-4444 or text a tip to TIP411 and start the message with SFPD. 

In Cannes, standing ovations stretch on and on — but they’re designed to

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:43 GMT

CANNES, France (AP) — The Cannes Film Festival is on, which means stopwatches are out.Nowhere are the length of standing ovations at high-wattage premieres more carefully recorded and parsed than in Cannes. Did a movie garner a triumphant eight-minute standing ovation? Or did the audience stand for a mere four or five minutes?How has such an unlikely metric come to reverberate around the world within minutes of a premiere? And why is everyone standing for so long? Doesn’t anyone’s hands get tired?Such effusive displays of enthusiasm have come to be a hallmark of Cannes and, sometimes, a bit of marketing gimmick for films looking to resonate far from the Croisette. If Cannes, the world’s largest and glitziest film festival, stands for cinematic excess, its thunderous standing ovations can seem like its greatest overindulgence. No one needs a bathroom break?Less widely understood, though, is how the pageantry of Cannes shapes and distorts standing ovations. When audi...

Asesinato de estudiantes en Idaho: acusado se niega a hacer declaración de culpabilidad

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:43 GMT

Un juez registró este lunes una declaración de no culpable para el acusado de la muerte a puñaladas de cuatro estudiantes de la Universidad de Idaho, preparando el escenario para un juicio en el que podría enfrentar la pena de muerte.Los asesinatos del 13 de noviembre de 2022 sorprendieron a la comunidad rural de Moscow, en Idaho, y provocaron que muchos estudiantes abandonaran el campus antes de tiempo y cambiaran al aprendizaje remoto por el resto del semestre.Bryan Kohberger, de 28 años, fue arrestado a fines de 2022 y acusado de robo y cuatro cargos de asesinato en primer grado en relación con las muertes de Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle y Ethan Chapin en una casa alquilada cerca del campus de la Universidad de Idaho.Kohberger se negó a declararse culpable o no culpable en la Corte de Distrito del condado Latah, lo que llevó al juez a presentar una declaración en su nombre. Demolerán casa donde mataron a cuatro estudiantes universitarios en Idaho ...

Abogado de Sebastián Villa pide la absolución del futbolista de Boca Juniors y dijo que la denuncia de su expareja es “falsa”

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:43 GMT

(CNN Español) — Martín Apolo, abogado de Sebastián Villa, el futbolista de Boca Juniors acusado por su expareja Daniela Cortés por supuesta violencia física, brindó su alegato este lunes en el juicio contra el jugador en Argentina.Apolo pidió al Juzgado Correccional 2 de Lomas de Zamora, de la provincia de Buenos Aires, que absuelva a Sebastián Villa, según la agencia estatal de noticias Télam. Agregó que la denuncia de su expareja “es falsa” y que “existen muchos elementos de prueba que contradicen a la denunciante Daniela Cortés”, según cita Télam.CNN se contactó con el abogado Martín Apolo y, de momento, no ha habido respuesta.El caso contra Sebastián Villa, jugador de Boca Juniors: secuencia de un juicio por supuesta violencia físicaPreviamente, Apolo había dicho a CNN: “Voy a apostar a la absolución de Sebastián Villa porque no cometió ninguna conducta ilegal”.La semana pasada fue el turno del alegato del fiscal Sergio Anauati, quien solicitó...

PrimeEnergy: Q1 Earnings Snapshot

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:43 GMT

HOUSTON (AP) — HOUSTON (AP) — PrimeEnergy Corp. (PNRG) on Monday reported earnings of $1.4 million in its first quarter.The Houston-based company said it had profit of 53 cents per share.The investor in the oil and gas industry posted revenue of $22.7 million in the period._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on PNRG at https://www.zacks.com/ap/PNRGSource

Colorado's drug overdose rates higher than any developed country's in 2019

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:43 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- If Colorado were a country, it would have one of the world's highest drug overdose rates - even though it has only an average rate among U.S. states. South African medical insurance comparison site Medical Aid used OECD, G20, European Union and IMF Developed Countries to create a list of the drug overdose rates from around the world. Among the countries in the data, the U.S. had the highest overdose rate in the world by far in 2019 - 22.62 deaths per 100,000 people. The next highest rate, Canada's, was less than half of the U.S.'s. When will the hazy skies get clearer? Colorado's drug overdose rate in 2021 was higher than that of any developed country in 2019, the last year for which there is worldwide data, following an uptick in drug deaths beginning in 2020.According to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, Colorado's drug overdose rate was 31.4 per 100,000 in 2021 - three times Canada's rate from two years prior, but still in the middle of U.S...

Rick Hoyt, part of inspirational Team Hoyt that ran in Boston Marathon and other races, dies at age 61

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:43 GMT

Rick Hoyt, who inspired the nation as he and his father competed in numerous races that included the Boston Marathon, has died at the age of 61, according to the Hoyt Foundation.“It is with profound sadness that the Hoyt Family announce the passing of our beloved brother and uncle, Rick Hoyt this morning,” the Hoyt family said in a statement on Monday afternoon.Pushed in a specialized wheelchair by his father, Dick, Rick Hoyt was quadriplegic and had cerebral palsy, and from 1977 to 2014, competed in more than a thousand races as part of a father-son duo, including duathlons and triathlons according to Team Hoyt’s website.In 2013, a statue of the father and son from Holland, Mass., was erected in front of a school in Hopkinton, near the Boston Marathon’s starting line.While Dick Hoyt retired from running in 2014, Rick continued to be a part of the Boston Marathon, being pushed by Billerica’s Bryan Lyons before Lyons died in 2020. Hoyt...