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‘Super fog’ blamed for deadly crashes outside New Orleans

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:42:54 GMT

By Mary Gilbert and Macie Goldfarb | CNNAt least two people are dead and 30 are injured after “super fog” caused pileups on a stretch of Interstate 55 in Louisiana.The fatalities and injuries resulted from about 25 different vehicle crashes Monday along I-55 west of New Orleans between Ruddock and Manchac, St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff Mike Tregre told CNN affiliate WVUE. The stretch of highway runs between Lake Maurepas and Lake Pontchartrain.Tregre said two fatalities were confirmed as of Monday afternoon.In the northbound lanes, about three 18-wheel trucks collided and were fully engulfed in flames, Tregre told WVUE. In the southbound lanes, there were two reported multi-car pileups, one of which was also producing flames.Tregre said one vehicle was pushed over the railing of the interstate, but those inside “appear to be fine.”According to Tregre, all first responders are on foot because the crashes have left the area “completely gridlocked.” He said rescue efforts “will t...

Oakley PD responded to house party half hour before teen shot and killed

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:42:54 GMT

OAKLEY, Calif. (KRON) -- Police in Oakley are working to track down the person who shot and killed a 16-year-old boy during a house party Saturday night. Three other victims were wounded but are expected to survive their injuries.At this point, the Oakley Police Department says it appears there was only one shooter. That person left the area before office returned to the scene.On Monday afternoon, the street was quiet. But the circumstances were much different Saturday night. A half hour before shots were fired on Shannon Way in Saturday night, police officers responded to a noise complaint at a home where an 18-year-old woman was hosting a party. Who is pilot Joseph Emerson? Pleasant Hill neighbors say he’s ‘very friendly’ Police say the woman said she was trying shut it down and did not need help doing so. The officers left and then just after 11 p.m., shots were fired outside the home.Joshua Laine lives across the street and his doorbell camera captured the sounds of the gunsho...

Santa Rosa ice cream street vendor also sold cocaine, police say

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:42:54 GMT

(KRON) -- A Santa Rosa street vendor who sold ice cream and chicharrónes to children around the neighborhood near an elementary school was caught selling more than tasty snacks, police said Monday. Victor Martinez-Diaz, aka Siro Gilberto Ambrocio-Santos, is a 49-year-old Santa Rosa resident. According to police, he periodically pedaled a tricycle with a mobile street vendor snack cart around Abraham Lincoln Elementary School on 9th street. The Santa Rosa Police Department Narcotics Team suspected that the ice cream man was also a local cocaine dealer. During SRPD's investigation, an undercover detective bought a gram of cocaine from Diaz close to the school, police said.A few days later, detectives saw Diaz getting into a white van. When police stopped the van to search it, they found a street vendor tricycle, snacks, cocaine, methamphetamine, cash, a digital scale, and hundreds of small plastic baggies.Two more local street vendors, 29-year-old Marcos Ambrosio-Cortes and 21-year-ol...

Arrest made in smash-and-grab at Sam's Jewelers in Sun Valley Mall

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:42:54 GMT

(KRON) -- A Pittsburg man has been arrested in connection to a May smash-and-grab robbery at Sam's Jewelers in the Sun Valley Mall, the Concord Police Department said Monday. Concord PD received a 911 call on May 18 regarding a robbery in progress at the store. Employees, according to police, reported that a man armed with a hammer was inside the store. He reportedly confronted staff, began smashing the glass and took approximately $25,000 worth of jewelry. Who is pilot Joseph Emerson? Pleasant Hill neighbors say he’s ‘very friendly’ Before officers arrived, the suspect had fled in a vehicle. The Concord PD Financial Crimes Unit took over the case. After several months of follow-up, the suspect was identified as 35-year-old Bryant Donquile Gray of Pittsburg.The case was then forwarded to the Contra Costa County District Attorney. The DA filed the following felony charges against Gray:Second degree robberyGrant theft of personal propertySecond degree burglarySpecial allegations reg...

Trump compares himself to Mandela and rails against Biden after filing for New Hampshire primary

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:42:54 GMT

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump compared himself to anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela on Monday as he cast himself as the victim of federal and state prosecutors he alleges are targeting him and his businesses for political reasons.Returning to New Hampshire to register for its presidential primary, Trump held a rally where he railed against President Joe Biden’s response to the Hamas attack on Israel and vowed to build an Iron Dome-style missile defense shield over the U.S. But he focused much of his dark and at times profane speech on the criminal and civil cases against him, at one point suggesting he would go to prison like the former South African president who spent 27 years in prison for opposing South Africa’s apartheid system and was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.“I don’t mind being Nelson Mandela because I’m doing it for a reason,” Trump told am amped-up crowd of supporters at a sports complex in Derry, New Hampshire. ”We’ve got to s...

Ex-Venezuelan lawmaker Maria Corina Machado dominates opposition’s presidential primary, getting over 1.4 million votes

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:42:54 GMT

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Ex-Venezuelan lawmaker Maria Corina Machado dominates opposition’s presidential primary, getting over 1.4 million votes.Source

Inteligencia revela que milicias respaldadas por Irán están preparadas para intensificar sus ataques contra las fuerzas de EE.UU. en el Medio Oriente

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:42:54 GMT

(CNN) — EE.UU. cuenta con información de inteligencia que indica que las milicias apoyadas por Irán están planeando aumentar los ataques contra las fuerzas estadounidenses en Medio Oriente, mientras Irán busca sacar provecho de la reacción en la región al apoyo de EE.UU. a Israel, según varios funcionarios estadounidenses.Las milicias ya lanzaron múltiples ataques con drones contra fuerzas estadounidenses en Iraq y Siria.Pero Estados Unidos dispone ahora de información específica de que esos mismos grupos podrían crecer aún más a medida que continúe la guerra entre Israel y Hamas.La incertidumbre sobre la ayuda futura para Israel y Ucrania crece con el drama en la Cámara de Representantes para elegir presidenteHay “luces rojas parpadeando por todas partes”, dijo a CNN un funcionario estadounidense en la región.Los funcionarios dijeron que, en este momento, Irán parece estar alentando a los grupos en lugar de dirigirlos explícitamente. Un funcionario afirmó que Irán...

The Lions are going back to the basics after their lopsided loss to the Ravens

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:42:54 GMT

ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — The Detroit Lions have an extra day to prepare for the Las Vegas Raiders next Monday night.Coach Dan Campbell knows how he’s going to use it.In the aftermath of Detroit’s 38-6 loss to the Baltimore Ravens, Campbell is going back to the basics.“As you get into the season, you start shaving some practice time on the fundamentals to work a little bit more on the scheme,” he said Monday. “You are hoping you have gotten enough fundamentals through camp, and you know what, we have got to get back to that — that’s where I can help these guys.”Campbell said last Wednesday’s decision to lighten practice might have added to the problem.“I thought it was the right time to back off, but we probably needed a little more,” he said. “We should have gone out and done just a bit of full speed when we were getting ready to play a physical team.”No one expected the NFC North-leading Lions to go 16-1, especially Campbell, but he was upset by the manner o...

Seahawks showing signs of having a defense that can win games

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:42:54 GMT

RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Bobby Wagner knows what elite defenses look like. He was the anchor in the middle the previous time the Seattle Seahawks had a defense regarded in that way.This current group in Seattle isn’t in that “Legion of Boom” era category. But they are showing characteristics that provide the Seahawks a chance to win even when their offense makes mistakes.“We’re moving in the right direction,” Wagner said.For only the fifth time in franchise history, the Seahawks have held their opponents to 250 yards or fewer in three straight games. The latest game came Sunday when Seattle shut down Arizona in the second half of a 20-10 win over the Cardinals.For the third time in Pete Carroll’s tenure, the Seahawks have gone three straight games holding their opponent under the 250-yard mark. One came in 2014 when Seattle held a staggering six straight opponents under the 250-yard mark. That was during Seattle’s run with a defense that one of the best of its generation.The other time ...

The sun sets on Landon Donovan’s San Diego Loyal soccer club after heartbreaking OT loss

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:42:54 GMT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Landon Donovan’s San Diego Loyal soccer club was born on March 7, 2020, playing its first match a few days before the pandemic shut down the world.It died late on a misty Sunday night on an absolute gut punch of a goal in the 119th minute of a playoff opener. Exhausted, heartbroken players sprawled on the pitch after the final whistle. Their passionate fans, many of whom had been chanting, singing, banging drums, waving flags and setting off green and orange smoke bombs for more than two hours at cozy 6,000-seat Torero Stadium at the University of San Diego, fell silent.Players and fans knew since late August that the second-tier team was going to fold at season’s end, in large part because of the impending arrival of the expansion MLS team San Diego FC in 2025 that will play at 35,000-seat Snapdragon Stadium. Everyone tried to make the best of it, and the independent supporter group The Locals, whose members packed section 109 behind the east goal every match...