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Woman who went missing in Alabama says she wasn’t kidnapped

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:12:58 GMT

By Alta Spells and Steve Almasy | CNNCarlee Russell, the Alabama woman who earlier this month went missing for 49 hours after making a 911 call about a child on an interstate, said she was not kidnapped and did not see a baby on the side of the road, according to a statement from her attorney.The statement from attorney Emory Anthony – read by Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis during a news conference Monday afternoon – said the 26-year-old woman never left the Hoover area and acted alone.“My client apologizes for her actions to this community,” Anthony said in the statement.The statement didn’t indicate where Russell was while a large search for her took place.“We still don’t know where she was,” Derzis told reporters Monday, adding, “Only Carlee knows, and maybe now her attorney.”On July 13, Russell was driving to her home in Hoover from her job in Birmingham, about 10 miles to the north, when she called 911 to say she was stopping her car to check on a child.She then called a famil...

What do Tom Brady, Kanye West and Bradley Cooper have in common? Irina Shayk

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:12:58 GMT

it’s hard to imagine that Tom Brady, Kanye West and Bradley Cooper have much in common, other than that each is a rich and famous man who has enjoyed success at the top of his respective profession.But it turns out that all three men share an affinity for a supermodel: Irina Shayk. In fact, the 37-year-old Russian beauty could stand at the center of a Venn diagram made up of circles that represent each of the three men’s lives.Cooper, the Academy Award-nominated actor and director, was in a serious enough relationship with Shayk for five years that they had a daughter together.  West, the troubled rapper and fashion designer with avowed white supremacist sympathies, briefly hooked up with the supermodel in the summer of 2021, according to reports, shortly after his high-profile split from ex-wife Kim Kardashian.Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen attends the 2019 Hollywood For Science Gala at Private Residence on February 21, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Winter, Get...

Letters: Spending on homeless | Electric conversion | Otter’s world | Political cash | Cutting emissions | Better diet

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:12:58 GMT

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor.Cash alone won’thelp homelessRe: “Something is wrong with state’s homeless spending” (Page A6, July 19).Kerry Jackson and Wayne Washington point out that spending $42,000 per homeless person is just throwing money at the problem without rhyme, reason or plan.It’s endemic to our woke culture change where spending is geared to lifestyle control, rather than problem-solving . We spend enough money to bury every hungry child under a mountain of caviar without any effect on poverty.Politicians have no interest in correcting the government leaky bucket syndrome.San Francisco is full of homeless people camping on streets alongside empty hotel rooms. They attract the indigent with welfare and repel business and tourism due to taxation, crime and over-regulation. Soon there will be no one left to drive the legislated EVs.California is throwing money at the wrong things. We will not soon solve homelessness o...

Opinion: High-end makeup brands ignore darker skin tones

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:12:58 GMT

Editor’s note: This story is part of the annual Mosaic Journalism Workshop for Bay Area high school students, a two-week intensive course in journalism. Students in the program report and photograph stories under the guidance of professional journalists.Beauty products capitalize on insecurity, while also creating them. Still, I can’t leave the house without a little bit of mascara, or concealer, maybe a touch of blush.When picking my shade at beauty stores, I’ll spend a good 15 minutes analyzing which concealer or foundation shade correctly matches my olive skin out of the 20 nude shades, not even considering the five darker shades that I’ll never have to use.However, the person with the darker skin tone will spend at most five minutes before they realize that there is no shade for them. Sometimes the shades they do match with don’t match the consistency they’re looking for, but it’s their only option.The beauty industry still fails to recognize that their consumers don’...

Mayor London Breed's brother gets sentence reduced for role in girlfriend's 2000 death

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:12:58 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The brother of San Francisco's mayor was resentenced to a shorter prison term Monday for his role in the 2000 death of his girlfriend as she drove a getaway car over the Golden Gate Bridge following a robbery.San Francisco Superior Court Judge Brendan Conroy reduced Napoleon Brown’s sentence from 44 years to just over 31 for involuntary manslaughter, armed robbery and carjacking, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Police interrupt as Twitter logo taken down from SF headquarters In 2018, Mayor London Breed sent outgoing Gov. Jerry Brown a letter urging him to show leniency and commute her older brother's prison sentence. She referenced her position as mayor in the letter, and the stationery read “Mayor London Breed” at the top. He did not respond.Marc Zilversmit, Napoleon Brown's attorney, said they are pleased the judge agreed to a reduction but they had asked for an even shorter sentence. Brown has served nearly 22 years in prison, according to Zilver...

49ers training camp to begin this week

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:12:58 GMT

(KRON) -- San Francisco 49ers training camp is set to begin this week in Santa Clara. The team will begin preparing for a season in which it hopes to win a Super Bowl for the first time since 1994.Head Coach Kyle Shanahan and General Manager John Lynch will take the podium on Tuesday to speak to the media. On Wednesday, the team will hold its first practice. Practices will continue until Saturday when the players have a day off. The team's first preseason game will be Aug. 13 against the Las Vegas Raiders. Devin Haney trolls Tom Holland after actor said this about boxer in viral tweet Second-year quarterback Brock Purdy will not be throwing the football at those practices after he underwent elbow surgery in the offseason. With Purdy still recovering, there will be opportunities for third-year quarterback Trey Lance and free-agent addition Sam Darnold to prove that they're worthy of the starting quarterback position. Purdy could return to practice at some point before the season s...

Escaped goats temporarily run amok in Pinole neighborhood

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:12:58 GMT

(KRON) -- Dozens of goats that escaped their enclosure in Pinole had to be corralled and re-contained by law enforcement, according to the Pinole Police Department. Officers responded to the 1800 block of Shea Drive to assist with recapturing the goats. Police interrupt as Twitter logo taken down from SF headquarters Video posted to the Pinole PD Facebook page showed dozens of the animals roaming the street and sidewalks and grazing in people's yards.The news of the great goat escape came the same day that BART would be replacing its fire mitigation goats with a herd of sheep this year.Officers did not specify how the goats escaped or how long it took to re-contain them.

Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam optimistic about season, but not putting playoff pressure on team

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:12:58 GMT

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. (AP) — The pressure to win is intense and the expectations are heightened for the Cleveland Browns.Failure is not an option. They’re in win-now mode.With a talented roster and quarterback Deshaun Watson available for his first full season with the team following an 11-game NFL suspension in 2022, the Browns have run out of excuses — and maybe time — to contend in the AFC.From the outside, a playoff appearance would seem to be the minimum standard of success for the Browns, who went 7-10 last season.However, owner Jimmy Haslam isn’t making any ultimatums, projections or predictions.“I’m not saying the expectations aren’t high. I’m just not going to draw a line for you guys what they are,” Haslam said Monday at the Greenbrier Resort, Cleveland’s home for the first eight days of training camp.“They’re high. All of us have high expectations. Everybody that works for the Browns that’s here has high expectations today.”Haslam and ...

Ecuador: prisioneros de 13 cárceles se declaran en huelga de hambre

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:12:58 GMT

QUITO – Un número aún no determinado de reos de 13 de las 35 cárceles de Ecuador se declararon en huelga de hambre y en cinco de ellas los presos tienen retenidos a agentes penitenciarios, según informó el Servicio Nacional Integral a Personas Privadas de Libertad (SNAI), encargado del sistema penitenciario del país andino.De acuerdo al SNAI, al momento, los reos en huelga de hambre pertenecen a cárceles de las provincias de Imbabura, Napo, Chimborazo (2), Tungurahua, Azuay, Cañar (2), El Oro, Loja, Guayas, Cotopaxi y Pichincha.“Ante este hecho, se desarrollan las acciones correspondientes para retomar la normalidad”, indicó en un comunicado el SNAI, que no ha revelado la cifra de reos en huelga ni los motivos para esta medida de fuerza.Por otra parte, el SNAI anotó este lunes que continúan retenidos desde el fin de semana agentes penitenciarios en cárceles de las provincias de Cotopaxi, Azuay, Cañar, El Oro y Napo, pero tampoco ha revelado la cifra de retenidos ni...

$25 million grant to tie trails from DC to Largo Town Center

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:12:58 GMT

As a man pushed a stroller on the sidewalk along Prince George’s County’s busy Central Avenue, federal, state and local lawmakers celebrated a $25 million dollar federal grant that will create more transportation options and improvements for Maryland neighborhoods from Capitol Heights to Largo Town Center.The RAISE grant, which stands for Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity, will help fund the construction of the Central Avenue Connector Trail, which would tie neighborhoods from west of the Capitol Heights Metro station to Largo.During a news conference at the Addison Road-Seat Pleasant Metro station on Monday morning, Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen said the grant shows “how we’re putting historic infrastructure investments to work in our state.”Maryland and federal officials celebrate a $25 million dollar federal grant that will create more transportation options and improvements from Capitol Heights to Largo Town Center. (WTOP/Kate Ryan)Lt. Gov. Aruna...