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Winter roadway closures at national parks in California's Sierra Nevada

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:45:14 GMT

Snowfall from recent storms throughout the Sierra Nevada has caused the National Park Service to announce road closures at three national parks in California.Yosemite, Lassen Volcanic and Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks are the three California national parks located in the higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada. What to do at California’s national parks in the winter Yosemite National ParkThe National Park Service announced on Tuesday that Tioga Pass along State Route 120 will be closed on the eastbound side as part of the seasonal winter closure. Tioga Pass begins east of Mono Pass Trailhead and ends at the junction of Hwy 120 and U.S. 395. Yosemite, the United States’ first state park The closure began at 3 p.m. on Tuesday and extends east of Crane Flat Road inside of the national park. Caltrans District 10 said there is no estimated time of reopening, but it typically occurs in late May or early June. All other entrances along Highway 120 from the west, Highway 140 and ...

Book Picks: Visual Storytelling for a Season of Reflection

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:45:14 GMT

The end of the year is not just for holidays and gifting—it’s also a season of reflection, recollection, and resolution. With that in mind, here are our book picks among eclectic titles on art, photography, film-making, architecture, urban design, absurdist pedagogy, extreme on-set BTS, obsessive pen-pals, fantasy illustration, Indigenous identities, and the inner and activist lives of artists—all perfect for smartening up your own bookshelves or those of someone you love.Sofia Coppola: Archive (MACK)Sofia Coppola: Archive (MACK). Though not technically a memoir, the substantial book exploring Coppola’s filmography in extensive, intimate contemporaneous documentation, ephemera, work process materials, script notes, etc. effectively functions as one. The rich visual narrative and associated conversations touch on aspects of the auteur’s creative process across all of her films, from The Virgin Suicides (1999) to Lost in Translation (2003) and her forthcoming feature about Priscilla P...

Shooting at Oakland homeless encampment sends man to hospital

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:45:14 GMT

OAKLAND — A 24-year-old man suffered a bullet wound to the leg early Thursday after being shot at a homeless encampment not far from Lake Merritt, police said.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Driver in fatal hit-and-run that killed woman on Highway 4 arrested Crime and Public Safety | Discovery Bay: Arrest made in fatal hit-and-run on Highway 4 Crime and Public Safety | Former Antioch police chief among candidates for Oakland’s top cop job Crime and Public Safety | Upon further review, police say East Bay Amazon driver was not kidnapped Crime and Public Safety | Oakland police arrest suspect in fatal shooting of 28-year-old man The man was in stable condition at a hospital, according to police.Authorities said they were dispatched to the shooting about 1:20 a.m. at a homeless camp in Peralta Park in the 90 block of East 10th Street. The camp is next to the Kaiser Convention Center an...

Driver in fatal hit-and-run that killed woman on Highway 4 arrested

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:45:14 GMT

A driver suspected in fatally hitting a woman and not stopping while driving through Discovery Bay on Highway 4 was arrested Wednesday, the California Highway Patrol said.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Discovery Bay: Arrest made in fatal hit-and-run on Highway 4 Crime and Public Safety | Former Antioch police chief among candidates for Oakland’s top cop job Crime and Public Safety | Upon further review, police say East Bay Amazon driver was not kidnapped Crime and Public Safety | Oakland police arrest suspect in fatal shooting of 28-year-old man Crime and Public Safety | Two men wounded in Oakland shootings Investigators arrested the 32-year-old Antioch man on suspicion of felony hit-and-run about 3:05 p.m., according to a statement from spokesperson Officer Adam Lane. The CHP did not release details about how they tracked down the man or where they arrested him.The fatal collision happe...

Investigators believe New York man and his wife were killed in Bentley that exploded at US-Canada bridge, sources say. Here’s what we know

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:45:14 GMT

(CNN) — Investigators believe a New York man and his wife were the two people killed in a car that crashed and exploded at a US-Canada border crossing near Niagara Falls on Wednesday, law enforcement sources say, and the FBI sees no link to terrorism.Alarms were raised from New York to Washington, DC, late Wednesday morning after the incident on the US side of the Rainbow Bridge crossing. Investigators believe the couple was traveling in a Bentley at high speed when it struck a curb at the checkpoint, then hit a guardrail that sent the vehicle airborne and into a screening area before it exploded, according to the sources.Despite initial concerns of a terror attack, the FBI has not found any connection to terrorism and no explosives were found at the scene, the agency’s Buffalo field office announced Wednesday night. The case is being turned over to local police as a traffic investigation.“I want to be very, very clear to Americans and New Yorkers: At this time there is no indicatio...

Construction crew has $5K worth of stolen tools returned after Pleasanton police bust

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:45:14 GMT

(KRON) -- A construction crew recently had their work site in Pleasanton burglarized, where thieves made off with nearly $5,000 worth of tools, according to the Pleasanton Police Department. Fortunately for the workers, vigilant witnesses provided vital information to authorities in order to track down the suspects.Pleasanton police are crediting witnesses who provided the information that led officers “straight to the suspects.” The stolen tools were found inside the suspects’ vehicle, police said, and returned right back to the construction crew who had been “devastated by the prospect of being out a job.” Suspect in series of robberies nabbed by Moraga police A photo shared by Pleasanton PD shows a crew of 10 workers around a large number of power tools.“Being a good witness can help us help others,” the Pleasanton Police Department said in a Facebook post. “Pay close attention to details and report any suspicious activity immediately.”

Amid Thanksgiving travel rush, Reagan National Airport sets record for number of guns caught at security checkpoints

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:45:14 GMT

Amid the rush of Thanksgiving travel, Reagan National Airport in Virginia has set a new single-year record for the number of guns caught at security checkpoints.A woman from Springfield, Maryland, was caught with a loaded handgun at one of the airport’s security checkpoints on Wednesday as she was trying to get onto her flight, the Transportation Security Administration said in a news release.Officers with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police Department took the 9 mm handgun loaded with six bullets and cited her on a weapons charges, the TSA said.The TSA said this was the 33rd gun caught this year — the most guns caught in a single year and continuing a pattern of a rise of travelers bringing guns to airport checkpoints nationwide.“There is no excuse for bringing a gun to the checkpoint,” John Busch, TSA’s deputy federal security director for the airport, said in a statement.“Responsible gun owners do not bring their guns to a checkpoint. Tod...

Spanish prosecutors seek 9-year prison sentence for Dani Alves in sexual assault trial

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:45:14 GMT

MADRID (AP) — Prosecutors are seeking a nine-year prison sentence for Brazilian soccer player Dani Alves for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman last year, a Spanish court said Thursday.Alves is set to face trial over allegations he assaulted the woman in a night club in Barcelona on Dec. 30. He was indicted by an investigative judge in August and the court said this month there was enough evidence to open a trial. A date for the hearings was not yet set.The former Barcelona defender has denied any wrongdoing, claiming he had consensual sex with the accuser.Prosecutors also want Alves to pay 150,000 euros ($163,000) in damages to the victim, and to be prohibited from having any contact with her for an additional 10 years. They also want Alves to be remain supervised for a decade after serving his prison term.If found guilty, Alves would be prohibited from any type of work with minors for 10 years after his term, in accordance with Spanish law.Under Spain’s new sexual consent law, ...

German soccer federation limits Facebook comments following racist abuse directed at U17 players

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:45:14 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — The German soccer federation has had to limit comments on the Facebook page of its junior teams following a slew of racist and discriminatory comments against its Under-17 players.The federation posted a picture of four players from the Germany U17 team, all Black, celebrating Tuesday’s 3-2 win over the United States in the round of 16 at the U17 World Cup in Indonesia.But the post was met by a torrent of racist comments from a host of Facebook users about the players – Charles Herrmann, Almugera Kabar, Paris Brunner (all from Borussia Dortmund) and Fayssal Harchaoui (Cologne).The federation responded by switching off comments and posting a statement of its own.“We’re proud of the diversity in our Under-17s, who are currently playing their hearts out in Indonesia,” the federation said. “The commitment to diversity is firmly anchored in the federation’s statutes — as are the values of tolerance and respect. If you don’t share these values, please unfollow us. Discrimina...

Bobsledder Kaysha Love pushed her way to an Olympics. She now wants to drive to another

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:45:14 GMT

Kaysha Love is trying to pull off perhaps the most difficult transition in bobsledding, the one where a push athlete tries to become a driver.Last year, the results weren’t great.This year, so far, they are.Hard as this may be to believe, the four-year cycle between one Winter Games and the next is almost half over already — and Love’s recent run of success suggests that she’s a serious hopeful to be part of the U.S. team at the 2026 Olympics. (Italy will host those games, though the sliding will take place elsewhere since plans to rebuild a track fell through.)“My goal is to return to the Olympics,” said Love, who was at the 2022 Beijing Games as the push athlete for three-time Olympic champion Kaillie Humphries. “And I understand that it just takes more time to develop as a pilot than it does as a brakeman. Ultimately, the goal is just to return to the games, whether that’s a pilot or as a brakeman. But I would love to see it, God willing, be in the pilot d...