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Missouri man set for execution on 'emotional roller coaster,' attorney says

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:50 GMT

A man on Missouri's death row is on “an emotional roller coaster” amid efforts to spare his life with just one day before his scheduled execution, his attorney said.Michael Tisius, 42, is set to die by injection Tuesday evening at the state prison in Bonne Terre for killing two jailers in 2000 in an ill-fated effort to free a man from a county jail. He would be the third Missouri man, and the 12th nationally, put to death in 2023.A clemency request before Republican Gov. Mike Parsons focuses on several issues. Among them: Tisius was just 19 at the time of the killings; he had been neglected as a child; and a juror at his 2010 resentencing may have been illiterate — in violation of Missouri law. It's unclear when Parson will announce his decision. A message left Monday with his spokeswoman wasn’t immediately returned.The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to halt the execution based on Tisius' age when the crime occurred. A federal judge last week stayed the execution over the cla...

Movement calling for governors to ban all guns starts at Colorado Capitol

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:50 GMT

Demonstrators from across the country began gathering on Monday outside the Colorado Capitol as part of a sit-in protest, calling on Gov. Jared Polis to ban all guns in a move that the governor and supporters alike agree is unconstitutional.The newly formed national organization, Here4TheKids, was founded by two women of color who have called for only white women to participate in the first protest set for Colorado, asking people of color and those with disabilities to instead participate in a remote campaign.“While acknowledging everyone’s agency, Here4TheKids respectfully asks white women to put their bodies on the ground, as marginalized communities have always done and continue to do,” the group said in a statement. “Historically, white women are least likely to be brutalized by the police. Their multiple intersections of privilege and power support the movement, as they participate in an act of civil disobedience, occupy physical space and demand change.”...

Gunfire erupts at taco truck in South L.A.; 5th incident involving street vendors in a week

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:50 GMT

Police are investigating a shooting at a taco truck in South Los Angeles early Morning - the fifth incident involving food trucks and street vendors in about a week.The shooting occurred around 12:30 a.m. near the intersection of West Manchester Avenue and St. Andrews Place in the Gramercy Park neighborhood.Video showed crime scene tape around a Tacos Los Primos food truck.The shooting occurred around 12:30 a.m. near the intersection of West Manchester Avenue and St. Andrews Place in the Gramercy Park neighborhood. June 5, 2023. (KTLA)One person suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, police said. A second victim was transported with an undisclosed non-life-threatening injury. Residents described hearing dozens of gunshots. Police recovered multiple shell casings at the scene and were searching the area for any surveillance video.Police say they are investigating five apparent robberies at taco trucks in a one-week time span. On Friday, two armed robbers held up a pair of tac...

NorCal man threatened Laguna Hills High School multiple times over 6 months, OCSD says

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:50 GMT

A Northern California man has been arrested for allegedly threatening Laguna Hills High School with violence multiple times after the school's football team won the state championship last year.Beginning in December after the Hawks downed Bellarmine College Preparatory of San Jose 28-27 in the championship game, Eugene Thomas Jenkins, 29, made a series of threats that continued through this month, the Orange County Sheriff's Department said in a news release. The threats "included three false reports of a possible shooter approaching the school’s campus, a bomb threat, a death threat via telephone, and at least 10 known death threats via written letter utilizing the United States Postal Service," officials said. "Two of these threats targeted Laguna Hills High School’s Senior Graduation Ceremony on Thursday, June 1."Deputies investigated each false threat as real, and with that graduation ceremony approaching, the OCSD partnered with police and other law enforcement agencies statewi...

California AG blames Florida for charter flight that brought migrants to Sacramento

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:50 GMT

Florida appears to have arranged for a group of South American migrants to be transported from Texas to California and dropped off in Sacramento, California's attorney general said, noting that he's looking into whether any crimes may have been committed.If true, the 16 Colombian and Venezuelan migrants who turned up at the Roman Catholic Church diocese’s headquarters in Sacramento on Friday would be the latest to have been moved from a Republican-led state to one led by Democrats.Attorney General Rob Bonta said that although the circumstances surrounding their arrival in the California capital are still being investigated, the migrants had documentation that appeared to have been issued by Florida.He also said he's evaluating whether violations of civil or criminal law took place.“While we continue to collect evidence, I want to say this very clearly: State-sanctioned kidnapping is not a public policy choice, it is immoral and disgusting,” Bonta said in a statement.The migrants ent...

Harlembling – Best Celebrity Quality Jeweler At Affordable Prices

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:50 GMT

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Meet Cut Paper Character Dakota Noot

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:50 GMT

Artist Dakota Noot turns scissors, paint, and tape into a lively playland of cut paper characters and scenarios, using his body (and maybe yours) as a stage to activate darkly whimsical drawing, painting, performance, video, and installation. Like a paper doll’s accouterments in a quirky dialog with surrealism, Noot’s exploration of queer and Midwestern identity is at once wholesome and subversive, fantastical and funny, pointed and poignant. A parade of human-animal hybrids and intimate releasing of pop-culture pressures, Noot’s world of finely detailed, exuberantly chromatic, and endlessly inventive expressions range from movement videos to full-room, often interactive, multimedia installations. Noot is currently engaged in a week-long residency at Coaxial Arts, which culminates this weekend in two nights of performance around the theme of cooking meat starring his boisterous character Medora, the Queen of Steaks, with the goal, as Noot says, to “laugh, cry, and question why.”Dako...

Cindy Blackman Santana visits SFJAZZ Center, Blue Note Napa

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:50 GMT

Cindy Blackman Santana has been paying tribute to late great drummer Tony Williams for years.She released a full-on homage to the Tony Williams Lifetime jazz-fusion band in 2010 called “Another Lifetime,” which featured guitarists Mike Stern, Fionn O Lochlainn and Vernon Reid, saxophonist Joe Lovano, keyboardists Doug Carn, Patrice Rushen and Carlton Holmes, and bassists Benny Rietveld and David Santos.Blackman Santana, who’s also an all-world drummer in her own right, followed up in 2011 by joining forces with Reid (from Living Colour), organist John Medeski (from Medeski Martin and Wood) and legendary Cream bassist Jack Bruce in the Spectrum Road project to further explore the music of Williams’ Lifetime group.Now, Blackman Santana is back at it once again, set to honor the mighty legacy of Williams — a longtime Bay Area resident who died at the age of 51 in 1997 — and his Lifetime band during a concert with Reid, Medeski and special guests on J...

Two arrested after attempt to outrace police in East Bay ends in crash

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:50 GMT

OAKLAND — Two people were arrested last week following a police pursuit that ended when their vehicle crashed into a telephone pole, authorities said.The chase happened about 12:20 a.m. June 1, after a Lafayette police officer tried to pull over a vehicle at Mount Diablo Boulevard and 1st Street in that city, according to a statement from Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Jimmy Lee.Both the vehicle’s driver and passenger were arrested, and Lee said the passenger had more than one felony arrest warrant out for him. Lee did not say what felonies were cited in the warrant.When the officer turned on his patrol-car police lights, the vehicle the officer intended to stop immediately accelerated, Lee said.The pursuit wound up on Highway 24 toward Oakland and then moved onto eastbound Interstate 580 right after the Caldecott Tunnel. The vehicle then took the 35th Avenue exit.Just after exiting, the vehicle crashed near Penniman Avenue, Lee said.Neither the driver ...

Stanford golfer Rose Zhang adds to Tiger Woods comparisons

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:50 GMT

The first words from Rose Zhang after the 20-year-old Stanford student capped off one of the more remarkable 13-day stretches in golf were telling.“What is happening?” she said.More tantalizing is what happens next.Hype rules the day in a society built around social media, and Zhang is one of the rare athletes who delivered. The Stanford sophomore won her second straight NCAA title and then 13 days later was awash in wonder when she won the Mizuho Americas Open in her professional debut.Women’s golf has not seen this level of anticipation since Michelle Wie West turned pro at age 15 equipped with blue-chip sponsors like Nike and Sony.Zhang walked, talked and played like it was any other tournament. She is so comfortable with who she is that expectations are not part of the equation.“I honestly didn’t even expect to make the cut,” she said Sunday evening as she sat next to a trophy stuffed with a bouquet of roses. “And the reason why I say this is because I don’t think about my expec...