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Antioch: Former Deer Valley High School security guard arrested for allegedly ‘grooming’ student for lewd purposes

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:04 GMT

ANTIOCH — A man who worked as a security guard for a local high school has been arrested and charged with alleged illicit contact with both a student and an undercover cop posing as a 13-year-old, court records show.Christopher George Miller, 30, was charged March 20 with seven felonies, including attempted lewd or lascivious acts on a minor, distributing lewd material to a minor, contacting a minor for lewd purposed and attempting to give drugs to a minor, court records show. He was arrested at a park in Contra Costa County four days earlier, where authorities say he arranged to meet an undercover officer posing as a 13-year-old girl.Miller worked at Deer Valley High School in Antioch, as a site safety substitute, the Antioch school district’s superintendent said. She said Miller worked there for just seven days and was fired the same day the allegations surfaced.“Unfortunately, when criminal investigations are pending, the Antioch Unified School District is limit...

New California gas price law another defeat for oil industry

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:04 GMT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — It was just a few weeks ago that California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the oil industry the second most powerful force on earth, trailing only Mother Nature in its ability to bend the elements — both physical and political — to its will.Yet on Tuesday, Newsom plans to sign a new law that gives state regulators the power to penalize oil companies for making too much money, the first of its kind in the country. It’s the type of legislation the oil industry might have crushed in the past. But on Monday, the bill cleared the state Assembly with only one Democrat voting against it.“When you take on big oil, they usually roll you,” Newsom said Monday after lawmakers passed the bill. “The Legislature had the courage, conviction and the backbone to stand up to big oil.”The bill is the latest in a string of defeats for the oil industry in California, a state many don’t think of as a fossil fuel powerhouse. But for decades, California was one of the l...

Mayor: Philadelphia water will not be tainted by spill

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:04 GMT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia officials say the city’s water system will not be affected by a chemical spill into the Delaware River upstream last week.“We can all confidentially say the threat has passed — I repeat: All the city’s drinking water is safe to drink and will not be impacted by the spill,” Mayor Jim Kenney said Tuesday night. Sampling hasn’t detected any substance from the spill, and “models tracking the flow and tide of the Delaware River show the potential threat is passing us,” he said.Health officials in Bucks County, just north of Philadelphia, said Sunday that between 8,100 and 12,000 gallons (30,700 and 120,000 liters) of a water-based latex-finishing solution spilled into the river late Friday because of a burst pipe at the Trinseo Altuglas chemical facility in Bristol Township.Officials said it is nontoxic to humans, and no known adverse health effects have been reported in the county.Philadelphia officials said tests of hundreds of samples...

Video shows guards running away during fire that killed 40

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:04 GMT

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — After migrants in northern Mexico placed mattresses against the bars of their detention cell and set them on fire, guards quickly walked away and made no apparent attempt to release the men before smoke filled the room and killed at least 40, surveillance video showed Tuesday.Hours after the fire broke out late Monday, rows of bodies were laid out under shimmery silver sheets outside the immigration detention facility in Ciudad Juarez, which is across the U.S. border from El Paso, Texas, and a major crossing point for migrants.Twenty-nine people were injured and were in “delicate-serious” condition, according to the National Immigration Institute.At the time of the blaze, 68 men from Central and South America were being held at the facility, the agency said.In the video, two people dressed as guards rush into the camera frame, and at least one migrant appears by the metal gate on the other side. But the guards did not appear to make any effort to open th...

Deadly fire highlights immigration pressures on Mexico

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:04 GMT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The fire that killed at least 40 people at an immigration detention center in Mexico happened as Western hemisphere countries face pressure to address the extraordinary number of people fleeing their homes.Mexico has expanded its network of dozens of detention centers while working closely with the United States to limit movement of asylum-seekers through its territory to the U.S. border, including to Ciudad Juarez, where authorities said migrants set mattresses on fire late Monday in a detention center after learning they would be deported.Here are some questions and answers about the conditions and policies that led to one of Mexico’s deadliest events at an immigration detention center.WHY WERE THESE MIGRANTS DETAINED?Specifics have yet to be released, but Mexico has emerged as the world’s third most popular destination for asylum-seekers, after the United States and Germany. It is still largely a transit country, though, for those on the way to the U.S.Asyl...

Brewers’ infielder Keston Hiura sent outright to Triple-A

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:04 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers assigned infielder Keston Hiura outright to their Triple-A affiliate in Nashville on Tuesday after he cleared waivers.The move means Hiura will remain with the Brewers organization after they had designated him for assignment.Hiura, 26, had an outstanding rookie season in 2019 but hasn’t been able to recapture that form. He batted .226 with 14 homers and 32 RBIs in 80 games last season and struck out in 111 of his 266 plate appearances.He has a .238 career batting average with a .318 on-base percentage, 50 homers and 132 RBIs in 284 games. His best season was that rookie year of 2019, when he hit .303 with 19 homers and 49 RBIs in 84 games while posting a .938 OPS.Hiura began his career as a second baseman but primarily has played first base since 2021. He also played five games in left field last season. ___AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsSource

Hervé Renard quits as Saudi Arabia’s head coach

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:04 GMT

Hervé Renard has quit as coach of Saudi Arabia’s national team amid reports he is set to take over France’s women’s team. The Saudi national team on Tuesday said it had agreed to terminate Renard’s contract, ending a four-year spell in charge that was highlighted by a win over eventual champion Argentina in the group stage of the World Cup in Qatar last year. The 54-year-old French coach did not announce his future plans but he thanked the Saudi people and said he was “very proud to have been able to show to the world the progress and a good image of the Saudi football.”“It’s time for me to fly to an other horizon but with (these) memories engraved in me,” Renard wrote on Twitter. In a video message posted on the Saudi team’s Twitter page, Renard reflected on the win over Argentina by saying: “I think it will stay forever in the memory of the Saudi people.”“This experience was amazing, with a lot of support,” he added. Reports in France have said Renard...

Plantation Police search for elderly man with dementia

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:04 GMT

Plantation Police is asking for the public’s help to find 92-year-old Daniel Capobianco who police said has “altered mental status” and considered endangered.He was last seen wearing olive shorts and a dark shirt with grey hospital socks in the 800 block of 81st Terrace in Plantation.Capobianco is described as a white male, bald and weighs about 220 pounds.Capobianco drives a black 4-door 2015 Hyundai Sonata with Florida tag DSHZ55.Anyone with information is asked to call Plantation Police at 954-797-2100.

Julian Marley talks about new album and tour

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:04 GMT

If you’re a global icon your message must be clear. For reggae musician Julian “Juju” Marley, he wants you to vibe but with meaning. Deco Drive caught up with Mr. Royalty himself at iHeartRadio HQ in Pembroke Pines to chat about his newly dropped album.Julian Marley’s new album Colors of Royal will definitely put you in a mood and also give you different flavors of sound.Julian Marley: “Some good collaborations. South American vibe, Latin vibe with the reggae vibe with the Afro vibe and we mix it up in one vibration. Yes, different spice.”For Julian word is bond.Julian Marley: “Some people ask, ‘why did you change your sound?’ We didn’t really change the sound we widened the sound. The music is powerful but it’s really the content, the words. And the words must go to every nation, every tongue and every sound because we’re speaking of one love.As one of the sons of legendary reggae artist, Bob Marley, Juju is th...

‘He’s got some fire in him’: Pedro Grifol focused on the here and now as he begins 1st season as Chicago White Sox manager

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:37:04 GMT

Pedro Grifol sets expectations roughly seven to 10 days at a time.“I don’t talk about anything past (that),” the Chicago White Sox manager said recently. “I think it keeps you in the moment. It keeps you right where you’re thinking about, ‘OK, where am I right now? Where do I need to be in the next five days seven days?’“When you get caught up too far ahead, you don’t worry about what’s going on right now. You lose sight of what you need to accomplish in this particular moment.”This seven-day period will include a first — Grifol’s debut as a major-league manager in a regular-season game with the Sox.That comes Thursday night against the defending champion Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park. But even Tuesday morning, Grifol’s mind wasn’t on the trip, rather the final game of the spring against the Cubs.“Maybe (Wednesday) you can ask that questions and I’ll say, ‘Yeah, I’m...