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Records: 6-year-old said 'I shot that b----- dead' after shooting Virginia teacher

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:16:16 GMT

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) – New information uncovered in court records reveals disturbing details surrounding a 6-year-old who shot his teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Virginia earlier this year.The child is accused of shooting his first-grade teacher, Abby Zwerner, in her Newport News classroom on Jan. 6. Zwerner survived gunshot wounds to her hand and chest. She filed a $40 million lawsuit against the Newport News School Board and several former administrators in April alleging that they failed to protect her from the 6-year-old boy despite warnings that he had a gun at the school. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! The boy's mother, Deja Taylor, is charged in Newport News Circuit Court with felony child neglect and a misdemeanor for recklessly leaving a loaded firearm where a child could access it. She's scheduled to plead guilty to those charges on August 15. She also pleaded guilty to lying on a federal form about he...

Man accused in ex-wife's death pleads not guilty

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:16:16 GMT

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- The suspect accused of killing his ex-wife in Schenectady earlier this year pleaded not guilty during an arraignment Tuesday morning. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! Timothy Taylor is facing several charges, including second degree Murder. He is being held in jail without bail and is due back in court in September. Taylor was taken into custody in Philadelphia in June before being extradited to New York.Taylor is accused of killing Tishawn Folkes-Taylor, who was found dead inside a Schenectady home in May. He's also accused of killing his girlfriend Theresa Gregg in New York City.

Chevron finalizes purchase of PDC Energy, expands presence in Colorado

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:16:16 GMT

Chevron Corp. has completed its purchase of Denver-based PDC Energy, making the multinational company Colorado’s largest oil and gas producer.Chevron said Monday that the purchase was a done deal after PDC shareholders approved the acquisition. The all-stock transaction was valued at $7.6 billion, including debt.Under the deal, Chevron acquired 275,000 net acres, much of it next to its existing operations in northeast Colorado’s Denver-Julesburg Basin, and more than 1 billion barrels of oil equivalent in proven reserves. The company also added 25,000 acres to its operations in the Permian Basin of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico.Altogether, Chevron’s daily production in the Denver-Julesburg Basin will be roughly 400,000 barrels of oil equivalent and its total acreage is a little more than 600,000 acres, said Kim McHugh, vice president of the company’s Rockies business unit.“Once we combine these, we are about the fourth-largest business unit insi...

Crews battle structure fire in Redondo Beach neighborhood

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:16:16 GMT

Firefighters extinguished a two-alarm structure fire in a Redondo Beach neighborhood on Tuesday.  While it’s unclear what started the blaze, crews with the Redondo Beach Fire Department, as well as officers with the Redondo Beach Police Department, responded to the scene located on Kingsdale Avenue, south of Artesia Boulevard.  “There are power lines down and several adjacent streets are blocked,” Redondo PD said, adding that those in the area should use alternate routes.  Video posted to the Citizen App showed heavy black smoke and flames coming from the structure.  Aerial footage from Sky5 showed a charred and burnt-out structure as firefighters continued to spray water on it, as well as dousing adjacent buildings.  Footage posted to the Citizen App on Aug. 8, 2023, shows a structure fire in a residential area of Redondo Beach. (Citizen app)Crews with RBFD extinguish a structure fire in a residential area of Redondo Beach on Aug. 8, 2023. (KTLA)Crews with ...

Nevada man files lawsuit against Disneyland after alleged attack by security dog

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:16:16 GMT

A Disneyland security dog allegedly attacked and bit an elderly Nevada man at the entrance to the Anaheim theme park, according to a lawsuit filed in an Orange County court, the O.C. Register reported.Paul Perez, an 81-year-old grandfather from Las Vegas, filed a lawsuit against Walt Disney Parks and Resorts in Orange County Superior Court for damages stemming from the May 2022 alleged attack from a Disneyland security dog. Disneyland reaches settlement in $5 million lawsuit filed by Magic Key holder The civil lawsuit was filed on Aug. 1 and accused Disneyland and the Walt Disney Co. theme park division of negligence and seeks restitution for a physical wound, pain, suffering, emotional distress and the cost of past and future medical treatment, according to the Register.KTLA reached out to the Disneyland Resort for a comment but didn’t hear back in time for publication.The lawsuit alleges that a Disneyland dog handler caused a security dog to “abruptly step directly in front and ...

First cases of West Nile virus confirmed in San Bernardino County

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:16:16 GMT

Cases of West Nile virus were confirmed in San Bernardino County on Tuesday as authorities are warning the public to be cautious.The infections mark the first locally acquired human cases of West Nile virus in the county this year and have been confirmed in Rialto and San Bernardino, according to the Department of Public Health.West Nile virus is transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected mosquito.While many people infected with the virus may have no symptoms, older individuals and those with existing health issues are most likely to develop severe symptoms.“West Nile virus can cause a serious illness in humans,” said San Bernardino County Health Officer Michael A. Sequeira. “Therefore, I urge residents to take precautions to protect themselves against mosquito bites.”Those most susceptible to complications from infection include anyone over 50 years old, people with diabetes, cancer, hypertension, kidney disease, those who are immunocompromised, organ transplant recipien...

Now SF Giants teammates, Joc Pederson, Ross Stripling recall time they (almost) became Angels

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:16:16 GMT

As he packed his bags for spring training three years ago, Ross Stripling didn’t know which team’s complex he would head to when his flight touched down. Already in the desert, A.J. Pollock hosted Joc Pederson but wasn’t sure if that was his teammate taking swings in his batting cage.“It was madness,” Stripling said.“It was weird, for sure,” Pederson said. “It sucked. It was stupid.”“I remember, Joc was coming over to hit,” Pollock said, “and I was trying to figure out if he’s on our team or if he’s not.”Reunited in San Francisco three years later, the contingent of former Dodgers in the Giants clubhouse was reminded this week on their visit to Angel Stadium of what happened there. Or almost did, but didn’t. Of the trade that was, and then wasn’t.For five days in February 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic upended the world, Pederson and Stripling thought they were Angels. Details of the b...

Miami police fishing abandoned cars out of Doral lake

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:16:16 GMT

WFOR via CNNMIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — Miami-Dade police and Miami police divers are searching the murky waters of a lake in Doral were investigators believe as many as 30 cars are sunk on the bottom.Just after 10 a.m., a wrecker pulled the first car out of the water in the area of NW 90th Avenue and 13th Terrace, not too far from the CBS News Miami studios.Doral police said Sunday that they were alerted to the cars after the volunteer dive team, United Seach Corps, conducted a search of the lake over the water.“We have been informed that a private search company possibly located multiple sunken vehicles in the area of 9064 NW 13th Terrace. Although we cannot confirm at this time, we will continue to gather further information in the coming days and work with multiple entities to investigate this matter,” Doral police said in a statement.The search and recovery process is now in the hands of Miami-Dade police who also received word about the vehicles over the weekend....

‘I don’t buy that’: Questions arise over San Jose fire department’s Pink Poodle investigation

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:16:16 GMT

A day after the release of an internal probe  into a San Jose fire crew’s infamous visit to the Pink Poodle strip club, experts in personnel investigations and the city’s former mayor are questioning the honesty of the employees involved in the incident — most of whom were not disciplined for behavior that appears to violate fire department policies.While the investigation finally revealed the purported reasoning behind the visit to the Pink Poodle — Fire Captain William Tognozzi claimed he was picking up a flash drive with images of his colleagues taken by a photographer who also worked at the strip club — it also indicated that firefighters never came clean about a subsequent visit to a second adult entertainment establishment.The four firefighters — Tognozzi, Brian Dragges, Zach Clark and Matthew Westcott — initially told investigators that they had simply returned to their station after the visit to the Pink Poodle. But they were later confron...

University of California admits a record number of California freshmen for the fall of 2023

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:16:16 GMT

The University of California has admitted an unprecedented number of California students for the fall of 2023, with 88,285 first-year applicants coming from the Golden State alone.It’s an increase of 3.5% from last year, and part of an ongoing effort to get more Californians into the state’s higher education system. This year, the state’s budget included a 5% boost for the UC system — part of a multi-year agreement between Governor Gavin Newsom and the University of California — with the expectation that campuses would use that money to enroll more California students, among other educational objectives.Across the UC system, that seems to be exactly what happened. Admission rates for Californians increased to nearly 67% this year, as opposed to 64% in 2022.The surge was more prominent at UC Santa Cruz than any other campus. This fall, the school admitted 10,200 more first-year Californian students than the year prior, a 44.5% jump. Though final enrollment num...