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Authorities trying to reunite 100-pound tortoise with owners

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:14 GMT

Are you missing a large, scaly slow-moving family member?Animal Services workers in Fontana are trying to find the owners of a 100-pound tortoise that was found wandering around the city Thursday.The Fontana Police Department was the first to respond to the runaway reptile, locating him or her around 1:15 p.m. near the intersection of Tangelo Avenue from Shamrock Avenue.Officials are trying to reunite a runaway tortoise with its owner after it was found strolling the streets of Fontana on Oct. 12, 2023. (Fontana Police Department)After a brief pursuit, the tortoise was wrangled up and held until Fontana Animal Services officers could arrive on scene.The unidentified tortoise was loaded into an animal control vehicle and taken away from the scene.Officials are trying to reunite a runaway tortoise with its owner after it was found strolling the streets of Fontana on Oct. 12, 2023. (Fontana Police Department)Now officials are trying to reconnect the tortoise, who is believed to be a pe...

Man dragged down street by LAPD vehicle hospitalized

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:14 GMT

A 22-year-old man was hospitalized with serious injuries after being dragged down the street by a Los Angeles Police Department patrol vehicle last month, authorities announced on Wednesday.  The incident, which was captured on nearby surveillance cameras, as well as officers’ body-worn cameras, unfolded on Sept. 11 in the 6000 block of Sunset Boulevard just after 12:30 a.m. Officers with LAPD’s Hollywood Division responded to calls of a battery suspect at the location. At the scene, police saw the suspect, later identified as L.A. resident Robert Thompson, being escorted out of bar located on the second floor of a multi-unit shopping center by security guards, police said in a news release.  Police believed Thompson, who was being cooperative, was intoxicated, but because they could not locate the victim of the alleged battery, they told the 22-year-old to leave the location. As the officers entered their vehicle and drove to the south end of the parking lot, video shows ...

Two men arrested for a series of burglaries in Hemet

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:14 GMT

Two men were arrested on robbery and burglary charges on Wednesday after they were involved in a series of residential and attempted residential burglaries in Hemet.Early Monday morning, Hemet authorities responded to reports of several residential and attempted residential burglaries in the Seven Hills community, according to a Hemet Police Department news release. With assistance from the Riverside County Gang Impact Team, Hemet police identified two suspects involved in the burglaries, 27-year-old Todd Thornton Jr. of San Jacinto and 32-year-old Andre Johnson of Hemet. Thornton was arrested on Wednesday while in the process of committing another residential burglary in Hemet. Johnson was also arrested later that day. Thornton and Johnson were both charged with robbery, burglary, attempted burglary, criminal threats, false imprisonment, and assault with a deadly weapon. They are each being held on $175,000 bail.  

48 formerly homeless families move into permanent housing development

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:14 GMT

Forty-eight formerly homeless families now have permanent residences after the brand new Talisa Apartments development opened in Panorama City.The supportive housing development features 4 one-bedroom and 44 two-bedroom units on a lot of more than 51,000 square feet. Residents who will call the area home are all experiencing homelessness and earning less than 30% of the median income in the area. The facility will be serviced by LA Family Housing, an organization which provides resources and solutions for Los Angeles residents struggling with homelessness. The project was developed by the organization alongside Domus Development and the complex was designed by FSY architects. Talisa Apartments opened in Panorama City on Oct. 12, 2023 and will offer a permanent home and resources to formerly homeless families. (LA Family Housing)A grand opening ceremony was held Thursday and featured local leaders and new residents.Diana Smith, one of the new residents at Talisa Apartments, expressed...

Croptober 2023 in Full Swing

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:14 GMT

The harvest is not the same beast it once was.Much of the billions of dollars that would flow into the small towns in Northern California every year has been lost in the years since legalization passed. Permit stacking here at home, Oklahoma flooding the East Coast market, and a poor regulatory rollout contributed a lot to the pain in both the underground and legal markets. But there is still hope to be found in harvest season because of what it meant to the survivors. For those who have made it this far through the storm, the harvest is when the efforts of a year’s labor come to fruition. Many of them represent the last grasp of outdoor OGs holding on for the culture, as so much of California’s outdoor and mixed-light cannabis production has moved to giant facilities. But not everywhere. People like Dashiell and Mariam of Barrett Farms, named for their dog, are more than willing to show you the heat coming out of small craft cannabis farms. The pair told us the season started off w...

Chris Kreider scores twice, Rangers beat Sabres 5-1 in season opener

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:14 GMT

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Chris Kreider scored power-play and short-handed goals, Igor Shesterkin stopped 23 shots for his 100th career victory and the New York Rangers beat the Buffalo Sabres 5-1 in their season opener Thursday night.The Rangers won in Peter Laviolette’s debut as coach. In doing so, New York showed, for one game at least, it’s capable of playing a more defensively responsible style following a first-round seven-game playoff exit to New Jersey that led to Gerard Gallant’s dismissal.Artemi Panarin had a goal and assist, and Alexis Lafreniere and Jacob Trouba, with an empty-netter, also scored scored in an outing New York raced to a 3-0 second-period lead. Mika Zibanejad had three assists.Shesterkin, appearing in his 159th career game, became the Rangers first goalie to reach 100 wins in fewer than 187 outings.JJ Peterka scored for Buffalo.FLYERS 4, BLUE JACKETS 2COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Joel Farabee and Travis Konecny scored in the first period, Carter Hart stopped 31 shots ...

Farabee, Konecny score early as the Flyers spoil debut of Blue Jackets coach Pascal Vincent, 4-2

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:14 GMT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Joel Farabee and Travis Konecny scored in the first period, Carter Hart stopped 31 shots and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-2 on Thursday night in the opener for two teams looking to rebound from disappointing seasons.The Blue Jackets lost their top defender, Zach Werenski, to a leg injury in the second period. The team said he had a quad contusion but coach Pascal Vincent said it isn’t believed to be serious.The Flyers ruined the Columbus coaching debut of Vincent as well as the first NHL game for Adam Fantilli, the third overall pick in the 2023 NHL draft, who started at center on the Jackets’ third line.Playing on his 19th birthday, Fantilli picked up his first NHL point with the primary assist on Jake Bean’s first-period goal. Patrik Laine also tallied for the Jackets.Elvis Merzlikins made 32 stops for Columbus.Merzlikins didn’t have much of a chance on the Flyers first goal. With all the Blue Jackets caught behin...

Lexi Thompson holds her own on PGA Tour in Las Vegas. Beau Hossler sets the pace

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:14 GMT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Lexi Thompson kept a rough round from getting worse and wound up holding her own Thursday in the Shriners Children’s Open until darkness kept her from finishing.Beau Hossler set the pace by matching his career low on the PGA Tour with a 9-under 62, which included a tee shot that found the water left of the par-3 17th at the TPC Summerlin.Thompson was the main attraction of this FedEx Cup Fall event, the seventh woman to play a PGA Tour event and the first in five years.She was 1-over par for her round through 16 holes and chose to mark her ball — a 20-foot par putt on the 17th — and return to finish the first round in the morning. Still in play was a chance to make the cut, though it was hard work to keep her score around par.“I played decent,” Thompson said. “I had one bad hole and a few iffy shots. But it’s golf; it was kind of expected.”Thompson took advantage on two of the par 5s for birdie, and she got a bonus with a birdie putt from inside 25 feet on the...

Kreider scores twice in Rangers’ season-opening 5-1 win over Sabres

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:14 GMT

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Chris Kreider scored power-play and short-handed goals, Igor Shesterkin stopped 23 shots for his 100th career victory and the New York Rangers beat the Buffalo Sabres 5-1 in their season opener Thursday night.The Rangers won in Peter Laviolette’s debut as coach. In doing so, New York showed, for one game at least, it’s capable of playing a more defensively responsible style following a first-round seven-game playoff exit to New Jersey that led to Gerard Gallant’s dismissal.Artemi Panarin had a goal and assist, and Alexis Lafreniere and Jacob Trouba, with an empty-netter, also scored scored in an outing New York raced to a 3-0 second-period lead. Mika Zibanejad had three assists.Shesterkin, appearing in his 159th career game, became the Rangers first goalie to reach 100 wins in fewer than 187 outings. Adam Fox had an assist for his 200th career point in his 285th game. Only five NHL defenseman — led by Quinn Hughes (263 games) — have reached the milestone in fewe...

Wright begins role as interim superintendent of Maryland public schools, but wants to remain in job

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:14 GMT

This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Maryland Interim State Superintendent Carey Wright speaks at a press conference Oct. 12, 2023. She begins her job Oct. 23.(Courtesy Maryland Matters/Danielle J. Brown) Maryland Interim State Superintendent Carey Wright speaks at a press conference Oct. 12, 2023. She begins her job Oct. 23.(Courtesy Maryland Matters/Danielle J. Brown) Before Carey Wright begins her work as interim superintendent of Maryland’s public schools Oct. 23, she plans to meet with state Department of Education staff and members of the education community.Wright hasn’t been able to get “into ...