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Rapper Fetty Wap sentenced to 6 years for drug trafficking

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:03 GMT

By Deepti Hajela | Associated PressCENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — As friends and family looked on, rapper Fetty Wap on Wednesday apologized for his actions and said he was “exactly where I’m supposed to be,” before a judge sentenced him to six years in federal prison for his role in a New York-based drug-trafficking scheme.The “Trap Queen” rapper, whose legal name is Willie Maxwell, pleaded guilty in August 2022 to a conspiracy drug charge that carried a mandatory minimum sentence of five years. The sentence was handed down in federal court on Long Island.Maxwell told U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert, “Me being selfish in my pride put me in this position today.” His lawyers had suggested he turned to selling drugs because of financial hardship brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.Maxwell was arrested in October 2021 on charges of participating in a conspiracy to smuggle large amounts of heroin, fentanyl and other drugs into the New York City area.Th...

Single family residence sells for $2.9 million in Palo Alto

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:03 GMT

920 Hutchinson Avenue – Google Street ViewThe property located in the 900 block of Hutchinson Avenue in Palo Alto was sold on May 2, 2023 for $2,850,000, or $2,167 per square foot. The house, built in 1948, has an interior space of 1,315 square feet. The property features three bedrooms, one bathroom, a garage, and two parking spaces. There’s also a pool in the backyard. The unit sits on a 6,180-square-foot lot.These nearby houses have also recently been purchased:In September 2022, a 2,051-square-foot home on Channing Avenue in Palo Alto sold for $4,275,000, a price per square foot of $2,084. The home has 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.A 1,832-square-foot home on the 1400 block of Channing Avenue in Palo Alto sold in September 2022, for $3,600,000, a price per square foot of $1,965. The home has 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.On Greenwood Avenue, Palo Alto, in August 2022, a 2,472-square-foot home was sold for $3,960,000, a price per square foot of $1,602. The home has 5 bedrooms and 3 bat...

Oakland A’s reliever Trevor May hits two batters in return to mound after battle with anxiety

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:03 GMT

After spending more than a month on the injured list to recover from issues related to anxiety, Trevor May’s return to a big league mound did not go as planned.May, who hadn’t hit a batter in four years, plunked the first guy he faced.Entering in the ninth inning of the A’s 3-2 loss to the Mariners, May threw three pitches to Ty France, hitting him with the third one, a 95-mph fastball up near the face. France lifted his hands in time to protect himself, but the pitch went off his left hand and eventually forced France out of the game.Three batters later, May drilled Eugenio Suarez in the back with another 95-mph fastball, which prompted boos from the crowd at Safeco Field.“If you gave me a million guesses on how the inning was going to go, I wouldn’t have guessed those things,” May told reporters after the game. “But good to be out there, tried to take it all in. Especially being home. I played my state championship game here. It’s a lot of full circle stuff. Just trying to interna...

Juveniles are behind Oakland robbery crime sprees, police chief says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:03 GMT

OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) -- Crews of Oakland teenagers carried out brazen robberies this May and fueled violent crime in the city, according to investigators.Oakland Interim Police Chief Darren Allison said, "We've seen a surge in violence. Two weeks ago, our city experienced 100 robberies in one week, 50 of which occurred in 72 hours over a weekend. Some of the robberies included car-jackings, shootings, and other assaults." "A trend we are seeing with robberies has been an increase involvement of minors," Allison said.Robberies are 7% higher compared to this same time period in 2022. "The City of Oakland has been terrorized by violent individuals wreaking havoc and committing robberies upon unassuming community members," the Oakland Police Department wrote. "Robbery crews are brazenly victimizing individuals at alarming rates."Allison said the surge is "unacceptable," and he ordered his officers to prioritize cracking down on young thieves responsible for it. Within just the last we...

Honolulu-bound flight from SFO abruptly turns around, heads back to SF

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:03 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A Honolulu-bound flight that left San Francisco International Airport shortly before noon Wednesday has turned around and is heading back to SFO, according to flight tracking platform, FlightAware. The flight, United Airlines 2380 took off just before 11:30 a.m. Pacific time and was scheduled to arrive in Honolulu at 2 p.m. Hawaiian Standard Time.However, less than an hour after taking off, the flight abruptly turned around and headed back to SFO. This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

San Jose mayor introduces affordable housing proposal

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:03 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) -- San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and other city officials held a news conference Wednesday morning to announce a new proposal to scale up the city's quick-build communities to increase affordable housing. ‘Wake up America.’: Gov. Newsom weighs in on Target’s removal of some LGBTQ merchandise Mayor Mahan has pledged to provide temporary housing for 1,000 people by the end of the year. The mayor himself has admitted that's an ambitious number and that he's not sure the city will be able to reach the goal.

Leaked Report: “CIA Does Not Know” If Israel Plans to Bomb Iran

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:03 GMT

Whether Israel’s escalating threats of war with Iran over its nuclear program are saber-rattling or something more serious is a mystery even to the CIA, according to a portion of a top-secret intelligence report leaked on the platform Discord earlier this year. The uncertainty about the intentions of one of the U.S.’s closest allies calls into question the basis of the “ironclad” support for Israel publicly espoused by the Biden administration.The report — which was first covered by the Israeli channel i24 News and subsequently posted by DDoSecrets, a group that publishes leaked documents — reveals an undisclosed military exercise conducted by Israel. “On 20 February, Israel conducted a large-scale air exercise,” the intelligence report, produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on February 23, states. The exercise, it says, was “probably to simulate a strike on Iran’s nuclear program and possibly to demonstrate Jerusalem’s resolve to act against Te...

Prosecutor: Fatal shooting of Grammy winner by police ‘reasonably necessary’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:03 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The fatal shooting of a Grammy-winning sound engineer by police earlier this year was “reasonably necessary,” a Tennessee prosecutor said on Wednesday.The decision in January’s fatal shooting of Mark Capps, 54, comes after a review of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation report, the autopsy and video evidence, Nashville District Attorney General Glenn Funk said in a statement.A Metro Nashville Police officer killed Capps while at his home to arrest him on warrants charging him with two counts each of aggravated assault and aggravated kidnapping, authorities have said. His 60-year-old wife and 23-year-old stepdaughter told police he had held them in the home at gunpoint, according to police.When officers went to the home, Capps opened the front door armed with a pistol, and Officer Kendall Coon yelled at him to show his hands, police said at the time of the shooting.Video of the shooting appears to show the door of the home opening and an officer ...

Were Ukrainian children forcibly transferred to Belarus? Ukraine’s top prosecutor is investigating

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:03 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s prosecutor-general says it’s investigating the forced transfer of Ukrainian children to Belarus, adding to allegations that Russia is also transferring them to its territory.Ukrainian law enforcement officers said they are investigating the relocations from the Russian-occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Kharkiv regions to Belarus.Pavel Latushka, a former Belarusian minister of culture now in exile in Poland, heads an opposition group, the National Anti-Crisis Management, which has been documenting the deportations. Latushka and his team turn evidence over to international organizations, hoping that the International Criminal Court will issue an arrest warrant for Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, as it did for Russian President Vladimir Putin.In March, the ICC issued arrest warrants for both Putin and his commissioner for children’s rights. Judges in The Hague said they found “reasonable grounds to believe” that t...

Catholic clergy abuse report could prompt lawsuits, changes to Illinois law

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:03 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois’ attorney general has ended a five-year investigation into sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy in the state, releasing a nearly 700-page report that revealed the problem was far worse than the church acknowledged in 2018 at the start of the state’s review. Attorney General Kwame Raoul said Tuesday that state investigators found that more than 450 Catholic clergy in Illinois had sexually abused nearly 2,000 children since 1950. But Raoul and other experts say the finding is unlikely to lead to criminal charges. That follows a familiar pattern — no rush of criminal charges followed the 2018 release of a bombshell grand jury report on clergy abuse in Pennsylvania or last month’s report on abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.Advocates say they believe the report will help more people feel safe to discuss what happened to them with family, friends, support groups and law enforcement. They also say it could prompt people to file civil lawsuits...