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Antisemitic and white nationalist callers again criticize Walnut Creek City Council

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:32 GMT

(BCN) -- Two members of the Walnut Creek City Council said Tuesday night the council should consider eliminating online callers from the public comments portion of council meetings, after two men made white supremist, antisemitic comments criticizing councilmember Kevin Wilk, who is Jewish. Two weeks earlier, a man who identified himself as "Scottie, resident of Walnut Creek," said "I'm calling today to address some irrational statements made by certain council members who know who they are, regarding the pro white banners that they cried about on the news probably about six months back." "Scottie" called again Tuesday, specifically criticizing the council for cutting off his antisemitic statements two weeks ago. He didn't show his face or use a last name on either call. He directly addressed Wilk, who asked for "Scottie" to be cut off at the June 6 meeting. "Scottie" was one of four callers making antisemitic remarks that night. ‘They are doing it wrong’: Ron DeSant...

Collier helps Minnesota beat Los Angeles for 3rd time in 9 days

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:32 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Napheesa Collier had 26 points and 14 rebounds, Bridget Carleton added 14 points and the Minnesota Lynx beat the Los Angeles Sparks 67-61 on Tuesday night.Minnesota (4-8) won its third game in nine days against Los Angeles, with the two previous wins coming by five-points apiece.Collier sank a jumper from the free-throw line, following an offensive rebound, to give Minnesota a 64-61 lead with 1:26 left. Neither team would score again until Collier’s free throw with 8.7 seconds left for a four-point lead.Trailing 64-61, Los Angeles called a timeout with 24.1 seconds left to set up an offensive play. Tiffany Mitchell intercepted a pass and raced the other way, and Minnesota secured it at the stripe. Mitchell finished with five steals to go with eight points for Minnesota, which had a season-high 12 steals. Diamond Miller, averaging 10.4 points per game, did not play due to an ankle injuryMinnesota was 1 of 10 from behind the arc in the first half, while Los An...

Husband of Stephen F. Austin women’s bowling coach quits after his affair with student-athlete

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:32 GMT

NACOGDOCHES, Texas (AP) — An assistant women’s bowling coach at Stephen F. Austin is out after the university discovered he cheated on his wife, who is the team’s head coach, with a student-athlete.SFA assistant Steve Lemke opted to resign rather than be fired after the school learned of the affair, which led to a split with his wife, the Lufkin Daily News reported Tuesday.“He’s not working here anymore,” SFA athletic director Ryan Ivey said. “From a departmental standpoint, he had a choice, and he chose to resign.”The 38-year-old Lemke, who is married to head coach Amber Lemke, helped coach the team to two national titles and two second-place finishes before resigning April 10. The couple has since filed for divorce, according to court records.The newspaper did not identify the student-athlete involved, but reported that she was a member of the bowling team.Ivey said that although the relationship was consensual, Lemke and the student violated the university’s relationship rules.St...

Today in History: June 21, Constitution goes into effect

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:32 GMT

Today in History Today is Wednesday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2023. There are 193 days left in the year. Summer begins today. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 21, 1788, the United States Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it. On this date: In 1377, King Edward III died after ruling England for 50 years; he was succeeded by his grandson, Richard II.In 1834, Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine. In 1942, an Imperial Japanese submarine fired shells at Fort Stevens on the Oregon coast, causing little damage.In 1954, the American Cancer Society presented a study to the American Medical Association meeting in San Francisco which found that men who regularly smoked cigarettes died at a considerably higher rate than non-smokers. In 1964, civil rights workers Michael H. Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney were slain in Philadelphia, Mississippi; their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks la...

POLITICO Pro Central Banker: UK CPI — Powell testimony — Global euro

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:32 GMT

Our one-stop source for central banking & monetary policy news.View in your browser or listen to audioBy GEOFFREY SMITHwith JOHANNA TREECK, BEN MUNSTER, ANJULI DAVIES, HANNAH BRENTON and IZABELLA KAMINSKA,SNEAK PEEK— UK May inflation set to have huge influence on Bank of England rate meeting on Thursday.— Powell to testify in Congress as US housing market continues to defy gravity. — The ECB updates on the euro’s fitness for a multipolar world.POLICY TICKERECB 3.50% ⇡ — BOE 4.5% ⇡ — FED 5.25% ⇡— SNB 1.5% ⇡— BOJ -0.10% ⇣— RBA 4.10% ⇡— PBOC 3.65%⇣— CBR 7.5% ⇣ — BOC 4.75 ⇡— SARB 8.25% ⇡Good morning everyone, and welcome to another action-packed day of monetary high jinks. The British government, in its infinite wisdom, has convened a meeting with the country’s biggest mortgage lenders for Friday, ostensibly to discuss how they can jointly undermine the Bank of England’s efforts to get inflation under control. Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt is clearly tr...

Chicago White Sox score 3 in the 8th — including overturned call at the plate — in 7-6 win over Texas Rangers

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:32 GMT

Chicago White Sox shortstop Elvis Andrus sprinted home, looking to score the go-ahead run on Zach Remillard’s single to left in the eighth inning Tuesday against the Texas Rangers.Travis Jankowski fielded the ball and fired to the plate, where catcher Jonah Heim applied the tag.Andrus was initially ruled out. The Sox challenged, and after the review the call was overturned on the basis of a home-plate collision violation.That turned out to be the winning run as the Sox topped the Rangers 7-6 in front of 21,048 at Guaranteed Rate Field.“At the beginning I was very upset, usually I always score on those plays,” Andrus said. “I was really sad when he did not call safe. But then when they switched that call, everybody saw, I started jumping like a little kid in the dugout and everybody was the same way.”Manager Pedro Grifol had not seen a replay of the sequence when he met with reporters, but said the Sox challenged both the play at the plate and the blocki...

Firefighters battle five blazes at once across San Diego County

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:32 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- CALFIRE crews were activated across San Diego County tackling multiple fires at once.Firefighters say their resources have been tested just a day before the start of summer.If Tuesday is any indication of what’s to come, the fire season ahead is going to be tough for local firefighters who have been responding to five fires across the county in the last 24 hours.Aggressive drops of retardant and water from the air helped fire crews quickly get a handle on flames near Ramona.“We had been on too many fires,” Barona Tribe Member Anita Darby said. “The Witch and Cedar, and it was really scary.” Brush fire burns 37 acres in rural East County; evacuations lifted Firefighters were able to stop the forward spread of the blaze that prompted evacuation warnings for neighbors of the paintball and BMX park on the Barona Reservation.“It was really scary,” Darby said. “My brother, her father lost his house. Thirty-four houses we lost up here this time.”This isn’t the only fire that...

Local scuba rescuer explains ocean dangers amid missing Titanic sub

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:32 GMT

ENCINITAS, Calif. -- Local rescue divers are following the efforts to save the five-man submersible lost while searching for the Titanic wreckage. Gregory Napier is a North County Scuba Center rescuer who has worked with manned and unmanned submersibles. He says the crew are at the "mercy of the elements."“They are pounding the pavements, so to speak, with a lot of ROVs (remotely operated vehicles) out there that are unmanned...” Napier said. “With their sonar, they are going to have to cover a huge vast area near the wreck.”The U.S. Coast Guard, Canadian Coast Guard and a group of French rescuers are all working against the precious hours left to find the crew, who was lost about 13,000 feet under water. Man killed in Liberty Station shooting identified When the Titanic submersible went radio silence, experts say the crew had been underwater for only 1:45 minutes. According to search and rescuers, this type of exploration is about as dangerous as it gets. “I think the ocean is mo...

Gang behind slaughter of 41 women at Honduran prison, officials say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:32 GMT

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Inmates had complained for weeks they were being threatened by gang members at a women’s prison in Honduras. The gang fulfilled those threats, slaughtering 41 women, many of them burned, shot or stabbed to death.President Xiomara Castro said Tuesday’s riot at the prison in the town of Tamara, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northwest of Honduras’ capital, was “planned by maras (street gangs) with the knowledge and acquiescence of security authorities.” Castro pledged to take “drastic measures,” but did not explain how inmates identified as members of the Barrio 18 gang were able to get guns and machetes into the prison, or move freely into an adjoining cell block and slaughter all the prisoners there.Video clips presented by the government from inside the prison showed several pistols and a heap of machetes and other bladed weapons that were found after the riot. Sandra Rodríguez Vargas, the assistant commissioner for Honduras’ prison sy...

Underwater noises heard in frantic search for submersible missing with 5 aboard near Titanic

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:32 GMT

A Canadian military surveillance aircraft detected underwater noises as a massive search continued early Wednesday in a remote part of the North Atlantic for a submersible that vanished while taking five people down to the wreck of the Titanic.A statement from the U.S. Coast Guard did not elaborate on what rescuers believed the noises could be, though it offered a glimmer of hope for those lost abroad the Titan as estimates suggest as little as a day’s worth of oxygen could be left if the vessel is still functioning.Meanwhile, questions remain about how teams could reach the lost submersible, which could be as deep as about 12,500 feet (3,800 meters) below the surface near the watery tomb of the historic ocean liner. Lost aboard the vessel are pilot Stockton Rush, the CEO of the company leading the expedition. His passengers are a British adventurer, two members of a Pakistani business family and a Titanic expert.The Coast Guard wrote on Twitter that a Canadian P-3 Orion had “...