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Sex-offender ex-priest pleads no contest to fatal Contra Costa DUI crash, will serve 6 years, 8 months

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:28:33 GMT

MARTINEZ — Stephen Kiesle, the former Oakland priest implicated in a massive sex abuse scandal in the early 2000s, is headed back to prison, this time for killing a man in a drunk driving crash last year.Kielse, 76, pleaded no contest Friday morning to vehicular manslaughter in the April 2022 collision that killed 64-year-old Curtis Gunn in the unincorporated gated community of Rossmoor. In exchange for his plea, Kiesle is being sentenced to six years and eight months in state prison, and was taken into custody after court Friday morning. He had been free in lieu of $600,000 bail.Kiesle was driving drunk in Rossmoor when his car jumped the curb on Tice Creek Drive and struck Gunn and his wife, who were walking home from a trivia event. Gunn’s wife suffered minor injuries, authorities said.Kiesle and Gunn knew each other and had been on the same trivia night team just weeks before the collision, according to published reports. Their team, the “Rossmorons,” finished in second pl...

49ers doing cartwheels over Christian McCaffrey’s versatility, durability

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:28:33 GMT

SANTA CLARA – No sight captured the 49ers’ upbeat mood this week more than Christian McCaffrey doing four cartwheels in Thursday’s warmups, synchronized to the song “Come on Home,” by The Lijadu Sisters.McCaffrey pointed to the practice field’s DJ booth, pantomimed the piano intro, then showed his athleticism in yet another dimension.As coach Kyle Shanahan said Wednesday: “Christian is the best player I’ve ever been around without the ball in his hand. Just the little things he does that are so obsessive.”Shanahan wasn’t referring to cartwheels but rather McCaffrey’s ability to carry out a fake on the last of Deebo Samuel’s three touchdowns Sunday, and McCaffrey’s ability to block a blitzing defender on another 49ers’ touchdown in their 42-19 rout at Philadelphia. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Cam Inman (@49ers.cam)McCaffrey has led the NFL in rushing since the season opened, and his 1,032 yards mark the 49ers’ first 1,000-yard rushing campaign since Frank...

Amazon driver robbed at gunpoint in Berkeley

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:28:33 GMT

(KRON) -- An Amazon delivery driver was robbed at gunpoint Friday afternoon, the Berkeley Police Department confirmed. According to police, the driver stopped around 12:39 p.m. to take a break in the area of Arlington Avenue and San Luis Road. ATM stolen from CVS after brazen smash and grab: video While on break, the driver was approached by someone armed with a handgun. The subject stole the Amazon vehicle -- a white Ford van -- and drove it to another location, police said.The stolen van was later located abandoned on the 1900 block of Thousand Oaks Boulevard. Numerous packages appeared to have been stolen, police said.Berkeley PD is investigating the incident and says details could change. No arrests have been made at this time.

Ex Black Panther who maintained innocence in bombing that killed an officer dies in Nebraska prison

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:28:33 GMT

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The second of two former Black Panthers who always maintained their innocence in the 1970 bombing death of a white Omaha police officer has died in prison.A spokesman for the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services said Friday that Ed Poindexter had died a day earlier at the age of 79. David Rice, the other man convicted in the death of Omaha Police Officer Larry Minard, died in prison in 2016.The pair argued that they were targeted because of their membership in the Black Panthers by an FBI program that undermined radical political groups, and they questioned the legitimacy of crucial testimony that helped convict them. Some of their supporters called them political prisoners.Poindexter and Rice both doubted the key witness in the case who implicated them in the bombing plot, but they were unsuccessful in numerous appeals. A recording of the phone call that lured Minard to a vacant house before a homemade explosive detonated appeared to have been made by an ...

EEUU y México buscan ser sedes de la Copa Mundial Femenina 2027

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:28:33 GMT

La Federación Mexicana de Fútbol y la Federación de Fútbol de Estados Unidos presentaron este viernes una candidatura conjunta para albergar el Mundial Femenino de 2027. Se tiene previsto que su propuesta compita contra la de Brasil y el plan conjunto de Alemania, Holanda y Bélgica.Ninguno de los dos organismos presentó propuestas de estadios. La federación estadounidense señaló que la candidatura concebía sacar provecho de la eficiencia del Mundial varonil de 2026, el cual se realizará en EEUU, México y Canadá.“Estados Unidos y México se encuentran en una posición única de albergar un Mundial que sacar provecho a las mismas sedes, infraestructura y protocolos utilizados para el Mundial varonil a celebrarse apenas un año antes”, dijo la presidenta de la federación estadounidense Cindy Parlow Cone en un comunicado. “Una nación de fútbol”, Messi es el deportista del año en EEUU, según la revista Time “Como resultado, creemos que es el momento adecuado para a...

Aussie fill-in skipper Spithill hopes to ‘smoke’ new-look Team USA in SailGP’s Dubai regatta

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:28:33 GMT

Some big SailGP rivalries will heat up when the global league returns to Dubai this weekend, including a one-off between the new-look Team USA and its former skipper, Jimmy Spithill.Spithill is filling in as helmsman of Team Australia’s “Flying Roo” foiling catamaran while friend and countryman Tom Slingsby is on paternity leave. Spithill left Team USA two weeks ago ahead of the announcement that it had been sold to a private American group whose investors include Alabama linebacker Dallas Turner and actress Issa Rae.“No question, I’d love to go out and absolutely smoke those guys,” Spithill said Friday. “But at the same time, one thing that we’ve all learned in SailGP is that if you focus on just one team, you can easily find yourself back in last or second last. You just can’t get caught up worrying about one team in this sort of racing.”This is the first regatta since Spithill steered the American catamaran to its first victory of Season 4 in Spain nearly two mo...

Tennessee Supreme Court blocks decision to redraw state’s Senate redistricting maps

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:28:33 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s highest court on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court’s decision that lawmakers must redraw the state’s Senate maps in a ruling that means the current legislative districts will likely remain in place for the 2024 elections.Late last month, a panel of judges ruled that the Republican-drawn map violated the state Constitution because lawmakers incorrectly numbered the seats in left-leaning Nashville. The numbers are important because they determine the years those seats are on the ballot. The same trial judges ruled to temporarily block the Senate map in 2022, but the Supreme Court reinstated the districts then as well, reasoning that it was too close to the election.In response to the November ruling, the state’s attorneys quickly moved to seek a pause of the decision, arguing that the plaintiffs had no standing to sue and that the state wanted to exhaust all of its appeals options before having to reconfigure district ...

This year’s Heisman finalists are an ode to college football’s portal/NIL era with 3 transfer QBs

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:28:33 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s Heisman Trophy ceremony will be an ode to the new era of college sports, transformed by the transfer portal and NIL.Three of the four Heisman finalists are quarterbacks who blossomed into stars at their second schools and were having so much fun in college that they decided to stick around an extra year — or two.“It’s different for everybody. It depends on how they want their life to go,” LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels said Friday. “We decided to transfer, and to start fresh, and to stay an extra year because we felt like we had something more to prove.”Whether it is Daniels, Oregon’s Bo Nix or Washington’s Michael Penix Jr., the Heisman Trophy winner is likely to be a transfer quarterback for the fifth time in the last seven years.The 89th Heisman will be handed out Saturday night in midtown Manhattan. Those three quarterbacks and Ohio State receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. are the finalists. Daniels is the favorite to take home...

Increíble: nace raro caimán blanco en parque de Florida, ahora buscan qué nombre ponerle

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:28:33 GMT

Florida tiene un caimán más, pero esta vez se trata de uno extremadamente raro.Un caimán leucístico nació en el popular parque de reptiles de Gatorland, en Orlando, que ahora está pidiendo ayuda del público para ponerle nombre.Se trata de una hembra de 19.2 pulgadas y apenas el séptimo caimán de este tipo que se conoce, según el parque. Tres de los otros 7 caimanes leucísticos están en este mismo recinto. Sorpresa: las autoridades entran a una casa y se encuentran con dos caimanes Se aparece con su caimán de apoyo emocional en un partido y no lo dejan entrar “Por primera vez desde que se descubrió un nido de caimanes leucísticos en los pantanos de Louisiana hace 36 años, tenemos el primer nacimiento de un caimán blanco sólido jamás registrado a partir de esos caimanes originales. Esto es más que “raro”, ¡es absolutamente extraordinario!”, dijo en un comunicado Mark McHugh, presidente y director ejecutivo de Gatorland.El leucismo ...

Sean McDermott says he feels support from team as he again addresses 9/11 hijacker comments

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:28:33 GMT

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills coach Sean McDermott said Friday he recognizes his mistakes while also noting he still has the support of the team in light of a questionable comparison he made four years ago in crediting the 9/11 hijackers for their coordination. “It was important for me to address the players that are new to us since 2019 and may not have been around that day,” said McDermott, who met with players Thursday to discuss the comments. ”So they understood that situation and how it unfolded, and that, based on who I am and what they’ve seen, my hope and how I try and do things and how I handled that situation. So it went well. Their support was clear and much appreciated.”The 49-year-old McDermott, in his seventh season coaching the Bills, said he owes it to his players to focus on beating the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday. But he also wanted to address the situation. “I think in any of our lives if this came up for any of us, something like this, it definitely ge...