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After seven years behind bars awaiting trial, Richmond man is acquitted of murder and freed

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:17 GMT

MARTINEZ — Anthony Timmons was 18 in December 2015 when police arrested him on charges that he’d aided a Richmond gang member in the killing of a man who was mistaken for a police informant in a 2006 homicide case.For Timmons, the arrest would mark the beginning of a wait of more than seven years behind bars, which ended May 3 when a jury found Timmons not guilty of all charges. He was freed later that day. Now in his mid-20s, Timmons is re-entering society as a man with no convictions on his record, despite spending virtually his entire adulthood behind bars.“I believe he was the Contra Costa jail’s longest resident when he was released,” Timmons’ attorney, Howard Williams, said in a Tuesday interview. “He’s just a victim of the legal morass that kept him there for so long.”Timmons defense during trial was simple: the August 2015 murder of 66-year-old Carl Roberts was not Timmons’ doing, but the work of his co-defendant, A...

Stranger with ax breaks into occupied Bay Area home; police find him on couch

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:17 GMT

A stranger with an ax smashed his way into a Rohnert Park home on Sunday night and was sitting on the couch when officers arrived, the police said.A resident on Bruce Avenue called 911 at 7:25 p.m. and said a man he did not know had entered the house after using an ax to break the sliding glass door from the back yard. The resident said he left through the front door.Officers surrounded the home and called for the intruder to come out. When he did not comply, they approached and saw the man sitting on a couch. He failed to respond to further instructions, and the officers went in and took him into custody without incident. He was no longer holding the ax, they said.The intruder was identified as a 43-year-old man from Groveland, in Tuolumne County. He was booked into Sonoma County jail on suspicion of one felony county of vandalism.No injuries were reported from the incident.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Family says a hot chicken nugget scalded girl’s leg. Now...

Family says a hot chicken nugget scalded girl’s leg. Now they are suing McDonald’s over Happy Meal

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:17 GMT

The family of a 4-year-old girl allegedly scalded by a steaming hot Chicken McNugget is taking McDonald’s to court in Broward County, faulting the fast-food giant for poor training and failing to protect its customers.Philana Holmes says in her lawsuit that she took her daughter to the McDonald’s restaurant in Tamarac in 2019 and ordered a six-piece Happy Meal with milk and a Lion King toy.“The Chicken McNuggets inside of that Happy Meal were unreasonably and dangerously hot and caused [the victim’s] skin and flesh around her thighs to burn,” the lawsuit states. The burns were second-degree, according to the lawsuit, and the chicken was on her thigh for nearly two minutes. The girl, whose name is not disclosed in the lawsuit, is autistic and will not be testifying.Lawsuits in state court don’t require plaintiffs to be specific about how much money they are seeking, but it is above $15,000.Broward Circuit Judge David Haimes split the trial into two parts — the first will determ...

Video: Body cam footage shows officer shoot man during hostage situation

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:17 GMT

(KRON) -- A daughter reported her mother being held hostage by her ex-husband to the Brentwood Police Department. She told responding officers the suspect was chasing her mom around with a gun and was threatening to shoot her. That's when police heard the first of many gunshots.Body cam footage released by the Brentwood Police Department Tuesday of an officer shooting a suspect in March shows the moments leading up to the shooting that left the victim and the suspect injured. The suspect was holding a woman hostage at an apartment building before shooting at responding officers.Police received a call around 9 p.m. on March 12 during which a woman told them a man was holding her mom at gunpoint against her will at the Brentwood Parks Apartment building. The caller told police to come without sirens because of how the suspect might react. "If he sees the police he's going to start shooting," the caller said.The caller identified the suspect as Joshua Smith, her mom's ex-husband, and s...

Feinstein set to return to Washington following months-long absence 

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:17 GMT

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is set to return to Washington for work on Tuesday for the first time since February, handing Democrats back their majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee and one-seat advantage in the full chamber. Adam Russell, a Feinstein spokesperson, confirmed to The Hill that she boarded a flight to Washington earlier on Tuesday. The Senate is set to vote this evening.Feinstein, 89, has been sidelined since the February recess after she was hospitalized with shingles. The longtime California Democrat has been at the center of criticism in recent months, as the Judiciary Committee cancelled three straight mark-ups and was unable to move several nominees through the panel in March.Four sitting House members — Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) — called on her to resign and argued she was no longer able to carry out her responsibilities as a lawmaker. Feinstein is the oldest sitting...

Sonim: Q1 Earnings Snapshot

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:17 GMT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — SAN DIEGO (AP) — Sonim Technologies, Inc. (SONM) on Monday reported net income of $227,000 in its first quarter.On a per-share basis, the San Diego-based company said it had profit of 1 cent.The company posted revenue of $25.8 million in the period._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on SONM at https://www.zacks.com/ap/SONMSource

Gambling’s place in campus culture portends scandals to come

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:17 GMT

With the proliferation of legal wagering in the United States the past five years, it wasn’t a question of if but when a college sports gambling scandal would become public.Two have come to light in the past week, the first at Alabama involving its head baseball coach and then an investigation of Iowa and Iowa State athletes participating in online gambling.“This is probably just the tip of the iceberg,” Keith Whyte, executive director of the National Council on Problem Gambling, said Tuesday. “In surveys, the athletes self-report a high rate of gambling participation and sports betting. It wouldn’t surprise us if there’s more problems that surface.”East Carolina assistant professor Michelle Malkin, who researches ties between gambling and criminality, said placing sports bets has become a part of college culture, more so since the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 cleared the way for states to legalize sports wagering.“We can’t think our student-athletes would be a...

Former nurse sentenced for dosing error seeks license return

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:17 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former Tennessee nurse who was convicted of homicide last year after a medication error killed a patient argued Tuesday that the state Board of Nursing acted improperly when it revoked her license. Nurses around the country rallied for RaDonda Vaught during her criminal trial, saying the risk of going to prison for a mistake made nursing intolerable. Vaught was ultimately sentenced to three years of probation. At the Tuesday hearing at Chancery Court in Nashville, her attorney pointed out that the Department of Health initially reviewed Vaught’s errors and concluded the case “did not merit further action” in a 2018 letter. That should have been the end of the review, attorney Peter Strianse argued. Instead, about a year later, the department reversed itself, charging Vaught with unprofessional conduct and eventually revoking her license.Strianse implied that outside pressure, including the fact that the Nashville district attorney decided ...

EEUU le impone sanciones a un hijo de “El Chapo” Guzmán

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:17 GMT

WASHINGTON  — Estados Unidos sancionó el martes a un hijo del narcotraficante mexicano Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, tres miembros del poderoso cártel de Sinaloa y dos empresas con sede en México, alegando que traficaron fentanilo y otras drogas al territorio estadounidense.Las sanciones se anunciaron el mismo día que el presidente mexicano, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, prevé hablar por teléfono con el presidente Joe Biden sobre inmigración y la crisis del fentanilo.El Departamento del Tesoro designó a Joaquín Guzmán López, hijo de “El Chapo”, y a otros para sanciones financieras, incluida la congelación de activos y cuentas bancarias de propiedad estadounidense y la prohibición de que los estadounidenses hagan negocios con ellos. Qué dicen los hijos del “Chapo” Guzmán a las acusaciones de fiscales de EEUU De la cocaína al fentanilo: los cambios que hicieron los hijos de “El Chapo” en el cártel de Sinaloa Una empresa de equipos ...

Denver police search for suspects in shooting on 16th and Wazee

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:17 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver Police Department is asking for the public's assistance regarding a shooting that took place at 16th Street and Wazee Street.The shooting happened around 1:51 a.m. on May 6, according to DPD.An adult man was injured, but expected to survive. DPD is asking anyone with information or surveillance video of the incident to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867. Tipsters can remain anonymous.