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Two gray foxes rescued from deep concrete window well on Peninsula

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:12:06 GMT

(KRON) -- Two gray foxes that were trapped in a deep concrete window well at a Portola Valley home were freed this week, according to the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA. The foxes had apparently fallen into the 10-foot-high window well and were unable to climb out.Luckily for the foxes, someone who was cleaning the windows in the home spotted them."An individual who was cleaning the windows in a Portola Valley home spotted two foxes confined in a deep concrete window well and called us for help,” said PHS/SPCA’s Communications Manager Buffy Martin Tarbox.Photo: Peninsula HS/SPCARescue staff with the PHS/SPCA arrived on the scene and were able to carefully remove the animals from the well."PHS/SPCA rescue staff literally plucked them from their perilous predicament, saving the lives of the two beautiful native Gray Foxes," said Tarbox.However, due to the height of the window well, the rescue staff had to enter from inside the house. Bay to Breakers street closures for this wee...

San Francisco officials are investigating if Elon Musk’s 'Twitter Hotel' plan broke laws

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:12:06 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco officials are investigating Twitter after six former employees allege that owner Elon Musk's leadership team broke laws in turning the company's headquarters into a “Twitter Hotel” for workers being pushed to stay up late to transform the social media platform.The San Francisco Chronicle reports that city officials are opening their latest investigation into the company that Musk took over late last year. SF restaurant that hosted anti-trans dinner apologizes amid backlash That's after the ex-employees, including a former vice president of real estate, alleged in a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Delaware that Twitter didn’t pay them promised severance. Twitter is seeking to dismiss the case.They also allege that Musk’s team ordered numerous changes to the company's headquarters in a 1930s Art Deco building in downtown San Francisco that violated building codes. Those changes included disabling lights and adding locks that wouldn't open ...

Prisoner transport bus involved in downtown Sacramento crash

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:12:06 GMT

(KTXL) -- A collision involving a prisoner transport bus in downtown Sacramento has resulted in multiple injuries, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office. The collision occurred at the intersection of 5th and I streets when a vehicle is believed to have run a red light and collided with the bus on I Street. Sacramento Fire DepartmentSacramento Fire Department Stockton Police: Detective placed on leave after DUI arrest At least 13 inmates are complaining of pain although there are "no visible or obvious injuries," the sheriff's office said. Video from the Sacramento Fire Department shows a black vehicle with major front-end damage and the prisoner bus sustained side impact damage.

SAIC names Microsoft veteran as new CEO

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:12:06 GMT

Reston, Virginia-based Science Applications International Corp. has named Toni Townes-Whitley the new chief executive officer to replace retiring CEO Nazzic Keene. (Courtesy Science Applications International Corp.)Reston, Virginia-based Science Applications International Corp., one of the 10 largest government IT contractors, has named a new chief executive officer to replace retiring CEO Nazzic Keene.Toni Townes-Whitley, who was recently president of U.S. Regulated Industries at Microsoft, will join SAIC as CEO-elect June 12 and assume the CEO role full-time upon Keene’s retirement Oct. 1.Keene will remain with the company as special executive advisor to the CEO through Feb. 2, 2024.Keene joined SAIC in 2012, the same year the company announced an eventual split that created two independent companies, SAIC and Reston-based Leidos Holdings Corp. She was named CEO in August 2019. As CEO, she also oversaw the $1.2 billion acquisition of Unisys Federal in 2020.She has also been ...

Rubio wins much-altered 13th stage, Thomas stays in Giro lead

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:12:06 GMT

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Einer Rubio won a shortened and weather-affected 13th stage of the Giro d’Italia for his first victory in a Grand Tour while Geraint Thomas remained in the pink jersey on Friday.Rubio, who rides for Movistar, had time to raise an arm above his head and point to the sky as he crossed the line just ahead of fellow escapees Thibaut Pinot and Jefferson Alexander Cepeda. They sprinted for victory after a tough climb to the summit finish at Crans-Montana.“A big day that I was looking for by working very hard,” Rubio said. “It’s been difficult with the bad weather. But I had to keep going. I knew that Pinot was very strong. I had to finish with him and play it well tactically.“It will take time for me to realize that I won a stage of the Giro d’Italia. I didn’t believe I’d do it.”The route had already been changed earlier in the week when the top of the Passo del Gran San Bernardo was cut because of snowfall and a risk of avalanches.On Fr...

Saudi surge of diplomacy brings Assad, Zelenskyy to Arab summit

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:12:06 GMT

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia hosted an Arab League summit on Friday in which Syrian President Bashar Assad was welcomed back after a 12-year suspension and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a surprise visit to rally support against Russia.Russian airstrikes have left a swath of destruction across both countries, but in Syria they came at Assad’s invitation and helped him cling to power through years of grinding civil war. Other Arab states have deepened ties with Moscow while remaining largely neutral on the Ukraine war.The odd pairing of the two leaders in the same forum is the result of a recent flurry of diplomacy by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is pursuing regional rapprochement with the same vigor he previously brought to the kingdom’s confrontation with archrival Iran. In recent months, Saudi Arabia has restored diplomatic ties with Iran, is ending the kingdom’s yearslong war against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen and led the push...

Zimbabwe releases prisoners in amnesty, reducing overcrowding

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:12:06 GMT

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has begun releasing more than 4,000 prisoners under a presidential amnesty that authorities say will help ease congestion in some overcrowded jails.About 800 prisoners were released Friday from the Central Prison and Chikurubi Maximum Prison in the capital, Harare. Jails in other parts of the country began releasing prisoners who qualified for the amnesty on Thursday, said Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services spokeswoman Meya Khanyezi.She said the amnesty would “go a long way in reducing the prison population.” Zimbabwe’s prisons have a capacity of 17,000 but hold more than 20,000 inmates.Former prisoners have in the past complained about overcrowding and other harsh conditions such as a lack of food and proper health care. Amnesty International has previously described the conditions as “deplorable.” The Southern African nation of 15 million people regularly uses the presidential amnesty to decongest prisons.A beneficiary of the latest amnesty...

Milan’s La Scala and Paris Opera commission opera based on Umberto Eco’s “The Name of the Rose”

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:12:06 GMT

MILAN (AP) — Italian composer Francesco Filidei has been commissioned by Milan’s Teatro alla Scala and the Paris Opera to write a new opera based on Umberto Eco’s most famous novel “The Name of the Rose,” the opera houses announced Friday. The world premiere has already been scheduled, at La Scala on April 27, 2025, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher and starring mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsay and baritone Lucas Meachem. La Scala’s general manager, Dominique Meyer, called the new commission “a very important opera.” “The Name of the Rose” was Eco’s debut novel, a medieval thriller set in a monastery. It catapulted him to international celebrity and was made into a 1986 film starring Sean Connery. Eco died at home in Milan in 2016.Filidei is working on two versions, one in Italian and one in French, the second to premiere at the Paris Opera. The 50-year-old Filidei has composed two previous operas: “Giordano Bruno,” which premiered in Porto, Portugal in 2015 and ...

Man faces judge after leading several police departments on tri-county chase in stolen fire truck

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:12:06 GMT

A man who stole a Miami-Dade Fire Rescue truck and led police officers on a chaotic chase appeared in front of a judge.On Friday morning, 31-year-old Aljenard Lekambrick was in court after, police said, the crime he committed was a “prime picking” for the suspect as the fire truck he took was being used in a training exercise by MDFR Fire Station 31. A cellphone video from ‘Only In Dade’ captured the moment several police departments went on a tri-county chase. Officials said the pursuit started in Opa Locka after the suspect hit an unoccupied police cruiser.From there, authorities, including Florida Highway Patrol deputies, chased Lekambrick on Interstate 95 in Miami-Dade County, through Broward County, and finally, the pursuit ended in unincorporated Palm Beach County on the Florida Turnpike near Boynton Beach. Lekambrick appeared in the Palm Beach County Bond Court where he appeared to have an attitude. “The facts make this extremely egregious,”...

Russia puts war crimes prosecutor on ‘wanted list’

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:12:06 GMT

Russia has added Karim Khan, a British prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, on a “wanted” list after the Hague-based court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Russian independent media outlet Mediazona reported that Khan’s photo and personal information are visible on the Interior Ministry’s database, listed as “wanted on felony charges.”In March, Russia began criminal cases against Khan and three ICC judges on the basis of them having committed “signs of crimes” under Russian law. This includes knowingly accusing an innocent person of a crime in Khan’s case and deliberately unlawful detention in the cases of the judges.The latest move comes two months after the ICC issued arrest warrants for Putin and Russia’s Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, considered “allegedly responsible” for the illegal transfer and deportation of children from Ukraine and the occupied territories to Russia d...