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Former officer Thao convicted for aiding George Floyd’s killing

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:32 GMT

By Steve Karnowski | Associated PressMINNEAPOLIS — A former Minneapolis police officer who held back bystanders while his colleagues restrained a dying George Floyd has been convicted of aiding and abetting manslaughter.Tou Thao, who already had been convicted in federal court of violating Floyd’s civil rights, was the last of four former officers facing judgment in state court in Floyd’s killing. He rejected a plea agreement and, instead of going to trial, let Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill decide the verdict based on written filings by each side and evidence presented in previous cases.“There is proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Thao’s actions were objectively unreasonable from the perspective of a reasonable police officer, when viewed under the totality of the circumstances,” Cahill wrote in a 177-page ruling that was filed Monday night and released Tuesday.Floyd, a Black man, died May 25, 2020, after officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, pinn...

False sex abuse claims against priests — while rare — can hurt real victims and innocent clergy, experts say

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:32 GMT

Angie Leventis Lourgos | Chicago TribuneCHICAGO — The sexual abuse supposedly occurred in 2003 at St. Agatha Catholic Church on Chicago’s West Side.Accuser “John Doe” claimed in court documents that as a young boy he had been sexually assaulted multiple times during the after-school SAFE program by Daniel McCormack, a defrocked Chicago priest who pleaded guilty in 2007 to sexually abusing five children while serving at St. Agatha’s parish.Memories of the abuse were repressed until 2020, according to court documents, when Doe filed a lawsuit against the former priest and the Chicago Archdiocese, seeking monetary damages.Except the entire story was later proven in court to be a fabrication, seemingly in an attempt to get a settlement.As the Catholic Church continues to grapple with a global decadeslong clerical sex abuse scandal, one ramification that’s emerged is fraudulent claims against priests and other members of the clergy.While data seem to indicate these kinds of false allegat...

Sale closed in Oakland: $1.7 million for a three-bedroom home

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:32 GMT

5832 Nottingham Drive – Google Street ViewThe spacious property located in the 5800 block of Nottingham Drive in Oakland was sold on March 17, 2023 for $1,650,000, or $805 per square foot. The house, built in 1931, has an interior space of 2,049 square feet. The property features three bedrooms, two baths, a garage, and one parking space. The unit sits on a 6,903-square-foot lot.Additional houses that have recently been purchased close by include:A 2,344-square-foot home on the 5700 block of Merriewood Drive in Oakland sold in March 2022, for $2,000,000, a price per square foot of $853. The home has 4 bedrooms and.On Capricorn Avenue, Oakland, in June 2022, a 2,988-square-foot home was sold for $1,550,000, a price per square foot of $519. The home has 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.In February 2023, a 2,328-square-foot home on Florence Terrace in Oakland sold for $1,620,000, a price per square foot of $696. The home has 3 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. 

Top Bay Area concert picks: Lil Wayne, Rend Collective, Metronomy

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:32 GMT

Here are three upcoming concerts worth checking out in the Bay Area:Lil WayneThe hip-hop icon brings his eagerly anticipated Welcome to Tha Carter Tour to the Masonic in San Francisco on May 12. Lil Wayne ranks among the top-selling artists of all time, having reportedly moved more than 100 million records during his career, and has also won five Grammy Awards. Showtime is 8 p.m., livenation.com.Rend CollectiveThe cool folk-rock band from Northern Island makes its way back to the area for a pair of shows in support of its most recent full-length offering, “Whosoever.” Red Collective, known for such popular songs as “Build Your Kingdom Here” and “Counting Every Blessing,” performs May 11 at Venture Christian Church in Los Gatos and May 12 at First Baptist Church in Stockton. Visit rendcolletive.com for details.MetronomyThe acclaimed British electronic music outfit, led by singer-songwriter Joseph Mount, is out on the road in support of its seventh ...

Full list of Tony Awards nominees

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:32 GMT

By Marianne Garvey | CNNLea Michele and Myles Frost announced the nominations for the 2023 Tony Awards on Tuesday.This year, 38 shows were vying for nominations for the ceremony scheduled on June 11.Related ArticlesEntertainment | ‘Some Like It Hot’ leads Tony nominations with 13 Broadway’s “Some Like It Hot” picked up the most nominations, with 13 in all.Below is the full list of nominees.Best New Play“Ain’t No Mo'”“Between Riverside and Crazy”“Cost of Living”“Fat Ham”“Leopoldstadt”Best New Musical“& Juliet”“Kimberly Akimbo”“New York, New York”“Shucked”“Some Like It Hot”Best Play Revival“A Doll’s House”“The Piano Lesson”“The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window”“Topdog/Underdog”Best Musical Revival“Camelot”“Into the Woods”“P...

‘Some Like It Hot’ leads Tony nominations with 13

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:32 GMT

By Mark Kennedy | Associated PressNEW YORK — “Some Like It Hot,” a Broadway musical adaptation of the cross-dressing movie comedy that starred Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, waltzed away Tuesday with a leading 13 Tony Award nominations, putting the spotlight on a show that is a sweet, full-hearted embrace of trans rights.With songs by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman and starring Christian Borle and J. Harrison Ghee, who all got nominations, the show follows two musician friends who disguise themselves as women and join an all-girl band to flee Chicago after witnessing a mob hit. Like the movie, there are men in dresses trying to pass as women. But this time, the dress awakens something in Ghee’s character, akin to a transformation from a caterpillar to a butterfly.The message of self-acceptance and respect for all was echoed across Broadway, from a revival of “Parade” to a Black actor-led “Death of a Salesman” to the new play “Ain’t...

Three people stabbed in one week in Davis, two of them fatally: Here's what we know

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:32 GMT

(KTXL) — Two men are dead and a woman is in critical condition after three separate stabbing attacks that occurred in the late hours across several days in Davis. Local law enforcement believes that one suspect is connected to at least two of the attacks, and federal authorities have now joined the investigation. Below is what officials have said so far about the attacks, two of which occurred at parks. Stabbing at Central ParkOn the morning of Thursday, April 27, Davis Police said they responded to a call of an individual found unresponsive in Central Park. Emergency personnel that responded found a man with "multiple stab wounds" and declared the man deceased. No information on a suspect was provided. The Yolo County Coroner identified the victim as David Henry Breaux, 50, known locally as the "Compassion Guy," who was known to frequent the area for at least the last decade. Breaux was instrumental in the installation of the Compassion Bench in 2013, and community members have con...

'Soggy Tuesday' brings scattered showers, chance of thunderstorms

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:32 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Following several days of nearly summer-like weather, the Bay Area is in for a "soggy Tuesday," according to the National Weather Service. Scattered showers blanketed the region Tuesday morning and a slight chance for isolated thunderstorms will persist throughout the day. There is even an outside chance for small hail, the NWS said. Warriors-Lakers playoff series: Start times, TV schedule Monday will stay breezy and cool, but mostly dry, despite some drizzle. Tuesday is when the brunt of the wet weather is expected to hit.Graphic: Kyla Grogan"May is starting cool, drizzly and breezy around the Bay Area with more widespread but intermittent showers expected to roll overnight tonight through our Tuesday," said KRON4 Meteorologist Kyla Grogan. "There is even a slight chance of thunderstorms with this system on Tuesday as a front tracks through opening the door to a very cold air mass entering behind it."Following last week's warmer than average weather, Tuesd...

Suspect in Northgate High stabbing charged with murder

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:32 GMT

(BCN) -- A ninth-grade boy who allegedly stabbed a ninth-grade girl last week at Northgate High School in Walnut Creek has been charged with attempted murder and mayhem. Walnut Creek police said Tuesday the boy is still being held at juvenile hall. Man fatally stabbed in Pleasanton, 2 suspects at-large The victim is recovering at home, Police Lt. Holley Connors said. The boy stabbed the girl around 1 p.m. on April 25 at the school located on Castle Rock Road. Authorities aren't naming the suspect because he is a juvenile. Anyone with additional information can call Walnut Creek police at (925) 943-5844 or an anonymous tip line at (925) 943-5865. Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

Woman attacked in Davis, third stabbing in a week

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:32 GMT

(KTXL) — A woman is in critical condition after being stabbed in Davis Monday night, the third stabbing in less than a week, the Davis Police Department said. Police sent out an emergency alert requesting that residents shelter in place while law enforcement searched the downtown area and surrounding neighborhoods but were unable to find the suspect.The shelter-in-place request has been lifted. Police said the woman reported that the suspect stabbed her through her tent at a "known transient camp."The woman was treated at the scene and then taken to a hospital.Police said they believe that the suspect in Monday night's stabbing is the same as the suspect in the killing of 20-year-old Karim Abou Najim, a student at UC Davis, on Saturday in Sycamore Park.The suspects in both of those stabbings were generally described as being light-complected men between 5'6" and 5'9". The suspect in the Sycamore Park stabbing was estimated to be between 19 and 23 years old. The suspect in Monday nig...