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Walnut Creek: Woman charged with using bear mace on 9-month-old baby in revenge attack

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:53:51 GMT

WALNUT CREEK — A Concord woman has been charged with spraying a 9-month-old baby boy and his father with bear mace, in a drive-by attack that authorities believe was motivated by anger at the father’s girlfriend, court records show.Chelsea Reich, 35, was charged Sept. 21 with child cruelty, assault likely to produce great bodily injury, and misuse of tear gas, all felonies. Police say the attack occurred on Lennon Lane in Walnut Creek, while the father was carrying the baby and waiting for his girlfriend to get off work.The father later told police that while they were waiting, a man and a woman rode up on a motorbike, sprayed them with a large canister of mace, and drove off. Both the baby and his father required treatment at a nearby hospital, police said.Police identified Reich as a suspect and also arrested her 31-year-old boyfriend, although he has not yet been charged, records show.According to authorities, Reich blamed the father’s girlfriend for her being f...

Brad Pitt who? ‘Single mom’ Angelina Jolie ditches UN work to launch luxury fashion brand

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:53:51 GMT

It appears that Angelina Jolie’s bitter custody battle with Brad Pitt is mostly behind her as the couple’s six children approach adulthood. She’s also ditched her prestigious, high-profile work as a goodwill ambassador and special envoy for the UN Refugee Agency.In a new phase phase of her life, the Academy Award-winning actor and director has made a home in New York City and has launched a new career as the head of a luxury fashion brand bearing her name, Vogue is reporting. In a new cover story for the magazine, Jolie doesn’t mention Pitt by name. She rarely has spoken about him since she filed for divorce in 2016 and accused him of being violent around their children in an infamous private plane ride from France to the United States.Still, Jolie appeared to reference Pitt when she admitted to Vogue: “I feel a bit down these days. I don’t feel like I’ve been myself for a decade, in a way, which I don’t want to get into.”HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – O...

Should San Jose Sharks leverage cap space to help bail out Ottawa Senators?

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:53:51 GMT

SAN JOSE – General manager Mike Grier is hoping the San Jose Sharks can leverage some of their ample salary cap space this season, particularly when the NHL trade deadline approaches.Perhaps, though, there’s an opportunity for the Sharks to do something with that space right now.The Ottawa Senators are trying to sign restricted free agent center Shane Pinto to an extension but do not have the needed cap space at the moment to get a deal done. There have been reports that Pinto’s next contract might come in with an average annual value of just over $2 million, and the Senators, per CapFriendly, have less than $1 million at their disposal.To free up space, it’s been speculated that Ottawa might need to trade someone like forward Mathieu Joseph, who is in the second year of a four-year, $11.8 million deal. To consummate a trade, the Senators might need to throw in a good prospect or a high draft pick as a sweetener to make it work.Does it make sense for the Sharks to make such a move, ...

Fairfield boys apprehended with police K-9 after reported shooting

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:53:51 GMT

(KRON) -- A teen boy was hospitalized for a gunshot wound in Fairfield Tuesday afternoon, according to the Fairfield Police Department. Two 14-year-olds were later taken into custody and released.Police were called to Pear Tree Lane around 4:08 p.m. on Sept. 26 after reports of shots fired in the area. Witnesses told authorities at the scene that three teenagers had fled into a nearby home on Orange Tree Way after the shooting.A 17-year-old boy walked into a local hospital shortly after the reported gunfire and was suffering from non-life-threatening injuries from a gunshot wound, police said. The injuries sustained were from a 9 mm firearm, according to Fairfield police. No further information was available on the victim.A police perimeter was set up outside the home on Orange Tree Way, and a K-9 announcement was made, Fairfield PD said. After the announcement of a K-9, one 14-year-old boy surrendered at the rear of the house, and another 14-year-old boy surrendered from the front....

Soccer player Paulinho won’t let intolerance of his Afro-Brazilian religion stop his faith

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:53:51 GMT

LAGOA SANTA, Brazil (AP) — When Brazilian soccer player Paulinho scored a goal at the Tokyo Olympics, he celebrated by pointing an imaginary arrow at the flashing cameras as homage to a deity in his persecuted Afro-Brazilian faith – and taking aim at religious intolerance.Shortly after, he lost more than 10,000 followers on social media for his public gesture paying tribute to Oxóssi– a godly archer who uses his bow to hunt and feed the hungry.But he says he gradually gained new fans in his soccer-crazed South American country for representing his Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé and challenging religious intolerance. His religion has faced a rising tide of harassment, sometimes linked to Brazil’s fast spread of evangelical Christianity.“Some players ask me about my religion, they want to know what it’s like, … I always tell them, they listen. But it’s still a small minority in soccer,” the 23-year-old player for Brazilian club Atletico Mineiro said in an interview at his home outs...

Declaran como “homicidio” muerte de bebé a principios de año en DC

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:53:51 GMT

Un bebé de 7 meses que murió a principios de este año en DC sufrió un traumatismo contundente y su muerte declarada homicidio, informó la policía.El bebé, King Phelps, estaba inconsciente y no respondía cuando los agentes acudieron a la cuadra 1300 de Morris Road SE poco después de las 2:15 a.m. del 16 de marzo, según la policía de DC.Los médicos declararon que el menor había muerto en el lugar.La policía dijo el miércoles que la oficina del médico forense dictaminó que las complicaciones de un traumatismo contundente causaron la muerte del bebé y que la forma de muerte fue homicidio.La muerte del niño es una de varias ocurridas a principios de año en DC que las autoridades determinaron recientemente que fueron homicidios.La ciudad capitalina ha superado los 200 homicidios en lo que va de año hasta el martes. Es el primer momento en el año en que la ciudad registra 200 homicidios desde 1997.Este año es el tercero consecutivo en que el Distrito supera 200 homicidios.La policía de DC ...

Rifle manufacturer created by Bushmaster founder goes out of business

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:53:51 GMT

WINDHAM, Maine (AP) — An AR-15-style rifle manufacturer in Maine that was launched by the founder of Bushmaster Firearms is going out of business and its assets will be auctioned next month, the company announced. Windham Weaponry was created by Richard Dyke in 2011 after he sold Bushmaster to new owners who decided to move manufacturing out of Maine. The new company was much like the old, using most of the same employees and producing a similar product line.But the manufacturer announced this month it was going out of business after failing to meet loan obligations. Three auctions of the company’s assets begin Oct. 1.Dyke, who died in March at age 89, was a major figure behind the scenes in national politics as a donor and in business as a real estate developer and entrepreneur who rescued distressed properties. A small business center at Husson University bears his name.Dyke created Bushmaster Firearms after buying a gunmaker that was in bankruptcy in 1976. The company becam...

The Phillies are again embracing ‘Dancing On My Own’ as their postseason party anthem

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:53:51 GMT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bryce Harper rushed to the field with his Phillies teammates Tuesday night, ready to kickstart another postseason clinching bash.But Harper — and all the Phillies — needed to hear the song to really believe the playoff berth was real. Philadelphia had to play the anthem that shot to No. 1 on their 2022 postseason party playlist, only to get forced into a brief retirement.When the opening chords of the piano-led lyrics were heard over the sound system moments after the team clinched a wild-card spot, Phillies fans erupted in joy. Quickly, the melody transitioned into the powerful chorus, and the sing-along, from the 30,000 fans at Citizens Bank Park down to the Phillies in their postseason sweatshirts jumping along on the infield kicked into overdrive.“I’m in the corner, watching you kiss her (Philly roars into the, ‘oh oh ohs’) I’m right over here, why can’t you see me? (raise a drink, repeat the ‘ohs’). And I’m giving it my all, I’m not the guy you’re taking hom...

Sleeping, eating, film work and a little ‘panic.’ How the Steelers dealt with emergency landing

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:53:51 GMT

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Kenny Pickett was trying to get some sleep as the team was flying back from a win in Las Vegas early Monday morning when a flight attendant nudged him awake with some unwelcome news.“(She) was like ‘We have a Code Yellow alert’ and I was just kind of out of it,” Pickett said. “I was like, ’What does that mean? We’re one step away from Code Red.’”Things didn’t quite get that far, though an oil pressure issue forced Pittsburgh’s charter plane to make an emergency landing in Kansas City. The plane landed safely, though not everyone on the flight took the unexpected detour in stride.“Some guys were panicking,” Pickett said. “It was a crazy situation. I’m happy we landed.”Once safely on the ground, the Steelers spent five-plus hours on the tarmac while waiting for another plane to fly in from Atlanta that could carry the team the rest of the way home, making an already long night even longer.The Steelers were initially supposed to l...

Kyle Busch sells NASCAR team to Spire Motorsports as 2-time Cup champion ends ownership role

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:53:51 GMT

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Kyle Busch has sold his Truck Series team, manufacturing business and all the Kyle Busch Motorsports assets to Spire Motorsports in a deal announced Wednesday. KBM is one of the most successful truck organizations in NASCAR history and holds the series record for most career wins (100) and most wins in a single season (14). Busch has won seven owner’s championships and a pair of driver championships with Erik Jones in 2015 and Christopher Bell in 2017. KBM, started in 2010 by two-time Cup Series champion Busch, for more than a decade has been a development step for young drivers backed by Toyota. Busch left Joe Gibbs Racing, a Toyota team, at the end of last season for Richard Childress Racing, which fields Chevrolets. KBM this season has fielded Chevy trucks, and Spire is a Chevrolet-aligned team. The sale includes Rowdy Manufacturing and the assets from its chassis building operation and CNC machine shop, as well as the assets of Busch’s NASCAR team. T...