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One Pronounced Dead following Skateboard Accident on Sparks Boulevard [Sparks, NV]

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:52 GMT

Skateboarder Dies after Being Struck by Vehicle near Prater WaySPARKS, NV (October 18, 2023) – Friday night, one man lost his life after a vehicle vs skateboard accident on Sparks Boulevard.Authorities were called to the scene of an accident with a skateboarder and a car along the 500 Block of Sparks Boulevard, at around 10:30 p.m.First responders quickly acted to treat the seriously injured skateboarder, but he was pronounced dead later at the hospital due to the extent of his injuries.Additionally, authorities are still unsure of the events leading up to the crash. However, the involved driver stayed to cooperate with law enforcement.Furthermore, police have yet to release any other information or the identities of anyone involved at this time. An active investigation is currently ongoing.Anyone with further information about the fatal accident is urged to contact Sparks Officials.Sweet James sends out their warm and sincerest sympathies to the friends and family of the vict...

Rider Dies in Motorcycle Accident on East Tropicana Avenue [Las Vegas, NV]

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:52 GMT

One Pronounced Dead after Motorcycle Collision near South Pecos RoadLAS VEGAS, NV (October 18, 2023) – On October 12th, a motorcycle accident claimed the life of one rider on East Tropicana Avenue just west of South Pecos Road around 2:40 p.m.The incident involved a Toyota Corolla and a 2016 Yamaha MT-07. Police say a motorcyclist was traveling west on Tropicana when the Toyota attempted to execute a left turn. There, the motorcyclist struck the passenger side of the turning Toyota, resulting in the rider being ejected onto the road.Medical personnel took the injured motorcyclist transported to Sunrise Hospital with critical injuries. The victim was pronounced dead at the hospital shortly after.Law enforcement eventually arrested the driver, apprehending them on DUI-related charges and placing them in the Clark County Detention Center. As soon as more details become available, they will be provided to the public.No words can mend the broken hearts and sorrow felt during this d...

Letters: Worst to come | World’s solution | Lowering crime | 49ers looting

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:52 GMT

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor.Worst is yet to comefor people of GazaThe head of Med Global said on MSNBC that “the war must be stopped” to end the death and injury of children in Gaza.Yet the war has not yet even begun. Israelis have yet to attack on the ground as promised. America has Israel’s back. We will be partly responsible for what happens next.I want no part of what we all know is coming soon to Gaza. They are not all Hamas. Israel must integrate the Palestinians, not kill them.Robert WahlerSan JoseWorld must solveGaza Strip problemThe Gaza Strip formed with dislocated Palestinians from the armistice between Israel and Egypt in 1949 is not a country or a home. It is a seething tempest of a forgotten people.Restricted from trade, movement and any pursuit, it should have been no surprise that they would lash out. Two million people packed in an area just twice the size of Washington, D.C. No country in the Mid...

After Quinn’s stinging critique, here’s what the San Jose Sharks emphasized in practice

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:52 GMT

SAN JOSE – San Jose Sharks players huddled together on the ice near the end of Wednesday’s practice for a few minutes. There wasn’t any grand, fiery speech – at least nothing discernable from a few dozen feet away — and it ended after a short while with the group sharing a small laugh.Players after practice were hesitant to say what the meeting was about. Perhaps the theme, though, was to remain unified even though the Sharks are off to an 0-2-1 start, one year after they began the season with five straight regulation-time losses.“When you lose a few games, you have to come together,” Sharks goalie Kaapo Kahkonen said. “You can’t blame each other. You can’t point fingers.”Kahkonen will start Thursday when the Sharks face the Boston Bruins to end their season-opening four-game homestand, and job No. 1 for the skaters in front of him is to cut down on the number of shots their goaltender has to face.The Sharks allowed a combined 94 shots in losses to the ...

Jim Jordan loses second vote for House speaker amid steep GOP opposition

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:52 GMT

(CNN) — Republican Rep. Jim Jordan again failed to win the House speaker&#’;s gavel in a second vote on Wednesday, drawing less support than in an initial vote the day before. The loss raises serious questions over whether the Ohio Republican has a viable path forward as he confronts steep opposition and the House remains in a state of paralysis.During the first round of voting on Tuesday, 20 House Republicans voted against Jordan. On Wednesday, that number rose to 22, showing that the opposition against the candidate has grown. There were four new Republican votes against Jordan and two that flipped into his column. Given the narrow House GOP majority, Jordan can only afford to lose a handful of votes and the high number of votes against him puts the gavel far out of reach. As pressure grows on Republicans to find a way out of the leadership crisis, some are pushing to expand the powers of the interim speaker, Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina. Re...

Electronics manufacturer cuts East Bay jobs in fresh tech layoffs

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:52 GMT

FREMONT — A tech company that specializes in electronics manufacturing has revealed plans to slash well over 100 jobs in the East Bay, a fresh round of layoffs to jolt the Bay Area’s wobbly technology sector.Jabil, which manufactures electronics on a contract basis, has decided to cut 140 jobs in Fremont, according to an official filing with the state labor agency.The layoffs are slated to be effective around Nov. 10, Jabil said in its letter to the state Employment Development Department.The job cuts are expected to be permanent, Valeria Vargas, a Jabil human resources partner, wrote in the letter to the EDD.“We do not anticipate that these employees will return to work in the foreseeable future,” Vargas stated in the WARN notice the tech company filed with the state government.During 2023, Jabil has revealed plans for several rounds of layoffs affecting workers in the Bay Area, this news organization’s review of multiple EDD WARN notices shows.So far ...

Letters: Balanced coverage | Off the hook | Hamas’ destruction | Perpetuating division

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:52 GMT

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor.Israel-Hamas war criesfor balanced coverageRe: “Wounded inundate hospitals in Gaza” (Page A1, Oct. 16).On Sunday, I watched “60 Minutes'” excellent coverage of the carnage inflicted on Israeli citizens by Hamas. There were frequent warnings of the disturbing videos you were about to see.I wonder if other mainstream media will show similar videos of the carnage now being inflicted on Gaza by Israel.True journalism works both ways. Propaganda tells only one side of the story.Forrest CioppaWalnut CreekOpinion piece letsHamas off the hookRe: “End Israel’s colonial occupation and stop the apartheid system” (Page A13, Oct. 15).Ms. Baltzer also makes no mention of Hamas’ charter calling for Israel’s complete destruction. She pleads that she chokes up when she looks at photos of the recent slaughter, but quickly segues into trying to make it equal to what she calls “75 y...

Pedestrian bridge over DC-295 not seriously damaged after truck strike

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:52 GMT

Listen live for traffic updates.The pedestrian bridge over D.C. 295 was declared safe after it was struck by the load of a truck, littering steel debris and closing the roadway for several hours.The District Department of Transportation’s chief engineer led the inspection and declared the bridge near Douglas Street Northeast not seriously damaged.It was around 11 a.m. Wednesday that the top of a truck scraped the bridge and then continued driving, D.C. Fire and EMS said. No appeared hurt, they said.A portion of both the northbound and southbound lanes shut down, with traffic diverted to nearby roadways while engineers checked out the damage.All lanes reopened by 2:45 p.m. just as the afternoon commute got started.Traffic is moving again on DC 295 sb and nb. The truck that struck and damaged the pedestrian bridge at Douglas St NE in sub lanes left the scene of the late morning crash but left behind a twisted mass of steel debris from the truck’s topside ⁦@WTOP⁩ ⁦@WTOPtraffic⁩ p...

Aaron Jones says Packers’ bye week helped him recover from hamstring injury

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:52 GMT

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Aaron Jones was on his way to scoring his second touchdown in the Green Bay Packers’ season-opening victory at Chicago when he clutched his left hamstring before crossing the goal line.Jones’ season — and the Packers’ offense — haven’t been the same since. He’s hoping that changes Sunday in Denver.The 28-year-old Jones has missed three of Green Bay’s past four games because of that hamstring issue. Without their most proven playmaker, the young Packers offense has struggled.“It can be hard on yourself, not playing when you want to play, not having that effect you want to have,” Jones said. “Especially coming into this year, I felt like I was just heating up, especially Week 1, it was like, ‘Aww, man it’s going to be a long year for these guys lining up across from me.'”Instead, it’s been a long wait for Jones to get back to full strength. But Jones says he recovered during Green Bay’s bye week and feels as well as he has since before the injury.He’...

Brazil’s Bolsonaro should be charged with attempting to stage a coup, congressional panel says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:52 GMT

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian congressional panel on Wednesday accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of instigating the country’s Jan. 8 riots and recommended that he be charged with attempting to stage a coup.An inquiry panel of senators and representatives mostly allied with the current leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva — who narrowly defeated Bolsonaro in last fall’s election — voted 20-11 to adopt the damning report drafted by Sen. Eliziane Gama.The move was largely symbolic because it amounts to a recommendation for police and prosecutors to investigate, and federal law enforcement officials separately have already been investigating Bolsonaro’s possible role in inciting the Jan. 8 uprising.Bolsonaro has denied involvement in the rioting, which took place more than a week after the right-wing leader had quietly left the country to stay in Florida while refusing to attend Lula’s inauguration.“It’s completely biased,” Bolsonaro said Wednesday of the inquiry, in co...