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Lisette Villasenor Killed in DUI Crash on Highway 395 [Hesperia, CA]

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:30:42 GMT

Jose Vargas Arrested after DUI Head-On Collision near Main Street Left Mother Dead, 2 Children InjuredHESPERIA, CA (May 17, 2023) – Thursday evening, a DUI crash on Highway 395 left Lisette Villasenor dead and left her two children injured.The collision happened on May 11th, at around 6:31 p.m. along Highway 395 between Poplar Street and Main Street.According to reports, Jose Vargas in a 2003 Chevrolet Tahoe going north on Highway 395 veered into the oncoming northbound lane. There, the Tahoe collided head-on with a southbound 2018 Toyota Prius, occupied by Villasenor and her two children. The incident caused Villasenor and her children, 12-year-old Ashley Villasenor and 6-year-old Daniel Villasenor to sustain serious injuries.Following the crash Lisette and Daniel were airlifted to a local hospital for treatment. Meanwhile, Ashley was transported to the hospital via ground ambulance.At the hospital, officials pronounced 36-year-old Lisette Villasenor dead, due to the extent o...

Man sitting in vehicle shot in Oakland

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:30:42 GMT

OAKLAND — A 37-year-old man sitting in his parked vehicle suffered several graze wounds early Wednesday in the Eastlake area when two suspects shot at him, authorities said.He was later reported to be in stable condition at a hospital.The shooting happened about 12:14 a.m. Wednesday in the 1100 block of International Boulevard.The man told police he was sitting in his parked vehicle when two men standing outside began shooting at him.The shooters fled before police got to the scene.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Possible kidnapping being investigated by Oakland police Crime and Public Safety | How one Bay Area woman helped police track down a serial sexual assailant Crime and Public Safety | Man robbed and stabbed in Oakland’s Jack London Square Crime and Public Safety | East Bay deputy injured, patrol vehicles damaged after traffic stop, pursuit Crime and Public Safety | East Bay polic...

East Bay high school reviewing safety measures after three got onto campus, attacked student

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:30:42 GMT

SAN RAMON — Officials at a high school here continue to review their school safety systems and protocol, more than a week after a group of high-school age teens entered the campus and attacked a student.The incident happened May 8 at California High. Officials said the suspects — who were not students at the school — had help getting on campus unnoticed.“We are extremely dismayed that some of our own students allegedly helped the perpetrators enter the Cal High campus without permission,” San Ramon Unified School District spokesperson Tammy Herley said in a statement. We express our gratitude to the staff member in the classroom who intervened.”San Ramon and Dublin police worked together to identify the three suspects who came onto the campus but said they will not comment about any criminal sanction because the suspects are juveniles.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Months after storm damage, East County’s only roller rink will reop...

Etienne Charles brings his ‘Creole Soul’ revolution back to Bay Area

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:30:42 GMT

For Trinidadian trumpeter and percussionist Etienne Charles, rhythm doesn’t just organize a tune. It reveals historical origins and tracks sojourns both forced and voluntary.Returning to the Tenderloin jazz spot Black Cat with his pan-Caribbean band Creole Soul for a three-night run May 18-20 (followed by a May 21 afternoon concert at Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society in Half Moon Bay), Charles continues to explore music arising from four centuries of African displacements and subsequent migrations.The concerts mark the 10th anniversary of his landmark album “Creole Soul,” which introduced a body of music with a radically encompassing Caribbean rhythmic palette. He’s been expanding the conceptual framework ever since, and the Bay Area run is designed “to show the evolution since ‘Creole Soul’ came out,” he said.“There’s been a significant tilt to Caribbean dance music, rocksteady and reggae, since we’re digging around in the diaspora and looking at the 75th anniversary of Wi...

The restaurant chain that officially owns ‘Taco Tuesday’ fights challenge from Taco Bell

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:30:42 GMT

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Declaring a mission to liberate “Taco Tuesday” for all, Taco Bell is asking U.S. regulators to force the Taco John’s chain to abandon its longstanding claim to the trademark.Too many businesses and others refer to “Taco Tuesday” for Taco John’s to be able to have exclusive rights to the phrase, Taco Bell asserted in a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office filing on May 16.It’s the latest development in a long-running beef. The Patent and Trademark Office approved the Taco John’s “Taco Tuesday” trademark in 1989.“Taco Bell believes ‘Taco Tuesday’ is critical to everyone’s Tuesday. To deprive anyone of saying ‘Taco Tuesday’ — be it Taco Bell or anyone who provides tacos to the world — is like depriving the world of sunshine itself,” the Taco Bell filing reads.A key question is whether “Taco Tuesday” over the years has succumbed to “genericide,”...

Good Samaritan Hospital fine-tunes plans for San Jose campus revamp

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:30:42 GMT

A three-story medical office building totaling 46,000 square feet, located at 2512 Samaritan Court in San Jose, part of the Good Samaritan Hospital campus redevelopment and expansion, concept. (RBB Architects)SAN JOSE — New medical office buildings are slated to replace several older structures as part of the proposed revamp and redevelopment of the Good Samaritan Hospital campus in San Jose, city documents show.Two big medical office buildings will sprout after construction crews bulldoze numerous low-slung office sites as part of one segment of the Good Sam campus project at 2505 Samaritan Drive, according to the planning files.Separately, a smaller medical office will rise at the site of an existing office building at 2512 Samaritan Court, the development proposal states.Each of the two big office buildings will total 156,800 square feet and will both be six stories, the planning documents show. That would produce a combined square footage of 313,600 square feet at the...

Peninsula Restaurant Week runs May 19-27, with dozens of meal deals

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:30:42 GMT

Peninsula Restaurant Week runs from this Friday, May 19, through Saturday, May 27, with businesses all up and down the Peninsula enticing food lovers with the opportunity to save money while discovering new places and revisiting old favorites.About 90 restaurants are participating, according to the website, with more likely to join. Not all restaurants have posted their specials; keep checking back for updates.Among the highlights we found:Yama Sushi (Belmont): Sushi Boat with 32 assorted rolls, sashimi and nigiri for $49.99 and a Bento Box Dinner for for two, served with soup and salad, for $36.99.Hobee’s (Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Redwood Shores): Dulce de Leche French Toast for $10 — a discount of nearly 50% — any day until 10 a.m.Ristorante Carpaccio (Menlo Park): A $25 deal with salad, minestrone and house-made gnocchi with Bolognese or vodka sauce.CreoLa Bistro (San Carlos): Four courses for $55, with options such as Oyster Brochette, St. Charles C...

Death Valley marijuana grow: 10,000 plants and deadly pesticide

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:30:42 GMT

Ten thousand marijuana plants and a highly toxic pesticide were found at an illegal growing site in Death Valley, park officials said.The site was discovered last month during a flyover of Jail Canyon, at the park’s lightly traveled west edge, a National Park Service release said.The growers, realizing they had been discovered, abandoned the site. The plants were eradicated, and 35 cubic yards of trash was removed, park officials said.Among the pesticides and other chemicals found at the site was carbofuran, which can kill humans and other large mammals as well as birds and fish.More than 20 illegal marijuana growing sites have been found in Death Valley National Park in the past decade, the officials said — including a 40-acre site found two years ago at Jail Canyon.The canyon, 5 miles west of Telescope Peak, can be reached only by footpaths and a rugged route used by off-road vehicles.People visiting remote areas of the park are advised to inform rangers of “unus...

Pride flag that was ripped down at Palo Alto church being investigated as hate crime

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:30:42 GMT

(KRON) -- An incident in which a pride flag was ripped down from the exterior of a Palo Alto church is being investigated as a hate crime, according to the Palo Alto Police Department. Police received a call just before 11 a.m. on Tuesday on a report of vandalism at the First Lutheran Church at 600 Homer Avenue. The report was called in by a church employee, police said. Zip codes donating the most money to Donald Trump in California Officers investigated and determined that at some point between May 7 and May 11, an unknown party had ripped a pride flag and its mounting bracket off the front of the church and left it on the ground. The church wall was also damaged.There is no suspect information at this time, according to police. Nor is there any known connection between this case and previous cases.Anyone with any information related to this case is asked to contact the Palo Alto PD 24-hour dispatch center at (650) 329-2413.

Grand jury indicts Bryan Kohberger in 4 University of Idaho stabbing deaths

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:30:42 GMT

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a man who was already charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students, allowing prosecutors to skip a planned week-long preliminary hearing that was set for late June.Bryan Kohberger was arrested late last year and charged with burglary and four counts of first-degree murder in connection with the Nov. 13, 2022, killings of Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves at a rental home near the University of Idaho campus. At the time, Kohberger was a graduate student studying criminology at nearby Washington State University, and the killings left the close-knit communities of Moscow, Idaho, and Pullman, Washington, reeling.A preliminary hearing — where prosecutors must show a judge that there is enough evidence to justify moving forward with felony charges — was scheduled to begin June 26. But on Tuesday, a grand jury indicted Kohberger on the same charges, effectively rerouting the case directly to...