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How soon could St. Louis CITY SC clinch playoffs?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:06 GMT

ST. LOUIS - FC Cincinnati officially clinched a spot in this year's MLS Cup Playoffs before anyone else Wednesday evening. Could St. Louis CITY SC be next to punch their ticket to the big dance? St. Louis also picked up a key victory Wednesday over FC Dallas, prevailing behind two late goals and expanding their Western Conference lead by seven points. The thriller also helps CITY close the gap to what is mathematically needed to clinch playoffs in their inaugural season. Now with a 15-2-9 record for 47 points, CITY SC has already reached the range of playoff cuspers from recent seasons and looks poised for fortunes beyond the regular season. However, the City Boys might need to wait until mid-September to officially celebrate a secured playoff spot, and the expanded playoff pool of nine teams in each conference certainly factors into it. October playoffs take on new meaning in St. Louis To calculate how soon CITY SC might clinch the playoffs, keep this in mind: FC Cincinnati now ...

Angelina Irene Parson Killed in Hit-and-Run on Interstate 5 [Sacramento County, CA]

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:06 GMT

Pedestrian Collision near American River Parkway Resulted in DeathSACRAMENTO COUNTY, CA (August 31, 2023) – Early Monday morning, a possible hit-and-run collision on Interstate 5 claimed the life of Angelina Irene Parson.Based on the investigation, a vehicle in the exit-only lane struck Parson while she was trying to cross the freeway.Police responded to the incident around 4:15 a.m. along the northbound lanes of Interstate 5, south of Garden Highway near the American River Parkway area.Upon the officers’ arrival, they located an unconscious woman on the right shoulder of the freeway. Officials identified her as 32-year-old Angelina Irene Parson. Authorities pronounced her dead at the scene.Authorities believed that the suspect was driving a 2016-2018 Chevrolet Malibu or a similar vehicle with possible front-end damage.The California Highway Patrol is encouraging anyone with further information about the fatal Interstate 5 hit-and-run to contact 916-861-1300 or 916-861-2300.Si...

Four Injured in Fiery Garbage Truck Crash on Grant Line Road [Sacramento County, CA]

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:06 GMT

Fiery Traffic Collision near Jackson Road Left Multiple InjuriesSACRAMENTO COUNTY, CA (August 31, 2023) – Monday afternoon, a fiery garbage truck crash on Grant Line Road left at least four people hurt.The collision happened around 2:30 p.m. at the 6800 block of Grant Line Road near Jackson Road.According to reports, a garbage truck collided with multiple vehicles before taking down a power pole and power lines. The collision also caused a transformer to explode, spreading fires in nearby vegetation.Authorities also reported a vehicle catching on fire with life ammunition inside, resulting in multiple rounds going off.Eventually, emergency responders arrived at the scene. They transported three patients to a local hospital with unspecified injuries. Another person was released at the scene after further medical evaluation.At this time, the identities of those involved and the circumstances that led up to the collision remain unknown. Sacramento Officials will provide more info...

Alleged co-founder of ‘Murder Mob’ Concord Sureño gang sentenced to 9 years for drug conspiracy

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:06 GMT

OAKLAND — A Martinez resident who allegedly became a leader of a Concord Sureño gang subset, then founded his own clique called the Murder Mob, has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for conspiring to sell cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin, court records show.The sentence imposed on 27-year-old Jose Ignacio Ochoa — who authorities say is known by the nickname “Diver” — was roughly 30 months more than what even federal prosecutors argued for. But Ochoa’s legal problems are far from over; he still faces unresolved charges in Contra Costa County alleging that in 2015, he murdered a man named Erick Cruz over a dispute involving a .357 revolver.The sentence was imposed by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White. Prosecutors argued for a 78-month sentence, while the defense argued for a five-year term, citing Ochoa’s involvement in “religious services” at Santa Rita Jail and “remorse” for his drug trafficking crime...

Air-quality advisory in effect for Bay Area, but cleaner skies expected

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:06 GMT

A haze of brown and gray hovered above the East Bay portion of the Bay Area as the sun rose for the final time in August this year, and fresh air smelled non-existent.In this case, however, it was not a tone-setter for the rest of Thursday, according to air quality officials.“We’re seeing a difference in the amount of wildfire smoke,” Bay Area Air Quality Management District spokesperson Tina Landis said. “We’re really expecting to see improvement as the day goes on.”An air quality advisory remained in effect through midnight, a day after the district issued a Spare the Air alert. Advisories were issued in two straight days leading up to the Spare the Air.More clearing is on the horizon, according to Landis and weather forecasters. Northerly winds that helped funnel wild-fire smoke from vegetation fires burning in southern Oregon and far Northern California into the region are expected to shift into a more normal Bay Area pattern.Air-quality index...

Trump pleads not guilty to Georgia election subversion charges

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:06 GMT

By Kate Brumback | Associated PressATLANTA — Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday and sought to sever his case from other defendants who are accused along with him of illegally trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia.Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee had set arraignment hearings for Trump and the 18 others charged in the case for Sept. 6. A court filing waiving arraignment means Trump won’t have to show up for that.The decision to skip an in-person appearance averts the dramatic arraignments that have accompanied the three other criminal cases Trump faces, in which the Republican former president has been forced amid tight security into a courtroom and entered “not guilty” pleas before crowds of spectators. Georgia courts have fairly permissive rules on news cameras in the courtroom, and this step means Trump won’t have to enter a plea on television.An attorney for Trump also asked McAfee on Thursda...

Fire in South Africa kills at least 74, many of them homeless

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:06 GMT

By Gerald Imray and Mogomotsi Magome | Associated PressJOHANNESBURG — A nighttime fire ripped through a rundown apartment building mainly occupied by homeless people and squatters in Johannesburg early Thursday, leaving at least 74 dead, officials said. Some people threw babies out of third-story windows to others waiting below in the desperate scramble to evacuate, witnesses said.At least 12 of those killed were children, the youngest a 1-year-old, according to city and medical officials. They said at a news conference that an undetermined number of people were still missing and many bodies recovered were burned beyond recognition.More than 50 people were injured, six of whom were in a serious condition in the hospital. Emergency services officials had earlier warned that the death toll could rise as they continued to search the scene more than 12 hours after the blaze broke out at around 1 a.m.Dozens of bodies recovered by firefighters were laid out on a side road outside the apar...

People reporting illnesses after Tough Mudder race in Sonoma County grows to 300, officials estimate

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:06 GMT

By Jamie Gumbrecht | CNNAn outbreak of illnesses after a Tough Mudder race in Sonoma County, California, this month has reached about 300 cases, the county estimated Wednesday.The Sonoma County Department of Health Services issued a health advisory last week after reports of rash, fever, muscle pain, nausea and vomiting among participants in the August 19-20 Tough Mudder event at Sonoma Raceway.Matt Brown, a spokesman for Sonoma County, said Wednesday that 300 cases is a “conservative estimate.”“The Tough Mudder race involved extensive skin exposure to mud. Most affected persons have pustular rash, fever, myalgias, and headache. These symptoms could be indicative of a minor illness called Swimmers’ Itch, but they can also indicate a Staph infection or other more serious bacterial infection such as Aeromonas,” the county said in its advisory.Brown said Wednesday that the county is asking health care providers to take cultures from infected patients and report the results, but it’s “o...

Ivanka Trump shares pizzeria owner’s post to slam ‘ridiculous trials’ of her father

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:06 GMT

Ivanka Trump has been circumspect in what she says about Donald Trump’s multiple criminal indictments, as she’s reportedly been trying to walk a tightrope between publicly distancing herself from her father’s alleged crimes and trying to signal her support for him — in case he gets re-elected president and she gets a chance to again have a prominent role in his administration.But Ivanka Trump nonetheless found a way to unleash against her father’s prosecutors, ahead of his pleading not guilty Thursday in his criminal case in Georgia, charging him with efforts to interfere with the 2020 election results. Trump’s beloved oldest daughter did so without using her own words to slam the multiple investigations against him. Instead, she turned to a statement from a Miami-area pizzeria owner, sharing his comments in an Instagram Story post that she knows will soon be automatically deleted.It’s also likely that Ivanka was attracted to the social medi...

Ex-Proud Boys organizer Biggs gets 17-year sentence

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:06 GMT

By Michael Kunzelman | Associated PressWASHINGTON — A former organizer of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Thursday to 17 years in prison for spearheading an attack on the U.S. Capitol to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 presidential election.The sentence for Joseph Biggs is the second longest among hundreds of Capitol riot cases so far, after the 18-year prison sentence for Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes.Federal prosecutors had recommended a 33-year prison sentence for Biggs, who helped lead dozens of Proud Boys members and associates in marching to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Biggs and other Proud Boys joined the mob that broke through police lines and forced lawmakers to flee, disrupting the joint session of Congress for certifying the electoral victory by Biden, a Democrat.U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly said the Jan. 6 attack trampled on an “important American custom,” certifyi...