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What we know, and still don't know, about Maleesa Mooney's murder

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:15:25 GMT

The City of Angels is rough around the edges. It’s filled with personality, attitude and grit. It’s a big city filled with small neighborhoods and communities. It’s also Hollywood and celebrities and CRIME and ghosts of the past. No doubt it’s been host to some of the most gruesome and unusual crimes the world has ever seen: the Manson murders, the Black Dahlia, the Night Stalker, the Hillside Strangler.Not much fazes us. We’ve seen it all. Until we haven’t.KTLA has been doing in-depth original reporting on the murder of model Maleesa Mooney in Los Angeles - Mooney, found dead in her downtown Los Angeles high-rise apartment. The story is right out of a future Dateline episode. Maleesa Mooney, a 31-year-old aspiring model and real estate agent was found dead in her downtown Los Angeles apartment on Sept. 12, 2023. (Jourdin Pauline)Aside from the fact that she was an aspiring model, our first tip that this wasn't the typical murder came on a Saturday morning at a local ...

Gustavo Gabriel Lopez Involved, Man Killed in Pedestrian Collision on Kern Canyon Road [Bakersfield, CA]

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:15:25 GMT

66-Year-Old Man Dies in Pedestrian Accident near Shalane AvenueBAKERSFIELD, CA (November 17, 2023) – A tragic incident involving Gustavo Gabriel Lopez left one pedestrian dead on Kern County Canyon Road. Emergency calls were received around 6:13 p.m., close to Shalane Avenue on November 2nd.According to the preliminary investigation, an elderly man in a wheelchair was crossing in a northward direction, outside of a designated crosswalk. The driver of a westbound 2015 Nissan then struck a man on Kern Canyon Road at an unspecified speed.The impact resulted in the male pedestrian being ejected from his wheelchair, causing severe injuries.Paramedics responded, transporting the 66-year-old man to Kern Medical for immediate medical attention. On November 11th, the elderly male succumbed to his injuries at the hospital. The Kern County Coroner’s Office will disclose the identity of the deceased once the next of kin has been informed.Authorities later identified the Nissan driver as 1...

Letters: Death penalty | Clean Sunnyvale | Uniting country | Keep landlines

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:15:25 GMT

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor.Schiff, Porter silenton the death penaltyRe: “California is facing its first real U.S. Senate race in a generation” (Page A6, Nov. 9).Dan Walters’ column regarding the U.S. Senate race in California highlights the importance of this election.The three Democratic contenders to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who was an opponent of the death penalty, need to let the voters know where they stand on capital punishment. Rep. Barbara Lee has declared her opposition to the death penalty. However, Reps. Adam Schiff and Katie Porter, despite repeated requests, remain silent on this issue.Terry McCaffreyPalo AltoSunnyvale must domore to clean up streetsRe: “Encampment, on-ramp create danger” (Page A6, Nov. 15).I agree with the letter-writer Don Dubocq; Sunnyvale officials need to get their act together.Aside from the homeless encampments issue, the city is becoming a giant garbage can....

California’s Dungeness crab season delayed again

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:15:25 GMT

On Friday, the California Fish and Wildlife Department ordered another delay in the commercial Dungeness crab fishing season — the second so far this winter.The risk of whales becoming tangled in crab fishing gear remains high for most of the coastal waters from the Mendocino County line south to the Mexican border, director Charlton H. Bonham announced. In the far north, where crabbing was supposed to be allowed starting Dec. 1, there’s a second issue: Testing in Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte counties revealed poor crab meat quality.The next assessment will take place on or around Dec. 7. The earliest that commercial crabbing could begin in the far north would be Dec. 16, state officials said.Also Friday, the restrictions on recreational crabbers, who had been given the go-ahead in many parts of the state so long as they used hoop nets and crab snares and not traps, were extended to include those far north counties. That new restriction goes into effect Nov. 26.This...

El Sobrante: Woman convicted of zip-tying man’s neck, leaving him to die in mobile home

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:15:25 GMT

MARTINEZ — A Covelo woman has been convicted of murdering a 69-year-old man in an incident where prosecutors say she zip-tied the victims neck, leaving him to die and decompose inside his El Sobrante trailer.Pauline Dungan, 41, was convicted of first degree murder for financial gain in the April 2022 killing of 69-year-old Richard Hendrix. Dungan’s attorney argued at trial that prosecutors failed to prove she was the killer. Prosecutors argued that Dungan’s DNA found on the zip-ties proved that she was.The investigation started his landlord told police he was concerned that Hendrix hadn’t been heard from for days. Hendrix’s decomposing body was found in his motorhome on the 400 block of Appian Way in El Sobrante. His killer beat him in the head with a blunt object, knocking him unconscious, then strangled him with zip ties and left them affixed to his throat, and stacked random objects on top of his body, police said at the time.Police believe he was ki...

Judge orders teens held without bail in classmate’s killing

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:15:25 GMT

By Rio Yamat | Associated PressLAS VEGAS — Four of the eight Las Vegas high school students accused of beating their schoolmate to death in an alley around the corner from campus made their first appearances Friday in the adult court system.In separate hearings, the two 16-year-olds and two 17-year-olds were ordered to remain held without bail pending a formal hearing to address their custody status. The teens are due back in court next week.The students each face one count of murder but have not been formally charged, court records show. The Associated Press is not naming them because they are juveniles.The other four suspects are awaiting separate hearings since they are all under the age of 16.Earlier this week, Las Vegas police announced the arrests of the eight students, between the ages of 13 and 17, in connection with the Nov. 1 brawl that left 17-year-old Jonathan Lewis Jr. dead.Authorities have said students at Rancho High School in eastern Las Vegas had agreed to meet afte...

49ers’ Steve Wilks switch from coaches box to sideline a rousing success

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:15:25 GMT

SANTA CLARA — Steve Wilks rejects the premise that his journey from coaches box to the sideline was the impetus for a defensive recovery for the 49ers.The 49ers’ defensive coordinator coached from the field for the first time with the 49ers, and the result was a 34-3 win over Jacksonville during which they gave up the fewest points since Pittsburgh scored seven points in the regular-season opener.The 49ers sacked Trevor Lawrence five times and surrendered 221 yards, their second-lowest total of the season other than giving up 197 against Dallas in Week 5. That was the last game the 49ers won before snapping a three-game losing streak.Wilks will be back on the sideline Sunday when the 49ers (6-3) host Tampa Bay (4-5) at Levi’s Stadium.Having downplayed the change in advance, Wilks did so again in the aftermath.“Believe me, that wasn’t nowhere near the reason why,” Wilks said Thursday. “We’ve got good players and me being down on the sid...

Caught by screen-sharing: Lawsuit claims Santa Clara chip titan NVIDIA stole rival’s secrets

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:15:25 GMT

Software developer Mohammad Moniruzzaman made a big mistake on a video call, one that would lead to his criminal conviction and a trade-secrets lawsuit against his former employer, Santa Clara chip giant NVIDIA.Moniruzzaman had taken a job at NVIDIA in 2021, right after quitting Germany-based automotive-technology company Valeo Schalter und Sensoren, according to the lawsuit against NVIDIA by Valeo.But both companies had related contracts with an automotive company, so in March 2022, Moniruzzaman found himself and four NVIDIA colleagues on a collaboration video call with four people from his previous employer, Valeo.His screen-sharing was to go dramatically awry.Valeo described itself in the lawsuit as “a leader of key technology in the automotive industry for a century.” The company described NVIDIA, founded in 1993 and known for the gaming and PC computer processors that have helped drive it to a stock market valuation of $1.2 trillion, as “a recent entrant to th...

Haley, DeSantis and Ramaswamy meet in Iowa for ‘family’ talk

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:15:25 GMT

By Hannah Fingerhut | Associated PressDES MOINES, Iowa — The Republicans battling to be the alternative to former President Donald Trump are coming together for what an influential Christian organization in Iowa is billing as a friendly conversation on politics and their world views.Three candidates — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy — are sitting down for a roundtable “family discussion” in Des Moines Friday. Trump did not attend, though he was invited.“I don’t want to know what is bad about the other person,” said Bob Vander Plaats, president and CEO of the influential Family Leader, who moderated. “I want to have an adult conversation about the future of this country.”“We do not boo,” he added. “If you don’t like something, let the silence do the heavy lifting.”It’s an unusual forum for the candidates, who are not typically sitting ...

Apple, Disney, IBM pulling X ads as backlash grows for Elon Musk's antisemitic tweet: report

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:15:25 GMT

(KRON) -- Apple is pausing all advertising on X, formerly know as Twitter, in the wake of the platform's owner, Elon Musk, endorsing an antisemitic tweet, according to a report in Axios. Apple pulling its ads follows a similar move from IBM, which announced Thursday that it would also stop advertising on X.IBM pulled its ads following a report that said its ads were appearing alongside material praising Nazis. There is growing concern among advertisers about their ads appearing alongside pro-Nazi content and hate speech. Bay Bridge protest: Dramatic photos capture hours long shutdown Musk, the billionaire owner of X, Tesla, and SpaceX, has further inflamed tensions by endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy tweet on the platform. According to Axios, 164 Jewish rabbis and activists amped up pressure on Apple, Google, Amazon and Disney to stop advertising on X following Musk's tweet.That same group is also calling on Google and Apple to remove the social network from their platforms, Ax...