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Travelers report nationwide ground stop for Southwest Airline flights Tuesday morning

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:00:30 GMT

Southwest Airlines appears to be in the midst of another meltdown as dozens of travelers reported a “nationwide ground stoppage” on social media Tuesday morning.We have had to implement a ground stop as a result of intermittent issues that were experienced, and we should hopefully be resuming our operation as soon as possible. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but we'll be here for you if you need any assistance. -Katy— Southwest Airlines (@SouthwestAir) April 18, 2023The official Southwest Twitter account replied to several complaints Tuesday morning amid reports that there was a stoppage due to technical issues. Twitter user @FennerMichelle said she was sitting in a plane “waiting for computers to come back” when the airline replied with news of a stoppage.“We have had to implement a ground stop as a result of intermittent issues that were experienced, and we should hopefully be resuming our operation as soon as possible,R...

15-year-old girl suspected of killing missing teen found dead in Northern California field

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:00:30 GMT

LAYTONVILLE — A 15-year-old girl has been arrested on suspicion of killing another teenager whose body was found in an empty field in a remote Northern California town, authorities said Monday.Sixteen-year-old Ruby Sky Montelongo was found dead by her uncle Saturday morning after she failed to return to their home in Covelo the previous night, according to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office.Investigators learned the victim had been assaulted Friday evening by a 15-year-old girl she knew from town, the sheriff’s office said in a statement.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | East Bay man convicted in fatal shooting of his uncle Crime and Public Safety | Murder trial of reputed Oakland gang member delayed amid dispute over judge Crime and Public Safety | Man wore armor in Northern California hostage killing, report says Crime and Public Safety | ‘My son should be here’: 6 years later, justice still sought in Cal Poly H...

San Jose man killed in wrong-way crash on highway near Modesto

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:00:30 GMT

A San Jose man was killed in a wrong-way crash on a rural highway west of Modesto, the California Highway Patrol said.Gilberto Llamas-Gutierrez, 28, was reportedly driving a Nissan pickup westbound on Highway 132 early on the morning of Thursday, April 13. Around 2:40 a.m., when the truck was west of the community of Twin Rivers, it entered the eastbound lane and crashed head-on into a tractor-trailer rig.Llamas-Gutierrez died at the scene.The rig’s driver, a 32-year-old Lodi man, suffered minor injuries, as did one of his passengers, a 33-year-old Lodi woman. A 3-year-old boy who was seatbelted in the rig’s sleeper berth was not injured.Four days earlier, on April 9, two people were killed in another head-on crash about 8 miles west on Highway 132.In that incident, the CHP said, a 28-year-old man from San Leandro was driving a Mercedes-Benz west in the highway’s eastbound lane near the community of Vernalis around 3:15 a.m. The Mercedes collided head-on with an ea...

Which state economy grew fastest in pandemic? California ranked No. 18

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:00:30 GMT

”Survey says” looks at various rankings and scorecards judging geographic locations while noting these grades are best seen as a mix of artful interpretation and data.Buzz: California’s growth of its business output ranked just 18th-best among the state during the past three years, more evidence that coronavirus was not terribly kind to the Golden State’s economy.Source: My trusty spreadsheet reviewed state stats for “real” gross domestic product, a broad measure of business output minus inflation. This measure of economic production is calculated quarterly by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.ToplineCalifornia’s GDP grew 5.7% between 2019 and 2022 – that’s an expansion rate slightly above the nation’s 5.1% growth.But the increase also trails key economic rivals. No. 1 Idaho saw the value of its business output grow 13.3% in these three years. Then came Utah with 11.6% growth, Tennessee, up 11.1%, Florida, up 10.9%, and Arizona, at 9.5%. Texas was No. 19 at 5.4%.Worst performanc...

‘It could have been a bloodbath’: 17 men arrested in Northern California Sikh community shootings

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:00:30 GMT

By ADAM BEAM | Associated PressYUBA CITY  — Authorities in Northern California on Monday said they had arrested more than a dozen men from two warring criminal syndicates whose violent rivalry they say was responsible for a mass shooting at a Sikh temple and a brutal sword attack at a parade in 2018.Sutter County District Attorney Jennifer Dupré said the two syndicates were responsible for multiple shootings where 11 people were shot, including five people at a Sikh temple in Stockton last year and two more victims at a temple in Sacramento last month.None of the victims died. Dupré said all of the men arrested are part of California’s Sikh community and were members of one of two rival groups whose feud was fueled by intense personal connections.“This started out as one group, and one faction broke off, and since then they have been rivals trying to outdo each other. Mainly they show up places and try to shoot each other,” Dupré said, comparing it to the U.S. Civil War “where broth...

Stanford doctorate student identified as man struck and killed by train

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:00:30 GMT

The man struck and killed by a Caltrain on Sunday night has been identified as a Stanford University doctorate student, the university announced.Jonathan San Miguel was pronounced dead at the scene after he was struck around 8:43 p.m. Sunday at the Churchill Avenue grade crossing, about a mile south of the Palo Alto station and three-quarters of a mile north of the California Avenue station.In a statement posted to a university website late Monday night, Vice Provost for Student Affairs Susie Brubaker-Cole said San Miguel was set to earn his doctorate in physics this spring and was working as a teaching assistant. San Miguel graduated from the University of Maryland and enrolled at Stanford in the fall of 2017.“We have reached out to Jonathan’s family, friends, and fellow scholars and research colleagues in the Physics Department,” Brubaker-Cole wrote. “My heart goes out to all who knew and loved him.”Related ArticlesCrashes and Disasters | Warning...

Black and Latino families displaced from California neighborhood over 50 years ago seek $2 billion

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:00:30 GMT

By SOPHIE AUSTIN and DAMIAN DOVARGANES | Associated Press/Report for AmericaPALM SPRINGS  — As a child, Lawrance W. McFarland lived on a small piece of land on a Native American reservation in Palm Springs he described as a “little world of its own,” surrounded by the parts of the city that were tourist magnets and depicted in movies.The retiree, who now lives in Mississippi, recently recalled seeing houses of the diverse, tight-knit community being torn and burned down in the square-mile area known as Section 14.“We thought they were just cleaning up some of the old houses,” he said.But eventually his family was told to vacate their home, and McFarland, his mother and his younger brother hopped around from house to house before leaving the area altogether and moving to Cabazon, a small town about 15 miles (24 kilometers) west of Palm Springs.Decades later, Palm Springs’ city council is reckoning with those actions, voting in 2021 to issue a formal apology to former residents for th...

San Francisco remembers devastating earthquake, fire 117 years later

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:00:30 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- One hundred and seventeen years ago, a devastating earthquake hit San Francisco. The quake and fire killed thousands of people and took years to rebuild the city. On April 18—almost 120 years later—the community continues to remember those who lost their lives that day and honor those who rebuilt the city.Tuesday's wreath-laying ceremony happened just after 5 a.m. with a crowd gathering at Lotta's Fountain. Officials in attendance included Mayor London Breed, former mayor Willie Brown, Fire Chief Jeanine Nicholson, Police Chief William Scott and the master of ceremonies Bob Sarlatte. Community leaders came dressed up in 1906 attire.(San Francisco Public Works)(San Francisco Public Works)The moment of silence was set for 5:11 a.m., the same time that the quake and fires began in 1906. San Francisco Fire then broke the silence with sirens for about 30 seconds. Then the traditional singing of San Francisco began, with Mayor London Breed and former mayorWillie Br...

Ralph Yarl replaying the shooting over and over again, mom says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:00:30 GMT

Watch Video: Black teen was shot above left eye and in arm after going to wrong door, mom saysRalph Yarl, a Black teenager who was shot after he went to the wrong house while trying to pick up his siblings last week, is replaying the situation over and over as he recovers, his mother told “CBS Mornings.”Cleo Nagbe said Tuesday her son sustained gunshot wounds to his upper right arm and left frontal lobe above his left eye. She said the bullet in his arm was not removed for up to 12 hours, and that the “residual effect” of that injury is going to stay with her son “for quite a while.”Yarl is able to communicate “when he feels like it,” she said, but “mostly he just sits there and stares and the buckets of tears just rolls down his eyes.”“You can see that he is just replaying the situation over and over again. And that just doesn’t stop my tears either, because when you see your kid just sits there and constantly...

Stars uncertain about Joe Pavelski after hard hit by Wild

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:00:30 GMT

DALLAS (AP) — Dallas center Joe Pavelski left the Stars’ loss in their playoff opener after taking a massive hit from Minnesota defenseman Matt Dumba, who wasn’t assessed a major penalty for that after a lengthy replay review by officials Monday night.Dumba did get a two-minute minor for roughing, though the referees had initially announced a five-minute major penalty after the play midway through the second period of the game that the Wild won 3-2 in double overtime. “To be honest, I thought it was a clean hit. I figured (the refs) were going to see the same. Shoulder on shoulder,” Dumba said. “I don’t even know why I got the roughing, probably because I was just in the box already.”Pavelski appeared wobbly as he was helped off the ice. Coach Pete DeBoer, who said after the game that he hadn’t yet looked at the play in depth, said the 38-year-old center hit his head on the ice when he fell. “We have the best officials in the world. They called a five, they reviewe...