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Kurtenbach: After the Warriors’ Game 5 win, all the pressure is on the Lakers, and they know it

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:59:22 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — Can you feel that?It’s pressure. And after the Warriors’ Game 5 win, it’s all on the Los Angeles Lakers.And they know it, too.Yes, the Warriors remain on the brink of elimination, but on Wednesday, in a game where Golden State had everything to lose, they played loose.More importantly, they played fast.It wasn’t the Warriors’ best basketball — far from it — but it was highly effective against this tight and plodding Lakers team.It shouldn’t have taken a four-time champion core this long, but the Warriors finally figured out that this series is little more than a game of attrition.And when the series is viewed in that light, the Warriors have a massive advantage going into Game 6.LeBron James — 38 years old and in his 20th NBA season — is tired.Anthony Davis took a seemingly innocuous hit to the head in Game 5 and needed a wheelchair to reach the locker room.Both should be expected to play in Game 6, but their efficacy moving forwar...

Two-car crash in Martinez marks fifth fatality of 2023 on Highway 4

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:59:22 GMT

MARTINEZ — One person died and another suffered major injuries late Wednesday night in a two-car crash on Highway 4, the California Highway Patrol said.The fifth fatal crash of 2023 on the highway happened about 10:40 p.m. in the westbound direction just before the Center Avenue exit, according to a statement from the agency released by Officer Adam Lane.The person’s identity was not available early Thursday, pending notification of the next of kin.There have been nine fatal crashes on Highway 4 since Nov. 16, 2022, the day five people, including three children, died in a wrong-way collision just west of the Loveridge Road exit on the westbound side.According to Lane, a gray Honda Civic crashed into a white Toyota Corolla as the two traveled west on the highway. Both vehicles then lost control and went off the highway and down an embankment before slamming into separate trees.Related ArticlesCrashes and Disasters | Ex-Raider Henry Ruggs pleads guilty to drivin...

100 pounds of explosives uncovered in San Jose bomb making facility

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:59:22 GMT

(KRON) -- One man is in custody after a bomb-making facility was discovered during a burglary investigation Monday, according to the San Jose Police Department. Officers responded at around 4:17 a.m. to a report of a commercial burglary in the 1200 block of Old Bayshore Highway. Police, FBI investigating 1996 missing woman cold case in Redwood City park During a security sweep of the building, police said they located what appeared to be a destructive device manufacturing operation inside the business. The San Jose PD Bomb Squad responded along with Assaults Unit Detectives to assist with the investigation.Adam Mirassou was identified as the primary suspect in the course of the investigation. Search warrants were obtained for Mirassou's business and residence, police said. He was located and arrested at his residence later that day without incident.Mirassou was booked into Santa Clara County Jail. In searches of his business and residence, officers located over a hundred pounds of...

French prosecutors seek trial for Sarkozy over Libya financing for 2007 campaign

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:59:22 GMT

PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors are seeking to send former President Nicolas Sarkozy and 13 others to trial on charges that his 2007 presidential campaign received millions in illegal financing from the government of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.After a decade of investigation, the French national financial prosecutor’s office announced its decision Friday to seek a trial. It’s now up to judges to determine whether to move ahead. In general, judges in France follow such prosecutors’ requests, though not always.The case is the biggest and most shocking of multiple corruption investigations involving Sarkozy. He has been convicted in two others. He denies wrongdoing in all cases.In the Libya case, he is charged with illegal campaign financing, embezzling, passive corruption and related counts.Sarkozy has been under investigation in the Libya case since 2013. Investigators examined claims that Gadhafi’s government secretly gave Sarkozy 50 million euros for his winning...

Division III football likely to delay new clock rules for 1st downs

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:59:22 GMT

The NCAA Football Rules Committee appears headed toward delaying Division III’s implementation of the new game clock rule for first downs for a year.The biggest rule change approved last month for 2023 will have the game clock continue to run when a first down is gained except in the last two minutes of either half. Previously, the clock stopped when a first down was gained and restarted on the referee’s signal.The rule will be used in the Bowl Subdivision, Championship Subdivision and Division II. It was put on hold in Division III after the division’s management council requested the Playing Rules Oversight Panel refer it back to the Football Rules Committee for further review.“I think delay a year is the most likely scenario,” Steve Shaw, national coordinator of officials and secretary-rules editor, said in a text to The Associated Press on Thursday.Shaw said Division III administrators and coaches want to see how the new rule affects games in the upper division...

Supreme Court sides with ex-Cuomo aide, others convicted of corruption related to ‘Buffalo Billion’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:59:22 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a onetime top aide to ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and for others who were convicted of corruption related to an economic development project known as the “Buffalo Billion.”In two cases before the court, both liberal and conservative justices were unanimous in saying there were problems with the convictions. The cases are the latest in a line stretching back years that criticize federal prosecutors for overreaching in public corruption cases against state and local officials, as well as people doing business with government.In 2020, the high court threw out the convictions of political allies of former Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., over the “Bridgegate” scandal that involved four days of traffic jams on the George Washington Bridge. In 2016, the SUpreme Court threw out the bribery conviction of former Gov. Bob McDonnell, R-Va.The current cases grew out of the “Buffalo Billion” development project, which was intended to ...

Grains lower, Livstock lower.

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:59:22 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures were lower Thursday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for May was down 7 cents at $6.3075 a bushel; May corn lost 11.50 cents at $6.3350 a bushel; May oats was off .50 cent at $3.3525 a bushel; while May soybeans fell 6.25 cents at $14.46 a bushel.Beef and pork were lower on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.Jun. live cattle was down .67 cent at $1.6305 a pound; May feeder cattle fe1l .14 cent at $2.0503 a pound; May. lean hogs was off .02 cent at $.7685 a pound.Source

From ‘Psycho’ to a new crop of horror movies, the genre has some mommy issues

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:59:22 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — If you’re stumped for how to spend this Mother’s Day, consider relishing a good scare. Since the genre’s inception, horror movies have tapped into the psychological trauma and terror that can only come from a mother, and a number of recent films are embracing that time-honored tradition.Take, for example, Brandon Cronenberg’s “Infinity Pool,” which became one of the buzziest films to come out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. It’s no surprise it was replete with disturbing moments. The director, after all, has surely learned a thing or two from his filmmaker dad and giant of the genre, David Cronenberg. In one talked-about scene, Gabi (Mia Goth) exposes her bare chest to James (Alexander Skarsgård) in an invitation to breastfeed, revealing a complicated tension between his actual mother and his understanding of Gabi as his new one. While the genre has often been dismissed as low-brow, Adam Lowenstein, a film and media studies professor at the Univ...

STORY REMOVED: US–Film Review-The Mother

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:59:22 GMT

The Associated Press has withdrawn its review the film “The Mother” because it inadvertently moved ahead of an embargo. AP will re-publish the review after 9 p.m. Eastern when the embargo has lifted.Source

The Hunt: The late Arman Soldin’s voice

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:59:22 GMT

Ukrainians and many others call Russia a terrorist state because of the brutal war that’s killed thousands of innocent people.One of the people who covered that war is now a victim. Arman Soldin, a journalist for Agence France-Presse, was killed Tuesday during a rocket attack near the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. The French government said it has opened a war crimes investigation into his death.On this week’s edition of “The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green,” we hear parts of an interview with Arman, late last year, where he saw evidence of Russian war crimes in Izyum. toggle audio on and off change volume download audio AFP journalist Arman Soldin d...