Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... OAKLAND A city resident has been arrested and charged with using a pistol to beat a woman and rob her of $400 after paying her for sex, according to court records. Alexander Stovall, 43, was charged with robbery and assault with a firearm on Jan. 26. Authorities allege that nine days before the case was filed, Stovall met a woman on the 700 block of International Boulevard, an area known for prostitution, and paid her $200.
Gaza's Rafah border crossing with Egypt was busy with activity Sunday as Israel said that limited travel to and from the territory is set to resume after years of near-complete isolation. Reopening the border crossing is a key step as the Israel-Hamas ceasefire moves ahead. Israel announced Sunday that the crossing has opened in a test. COGAT, the Israeli military agency that controls aid to Gaza, said in a statement that the crossing was actively being prepared for fuller operation.
It's a video many saw on social media soon after it happened: Officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, dragging a woman out of her car and forcing her to the ground. The woman in the video is Aliya Rahman, a Bangladeshi-American and a U.S. citizen. The day she was arrested, Rahman was on her way to the doctor, when she came across an ICE operation and a group of people protesting.
Right-wing tech billionaire Elon Musk appears to have tried multiple times to visit Jeffrey Epstein's private island, according to emails released by the Justice Department on Friday. A series of messages between Musk, Epstein and the late sex offender's assistants show the Tesla boss looking to attend the wildest party being thrown on the island at the end of 2012.
Conducted on the request of Ramirez's family, the autopsy found she suffered from blunt force trauma to the head and torso. In view of the clinical history and the findings at the 2nd autopsy, the cause of death of this Hispanic female, Yolanda Bustos Ramirez, is multiple blunt force trauma and asphyxiation with complications all due to and as a consequence of police restraint, the autopsy report stated. The manner of death is homicide.
Dubbed as "The Game at Radio City", the WNBA hosted an exhibition game between the U.S. Olympic team and a group of WNBA stars. Some of the biggest names in the history of the sport, like Lisa Leslie, Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird took the court in one of the most iconic entertainment venues ever. The game was set up as a way to excite fans for the upcoming Summer Olympic Games in Athens.
A day after Israel accused Hamas of new ceasefire violations, strikes hit locations throughout Gaza, including lethal ones on an apartment building in Gaza City and a tent camp in Khan Younis, officials at hospitals that received the bodies said. The casualties included two women and six children from two different families. An airstrike also hit a police station in Gaza City, killing at least 11 and wounding others, Shifa Hospital director Mohamed Abu Selmiya said.
On Wednesday morning, well before the school run started, Mary Granlund was attempting to coax her dog outside for a brief walk in negative-two-degree weather, and her phone was already pinging with texts. "It's, like, 'Can someone help bring my kids to school today?' 'Can anybody pick my kids up from school today?' 'Has anyone called the police about the abandoned car?' " she told me.
Some of them are violent, and some of these prosecutions might even survive - that is, if the affidavits used to obtain the arrests are accurate, as many (if not most) of the ones arising from Stephen Miller's invasions have not been. Some of these claimed assaults occurred three weeks before the charges were unsealed, the day of Renee Good's shooting, three weeks in which prosecutors chose not to present the charges to a grand jury.
The Coast Guard launched a search and rescue mission early Friday after receiving an alert from the 72-foot Lily Jean about 25 miles off Cape Ann. Searchers found a debris field near where the alert was sent along with a body in the water and an empty life raft, the Coast Guard said. Crews covered about 1,000 square miles (2,589 square kilometers) using multiple aircraft, cutters and small boats over a 24-hour period.
Anyone wanting to get their TikTok fix in the United States recently had a rough time. The app went haywire, kicking off early on the morning of January 25, due to a power outage at a key data center that knocked out services nationwide. Users reported the app crashing, with videos getting stuck and refusing to play, upload, or even hit a single view.
A poor little stolen Doberman puppy was not only dognapped by a man allegedly carrying 68 grams of meth, the puppy was then used as a weapon and thrown at Monterey County Sheriff's Deputies when they tried to arrest the man. It has been a very difficult week for a female miniature Doberman pinscher puppy named Money who resides in Monterey County. But there is rejoicing among dog lovers that Money has been safely located, albeit after a series of ruff' events that make plotlines sound like an episode of .
The No. 5 UCLA women's gymnastics team hosted Washington at Pauley Pavilion on Friday night for a prime-time Big Ten matchup. The Bruins continued to demonstrate just how hungry they are for a national championship by flexing their deep roster in a 198.150-195.825 win over the Huskies. Jordan Chiles earned another perfect score on her floor routine, capping off a night that would give her another all-around individual title.
Brown reached an agreement with the Trump administration last summer to restore millions of dollars in federal research funding and to end federal investigations into the institution. In exchange, the university agreed to pay $50 million to organizations in Rhode Island focused on workforce training over the next 10 years. Several other universities reached similar deals with the administration to restore federal funding, though the details of what the schools would pay vary greatly.
