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Jury returns guilty verdict in Klein trial

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:24 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) - Jacob Klein has been found guilty of second-degree murder after a trial. Klein represented himself in court, defending himself from accusations he killed Philip Rabadi in April 2022, just months after Rabadi married Klein’s former girlfriend, Elana Radin. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! Sentencing is scheduled for December 8 at 9:30 a.m. The judge ordered a pre-sentencing investigation report prior to sentencing. Klein is remanded until sentencing.Closing statements finished on October 3 and the jury started deliberating immediately. The previous day, Radin had taken the stand. Prosecutors asked her about the day Rabadi was killed. Klein cross-examined Radin and asked questions about how often they had been in contact since they had broken up. She said a few times and she had blocked him on several platforms.The trial has been full of twists and turns, evidence revealed that Klein had paid White Pages f...

Granville tractor parade registration opens Friday

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:24 GMT

GRANVILLE, N.Y. (NEWS10) - Every December, Main Street in the village of Granville closes down to traffic for an evening so farmers and workers from across the rural region can come to town with equipment decorated into the nines. Registration opens this week for the 6th annual Lighted Tractor Parade in Granville - and there's a special prize for the first one to make it through the door.This year's tractor parade is set for Saturday, Dec. 9, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in downtown Granville Registration for the parade opens this Friday, Oct. 6, priced at $12.51 per entrant, with proceeds benefitting the parade as a whole. The special prize for the first to register is a secret for now - all the more reason to not wait around.Tractors, ATVs, fire trucks and farm vehicles of all shapes and sizes come through town for the festival, using lights, decorations, and riders atop floats to compete to be the best. More than 60 participants usuaully come to show off their artistry.The best of the ...

Missouri man among two killed in Alaska military vehicle accident

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:24 GMT

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Officials say two U.S. Army soldiers were killed Monday after a military transport vehicle flipped on a dirt road leading to a training area in Alaska. One of the two soldiers who died had Missouri roots. Spc. Brian Joshua Snowden, 22, and Spc. Jeremy Daniel Evans, 23, died in the crash, which also injured 12 others. Snowden is a native of Lonedell, Missouri, joined the Army in July 2020 and after training at Fort Moore, Georgia, arrived in Alaska in March 2021. St. Louis Airport expansion would see conversion to single terminal "This is an incredible loss for all of us across the division,” said Maj. Gen. Brian Eifler, commanding general of the 11th Airborne Division. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families, friends, and fellow soldiers of Spc. Evans and Spc. Snowden. While we’re always challenged by the environment, we’re Arctic Angels, we overcome these challenges and accomplish our mission by being a team, and teams take care of one another, espec...

Teen sentenced to 7 years in prison for deadly Lakewood arson

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:24 GMT

One of the two teenagers convicted of murder in a deadly Halloween 2022 apartment fire has been sentenced to seven years.Lakewood police in November 2022 arrested a 14-year-old and a 12-year-old in the fire that killed 31-year-old Kathleen Payton and her 10-year-old daughter Jazmine Payton-Aguayo, injured ten other people and displaced everyone in the 32 units of the Ashley Square Apartments, 935 Sheridan Blvd.The 14-year-old, now 15, pleaded guilty in July to two counts of first-degree murder, first-degree arson and assault charges.He was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in the Colorado Department of Human Services Division of Youth Service with 113 days of pre-sentence confinement credit, according to a news release from the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office.The other teen has a status hearing Oct. 16.

Airbnb renter stays at Brentwood home for more than a year without paying

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:24 GMT

It's sometimes said that uninvited guests are most welcome when they leave, but Brentwood resident Sascha Jovanovic wouldn't know from personal experience. Instead, as he detailed to the Los Angeles Times, a one-time Airbnb tenant has remained on his property for over a year, refusing to either leave or pay."When Elizabeth Hirschhorn’s Airbnb stay ended in April 2022, she simply didn’t move out. She’s been living there rent-free ever since, and she refused to budge unless Jovanovic paid her a relocation fee of $100,000," the Times reports.Hirschhorn's attorney told the Times that "she was not required to pay rent because the city had never approved the unit for occupancy and that its shower was constructed without a permit."Because of those code violations, the city determined that Jovanovic couldn't evict Hirschhorn, whom he claims won't let him into the unit to bring it up to code.“She’s the tenant from hell,” Sebastian Rucci, an attorney representing Jovanovic, told the Times. “I...

Powerball players flocking to 'lucky' Los Angeles minimarket

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:24 GMT

With the Powerball jackpot climbing to over $1 billion, players not only from California but from surrounding states have been arriving in droves to buy tickets from one "lucky" minimarket in downtown Los Angeles' Fashion District.Two and a half months ago, a customer at Las Palmitas Mini Market bought the only ticket in the country to hit a $1.08 billion jackpot. Powerball jackpot up to $1.4 billion after no one matches all the numbers The person who purchased the winning ticket at Maria Menjivar’s store is the last to win the Powerball main prize, which, like Menjivar's business, has been growing ever since. “My business has increased over 40 percent,” she told the California Lottery. “Not only am I selling more lottery tickets, people are buying other items in my store when they come in.”Whenever a store sells the winning ticket to a big jackpot, "that store suddenly becomes the lucky place," the California Lottery stated in a report. Two Powerball tickets worth over $1 mil...

CA workers will get 5 sick days instead of 3 under law signed by Gov. Newsom

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:24 GMT

Workers in California will soon receive a minimum of five days of paid sick leave annually, instead of three, under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Wednesday.The law, which takes effect in January, also increases the amount of sick leave workers can carry over into the following year. Newsom said it demonstrates that prioritizing the health and well-being of workers “is of the utmost importance for California’s future."“Too many folks are still having to choose between skipping a day’s pay and taking care of themselves or their family members when they get sick,” Newsom said in a statement announcing his action.It was one of more than a dozen bills the Democratic governor signed Wednesday. He has until mid-October to act on all the legislation sent to him this year. He can sign, veto or let bills become law without his signature.Beyond preventing workers from choosing between taking a day off or getting paid, proponents of the sick day legislation argue it will help curb the spre...

Biden administration pivots on border wall, allows construction in Texas

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:24 GMT

(The Hill) -- The Biden administration announced Wednesday that 26 federal laws were waived to allow border wall construction in Texas, marking the administration's first use of an executive power often used by former President Donald Trump to fund projects along the southern border. The waived laws will help expedite the construction of barriers and roads in Starr County, Texas, which is experiencing "high illegal entry," the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement posted to the U.S. Federal Registry. The U.S. Border Patrol saw more than 245,000 people in the last fiscal year try to enter the United States in the Rio Grande Valley Sector, the DHS said, citing data from August.“There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States in the project areas,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in the statement. Some of the wa...

CIF state football championships: Why NorCal isn’t hosting any games

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:24 GMT

The California Interscholastic Federation is ready for a football test drive.It’s not sure how smooth things will go and won’t have all the specifics for several weeks. It just knows that it will be different than any of its other state football championships since the format expanded to numerous divisions in 2015.For the first time since expansion, all divisions (15 now) will be played at three neutral venues, which the CIF’s federated council approved last spring.Tuesday, the CIF announced the sites for the games: Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, which played host to the upper-division games the past two seasons, El Camino College in Torrence and Pasadena City College.The North won’t have any games this season.Brian Seymour, the CIF’s associate executive director, told the Bay Area News Group on Wednesday that the agreement with the three Southern California community colleges is for one season.“This is the jumping-off stage,” Seymour said. “We’re trying something new. We are ...

Google takes on Apple with Pixel 8 that’s more like the iPhone

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:24 GMT

By Mark Gurman and Vlad Savov | BloombergGoogle is looking to challenge Apple Inc. head-on with new Pixel phones that are more iPhone-like than ever before.This year’s Pixel 8 and 8 Pro are closer in price to Apple’s counterparts, have similar flat-edged screens and can make payments with face identification. Alphabet Inc.’s Google introduced its new lineup Wednesday — including fresh watches and earbuds — and raised the starting price of its phones by $100 each.The Pixel 8 Pro matches the iPhone 15 Pro at $999, while the Pixel 8 costs the same as the iPhone 14 at $699. The new prices reflect the upgraded displays and cameras used in the latest devices, which are still “punching above our weight class,” according to Google product manager Patrick Hennessey, suggesting that consumers are getting more for their money.The Pixel rollout is Google’s latest attempt to make a dent in the market. Though its Android operating system runs the majority of the world’s smartphones, the company’s...