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Sawtelle apartment complex to evict hundreds of units for sprinkler retrofit

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:10:52 GMT

Hundreds of Angelenos will soon have to find a new place to live after a Sawtelle complex announced the eviction of all residents due to a costly renovation project.Barrington Plaza, located at 11740 Wilshire Blvd., suffered dramatic and destructive fires in 2013 and 2020, partly because it does not have fire sprinklers. One person died and 13 people were hurt in the second blaze.Because it was built in the early 1960s, it is exempt from laws requiring fire sprinklers, though as part of approving repairs after the 2020 fire, city officials demanded safety upgrades, according to the Los Angeles Times. Man Injured in Brentwood High-Rise Apartment Building Fire Dies The $300 million project will take years, and under a state law known as the Ellis Act, the owners of the Barrington Plaza are providing residents relocation fees and financial assistance — up to as much as $22,000, according to the Times — so they can take units, including those that are rent stabilized, off the rental m...

Pakistan's ex-PM Imran Khan arrested, sparking violence

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:10:52 GMT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested and dragged from court Tuesday as he appeared to face charges in multiple graft cases, a dramatic escalation of political tensions that sparked violent demonstrations by his angry supporters in almost all of the country's major cities.The arrest of Khan, who was ousted in a no-confidence vote in April 2022 but remains the leading opposition figure, represented the latest confrontation to roil Pakistan, which has seen former prime ministers arrested over the years and interventions by its powerful military.He was removed from the Islamabad High Court by security agents from the National Accountability Bureau, said Fawad Chaudhry, a senior official with his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, and then shoved into an armored car and whisked away.Chaudhry denounced the arrest of the 71-year-old former cricket star as “an abduction.” Pakistan’s independent GEO TV broadcast video of Khan being hauled away.A scuffle brok...

Anton Jackson Jr. Involved in Pedestrian Crash on 23rd Avenue [Oakland, CA]

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:10:52 GMT

32-Year-Old Oakland Pedestrian Hurt after Pursuit Ends in Crash near East 11th StreetOAKLAND, CA (May 9, 2023) – Thursday evening, Anton Jackson Jr. was involved in a pedestrian crash on 23rd Avenue that left one injured.The incident happened on May 4th, shortly after 5:30 p.m., near 23rd Avenue, East 11th Street, and Interstate 880.Initially, a Homeland Security Officer was pursuing an Acura TL that failed to stop a red light. The Acura, driven by 22-year-old Anton Jackson Jr. of Oakland, then hit a Nissan Altima and a 32-year-old Oakland resident, who was walking in the area.Following the collision, Jackson Jr. immediately fled the scene but was soon captured.Responding emergency personnel arrived at the site of the collision shortly after. From there, medics transported the pedestrian to Highland Hospital for treatment of serious injuries. Jackson Jr. was transported to Santa Rita Jail and arrested after he was treated.Meanwhile, the Nissan driver managed to escape without ...

The Highest High: 7 of the Strongest Marijuana Strains of 2023

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:10:52 GMT

Cannabis provides different kinds of buzz. Depending on what you seek — whether you need to relax or you seek to uplift your mood — there’s probably already a strain that’s out there for you. But if you’ve been consuming cannabis for a while now, you might have built a tolerance. Thus, here are the strongest marijuana strains that can give you the high that you’re looking for.Strongest Marijuana Strains of 20231. Godfather OGGodfather OG aka OG Godfather, “The Don of All Gs,” or simply the “Godfather” — when a strain has nicknames like those, you can just tell how well-loved the Godfather OG is. The Godfather OG is one of the strongest marijuana strains that are mostly Indica; it’s a cross between XXX OG and Alpha OG — two other beloved marijuana strains!The Godfather OG has a hint of grape flavor. But the high it provides is the relaxing kind — which is perfect if you suffer from insomnia or you just want to relax! But this Cannabis Cup 2013 1st placer is extremely potent. Its THC ...

Prince Harry’s big concern with memoir: Being seen as smart, ghostwriter says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:10:52 GMT

In a fascinating new essay for the New Yorker, Prince Harry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning ghostwriter J.R. Moehringer opens up about a particularly combative scene between the two during the mostly friendly, but often intense two-year process of writing and editing the Duke of Sussex’s best-selling memoir, “Spare.”The scene revealed something essential about Harry’s insecurities and motivations for writing the book, according to Moehringer’s essay: Harry wants to be taking seriously, he wants to be seen as “smart.”Harry thought he could do this by proving he had his “wits” about him during a particularly grueling moment in his life — in January 2012, when he, a British army captain, underwent a brutal military exercise before his second deployment to Afghanistan. As described in “Spare” and Moehringer’s essay, Harry was “captured” by pretend terrorists in a simulation to find out if he had the...

Man arrested for shooting 14-year-old girl in head while she was playing hide and seek

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:10:52 GMT

By Devon M. Sayers | CNNOfficials in Southwest Louisiana have charged a 58-year-old man with shooting at a group of juveniles who were playing hide and seek, injuring one.The incident happened early Sunday morning in the small town of Starks, Louisiana, near the Texas state line.Authorities say that a group of juveniles “were playing hide and seek in the area and were hiding on the neighbor’s property,” when David V. Doyle fired his weapon.Doyle told detectives that he “observed shadows outside his home, at which time he went inside and retrieved his firearm. He then advised detectives he went back outside and observed people running away from his property, at which time he began shooting at them,” according to a release from the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Office.A 14-year-old girl was shot in the back of the head and was transported to the hospital with “non-life threatening injuries,” the department said.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safe...

Black history, minstrel themes, collide in 2 S.F. productions

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:10:52 GMT

Titles don’t get much more provocative than that of Marc Anthony Thompson’s new show at San Francisco’s Magic Theatre, “The Ni¿¿er Lovers.”“I wanted to record all the people that called to get tickets at the theater to hear how they solved their dilemma to say the N-word,” says writer-composer-director Thompson. “But the emphasis is really on ‘Lovers.’ This play is really a celebration of a really great journey, and a really great love story.”It’s loosely inspired by the true story of Ellen and William Craft, an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia to Boston in 1848. Light-skinned Ellen disguised herself as a white man for the journey, while her darker-skinned husband posed as her enslaved valet. (A book about them, Ilyon Woo’s “Master Slave Husband Wife,” came out a few months ago.)“I’ve been reticent to actually draw that connection myself, because we’ve taken just the kernel of that story, and we use it as a jumping-off point to talk about gender, race then, race ...

Downtown San Jose food hall gets big new signs as stealth project proceeds

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:10:52 GMT

SAN JOSE — “Downtown Food Hall” signs have sprouted for the first time on the sides of a historic San Jose building, fresh indicators of progress for a stealth real estate project being crafted by an Uber co-founder.Even as the signs adorn the former Odd Fellows Building near the corner of East Santa Clara Street and South Third Street in downtown San Jose, glimpses inside the building reveal ongoing work by contractors behind covers that largely block views through the big windows in the old structure.From time to time in recent days and months, construction workers have been spotted walking in and out of side doors and alleyways leading to the interior of the historic building.During times when gaps appeared in the coverings, stainless steel cooking and washing stations were visible through the windows. For the most part, however, the construction remains clandestine and hidden from view.About a month ago, DoorDash, Grubhub and Uber Eats logos suddenly appeared o...

Cruise passenger’s hidden camera recorded 150 people in bathroom, FBI says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:10:52 GMT

A passenger aboard a cruise ship out of Miami has been charged with placing a camera in a bathroom, recording images of dozens of people undressing, the FBI said.The restroom on Harmony of the Seas where camera was allegedly placed. (FBI) Young children were among those in the several hours of video, the agency said.The hidden camera was discovered by a passenger on May 1, the third day of the Royal Caribbean Harmony of the Seas’ weeklong Caribbean cruise. It was in an all-gender restroom — one toilet, no stall — that was adjacent to a surf simulator and was frequently used by people changing in and out of their swimsuits.The first images in the camera’s memory were reportedly of the man who placed it above the door, adjusting its angle to focus near the toilet. It then recorded more than 150 people who used the restroom, the FBI’s press release said.The ship’s security personnel confronted the passenger they believed had placed the camera, a...

Is your job ruining your sleep? If so, this may be why

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:10:52 GMT

By Sandee LaMotte | CNNSleeping poorly due to job stress? That may be due to a lack of support from coworkers and higher-ups, a new study found.However, receiving improved psychological and social support at your job allows you to more easily shut off from the workday, thus giving you precious downtime to de-stress and improve sleep, according to the study.“This study highlights the important role that workplace environment and stress have beyond the setting of work on overall well-being,” said Dr. Phyllis Zee, chief of sleep medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. Zee was not involved in the study.“Initiatives to improve well-being in the workplace can improve sleep, but at a personal level, what we can optimize is our sleep quality — which in turn can help to handle stress and ultimately increase resilience to daily challenges we face,” Zee said.Leadership countsThe study, published Tuesday in the journal JAMA Network Ope...