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Google changes policy, will start deleting inactive accounts soon

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:24 GMT

Rich DeMuro reports on Google's plan to start deleting inactive accounts later this year. Plus, an app called Swipewipe can help you clean out your camera roll Tinder style and the BlackBerry movie is a Pearl with Bold acting and a storyline that will take you by Storm.

Stacey Woienski Pronounced Dead Following Head-On Crash on Arnold Drive [Sonoma Valley, CA]

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:24 GMT

Two-Vehicle Collision Near Leveroni Road Kills 44-Year-Old El Verano WomanSONOMA VALLEY, CA (May 19, 2023) – Tuesday evening, a head-on collision on Arnold Drive claimed the life of Stacey Woienski.The fatal crash happened around 7:25 p.m., north of Leveroni Road in Sonoma Valley.According to the CHP, a 2003 Chevrolet Silverado pickup crossed into the oncoming lanes while traveling southbound.Consequently, the Chevrolet collided head-on with a Ford Ranger pickup going north.Responding emergency personnel said the Chevy pickup driver sustained fatal injuries and died at the scene. Authorities later identified the deceased driver as 44-year-old Stacey Woienski of El Verano.Meanwhile, the 32-year-old Ford driver from Sonoma was airlifted to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital for treatment of significant injuries.In the end, Sonoma Officials closed the area of Arnold Drive for at least three hours to conduct an investigation.No words can mend the broken hearts and sorrow felt during thi...

Pac-12 tax filings for FY2022 reveal record revenue, the Comcast cloud and a sweet parting gift for Larry Scott

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:24 GMT

The Pac-12’s first year under the tenure of commissioner George Kliavkoff featured record revenue and campus distributions, reduced expenses and an eye-opening severance payment, according to the federal tax filing made public Friday and obtained by the Hotline.The financial report, which covers the 2022 fiscal year, also suggests there’s a mess to clean up.In the Schedule O section, the conference notes the potential need for an amended filing — one related to the Pac-12 Networks distribution fiasco (with Comcast) that was discovered last fall, cost two executives their jobs and left the schools with significant financial exposure.Here’s a breakdown of key items in the filings.Revenue jumpsThe conference reported total revenues of $581 million and paid out an average of $37 million to each campus. Both constitute records by a significant amount.However, the Pac-12 once again trails its Power Five peers in campus distributions — an ongoing issue rooted in the underperfor...

Officer charged with lying about leaks to Proud Boys

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:24 GMT

By Michael Kunzelman, Lindsay Whitehurst and Alanna Durkin Richer | Associated PressA Washington, D.C. police officer was arrested Friday on charges that he lied about leaking confidential information to Proud Boys extremist group leader Enrique Tarrio and obstructed an investigation after group members destroyed a Black Lives Matter banner in the nation’s capital.An indictment alleges that Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Shane Lamond, 47, of Stafford, Virginia, warned Tarrio, then national chairman of the far-right group, that law enforcement had an arrest warrant for him related to the banner’s destruction.Tarrio was arrested in Washington two days before Proud Boys members joined the mob in storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Earlier this month, Tarrio and three other leaders were convicted of seditious conspiracy charges for what prosecutors said was a plot to keep then-President Donald Trump in the White House after he lost the 2020 election.A federal grand jur...

Chokehold victim Jordan Neely mourned at Manhattan church

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:24 GMT

By Deepti Hajela | Associated PressNEW YORK — Friends, family members and civil rights leaders gathered at a Harlem church on Friday to mourn Jordan Neely, whose chokehold death on the New York City subway set off a debate about vigilantism, homelessness and public safety.A former Michael Jackson impersonator who had been struggling with mental illness and homelessness in recent years, Neely died May 1 when a fellow subway rider pinned him to the floor of a subway car in a chokehold that lasted several minutes.The fatal struggle was recorded on video by an onlooker who said Neely had been yelling at other passengers as he begged for money, but hadn’t attacked anyone.Last week the man who pinned and choked Neely, Daniel Penny, was charged with manslaughter by the Manhattan district attorney. Penny’s lawyers say he was acting to protect himself and other passengers after Neely made threatening statements.The Rev. Al Sharpton told worshippers that Neely’s life should ...

Single family residence sells for $1.7 million in Danville

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:24 GMT

85 Chadbourne Drive – Google Street ViewThe spacious property located in the first block of Chadbourne Drive in Danville was sold on May 3, 2023. The $1,721,000 purchase price works out to $645 per square foot. The house, built in 1987, has an interior space of 2,670 square feet. The property features three bedrooms, three bathrooms, an attached garage, and two parking spaces. It sits on a 6,120-square-foot lot.Additional houses that have recently been purchased close by include:In October 2022, a 3,102-square-foot home on Chadbourne Court in Danville sold for $1,830,000, a price per square foot of $590. The home has 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.A 2,896-square-foot home on the first block of Windsor Court in Danville sold in July 2022, for $2,050,000, a price per square foot of $708. The home has 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.On Chardonnay Court, Danville, in June 2022, a 2,037-square-foot home was sold for $1,800,000, a price per square foot of $884. The home has 4 bedrooms and 2 bathro...

Harrison Ford kept from sitting with wife Calista Flockhart at Cannes: Awkward moment for honored star

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:24 GMT

Harrison Ford and his wife Calista Flockhart received a thunderous applause from fans as they walked hand-in-hand on the Cannes Film Festival red carpet to attend the big, splashy premiere of film “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” the actor’s final appearance in the celebrated franchise.But Ford, the evening’s honored guest, faced an awkward moment when he and Flockhart arrived at their seats in the theater and learned they weren’t sitting together, TMZ reported. As the crowd stood and clapped for the arrival of “Indiana Jones and Calista Flockhart,” video shows the couple scanning the seats, looking confused.Flockhart then notices she’s been placed behind in the row behind him. She mentions her seating assignment to Ford with a smile, which prompts him to utter what appears to be an “Oh.” The “Ally McBeal” star eventually leaves his side and tries to make her way around other attendees to get to her seat in th...

SF DA drops charges against SFPD officer who shot suspect during training in 2019

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:24 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Charges against a San Francisco police officer who was indicted by a grand jury in 2020 for shooting a man who was running from police in 2019 have been dropped, according to the officer's attorneys, Rains Lucia Stern St Phalle & Silver (RLS). SFPD Officer Christopher Flores was charged by then-San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin for a Dec. 7, 2019 shooting that occurred while Flores was in field training. SF restaurant that hosted anti-trans dinner apologizes amid backlash Flores and his field training officer responded to a call regarding a man who had kicked down the door of a residence in the Mission District. When the suspect in the incident, Jamaica Hampton, allegedly attacked Flores' training officer, Flores attempted to intervene.In the melee that followed, Flores shot at Hampton who was struck and sustained serious injuries. Boudin charged Flores with negligent discharge of a firearm and assault by a public officer, both felony offense...

Suspect in SF 4/20 shots fired incident arrested: SFPD

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:24 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- The suspect in a shots fired incident that occurred last month in the vicinity of San Francisco's 4/20 celebrations has been arrested, according to the San Francisco Police Department. The initial incident occurred at around 1:18 p.m. on April 20.Officers with the SFPD Park Station responded to Cole Street and Haight Street on a report of shots fired. Arriving on the scene, officers found multiple shell casings but did not locate a victim. Evidence related to the crime was collected and witnesses were interviewed, police said. SF restaurant that hosted anti-trans dinner apologizes amid backlash The investigation was taken up by the SFPD Community Violence Reduction Team. During the course of the investigation, Patrick Rushing, 32, of Pinole was identified as a suspect.Arrest and search warrants were obtained for Rushing, his residence and associated vehicles, police said.On May 17, SFPD CVRT officers and members of the Crime Gun Investigation Center located...

Potomac Yard Metro’s 1st-day riders say full impact is further down tracks

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:46:24 GMT

Most of the first riders boarding and departing on Blue and Yellow line Metro trains at the brand new Potomac Yard station on Friday morning were holding festive pennants to celebrate the opening, but some said the full impact of the station won’t be felt for years to come.Metro user Emmet Ryan rode the first train before sunrise, right when the station opened: “Brand new station, first infill station in Virginia, first new station in six months — it’s pretty exciting, all around.”The Potomac Yard/Virginia Tech station is only the second infill station, or new station between already-existing stations on an existing rail line, ever added to Washington Metro system. It is inserted between the Braddock Road and Ronald Reagan National Airport stations. The other infill station, NoMa-Gallaudet, opened on the Red line in 2004.Located on the site of a former railroad freight yard in Alexandria, the Potomac Yard area is growing rapidly, just east of Route 1, and jus...