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LAPD honoring fallen officers with ‘A Ride to Remember’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:47:36 GMT

The Los Angeles Police Department’s Mission Area Station is hosting the 3rd Annual Memorial Bike Ride known as “A Ride to Remember, In Honor of All Fallen First Responders” on Sunday. Over 100 bikers will be riding 25 miles through the northwestern parts of the San Fernando Valley.  The event raises funds for the families of Mission Area’s fallen officers, Officer Val Martinez and Officer Nicholi Darkus, in addition to raising funds for Mission’s youth programs.   MGK, Megan Fox involved in altercation at O.C. Fair Officer Martinez was exposed to COVID-19 while on duty and passed away due to complications in July 2020. He never got the chance to meet his newborn twin boys, LAPD said. Officer Darkus was diagnosed with cancer shortly after graduating from the Police Academy and died just last month. He leaves behind a wife and three children, police confirmed. "This is very important," said one rider participating in the event with his daughter, who works at the San Ferna...

Musk says Twitter to change logo to “X” from the bird. Changes could come as early as Monday.

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:47:36 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk said Sunday that he plans to change the logo of Twitter to an “X” from the famous blue bird, marking what would be the latest big change since he bought the social media platform for $44 billion last year.In a series of posts on his Twitter account starting just after 12 a.m. ET, Twitter’s owner said that he’s looking to make the change worldwide as soon as Monday. “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds,” Musk wrote on his account.The change isn’t surprising given Musk’s long history with the name “X,” says Allen Adamson, co-founder of marketing consultancy Metaforce. The billionaire Tesla CEO tweeted last October that “buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app.” Musk’s rocket company, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., is commonly known as SpaceX. And in 1999, Musk founded a startup called X.com, an online financial services company now known as PayPal.“...

Wedding photographers adapt to couples who want instant images and less tradition on their big day

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:47:36 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — More and more couples are throwing out the playbook for a traditional wedding — and posing new challenges for the people they hire to create the perfect images of their big day.Getting married has traditionally involved a large reception, and rituals like cake cutting, multiple toasts and time for dancing. A wedding photographer would capture it all — and the newly hitched couple would then wait weeks or months for the pictures.The pandemic and social media have upended those traditions. During the pandemic, many weddings turned into elopements. Social media images and videos took center stage when people couldn’t gather for a big ceremony.Wedding photographers say some of the pandemic trends are sticking around. They’re being asked to shoot more elopements and micro weddings – weddings with 50 or fewer guests — and to provide faster photos and behind-the-scenes videos that can easily be shared on social media. That’s on top of the regular wedding p...

Brighton PD investigate fatal crash with motorcycle and truck

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:47:36 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Police in Brighton investigated a fatal crash involving a motorcycle and a pickup truck early Sunday morning.The crash, which happened at the intersection of 50th Avenue and Bridge Street caused the intersection to be closed for the investigation.

Turnout in Spain’s elections slows down

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:47:36 GMT

MADRID — Participation rates in Spain’s national elections appeared to decrease on Sunday afternoon, with 52.94 percent of registered voters having cast their ballots as of 6 p.m., nearly four percentage points below the turnout registered at the same hour during the elections in November 2019.Turnout was stronger during the first hours of the day, with some 40.48 percent of electors voting by 2 p.m., three percentage points ahead of the rate recorded at that hour in 2019. Given the extreme heat in Spain, participation was widely expected to slow during the hottest hours of the day. Pollsters believe voting rates will pick up in the later afternoon, when temperatures begin to cool down.The current turnout figure does not include mail-in ballots, which could boost the final figure substantially. Spaniards have opted to vote by mail in record numbers in these elections, the first to be held in the middle of summer, when over a quarter of registered electors are on holiday. Some...

Trump just qualified for first Republican debate. But will he show up?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:47:36 GMT

Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Chris Christie and Tim Scott have all met the Republican National Committee’s polling and fundraising thresholds to earn invitations to the first primary debate next month, according to POLITICO’s tracking of the qualification process.Whether they all will show up is another question.Trump, in particular, has indicated he is not inclined to step foot on the stage, publicly waffling on whether he’ll make the trip to Milwaukee at the end of next month.“Ronald Reagan didn’t do it, and a lot of other people didn’t do it. When you have a big lead, you don’t do it,” the former president said during an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” last weekend.It is a melodrama that could carry on for weeks: Candidates have until 48 hours before the Aug. 23 debate to indicate if they’ll participate.Trump’s potential lack of participation could completely redefine the first debate. If Trump shows, it’s the first real opportunity fo...

Man shot in East Village; suspects at large

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:47:36 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A man was shot Sunday morning in the East Village neighborhood, authorities said.According to the San Diego Police Department, a group of people were reportedly fighting in the area of at Park Boulevard and Broadway around 4:51 a.m. when a passerby interfered with the altercation. Man shot, killed in City Heights Police say the man was shot in the leg and the suspects fled the area. SDPD explained that a tourniquet, or a device used to apply pressure to a limb to stop bleeding, was used on the victim at the scene.The man was transported to a hospital. The nature of his injuries are unknown at this time. Police say there are no suspect descriptions available. An investigation into the shooting is ongoing.This is a developing story, Please check back for updates.

Empanadas eatery serving artisanal Argentinian pastries opens in North County

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:47:36 GMT

SAN MARCOS, Calif. -- What started as a booth at local farmers markets has now evolved into a brick-and-mortar empanadas eatery in North County.If you haven't sank your teeth into an artisanal Argentinian pastry made by Matias Bienati, the founder of Milonga Empanadas, then your opportunity to do so has arrived. It’s like an Airbnb for pools in San Diego County With influences from his Argentinian heritage and professional experience working in Michelin-star kitchens, Bienati is now serving handcrafted savory pastries at a storefront in San Marcos.Milonga Empanadas will occupy the space located at 251 N City Dr. Suite 128E, which most recently housed award- winning Wynston’s Ice Cream that moved to a larger location in the area last summer."We are excited to open the doors of our first brick-and-mortar location in North City," said Bienati. "The team at Sea Breeze Properties has been extremely welcoming and instrumental in supporting our expansion to our first permanent storefron...

Voters brave the heat as Spain holds election that could make it the latest EU member to veer right

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:47:36 GMT

MADRID (AP) — Voters in Spain braved soaring summer temperatures to cast ballots in a general election Sunday that could make the country the latest European Union member to swing to the political right.Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called the early election after his Spanish Socialist Workers Party and its far-left partner, Unidas Podemos, took a severe beating in local and regional elections in May. Sánchez has been Spain’s head of government since 2018.Polling stations for the 37 million voters close at 8 p.m. (1800 GMT). Near-final results were expected by midnight.Most opinion polls have put the right-wing Popular Party, which won the May vote, ahead of the Socialists but likely needing the support of the extreme right Vox party to form a government.Such a coalition would return a far-right force to the Spanish government for the first time since the country transitioned to democracy in the late 1970s following the nearly 40-year rule of dictator Francisco Franco. A PP-Vox...

Freed Egyptian human rights campaigner arrives in Italy, which championed his case

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:47:36 GMT

MILAN (AP) — A high-profile Egyptian activist who was recently released from prison landed Sunday in Italy, where the government championed his case. Patrick George Zaki was greeted by applause and a throng of video and still cameras as he emerged into the arrivals hall at Milan’s Malpensa Airport after traveling on a commercial flight. He was then continuing to Bologna, where he had been living and studying before being detained in Cairo on in 2020. “This is the most important day of my life,’’ Zaki, 32, told reporters as he made is way through the Milan airport.Zaki’s case has echoed in Italy, reminding many of the tragic fate of Italian student Giulio Regeni who was abducted and killed in Cairo in 2016. The Italian government had repeatedly called for Zaki’s release since his arrest in 2020.Zaki was pardoned last week, just days after an Egyptian court convicted him of a charge of disseminating false news, stemming from an article he wrote in 2019 about alleged discrimination aga...