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Bay Area Dance Week waltzes back after 3-year absence

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:47:33 GMT

The performing arts are always in want of good news, and the return of Bay Area Dance Week after a three-year hiatus brings welcome, joyful tidings of rare magnitude.Running April 21-30 in studios, theaters, parks and classrooms around the region, the vast open-door celebration encompasses hundreds of events, including workshops, performances, classes, open rehearsals, and more.Did we mention that everything is free?Presented by Dancers’ Group, an indispensable force supporting the Northern California dance scene, Bay Area Dance Week captures the dizzying diversity of traditions and styles that can be found here, from burlesque, Bollywood and Bolivian folkloric dance, to ballet, hula, Congolese dance, tango, jazz, modern, and hip-hop.After four years of tribulations and pent up energy, “We are beyond ecstatic to open the doors to studios and venues and spotlight individual artists and companies,” said Andréa Spearman, artist resource manager for Dancers’ Group. “This is an event tha...

Russia’s parliament increases penalty for treason, terrorism

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:47:33 GMT

The lower house of Russia’s parliament on Tuesday approved legislation increasing the punishment for treason to life imprisonment and boosting the penalty for terrorism.The legislation, which advances to the parliament’s upper house, represents an escalation of the Kremlin’s domestic crackdown. Human rights advocates say charges of treason and terrorism are sometimes used against political critics and opponents. Another aspect of the crackdown reported Tuesday was an allegation of violence brought against imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.The State Duma sent for further approval a proposal to increase the punishment for treason to life imprisonment from the current maximum of 20 years. Punishment for terrorism would be increased from 15 to 20 years in prison. Specifically for international terrorism, punishment will be from 12 years to life imprisonment, up from its current penalty of 10 to 20 years. In the Navalny case, his spokespeople reported ...

Sheriff: Arrest warrant moot for kidnapping of Emmett Till

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:47:33 GMT

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi sheriff says in a new court filing that there’s no point in serving an arrest warrant on a white woman in the 1955 kidnapping that led to the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till because last year a grand jury decided not to indict the woman.Till’s kidnapping and killing became a catalyst for the civil rights movement when his mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in their hometown of Chicago after his brutalized body was pulled from a river in Mississippi. Jet magazine published photos.The Mississippi arrest warrant for “Mrs. Roy Bryant” was issued shortly after Till’s death but was never served on the white woman who has since remarried and is now known as Carolyn Bryant Donham.Last June, a team doing research at the courthouse in Leflore County, Mississippi, found the unserved warrant. In July, the office of Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch said there was no new evidence to pursue a criminal case against Donham. I...

7 soldiers hurt in military vehicle pile-up in Germany

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:47:33 GMT

Berlin (AP) — German police said Tuesday that seven soldiers were injured after armored military vehicles crashed into each other on a Bavarian highway.Several German media outlets reported that the vehicles involved in the crash on Monday belonged to the U.S. military, but German police said they were not authorized to give out information on the nationality of the injured soldiers.The public affairs office for the U.S. Army Europe and Africa in Germany did not immediately return calls seeking confirmation.Police in Amberg in southern Germany said that “a military convoy was driving on the A6 highway on maneuver duty, and that for still unknown reasons a rear-end collision involving four armored vehicles occurred.”“According to initial findings, seven soldiers were injured and brought to hospital, two of them via rescue helicopter,” Tobias Mattes from Amberg police said in a statement, adding that one of the soldiers was in a serious condition. The crash occurred at around 10:55 a....

Late-season storm brings more snow to the Sierra Nevada

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:47:33 GMT

TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — The winter that wouldn’t quit showed up again in the Sierra Nevada region of California and Nevada on Tuesday.The fast-moving, blustery storm wasn’t expected to last long, but it was enough to require chain controls on some trans-Sierra highways and add to staggering snowfall totals left by an exceptional series of winter storms.“A blast back to some wintry weather today with wind and snowfall,” the Mammoth Mountain ski resort wrote on its web page. The early morning temperature was just 18 degrees (-8 Celsius). Like most Sierra resorts, Mammoth doesn’t need anymore snow after recording 705 inches (17.9 meters) at its main lodge and 885 inches (22.5 meters) at its summit.In the Lake Tahoe region, the Palisades Tahoe resort reported that early morning winds hit 100 mph (161 kph) before calming down.Spring conditions are expected to return later in the week, the National Weather Service said.Source

2 Iowa teens plead guilty in Spanish teacher’s beating death

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:47:33 GMT

Two Iowa teenagers charged in the beating death of a high school teacher pleaded guilty to first-degree murder on Tuesday.Willard Miller and Jeremy Goodale both changed their pleas to guilty Tuesday and admitted helping kill 66-year-old Nohema Graber, their Spanish teacher at Fairfield High School. Investigators said the attack was possibly regarding a dispute over grades in Graber’s class. Prosecutors say the evidence shows both Miller and Goodale struck Graber with a bat. Miller admitted helping plan and carry out the killing but denied ever hitting Graber. Goodale testified that Miller initiated the plan to kill Graber and they both struck her.The teacher’s body was found in a Fairfield park in November 2021 hidden under a tarp, wheelbarrow and railroad ties. The town of Fairfield is home to some 9,400 people and is around 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Des Moines.Prosecutors agreed to recommend a sentence between 30 years and life in prison with the possibil...

A reported 24-hour cease-fire in Sudan goes into effect on 4th day of heavy fighting between rival generals

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:47:33 GMT

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A reported 24-hour cease-fire in Sudan goes into effect on 4th day of heavy fighting between rival generals.Source

Estudiantes protestan en contra de oficiales armados en George Washington University

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:47:33 GMT

Decenas de estudiantes de la Universidad George Washington salieron a las calles el lunes para expresar su oposición al plan de la escuela de armar a algunos policías del campus.El presidente interino Mark Wrighton anunció en una carta a los estudiantes el jueves que la Junta de Síndicos de la universidad ordenó a la administración que desarrollara un plan para armar a los oficiales del Departamento de Policía de GW especialmente capacitados.“Si bien no somos conscientes de ninguna amenaza mayor para nuestra universidad, en los últimos años ha habido demasiados casos trágicos de violencia armada masiva en las comunidades y en los campus universitarios”, señaló Wrighton en la carta, citando tiroteos masivos en la Universidad Estatal de Michigan, la Universidad de Virginia y una escuela primaria en Nashville.Pero algunos estudiantes que marcharon a la casa del presidente en el campus el lunes argumentaron que armar a los oficiales los hará sentir menos seguros.“Creo que armarlos solo ...

Man shot in Aurora Burger King parking lot after apparent altercation

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:47:33 GMT

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) -- The Aurora Police Department is investigating a shooting that happened on Monday night.Police said officers were called to a local hospital for a 50-year-old man who was in the emergency room with a gunshot wound. How Colorado’s ‘make my day’ law differs from ‘stand your ground’ laws in other states During the investigation, police learned that the shooting happened at Burger King at 625 N. Peoria St. around 8:30 p.m.A 19-year-old man was arrested for allegedly firing shots in the parking lot. APD said that another teenager, suspected of shooting the victim, has not been arrested. 5 of the most high-profile criminals in Colorado supermax prison Investigators said they believe the shooting happened after a fight between the victim and suspects. Police also believe the victim and suspects knew each other.If you have any information about this incident, please contact APD.

Teen arrested for allegedly shooting friend at a house party

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:47:33 GMT

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — A teenager was arrested over the weekend in connection to the death of his friend, according to the Aurora Police Department.Officers responded to the shooting at about 10:45 p.m. Sunday in the 1700 block of Fulton Street in the North Aurora Division neighborhood.APD said the shooting happened during a house party when the victim, a 17-year-old boy, was showing his friend, also 17 years old, how to disassemble a handgun. That is when the friend's gun allegedly fired and struck the victim in the chest. Juvenile injured in shooting outside Green Valley Ranch home The victim was taken to a local hospital after officers performed CPR. The teen later died due to his injuries from the shooting. APD said the shooter was arrested on one charge of felony manslaughter and a misdemeanor charge of a juvenile in unlawful possession of a handgun. Due to the shooter's age, a name and photo will not be released. The shooter will be charged in juvenile court.