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Kim Gardner working to free man convicted in 1990 murder

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:21:52 GMT

ST. LOUIS - St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner is working to free convicted murderer Christopher Dunn. He has been in prison for more than 30 years for a murder that Gardner believes Dunn did not commit. Dunn was sentenced to life plus 90 years in prison in the 1990 murder of Recco Rogers. The teen was allegedly killed over a gang affiliation. Gardner says that there is clear and convincing evidence that shows he was wrongly convicted.  Weekend Chaos: Downtown St. Louis fights & shootings She filed a motion on Friday and released a statement saying she is hopeful his conviction is set aside for the sake of Dunn, his family, and the people of the city of St. Louis.In 2021, family and friends of Chris Dunn went to the Missouri state capital to protest his sentence. Dunn says he is innocent and claims it would have been legally better if he had been sentenced to death.KCTV reports that no physical evidence linked Dunn to the crime. The trial hinged on testimony of a 12 and...

Manhole cover explosions spotted in downtown Denver after water main break kicks up smoke

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:21:52 GMT

Explosions that rattled downtown Denver and kicked up smoke early Sunday came from sewer lines blowing off manhole covers, fire department officials said Monday.The explosions happened shortly before 3 a.m. near the intersection of 18th and Arapahoe streets.“We had manhole covers bursting. We saw smoke,” Denver Fire Department spokesman J.D. Chism said.Before dawn Sunday, a Denver Water main line broke in the area and a utility junction box apparently blew up, police and fire officials said. These incidents may have played a role.Xcel Energy officials on Monday were looking into what happened. Denver Water officials couldn’t be reached.Several residents downtown reported hearing explosions and seeing gray smoke billowing above buildings near 18th and Arapahoe.Manhole covers typically explode after a spark from wiring ignites gas. A cast-iron manhole cover can weigh between 85 and 300 pounds and explosions in the past have propelled these discs into the air.Sign up to get crime...

Broncos, Centura Health agree on 10-year training facility naming rights partnership

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:21:52 GMT

The Broncos and Centura Health have agreed to a 10-year partnership making Centura the official healthcare and training facility naming rights partner of the football franchise, they announced Monday morning.The Broncos had been partnered with UC Health for eight years, but confirmed the end of that arrangement in recent weeks.Centura, based in Centennial not far from the football team’s Dove Valley headquarters, is donating $100,000 to the Denver Broncos Foundation in addition to the parameters of the partnership, according to a news release.“We’re excited to team up with Centura Health as part of this significant partnership highlighted by our training facility naming rights and, most importantly, a shared commitment to serving our community,” Broncos president Damani Leach said in a statement. “Located only a short distance from our facility, Centura is a hometown organization aligned with the Broncos’ values of prioritizing health and wellness for all Coloradans. We look forward...

2 injured after stolen vehicle pursuit ends in fiery South L.A. crash

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:21:52 GMT

Two people were injured in a fiery pursuit crash in South Los Angeles early Monday.The incident occurred around 12:20 a.m. in the 300 block of East Slauson Avenue.The driver of a suspected stolen vehicle was being chased by the Los Angeles Police Department for only a minute when the pursuit ended in a crash. A third vehicle that was not part of the pursuit caught on fire, video from the scene showed.The suspect was detained at the scene, and two people were hospitalized, police said. Preliminary reports indicated that the victims were occupants in the vehicle struck by the pursuit suspect. No officers were injured during the chase and crash, police said. Both sides of Slauson Avenue were shut down amid the investigation.No further details about the pursuit or the crash have been released.

Meet Mercurial Materials Artist Victor Wilde

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:21:52 GMT

Artist and fashion designer Victor Wilde is inspired by the potential of mercurial materials as he applies a process of scavenge, salvage, destruction, reconfiguration, redemption, appropriation, and transformation to the vast inventory of textiles, faux pelts, parachutes, used and vintage garments, accessories, street posters, fashion district tchotchkes, paints, purloined street posters, flags, model weapons, flamethrowers, polymers, and more that fills his DTLA studio. He applies this post-punk creative mode equally to clothing and fine art, believing the two to have in fact always been inextricable. Painting on clothes, printmaking on found images, sewing works on paper, affixing garments to canvas and photographs to garments, making narrative plushies and crafty homespun weaponry out of left-overs, lambasting authority and late-stage capitalism with a caustic arte povera wink and a flair for the dramatic—it’s all one big idea.Wilde last grabbed headlines for Bohemian Society’s ...

Mamma Mia! The 10 Best Pizza Places in LA 2023

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:21:52 GMT

Angelenos love pizza. Truly, we do. Because a Los Angeles pizzeria holds the Guinness World Record for the largest deliverable pizza (Big Mama’s and Papa’s “The Giant Sicilian” is 54” x 54” in size). But with so many options, how do you find the best pizza places in LA?We’ll help you out! Here are the 10 best pizza places in LA (in no particular order):10 Best Pizza Places in LA That Will Make You Hungry1. Pizzeria SeiThe rave is real! Pizzeria Sei is considered to be one of the best pizza places in LA because of how the crust balances out all the ingredients their pizza is topped with. The pizza crust rarely gets reviews, but if diners praise Pizzeria Rei’s that much, you know it’s delicious! After all, why wouldn’t they?The perfectly pinched crust is charred to perfection. It’s chewy, it’s fluffy, and it’s bouncy. Pizzeria Sei is known for its Napoletana-style pizza where the pie is topped with anchovy, capers, and olive. But their Bismarck also sells out early — it’s topped with ...

AAPI Heritage Month: Interstellar Is The Space Between Two Korean Stars

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:21:52 GMT

Against all odds, what originally started out as a tiny artisanal coffee shop, Angie and Daniel Kim’s Interstellar in Santa Monica has evolved into an all-day cafe with three diverse menus reflecting the couple’s multicultural backgrounds. Oh yeah, and then there’s the pup menu of handmade dog food for fur babies.The husband and wife team of Korean descent met at a class at Santa Monica College in 2011, while both were trying to navigate who they were in a city they found that finally embraced diversity.“I came to the U.S. when I was about two years old and spent my childhood in Seattle,” Angie tells L.A. Weekly in the cafe that features moody textural green tones, gradient wallpaper and sleek green marble table tops and black oak finishes. ‘It was a little bit of a struggle back then,” says the soft spoken and diminutive culinary school graduate. “It was a time when a lot of Asian immigrants were trying to adapt and create something for themselves. I have memories of watching my pa...

Google moves into San Jose tech campus where it could employ thousands

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:21:52 GMT

Google tech campus at 175, 225, 255, and 285 West Tasman Drive in north San Jose. Google office buildings at the campus are shown with the search giant’s logo. (Google Maps)SAN JOSE — Google has moved into another big San Jose campus, greatly widening its foothold in the Bay Area’s largest city in a shift that shows how the search giant seeks ways to expand even as it reassesses its priorities.The tech titan now operates in at least three of four buildings on West Tasman Drive near Champion Court in a new office hub that Google calls its Tasman Campus.This expansion represents at least the second major campus in San Jose where Google has quietly moved employees and begun work operations.In April, Google confirmed it had moved into two big office buildings on Brokaw Road between North First Street and Bering Drive in San Jose. The buildings are two of four buildings that total a combined 729,000 square feet that Google leased from Peery Arrillaga in 2019.The le...

More than 60 migrant families found living in dilapidated greenhouse in rural Monterey County

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:21:52 GMT

ROYAL OAKS — A dilapidated greenhouse at a Northern California nursery was home to dozens of farmworkers and their families who were living in tiny and unsafe dwellings without ventilation, authorities said Friday.Officials found 62 makeshift dwellings inside the greenhouse on a property in rural Monterey County that were put together with plywood, sheetrock and other materials, said Nick Pasculli, a county spokesperson.“There are exposed gas lines and wiring, no proper sewer. The conditions are very rough,” Pasculli said.It was not yet clear if the farmworkers were employed at the nursery in the community of Royal Oaks or just lived there, Pasculli said. He added that some residents were paying up to $2,000 per month in rent and one told investigators he had lived there for more than eight months.Nor have investigators determined yet where the migrant families are from, according to Pasculli, though some of them speak indigenous languages native to the Mexican state of Oaxaca.Autho...

3 arrested for gun possession, suspected identity theft in Santa Rosa

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:21:52 GMT

(KRON) -- What started as a traffic stop for running a red light ended with three suspects being arrested for gun possession and identity theft, according to the Santa Rosa Police Department. Around 11:08 p.m. Saturday, officers with SRPD stopped a white Dodge pickup truck for allegedly running a red light at Guerneville Road and Coffey Road, officials said.The driver and two passengers stopped for police. Officers said they saw an open alcohol bottle near the driver and from there conducted an investigation. Police interviewed the driver and passengers and searched the Dodge. San Francisco bike shop closes after multiple break-ins Police said they found two unregistered 9mm guns hidden in the truck with ammunition and extra magazines. They also said they found several credit cards, bank checks and personal identifying information for at least 10 people.The driver and two passengers were arrested and booked into the Santa Rosa County jail.Brandon Rosemont, 26, of Idaho, was on pa...