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Family still awaiting answers after model murdered in downtown L.A.

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:30:45 GMT

Loved ones of a model who was found brutally killed in her downtown L.A. apartment are still distraught as they've received no answers about her death so far.Nearly a month after the body of Maleesa Mooney, 31, was found inside her apartment on the 200 block of South Figueroa Street, her family said they’ve been mostly left in the dark with no suspect information being released to them.Mooney was an expectant mother and an aspiring model and real estate agent when she died.“It’s honestly so stressful,” said Jourdin Pauline, Mooney’s sister. “I have thousands and thousands of scenarios in my head of what could have happened because we don’t know.”Pauline said she’s frustrated as she’s been waiting weeks for answers about her sister's murder sister since Sept. 12.“This person is still out there and the police are not telling us anything,” Pauline said. “What is the hold up? What did the guys see? Can you share it with us? Suspects? Surveillance video that you do have? Show us somethin...

Raw Power: Rock gods unite in the desert

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:30:45 GMT

Raw Power: Back in 2016, the Desert Trip Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, the site of the annual Coachella Festival, brought together six of the greatest artists in the history of rock ‘n’ roll. The Stones, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, Neil Young and The Who all played over three days, two bands performing headline-length sets each evening. Some playfully referred to it as “Oldchella,” but the magnitude of the event couldn’t be questioned.This weekend, the same format will be applied to six of the biggest names in hard rock and heavy metal. Power Trip will feature Guns N’ Roses and Iron Maiden on Friday, AC/DC and Judas Priest on Saturday, and Metallica and Tool on Sunday. That is simply immense.The bill originally included Ozzy Osbourne, incidentally. When the Black Sabbath man and solo metal legend had to pull out for health reasons, Priest (who, like Ozzy, happen to be from Birmingham, England) was happy to jump in.“Whether Ozzy had anything to do whatsoever...

Why More and More Athletes Are Turning to CBD Topicals

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:30:45 GMT

Read the original article about CBD Topicals for Athletes here.Whether you are a professional athlete, enjoy a pickup game of ball at the rec, or you are an avid outdoors enthusiast, you are probably aware of the wear and tear high impact activity can have on the body. From overworked muscles to strains and pulls, our bodies need a recovery period to prevent these injuries. Time is one of the best healers, but is there anything additional you could add the up the ante of your recovery process? CBD says yes.What Is CBD?CBD is one of many naturally occurring compounds in cannabis and hemp plants. Research surrounding CBD is still limited, but there are signs pointing toward effective promise in the realms of pain, inflammation and muscle soreness. CBD interacts directly with the human body’s endocannabinoid system. This bodily system is largely responsible for the management of pain, inflammation, appetite, sleep, mood and more. This direct interaction with the endocannabinoid system ...

India, Pakistan on track for cricket gold-medal showdown at Asian Games, which could foreshadow Olympics

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:30:45 GMT

By STEPHEN WADE | AP Sports WriterHANGZHOU, China (AP) — India and Pakistan moved closer to a potential Asian Games showdown for the gold medal in cricket after picking up victories on Tuesday in the quarterfinals.Any match between Pakistan and India draws a massive television audience and will be influential as the International Olympic Committee ponders cricket being added to the program for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.The cricket final on Saturday, however, could be overshadowed by the start of the Cricket World Cup in India, which opens on Thursday.The IOC has given no clear timetable when a decision about cricket will be made.Cricket appeared in the Olympics for the only time at the 1900 Paris Games.Baseball and softball are also in the running to again be included in the Olympic program.Related ArticlesOlympics | San Jose-born skater Vincent Zhou: Team USA has yet to receive medals from 2022 Olympics Olympics | Is the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame&#...

Bay Area News Group names Sarah Dussault as senior editor

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:30:45 GMT

As a 9-year-old girl, Sarah Dussault spent summer breaks running around The Mercury News newsroom where her father, a features copy editor, would hand her plastic cylinders stuffed with marked-up news pages to send with a whoosh into pneumatic tubes to the building’s type shop.“It was just the coolest thing in the world,” she said.Now, three decades later, Dussault, 45, has been named Senior Editor of the Bay Area News Group, overseeing the newsrooms of The Mercury News and East Bay Times.Bay Area News Group Senior Editor Sarah Dussault on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, in the newsroom of The Mercury News in downtown San Jose, Calif. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) She replaces Bert Robinson, a relentless First Amendment advocate who started his journalism career as an intern at The Mercury News 40 years ago and led the news group to a Pulitzer Prize in 2017. He is moving to Florida to be close to family.For Dussault (pronounced Doo-sew) to earn the top job, ”it’s absolutely surreal,”...

Prep volleyball roundup: Archbishop Mitty, Burlingame, Silver Creek, Berkeley among the winners

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:30:45 GMT

No. 2 Archbishop Mitty 3, No. 3 St. Ignatius 0Archbishop Mitty rebounded from a four-game losing streak, including back-to-back losses to No. 1 St. Francis, by sweeping No. 3 St. Ignatius 13-25, 9-25, 24-26 in West Catholic Athletic League play on Tuesday night.On senior night, the Monarchs honored Jillian Pascual, Amiya Kuchibhotla, Katelyn Cook and Annabella Rando. The Monarchs improved to 19-4 and 5-2 in the WCAL.  St. Ignatius junior Carol Manu had 10 kills, and Sophia Lucas and Gianna Halteh each head five kills. Senior Logan Stern had five digs. St. Ignatius had entered the game on a four-match winning streak which included a victory over Redwood-Larkspur. No. 9 Burlingame 3, Sequoia 0Burlingame swept it’s third consecutive league opponent in the PAL Bay Division on Tuesday, improving to 7-1 in the division and staying within a game of 8-0 Menlo-Atherton. Burlingame beat Sequoia 25-17, 25-8, 25-20. Burlingame coach Hannah Korslund said Ava Scatena had 11 kills with no errors, ...

49ers’ defense seeks to prove greatness vs. Cowboys’ high-flying offense

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:30:45 GMT

SANTA CLARA — The 49ers had no intention of chasing goodness on defense in 2023.Aside from a sixth Super Bowl championship, the 49ers defensively aspire to be great. And while the defense has been an upper-echelon unit that has held up its end in a 4-0 start, stepping it up in that area would go a long way toward keeping the 49ers on track with the Dallas Cowboys in town Sunday night.“We know how good we are,” cornerback Deommodore Lenoir said Wednesday. “But we know what we’re trying to get to.”Depending on how things shake out, the 49ers may well need to be great on defense to beat Dallas. It’s not lost on the 49ers that the Cowboys are giving up the NFL’s fewest points per game at 10.3, with the 49ers tied for third at 14.5. Or that Dallas is also ranked No. 2 in terms of yards allowed with the 49ers at No. 5.The Cowboys lead the NFL with nine takeaways. The 49ers have five. Dallas has 14 sacks to nine for the 49ers.The defenses don...

Editorial: California’s shameful delays probing police killings of unarmed civilians

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:30:45 GMT

Another troubling deadly shooting by Bay Area police. Another promise by California Attorney General Rob Bonta to investigate. And, if history is an indicator, another case that his office will take years to resolve.This time the shooting is in Martinez. Video shows officers firing at a car as it drives away. One man, Tommy Wilson Jr., 22, was critically injured but is recovering. He had been shot twice in the back. His brother, Tahmon Wilson, 20, is dead. He had been shot in the back of the head.It’s hard to understand how firing into a moving vehicle as suspects are trying to flee can be justified. It’s hard to understand how it’s OK for an officer to shoot someone from behind. That’s why an independent investigation is so badly needed.Hours after the killings, Bonta announced that his office would conduct a probe as required by state law. The law stems from legislation that Bonta, when he was an assemblymember, and more than 40 other legislators introduced just three weeks ...

Hobby Lobby arts and crafts retailer seals deal for big San Jose store

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:30:45 GMT

SAN JOSE — Hobby Lobby has sealed a deal to lease a big chunk of store space in San Jose, a rental agreement that hints at some green shoots of economic hope in a forbidding landscape for Bay Area retail.The arts and crafts retailer has successfully capped off a wide-ranging hunt for a new location by leasing space within Almaden Plaza, a high-profile shop and restaurant complex in south San Jose.Oklahoma-based Hobby Lobby has leased 62,000 square feet of “improved retail space” within Almaden Plaza, which is located at 5353 Almaden Expressway in San Jose, documents on file with the Santa Clara County Recorder’s Office show.It wasn’t clear which specific space in Almaden Plaza that Hobby Lobby leased. Some big sites in the shopping center could be promising possibilities, however.Related ArticlesReal Estate | Global biotech firm buys big San Jose building Real Estate | Google preps new “visitor experience” in Mount...

Bay Area woman raises the curtain on the father she didn’t know, founder of Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:30:45 GMT

Meighan Leibert and her younger brother once were fixtures at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.They weren’t actors, stagehands, directors or set designers. They were the young children of Michael Leibert, the UC Berkeley graduate student who founded the East Bay’s first resident professional theater in 1968, two years after she was born, that grew from a small storefront neighborhood company into a celebrated Tony award-winning institution known for staging innovative and edgy new work.“Growing up, we were there all the time when we were with our dad. We were in the theater, we were a part of it,” says Leibert.All of that went away when her father died at age 44 of alcoholism when she was just 17. But much more than that disappeared years before his death in 1984, which the longtime San Rafael resident details in her memoir, “The Man I Didn’t Know.”Leibert’s parents divorced when she was just 5 years old and her father disappeared from her life. Researching and writing her book was a way ...