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Masseuse arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting client

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:01 GMT

(KRON) -- A massage therapist in Palo Alto was arrested Thursday for allegedly sexually assaulting a client, Palo Alto police said. The masseuse worked at La Belle Day Spa and Salon on El Camino Real.Police said the victim, a woman in her 20s, came into the police station to report the crime on April 17. She told police she had been assaulted during a massage appointment. She did not sustain any physical injury.Prosecutors charged the masseuse, 58-year-old Cesar Eduardo Castro Moreno, with one count of felony forcible oral copulation. Gilroy police arrested him on May 4 at his home in Gilroy. Moreno was booked into the Santa Clara County jail.Police said they are unaware of any other victims.Anyone with information on this case should contact the Palo Alto Police Department at 650-329-2413 or [email protected].

Suspects seen behaving suspiciously on security cam arrested in Sonoma County for meth, stolen gun

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:01 GMT

(KRON) -- Two people were arrested on weapons and drug charges early Monday morning after they were seen behaving suspiciously on security camera footage, the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office said. Dispatchers with the department got a call from a business owner in the 3900 block of Santa Rosa Avenue just after midnight. From the security cameras, two people could be seen climbing under vehicles parked outside. Arriving at the scene, deputies found two people, later identified as Joseph McBeth and Krista Kresge, both from the East Bay. T-Mobile closes flagship Union Square store Police say the two told them they'd come to Sonoma County to visit a casino and were looking at cars and RVs on Santa Rosa Avenue when deputies came across them. Kresge was on probation in Alameda County, deputies learned. The terms of her probation allowed for warrantless search and seizure.Up the road, in a car registered to McBeth, deputies saw a methamphetamine pipe and a handgun in plain view. A further...

Cinco de Mayo crowd control tactics in San Jose were 'racist,' fear-driven, politicians say

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:01 GMT

(KRON) -- Crowd control enforcement decisions made by Caltrans and police on Cinco de Mayo in San Jose are being blasted by state political leaders as "racist" and fear-driven. San Jose residents who went out to celebrate the Mexican holiday were blocked or turned around from the city's downtown area because of extensive highway closures. "Normal traffic controls are one thing – but shutting down major highway access on the pretense of fear of multicultural celebrations of Cinco de Mayo is racist targeting, and blatantly unconstitutional as it violates First Amendment rights to freedom of assembly," State Senator Dave Cortese (D-San Jose) and Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) wrote in a joint statement Monday. The San Jose Police Department said it takes a "zero-tolerance" approach every Cinco de Mayo because San Jose "has historically drawn large crowds from outside the city, many of whom did not celebrate lawfully." Police arrested 115 people over the weekend and responded to ...

Another dead gray whale washes up on a Bay Area beach

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:01 GMT

(KRON) -- A dead gray whale washed ashore recently at a beach in Marin County, KRON4 has learned. The dead whale was first reported floating in the water off Point Bonita Lighthouse on Friday morning, according to a representative from California Academy of Sciences. Eventually, the whale washed ashore at Agate Beach in Bolinas. T-Mobile closes flagship Union Square store The incident marked the third time this year that a dead whale has washed up in the San Francisco Bay Area, during what Cal Academy officials are calling an "Unusual Mortality Event" for the species. Cal Academy is working with the Marine Mammal Center to mount a response to the dead whale, depending on tidal patterns and accessibility, the Cal Academy rep told KRON4.Since 2019, there has been an uptick in gray whale strandings along the West Coast from Mexico up to Alaska, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That year, there were 34 gray whale strandings along the California coast. ...

Alma Street in Palo Alto reopened after being closed by injury crash

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:01 GMT

(KRON) -- Alma Street in Palo Alto has reopened after being closed in both directions due to an injury crash, according to the Palo Alto Police Department. Earlier, officers with Palo Alto PD and the Palo Alto Fire Department were investigating the crash and Alma is closed between Seale Avenue and Rinconada Avenue, police said. T-Mobile closes flagship Union Square store Drivers were advised to take alternate routes to avoid delays and to expect temporary traffic increases in surrounding neighborhoods.

The “Electrify Everything” Movement’s Consumption Problem

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:01 GMT

In 2019, Thea Riofrancos was splitting her time between researching the social and environmental impacts of lithium mining in Chile and organizing for a rapid energy transition away from fossil fuels in the United States. A political science professor at Providence College and member of the Climate and Community Project, Riofrancos was struck by the contrast: Lithium is essential to the batteries that make electric vehicles and renewable energy work, but mining inflicts its own environmental damage. “Here I am in Chile, in the Atacama Desert, seeing these mining-related harms, and then there I go in the U.S. advocating for a rapid transition. How do I align these two goals?” Riofrancos said. “And is there a way to have a less extractive energy transition?”When she went looking for research that would help answer that question, she found none, at least not for the transportation sector, which was her area of focus. “I saw forecast after forecast that assumed basically a binary of the...

Colorado woman found guilty of killing 11-year-old stepson

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:01 GMT

A Colorado woman was found guilty of murder in the death of her 11-year-old stepson Monday.Prosecutors said Letecia Stauch stabbed Gannon Stauch 18 times before hitting him in the head and then shooting him once in January 2020. Prosecutors claimed Stauch killed the boy because she hated him and wanted to hurt his father, whom she planned to leave and who was away on a National Guard deployment at the time.Stauch did not deny killing Gannon and taking his body across the country in a suitcase in the back of a rented van. But she pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. The defense argued that she killed Gannon during a “psychotic break” caused by trauma from being physically, emotionally and sexually abused during her childhood. Experts at the state mental hospital concluded that Stauch had a personality disorder with borderline and narcissistic features but was sane at the time Gannon was killed. Under Colorado law, that means understanding the difference between right and w...

As colon cancer rates increase among younger adults, doctor discusses ways to be proactive

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:01 GMT

While the number of colon cancer cases have gone down for people in their 50s and 60s due to more preventative measures, they’ve gone up among younger adults.Colon cancer cases in people under 55 increased from 11% to 20% from 1995 to 2019, according to a report released in March by the American Cancer Society.“The takeaway from the trend is that maybe we need to be doing something more proactive to identify these patients and cases while we’re still figuring out what the ‘why’ is,” said Dr. Joseph Jennings, a gastroenterologist at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital.He said it’s important to look out for symptoms like rectal bleeding, abdominal pain or ongoing diarrhea.“When you notice those symptoms, it could be a lot of things that are not cancer, but we’re going to be a lot more thorough,” he stressed, adding the importance of having a conversation with your primary care doctor or a specialist. “We’ll help you ...

Haunting photos from Ukraine that earned AP a Pulitzer Prize

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:01 GMT

The Associated Press was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography on Monday in recognition of 15 searing images that rendered in real-time the devastating human toll of the war in Ukraine.The winning package included an image of emergency workers carrying a pregnant woman – who later died — through the shattered grounds of a maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol in the chaotic aftermath of a Russian attack.Another showed Russia’s brutal monthlong occupation of Bucha in a chilling still-life — a dog standing next to the body of an elderly woman who has been killed.And another captured an elderly woman kneeling in agony next to the coffin of her son in the cemetery of Mykulychi, on the outskirts of Kyiv. While AP photographers made countless images of horrifying, haunting and heartbreaking scenes of war, they also stood witness to the profound courage of soldiers and ordinary people.Below is a photo gallery that showcases the Pulitzer-winning w...

Colorado woman found guilty of murder in killing of 11-year-old stepson

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:01 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Colorado woman found guilty of murder in killing of 11-year-old stepson.Source