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Mathews: ‘Being a live ghost’ on the struggling streets of East Oakland

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:36:39 GMT

Kiara Johnson, 17, lives at the Regal-Hi apartments on High Street in East Oakland — for now.She doesn’t have the money for next month’s rent. She can’t rely on parents — her dad’s dead and her mom’s in prison. For work, she begs for shifts in a liquor store.She can’t support her older brother, who won’t get a job, or care for Trevor, her 9-year-old neighbor, whose mother has disappeared. So, Kiara has started doing sex work.How does she cope? She walks around Oakland. “When there is no choice, the only thing you have left to do is walk,” she says.Kiara Johnson isn’t real. She’s the fictional central character and narrator of the novel “Nightcrawling,” by 21-year-old Leila Mottley.Oakland author Leila Mottley at the Lakeview branch of the Oakland Public Library in 2022. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)Nightcrawling is a bestseller, with a page-turning plot involving sex-trafficking, housing displacement, mass incarceration and police scandal. But the book’s real mag...

Opinion: Our failure to treat people with psychosis is killing them

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:36:39 GMT

Compassionate involuntary intervention for people suffering from untreated psychosis is getting an undeserved bad rap these days.Opponents, including disabilities rights groups, push a fear-mongering narrative that frames any kind of lifesaving medical treatment for people unable to consent due to the effects of their brain disease as “forced,” “coercive,” “brutal” or “tortuous.” They push an agenda that no treatment is better than any kind of lifesaving involuntary care.In effect, they are promoting the status quo. Do we, as a society, want to continue to leave very sick, treatable people deteriorating, suffering and dying on our streets and in our jail cells, and ultimately winding up in the morgue? I certainly do not.We should be striving towards a common goal of saving the lives of people sick with severe treatable neurological brain diseases, like schizophrenia and other psychosis spectrum disorders. Today we know what we didn’t know in the 1960s when California legislation, kn...

Cómo se ha desarrollado la búsqueda de respuestas desde que Natalee Holloway desapareció en 2005

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:36:39 GMT

(CNN) — Han pasado casi 18 años desde que la adolescente estadounidense Natalee Holloway desapareció durante un viaje de graduación de la escuela secundaria a Aruba.Ahora, el principal sospechoso de su desaparición pronto podría ser extraditado a Estados Unidos para enfrentar a la Justicia en un caso relacionado. Él mantiene su inocencia, y nadie ha sido juzgado ni está acusado actualmente de su muerte.Natalee Holloway, de Alabama, posa para su retrato de último año en el anuario de Mountain Brook High School. (Mountain Brook High School/Holloway family)Así se ha desarrollado la historia de la desaparición de Natalee Holloway30 de mayo de 2005: Natalee Holloway, de 18 años, de los suburbios de Birmingham, Alabama, sale de un bar con tres jóvenes: dos hermanos y Joran van der Sloot, entonces de 17 años.9 de junio de 2005: Van der Sloot y los hermanos Satish y Depak Kalpoe son arrestados en Aruba en relación con la desaparición de Holloway.Joran van der Sloot, centro, llega para...

Jin Young Ko, Sarah Kemp share lead halfway through LPGA Tour’s Founders Cup

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:36:39 GMT

CLIFTON, N.J. (AP) — Two-time LPGA Tour player of the year Jin Young Ko shot her second straight 4-under 68 on Friday in the Founders Cup and shared the halfway lead with 37-year-old non-winner Sarah Kemp.Kemp, whose best finish on tour is a tie for second in 2019, had a one-stroke lead with three holes to play but pulled her drive on the par 4 16th at Upper Montclair Country Club. The Australian was short of the elevated green on her second shot and missed a long par putt after a chip from a tough stance. She had a 65 to match Ko at 8-under 136.“I think this is going to be the week, every week,” Kemp said, “But it’s just such a small percent that win, right? Everyone’s win percentage is real small. I think if I keep doing what I’m doing now maybe I’ll get close soon.”Kemp’s best finish this year in six events — including a team event — was a tie for 13th in the JM Eagle LA Championship.Defending champion Minjee Lee (69), South Korean rookie Hae Ran Ryu (70) and Ad...

Smoking third-rail wiring causing service disruptions on Red Line

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:36:39 GMT

Smoke on the tracks at the MBTA’s Central Station is causing some service disruptions on the Red Line on Saturday morning.The Cambridge Fire Department responded to the report of an odor of smoke around 7 a.m. It was determined smoke was coming from third-rail wiring.Shuttle buses are being run from Harvard to Park Street to assist riders while the situation is addressed.The MBTA says power crews are on scene and it is expected to be resolved by 11 a.m.https://twitter.com/MBTA/status/1657370546848276480https://twitter.com/CambridgeMAFire/status/1657341168882008069No additional information was immediately available.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Transit police: Rider punches MBTA driver for asking to put bike on front of bus

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:36:39 GMT

Transit police are investigating after an MBTA bus driver said they were punched in the face by a passenger after they asked them to mount their bicycle on the front of the bus.The incident occurred around 9 p.m. on Friday night.No additional information was immediately available.

2 seriously injured in Cohasset motorcycle crash

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:36:39 GMT

Two people were taken to the hospital with serious injuries early Saturday morning following a motorcycle crash in Cohasset, police said. Emergency crews responding to a reported crash at the intersection of Border Street and Otis Avenue around 2:30 a.m. found a man and a woman who had been on the motorcycle when it struck a pole, according to police.The driver of the motorcycle, a 23-year-old man, was determined to have not been wearing a helmet and suffered life-threatening injuries. The passenger, a 26-year-old woman, suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries, police said.They were taken to South Shore Hospital.The cause of the crash remains under investigation.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Police investigating Boston shooting

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:36:39 GMT

Authorities are investigating a shooting in Boston overnight that left one person hospitalized.Officers responding to a reported shooting at the intersection of Blue Hill Avenue and Harvard Street around 11:30 p.m. assisted state troopers with a shooting victim who was suffering non-life-threatening injuries.No additional information was immediately released.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Mike Lupica: Jalen Brunson doesn’t get any help as Knicks season ends despite heroic effort vs. Heat

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:36:39 GMT

This was one of the great postseason performances any Knick has ever had ending on the right baseline in Miami late Friday night. This was Jalen Brunson running into a double team from Jimmy Butler and Max Strus that was the same as running into the ending to this Knicks season. It was only the second round. The Knicks still can’t make it past the second round. It doesn’t change what we just saw from the best point guard the Knicks have had since Clyde.Brunson, the best free agent the Knicks have ever had, had done everything he could do on this night, the way he had done that all series long. He had scored 38 at the Garden on Wednesday night as the Knicks won Game 5 and won another night of season. Now he was on his way to scoring 41 in Game 6, keeping his team alive and the hopes of Knick fans alive throughout a rock fight of a basketball game.And somehow, after the Knicks had been down six going into the last minute, they still found themselves just down two, and the ...

Slide continues for Chicago White Sox — 14 games under .500 — in a 5-1 loss to the Houston Astros

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:36:39 GMT

All eyes leading into Friday were on José Abreu, the former Chicago White Sox first baseman making his return to Guaranteed Rate Field for the first time with the Houston Astros.Sox starter Michael Kopech took center stage after a 2 hour, 10 minute rain delay, carrying an unconventional no-hitter into the fifth.Through four, the right-hander walked four, hit one batter and allowed a run on a sacrifice fly and didn’t surrender a hit.Kopech walked two more in the fifth and gave up his first hit, a two-out run-scoring double by Kyle Tucker just out of the reach of sliding left fielder Andrew Benintendi.The Astros led the rest of the way, topping the Sox 5-1.“I felt like I had good stuff, but it goes without saying that we’ve all been around this game long enough to know the importance of throwing strikes,” Kopech said. “To say the least, I didn’t do that well (Friday). I got taken advantage of and lost a lot of momentum for the boys. It’s ...