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Inside the Investigations: OutLaw Catalyst project

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:21:57 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Each week the in-depth reporting from the KXAN Investigates team will get a spotlight on KXAN Live.A conversation will happen Wednesday morning with investigative reporter Kelly Wiley and KXAN Live anchor Will DuPree to break down one of this week’s top stories. People can watch a live stream of their discussion with Josh Hinkle, the director of investigations and innovation, as well as David Barer, senior investigative producer and reporter, starting at about 9 a.m. in this story or on the KXAN News Facebook page. Inside the Investigations: Austin ISD special education services The story they'll discuss this week is:In 2023, a fifth of the country’s state-level bills impacting the LGBTQ+ community were filed in Texas, according to a Human Rights Campaign analysis. Equality Texas tracked a record 141 such bills this year, up from just 12 in 2015. Some policies passed, and several others progressed substantially in the most r...

Sammy Hagar, Loverboy to perform at SPAC

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:21:57 GMT

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Sammy Hagar and friends are coming to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC). The concert is set for July 22, 2024, at 7 p.m. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! For "The Best of All Worlds" Tour, Hagar will be joined on stage by Joe Satriani on guitar, Michael Anthony on bass, and Jason Bonham on drums. Rock band Loverboy will be opening the show.Hagar has a four-decade long career as both a solo artist and as the frontman for Van Halen. He is best known for the songs "Heavy Metal" and "I Can't Drive 55." Heavy metal band Judas Priest to perform at MVP Arena Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, November 17 at 10 a.m. You can buy tickets on the Live Nation website.

Amsterdam man accused of unlawful surveillance

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:21:57 GMT

AMSTERDAM, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- An Amsterdam man was arrested and is accused of filming multiple victims in their homes unknowingly and posting photos and videos of it online. Francis Dicaprio, 28, faces several charges. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! In May 2022, troopers received a complaint that photos and videos were posted online of victims without their knowledge or permission. Police say an investigation found Dicaprio took the videos and pictures of the victim in comprising positions without their knowledge in a home where they expected privacy.Police say they found two other victims amid the investigation. These crimes took place in Amsterdam and Milton. Police investigating fatal hit and run in Ballston Spa Charges:Second-degree unlawful surveillance (two counts)First-degree dissemination of unlawful surveillance (two counts)Unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image (two counts)Police say Dicaprio surr...

Man sentenced in deadly 2021 crime spree

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:21:57 GMT

A judge Tuesday sentenced the man who “terrorized” people in Aurora and Denver during a two-hour deadly 2021 crime spree to 85 years in prison.Andrew Jacobs, 34, received the sentence in Arapahoe County after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and aggravated robbery in the Nov. 10, 2021 spree in which he committed several violent crimes that included murder, multiple carjackings and two home invasions, the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday in a news release.Jacobs claimed he was high on methamphetamine and fentanyl during the crime spree.The spree started when Jacobs attempted to carjack a woman, stealing her purse and firing shots in her garages, about 3:20 a.m. Nov 10, 2021.Police then responded to a possible carjacking at 14082 East Iowa Drive in the Florida Station Apartments complex a few minutes later at 3:29 p.m. where they found a man, Albarracin, shot. He died after being taken to a hospital.Albarracin’s six-year-old son...

Orange County student suspended for saying ‘Free Palestine,’ family says

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:21:57 GMT

The family of a student in Newport Beach is outraged after he was allegedly suspended for saying “Free Palestine” to another student.Video posted to social media by one of the student’s family members shows the 8th grader’s mother asking if what her son said was worthy of being suspended for three days. A school official is heard in the video saying that he could not comment on the matter due to not knowing the full story.The post indicated that the boy had told a girl “Free Palestine” and that she responded by calling him a “terrorist.” Paperwork signed by Jacob Haley, the principal of Corona del Mar Middle and High School, shows that the school says the student made “threatening remarks to a young lady in class.”  Some schools in Tustin reopening as hangar fire continues to burn A book titled "Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth" was seen on the principal’s desk while the student’s mother was picking her son up, the family member’s s...

Woman killed, man injured in Arlington Heights hit-and-run

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:21:57 GMT

A woman is dead and a man injured after a hit-and-run in Arlington Heights Tuesday night, the second such incident in the neighborhood in one day.At about 8 p.m. in the 1500 block of Arlington Avenue, a young couple was crossing the street outside of a crosswalk when they were hit by a speeding car headed southbound, said Sgt. Greg Whorton of the Los Angeles Police Department.The man was knocked down, but the woman was "unfortunately struck ... pretty directly," Whorton said."It knocked her a ways down the street and she was struck by another car headed northbound and died at scene," Whorton said. Woman killed in Arlington Heights hit-and-run crash; suspect at large The first car, believed to be a black four-door Infiniti, continued south, but the second vehicle that struck the 24-year-old woman stayed at the scene.That second vehicle was just "an innocent driver going the other way, happened to be the wrong place, wrong time," Whorton said.The man's condition is unknown.Earlier o...

Apple extends free Satellite SOS for iPhone 14 users

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:21:57 GMT

Smartphones have been saving lives ever since they’ve were introduced.Last year, Apple upped the ante with a feature called Emergency SOS via Satellite, which can call for help over satellites.Now, on the one-year anniversary of the feature, they're extending free use of the service, which has been key in various rescues since its launch.Follow Tech Reporter Rich DeMuro on Instagram for more tech news, tips and reviews.iPhone user Juana Reyes was two hours into a birthday hike when she stepped onto ground that gave away."It was the worst pain I’ve ever experienced," Reyes told me over Zoom. "I remember feeling a pop in my ankle," explained the San Diego resident, who was visiting Los Angeles at the time.Suddenly, she found herself stuck with a broken ankle in the Angeles National Forest.Courtesy Juana ReyesHer friend tried calling 911 on their smartphone, but cellular didn’t work. That's when Reyes handed over her phone, thinking they might have different cellular carriers and perha...

Waiting for LP Giobbi

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:21:57 GMT

Waiting for LP Giobbi: Dance music superstar-in-the-making LP Giobbi grew up playing jazz and classical piano and graduated with a Jazz Piano Performance degree from UC Berkeley. “After college I would play solo jazz piano gigs at a bar in San Francisco every weekend and one night an engineer and producer for Daft Punk heard me playing and asked if I wanted to join an all female electronic band in LA that the Daft Arts team was putting together,” she says. “The other women in the band were also jazz musicians and together we learned about synthesis and electronic gear and I started using Ableton and Protools to produce for the band. I have always personally taken it seriously because I loved it and because I wanted to be a visual representation for other women considering only 2% of producers are women. My first real ‘break’ came when Sofi Tukker asked me to go on tour with them and that is when I learned how to DJ and read a dance floor. I was horrible...

San Francisco homicide: Suspect caught 3 months later by police on patrol

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:21:57 GMT

The suspect in an August homicide in San Francisco was arrested Sunday after being spotted by officers on patrol, the police said.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Bay Area homicides 2023: Map and details The 32-year-old man was wanted in connection with a fatal assault Aug. 16 in the South of Market neighborhood. Officers had been called shortly before 4 a.m. that day to Rausch and Howard streets, where they found a 25-year-old man with unspecified injuries that the police report described as life-threatening. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.On the morning of Nov. 12, officers on the 100 block of Larkin Street, next to City Hall, saw a man matching the suspect description from the investigators’ bulletin. He was detained and arrested on suspicion of homicide.

Does it feel like November yet? ‘Unorganized’ rain and strong winds are due for the Bay Area on Wednesday

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:21:57 GMT

Fluctuating forecasts and near-unpredictable weather patterns have been the story in the Bay Area so far this week but even though residents woke up without rain Wednesday morning, the consensus remains the same — the rest of the week will likely be wet and windy, according to the National Weather Service.The NWS forecast for Wednesday called for between half of an inch to one-quarter of an inch of rain between about 5 a.m. and midnight in Oakland, San Francisco, San Mateo County, Santa Cruz County and the East Bay Hills. In the Santa Cruz Mountains, that figure was pushed up to about one inch, while in the Santa Clara Valley it was between one-quarter and one-half.Related ArticlesWeather | Bay Area forecasts trending drier than previously predicted, but wet Wednesday anticipated Weather | Storm tracker map: Where it’s raining in the Bay Area Weather | San Jose officials urge residents to prepare for incoming rainfall with possible fl...