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‘Behold the Monster’ author Jillian Lauren exposes America’s most prolific serial killer

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:36 GMT

The Middle Eastern folk tale of Scheherazade unspools in the opening pages of “Some Girls,” Jillian Lauren’s 2010 New York Times bestselling memoir recounting her experiences as a sex worker in the harem of the Sultan of Brunei.More than a decade after that book was published, Lauren herself became a kind of Scheherazade in “Behold the Monster: Confronting America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer,” out July 18. But instead of spinning tales to keep a murderous king from spilling the blood of innocent women, she lured another murderous despot – Sam Little, who confessed to murdering 93 women – into telling the stories of those he had already killed, in an effort to save their memory from police cold case files.By her account, that effort – which over the course of almost five years took her everywhere from maximum security prisons to courthouses and the homes of victims’ bereaved relatives – just about broke her.“I really never anticipated the emotional depths it would take me to,” Laur...

Jennifer Lin named executive director of Los Gatos Chamber of Commerce

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:36 GMT

The Los Gatos Chamber of Commerce has a new leader: Jennifer Lin.Lin replaces former executive director Catherine Somers, who held the job for seven years and oversaw the implementation of parklets, the popular summer Promenades and disbursement of the town’s American Rescue Plan Act funds.Lin is a Bay Area native who grew up in Danville, but she always wanted to live in Los Gatos. She said after years of manifesting it, her wish finally came true and she’s lived in town since 2019.“I love to hike and be outdoors. So that was another key reason that I love Los Gatos: the accessibility to the parks and the trails,” Lin said. “I have it on my bucket list to hike all the national parks, but I’m satisfied with everything we’ve got. So you’ll find me walking around Los Gatos and walking around the trails, probably with my dog Dashi.”Lin’s first day on the job was July 5. While she’s starting with a completely blank slate after Somers and her staff members Ra...

Bay FC taps former Warriors marketing head to be COO

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:36 GMT

Bay FC is continuing to build out its front office — and with the latest hire, the club has poached someone from a different pro sports team in the Bay Area.Former top Golden State Warriors marketing executive Jen Millet will be the new soccer team’s chief operating officer on Monday, the team announced on Tuesday. Her first day with Bay FC was Monday.Millet joins after spending most of six years with Golden State, working up to becoming the Warriors’ chief marketing officer before she left for Bay FC. While she acknowledged it was hard to leave the Warriors, Bay FC provided her with a “perfect storm” to jump into women’s sports.“I’ve had conversations in the past about working in women’s sports, and this conversation with Bay FC was the first I’ve ever had where the business case was sort of front and center,” Millet told this news organization Monday. “The approach wasn’t led with a philanthropic, mission-driven [approach] — all of that is still there, but the conversation was rea...

Efforts underway to save Anchor Brewing Company

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:36 GMT

(KRON) -- Investors are reaching out in a last-ditch effort to save Bay Area staple Anchor Brewing Company in Potrero Hill, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to KRON4. Truck driver suspected of DUI in Healdsburg Hwy 101 crash The company had been searching for buyers over the past year, but the owners were unable to find one. However, once news of the SF staple closure was announced, several potential buyers came out of the woodwork. At this time, there are about 24 individual investors who have "expressed interest" in buying all or some of Anchor Brewing Company. Their names are being collected and shared with the Assignee for the Benefit of Creditors, who is managing the liquidation process for the company, the spokesperson said. KRON On is streaming now.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0...

Pentagon Joins Elon Musk's War Against Plane Tracking

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:36 GMT

A technology wish list circulated by the U.S. military’s elite Joint Special Operations Command suggests the country’s most secretive war-fighting component shares an anxiety with the world’s richest man: Too many people can see where they’re flying their planes.The Joint Special Operations Air Component, responsible for ferrying commandos and their gear around the world, is seeking help keeping these flights out of the public eye through a “‘Big Data’ Analysis & Feedback Tool,” according to a procurement document obtained by The Intercept. The document is one of a series of periodic releases of lists of technologies that special operations units would like to see created by the private sector. Join Our Newsletter Original reporting. Fearless journalism. Delivered to you. I'm in The listing specifically calls out the risk of social media “tail watchers” and other onli...

Loudoun Co. envisions what US 50 commute could look like — 40 years down the road

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:36 GMT

Loudoun County — the fastest-developing area in the D.C. region — is trying to prioritize improvements to perpetually congested stretches of U.S. Route 50, a major commuter route through Northern Virginia.The county board of supervisors on Tuesday will discuss what changes can be made over the next 40 years to improve the east-west route that runs 86 miles through Virginia.In Loudoun County, U.S. 50 consists of two lanes in the rural western county, where the Virginia Department of Transportation says daily traffic volume varies between 17,000 and 49,000 vehicles per day, from U.S. Route 15 to Old Ox Road, also known as Virginia State Route 606.As U.S. 50 moves east to Fairfax County, the average traffic volume through the Route 28/Sully Road interchange increases to more than 71,000 vehicles per day.In 2019, Loudoun County determined that Route 50, which is dominated by traffic lights, would ultimately be converted to a limited-access highway, between still-being-built Northstar Bo...

Man killed in shooting near Catholic University

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:36 GMT

A man is dead after being shot near Catholic University’s bookstore in Northeast D.C. on Monday night.It happened around 10 p.m. at 7th and Monroe Streets, D.C. police said.The man was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, where he later died.It isn’t publicly known if the man who was shot has any relation to the university.Police are currently searching for a suspect.This is the third shooting on or near a college campus in the D.C. region in the past three weeks.Earlier this month, a Kentucky teacher was shot and killed during what police said was a robbery attempt on Catholic’s campus.A construction worker was killed on Howard University’s campus last week during another robbery attempt.Here’s a map of where police said Sunday night’s shooting happened: WTOP’s Jessica Kronzer contributed to this report.Source

Donald Trump dice que es objetivo de la investigación criminal del fiscal especial sobre las secuelas de las elecciones de 2020

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:36 GMT

(CNN) — El expresidente Donald Trump dijo en una publicación en las redes sociales que el fiscal especial Jack Smith le informó que es un objetivo de la investigación criminal sobre los esfuerzos para anular las elecciones de 2020.“Deranged Jack Smith, el fiscal con el DOJ(Departamento de Justicia) de Joe Biden, envió una carta (de nuevo, ¡fue el domingo por la noche!) Afirmando que soy un OBJETIVO de la investigación del jurado investigador del 6 de enero, y dándome un plazo muy corto de 4 días para informar al Gran Jurado, que casi siempre significa un Arresto y Acusación”, publicó Trump en Truth Social.Trump también recibió una carta de Smith a principios de este año antes de ser acusado en la investigación sobre el mal manejo de documentos clasificados.Un portavoz del fiscal especial declinó hacer comentarios.EXCLUSIVO CNN: el equipo del fiscal especial interrogan a testigos sobre la caótica reunión en el Despacho Oval después de que Trump perdiera las eleccion...

No injuries or hazardous spills in 9-car train derailment in northern Minnesota, officials say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:36 GMT

COOK, Minn. (AP) — No one was injured and no hazardous material spilled when nine Canadian National Railway cars derailed in northern Minnesota, officials there said.The derailment happened just before 8:30 p.m. Monday in a rural, unpopulated area about 6 miles (10 kilometers) north of Cook, the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Sheriff’s deputies and firefighters who responded found four of the derailed cars had remained upright, while five others had tipped over.Two of the cars contained liquefied propane and butane, but none appeared to have spilled, the sheriff’s office said.Canadian National Railway did not immediately respond Tuesday morning to requests seeking comment on the cause of the derailment or when the line would reopen to rail traffic.The derailment comes less than two months after a Canadian Pacific Kansas City train derailed in the northwest corner of the state near the Canadian border. In that May 31 incident, 24 cars went off the tracks, b...

Book Review: Climate fiction space whodunit ‘The Deep Sky’ soars in a fast-paced debut novel

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:36 GMT

“The Deep Sky” by Yume Kitasei (Flatiron Books)Asuka’s never been assured of her place in the mission to Planet X. She worked hard, trained and studied and pushed herself, but still just barely made it as the Alternate. So when an explosion busts a hole in the ship and kills the captain, it’s Asuka’s chance to prove her worth or sink into endless space.Yume Kitasei’s debut novel, “The Deep Sky,” begins in the pivotal moments just before what should have been a simple space walk gone horribly wrong rocks the world of the 80 young crew members painstakingly chosen and trained as a last hope for humanity. Their mission is to fly into deep space toward Planet X, birth and raise children, and start a new world. But with the ship knocked off course, the hierarchy in disarray, and a traitor in their midst, the already tenuous trip seems increasingly impossible.Not to mention the possibility of World War III breaking out on Earth severely cramping communications with Mission Control.Kitasei...