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San Quentin prison program pairs trainers with puppies

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:51 GMT

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (KRON) -- A new training program is underway at San Quentin Prison. People who are incarcerated train puppies to become service animals.This kind of program has proven to be very successful for the dogs as well as their incarcerated trainers. San Quentin. It's the kind of place that can make your blood run cold.Just the name can evoke dark and scary thoughts. But tell that to these two little guys: Wendel and Artemis. The puppies don't know the powerful effect they have just by showing up. 49ers players visit San Quentin State Prison, bring in gifts to inmates’ children "It's an honor to be a part of this program. We've all been real excited about it," said one inmate.San Quentin is teaming up with canine companions to train Wendel and Artemis to be service animals. The pups will spend their days learning basic skills, socializing with the inmates and at night, bed down with their handles in their cells."Some of the handlers have expressed not having communica...

Woman accused of pepper-spraying Sausalito Target security guard during robbery

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:51 GMT

(KRON) -- A Berkeley woman was arrested after she allegedly pepper-sprayed a Sausalito Target security guard while committing a robbery on Monday, the Marin County Sheriff's Office said. The incident happened at about 10:12 a.m. at the Target located at 180 Donahue Street. MCSO deputies learned that the suspect walked out of the store pushing a shopping cart loaded with items. CNN to air hour-long ‘What Happened to San Francisco?’ special According to MCSO, security confronted the woman, asking her to pay for the goods. That's when she allegedly pulled out the pepper spray and sprayed a guard in the face. "The suspect took the stolen items to her car where they were loaded in the trunk," MCSO said. "She entered her vehicle and sped off at a high rate of speed, nearly striking pedestrians."The suspect dropped her cell phone at Target, and police used a search warrant to find the identity of the owner. Eaquoiya Scott, 22, of Berkeley was arrested. KRON ON is streaming news live now...

Nuggets blow past Suns 125-100, advance to Western Conference finals

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:51 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — Nikola Jokic scored 32 points in another triple-double, Jamal Murray added 26 and the Denver Nuggets advanced to the Western Conference finals for the first time since 2020 by beating the short-handed Phoenix Suns 125-100 in Game 6 on Thursday night.Denver’s series victory comes two seasons after the Nuggets were embarrassed in a second-round postseason sweep by the Suns. This time, it was the Suns getting blown out on their home floor to end the season for the second straight year.The Nuggets will play in the conference finals for the first time since they lost to the Lakers in five games in the Florida bubble during the COVID-19 pandemic. They have never reached the NBA Finals. Nikola Jokic jokingly tosses basketball to Suns owner Ishbia The top-seeded Nuggets used a 23-2 run during the latter part of the first quarter to take a 44-26 lead and never looked back. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope — averaging 9.5 points in the playoffs — scored 17 in the first quarter while ...

Half-baked ‘Hypnotic’ more meh than mesmerizing

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:51 GMT

MOVIE REVIEW“Hypnotic”Rated R. At AMC Boston Common, AMC South Bay and suburban theaters.Grade: D“Hypnotic” the film is not hypnotic at all. It’s numbing, derivative and meaningless and features a surprisingly terrible performance by lead actor Ben Affleck. Nothing you see on the screen is real. Or so this is what you are repeatedly told. I believe it. Films as bad as “Hypnotic” should be collected and studied by future filmmakers like a pandemic so it doesn’t happen again.I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that Affleck and his wife Jennifer Lopez have films opening on the same weekend (hers is Netflix’s “The Mother”). “Hypnotic” begins with Austin Police Detective Daniel Rourke (Affleck) losing his beloved preteen daughter Minnie aka Dominique (Hala Finley) at a park. Some detective. At the same time, a mysterious stranger played by actor William Fichtner tells a woman it is “hot as a furnace” and she strips off some of her clothes, causing a traffic accident...

Winning ‘BlackBerry’ tracks rise and fall of first smartphone

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:51 GMT

MOVIE REVIEW“BlackBerry”Rated R. At the AMC Boston Common and suburban theaters.Grade: B+Films such as “The Social Network” (2010), “Jobs” (2013), “Steve Jobs” (2015) and now, “BlackBerry” tell us the story about how a social network or a cellphone was created by visionaries who belong to an entirely new generation. But these films never really crack the code concerning the love affair between people and their phones (and/or their Facebook addiction). The more I see people gazing intently into their phones as they cross busy city streets the more I wonder: What have they wrought? The suitably Canadian entry “BlackBerry” is basically the BlackBerry biopic.Directed by Canadian faux-doc filmmaker Matt Johnson (“The Dirties”), who also excels playing nerdy BlackBerry co-creator Doug Fregin in the film, and written by Johnson, Canadian investigative reporter Jacquie McNish and Matthew Miller, “Blackberry” begins in the age of vintage computers and pagers. Doug and his fellow gamer and pa...

Ambrose: End of Title 42 may help with border issues

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:51 GMT

One of Joe Biden’s greatest failings as president of the United States has been to facilitate several times more illegal immigrants crossing the southern border than Donald Trump did. Among the consequences: thousands of migrant children pushed into unforgiving labor, border communities absolutely devastated and a recent record of 853 border-crossing migrants themselves dying from their desert treks, drowning, falling off cliffs and other accidents. Hardly least of the tragedies: 70,000 Americans killed by smuggled fentanyl.Well, look, some Biden supporters have said, the fewer restrictions the better. That goal is coming about through the lapse of Title 42 that prevented entries for fear of COVID transmission. Will a surge of additional thousands pouring our way fill the supporters with joy because the poor receiving asylum are thereby rescued even if many don’t qualify, and is the harm to Americans something to ignore?The Democrats among them might want to notice Eric Adams, the D...

Jennifer Lopez hits target dead center in ‘The Mother’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:51 GMT

MOVIE REVIEW“The Mother”Rated R. On Netflix.Grade: BWell-directed by the chronically underrated Niki Caro (“Whale Rider,” “North Country,” “McFarland USA”), although generically written by Andrea Berloff (“Blood Father”), Peter Craig (“Top Gun: Maverick”) and Misha Green (“Lovecraft Country”), “The Mother,” which is just in time for Mother’s Day, is a by-the-books save-a-child thriller set in some violent world of cloak-and-dagger.Is the person identified only as the Mother (Jennifer Lopez) in the credits really the mother of the mixed-up, rebellious adolescent Zoe (Lucy Paez) who is in such danger from so many fronts? That is established beyond a doubt, and yet we are offered constant doubts. All these modern-day Sarah Connor fables are too many to keep track of anyway. In the case of “The Mother” Lopez’s assassin comes out of hiding many years after giving up the child at birth and tries to reconnect with her reluctant 12-year-old daughter (Or is she?). The kid, meanwh...

‘R.M.N.’ lays bare racial, tribal conflicts in Europe

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:51 GMT

MOVIE REVIEW“R.M.N.”Not Rated. In English, French, Hungarian, German, Sinhala and Romanian with subtitles. On VOD.Grade: B+Unfolding in a linguistic Tower of Babel and featuring a swirling mixture of mostly European DNA, Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or nomiee “R.M.N.” (Romanian abbreviation for “Magnetic Resonance Imaging”) kicks off with Matthias ( Marin Grigore), the film’s nearly monosyllabic, Romanian (more or less) anti-hero nearly killing a co-worker at a German meat factory with a single blow.Matthias then returns to the small, multi-ethnic village in Transylvania, where his young son Rudi (Mark Edward Blenyesi) is being turned into a sissy (according to Matthias) by his mother Ana (Macrina Barladeanu). After confronting Ana in his usual threatening manner, toxic Matthias resolves to force the boy to walk to school by himself through nearby woods, even though Rudi has been frightened by something in there.At the same time, Csilla Szabo (Judith State), Matthias&...

Editorial: States must address downside of legal weed

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:51 GMT

Legalizing marijuana has been touted as an economic opportunity, with an emphasis on promoting social equity and fiscal empowerment, especially for individuals affected by arrest and imprisonment for marijuana-related crimes.On the financial front, it’s worked – the weed business in Massachusetts is a multi-billion-dollar enterprise.But as communities who’ve given the high sign to weed have learned, there’s a downside – one that is all but ignored as more states mull cannabis legislation and Capitol Hill lawmakers work to grease the skids..Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), coauthored the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act (CAOA), that would end the federal prohibition on cannabis.In a statement Thursday, Schumer remarked  “We were encouraged to see the SAFE Banking Act reintroduced last week after Senator Daines and Senator Merkley worked to make key improvements to the legisl...

Graham: Trump scores TKO in CNN’s town hall debate

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:51 GMT

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Donald Trump won the first debate of the 2024 presidential cycle, and it wasn’t even close.What debate, you ask? Then you didn’t watch CNN’s broadcast from the leafy confines of St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., on Wednesday night. Like the old joke about boxing matches and hockey games, Granite State Republicans came to a voter town hall, and a debate broke out.CNN touted the fact it gathered a roomful of potential GOP primary voters to help them make their choice in the 2024 race. Then the network proceeded to all but ignore them — only a half-dozen questions were taken from the crowd during the 90-minute event — and instead sent moderator Kaitlan Collins in swinging.She never had a chance.Collins kept most of the first half hour focused on two issues: Trump’s claims the 2020 election was stolen and his refusal to take responsibility for the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill. In a surprise to absolutely no one, except perhaps the news producers of CNN, Tru...