Crime and Public Safety | Car doing donuts explodes into fireball in Los Angeles street takeover

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• the-sun.com24 hour(s) ago
• I work in Starbucks and believe there’s a ‘special place in hell’ for this order – but a Dunkin’ Donuts worker hit back
• ORDERING cold foam on your drinks at Starbucks could earn you dirty looks from the baristas. One Starbucks employee made a TikTok saying theres a special place in hell for customers who order cold foam on drinks. 2The Starbucks employee recieved backlash in the commentsCredit: TikTok 2A foremer Dunkin Donuts employee responded to the videoCredit: TikTok Her statement prompted a quick clap back from a Dunkin Donuts employee, according to Daily Dot. The Starbucks worker, who goes by @alewhatsup, shared a TikTok complaining about customers who order sweet...
• mercurynews.com1 day(s) ago
• High School Sports | High school roundup: Palo Alto junior fastest swimmer in state
• CIF state championships Swimming Ethan Harrington is not an imposing 16-year-old. He stands 5 feet, 9 ¾ inches tall. Nevertheless, the junior at Palo Alto is the newly-crowned fastest swimmer in the California Interscholastic Federation. Saturday during the CIF state swimming and diving championships at the Clovis Olympic Swim Complex, Harrington swept the 50- and 100-yard freestyle titles. Los Altos grad Albert Gwo set a record time of 19.90 in the 50 free in the inaugural state finals in 2015. Harrington touched the wall five-hundredths of a second quicker...
• mercurynews.com1 day(s) ago
• El Alto creates new space for Cal-Mex cuisine in Los Altos
• Los Altos has a new restaurant concept called el Alto, adjacent to State Street Market. With a focus on locally sourced California cuisine and a nod to Mexican influence, it’s the latest endeavor for two-time James Beard award-winning chef DJ Des Jardins. Des Jardins is famed for her beloved Jardinière in San Francisco, which closed in 2019 after a 21-year run. Classically trained in French cuisine, she worked in kitchens in Los Angeles, France and New York City before coming to San Francisco in 1991. She credits her Mexican and...
• abc7.com2 day(s) ago
• Car explodes into fireball after street takeover in Willowbrook
• WILLOWBROOK, Calif. (KABC) -- A dangerous street takeover ended with a car going up in flames in South Los Angeles.The incident happened at the intersection of 120th Street and South Central Avenue in Willowbrook just after 1 a.m. Saturday.A rowdy crowd took selfies near the car fire as firefighters arrived.Two people were arrested for allegedly pushing and shoving some of the firefighters, who police say will be okay.No one else was hurt.
• cbslocal.com2 day(s) ago
• Food Truck Explodes At Vero Beach Seafood Festival, One Person Injured
• VERO BEACH (CBSMiami/AP) — One person was taken to the hospital with severe burns after a food truck exploded during a seafood festival at Riverside Park in Vero Beach Florida on Saturday. The Vero Beach police said state and local fire officials are investigating the cause of the explosion. READ MORE: Small Plane Crashed Into Haulover Inlet Bridge, Six People Injured (Source: Facebook/Vero Beach Police) READ MORE: Woman Charged In South Florida Teens Machete Death Seeking Plea DealOne person was flown to the Arnold Palmer’s Hospital Burn Unit...
• mercurynews.com2 day(s) ago
• Crime and Public Safety | Palo Alto: Woman arrested after attempt to break into occupied home
• Bay City News Service PALO ALTO — A Palo Alto man was startled by the sound of breaking glass when a suspect attempted to break into his home around 6 a.m. Friday, police said. The man was home with his family in the 100 block of Alma Street around 6:11 a.m. when he heard glass breaking, according to police. When he investigated, he saw a hand reaching through a broken glass panel on the front door, attempting to unlock the deadbolt, police said. The man confronted the suspect, who fled...
• mercurynews.com2 day(s) ago
• High School Sports | How Palo Alto toppled Wilcox to celebrate SCVAL baseball championship
• PALO ALTO — Wilcox took the lead on two occasions early in Friday’s Santa Clara Valley Athletic League championship game at Palo Alto. The Vikings answered in the bottom half of each of those innings, once to draw even and then to take the lead with two runs in the bottom of the second. Once they had the lead they never let it go in a 4-2 victory. With the win, Palo Alto (24-5) put the finishing touch on two of its goals — adding the SCVAL tournament championship to...
• mercurynews.com3 day(s) ago
• Crime and Public Safety | East Palo Alto man arrested on suspicion of child sexual assault
• SAN MATEO COUNTY – A 35-year-old East Palo Alto man has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting two family members, police said. Earlier this month, the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office opened an investigation into the sexual assault of a minor in an unincorporated part of the county, Lt. Jacob Trickett said in a news release Friday. Trickett said detectives learned the man began sexually molesting a family member when she was 3 years old, and the “illicit acts continued periodically for the next six years.” Detectives also learned...
• mercurynews.com3 day(s) ago
• Crime and Public Safety | Palo Alto: Police investigate KKK written in two bathrooms at Fletcher Middle School as a hate crime
• PALO ATLO — Palo Alto police is investigating a vandalism case in which “KKK” was written in two bathrooms at a middle school, according to authorities. Police responded to a report of vandalism from administrative staff Wednesday at about 4:06 p.m. at a middle school, authorities said. The suspect wrote “KKK” in two restrooms at Fletcher Middle School at 655 Arastradero Road. Staff members already removed the graffiti before the police arrived. The vandalism occurred on May 10 and May in two separate boys’ restrooms on campus and in both...
• mercurynews.com4 day(s) ago
• Crime and Public Safety | Two injured in accidental shooting at Stanford Shopping Center
• PALO ALTO – Two men were injured in an accidental shooting early Thursday in Palo Alto, police said. At 12:17 a.m., Stanford Health Care contacted the city’s 24-hour dispatch center to report two men had just arrived with gunshot wounds, according to the Palo Alto Police Department. Police said the men claimed they had been the victims of an armed robbery half an hour earlier in the parking lot of the Stanford Shopping Center at 180 El Camino Real. An investigation, however, revealed there had been no robbery. Instead, the...
• mercurynews.com4 day(s) ago
• Letters to the Editor | Letters: BARTs cost | 49ers gift | Playing catch-up | Abortion rights
• Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Nobody is hiding BART’s projected cost On three separate days, The Mercury News printed the same misleading assertions about my “hiding” federal projections of rising construction costs of the BART Silicon Valley extension. Factual context is long overdue. Last year, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) published what it called “the worst plausible probable scenario cost” for the BART project of $9.148 billion. VTA engineers consistently assert that the FTA projection does not constitute the actual...
• mercurynews.com4 day(s) ago
• Crashes and Disasters | Palo Alto man drowns in Lake Tahoe
• A Palo Alto man drowned in Lake Tahoe last week after falling out of a boat, the El Dorado County sheriff’s office said. Emergency responders were called to Meeks Bay, on the lake’s west shore, around 9:20 a.m. on Thursday, May 5. Two people had reportedly fallen from a boat into the water. One of the victims was able to get to shore on their own. Coast Guard rescuers recovered the other person from about 15 feet of water; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The victim was identified...
• dailymail.co.uk4 day(s) ago
• Astronomers spot a FIREBALL of X-ray radiation erupting from a dead star undergoing a nova explosion for the first time
• Astronomers in Germany have spotted a fiery nova explosion from a white dwarf for the very first time. Researchers observed the event, thanks to data from the joint German-Russian eROSITA X-ray telescope, which is stationed in space about 900,000 miles away. The X-ray flash – dubbed YZ Reticuli – completely overexposed the centre of eROSITAs detector, which records emitted photons.  White dwarfs are the incredibly dense remains of sun-sized stars after they exhaust their nuclear fuel, shrunk down to roughly the size of Earth.  Sometimes such dead stars flare back to...
• the-sun.com5 day(s) ago
• I worked at Dunkin Donuts – the drink you should never order & why the ‘green’ label isn’t legit
• AMERICA runs on Dunkin and devoted fans of the brand will be the first to remind coffee and donut consumers of that statement. However, even the brands biggest fans might not know the secrets that can save shoppers money at Dunkin Donuts locations nationwide. 2Dunkin Donuts fans love the chains coffee and donutsCredit: Getty 2An ex-employee took to TikTok and shared her experience working at DunkinCredit: TikTok Louise is a college student who reportedly worked at a Dunkin Donuts until she left in early 2020 (she claims to...
• cbslocal.com5 day(s) ago
• Palo Alto Man Theodore Fletcher Drowns In Lake Tahoe Near Meeks Bay
• EL DORADO COUNTY (CBS13) — A Palo Alto man drowned last week after falling out of a boat on Lake Tahoe. According to the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office, on May 5 at around 9:20 a.m, authorities received the report that two men had fallen from their boat into the water near Meek’s Bay. Deputies, the Coast Guard, and firefighters responded to the scene, where they discovered that one of the boaters was able to get out of the water on their own. The other boater, later identified as 58-year-old...
• the-sun.com5 day(s) ago
• Clarendon Hills train accident leaves ‘one Metra passenger killed and four hurt’ as shocking video shows huge fireball
• AT least one person has reportedly died, and four others are hurt after a train and semi-truck collided, creating a giant fireball on the railway tracks. The deadly crash involving a BNSF Railway line train and a semi-truck unfolded in the Clarendon Hills section of Chicago on Wednesday morning. 2A semi-truck and a train collided Wednesday morning, creating a giant fireballCredit: Marissa Parra 2The aftermath of the deadly crashCredit: CBS Chicago According to CBS, Metra said a passenger on the train, a woman, was killed in the collision. Four others...
• mercurynews.com5 day(s) ago
• Environment | Electrical homes are the future. The grid isn’t ready.
• PALO ALTO – One out of every six homes in this leafy birthplace of Silicon Valley has a plug-in car, with more to come. Other homes have heat pumps, induction cook tops and arrays of glistening solar panels that help reduce climate change. Yet yesterday’s electrical grid can’t keep up with tomorrow’s carbon-free ambitions. “We’re in a ‘ramp up’ mode. We won’t hit our goals unless we accelerate,” said Mayor Pat Burt, who drives a plug-in hybrid Mitsubishi Outlander. “But we really don’t have the capacity to do it faster...
• mercurynews.com7 day(s) ago
• Crime and Public Safety | Palo Alto: One arrested in Goodwill of Silicon Valley burglary
• PALO ALTO – A 55-year-old Amboy, Washington man has been arrested on suspicion of breaking into a Goodwill of Silicon Valley store in Palo Alto, police said. At 9:23 p.m. Thursday, a burglar alarm was tripped at the store at 4085 El Camino Way, according to the Palo Alto Police Department. Officers arrived to discover an open door at the back of the building. They searched the store and found a man inside. Police said an investigation revealed the man had entered the closed store through the door, which had...