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A man with a history of mental illness identified as a suspect in the brazen fatal stabbing of a high school student last week was arrested Wednesday morning after barricading himself inside an Alhambra home, authorities said. The man, whose name has not been released by police, is the suspect in the killing of Xavier Chavarin, 17, who was described by family as a straight-A student at Woodrow Wilson High School and a loving son. Hours after the teen was killed, police say the same assailant stabbed another person, who…

The Tesla company logo is seen on the hood of an unsold vehicle at a dealership on Aug. 9, 2020, in Littleton, Colo. In a report released Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board apparently solved the mystery of why no one was found behind the wheel of a Tesla that crashed in Texas two years ago, killing two men. During the April 2021 crash in Spring, Texas, the driver apparently moved to the back seat…

Travis Scott has reportedly been named as a suspect of an investigation into an alleged punching incident at a club in New York City.According to a report from TMZ, the alleged incident took place in the early hours on Wednesday at the Nebula club. Scott, specifically, is accused of having punched someone at the club. He’s additionally accused of damaging property, with TMZ saying the property in question was “possibly” a phone.A separate Page Six report, meanwhile, includes more details, including a reported estimate of…

Amid allegations that Sacheen Littlefeather faked a Native American identity for more than 50 years, others have come forward to offer examples of how the late Bay Area activist obscured, embellished or fabricated details about her life, including her purported work with dance pioneer Michael Smuin on one of his most acclaimed ballets. Paula Tracy, the ex-wife and former dance partner of Smuin, who died in 2007, said in an email shared with this news organization that Littlefeather exaggerated her participation on his…

The Noida police on Friday said they have nabbed a man in connection with a major online betting fraud, taking the number of arrests in the case to 17. According to police, Sachin Soni, a native of Jhansi, was a key member of the gang that used the Mahadev Book betting app to dupe people to the tune of more than ₹4,000 crore. The gang lured people into placing bets through their app and gave them a surplus sum on their bets. But once a user placed a bet of bigger amount, they would take it all and would vanish,…

French police apprehended on Friday a 25-year-old Finnish man suspected of breaching patient records of some 33,000 psychotherapy clients in Finland, the Finnish central criminal police said. Finland's National Bureau of Investigation had issued an international arrest warrant for the man believed to have stolen private records of the patients of a Helsinki-based psychotherapy centre. The suspect has denied any wrongdoing in the case. He is believed to have blackmailed patients…

Before he was arrested and charged this week in what prosecutors described as a “reign of terror” on Southern California roadways, the driver seen on video attacking other vehicles with a pipe had a history of enraged outbursts, vicious threats and domestic violence, according to authorities and court documents.For weeks, the man was described only as the driver of a black Tesla, his violent encounters captured on dash-cam video taken by victims who watched in horror as he charged and hit their vehicles with a pipe. “The…

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. —  The man charged with killing seven co-workers in a pair of mass shootings at farms in Half Moon Bay admitted to his role in the deadly shootings in a jailhouse interview Thursday.Chunli Zhao, 66, spoke to NBC Bay Area’s Janelle Wang, telling the reporter he had experienced “years of bullying” and working long hours at the farm before he took a semiautomatic handgun and opened fire on his co-workers Monday. “He admitted that he did do it,” Wang said in the report.San Mateo County Dist. Atty.…

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. —  The man accused of killing seven people in a shooting rampage at a farm and nursery in Half Moon Bay — unleashing waves of terror, shock and grief in this rural coastal community — faces felony charges that could make him eligible for the death penalty, authorities said. San Mateo County Dist. Atty. Steven Wagstaffe said Wednesday that his office had yet to determine whether to seek capital punishment against the alleged gunman.That decision “is something that will take place over the course of…

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. —  The 66-year-old farmworker accused of fatally shooting seven of his co-workers and wounding another “snapped” because of a still-unknown grievance against some of the people among whom he had lived and worked for years, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.Chunli Zhao remained in jail a day after he allegedly opened fire on workers at two farms in Half Moon Bay, a coastal agricultural community south of San Francisco.“The only known connection between the victims and the suspect is that they…