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Brazil regulates sports betting, taxes companies amid scandal

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:39:36 GMT

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government issued a provisional decree on Tuesday to authorize sports betting and tax companies’ revenues by 18%. The move comes amid a sprawling investigation that ensnared dozens of players in a match-fixing scandal.President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s decree was sent to congress, which needs to vote on it on the next 120 days so it remains valid. Brazil’s finance ministry expects to collect at least 2 billion Brazilian reals ($420 million) in tax from betting companies next year if the provisional measure is confirmed.Brazilian bettors will not pay tax if they make gains amounting to almost $445 on each bet. Any gains above that will make betters pay 30% income tax. The decree comes less than one year after an investigation by the attorney’s office in Goias showed that some players had been offered between $10,000 and $20,000 to perform specific actions, like receiving yellow cards and giving away penalty kicks. Alleged criminals...

VIDEO: Camera footage shows Edison Park business owner's dad robbed of catalytic converter at gunpoint

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:39:36 GMT

CHICAGO — An Edison Park business owner spoke out Tuesday, warning the community after his father came face-to-face with two armed suspects on the City's far Northwest Side who stole his catalytic converter.“He tried to stop the situation, but the guy pulled out a gun, so what is he gonna do?" said Edwin Espinosa, co-owner of Snappy Dog in Edison Park. "Nothing … just backs out and lets them take it.”According to the Chicago Police Department, a 48-year-old man was walking toward his vehicle in the 6600 block of North Northwest Highway around 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning when he saw two people taking his catalytic converter.Police said the offenders pulled out handguns and told him to walk away. He complied, and the thieves fled in a white SUV. UPS driver shot while delivering packages in West Humboldt Park Cameras at another nearby business caught the theft on video. As can be seen on tape, one suspect hands the other a tool, who then goes under the victim's SUV as the second perso...

Pete Davidson avoids jail time after charge of driving into Beverly Hills house

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:39:36 GMT

(AP) - Pete Davidson has entered a diversion program to resolve a reckless driving charge for crashing into a Beverly Hills home and will perform 50 hours community service, authorities said Tuesday.The 29-year-old “Saturday Night Live” and “King of Staten Island” actor and comedian will likely do his community service with the New York Fire Department, where his late father worked, Los Angeles County prosecutors said.Davidson was 7 years old when his father, Scott, a New York firefighter, died responding to the 9/11 attacks. Rare Apple sneakers up for sale at $50K Davidson pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor and was put in an 18-month diversion that also includes 12 hours of traffic school, an order to obey all laws and restitution that was not specified.When Davidson was charged on June 16, prosecutors called the March 4 crash a “serious collision." No one was reported injured.Davidson’s latest show, “Bupkis,” debuted on Peacock in May, and he stars in the forthcomin...

Mets Notebook: Starling Marte’s migraines ease up, Luis Guillorme has a Grade 2 calf strain

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:39:36 GMT

Starling Marte seems to be trending in the right direction when it comes to the migraine headaches that landed him on the 10-day injured list last week. He has gone three days without a migraine and was able to do some baserunning work on the field at Yankee Stadium before the start of Tuesday’s Subway Series game against the Yankees.The right fielder will be eligible to come off the injured list Thursday, but the Mets aren’t yet ready to say they’ll activate him on that date.“We’re not ready to make that commitment yet,” manager Buck Showalter said Tuesday at Yankee Stadium. “He’s had a good three days. He needed it.”The Mets have sent Marte to specialists to try to figure out why the migraines were occurring so close together. The baserunning is a good sign but the team is still waiting to see how he responds to some baseball activities.“We’re not there yet. We’ll see how tomorrow goes,” Showalter said. ...

Kowalski’s employees in Eagan, west metro announce three-day strike

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:39:36 GMT

Union employees at Kowalski’s Markets in Eagan and the west metro voted on Monday to authorize an Unfair Labor Practices strike.United Food and Commercial Workers Local 663, which represents more than 600 workers across the six stores, announced Tuesday that the workers it represents plan to hold a three-day strike in their quest for better wages and to maintain worker-driven health care, according to the union’s news release.The strike would take place Aug. 4-6 at the Eagan, Eden Prairie, Excelsior, Hennepin, Lyndale and Parkview stores.UFCW Local 663 says it has filed a complaint against Kowalski’s for intimidation of employees exercising their rights to participate in protected concerted activity, interfering with concerted union activity, illegal surveillance of union activity and bargaining in bad faith.“On Monday, our coworkers stood together against company intimidation and demonstrated our power as a union and voted to authorize a strike. Kowalski’s has engaged in unfair lab...

Riverside residents without power amid heatwave

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:39:36 GMT

As triple digit heat blankets parts of Southern California, some residents in a Riverside neighborhood have been without power since last night and are hoping service will be restored soon. For resident Shane Savage, one small fan is single handedly keeping his family’s home relatively cool in the heatwave.  “We have an inverter in the car that’s here and we plugged that into the cigarette lighter and that’s at least powering the fan that we have there,” Savage told KTLA.  The Riverside homeowner said he’s had to get creative after his power unexpectedly went out last night around 8 p.m., right after he and his wife had just returned home from Costco with a full load of groceries.  “We didn’t get anything from Edison until later in the evening,” he explained. “We’ve gotten updates every so many hours that it’ll be up and running in two more hours, two more hours, two more hours.”  Some 20 hours later and the power had yet to be restored, making it even more ...

Firefighter injured battling brush fire in Angeles National Forest

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:39:36 GMT

A firefighter was injured while battling a brush fire in the Angeles National Forest near Agua Dulce Tuesday afternoon. The Agua Fire was reported around 2:15 p.m. near Soledad Canyon and Agua Dulce Canyon roads, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It had grown to 40 acres as of 4:30 p.m. and was burning through dry brush at a safe distance from any homes. The Agua Fire burns in the Angeles National Forest on July 25, 2023. (KTLA)No structures were threatened.The county fire department was coordinating firefighting efforts with National Forest crews."Units on scene are making good progress slowing down the fire with ground crews and multiple water-dropping aircrafts," LACoFD said in an update.

With positive injury developments, SF Giants confident offensive struggles nearing an end

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:39:36 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — A pair of monitors on the clubhouse walls greeted Giants players and staff Tuesday afternoon: “Welcome back.”Oracle Park has hosted pickleball players and Deadheads since the Giants last played a baseball game here, more than two weeks ago. The start of the Bay Bridge series against the A’s on Tuesday marked their 12th game in 12 days since the All-Star break, traversing five cities on both coasts.“It’s nice to be home,” manager Gabe Kapler said, smiling, from the third-base dugout.Back at last from the hot and humid East Coast, Kapler managed to find time for a bicycle ride and to enjoy the temperate San Francisco summer weather. But on the heels of a season-long six-game losing streak during which the Giants have averaged 1.5 runs per game, Kapler had another reason to be smiley.“A lot of the rehabbing guys are getting close to returning,” Kapler said. “This is gonna start to move quicker.”Out for the past...

San Jose police arrest Gilroy man, four juveniles on suspicion of home-invasion robbery, attempted murder

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:39:36 GMT

SAN JOSE – Police on Tuesday announced the arrests of a 20-year-old Gilroy man and four juveniles in connection with a home-invasion robbery and shooting last month in San Jose.The incident happened on June 11 at a residence in the 100 block of Bendorf Drive, the San Jose Police Department said in a news release. One of the suspects reportedly shot the victim at least once. The victim was taken to a hospital and stabilized.Detectives identified Evan Haley and four juveniles as suspects in the case, police said.On July 18, detectives found and arrested Haley in Santa Clara. He was booked into Santa Clara County jail on charges of home-invasion robbery and attempted murder.The four juveniles were also arrested and booked into Santa Clara County Juvenile Hall.Searches of the suspects’ homes yielded five handguns, extended and drum magazines, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, police said. One of the handguns was a privately manufactured firearm, or “ghost gun,” and the rest were unr...

San Jose labor and business spar over housing policy, unionization

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:39:36 GMT

In an escalation of the tension between labor and business allegiances on the San Jose City Council, two progressive councilmembers on Tuesday said they intend to introduce a resolution that will strengthen free speech protections for the city’s elected officials.Councilmembers Omar Torres and Peter Ortiz said the resolution is a response to what they called politically motivated and racist attacks by organizations associated with the business community — what they see as an effort to muzzle their support for local unionization efforts.But it goes deeper than that. The City Council has been tussling for months with divisive issues, including housing and homelessness, that have raised the stakes — and the tempers — of councilmembers, constituents and their communities.The proposed resolution, for which they provided no details, comes just a week after the city attorney in Los Angeles warned elected officials that getting involved in labor disputes could lead to coun...