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History-making Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider was robbed at gunpoint over the weekend. Per a report from the Associated Press, the armed robbery occurred on Sunday in Oakland, California. As of Wednesday, authorities had not announced any arrests in connection with the robbery. In a pair of tweets addressing the incident, Schneider—who started her Jeopardy! run in […]
Traxamillion, the Bay area producer who was an important force behind the hyphy sound, has died at the age of 43, TMZ reports. The outlet cites Bay Area blog Thizzler On The Roof as the first to confirm his death. Thizzler, which called his death a “huge loss for Northern California,” shared the news on Sunday afternoon via a memorial image […]
A surfer was killed in California following an apparent great white shark attack in Morro Bay, authorities have shared. As ABC News reports, a surfer at Morro Bay State Park beach hit the waves before 11 a.m. PT, and was unresponsive after he was found “suffering from an apparent shark attack” after being pulled from the water, according to a […]
A California woman who punched a Southwest Airlines flight attendant in the face pleaded guilty this week to a felony charge. Vyvianna M. Quinonez, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to interfering with a Southwest Airlines flight attendant. Per plea agreement admissions cited in a DOJ-shared press release, Quinonez was a passenger on […]
Drake has beat a $4 billion lawsuit filed against him by a woman who allegedly broke into his home in 2017. The lawsuit claimed that the rapper publicly defamed her on Instagram. According to Billboard, the woman in question, Mesha Collins, filed the case this past summer, claiming that the artist later defamed her by sharing […]
TW: This story contains descriptions of sexual assault. A man who was previously reported to have been arrested in connection with the deaths of model Christy Giles and architect Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola has been charged with sexually assaulting four other women. Per a recent news release from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, David Brian […]
DaBaby showed up to Rolling Loud California over the weekend following his homophobic comments made at the Miami edition of the festival in July, and he was not entirely greeted with open arms. During his performance on Sunday, the Charlotte, North Carolina rapper was pelted with various objects including water bottles and open drinks. He didn’t address […]
Slim 400 is reported to have been fatally shot on Wednesday night. According to a report from TMZ, which was preceded by social media-shared claims about the incident, the BompTTon artist was killed on Wednesday in the Los Angeles County city of Inglewood. Per the report, additional details—including what, exactly, transpired and whether local authorities […]
A Black couple has filed a housing discrimination lawsuit in California, saying that an appraiser lowballed their valuation because of their race, the Independent reports. The first appraisal estimated that their Marin County home cost $995,000, while the second time the house was appraised at $1.48m. However, that assessment came when the couple, Paul and Tenisha Austin […]
Four people were killed this weekend when a single-engine plane crashed minutes after takeoff from a small airport in central California, ABC News California affiliate KFSN reports. The plane, a single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza, crashed just just 16 seconds after taking off from Visalia Municipal Airport around 6:35 p.m on Saturday. It went down near Highway 99 south of […]
