A California Division of Occupational Safety and Health investigation into the July 18 blast resulted in eight citations and more than $350,000 in fines, according to records from the state agency reviewed by The Times.
The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office must comply with subpoenas issued by the county's civilian oversight board as part of a whistleblower investigation into alleged misconduct, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.
We urgently tried to get to the children in the back, and we were not successful. But I tried keeping the parents calm and telling them that I was there, trying to get any information that I could.
Officers arrested Alexander Schecter, 24, at his Santa Monica residence on Friday and booked him on one count of rape by force, one count of forcible oral copulation, one count of robbery, one count of extortion and one count of battery.
Gun violence in Berkeley last year hit the lowest point since the police department first started publishing data on it nearly a decade ago, reflecting local and national trends. A network of violence intervention workers, faith leaders and volunteers has been working to keep the numbers down, but their pilot program is only funded for another six months.
Early Thursday morning, officials at Villanova University outside Philadelphia received a "threat of violence targeted at an academic building" and quickly closed their campus and canceled all activities. University officials issued an all clear at 1:36 p.m. on Thursday and noted that the FBI and local law enforcement were continuing their investigation. Alcorn State University in Mississippi initiated a campus lockdown Thursday morning due to a "safety threat," which officials cleared several hours later. Wiley University in Texas also locked down its campus due to a "threat via email" and lifted the lockdown at noon Thursday.