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By Jasmine Viel

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    LOS ANGELES, California (KCAL, KCBS) — A man was killed in a hit-and-run incident Thursday morning at a West Adams freeway onramp, and a Good Samaritan who stopped to help had his vehicle stolen.

Around 4:39 a.m. at the Normandie Avenue and Westbound 10 Freeway onramp, police responded to a pedestrian who had been struck in the crosswalk.

Neighbor Melissa Conley says the victim was a nice man who lived in an encampment on her street corner. “He spends his time fixing up bicycles for some money, and he was always sweeping and cleaning and trying to keep up the area,” she said.

The California Highway Patrol says the man was first struck by a white pickup truck before another driver ran him over and didn’t stop.

According to the Los Angeles Police Department, a man’s vehicle was stolen as he stopped at the scene to try to help the victim. Another neighbor, Liz, said it was an Amazon Driver who stopped, and his truck was stolen.

Liz said she has almost hit the man before. “He would just be roaming around early in the morning, or really late at night and he was always wearing dark clothing, so you couldn’t see him,” she said.

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By Matthew Rodriguez

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    LOS ANGELES, California (KCAL, KCBS) — The Los Angeles Police Department said a baby, a toddler and two adults were shot to death in a North Hills neighborhood on Wednesday night.

The Los Angeles Fire Department said firefighters responded to the 16000 block of Londelius Street in North Hills just before 7:50 p.m. When crews arrived, they found four victims, all of whom were pronounced dead at the scene, according to LAFD.

On Thursday, the LA County Medical Examiner released the ages of three of the victims. They identified a 31-year-old woman, a 2-year-old child and a 6-month-old child. The fourth victim has not been identified and is still pending notification of next of kin.

“It’s hard, like I don’t know how someone could be driven to do something like that, that is such innocence,” said Luis Enriquez, a neighbor. “I don’t know who did it, I don’t know the whole information, but to me, even if it’s a stranger, how can you do that to a child. Two children in this case.”

Officers said they are not searching for a suspect. The LAPD is continuing to investigate the incident. Investigators described the shooting as a murder-suicide.

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By Brady Halbleib

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    SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) — California’s craft beer industry is going through a transformation, and while it’s happening slowly, it’s changing what a brewery looks like and what it has to do to survive.

Gone are the days of breweries focusing only on the beer. Now, it’s about something more — the experience.

At Backstage Brewery in Sacramento, assistant brewer Gavin Broussard is getting ready for the night’s entertainment.

“I’ve heard people mention this is like Nashville meets Hollywood,” he said.

Beer is apart of their business model, but so is live music.

“We want to help the ecosystem of local musicians in Sacramento,” Broussard said.

Backstage Brewery, located on 24th Street just off Broadway, opened just four months ago with a stage built in the center of their taproom.

Happening across town at Log Off Brewery in Rancho Cordova, head brewer Kenny Terry is doing what he does best — making beer. But these days, that doesn’t quite fill the glass.

One of the reasons why is that Terry and his team aim to make their brewery a community center, a place for engagement parties, trivia nights, live events and even wakes.

“We like to think it’s like life and death,” Terry said. “This is the community house.”

Log Off Brewery Manager Nicole Scott spends a lot of her time thinking outside of the glass into what happens inside the taproom.

“It’s just coming up with the crazy ideas of how you get bodies in here to of course enjoy the beer but also it gets people together,” she said.

The craft beer industry across the country has struggled over the past few years. The National Brewers Association reports more breweries have closed in California than have opened in the past two years.

Reasons include rising costs, inflation, tariffs on things like aluminum cans and brewing equipment, and also changing consumer habits.

“I think breweries are adapting and figuring out ways to chase that new drinker, but it was a lot different than even it was two years ago,” said Bart Watson, president and CEO of the National Brewers Association.

The California Craft Brewers Association (CCBA) says the industry isn’t dying but it’s forced to change.

“Especially as the main beer demographic has aged,” said Kelsey McQuaid-Craig, executive director of the CCBA. “I say this as an elder millennial. I was the person going to the random warehouse brewery to check out the new beer. Now, I have a kid and I want to stay somewhere a little while longer.”

A generation that helped crack open the craft beer industry is now older. The things they want have changed, and the successful breweries are adapting, adding events, live music, nonalcoholic options and even cider.

For brewers like Broussard and Terry, the change isn’t a bad thing because in a business that brings people together over beer, the experience you provide is the thing that keeps them coming back.

“We’re trying to give good beer and a place for people to feel comfortable,” Broussard said.

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    SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) — Sacramento-area leaders formally launched a bid Thursday to bring a Major League Baseball expansion team to the region, unveiling a proposal tied to a nearly $2 billion public-private investment and a new ballpark district in West Sacramento.

The proposed stadium site would sit in West Sacramento’s River District, just south of Sutter Health Park, as part of a fully controlled and entitled 50-acre mixed-use development.

Regional leaders, business groups and former Major League players gathered to pitch Sacramento as a future West Coast market for MLB expansion.

The investment plan includes about $800 million in land and private investment, along with about $1 billion expected from the City of West Sacramento through tax increment financing, hotel fees and other sources. West Sacramento officials said the money would not come from the city’s general fund, and no public vote would be needed.

The $800 million portion includes a $500 million cash investment through the United Auburn Indian Community and the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, along with a land donation tied to the current Sutter Health Park site that accounts for about $300 million in land equity.

Speakers at the announcement included Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty, West Sacramento Mayor Martha Guerrero and former big leaguers Dusty Baker and Derrek Lee.

Guerrero previewed the effort during her State of the City address last week.

“West Sacramento has proven to be a success at hosting Major League Baseball crowds and the buzz in the air around Sutter Health Park shows that the region is ready. Having MLB teams play in Sacramento elevates our visibility and our viability,” Guerrero said.

The push comes as the A’s temporarily play in West Sacramento while preparing for their move to Las Vegas in 2028.

Local leaders say the region’s recent population growth, strong sports fan base and sellout crowds for the A’s have helped build momentum for an expansion push.

Supporters of the bid are also pointing to Sacramento’s market size. The metro region has a population of about 2.7 million people but only one major North American professional sports franchise, the NBA’s Sacramento Kings.

Sacramento also ranks as the 20th-largest media market in the U.S., with 1.55 million TV homes, according to Nielsen data for the 2025-26 season.

The pitch mirrors other recent efforts to elevate Sacramento’s sports profile, including Sacramento State’s push for a higher-profile role in college athletics, by leaning heavily on the region’s population growth, media market and fan support.

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By Richard Ramos

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    REDWOOD CITY, California (KPIX) — The Redwood City Police Department says an automated license plate reader helped detectives identify and arrest a suspect in a fatal hit-and-run crash that killed a 72-year-old woman over Memorial Day weekend.

Police said officers were called around 1 p.m. on May 24 to the area of Middlefield Road and Beech Street in Redwood City for reports of a vehicle striking a pedestrian.

Officers found the woman near the intersection with critical injuries. She was later declared dead at an area hospital.

Detectives later recovered surveillance video that captured the collision and identified the suspect vehicle as a late-model white Toyota Tundra, police said. They were then able to use license plate reader data to search for vehicles matching that description in the area at the time of the crash.

Investigators said the search led detectives to a single vehicle connected to a local address.

On May 25, officers located the suspected truck parked in the driveway of the registered owner’s home. The vehicle was seized as evidence while detectives continued their investigation.

Authorities said the registered owner and driver of the truck, identified as 52-year-old Francisco Gallardo Alvarez of Redwood City, later went to the police department on his own accord on Thursday.

Gallardo Alvarez was arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and felony hit-and-run resulting in injury or death, police said. He was booked into the San Mateo County Maguire Correctional Facility.

The name of the woman killed was not released.

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By By Carlos E. Castañeda, Tim Fang, Veronica Macias

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    SAN FRANCISCO, California (KPIX) — A San Francisco Bay Area woman dubbed by police, prosecutors, and victims as the “party mom” was sentenced to more than three decades in state prison Thursday after she was convicted for hosting alcohol-fueled parties for her teenage son and friends during the pandemic in which she encouraged child sexual assaults.

Shannon Marie O’Connor, also known as Shannon Bruga, received the maximum sentence of 35 years and 10 months. She is expected to serve about 27 years following credit for time served.

O’Connor was convicted on several dozen counts in March, including facilitating the forcible sexual assault of one child onto another child, child endangerment, annoying or molesting a child, and dissuading witnesses from testifying.

“Defendant Shannon O’Connor preyed upon and victimized an entire community of children and their parents for years,” Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said at a briefing after the sentence was handed down. “Today, for the first time in a long time, for these brave, strong and resilient children and their families, there is some justice and we are all grateful for that.”

O’Connor’s sentencing comes after a hearing that began on Tuesday, in which multiple victims provided impact statements. Earlier Thursday, the court heard from two sisters in a statement read by the oldest, who said her bright future was derailed thanks to O’Connor, along with her identity and sense of self.

A survivor’s mother also described to the court how O’Connor groomed her daughter, showered her with gifts pretending they were from O’Connor’s 15-year-old son who she was dating at the time. Other mothers burst into tears describing how alarmed they were when O’Connor gifted one of their daughters lacy thong underwear.

“I listened to the testimony of several victims and their parents and heard these words and phrases over and over again,” Rosen said. “Predator, manipulated, groomed, hypersexualized, violated, betrayed, traumatized, isolated, intimidated, harassed. Made me feel small. Suffered severe anxiety and depression. Contemplated suicide. Not over it, life-long impact, forever changed me, stole my innocence, took away my childhood. But I also heard resilient, strong survivors.”

Before sentencing, O’Connor turned to face the survivors and their parents, saying that she had no sexual inclination for any of the minors who were involved, as parents responded by shaking their heads and some wiping away tears.

The 51-year-old O’Connor, a former resident of the affluent Santa Clara County city of Los Gatos, staged at least six teen parties in 2020 and 2021 at her home and other locations.

Court documents said O’Connor bought beer, vodka, whiskey and condoms for the mostly 14- and 15-year-old teens and encouraged them to drink, resulting in some teens drinking to the point of vomiting and unconsciousness. In some cases, O’Connor would Snapchat or text teens to leave their homes in the middle of the night and drink at her home.

O’Connor urged the sexual assault of intoxicated teen girls, “sometimes non-consensual, and sometimes while she watched,” according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office. Court documents described O’Connor providing a boy with a condom and pushing him into a room with an intoxicated girl, who later escaped and locked herself in a bathroom.

During a New Year’s Eve party at her home, O’Connor allegedly watched and laughed as a drunk teen sexually battered a young girl in bed. In another case, she brought a drunk teen into a bedroom where he sexually assaulted an intoxicated 14-year-old girl, who also told investigators that at another party she was so drunk she almost drowned in a hot tub, according to court filings.

O’Connor was arrested in 2021 in Idaho, where she was living at the time. The Ada County Sheriff’s Office said it investigated O’Connor after an Idaho family reported O’Connor was harassing them. The family told investigators the harassment began after they met with O’Connor when she was looking for a home in Idaho but then tried to sever ties with her after finding out she was part of a sexual abuse investigation.

When detectives arrived at her home northwest of Boise, they found “there were 10 underage boys and two girls at her home — most of whom spent the night there,” according to a sheriff’s office news release.

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    CHELSEA, Michigan (WWJ) — If you saw an odd light in the sky over Michigan about 5:11 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, it was a fireball, also known as a very bright meteor.

The American Meteor Society said they received 82 reports, including two videos, of the fireball sighting around Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. The Michigan sightings included people in Chelsea, Charlotte, Fenton, Fraser, Melvindale, Monroe and Warren. Others who saw it were from Ontario, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York.

The fireball was moving in the sky, several of the notices said.

“It was so bright and green it caught me off guard,” one of the reports from Michigan said.

“It was very bright and seemed very large,” another Michigan report said.

“Several thousand meteors of fireball magnitude occur in the Earth’s atmosphere each day. The vast majority of these, however, occur over the oceans and uninhabited regions, and a good many are masked by daylight,” the American Meteor Society said.

The active meteor showers this week include the Anthelion and eta Aquariids showers, the American Meteor Society said.

Fireball sightings that recently got attention in Michigan included a meteor shower in late March.

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