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☆ California is considering new limits on self-checkout lanes
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

California's Senate is considering a bill that would change how retailers run self-checkout. The rule would prohibit retailers from offering self-checkout unless several conditions are met. AdvertisementThe California legislature is considering a proposal that would bring significant changes to the self-checkout lanes in the state. Self-checkout lanes would be limited to 10 items or fewer. A single worker may only be assigned to monitor two self-checkout stations, and they must have no other responsibilities during that time.

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☆ A California family, including 2-year-old, survived a plane crash by deploying a parachute system
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A California family survived a plane crash with only minor injuries by deploying a parachute system. The parachute opened above the plane and slowed its descent before it crashed into woodland. AdvertisementA California family, including a man, a woman, and a 2-year-old girl, survived a plane crash with only minor cuts and scratches after deploying a parachute system. AdvertisementQuincy Cromer, a spokesperson for the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office, said that it was a "miracle" that the family had escaped with such minor injuries. Advertisement"Even with the parachute the parties involved were extremely fortunate to only receive minor injuries," the department wrote.

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☆ Elon Musk settled the bill after Tesla ditched a Black History Month pie order, costing the bakers thousands
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tesla paid a bakery $2,000 after it canceled a massive Black History Month order at short notice. "To fulfill the order, I had turned down other Black History Month catering inquiries, purchased supplies, and prepared for a demanding production schedule," she wrote. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 23, 2024Rasetarinera confirmed to The Guardian Monday that she had received $2,000 from Tesla. Rasetarinera said in a February 2 post celebrating Black History Month that she's of Madagascan heritage. Advertisement"As I reflect on this ordeal, I am reminded of the resilience and determination that have propelled me forward as a black woman entrepreneur," Rasetarinera wrote in her original Instagram post.

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☆ Tesla placed a $16K bakery order for Black History Month — then suddenly canceled it, the bakers say, costing them thousands
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewA San Jose bakery has slammed Tesla after a company employee placed a massive pie order for Black History Month, only to cancel it after the Black-owned business scrambled to meet the request, according to multiple reports. Voahangy Rasetarinera, the owner of The Giving Pies, wrote on Instagram that Tesla "hurt my small Black women-owned business" through the last-minute cancellation. According to Rasetarinera's account, on February 14 a Tesla company representative called her and asked for 2,000 mini pies to be delivered by the following week. But that evening, the representative called back and doubled the order — setting the bakery rushing to ensure it could meet the demand, Rasetarinera wrote. Rasetarinera said in a February 2 post celebrating Black History Month that she is of Madagascan heritage.

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A short time later, the house exploded and burst into flames, with multiple mayday calls coming from the firefighters trapped inside. Crews rushed in to try to rescue them from the debris that covered them, but one firefighter was killed and nine others were injured, Loudoun County Fire and Rescue officials said in a news release. Authorities did not say if they believe the propane tank leak caused the explosion. After firefighters found the leak in the underground propane tank, they requested a hazardous materials response team and additional units and safety officers. “This is believed to be an isolated incident and there is no ongoing danger to the community,” Loudoun County Fire and Rescue said in a statement.

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☆ Netflix's 'American Nightmare': Where are Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn now?
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

"American Nightmare" examines the 2015 kidnapping of Denise Huskins. AdvertisementIn 2015, a man broke into the Mare Island, California, home of Aaron Quinn, kidnapped his girlfriend Denise Huskins, and held her hostage for two days. On March 23, 2015, Quinn, then 30, reported that a man in a wetsuit brandishing a Taser had drugged him and then kidnapped Huskins. Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn married in 2018 and have two daughtersAaron Quinn and Denise Huskins on their wedding day in 2018. Denise Huskins/InstagramDenise Huskins and Aaron Quinn stayed together after enduring the disturbing ordeal and tried to move on with their life.

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☆ TikTok sleuths have been obsessing over the case of Nancy Ng, a woman who vanished during a yoga retreat — and it's revealed an ugly truth
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In his first video, he addressed some "really shady" circumstances around Ng's case, including some comments by Chris Sharpe, the leader of the search-and-rescue team hired by Ng's family. Advertisement"Our desensitization to true crime, due to our constant consumption of media, means it's almost a challenge or a game to solve these puzzles," she said. The dark realityThough armchair sleuths can have their benefits, a lot of information shared about true crime can be misinformed, insensitive, or exaggerated. For example, in October, a man named Lawrence Crook begged TikTokers to stop making true crime content about his mom's murder. "What is interesting about the case of Nancy Ng is that this is a woman of Asian descent," she said.

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☆ Fact Check: FCC guidelines on profanity do not apply to cable networks
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Indecent content is defined by the FCC as a portrayal of sexual or excretory organs or activities in an offensive manner without meeting the obscenity test. Profane content includes “grossly offensive” language considered a public nuisance. NBC is a broadcast network while CNBC is a cable network. “FCC rules on profanity don't apply to utterances on cable networks,” former FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a reply to an ABC7 Chicago reporter requesting clarification under the circulating post on X. Cable networks are not prohibited from airing indecent or profane content.

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☆ A United Airlines flight was diverted to San Francisco after a passenger made a bomb threat, official says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A flight from LA to Vancouver made an emergency landing in San Francisco on Monday night. The diversion followed a bomb threat made by someone on the flight, an airport official said. AdvertisementAdvertisementA United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Vancouver made an emergency landing after an alleged bomb threat was made, airport officials said. However, about an hour into the journey the plane turned around and headed to San Francisco, tracking data from Flight Radar 24 shows. In March, a United flight was grounded in Vermont after a note, discovered in the plane's bathroom, indicated there was a bomb onboard.

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☆ Israel invading Gaza could escalate the war into a larger regional conflict, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Israel's invasion of Gaza could turn the war into a regional conflict, experts said. AdvertisementAdvertisementIsrael's invasion of Gaza could escalate the war into a full-blown regional conflict, military analysts said. AdvertisementAdvertisementOn Sunday, Israel declared a state of war and a day later announced a "complete siege" of Gaza . Buckner pointed to signs of escalations across Israel's borders that could tilt a possible Israeli-Hamas war into a regional conflict. Israel's incursion into Gaza could create a "domino effect" that triggers all its neighbors in the region to join the conflict, Buckner said.

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☆ Fact Check: Miscaptioned clip of 2021 pro-Palestinian rally in Chicago
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Footage captioned online as showing a rally in Chicago supporting “Hamas’ terror attack” predates the clashes between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in October 2023. However, matching footage has circulated across multiple social media platforms since at least 2021. On May 16, 2021, thousands of demonstrators in downtown Chicago rallied in support of Palestinians, according to reports at the time by the Chicago Tribune and NBC 5 Chicago. Multiple pro-Palestinian rallies took place in downtown Chicago throughout May 2021, ABC7 and the Chicago Sun Times also reported. On Oct. 9, Palestinian supporters rallied in downtown Chicago against the violent conflict, as seen in news reports from ABC 7, CBS News Chicago and MSNBC.

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☆ Heart-stopping video shows an Alaska Airlines flight making a rocky landing in Tropical Storm Hilary, sending sparks flying and passengers screaming
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Video shows the moment an Alaska Airlines flight made a terrifying landing in Tropical Storm Hilary. Sparks flew off Alaska Airlines Flight 1288 when it touched down at a California airport on Sunday. Alaska Airlines said the plane "was unable to taxi to the gate due to an issue with its landing gear." AdvertisementAdvertisementA heart-pounding video shows the moment an Alaska Airlines flight made a rocky landing at a Southern California airport during Tropical Storm Hilary, causing sparks to fly and frightened passengers to scream. The spokesperson for Alaska Airlines apologized for the incident and said the airline's focus is on "taking care of our guests who were on board, including retrieving their checked bags."

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☆ On Maui, a perfect storm of climate, colonialism, and failed emergency systems made the deadliest US wildfire in over a century
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Maiya Focht | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

A deadly wildfire raged through the Hawaiian town of Lahaina, killing at least 111 people, last week. Aerial view shows destroyed homes and buildings near Front Street in Lahaina Town on August 10, 2023. Colonialism: Plantations brought the perfect wildfire fuel, an invasive grassLahaina was once the capital of the indigenous Hawaiian kingdom. Smoke and flames rise in Lahaina, Maui County, Hawaii, U.S., August 8, 2023 in this still image from video obtained from social media. A Mercy Worldwide volunteer makes damage assessment of charred apartment complex in the aftermath of a wildfire in Lahaina, western Maui, Hawaii on August 12, 2023.

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☆ DJ Casper, artist behind ‘Cha Cha Slide,’ has died
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —DJ Casper, born Willie Perry, Jr., has died after a battle with cancer, his wife told CNN affiliate ABC7 Chicago on Monday. Casper was responsible for the popular song “Cha Cha Slide,” which came out 23 years ago this month. Coming off of his “Cha-Cha Slide: The Original Slide Album,” the track gave way to a popular line dance that is still performed at events all over the world. Casper told ABC7 during an interview in May that he was surprised by his song’s international success. “When I first did it, I did it as an aerobic exercise for my nephew at Bally’s,” he said.

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☆ DJ Casper, Whose Hit Song ‘Cha-Cha Slide’ Made You Dance, Dies at 58
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Derrick Bryson Taylor | More About Derrick Bryson Taylor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

DJ Casper, the creator of the “Cha-Cha Slide,” an infectious song from the early 2000s that sparked an international line-dance craze that rivaled the Electric Slide and drew people to the dance floor at wedding receptions, bar mitzvahs and family cookouts, has died. His wife, Kim Bradshaw, confirmed his death in a statement to ABC7 Chicago. No cause was given, but Casper had cancer for several years. In her statement to the news station, she said: “Casper was a fun-loving, giving person. Casper was born Willie Perry Jr. in Chicago on May 31, 1965.

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☆ This woman pays $450 a month to live by the side of the road
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Liberty Justice pays a "vanlord" about $450 a month to live near the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank. She told Insider she's paying about $450 a month for the van – the same amount she was paying to live with several people in a shared house. LA's abc7 reported in May that these vans don't have bathrooms, with many opting to use gyms instead. One vanlord, Greg William, told abc7 in May that he makes between $2,000 and $8,000 a month renting out 15 RVs. LA Councilwoman Traci Park told KCAL News in May she hoped to update regulations pertaining to RV rentals.

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☆ Meet the newest employee at Elon Musk's SpaceX. He's 14.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

SpaceX has hired a young prodigy to join its Starlink division as a software engineer. The latest recruit at SpaceX is a software engineer who passed its "technically challenging" and "fun" interview process. He's planning to make the move from Pleasanton, California with his mother to start work at SpaceX in Redmond, Washington, per the report. "I felt like I was learning at the level that I was meant to learn," he told the LA Times. Starlink is SpaceX's satellite internet service and started operating in January in Nigeria – its first African market.

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☆ Airport blunder leads to Frontier Airlines passenger being flown to a foreign country 900 miles away with no passport
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Bethany Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Beverly Ellis-Hebard told ABC7 news that she was directed to the wrong plane and didn't have a passport with her. In the confusion, Ellis-Hebard had also cut her hand when she loaded her hand luggage, she told ABC7 News. Ellis-Hebard told ABC7, "I laughed. The woman at the gate did not do her job," Ellis-Hebard told ABC7. Frontier Airlines told ABC7: "We extend our utmost apologies to Beverly Ellis-Hebard for this unfortunate experience.

☆ A Wells Fargo customer lost $68,000 after being tricked into making a wire transfer by a scammer, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Wells Fargo customer was tricked into sending a scammer $68,000 of his own money. A Wells Fargo customer lost nearly $70,000 after being tricked by a scammer into making a wire transfer, a report says. The scammer told Beardsley he only had to transfer $68,000 to make up for any trouble caused, leaving him with $2,000. Their son, Tod Beardsley, told ABC7 he was upset that Wells Fargo hadn't queried the unusually large transfer before processing it. A representative for Wells Fargo told ABC7: "We conducted a comprehensive investigation of this case, and shared the findings with our customer.

San Francisco police arrested Nima Momeni on Thursday and charged him in the murder of Bob Lee. San Francisco police arrested a tech consultant named Nima Momeni on Thursday on a murder charge in the fatal stabbing of Cash App creator Bob Lee. Friends and acquaintances 'can't imagine it'Alex Pourshayegan, who has known Momeni since he was a teenager working in Pourshayegan's window and glass store, told Insider Momeni is a "very likeable kind of guy." Two people who hired Momeni as an IT vendor told Insider that he was competent, professional and unassuming. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said her office is planning to file a motion to detain the suspect without bail.

☆ A man who may have known Cash App creator Bob Lee has been arrested in connection to the fatal stabbing, per reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The San Francisco Police Department arrested a man in its investigation into Bob Lee's death, per ABC7 News and Mission Local. The man appears to have known the Cash App creator, both publications reported. Lee was fatally stabbed on April 4 in downtown San Francisco. Matt Dorsey, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors confirmed the report on Twitter. Lee's former wife, Krista Lee, told KTVU Fox 2 that she believes the man who was arrested was an acquaintance of Lee's.

☆ Fact Check-No evidence video shows electric buses bursting into flames
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A video showing buses that caught fire after a nearby pallet yard ignited in Compton, California in 2021 is circulating with claims suggesting the clip shows electric buses, but Reuters found no evidence that the buses were electric and a spokesperson for the Compton Fire Department said they were diesel vehicles. Part of the superimposed text in the video reads: "Electric bus sets on fire”. Reuters found no media reports describing the buses affected by the fire as electric vehicles. A trade publication, Outlet Bus & Motorcoach News, reported that the bus yard that caught fire was operated by company TLC Luxury Transportation (here). Reuters found no evidence that the buses that caught fire in this clip were electric vehicles.

☆ San Francisco's homicide rate is low compared to other big cities, but the killing of tech founder Bob Lee shows that doesn't tell the whole story
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Paayal Zaveri | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The tragic killing of tech founder Bob Lee has reignited the debate over crime in San Francisco. Those stats compare relatively favorably to other big cities in the US, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, citing FBI data. Meanwhile, the homicide rate in San Francisco was 5 per 100,000 in 2020, the FBI's crime data shows, as analyzed by the San Francisco Chronicle. It's also lower than other cities of comparable sizes to San Francisco, including Columbus, Ohio. Additionally, the San Francisco Police Department must conclude its investigation before the DA's office can step in, Randy Quezada, communications director at the San Francisco District Attorney's office, told Insider's Grace Kay and Sindhu Sundar.

☆ Highland Park students walked out to demand gun control. Minutes later, the high school went on lockdown.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Highland Park students planned a walkout for gun control that was interrupted by concerns a student brought a gun. According to an update from Highland Park Police, the scene was declared safe later that morning. The scene has been secured and law enforcement has confirmed that there is no credible reason to continue the lockdown at Highland Park High School," the update read. Highland Park Police and Highland Park High School did not respond to Insider's request for further comment. Seven people were killed and dozens injured during the Highland Park mass shooting last year.

☆ Fact Check-Years-old video of school bus driver collapsing falsely linked to the COVID vaccine
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

(Warning: links featured in this article contain distressing content)A video showing a school bus driver passing out and prompting a student to get behind the wheel dates to 2012 and is therefore not connected to COVID-19 vaccines, contrary to online claims. The surveillance video predates the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines by more than 8 years, however (here). On April 12, 2012, NBC News affiliate reported that the driver, identified as Ryan Callis, had died (here). Reuters has previously debunked videos shared on social media showing people fainting that are unrelated to the COVID-19 vaccine and misrepresented online (here), (here), (here), (here). This video dates to 2012 and is not related to the COVID-19 vaccine.

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