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Five people are dead and three others are injured and in unknown conditions, after a man shot several members of his family before killing himself overnight Friday, police say.
According to a statement from Corsicana police, officers received a 911 call at about midnight Saturday that a man, identified as 41-year-old Kevin Milazzo, killed his family.
Officers arrived a short time later at a home on the 2900 block of W. 2nd Avenue and found Milazzo's mom, Connie Mimms, and her husband, Bill Mimms, dead with apparent gunshot wounds and two others injured. The survivors were taken by air ambulance to an unnamed Dallas hospital.
“They’re just really good people. They didn’t deserve for this to happen to them," said neighbor Kim Felix.
Meanwhile, deputies with the Navarro County Sheriff's Department were sent to a different home, in Frost, where they found 21-year-old Joshua Milazzo, the suspect's son, and a child, identified as 4-year-old Hunter Freeman, who had both been fatally shot. Deputies also found an adult woman with multiple gunshot wounds who was also transported to an unnamed Dallas hospital.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/5-dead-3-injured-in-navarro-county-quadruple-murder-suicide/2880810/
three quarters of recent home buyers expressed some regret
They Rushed to Buy in the Pandemic. Here’s What They Would Change.A frenzied sellers’ market led some people to make harried decisions when buying their homes that they now regret.
Surveys by the WAV Group and Zillow found about three quarters of recent buyers expressed some regret. In the Zillow survey, released on Feb. 4, the findings paint a picture of homeowners second-guessing the choices they made and wishing they’d had more time, more patience or considered living somewhere else. About a third of respondents regret buying a house that needed more work than they anticipated, 31 percent wish the home they bought was bigger and 21 percent thought they overpaid.
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Recent buyers — those who are remorseful and others who are content with their homes — have some sage advice about how they would do it differently if they had to do it all over again.
The farmhouse in Lake Wales, Fla., was picturesque, but Ms. Mohan and Mr. Flynn had to leave it behind. They plan to turn it into an AirBnB.Credit...Todd Anderson for The New York Times
Almost immediately, the couple regretted their decision. The property felt eerily quiet and isolated, and maintaining five acres and two cows was more work than they anticipated. “You see these people on Instagram with their farm life,” Ms. Mohan said. “Nobody tells you what actual hard work that is and how time consuming it is.”
Ms. DiSantis bought a spacious home for $1.45 million, which exceeded her maximum budget. She now feels financially tethered to the home.Credit...Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
The house gave her more space, but at a significant financial cost. In 2021, her priorities shifted, and she suddenly felt the burden of a huge mortgage. “I got super burned out at work,” she said. “I remember thinking, ‘Man, if I was still in that townhouse, I could just quit my job for a year and be fine.’ The mortgage was so low, I could take a year off, I could relax, I could refuel and now I really can’t. ”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/realestate/home-buying-regret.html
Bay Area gym called out for racist, anti-Asian online posts
Island Personal Training, a small Northern California gym chain with locations in Alameda and Redding owned by Jason Wilson, is being called out for a page on its website that promoted massage services and included racist language directed toward Asian Americans.
The gym’s website is currently offline (and their Instagram account also appears to have been made private), but ABC 7 reports the page made special note to promote that the gym’s massage therapists "speak English… kind of rare for the field round these parts," and added that the gym is not like "shady Asian 'massage parlors.'"
Additionally, in a Facebook post on the Redding location’s page last May, Island Personal Training accused nearby massage parlors in the area of operating as "brothels." The post also said unlike other nearby massage parlors, Island Personal Training is “not a dark shady, and/or dirty place that smells like Chinese food.”
The racist posts were first flagged in a Facebook group featuring more than a hundred members, ABC 7 reports, and have since received attention from STOPAAPIHate, a non-profit that tracks incidents of hate and discrimination against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.
https://twitter.com/DionLimTV/status/1489809213698166785
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-gym-criticized-racist-anti-Asian-posts-16834399.php
After Clips Are Posted, Racist Rogan Apologizes for Racial Slurs
Like several other musical artists, India Arie pulled her work from Spotify during an uprising against Joe Rogan's spreading of COVID-19 misinformation. She had another reason, too, which she made clear when she posted a video of clips showing Rogan using the n-word more than 20 times on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. On Saturday, Rogan apologized, CNN reports, calling the issue "the most regretful and shameful thing I've ever had to talk about publicly." His post on Instagram said, "I know that to most people, there's no context where a White person is ever allowed to say that, never mind publicly on a podcast, and I agree with that," per Entertainment Weekly.
"He shouldn't even be uttering the word," Arie said in her post on Instagram. Rogan said he hadn't said it in years; the clips covered a 12-year period. He also said the clips were taken out of context, that he had used the slur in discussions about how it had been used by comedians including Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx, who were Black. "It's not my word to use," Rogan said in his post, adding, "I never used it to be racist, because I'm not racist, but whenever you're in a situation where you have to say 'I'm not racist,' you've f---ed up, and I clearly have f---ed up."
Spotify took down more than 70 episodes of Rogan's podcast on Friday, per the tracking site jremissing.com. The streaming service didn't say why, nor did Rogan. His is Spotify's most popular podcast, per the New York Times. Rogan did say he'd taken down an episode in which he'd talked about seeing the film Planet of the Apes in a Black neighborhood. The line of discussion in that episode "looks terrible even in context," Rogan said. Spotify did not comment on the issue Saturday.
https://www.newser.com/story/316548/after-post-calls-him-out-rogan-apologizes-for-racial-slurs.html
wealthy California suburb declares itself a mountain lion habitat to block affordable housing
The well-heeled Silicon Valley suburb of Woodside has come up with a novel way to block plans that would potentially bring in more affordable housing: Declare itself Cougar Town.
Last week, officials in the enclave of 5,500 people announced that all of Woodside was exempt from a new state housing law that allows for duplex development on single-family home lots. The reason? The entire town is habitat for potentially endangered mountain lions.
Woodside’s decision drew quick scorn as a brazen attempt to evade even minimally denser development in one of California’s most exclusive locales. The bucolic, woodsy town near Stanford University and the heart of Silicon Valley has a median home value of $4.5 million. Among its residents have been the founders of technology giants Intuit, Intel and Symantec as well as Oracle founder Larry Ellison, who reportedly spent $200 million to build a Japanese-style 16th century imperial palace across 23 acres.
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The mountain lion card is not playing well with advocates, who note the jarring irony of enormous mansions inhabited by few juxtaposed against the housing needs of many.
“Right now, you could have five people in a 5,000-square-foot mansion sharing one kitchen and it’s OK,” said Sonja Trauss, executive director of YIMBY Law, a San Francisco group that advocates for local governments to approve more housing. “But once you have two kitchens, it’s suddenly a problem for the mountain lions?
https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2022-02-04/well-heeled-town-affordable-housing-mountain-lions
DEA Imposter 'Tricked' Woman Into Bogus Training Program for entire year
Portland woman was duped into believing she was a DEA agent-in-training for an entire year, walking around with a badge she thought was real, going on fake ride-alongs, and developing “confidential informants” at her phony supervisor’s behest.
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On the evening of Feb. 1, Portland cops detained Golden and the unnamed woman on a street corner not far from the Portland Art Museum, the complaint states. Officers called the DEA’s Portland District Office and told agents that they had two people claiming to be with the DEA. When the agents arrived on-scene, they found Golden and the woman in handcuffs.
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He said he “didn’t want anyone to bother him or [the woman] in or around their apartment complex and felt the fake DEA items provided them protection and that he used the red and blue interior lights in his vehicle to get through traffic faster,” the complaint states. “Golden said he also previously acted as an officer to break up a fight by shouting ‘Police!’” and “held up his arm as if displaying a badge or credentials while he described the encounter.”
During Golden’s interrogation, the unidentified woman was also being questioned by investigators—and she was baffled by the bust.
She told the agents that she “was a DEA agent in training and was also attending school for Criminal Justice,” the complaint explains. “She said she has been in training for approximately one year and was issued a DEA badge and credentials by Golden. [She] said GOLDEN had taken a photograph of her and provided it to other agents for use to make an identification card,” and that Golden has “spoken previously of ‘Agent Anderson,’ ‘Agent Luis,’ ‘Agent Garcia,’ and ‘Ms. Bennett’ from the DEA, and Golden told her that she would soon be training with other agents.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/dea-imposter-tricked-woman-into-bogus-training-program-feds-say/ar-AATujxw
Surveillance video shows beaten 49ers fan as aggressor or instigator
In a previous news conference Thursday, Butts said that, upon review of surveillance footage, investigators determined Luna was mingling with a group of people primarily wearing red 49ers jerseys when he allegedly shoved a man wearing a Rams jersey from behind.
“The suspect then retaliated by pushing Mr. Luna from behind, and then struck (him) once in the mouth area,” Butts said. “Luna then fell to the ground, where he was later found by security personnel who summoned paramedics.”
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2022/02/04/report-suspect-in-custody-in-sofi-stadium-attack-which-left-49ers-fan-in-coma/
Guy suspected of beating football fan into coma identified by car registration
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Suspect-arrested-after-assault-of-49ers-fan-16831528.php. At a Friday morning press conference, Inglewood Mayor James Butts provided an update on the SoFi Stadium altercation that occurred before the 49ers-Rams playoff game and left Oakland restaurant owner Daniel Luna in a medically induced coma.
Butts told reporters that Inglewood police identified a vehicle in security footage and left information with the car's registered owner that they were seeking an individual in connection with an assault.
Inglewood police were later contacted by the owner, who was identified as Bryan Alexis Cifuentes-Rossell, 33, a resident of Los Angeles, Butts said. Cifuentes-Rossell reportedly agreed to meet police at his place of work in Montebello. Cifuentes-Rossell then voluntarily accompanied officers to the Inglewood Police Department and was placed under arrest on suspicion of felony assault, Butts said. He was later released at 1 a.m. on Friday morning on $30,000 bail.
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