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San Francisco Chronicle
a day ago
- San Francisco Chronicle
14-year-old girl dies after Novato solo crash
A 14-year-old girl died after she and a 15-year-old boy were hospitalized Wednesday following a high-speed Novato crash, authorities said Friday. Novato police said Cristofer Larreinaga Corea, 18, was driving a white Ford Edge SUV with the two teens before he crashed around 3 a.m. Wednesday on Ignacio Boulevard, between Palmer Drive and Entrada Drive. Corea fled the scene, leaving behind the two passengers, who were seriously injured at the time, police said. The 15-year-old boy injured in the collision was treated for moderate injuries and later released from the hospital. Authorities had not released the girl's identity as of Friday afternoon. Novato Police announced that Corea was arraigned Friday in Marin County Superior Court for child endangerment, reckless driving and hit-and-run collision. Corea's bail was raised to $500,000. In a social media post, Novato police said 'We want to express our deepest condolences to the family and friends of the 14-year-old girl who lost her life in yesterday's traffic collision. This is a heartbreaking loss for her loved ones and our entire community. Our thoughts are with all who are grieving during this difficult time.'
San Francisco Chronicle
2 days ago
- San Francisco Chronicle
Police arrest 18-year-old after Novato crash injures two teens, one critically
Police arrested an 18-year-old San Rafael man Wednesday in connection with a high-speed crash that left two teenagers injured in Novato earlier that morning. Police said Cristofer Larreinaga Corea was driving a white Ford Edge SUV that crashed around 3 a.m. on Ignacio Boulevard, between Palmer Drive and Entrada Drive. According to Novato police, Corea fled the scene on foot, leaving behind a 14-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy. Both were seriously injured, and the girl remains in critical condition at a regional trauma center. Authorities issued an arrest warrant for Corea on charges of child endangerment and hit-and-run causing injury, with bail set at $100,000. Detectives later allegedly located him traveling in another vehicle near Nave Drive and Bolling Drive. He was taken into custody and transported to a hospital for injuries he had sustained in the crash. Following his medical release, Corea was booked into Marin County Jail. Police say he may face additional charges depending on the medical outcomes of the two teen passengers. The collision, which left the SUV damaged and resting in the eastbound lanes of Ignacio Boulevard, prompted a large emergency response, including a drone search by the Marin County Sheriff's Office. Police say the SUV had been traveling westbound when it struck a tree in the center median.
Calgary Herald
2 days ago
- Business
- Calgary Herald
Parker: Calgary realtor Sam Corea awarded highest honour in Re/Max global network
Article content Some Calgarians recognize Sam Corea as the smiling face on a billboard, thousands know him as the energetic realtor who sold their house for them or helped buy a new one, but Re/Max recently recognized Corea with the highest career honour in its global network. Article content Corea is the first Calgarian to receive the Paramount of Excellence Award, and one of only 17 Canadians since the award was created. Article content Article content The award caps a more than 30-year career defined by industry leadership, community involvement and consistent national and global success. It represents a huge appreciation for the Calgary realtor, but it's not the first — in 2010 he was ranked the No. 1 Re/Max agent in Canada, and ranked No. 2 in the world that same year. Article content Article content It is a big 'well done,' considering the company has 147,000 agents working out of 6,800 offices in almost 100 countries worldwide. Article content In 2016, Corea was awarded its Luminary of Distinction. To qualify, an agent must have earned $20 million in individual commissions over a career of at least 20 years with the network. It is a remarkable achievement, as housing prices were far less than they are today, and did not compare with houses in the Toronto and Vancouver markets. Corea's newest award reflects his current status with the company — $30 million in personal sales in over 30 years with the company. Article content Article content Re/Max was founded in Denver in 1973 and opened its first international office in Calgary in 1977. Four years later it had 30 franchise offices across Canada. Article content Corea was born into an Italian immigrant family in which he says the culture was to work. He was able to buy a home by the time he was 21, and the residential agent persuaded the young man with lots of hustle to join him selling real estate. Corea worked hard, learned a lot, and seven years later had the confidence start his own company. Article content One of the things he learned was the importance of quality and effective marketing. From the outset, he advertised heavily in newspapers, has been a regular advertiser with — and written articles for — Business in Calgary magazine, uses direct mail and social media. But he also spends a lot of time with his clients, keeping them informed, and through the years has been able to do repeat business — he is proud to serve generations of the same families.
CBS News
15-02-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Jazz bass giant Stanley Clarke brings band to Yoshi's in Oakland
Legendary jazz bass player Stanley Clarke returns to Yoshi's for a three-night run with his latest band starting Friday night. One of the most prodigiously talented bassists to emerge during the '70s, Clarke was born and raised in Philadelphia, moving to New York after graduating from the Philadelphia Musical Academy. He would play with an array of established jazz greats including Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Dave Brubeck, Joe Henderson, Pharoah Sanders and Stan Getz. It was working with Getz that put Clarke in contact with keyboard player Chick Corea, who would become one of his major collaborators. While widely recognized as a gifted young bass player, Clarke would rise to star status as part of Corea's band Return to Forever. Initially playing a Latin-influenced style of mostly acoustic jazz (save for Corea's Fender Rhodes electric piano), the group would go full fusion on the 1973 album Hymn to the Seventh Galaxy. Broadening the vocabulary of the electric bass with his groundbreaking slap-and-pop technique that expanded on the style borrowed from Sly and the Family Stone innovator Larry Graham, Clarke rose to become of the jazz world's preeminent virtuosos on the instrument. The group would reach greater heights after the 19-year-old six-string phenom Al DiMeola replaced departing guitarist Bill Connor for a run of best-selling, influential fusion albums starting with Where Have I Known You Before in 1974. Clarke would stay busy through the '70s between his successful solo career -- his albums Journey to Love and School Days remain jazz-funk landmarks -- and extensive collaborations with players like guitar hero Jeff Beck and keyboardist George Duke. Clarke would later find another creative outlet as a respected soundtrack composer (including such hit movies as Boyz N The Hood, the Tina Turner biopic What's Love Got To Do With It, Romeo Must Die and The Transporter, but he has remained active as both a recording artist and touring musician, branching out by playing on two Paul McCartney albums in the early '80s and teaming with Police drummer Steward Copeland in the rock band Animal Logic. More recently, Clarke participated in the Return to Forever reunion that produced several live recordings and led a jazz power trio featuring Japanese pianist Hiromi and his RTF bandmate Lenny White on drums. While the Yoshi's website doesn't provide details on the current band he's touring with, Clarke's latest ensemble N 4EVER with drummer Jeremiah Collier, guitarist Colin Cook, pianist Beka Gochiashvili and saxophonist Emilio Modeste has explored a mix of Return to Forever songs and Clarke originals.
Chicago Tribune
31-01-2025
- Chicago Tribune
After fleeing violence in Guatemala, their child was killed in a U.S. School
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Josselin Corea Escalante was 9 when she and her mother and younger brother left Guatemala to seek asylum in the United States, believing it would offer them safety. They ended up in Tennessee, where Josselin — whose family calls her Dallana, her middle name — celebrated turning 15 in 2023 with a spring quinceañera in a Nashville ballroom. But last week, another student shot and killed Josselin, 16, in her high school cafeteria. Now her family, still waiting for an asylum decision, is questioning whether it is worth staying. The main reason they made the harrowing trip to the United States — on foot, nearly two months — was fear that Josselin and her brother would be kidnapped or killed by gangs in Guatemala. 'We had a dream for a better life,' her father, German Corea, said in Spanish this week. 'But the reality is that it's not better anywhere. In Guatemala, you've never heard of someone killing someone in school.' He and his wife have already made one wrenching decision: to send Josselin's body back to Guatemala for burial, a way to guarantee that they will be reunited if they decide — or are forced — to leave the United States. Corea came to the country before his wife and children and is not part of the asylum case, so he is at more risk of being deported. 'This is the country that took her away from me,' Corea said. 'And if one day we go back to our country, she'll be there with us.' Josselin had been thriving in Nashville, where she loved to sing and play soccer. She had once turned down a three-day trip to make sure she did not miss school. She wanted to become a doctor, her uncle, Carlos Corea, said: 'A doctor saves lives, and this was not fair to her.' On Jan. 22, a student who the police said had espoused hateful rhetoric online brought a pistol to Antioch High School in South Nashville. He opened fire, killing Josselin and injuring another student before shooting himself. The police have not said whether the shooter was targeting Josselin. A month into 2025, there have been at least 15 shootings on or near a school campus, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database. The loss of Josselin, who frequently translated for her family, has driven some of them to speak out. 'I am not scared. I'm telling the truth. I'm telling people how I feel,' Carlos Corea said in Spanish. That is why he and another of Josselin's uncles, Juan Corea, found themselves on the steps of the Tennessee state Capitol on Monday, surrounded by a crowd of Democratic lawmakers, students and gun control activists. As they left the nearby church where they held a funeral service for Josselin, they saw people gathered with pictures of their niece and understood what was going on. 'We never thought that we'd be in this position, but we wanted to give people our message,' Carlos Corea said later. The two men carried pictures of Josselin, in her quinceañera tiara and a glittering red gown. There have been protests for gun control in Nashville before, most notably in 2023 after three third graders and three staff members were killed at a private Christian school. But with lawmakers arriving to debate the creation of a state immigration czar, the crowd at this protest repeatedly tied together the threat of immigration enforcement with their fears of gun violence. Through a translator, Carlos Corea spoke to the crowd on behalf of his family. As they cheered, he raised a fist in the air. In the silence of the home where they gathered for weekly meals, Josselin's relatives have been unable to rest. Her uncle Juan Corea has been thinking about the dance they shared during her birthday celebration, where he told Josselin he loved her. Her father is contemplating activism in her name. 'We have support, but what I tell all parents that have had their children taken away in schools: Don't let it stay that way,' German Corea said. 'Continue doing what you can so that there is justice for our children. If we remain with our hands tied, this will continue to happen again.' While Antioch High School has reopened, with an additional school resource officer and new metal detectors, Josselin's cousins who attended the school with her are too afraid to return. They will enroll soon at a new school, family members said. On Thursday, Josselin's pink coffin was loaded onto a plane for her journey home to Guatemala. There, her grandparents and aunt were waiting for her. Originally Published:
