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New York Post
28-05-2025
- New York Post
Haunting photo of missing teen Pearl Pinson, who was snatched off the street 9 years ago and never seen again
Police have plenty of clues to what happened to northern California teen Pearl Pinson, who was kidnapped at gunpoint nine years ago while walking to school. They have a dead suspect, a getaway car, the gun and zip ties used to kidnap the 15-year-old — and even a fake 'suicide letter' meant to hide the circumstances of her death. The only thing they don't have is any idea where Pinson is, or what really happened to her. 4 Pearl Pinson was 15 when she was abducted in Vallejo, California, on May 25, 2016. Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office Advertisement The mystery still tortures Pinson's loved ones, who gathered for a candlelight vigil Sunday night at the last place she was seen in 2016 in her Bay Area hometown of Vallejo. 'It gets worse every year,' her father, James Pinson told the Post-Herald last year. One photo of Pinson that has been widely circulated by her loved ones features the teen staring directly at the camera with one piercing blue eye, the other covered by her dark locks. Advertisement It is a haunting reminder that her family has never learned her fate. The missing persons alert for Pinson has stayed open since witnesses saw a man grab her on a pedestrian overpass, hold her at gunpoint with a .38-caliber revolver and drag her away as she screamed for help on May 25, 2016. 4 This undated photo provided by the California Highway Patrol shows Fernando Castro, suspected of kidnapping Pinson. AP Surveillance footage caught a gold Saturn belonging to 19-year-old Fernando Castro leaving the scene, and cops found .38-caliber ammo, zip ties, a homemade gun silencer and a fake 'suicide note' in Castro's house, according to the Daily Republic. Advertisement Police spotted Castro himself 30 hours later in Santa Barbara County — a six-hour drive from Vallejo. Castro led cops on a white-knuckle chase that involved multiple shootouts that finally ended when officers shot him dead as he tried to ram them with his car, according to a report by the Santa Barbara County district attorney's office. 4 Pearl Pinson, who would be 24 years old today. Pearl Pinson 'Sadly, he may have taken the secret of what happened to Pearl with him to his grave,' the sheriff of Solano County, which includes Vallejo, wrote on Facebook Sunday. The post came with a reminder that Pinson's case is still open and a call for information that could help authorities locate her. Advertisement Pinson's family returns to the scene of her kidnapping every year to honor the lost girl, who is 24 now. They are also pushing for the pedestrian bridge to be named after her. 4 The gold Saturn is suspected to have been driven by Pinson's kidnapper. But the family has long given up hope that she might be found alive. 'One day I said to myself, 'I may never see her again.' Reality hit,' Pearl's sister Rose told the Post-Herald in 2023. 'Even though there are cases open for 20 plus years and they have people hidden in sheds. … But my sister is not here because she was shot and I believe killed here because of a (expletive) who would rather take a girl instead of getting the mental help he needed or whatever he was going through,' she told the outlet.
USA Today
23-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Former Nets F Theo Pinson talks potential Giannis Antetokounmpo trade
Former Nets F Theo Pinson talks potential Giannis Antetokounmpo trade The Brooklyn Nets are looking forward to the 2025 NBA Draft in June where they will have five total picks to use for whatever they choose, including bringing in more young talent. While Brooklyn is in the early stages of a rebuild that will see them bring in plenty of players, there is a chance that the rumors connecting the Nets to a certain superstar have some validity. "Brooklyn, I heard, is a real, real thing. You gotta really think about Brooklyn's track record. Now, they did put one hell of a (expletive) team together, right? (Nets general manager) Sean marks knows how to go get the (expletive) done," Theo Pinson said on the "To The Baha" podcast while discussing Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo. Pinson spent the first two years of his career in Brooklyn and has kept up with what the franchise has done even after his departure. "Like I said, Ray, we played in New York. Ain't much like it," Pinson continued while speaking to former New York Knicks guard Raymond Felton. "It's a unbelievable place to live. You want to experience it. He's (Antetokounmpo) going to make a ton of money if he goes to the market in New York." Antetokounmpo could potentially leave the Bucks this summer via trade if the organization is willing to grant that request should matters between him and the team come to that. NBA insider Chris Haynes reported earlier this week that Antetokounmpo is expected to meet with Milwaukee ownership to discuss what the future will look like for a franchise that hasn't made out of the first round since the 2021-22 season. There have been various reports this offseason suggesting that Antetokounmpo would be willing to leave the Bucks if he were heading to a bigger market, such as New York City, for example. If what Pinson is saying is true, Antetokounmpo could be in a Nets jersey next season if he decides that he wants a change of scenery, something that the Nets are reportedly hoping for.
Yahoo
21-03-2025
- Yahoo
From London to Las Vegas, passengers left stranded as fire shuts down U.K.'s Heathrow Airport
LONDON — From Las Vegas to Frankfurt to Dubai, hundreds of thousands of stranded passengers waited for news about flights to and from London's Heathrow Airport after it was closed by a massive fire at a nearby electricity substation. As firefighters tackled the blaze that took down Europe's busiest transport hub, flights came to a standstill, sending a wrecking ball through the delicate logistics underpinning global tourism and business travel. In the hotels around Heathrow, thwarted travelers reported skyrocketing prices as they scrambled for a place to spend the night. In Dubai, Sara Mehta told NBC's international partner Sky News that customers of Heathrow-headquartered British Airways are 'extremely angry and upset.' In the Chinese city of Guangzhou, Charlotte Johnston told Sky News that she has been stuck in a layover at the airport for hours with only carry-on luggage, and that she was already out of clothes and toiletries. Chez Khan, a client services director from London who was left stranded in Las Vegas, said Friday that the biggest impact on him was missing his children. 'That I was away from home for a week was already a challenge,' he 47, said that his airline carrier, Virgin Atlantic, directed him and another group of passengers to a Holiday Inn near the airport, but when they arrived staff told them that no one had contacted them and that they had no rooms available. 'We were then sent back to the airport, and no staff were available to help,' he said, adding, 'So we were literally left stranded in Vegas.' Eventually, he found other accommodation through work, he said. Becky Davies, 41, said she was also left stranded in "Sin City" after celebrating her 20th anniversary with her husband. She said they were supposed to fly back overnight Thursday. 'It was a special trip for us. It's just a shame it's all gone so wrong at the end,' said Davies, 41, adding that their four children were waiting for their return. 'My youngest is only 8, so she was so excited to see us come home,' Davies said. In Switzerland, Taylor Collier-Brown said she was stranded in Geneva with her field hockey team after a skiing trip in the French Alps. 'Eleven hockey girls with a match tomorrow can't make it back — the whole team is in Geneva,' she said. While they were trying to back to London, Kazumi Nakamura and her 13-year-old daughter, Mana, were looking to leave and head home to Vancouver. While she was hoping to get new flights with Air Canada, Nakamura, 50, was relatively calm as they waited in Paddington Station. She said she wasn't in a rush, 'but we want to go home.' For others like Halleli Pinson, a professor of sociology of education at Israel's Ben Gurion University, the situation was more frustrating. Pinson, 51, was supposed to run two major sessions at an education conference in Chicago over the weekend, but her flight was canceled. 'I'm not only missing my own talk, I'm missing other responsibilities that I have,' Pinson told NBC News today in a telephone call. She added that the earliest her carrier, British Airways, could fly her to Chicago was Monday, but by then it would be too late. Pinson's sister, Shira Pinson, is a multimedia producer for NBC News who lives in London, said she will be able to 'put up or put up with her sister.' But Halleli said she was 'frustrated' with British Airways because they had not made 'any efforts to put me on a different airline or a different flight.' 'I'm supposed to fly business class and I'm willing to fly a lower class — I just want to get to Chicago but they're not willing to change that,' she said. NBC News has approached British Airways for comment. Foluke Oleniwen was a little luckier. She said she arrived in London on a flight from Nigeria right before the airport was shuttered. 'I'm relieved and at the same time I feel empathy for people who were affected because that could have been me or anybody,' added Oleniwen, 40. Los Angeles comedian Adam Conover was determined to make London no matter what. After his flight to Heathrow was diverted midair, he said he would fly to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, where he faced a four-hour layover before flying out to Manchester in northern England. From there he said he would get the train to London. The journey was a testament to how 'hard stand-up comedians work' to make people laugh, he said, adding that after this experience, he was likely to have some fresh material. This article was originally published on
Yahoo
20-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Family-run store to close after nearly six decades
An independent store that has been serving customers in Bristol since 1968 has announced its closure. Marcruss, on Hotwell Road, has sold outdoor gear, camping supplies, workwear and army surplus for almost 60 years. The owners told the BBC they had made the decision to close this summer "with heavy hearts". Co-owner Adam Pinson said they had "clung on through many a recession" and were "in a dreadful mess during Covid, but we managed to get through with help from the government", but then the city's clean-air zone came in "and the people didn't come". Bristol City Council has been approached for comment. Mr Pinson said: "To me it felt like it was people with older vans who perhaps go camping, and they just won't drive through Bristol. "We are on our own here," Mr Pinson added. "There's not a draw for people to pay the clean-air charge to come here, and I think being inside that [zone] has just destroyed us. We're just not getting the people coming in." More news stories for Bristol Watch the latest Points West Listen to the latest news for Bristol Mr Pinson and the other owners of Marcruss say they have been overwhelmed with the response to the closure announcement. Hundreds of messages of support have been left on the store's Facebook page, and the owners said customers had visited to say how sorry they were it was to shut down. Mr Pinson admits it has proved difficult to cope with the public response: "It's been emotional enough, but it is breaking my heart." A closing down sale is now under way, and Mr Pinson says he is feeling a great deal of stress: "There's no plans to reopen. "I love doing what I do, I've been doing this for nearly 30 years. Maybe I will miss it when its gone, but at the moment I will be relieved, with the stress it has been causing me." Follow BBC Bristol on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to us on email or via WhatsApp on 0800 313 4630. Park Street's bus gate roadworks to start in October Beloved department store The Guild to close City's clean air zone raises £26m in first year Bristol City Council
BBC News
20-03-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Family-run store in Bristol to close after nearly 60 years
An independent store that has been serving customers in Bristol since 1968 has announced its on Hotwell Road, has sold outdoor gear, camping supplies, workwear and army surplus for almost 60 owners told the BBC they had made the decision to close this summer "with heavy hearts". Co-owner Adam Pinson said they had "clung on through many a recession" and were "in a dreadful mess during Covid, but we managed to get through with help from the government", but then the city's clean-air zone came in "and the people didn't come". Bristol City Council has been approached for comment. Mr Pinson said: "To me it felt like it was people with older vans who perhaps go camping, and they just won't drive through Bristol."We are on our own here," Mr Pinson added. "There's not a draw for people to pay the clean-air charge to come here, and I think being inside that [zone] has just destroyed us. We're just not getting the people coming in." Mr Pinson and the other owners of Marcruss say they have been overwhelmed with the response to the closure of messages of support have been left on the store's Facebook page, and the owners said customers had visited to say how sorry they were it was to shut Pinson admits it has proved difficult to cope with the public response: "It's been emotional enough, but it is breaking my heart."A closing down sale is now under way, and Mr Pinson says he is feeling a great deal of stress: "There's no plans to reopen. "I love doing what I do, I've been doing this for nearly 30 years. Maybe I will miss it when its gone, but at the moment I will be relieved, with the stress it has been causing me."
