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Yahoo
2 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
‘It was heartbreaking': Community reacts to plea deal reached in 2017 killing of attorney Marcos Vargas
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — One step closer to justice for Marcos Vargas, the Kern County up-and-coming attorney who was brutally killed in 2017. His death forever left a mark on the legal community in Bakersfield. Tuesday a plea deal was reached in court for the killer, Nicholas Quintana, who now facing decades behind bars. Seven years and a mistrial later, Quintana is looking at 24 years in prison for several crimes. Ex-Kern deputy convicted of sex crimes 'It was heartbreaking, I was heartbroken when I heard the news,' said Attorney David A. Torres, former colleague of Bakersfield Attorney Marcos Vargas. The tragic stabbing death of Vargas left a hole in many hearts since 2017. The attorney was stabbed so deep he was almost decapitated, his killer accepted a plea deal on Tuesday. 'After our sessions were over Marcos would stay behind and speak to the people,' said Torres, 'He had such a great, charismatic personality that people would stay behind and just ball up around him, he would draw crowds.' Quintana, 26, pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter. During trial in 2021, Prosecutor Eric Smith said Quintana planned to rob and attack Vargas after meeting him on a dating app. Quintana testified he stabbed Vargas in self-defense trying to escape from his apartment. Never miss a story: Make your homepage He said the attorney had invited him over then refused to let him leave. Vargas died at the scene. He worked at Greater Bakersfield Legal Assistance at the time of his death. 'When he died we lost that significant leader, that could've been,' said Torres. 'We are never going to close the book on Marcos, because Marcos is somebody that we clearly remember and want to remember for everything that he did for us in that brief period of time.' Quintana's sentencing is scheduled for July 24. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Brewers send Quintana to IL with should impingement
When the Milwaukee Brewers signed veteran left-handed starter Jose Quintana in March, the hope was he would serve as a steadying presence in the back end of the rotation. Turns out, he had been much more through the first six weeks of the season. Quintana, 36, in his 14th year of Major League Baseball had as good a start to the season as ever. He took a few weeks of extra time to warm up, so to speak, staying with the Brewers' Arizona Complex League team until Tax Day. When he arrived in Milwaukee, he was great, especially considering his age. Advertisement Quintana carried a 2.65 earned-run average alongside a 1.235 WHIP through six starts with the Brewers. That steadying presence proving even more necessary considering all the injuries Milwaukee had been dealt. Now, Quintana is out, too. Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Jose Quintana against the Chicago Cubs in May Sieu-Imagn Images The Brewers placed the Colombia native on the injured list Wednesday left should impingement. They recalled right-hander Tobias Myers to take his place. Myers himself began the year on the injured list before struggling upon return and being quickly sent down. Quintana became the sixth Brewers starting pitcher to hit the IL since spring training began. Projected No. 2 Brandon Woodruff still hasn't made his debut. Veteran Aaron Civale made one start before hitting the shelf and newcomer Nestor Cortes made two. Myers missed time because of an oblique injury. And Aaron Ashby and DL Hall because of an oblique injury and a lat injury. Advertisement Milwaukee entered Wednesday with a record of 20-23, five games back of the National League Central leading Chicago Cubs. Related: Braves Superstar Homers in First Rehab Game, Nears Return Related: Cleveland Guardians Lose Ace to Injured List
The Age
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
These diaries of Joan Didion should never have been published
DIARIES Notes to John Joan Didion 4th Estate, $34.99 Joan Didion, one of America's sharpest critics on its many myths, had precision in her prose and acuity in her observations. Over a 50-year career, the writer would leverage deep reporting and a declarative style to unmask many of her country's false ideas about itself. Now joining this long output – bookended by essays of detached distance and memoirs of disarming honesty – is a series of journal entries she wrote for her husband, John Gregory Dunne. Notes to John is a crude, even aberrant, addition to Didion's published writings, one made at a time of devastating personal crisis. These unnumbered pages (150 in total) were discovered in a personal filing cabinet and summarise therapy sessions she had for more than two years. Starting in 1999, Didion began seeing a psychiatrist at the insistence of her daughter, Quintana, who believed her mother was suffering from depression. Melancholia and anxiety had indeed engulfed Didion, owed largely to Quintana's own worsening alcohol problems and deteriorating mental health. (Quintana died in 2005 aged 39.) The notes show how Didion starts out, like many new to therapy, evasive with 'no concept … of direct conversation'. Over the many months, however, the sessions encourage her to tease out the corrosive issues afflicting her relationships, including the 'two-ness' of parents Didion and Dunne and their over-involvement in Quintana's life. Verbatim quotes from the therapist (sometimes edifying in their own right) are interspersed with frank testimony covering Didion's daily despair. In one session, she starts crying for no obvious reason, with the psychiatrist wondering whether these emotions stem from her being 'afraid [she] couldn't protect' Quintana. Gone is the enigmatic image of writer Joan Didion as she confronts truths of infantilising Quintana long into adulthood and wonders whether her daughter will simply spend a large inheritance from her parents. Nightmares haunt Didion frequently, too, such as one where she sits watching Quintana get inebriated in a windowsill and is simply unable to help. 'She couldn't see me watching her,' she says.
Sydney Morning Herald
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
These diaries of Joan Didion should never have been published
DIARIES Notes to John Joan Didion 4th Estate, $34.99 Joan Didion, one of America's sharpest critics on its many myths, had precision in her prose and acuity in her observations. Over a 50-year career, the writer would leverage deep reporting and a declarative style to unmask many of her country's false ideas about itself. Now joining this long output – bookended by essays of detached distance and memoirs of disarming honesty – is a series of journal entries she wrote for her husband, John Gregory Dunne. Notes to John is a crude, even aberrant, addition to Didion's published writings, one made at a time of devastating personal crisis. These unnumbered pages (150 in total) were discovered in a personal filing cabinet and summarise therapy sessions she had for more than two years. Starting in 1999, Didion began seeing a psychiatrist at the insistence of her daughter, Quintana, who believed her mother was suffering from depression. Melancholia and anxiety had indeed engulfed Didion, owed largely to Quintana's own worsening alcohol problems and deteriorating mental health. (Quintana died in 2005 aged 39.) The notes show how Didion starts out, like many new to therapy, evasive with 'no concept … of direct conversation'. Over the many months, however, the sessions encourage her to tease out the corrosive issues afflicting her relationships, including the 'two-ness' of parents Didion and Dunne and their over-involvement in Quintana's life. Verbatim quotes from the therapist (sometimes edifying in their own right) are interspersed with frank testimony covering Didion's daily despair. In one session, she starts crying for no obvious reason, with the psychiatrist wondering whether these emotions stem from her being 'afraid [she] couldn't protect' Quintana. Gone is the enigmatic image of writer Joan Didion as she confronts truths of infantilising Quintana long into adulthood and wonders whether her daughter will simply spend a large inheritance from her parents. Nightmares haunt Didion frequently, too, such as one where she sits watching Quintana get inebriated in a windowsill and is simply unable to help. 'She couldn't see me watching her,' she says.
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Yahoo
Officer's family speaks out, National Guard in Albuquerque, Less precipitation, Tariff lawsuit, Los Alamos labs math partnership
$70K in funding for global Festival Flamenco event cut by federal government Man convicted of sexually abusing 11 year old in Bernalillo County VIDEO: Man throws small dog at Albuquerque officer during arrest Student accused of bringing gun to Albuquerque school will not be held New Mexico United to host ALS night, jersey sales to benefit charity WATCH: Law enforcement questions NMSP officer accused of DWI Black smoke: No decision after Cardinals hold morning votes on new pope [1] Family of APD officer killed in hit and run months ago still searching for answers – The family of an Albuquerque police officer killed in a hit and run is continuing to plead for anyone with information about her death to come forward. Officer Bianca Quintana was leaving a family member's house after an argument. She was walking near Coors and Chapulin just after midnight when police say she was hit and killed by a driver. Nine months later, Quintana's family is still looking for answers. They are pleading for anyone who knows anything to come forward. [2] Police outline National Guard's role in east Central operation – New Mexico's National Guard will soon be working with Albuquerque police. Guard members are training for what's being called 'Operation Zia Shield.' APD says the guard will do work similar to what Police Service Aid's do, like helping secure crime scenes and direct traffic. They will also use drones and help tag evidence. Full deployment is expected by the end of the month. APD Chief Harold Medina says the department is hoping the operation will lead to a drop in crime by October. [3] Less rain/snow, warmer temperatures and breezier weather – Slightly-less daytime thunderstorms will form today, but locally some heavy rainfall is possible with some lightning strikes, small hail, and erratic wind gusts. Temperatures will be once again higher today, reaching the upper 40s to the 60s for most northern areas, closer to normal for this time of the year, while it will range from the 60s to the low 80s elsewhere, slightly below normal. [4] NM Attorney General and ten other states file preliminary injunction to halt tariffs – New Mexico's Attorney General and ten other state AG's are taking new action to block the Trump Administration's tariffs. A lawsuit filed by the 11 states in April argues that congress alone has the authority to implement tariffs and that emergency powers used by the President to implement tariffs were used incorrectly. Wednesday, they filed preliminary injunction seeking a court order to pause the tariffs immediately while litigation continues. [5] Los Alamos National Lab and NM schools work to make math fun for students – A unique partnership between Los Alamos National Laboratory and northern New Mexico elementary schools is turning the subject of math into something fun. Through the Math Teacher Leader Network partnership, Blanco Elementary School said they have seen a remarkable shift in how math is taught and how students feel about the subject. The lab's Math Science Academy team works directly with the schools, their teachers, and leaders to help teachers better teach math. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
