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50+ min ago (1286+ words) The Chicago Bears celebrated their Black Friday win over the Philadelphia Eagles as if they'd won the Super Bowl. Players celebrated wildly and coach Ben Johnson danced shirtless in the postgame locker room, his team having ascended to the top-seeded position in the NFC. Hard to fault the Bears, given they're 9-3 and better than anyone expected. And it's not like their celebration was as brazen as 1985, when Chicago celebrated the impending arrival of the Lombardi Trophy six weeks before Super Bowl XX was actually played in the Louisiana Superdome when they released the iconic video "The Super Bowl Shuffle." Those Bears beat the New England Patriots 46-10 with a team most everyone considers to be among the top single-season teams in NFL history. And here come the Patriots, who have been a big surprise themselves as the top seed in the…...

1+ hour, 2+ min ago (404+ words) A holiday tradition is underway in Contra Costa County, with tens of thousands of people heading to the city of Brentwood to check out the annual display of Christmas lights known as the Tunnels of Joy. Pete Suratos reports. As night falls in Brentwood, the Christmas lights shine brightly throughout the deer ridge community. For the past nine years this annual display of lights, known as the Tunnels of Joy, has continued to bring holiday cheer to tens of thousands of people every year. "I believe it's really magical. It's like the first time I've experienced something like a Hallmark movie or something like that," said Tara Borozzi of Brentwood. But organizers say the Tunnels of Joy is more than just getting people into the Christmas spirit. This holiday season, the month-long event is also dedicated to helping a pediatric…...

1+ hour, 10+ min ago (831+ words) Fairfield Mayor Cathrine Moy may face a Quo Warranto challenge for allegedly living outside Fairfield city limits. Moy has repeatedly claimed that she lives in Fairfield with family and has dismissed the concerns as a "political attack" from California Forever, which she has long opposed. "That gave me a lot of concern," Williams said of the article. "According to the law we need to live in the City of Fairfield. "I feel like we need to preserve trust and confidence in the government and explore this to see if this is true and if we don't, any one of us who has read this, I feel like we are complicit." Quo Warranto, Latin for "by what authority," outlined in the California Code of Civil Procedure Sections 803-811, is intended to ensure that those who seek public office are abiding by the…...

1+ hour, 11+ min ago (400+ words) Marin County and other jurisdictions in California have reached a settlement of more than $1 million with Panda Express in a lawsuit alleging violations of health-and-safety laws. The case involved the carbon dioxide containers the fast-food chain uses for its carbonated fountain beverage systems. The prosecution alleged that the company failed to train its employees to handle the carbon dioxide properly. Prosecutors in Riverside County led the lawsuit and filed it there. The county has about 30 Panda Express restaurants. Panda Express failed to do so, the prosecution alleged. It also alleged the company failed "to accurately and completely disclose employee training information as required by California laws designed to ensure the safety of first responders, employees and customers." "This settlement was reached after Panda Express took steps to come into compliance with California law by properly training Panda Express employees and…...

1+ hour, 15+ min ago (729+ words) After voters backed a redraw of California's congressional maps, Republican U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa faces what could be the most competitive race in his more than two decades in Congress " if he stays in San Diego County. With a real challenge from Democrats on his hands, Issa has considered leaving to run for a congressional seat in Texas, where Republican redistricting has created newly competitive seats ahead of next year's midterm elections. "I have to go where I can be of the most use," he told a Dallas-area radio show on Wednesday. He added that he was meeting with President Donald Trump later in the day. "The decision to come to Texas is going to be a combination of the president's leadership and a willingness to take two chances," he said. "Right now we are a united party under a great…...

1+ hour, 20+ min ago (399+ words) PITTSBURG " The Pittsburg City Council unanimously appointed Vice Mayor Dionne Adams on Monday as the city's new mayor, handing the gavel to a councilmember who has served on the dais since 2022. Councilmember Angelica Lopez was also unanimously selected to serve as vice mayor. Adams said she was "deeply humbled and profoundly grateful" to be given the opportunity to serve as the mayor in the city she grew up in. "Pittsburg is my home. It's the community that shaped me, that raised me, that prayed for me, and taught me the value of service. I am standing here as a daughter of this city, a child who was raised by its schools, its neighborhoods, its churches, and its people," said Adams. "Tonight is not simply a moment of ceremony for me, it's a homecoming." Adams said her goal as the next…...

1+ hour, 21+ min ago (168+ words) A son apparently stabbed his father to death with scissors in Lake Balboa on Wednesday morning, Dec. 3, then was fatally shot by Los Angeles police, authorities said. Around 8:10 a.m. officers responded to a home in the 17200 block of Valerio Street for a report of a man experiencing a mental-health crisis who had previously been violent toward family members, police said. When officers arrived, they heard a fight inside the residence. They forced entry and found the adult son assaulting his father. An officer-involved shooting occurred, and the son was struck by gunfire and taken into custody, police said. Officers provided aid to the suspect and the victim, who was suffering from apparent stab wounds. Paramedics pronounced both the father, believed to be 62-years-old, and the 40-year-old son dead at the scene, Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman Lyndsey Lantz said. A pair…...

1+ hour, 24+ min ago (436+ words) A 58-year-old Buena Park man was charged with felony animal cruelty and accused of killing a pregnant dog while he was on probation after previously attacking a coworker with a metal pipe, Orange County prosecutors announced Wednesday, Dec. 3. The Orange County District Attorney's Office accused the man of wrapping the dog's neck with rope attached to an SUV and driving until the animal's neck snapped. "There is a special place in hell for people who abuse animals," said Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer in a statement. "This was not an act of rage. This was a clear plan to kill a defenseless animal, and when he executed his plan, he drove off, leaving the animal's body in the alley for someone else to discover the horror of what he had done." Surveillance footage around 7:30 a.m. on Dec. 1 showed the man…...

1+ hour, 47+ min ago (457+ words) A Manhattan judge has ordered OpenAI to provide the Daily News and other news outlets with millions of anonymous chats between ChatGPT and its users in a major ongoing copyright infringement case. In a nine-page order made public Wednesday, Manhattan Magistrate Judge Ona Wang denied OpenAI's request to reconsider her November ruling requiring the tech giant to hand over 20 million ChatGPT output logs to the media outlets. RELATED:OpenAI looks at South Bay tech campus for Silicon Valley expansion The newspapers want to analyze a sample of ChatGPT's consumer logs to test its language-learning model to see whether and how it's propagating journalists' work. A spokesperson for OpenAI pointed to a blog post by company executive Dane Stuckey after Wang's original order on the matter. "We will continue to explore every option available to protect our users' privacy," the statement…...

1+ hour, 49+ min ago (389+ words) The girlfriend of recording artist Poorstacy was arrested at the same Florida hotel where the couple and their toddler were staying when the 26-year-old rapper reportedly died by suicide over the weekend. Boca Raton authorities confirmed to the Daily News that Nicole Grikstas was taken into custody on Saturday, hours after Poorstacy is believed to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She's been charged with child neglect without causing great bodily harm, according to online records from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. Grikstas and the child she shares with the rapper'had been staying at the Boca Raton Quality Inn where the "Party at the Cemetery" performer is said to have taken his own life early Saturday morning. Grikstas reportedly told police that she, Poorstacy and their toddler checked into the hotel about a week before his death, sources…...