Jocelyn Gecker, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Chunli Zhao appears for his arraignment on seven counts of murder at San Mateo Superior Court in Redwood City, Calif., Wednesday.

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Suspect in Half Moon Bay farm killings faces 7 murder counts

by Olga R. Rodriguez Associated Press, and Jocelyn Gecker Associated PressJanuary 25, 2023

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — A farmworker accused of killing seven people in back-to-back shootings at two Northern California mushroom farms was charged Wednesday with seven counts of murder and one of attempted murder.Chunli Zhao, 66, was set to make…

Miles Fallon works at his computer in his Chicago home Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022. His mother, Marla Williams, initially supported the Chicago Public Schools decision to instruct students online during the fall of 2020. Williams, a single mother, has asthma, as do her two children. While she was working, she enlisted her father, a retired teacher, to supervise her children’s studies. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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Online school put US kids behind

by Bianca VAzquez Toness Associated Press, and Jocelyn Gecker Associated PressOctober 21, 2022

Water rushes down Front Street, just a half block from the Bering Sea, in Nome, Alaska, on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. Much of Alaska's western coast could see flooding and high winds as the remnants of Typhoon Merbok moved into the Bering Sea region. The National Weather Service says some locations could experience the worst coastal flooding in 50 years. (AP Photo/Peggy Fagerstrom)

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Storm causes flooding in western Alaska

by Mark Thiessen Associated Press, and Jocelyn Gecker Associated PressSeptember 18, 2022

Two people hug outside the scene of a shooting in San Jose, Calif., Wednesday.

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Eight dead in shooting at rail yard serving Silicon Valley

by Jocelyn Gecker Associated Press, and Terence Chea Associated PressMay 26, 2021

FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2020, file photo, a firefighter rubs his head while watching the LNU Lightning Complex fires spread through the Berryessa Estates neighborhood of unincorporated Napa County, Calif. Deadly wildfires in California have burned more than 4 million acres (6,250 square miles) this year — more than double the previous record for the most land burned in a single year in the state. California fire officials said the state hit the astonishing milestone Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020...

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Wildfires surpass 4 million acres

by Jocelyn Gecker Associated PressOctober 4, 2020

This March 18, 2020, photo released by Alexandra Nicholson shows her son, Henry Martinsen, playing at a beach in Quincy, Mass. The frustration of parents is mounting as more families across the U.S. enter their second or even third week of total distance learning, and some say it will be their last. (Alexandra Nicholson via AP)

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Harried parents choose to skip home school

by Gillian Flaccus Associated Press, and Jocelyn Gecker Associated PressApril 21, 2020

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Domingo’s accusers slam claims he never acted badly to women

by Jocelyn Gecker Associated PressDecember 3, 2019

A home between Healdsburg and Windsor, Calif., is surrounded by charred ground Tuesday but was spared from the Kincade Fire flames.

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Anger grows in California over further blackouts

by Janie Har Associated Press, and Jocelyn Gecker Associated PressOctober 29, 2019

Placido Domingo talks to fans at the “Festspielhaus” opera house after he performed “Luisa Miller” by Giuseppe Verdi in Salzburg, Austria, Aug. 25.

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Placido Domingo resigns as general director of LA Opera

by Jocelyn Gecker Associated PressOctober 3, 2019

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 14, 1999 file photo, Placido Domingo acknowledges the audience after receiving the 1999 Hispanic Heritage Award at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. An evening before a performance of “Le Cid,” part of the Washington Opera’s 1999-2000 season, opera singer Angela Turner Wilson said she and Domingo were having their makeup done together when he rose from his chair, stood behind her and put his hands on her shoulders. As she...

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Singer says opera’s Domingo harassed her, grabbed her breast

by Jocelyn Gecker Associated Press, and Jocelyn Noveck Associated PressSeptember 6, 2019