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Cal Poly continues to be ‘Giant Killers’ in Big West with latest win at Hawai’i

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Hamad Mousa scored 24 points with 9 rebounds as the Mustangs stay hot

HONOLULU, Hawai'i (KEYT) - Add another Big West front runner to the Mustangs hit list.

Hamad Mousa scored a game-high 24 points as Cal Poly knocked Hawaii out of a first place tie in the Big West with an 86-75 road win.

The Rainbow Warriors are now a 1/2 game out of first place in league behind UC Irvine who is 11-4 in conference. Cal Poly beat Irvine last week as well as rival UCSB and is now riding a three-game win streak.

Besides his scoring, Mousa also collected nine rebounds for the Mustangs (12-16, 8-8 Big West Conference). Cayden Ward added 19 points and notching six rebounds. Peter Bandelj finished with 12 points while Troy Plumtree had 10 points and three steals.

The Mustangs had a two-point lead with 6:30 remaining, but went on a 15-5 run to create a buffer for the win.

Dre Bullock led the Rainbow Warriors (18-7, 10-5) in scoring, finishing with 22 points and nine rebounds. Hawaii also got 18 points and eight rebounds from Isaac Johnson. Hunter Erickson finished with nine points and eight rebounds.

(The Associated Press assisted with this story).

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A visual guide to the evidence in the Nancy Guthrie investigation

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By Chelsea Bailey, Way Mullery, CNN

(CNN) — It’s been nearly three weeks since Nancy Guthrie vanished from her secluded Tucson, Arizona, home in the dead of night, and investigators say they are no closer to identifying a leading theory or motive behind her abduction.

The saga has become a waking nightmare for Guthrie’s family, with her daughter, Savannah, posting a series of increasingly heartbreaking pleas on social media for her mother’s abductors to “do the right thing” and bring Guthrie home.

A private donor is backing a new $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Guthrie’s captors. Meanwhile, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI have increased their reward to $100,000.

Investigators are facing mounting pressure to piece together the fragmented puzzle of evidence they’ve gathered. From chilling surveillance footage and alleged ransom notes to DNA and a collection of gloves, here’s a look at what we know about the evidence in the investigation:

The surveillance footage

In perhaps the biggest break in the case so far, investigators on February 10 released surveillance footage and images recovered from Guthrie’s doorbell camera.

The Nest camera was reported missing after Guthrie’s abduction, but investigators partnered with Google, which owns the camera company, to recover some of the data.

The grainy video shows a man in a ski mask approaching Guthrie’s front door and attempting to cover her doorbell camera with a gloved hand. He then walks off the porch and picks up shrubbery to try to cover the lens.

The FBI later described the person as the “suspect in the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie.” The agency said the man is approximately 5-foot-9 to 5-foot-10 tall with an average build.

“We hope this updated description will help concentrate the public tips we are receiving,” the FBI Phoenix office said.

Savannah Guthrie later shared the footage on her social media accounts with the caption, “someone out there recognizes this person.”

“We believe she is still out there,” she writes, “Bring her home.”

The backpack

In the footage and images released by the FBI, the suspect appears to have a gun holstered near the center of his waist – an unusual position – and is seen wearing a backpack with reflective straps.

The FBI later said the backpack he’s wearing is a black, 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department told CNN the backpack is only sold at Walmart, and investigators are working with the retailer to gather more information.

The glove

As they searched the area around Guthrie’s home, investigators recovered multiple gloves.

But, a glove found about two miles from the house appeared to visually match the ones worn by the suspect, according to the FBI. Authorities took DNA samples from the glove and ran it through the national database known as CODIS, which compares a DNA sample against the profiles of more than 19 million known offenders.

But it did not return any matches.

Authorities have not determined if the glove is connected to the kidnapping.

The DNA

Investigators say they have also recovered DN

CIF-CS Boys Basketball Semifinals: St. Joseph, Atascadero and Santa Maria all advance

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Julius Price leads Knights into D1 championship game

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) -

CIF-Central Section Division 1 Semifinal: St. Joseph 67, Bakersfield Christian 57: #1 seed Knights will play #2 Buchanan in title game on Saturday, February 28 at 8 p.m. in Fresno.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LiY0kTa5Uk

Division 2: Atascadero 69, Hoover 52: #1 seed Greyhounds will meet #2 Clovis in title game on Friday, February 27 at 8 p.m. in Fresno.

Division 5: Santa Maria 103, California City 76: #1 seed Saints will play #2 Coalinga in championship game on Saturday, February 28 at noon in Fresno.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kB_x3pgFps

Division 6: Orosi 54, Orcutt Academy 43:

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Gauchos collapse against CSUN and lose in overtime at the ‘Blunderdome.’

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Freshman led UCSB with 22 points

UC SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - The Gauchos had all the momentum and then they let the Matadors off the hook with a series of late blunders at the Thunderdome.

Northridge scored 4 points in five seconds late in regulation and went on to edge UCSB in overtime 85-83. The win allows CSUN(17-10, 10-5) to leap ahead of the Gauchos(17-10, 10-6) for third place in the Big West.

Tied at 69 UCSB freshman CJ Shaw buried a three-pointer with 47 seconds left. He finished with a team-high 22 points.

Aidan Mahaney added two free throws to put UCSB up 74-69 with 32 seconds remaining.

The Matadors had no time outs but they got a break when Gauchos head coach Joe Pasternack used one of his two remaining time outs to set up is defense.

But it allowed the Matadors to run a well-designed full court offensive play and Larry Hughes II drained a three-pointer with 26 seconds left to pull the Matadors within 74-72.

Mahaney hit two more free throws after he was fouled with 24.8 seconds left and UCSB led by 4.

This time Pasternack did not call time out and the Matadors went down the court and Hughes II missed his three-point attempt. But Colin Smith was beaten to the rebound by Joshua O'Garro who grabbed the ball and scored the layup with 15.9 seconds to go.

No time out was called by UCSB and Smith inbounded the ball into the corner to Shaw who was immediately trapped by two defenders. His attempted pass back to Smith was stolen by Josiah Davis who fed a wide open Grady Lewis under the basket and he tied the game at 76.

Mahaney missed an off-balance driving shot as time expired and the game went to overtime at 76.

Josiah Davis scored 5 of his game-high 31 points in overtime and CSUN escaped with the two-point win after Zion Sensley missed a three-pointer before the buzzer sounded.

The Gauchos threw away what would have been a nice home win due to a questionable time out, a failed defensive rebound and a turnover, all in the final 32 seconds of the game.

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Estados Unidos podría atacar a Irán. Así se prepara Teherán

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Por Mostafa Salem, Farida Elsebai y Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN

Mientras Estados Unidos continúa con un importante aumento de su presencia militar en Medio Oriente, Irán ha tomado medidas para indicar que está listo para la guerra, incluyendo la fortificación de sus sitios nucleares y la reconstrucción de instalaciones de producción de misiles.

Los negociadores iraníes y estadounidenses mantuvieron conversaciones indirectas en Ginebra durante tres horas y media el martes, pero concluyeron sin una resolución clara.

El principal diplomático de Irán, Abbas Araghchi, afirmó que ambas partes acordaron un conjunto de “principios rectores”, pero el vicepresidente de EE.UU., J. D. Vance, afirmó que los iraníes no habían reconocido las “líneas rojas” establecidas por Donald Trump.

A pesar de las conversaciones en curso, la Casa Blanca ha sido informada de que el ejército estadounidense podría estar listo para un ataque el fin de semana, después de una acumulación en los últimos días de activos aéreos y navales en el Medio Oriente, comentaron a CNN fuentes familiarizadas con el asunto.

Ante la amenaza de guerra, Irán ha dedicado los últimos meses a reparar instalaciones de misiles clave y bases aéreas gravemente dañadas, a la vez que oculta aún más su programa nuclear.

Teherán ha nombrado a veteranos de guerra para sus estructuras de seguridad nacional, ha realizado simulacros de guerra marítimos en el Golfo Pérsico y ha lanzado una intensa represión contra la disidencia interna.

En junio del año pasado, Israel lanzó un ataque sorpresa contra Irán que destruyó parte de su programa nuclear, dañó gravemente plantas de producción de misiles y mató a comandantes militares clave.

Durante los 12 días de conflicto que siguieron, Irán respondió lanzando cientos de misiles y drones contra ciudades israelíes, mientras que Estados Unidos atacó tres instalaciones nucleares del país persa, las cuales el presidente Trump afirmó haber sido “totalmente destruidas”.

Las naciones occidentales han fracasado sistemáticamente en su intento de persuadir a Irán para que detenga su programa de misiles, que Teherán considera un pilar central de su fuerza militar y un derecho a su autodefensa.

A pesar de sufrir grandes pérdidas en la guerra con Israel, el análisis de imágenes satelitales revela que Irán ha reconstruido las instalaciones de misiles dañadas.

Imágenes satelitales de la Base de Misiles Imán Alí en Jorramabad, captadas el 5 de enero, muestran que, de las doce estructuras destruidas por Israel, tres han sido reconstruidas, una ha sido reparada y otras tres se encuentran actualmente en construcción.

La instalación alberga plataformas de silos, cruciales para el lanzamiento de misiles balísticos, con terraplenes y construcciones a su alrededor.

Otras dos bases militares también han sido sometidas a extensas reparaciones. En la instalación aérea de Tabriz, al noroeste del país, vinculada a los misiles balísticos de mediano alcance de Irán, se han restaurado las calles de rodaje y las pistas de aterrizaje.

En otra base de misiles al norte de la ciudad, se han realizado extensas obras tras la guerra.

Todas las entradas se reabrieron tras ser cerradas por los bombardeos, la zona de apoyo junto a la entrada se reconstruyó en su mayor parte y algunos túneles ya están abiertos, según un análisis de CNN y Sam Lair, investigador asociado del Centro James Martin para Estudios de No Proliferación (CNS).

En la base aérea de Hamadan, en el oeste de Irán, se han rellenado

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