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San Francisco Chronicle
3 days ago
- San Francisco Chronicle
Popular S.F. teacher and coach brutally attacked and robbed while visiting Italy
The thought kept flashing through Nicholas Pellegrino's mind as he sat on a train station outside of Milan, blood pouring from his throat. If the 29-year-old San Francisco high school teacher and track coach didn't get help soon, he was going to die. 'I had no doubt about that in my mind,' he said. 'It's a feeling of helplessness that I don't wish on my worst enemy.' Moments before, several passengers had attacked him, slashing his throat with a knife and robbing him. Pellegrino, who teaches religion at San Francisco's Archbishop Riordan High School, had traveled to Italy this month for vacation. He was looking forward to seeing relatives and friends in northern Italy. On July 15, he'd caught a train just before noon from just Melegnano, a Milanese suburb, bound for Florence. But the moment he stepped on the train, something felt off. A few seats down, several passengers kept staring at him — then quickly looking away whenever they saw him looking back. As the train rolled into the next stop, one of them rushed him, swinging a knife. With blood pouring from his neck, the thieves ripped the crucifix he was wearing and grabbed his backpack and luggage. Pellegrino clapped a hand to his neck and ran out of the train. He staggered to a column on the platform and sat down, screaming for help. He took his shirt off and pressed it against his throat, trying to staunch the blood pouring out. 'This was going to be the end,' he kept thinking. Paramedics arrived about 15 minutes later and rushed him to the hospital. During the assault, Pellegrino's attackers nicked — but didn't fully sever — his jugular artery, doctors later determined. By the time they were able to stop the bleeding and repair the artery, he'd lost more than a liter of blood. 'Even the surgeons are saying it was a miracle,' he told the Chronicle by phone after being discharged from the hospital in San Donato Milanese. 'There's no other way to put it.' Italian authorities arrested the attack suspects several hours later at a train station about an hour from where Pellegrino was assaulted. Police told him the suspects are four North African men from Tunisia and Morocco who authorities determined were in the country illegally, he said. Police told Pellegrino they'd already been tracking his assailants — they were believed to have attacked and tried to rob another passenger the same day, and they'd assaulted a cabdriver the night before, slitting his wrist in the attack. Pellegrino spent four days in hospital, until doctors were sure that his vein was healing correctly and that his blood levels were safe. Riordan assistant principal Nate Simon called Pellegrino an 'integral part' of the school's community and a beloved teacher and coach. 'We were so sad to hear about what happened, but we've spoken with him and he seems to be doing much better,' he said. 'Our thoughts and prayers are with him as he deals with this terrifying incident.' Finn McCole was a student of Pellegrino's in New York, before the teacher started working in San Francisco. Pellegrino was his track coach, he said, and over the years they became good friends, training together and traveling with other students. McCole recalled trips to Italy, where Pellegrino acted 'almost like a tour guide.' 'He loves Italy,' McCole said. 'He loves the culture, the people. That's why it's so horrifying that he goes there and something like this happens.' McCole and other students set up a GoFundMe to help with medical expenses and replace his stolen belongings, including his laptop and passport. By Saturday afternoon, the account had raised more than $38,000. 'I'm speechless,' Pellegrino said of the donations from his former students and hundreds of others. 'I would never have expected that outpouring of money/support. I guess it shows that the impact you have being an educator/teacher is more than people might think.' A deeply religious man, Pellegrino said the experience has only strengthened his faith. 'I'm convinced the hand of God worked a miracle to ensure I did not lose my life that day,' he said.
New York Post
4 days ago
- New York Post
Stabbed Staten Islander lucky to be alive after Italian migrant attack
A Staten Island native came face to face with the worst of Italy's migrant crisis this week when he was nearly killed while vacationing in Milan. Nick Pellegrino was attacked on a train Tuesday by a pair of North African migrants, who stabbed him in the neck with a 5-inch knife before making off with his luggage and jewelry — leaving him to die in a pool of his own blood in his family's homeland, which has experienced a surge in criminal migrants over the past four years. 'With these very loose, lefty immigration laws, these immigrants come into these countries and they're running amok, trying to murder people. It's a playground for terror, for the vicious,' said Pellegrino, 29, speaking by phone from his hospital bed in the town of San Donato Milanese. Advertisement 'It's f–king crazy,' he said. 'I know America has a big immigration problem, but it is worse here.' 4 Nicholas Pellegrino, left, knows he's lucky to be alive: 'Life is a gift.' Obtained by the New York Post Pellegrino — a former teacher at prestigious Monsignor Farrell High School in Oakwood who was visiting friends and family in Italy — recalled looking down at his phone as the train from Melegnano to Milan Bovisa rolled into the San Giuliano Milanese station. Advertisement When the train doors opened, his mid-20s, Arabic-speaking attackers darted towards him, stabbing him in the neck, nicking his jugular vein, Pellegrino said. 'They looked like the 9/11 hijackers,' Pellegrino said. 'I remember looking at the floor in the train and just seeing the blade of the knife, and the most frightening amount of blood I have ever seen.' Pellegrino was later told by EMTs he lost about a liter-and-a-half of blood, said Pellegrino, who now teaches religion and coaches track at Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco. Before stealing his luggage and leaving him for dead, Pellegrino's homicidal attackers snatched the gold crucifix from around his neck, he said. Advertisement 4 Eyewitnesses shared footage on Instagram of EMTs working on Pellegrino. Obtained by the New York Post A blood-soaked Pellegrino managed to stumble onto the train platform, where a 16-year-old boy dialed 112, Italy's 911 equivalent. He was filmed on the platform by bystanders, repeating, 'I don't want to die, Lord,' in since-deleted videos that were posted to Instagram. 'It took the ambulance 15 minutes to get to me,' he said. 'A few more minutes, and I was a goner. I could feel, with every heartbeat, another gush of blood coming out.' Advertisement He was rushed to the emergency room, where surgeons closed the wound with nine stitches. He'll remain under observation until at least Saturday, as doctors wait for a dangerous blood clot to shrink. 4 Pellegrino said the two men who attacked him have been detained. Nicholas Pellegrino/ Facebook Italian authorities have arrested the two migrants, but have not yet released their names, Pellegrino said. Before attacking the bi-coastal New Yorker, the two men smacked an elderly man in the head with a glass bottle and stole an old woman's necklace, Milan investigators told Pellegrino. Since at least 2021, Italy has seen a surge in migrant arrivals by sea from Nigeria, Sudan, Gambia, Morocco, Eritrea, Tunisia, Bangladesh and Syria. Over 157,600 undocumented migrants and asylum seekers crossed the Mediterranean Sea to get to Italy in 2023. Last year, 66,000 migrants crossed into Italy. Their arrivals have put a strain on public resources and their presence has become a source of political tension, leading officials to declare a state of emergency. 4 Pellegrino visits Italy on his summer breaks to see family and friends. Nicholas Pellegrino/ Facebook Pellegrino said his brush with death has only reinforced his belief in God. Advertisement 'I used to doubt,' admitted Pellegrino. 'I don't doubt anymore. This has grounded me in my faith. I know Jesus saved me, and I will always be a believer.' He's got a July 24 return flight booked, and said he'll make a full recovery from his frightening ordeal. His mother in Staten Island, not so much. 'My poor mother,' he said. 'She's been a basket case.'
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USA Today
14-07-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
2025 Nordea Open: Pellegrino [139th] vs. Faria [115th] Prediction, Odds and Match Preview
In the Nordea Open Round of 32 on Tuesday, we have a matchup featuring No. 115-ranked Jaime Faria against No. 139 Andrea Pellegrino. Faria is the favorite (-125) to get to the Round of 16 against the underdog Pellegrino (-102). Tennis odds courtesy of BetMGM Sportsbook. Odds updated Monday at 2:35 PM ET. For a full list of sports betting odds, access USA TODAY Sports Betting Scores Odds Hub. Andrea Pellegrino vs. Jaime Faria matchup info Watch the Tennis Channel and more sports on Fubo! Pellegrino vs. Faria Prediction Based on the implied probility from the moneyline, Pellegrino has a 55.6% to win. Pellegrino vs. Faria Betting Odds Pellegrino vs. Faria matchup performance & stats
AU Financial Review
30-06-2025
- Business
- AU Financial Review
CoStar will appoint Jason Pellegrino to run Domain after $3b buy
CoStar says it intends to return former Domain chief executive Jason Pellegrino to the real estate listings platform he ran until last year and is considering a major rebrand of the company if its $3 billion bid to acquire the business and delist it from the sharemarket is successful. The return of Pellegrino – and the purchase of the brand – was first revealed by The Australian Financial Review this month.
Yahoo
19-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
More local governments in Pennsylvania would be able to tax more to cover fire, EMS costs under new bill
This story was produced by the State College regional bureau of Spotlight PA, an independent, nonpartisan newsroom dedicated to investigative and public-service journalism for Pennsylvania. Sign up for Talk of the Town, a weekly newsletter of local stories that dig deep, events, and more from north-central PA, at STATE COLLEGE — Hundreds of local governments in Pennsylvania would gain expanded taxing power to fund their cash-strapped fire departments and emergency medical services under a bill advancing in the legislature. Last year, the state legislature gave some local governments the ability to levy higher property taxes to fund fire companies and EMS providers. Now, a bill that would expand that opportunity to over 1,400 more municipalities has passed the Democratic-controlled state House. Local governments in Pennsylvania decide how to fund these emergency services for their communities. Governing boards can pay for these costs out of their main account, usually called the general fund, or they can set money aside using a special real estate tax and restrict that income to only fire or EMS services. David Greene, executive director of the Pennsylvania Local Government Commission, a legislative agency, described such a dedicated property tax as a 'lock box mechanism.' It 'gives the public an understanding that that portion of their tax bill is going [to] and is guaranteed for that specific purpose,' he told Spotlight PA. But for decades, state law has imposed an upper limit on how much local governments can tax property owners for these purposes: no more than 3 mills for a fire tax, and no more than half a mill for an EMS tax. These kinds of limits have been criticized by some as arbitrary. But that changed — to a small extent — last year when state lawmakers approved Act 54, which raised the fire tax limit to 10 mills and the EMS tax cap to 5 mills for about 150 boroughs and townships in Bucks, Delaware, and Montgomery Counties, according to a count compiled by the Pennsylvania Local Government Commission. In Bucks County's Northampton Township, the board of supervisors decided it was 'absolutely critical' to fund a full-time fire department that is on call every hour of the day, Township Manager Robert Pellegrino told Spotlight PA. The trouble was that the township was already charging property owners the maximum rate of a fire tax it could under state law: $3 for every $1,000 of the assessed value of a property — or 3 mills. That translates to about $1.8 million, which is less than one-third of the township fire department's budget, Pellegrino said. Before the tax cap increase, Northampton Township had limited options to make up the difference. It could transfer money from its general fund, which could put severe strain on other services like police, or it could raise its taxing limits through a voter referendum, which Pellegrino said is an 'unsustainable model.' Pellegrino said his township worked with state legislators on behalf of the measure. Northampton Township was one of the three local governments (all in Bucks County) that have exercised this new, higher taxing authority so far. 'It's a huge relief and a very big help,' Pellegrino told Spotlight PA. Northampton Township is able to almost entirely fund its fire department with the new tax. At least 855 of the state's 2,558 municipalities impose some form of fire tax, according to a database maintained by the Department of Community and Economic Development, which includes tax information submitted by about 80% of local governments. The same dataset showed 224 local governments reported having a tax for ambulance, rescue, and emergency services. A Spotlight PA analysis of state data found that among municipalities that have a form of fire tax, about 7.5% have reached or exceeded the cap. For those with an EMS tax, 62% have met or gone beyond half a mill. The increases allowed by Act 54 were 'a step in the right direction,' state Rep. Chris Pielli (D., Chester), prime sponsor for House Bill 393, wrote in a memo seeking support from his colleagues. His proposal would allow second-class townships in Pennsylvania — where a majority of commonwealth residents live — the same 10-mill limit for a fire tax and 5-mill cap for an EMS tax. Pielli, a former township supervisor, told Spotlight PA that his proposal has the support of local fire and EMS agencies. He said that funding is only one aspect of the crisis facing public safety services and that additional actions in Harrisburg, like tax breaks for first responders, should be considered. 'This is a problem that requires a multipronged approach,' Pielli said. Nearly 90% of the state's 1,770 registered fire departments are entirely staffed by volunteers, according to the U.S. Fire Administration. A 2021 survey of Pennsylvania's 744 certified EMS agencies found more than half of them had experienced a budget deficit, according to the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, a legislative agency. Many local fire companies and EMS providers have sounded the alarm on funding and operational challenges. 'EMS systems are collapsing under the weight of outdated reimbursement models [and] the lack of funding to maintain 24/7 readiness and workforce attrition,' Janette Swade, executive director for the independent Pennsylvania Emergency Health Services Council, told Spotlight PA in an email. Swade's organization doesn't take positions on legislation, including Pielli's. But she said raising municipal EMS taxes, increasing mutual aid among agencies, and establishing EMS authorities are some solutions the council supports. David Sanko, executive director of the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors, told Spotlight PA that the higher taxing limits proposed in Pielli's bill would enable better local decision-making. Arden Knapp, chair of the Pleasant Township Board of Supervisors in Warren County, told Spotlight PA the proposed measure is 'really necessary.' Knapp's rural township now taxes the maximum rates for both fire and EMS services, but revenue continues to be strained, because a third of the township's land mass is public forest that does not generate tax income. The township is 'taking every bit of that EMS tax' as well as additional monies from the general fund to ensure ambulance services for residents, he said. Part of the cost goes to hiring a private, nighttime ambulance, because staffing has been a struggle. Knapp said he believes residents will support a potential increase because they realize the financial reality of fire and ambulance services — something Pellegrino, Sanko, and Pielli told Spotlight PA they have observed. 'When you're dealing with municipalities, I think for the most part, they try to be as responsible as possible and set the rates precisely [as] what they believe is the reasonable amount of revenue that they need,' Greene, of the Local Government Commission, said. The commission tracks which municipalities take advantage of Act 54 and studies the impacts. Some key questions Greene and his agency will study include why municipalities opt to levy these special real estate taxes, how the increased funding is spent, and whether higher fire and EMS taxes alleviate fundraising pressures. The commission's assistant director, Kristopher Gazsi, said the study will hopefully inform future bills. and help us reinvigorate local news in north-central Pennsylvania at Spotlight PA is funded by foundations and readers like you who are committed to accountability and public-service journalism that gets results. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
