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14,000 gallons of raw sewage spill onto LA County beaches, forcing closure
LOS ANGELES — Roughly 14,400 gallons of untreated sewage forced Los Angeles County public health officials to warn people to stay out of the water at Dockweiler State Beach, Venice Beach and the surrounding area.
It's unclear when the closure will be lifted, but people should stay clear of the water and the wet sand from Ballona Creek to one ...Read more
'All kinds of nightmares': Survivor of Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel speaks in California
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Ilya Tarshansky readily admits he’s not a great public speaker.
So, he sat Thursday evening in front of an audience of about 100 people at the Folsom Community Center and answered their questions as best as he could.
He’s a survivor of the Oct. 7 surprise Hamas militant attacks on Israel. Tarshansky, his 15-year-old ...Read more
Michigan man accused of threatening to kill Jewish politicians incompetent, judge says
DETROIT — A man from the Adrian area accused of threatening to kill Attorney General Dana Nessel and other Jewish members of state government is incompetent to stand trial, a federal judge said Friday.
Tipton resident Jack Eugene Carpenter III, 42, is a delusional conspiracy theorist, U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith wrote in an order, ...Read more
Zelenskyy says Russia is attempting a new offensive near Kharkiv
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia started a new offensive around his country’s second-biggest city as Kremlin forces moved to breach the border in the northeast.
Artillery has so far been able to repel the assault in the Kharkiv region, Zelenskyy said during a meeting with Slovak President Zuzana Caputova in Kyiv on Friday. ...Read more
Do zinc products really help shorten a cold? It's hard to say
You feel a cold coming on, or maybe it's already upon you: the telltale cough, sore throat and stuffy head. You swing by the drugstore, where a shelf full of over-the-counter products containing the mineral zinc claim to be able to shorten the duration of your symptoms.
The promise of relief is tempting. But is it one these products can make ...Read more
California Gov. Gavin Newsom appoints two new judges to fill retirements in San Diego courts
SAN DIEGO — Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed two new judges to fill vacancies on the San Diego Superior Court bench.
The new judges are Toni Segura, who was a court commissioner when she was tapped, and Blair Soper, a longtime public defense attorney. Each spent several years working as public defense attorneys, and both are filling spots ...Read more
UNLV officials, pro-Palestinian protesters meet. What was said is in dispute.
LAS VEGAS — Pro-Palestinian protesters and UNLV are at odds over reported meetings they’ve held regarding the university’s potential investments tied to Israel.
A UNLV organization that is part of a coalition of groups that have protested on the university’s amphitheater over the past couple of weeks claims to have met with the ...Read more
Zelenskyy says Russia is attempting a new offensive near Kharkiv
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia started a new offensive around his country’s second-biggest city as Kremlin forces moved to breach the border in the northeast.
Artillery has so far been able to repel the assault in the Kharkiv region, Zelenskyy said during a meeting with Slovak President Zuzana Caputova in Kyiv on Friday. ...Read more
Four key takeaways from Colorado's “breakthrough” legislative session
DENVER — Coloradans can expect two years of free college for qualifying students, long-term property tax reform after years of Band-Aid measures, and denser development following a legislative session that Democratic leaders called a “breakthrough” for many of their long-held policy goals.
A year removed from the bitter divisions and ...Read more
US spy chief becomes key envoy as Biden-Netanyahu ties fray
One key American official is quietly keeping Washington’s lines of communication open across the Middle East as the U.S. and Israel endure their worst falling-out in decades over the war in Gaza.
Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns, a veteran diplomat and Arabic speaker, was in Cairo alongside Qatari and Egyptian mediators this...Read more
Donald Trump and Wildwood officials have one major thing in common: Indictments
Wildwood and Donald Trump. Clout can't think of a more fitting pair.
A boardwalk renowned for its collection of politically incorrect T-shirts is about to get flooded with people who would love a "Let's Go Brandon" cut-off tank.
And Trump, who is facing federal indictments in four jurisdictions, is about to rally in a town where two of the ...Read more
California sisters were offered $5,000 from insurance for storm damage. A jury awarded them $18 million
Two San Bernardino sisters who sued their insurance company for failing to pay to repair flood damage on their home are now $18 million richer after a jury found in their favor and imposed emotional and punitive damages on the insurance company.
The $18-million verdict announced April 18 by a San Bernardino County jury was a far cry from the $5...Read more
A jacket, a coin, a letter − relics of Omaha Beach battle tell the story of D-Day 80 years later
Between the villages of Vierville-sur-Mer and Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes in Normandy, France, is a 5-mile stretch of beach that was once called Côte d’Or, or “golden coast.”
Since June 6, 1944, however, this beach has borne a different name: Omaha.
Eighty years ago, on a day now known as D-Day, thousands of Allied ...Read more
Environmentalists battle to get Peco to increase its use of green energy, but the oil industry calls it a job killer
PHILADELPHIA —The nation is in the middle of a contentious transformation from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
It's a change either hailed by environmentalists for addressing climate change and public health or loathed by the oil and gas industry for killing jobs and being less reliable, efficient and affordable. And what the increase in ...Read more
Denver's new migrant strategy offers intensive help -- but what about the many who won't qualify?
DENVER — Denver’s revamped migrant program in recent days began enrolling the roughly 800 people who are expected to be the first beneficiaries of a new approach city leaders consider innovative.
Participants will receive six months of housing, help with living costs, job training and legal support as the city files asylum claims on their ...Read more
High court's immunity ruling may not save Trump in Georgia
ATLANTA — If the U.S. Supreme Court rules that Donald Trump cannot be prosecuted for acts he took as part of his official duties, his Atlanta lawyers are expected to argue that would strip away much of the Fulton County case against the former president.
But it is also possible such a decision won’t make much of a difference to the election...Read more
Georgia man pleads guilty to Jan. 6 charge
ATLANTA — On the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021, William Frederick Beals II posted a video of himself in Washington, D.C., to the social media site TikTok.
“So we officially took the White House,” Beals announced in the video.
He wasn’t at the White House. He was at the U.S. Capitol, along with thousands of people who had migrated to the ...Read more
Zelenskyy says Russia is attempting a new offensive near Kharkiv
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia started a new offensive against territory around Ukraine’s second-biggest city as Kremlin forces moved to breach the border in the northeast.
Artillery has so far been able to repel the assault in the Kharkiv region, Zelenskyy said during a meeting with Slovak President Zuzana Caputova in ...Read more
California shifting to warmer, drier weather, but wildfire season still expected to be delayed
LOS ANGELES — After another rainy winter that dragged into springtime, California is finally moving toward a warmer and drier pattern, with temperatures expected to hit typical highs — or above — for this time of year.
"It's feeling kind of spring [or] summery," said Rose Schoenfeld, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Oxnard. "We...Read more
Israel's $16 billion war bill puts budget on alarming path
Israel has racked up a bill of 60 billion shekels ($16 billion) after seven months of war, leaving its budget deficit on a path to blow past this year’s target absent government action to stabilize finances.
Finance Ministry data published Thursday showed the 12-month trailing fiscal shortfall ballooned to 7% of gross domestic product as of ...Read more
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