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California sheriff’s deputy under investigation after he’s filmed throwing teen girl to the ground

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:17:25 GMT

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the actions of a deputy who was videotaped picking up a 16-year-old, 120-pound girl and throwing her down after the department said she reached for another deputy’s pepper ball launcher during a melee outside a high school football stadium in Victorville on Friday, Sept. 22.Faith Jeffers, 16, is shown in an ambulance on Sept. 23, 2023, while being transferred between hospitals a day after she was injured when a San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy picked her up and threw her down during an altercation at Victor Valley High in Victorville. The Sheriff’s Department said the deputy used force because Jeffers was reaching for another deputy’s pepper ball launcher. (Courtesy of Priscilla Jeffers)Priscilla Jeffers, center, walks down Palmdale Road during a protest in Victorville, Calif., on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. The protest was in response to a viral video showing what appears to be a Southern Californi...

California School for the Deaf coach, son to appear on new season of ‘The Amazing Race’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:17:25 GMT

A California School for the Deaf, Riverside, coach and his son will be stars in the new season of the reality TV show, “The Amazing Race.”Rob McArthur, who is deaf and a teacher’s aide and assistant football coach at the school, is featured with his 25-year-old son, Corey McArthur, a hearing child of deaf adults, a deaf school news release states.Increasing the excitement on campus is the fact that they are the husband and son of California School for the Deaf, Riverside, Superintendent April McArthur.The show’s new season will begin Wednesday, Sept. 27, on CBS and Paramount Plus at 9:30 p.m.The school is inviting the public to The Amazing Race Kickoff Premiere Watch Party on Wednesday, Sept. 27, at 6:30 p.m. in the campus’ Multi-Purpose Activity Center.Related ArticlesTV Streaming | David McCallum, star of ‘U.N.C.L.E.’ and ‘NCIS,’ dead at 90 TV Streaming | Oscar-winning short becomes an animated series on Max TV Streaming | ...

Two injured after plane crashes onto California soccer field

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:17:25 GMT

A flight instructor and student sustained serious injuries after a single-engine plane suffered a possible engine failure and crashed onto a San Pedro soccer field during an apparent emergency landing attempt on Monday, Sept. 25, authorities said.The Sling 4 TSI plane crashed on the Field of Dreams, a Los Angeles city park site on the 400 block of West Westmont Drive, west of the 110 Freeway, just before 1 p.m., said Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson Margaret Stewart.The aircraft had taken off from Torrance and while making its return, the engine failed, according to air traffic control radio messages from the pilot obtained by CBS Los Angeles. A second Sling plane flying in the area reported the crash to air traffic control.The pilot was still inside the plane when firefighters arrived and had to be extricated, while the sole passenger was able to pull themself from the wreckage.Both were taken to a hospital in critical condition, Stewart said.Los Angeles Fire Department Bat...

Walters: California Legislature punts insurance crisis to Newsom and Lara

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:17:25 GMT

Before the California Legislature adjourned this month, it managed to fulfill most of wishes of majority Democrats’ favorite interest groups, most notably labor unions.However, legislators left town without doing anything concrete about something that threatens the psychic and economic wellbeing of millions of homeowners and those who aspire to ownership: the rapidly shrinking availability of residential fire insurance.One by one, insurers have been reducing or eliminating their exposure in California, having paid out billions of dollars to cover losses from years of major wildfires and, they say, facing a fire threat that is likely to increase with climate change.With Gov. Gavin Newsom and Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara involved in the background, there were weeks of private negotiations among legislators, insurance lobbyists and other stakeholders on how to bolster the state’s insurance market.However, the negotiations ended a week before the Legislature adjourned without agr...

Three LGBTQ proposals could put Southern California city council on ‘wrong side of history,’ critic says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:17:25 GMT

In recent months, Temecula’s school board has been the venue for fights about the LGBTQ community.But Tuesday, Sept. 26, that showdown shifts to City Hall, where the Temecula City Council will consider three items dealing with LGBTQ history and expression.Councilmember Jessica Alexander is the driving force behind the items, one of which could strike a reference to the 1969 Stonewall uprising from a Pride Month proclamation and take out the plus from the proclamation’s LGBTQ+ mentions.Another proposal could lead to a council resolution affirming parental rights, a term used by conservatives to describe school district policies requiring parents to be told if their child identifies as transgender. The Temecula Valley Unified School District board approved such a policy in August.The third item would lay the groundwork for restrictions on what flags can be flown on city property. While LGBTQ pride flags aren’t specifically mentioned, a similar policy enacted by the Temecula Valley sch...

Opinion: Work-family balance should be a top-tier policy area

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:17:25 GMT

The work-family balance topic is one of the dominant issues in American society, but you would not know this based upon the amount of attention it gets compared with immigration, guns, abortion, national defense, Social Security and Medicare, transportation, climate change and taxes.This is yet another sign of our dysfunctional democracy. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have elevated work-family balance to the pedestal where it belongs, although the Democrats have certainly done more to get it there.The topic is actually a set of interrelated issues, notably paid parental leave, child-care, women’s rights and economic opportunities, preschool policies, LGBTQ benefit rights, a tax credit for a stay-at-home parent, and intergenerational relations between grandparents, their grandchildren and their grandchildren’s parents.Indeed, the work-family balance topic concerns nothing less than 18 years of the life of parents, their children and their children’s gran...

Trump lawyers say prosecutors want to ‘silence’ him with gag order in his federal 2020 election case

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:17:25 GMT

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are slamming prosecutors’ request for a narrow gag order in his 2020 election subversion case in Washington, calling it an effort to “unconstitutionally silence” his political speech. In court papers filed late Monday, attorneys for Trump urge U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to deny the proposal to bar the Republican ex-president from making inflammatory and intimidating comments about witnesses, lawyers and other people involved in the criminal case.Trump’s attorneys call the request a “desperate effort at censorship” that would prevent him from telling his side of the story on the campaign trial as he runs to retake the White House in 2024. “The prosecution may not like President’s Trump’s entirely valid criticisms, but neither it nor this Court are the filter for what the public may hear,” his legal team wrote. “If the prosecution wishes to avoid criticism for abusing its power, the solution is simple: stop...

ANÁLISIS | Biden y Trump no esperan a 2024 para iniciar su probable batalla por la Casa Blanca

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:17:25 GMT

(CNN) — Es como si el calendario de repente se adelantara un año en un abrir y cerrar de ojos.El presidente Joe Biden y el expresidente Donald Trump están atrapados en su posible revancha por la Casa Blanca un año antes de lo previsto, con el actual mandatario corriendo a Michigan este martes para robar preventivamente los titulares de su posible rival en los piquetes de una disputa de trabajadores de la industria automotriz. Trump, mientras tanto, lanza una retórica violenta y extremista e intenta orquestar un cierre del Gobierno para perjudicar a su sucesor.No importa que falten cuatro meses para las primeras votaciones de la contienda por la nominación republicana. O que los rivales de Trump se reunirán en California este miércoles para un debate que se verá eclipsado por el discurso del favorito en Detroit, parte de su duelo con Biden por los vitales votos de los obreros en un estado indeciso que ambos ganaron de camino a la Casa Blanca.El enfrentamiento de 2024 que, según...

El gobernador de California firma una ley que exige baños neutros en cuanto al género en las escuelas para 2026

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:17:25 GMT

(CNN) — El gobernador de California, Gavin Newsom, firmó una ley que exige que las escuelas de Kínder a grado 12 proporcionen baños neutros en cuanto al género para julio de 2026.La nueva ley, proyecto de ley del Senado 760, fue una de una serie de leyes firmadas por Newsom este sábado para ampliar las protecciones para la comunidad LGBTQ del estado.“California se enorgullece de tener algunas de las leyes más sólidas del país cuando se trata de proteger y apoyar a nuestra comunidad LGBTQ+”, dijo Newsom en un comunicado.Según la ley, “cada distrito escolar, oficina de educación del condado y escuela autónoma” debería tener al menos un baño neutral en cuanto al género en el campus el 1 de julio de 2026 o antes. El baño debe estar disponible para su uso durante horas escolares y durante funciones escolares cuando los estudiantes estén presentes, establece la ley.La ley permite el cierre temporal de cualquier baño neutral en cuanto al género solo si existe una preocupación documen...

Ford detiene la construcción de una planta de baterías para vehículos eléctricos en Michigan de US$ 3.500 millones en medio de la huelga del United Auto Workers

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:17:25 GMT

(CNN) — Ford detiene la construcción de una nueva planta de baterías para vehículos eléctricos de US$ 3.500 millones en Michigan, incluso cuando la transición a los vehículos eléctricos se ha convertido en un importante punto de fricción en una huelga de United Auto Workers contra los fabricantes de automóviles Ford, GM y Stellantis.Hasta ahora no se ha tomado una decisión final sobre si la planta, en última instancia, entrará en funcionamiento, dijo el portavoz de Ford, TR Reid.Si se completa, la planta estará ubicada en un sitio de 384 hectáreas en el sur de Michigan, cerca de la ciudad de Marshall. Los planes de Ford eran emplear a 2.500 personas cuando la planta comenzara a producir en 2026. Ford había anunciado planes para la fábrica de baterías en febrero pasado.“Estamos pausando el trabajo y limitando el gasto en la construcción del proyecto Marshall hasta que estemos seguros de nuestra capacidad para operar la planta de manera competitiva”, dijo Reid en un ...