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10 Freeway Repairs Continue Through Reopening

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:47 GMT

The 10 Freeway area near downtown Los Angeles reopened weeks ahead of schedule after a suspected arson fire.An initial estimate given by California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Nov. 14 saw a three to five-week timeframe for repairs, which was later changed to Tuesday, Nov. 21 and ultimately Monday, Nov. 20.“What began as months has turned into days — before Angelenos hit the road on Monday, we’re opening the 10 back up,” Gov. Newsom said in a statement. “Thanks to the tireless work of Caltrans and union construction crews and with help from our partners — from the Mayor’s office to the White House — the 10’s expedited repair is proof and a point of pride that here in California, we deliver.”Now all lanes going both ways have been opened and deemed safe to drive on by Los Angeles and California officials, only eight days after the blaze broke on the weekend of Nov. 11.The construction has not stopped, however, as a full repair is still expected to take mon...

Mauricio Miranda Pronounced Dead after Motorcycle Collision on Paisano Drive [El Paso, TX]

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:47 GMT

28-Year-Old Man Fatally Struck in Two-Vehicle Accident near El Paso DriveEL PASO, TX (November 27, 2023) – Mauricio Miranda died Friday night in a motorcycle collision on Paisano Drive and El Paso Drive.Police responded to the scene just before 12:00 a.m., on November 17th, in the neighborhood of Fox Plaza Shopping Center after receiving multiple dispatch calls.Per reports, 28-year-old Miranda was riding a motorcycle and traveled through a red light. As a result, the motorcycle crashed into a Dodge Ram pickup-truck. The motorcyclist was then ejected onto the road.Medical personnel arrived and pronounced 28-year-old Miranda dead, due to the extent of his injuries.Authorities have not yet released the identity of the other party involved.The team at Sweet James sends out their heartfelt sympathies to the friends and family of Mauricio Miranda who are grieving over the loss of their loved one. May you find comfort and strength during this time.Reach out to Sweet James today and l...

Where will Cal, San Jose State play for their bowl games?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:47 GMT

Many of the top experts in college football expect Cal to play in the Independence Bowl against Texas Tech when it returns to the postseason for the first time in four years.As for San Jose State, the picture is less clear for its second straight bowl appearance after the Spartans were left out of the Mountain West title game based on computer rankings.The Action Network’s Brett McMurphy projects the Spartans to head west to the Hawaii Bowl and face Rice. Fox Sports and 247Sports both had them in the same Dec. 23 bowl, though Bryan Fischer of Fox projected SJSU to face Memphis.CBS Sports’ Jerry Palm, on the other hand, projected them to join Cal in the South, for a Birmingham Bowl date against Georgia State.Meanwhile, ESPN’s Mark Schlabaugh projected a Boca Raton Bowl berth against Marshall, while Kyle Bonagura had them facing Ohio in a return to the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, where they lost last year to Eastern Michigan.The projections vary because the Mountain We...

San Jose Sharks hit with another injury as No. 1 center will miss game vs. Capitals

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:47 GMT

SAN JOSE — A San Jose Sharks team that was just starting to gain some confidence after an atrocious start to the season will now have to play without No. 1 center Tomas Hertl, who is considered day-to-day with an unspecified injury.Sharks coach David Quinn said Hertl was injured on Sunday when he and the team had the day off. Quinn refused to be specific about what happened to Hertl other than to say the ailment was around his midsection.Quinn said, though, that Hertl would join the Sharks on their upcoming road trip that starts Thursday in Boston against the Bruins.Hertl leads the Sharks with 16 points in 21 games this season and is averaging 20:56 in ice time per game, tops among all San Jose forwards. Before Monday, Hertl had 11 points in 11 games, helping spur the Sharks to a 4-6-1 record in that time after a 0-9-1 start to the season.The Sharks, now with a 4-1-1 record at home since the first week of November, are already without injured top-nine forwards Logan Couture (l...

Why environmentalists are suing the National Park Service to prevent it from planting trees

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:47 GMT

By Jonathan Park and Janna Van Vranken | CNNThe National Park Service wants to replant sequoia groves in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, where wildfires in 2020 and 2021 inflicted lasting damage on the iconic sequoia forests. Environmentalists in California say it’s a huge mistake.Four groups filed suit against the NPS on November 17, saying the agency’s effort violates the law as it includes planting in designated wilderness areas, where human involvement in the ecosystem is explicitly prohibited.The NPS announced the seedling-planting project earlier this fall, saying it was “concerned that natural regeneration may not be sufficient to support self-sustaining groves into the future, particularly as the fires killed an unprecedented number of reproductive sequoia trees in the groves themselves.”Chad Hanson, the director of the John Muir Project, one of the groups that filed suit, disputes that conclusion. Sequoias are among the species of trees that actually “depend on hig...

Police identify Oakland rapper killed during early morning confrontation

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:47 GMT

OAKLAND — Police here have identified a 34-year-old man who was killed in an early morning Oct. 29 shooting.Marquis Baxter was shot and killed around 3:20 a.m., during a fight with another person on the 400 block of 19th Street in downtown Oakland, police said. He was pronounced dead 20 minutes later at a nearby hospital.Baxter was shot a short time after leaving a local nightclub, but it was unclear whether the shooting stemmed from something that happened there, police said. No suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests have been announced.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Walnut Creek man gets two years for ‘eavesdropping’ with hidden camera in Starbucks bathroom Crime and Public Safety | One killed, another wounded in Oakland shooting Crime and Public Safety | Police arrest individual with pistol, marijuana and cash on Interstate 80 Crime and Public Safety | ‘He shot my dad̵...

Tea Time: Boston prepares for 250th anniversary of pivotal harbor dumping

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:47 GMT

Tea bags are coming in from all over the U.S. for a semiquincentennial bash in  Boston.Dec. 16 marks the Boston Tea Party’s 250th Anniversary, with reenactments, retrospectives, and, of course, the dumping of British tea into the Boston Harbor.Spearheading these efforts is Revolution 250, a consortium of more than 70 Massachusetts organizations working to make all of the day’s events.The Old South Meeting House, Downtown Crossing, Harborwalk and Faneuil Hall will be flooded with Bostonians and those visiting to commemorate the occasion, according to Revolution 250 Executive Director Jonathan Lane.Lane told the Herald that the reenactments and celebrating a pivotal point of our nation’s history should not solely be focused on Boston, with other communities within the state playing a vital role in gaining independence.“When we talk about the revolution, we want to talk about not just about the Boston Tea Party, and Lexington and Concord, we want to talk about the people of Great Barri...

A Big-Money Operation Purged Critics of Israel From the Democratic Party

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:47 GMT

The following article is adapted from the new book, “The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution,” out December 5, 2023.In May 2021, the Israeli government began pushing ahead with evictions of Palestinians in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem. It was one more creeping step forward in an occupation and annexation process that had been under way for decades, but what was new this time was the reaction of Hamas, the government in Gaza. If Israel didn’t back off its plan to evict the families and the Palestinian Authority wouldn’t stand up for the homeowners in Sheikh Jarrah, Hamas announced, they would do it themselves.The Israeli government did not back off, as was to be expected, and Hamas responded by launching rocket attacks into Israel, attacks that were intercepted by the U.S.-built Iron Dome air-defense system or that otherwise crashed to the earth. Israel launched an assault on Gaza, and what became known as the Gaza War of 2021 broke out.In Gaza wars ...

NYPD Paid Out $30 Million in Misconduct Cases Before Litigation in First Nine Months of 2023

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:47 GMT

The New York Police Department has been making headlines for the huge settlements paid out by the city in misconduct cases. In the first half of 2023, New York City paid more than $50 million in lawsuits alleging misconduct by members of the NYPD. That figure is on track to exceed $100 million by the end of the year — but even that total doesn’t capture how much the city has to spend in cases where its cops are accused of everything from causing car accidents to beating innocent people.The $100 million figure does not include lawsuits settled by the city prior to litigation, which reached $30 million in the first nine months of this year, according to data obtained from the office of the New York City Comptroller through a public records request. Pre-litigation settlements from July 2022 through September of this year totaled $50 million — meaning the city’s payouts in such suits since July 2022, including those settled after litigation, rose to a total of around $280 million.“...

EVs don’t hold their value — but hybrids do

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:47 GMT

Hybrid vehicles are emerging as the choice for buyers looking for an alternative to a traditional vehicle, and used hybrids are holding their value better than most other vehicles. All-electric vehicles have the worst depreciation rate by vehicle type.iSeeCars reports the average five-year depreciation rate for electric vehicles is almost 50%, meaning the typical EV loses half its value in just five years.One reason is technology.“There is absolutely an element of the rapid evolution of EVs that we are seeing right now that also makes EVs that are not particularly old start to look more obsolete more quickly than a traditional vehicle,” said Karl Brauer, executive analyst at iSeeCars.EV depreciation rates are also exaggerated by incentives that pull the price down immediately. A $7,500 government incentive for purchasing an EV makes a $50,000 EV instantly a $42,500 EV, and depreciation rates are based on original MSRP price, not the price after any incentives or rebates.Hybrids on t...