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Polis vetoes bill to standardize prison commutation proceedings

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:39 GMT

Gov. Jared Polis vetoed a bill Tuesday that would’ve standardized how Colorado prison inmates apply for their sentences to be commuted, part of the first package of vetoes the governor has issued this year.In a letter to the bill’s sponsors, Polis wrote that the measure was unconstitutional and infringed upon his sole authority to grant clemency. HB23-1214 would’ve required set procedures and notifications for inmates applying for their sentences to be commuted, which supporters said was important to ensure transparency and accountability for inmates and state officials alike.But Polis argued that the requirements in the bill put guardrails around a process that is entirely under the control of his office.“While the bill is well-intentioned, the Colorado Constitution clearly sets out that the legislaturemay not prescribe the manner of applying for commutations,” he wrote in a Tuesday veto letter to the bill’s sponsors, Democrats Rep. Elisabeth Epp...

LAPD volunteer recovering after being swarmed by bees in Encino

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:39 GMT

A Los Angeles Police Department volunteer is on the mend and recovering in the hospital after he was attacked by a swarm of bees in Encino Monday.The unidentified volunteer was stung multiple times as he tried to help with traffic control in a residential neighborhood that was actively being terrorized by a swarm of aggressive bees.It happened around 5 p.m. on the 17100 block of West Adlon Road. The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to the scene for a report of a swarm of bees that had stung at least one person. Police later responded and began closing down roadways and urging residents to stay indoors.Video from Sky5 showed the man directing traffic before he was forced to retreat away after several bees began attacking him, stinging him several times in the face and eyes. He swatted at the cloud of bees before losing his balance and falling head first onto the roadway.He was transported to the hospital for treatment and a local beekeeper was able to move the problem bees away ...

Video shows horrific head-on collision in Riverside that injured 5

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:39 GMT

Five people were hospitalized, including three children, after a head-on collision in Riverside early Tuesday, authorities said.The collision occurred around 7:30 a.m. at Arlington and Stover avenues and involved a grey Nissan sedan and a white Honda sedan.Home security video obtained by KTLA shows the driver of the Honda apparently losing control and veering into the path of the Nissan. The violent impact scattered car parts and debris across the roadway and into yards.Four people in the Nissan, a female adult and three juveniles were rushed to a hospital with injuries ranging from critical to serious, a spokesperson for Riverside Police said. The man driving the Honda was hospitalized in serious condition.Home security video obtained by KTLA shows the driver of the Honda apparently lose control and veer into the path of the Nissan. May 16, 2023. (Isabel Cisneros)“I was at work watching everything from the cameras. I was shocked” one neighbor, Isabel Cisneros told KTLA. “I saw a li...

Inland Empire man arrested, accused of stealing tech from American employers to aid Chinese businesses

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:39 GMT

A San Bernardino County man was arrested earlier this month on allegations that he stole sensitive software from his employers in the United States with the intended purpose of using it to aid competing businesses in China.Liming Li, 64, of Rancho Cucamonga, was arrested on May 6 after he landed at the Ontario International Airport after arriving on a flight from Taiwan. Li is accused of stealing thousands of files of sensitive technology from his employers, which he then used to help foreign companies create competing technology.Among those products, according to the United States Department of Justice, the technology could be used in the manufacturing of nuclear submarines and military aircraft.Charging documents indicate that Li worked in various engineering and software development roles for two Southern California companies from 1996 to 2019.The companies developed software programs that used "high precision measurement studies interpretation and point cloud technology," which ...

Proseso Torres Killed in Pedestrian Crash on US 50 [Carson City, NV]

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:39 GMT

Carson Man Pronounced Dead Following Auto-Pedestrian Collision near Nye LaneCARSON CITY, NV (May 16, 2023) – 68-year-old Proseso Torres from Carson City tragically died in a pedestrian crash on US 50 last March.The incident occurred happened on March 2nd at around 6:17 p.m., at the intersection of U.S. 50 and Nye Lane.According to the State Patrol, Torres was walking outside a marked crosswalk when a silver Ford Explorer traveling eastbound on U.S. 50 struck him.Despite immediate medical attention, paramedics pronounced the victim, Proseso Torres of Carson City, died at the scene.Meanwhile, the driver involved remained and cooperated with the police. No further information is available at this time.Moreover, both directions of the roadway were temporarily shut down to allow for cleanup and preliminary duties.The cause and factor of the fatal pedestrian collision remain under investigation.Sweet James sends out their warm and sincerest sympathies to the friends and family of Pr...

Letters: Boycott A’s | A bad plan | Plan for drought | Plastic pollution | Foster youth | More services

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:39 GMT

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor.Hit A’s owner whereit hurts: the walletRe: “A’s plan for stadium appears to be dead” (Page A1, May 13).The front-page story on Saturday, “A’s plan for stadium appears to be dead” showed a photo on Page 6 of fans throwing rotten tomatoes at photos of team owner John Fisher, team President Dave Kaval, and Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred.I do sympathize with the fans and their anger and frustration. However, throwing rotten tomatoes will roll off the backs of these men like water off a duck. If you really want these men to know how you feel, hit them where it hurts, their wallets. My husband suggested a boycott of all the games.I know this would be hard for the fans, but you could still show up in the parking lots and have tailgate parties; that’s half the fun anyway. Just don’t buy the tickets.Carol PollardSan JoseAdding more jobsthan homes a bad planRe: “Office...

Alec Baldwin’s tragedy-marred ‘Rust’ looking for a buyer

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:39 GMT

As part of the behind-the-scenes deal making that takes places at the Cannes Film Festival, producers for Alec Baldwin’s “Rust” are looking for someone who wants to buy and distribute the movie, which will forever be known for the accidental shooting death of its cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.Ryan Donnell Smith, a producer for “Rust,” confirmed to the New York Times Tuesday that he was at the festival, looking for international buyers who will help get the Western into theaters. That is, if audiences are clamoring to see a movie so associated with tragedy and controversy. The New York Times also reported that distribution plans for “Rust” in the United States are not yet certain, including whether it will be screened in movie theaters or go straight to a streaming service.Smith’s appearance at Cannes comes as Baldwin has been in Montana, with the movie’s cast and some new crew members, trying to finish up where they left off in...

Feds charge Oakland man with possessing unregistered short-barrel rifle, claim he’s a suspect in two shootings

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:39 GMT

OAKLAND — A Bay Area man has been charged in federal court with being a felon in possession of ammunition and illegal possession of an unregistered short barrel rifle, court records show.Tredell Smith, 32, of Oakland, was charged in late April in a two-count criminal complaint. The charges carry up to 15 and 10 years in federal prison, respectively. For now, Smith remains in federal custody at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, but is being evaluated for placement in a halfway house, court records show.Prosecutors, though, are moving to keep Smith in jail by arguing that he’s a suspect in a May 2019 fatal shooting in Oakland. But the evidence prosecutors cite amounts only to this: Smith and a suspected Oakland gang member, armed with a pistol, were seen driving a Toyota Highlander near Booker’s Liquor Store two days after the same type of vehicle was captured on surveillance footage at the scene of a fatal shooting.The May 22, 2019 shooting claimed the life of Hadiyah Loud...

Apple engineer on ‘need to know’ project stole secrets, fled to China after agents visited Mountain View home: feds

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:39 GMT

An Apple software engineer working on a secretive autonomous-driving project stole thousands of sensitive documents and fled to China five minutes before midnight the day law enforcement agents visited his Mountain View home, federal authorities claim.Apple only gave access to information about the project on a “need to know” basis, and Weibao Wang was one of fewer than 4% of the firm’s full-time employees with knowledge of the project, and one of 2% who could get into its databases, federal prosecutors said in an indictment unsealed Tuesday.Wang’s prosecution arose from the work of a multi-agency federal “Disruptive Technology Strike Force” charged with combating “efforts by hostile nation-states to illicitly acquire sensitive U.S. technology to advance their authoritarian regimes and facilitate human rights abuses,” the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday.Apple in 2016 hired Wang, a Chinese citizen who is now 35, to work on algor...

NC GOP takes first step to override veto of 12-week abortion limit

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:39 GMT

By Hannah Schoenbaum, Gary D. Robertson and Denise Lavoie | Associated PressRALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s Republican-controlled Senate voted Tuesday to override the Democratic governor’s veto of a bill banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy in the first of two steps necessary to enact the policy over Gov. Roy Cooper’s opposition.The vote came as abortion rights in the U.S. faced another tectonic shift with lawmakers debating laws to sharply limit abortion in North and South Carolina, two of the few remaining Southern states with relatively easy access.Nebraska joined North Carolina and South Carolina in debating abortion restrictions Tuesday that are possible because the U.S. Supreme Court last year struck down the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which established a nationwide right to abortion.Under another bill up for a vote Tuesday, in the South Carolina House, abortion access would be almost entirely banned after about six weeks of pregnancy. T...