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Colorado Senate Democrats select Denver senator as No. 2 leader

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:48 GMT

Colorado Senate Democrats selected state Sen. Robert Rodriguez Friday as their new majority leader.State Sen. Robert Rodriguez looks upward during the first day of the 2023 Colorado legislative session in the Senate Chambers at the Colorado State Capitol on January 9, 2023 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)Rodriguez, who represents the largely south Denver District 32, will replace former Senate Majority Leader Dominick Moreno, of Commerce City. Moreno left his Senate seat a year before his term was up to join new Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s administration.Rodriguez will help steer the chamber during the 2024 legislative session and set priorities for the majority. Democrats occupy 23 of the 35 seats in the chamber, just one vote shy of a supermajority.Democrats hold an outright supermajority in the state House of Representatives, and Gov. Jared Polis is also a Democrat. But that Democratic trifecta has split at times, including over a high-profile la...

Keeler: CU football, Coach Prime are getting love from Patrick Mahomes, Bill Simmons, DJ Khaled, Snoop Dogg. How did Buffs become America’s Team?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:48 GMT

BOULDER — As Dylan Edwards flashed four fingers in the end zone, Tyrone Byrd’s Big Red heart slipped on cement shoes and sank to the bottom of Jamaica Bay.“Unfortunately, I think CU is gonna get us,” Byrd, a former Nebraska safety and now a State Farm agent in Commerce City, told me on the eve of Buffs-Huskers Part LXXII on Saturday at Folsom Field. “With what Deion (Sanders) is teaching and developing, with his high standards and (given that) the guys are buying in — they only had six penalties (in the opener).“And they’ve got some guys. Like he said, ‘I’m bringing dawgs.’ I don’t think (the Cornhuskers) have those kind of guys, where they think this way, they think, ‘I’m going to dominate.’ We have a lot of good athletes, but I just don’t know if we have enough guys that have that right mindset.”You know how you might not love something, or somebody, but at the same time, darn it, you just ca...

Video captures boogie boarders riding on bioluminescent waves in Huntington Beach

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:48 GMT

Bioluminescence is not an unfamiliar sight in California, but when it's spotted, it's often aquatic creatures playing in the lit waters.Earlier this week, however, a photographer and videographer captured some humans getting in on the fun.In Huntington Beach, boogie boarders took to the ocean to catch some glowing waves, which are usually the result of plankton. Stunning video shows school of fish playing in bioluminescent water "It’s been a while since we’ve seen it here but the waves this time around were unbelievably bright," Patrick Coyne, who goes by @patrickc_la on Instagram, shared on the social media platform. "...The beach was crowded with people enjoying the show and we all had a blast. Let’s hope it’s there again tonight."Coyne, who has a talent for capturing stunning bioluminescent scenes, previously shared videos of dolphins frolicking in the waves off Newport Beach in 2020 and a school of mullet playing in bioluminescent water last year.

11 Students Hurt in Pedestrian Accident on Tulare Avenue [Fresno, CA]

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:48 GMT

Eleven Students Injured in Pedestrian Collision near Roosevelt High SchoolFRESNO, CA (September 8, 2023) – Wednesday afternoon, eleven students sustained injuries in a pedestrian accident on Tulare Avenue.Police responded to the scene around 3:30 p.m., near Cedar Avenue and the Roosevelt High School campus.According to reports, the 16-year-old driver of a black pickup-truck turned south onto Cedar at a high rate of speed.There, the driver lost control and jumped a curb before striking multiple students waiting at the bus stop. Medics arrived and transported eleven students to a nearby hospital for further treatment.Following the collision, the teen driver and his 14-year-old sister were picked up by a family member and fled the scene. According to the police, authorities managed to pull over the vehicle and take the suspect into custody. Fresno officials will investigate the incident as a felony hit-and-run.Thousands of people are injured each year due to reckless driving. If ...

Officer Hospitalized Following Two-Vehicle Crash on 18th Street [Merced, CA]

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:48 GMT

SUV Accident near G Street Left Officer HospitalizedMERCED, CA (September 8, 2023) – Wednesday evening, authorities sent an officer to a hospital following a two-vehicle crash at 18th and G Streets.The California Highway Patrol received reports of the incident around 9:00 p.m., according to Officer Eric Zuniga.According to the report, a southbound 2014 Jeep Cherokee on G Street hit the left rear of an eastbound 2020 Dodge Charger driven by the officer.Medical responders rushed the 31-year-old officer to a hospital for treatment for minor injuries. Meanwhile, the 28-year-old Jeep driver from Live Oak and his passenger declined medical treatment at the scene.In Zuniga’s statement, it was unclear which driver had the right-of-way at the time of the collision. Police do not suspect drugs or alcohol to be a factor in the incident.The CHP is asking anyone with additional information about the 18th Street two-vehicle crash to contact the Merced-area office at 209-365-6600.One small d...

Duner Larson Killed in Pedestrian Crash on Sallie Jeffreys Way [Corona, CA]

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:48 GMT

Melissa Damron Arrested after Running Over and Killing Her SonCORONA, CA (September 8, 2023) – Tuesday morning, Duner Larson was killed after his mother ran him over in her vehicle.The incident occurred around 7:55 a.m., near Sallie Jeffreys Way, just north of Golden Harvest Drive.According to the reports, Melissa Damron locked her son out of her vehicle. The boy ran after his mother and tried to get back into the car, but Damron continued driving. Larson was unable to hold on and fell before being run over.Emergency crews arrived shortly after and transported the boy to Corona Regional Medical Center. Despite life-saving efforts, officials at the hospital pronounced 60-year-old Duner Larson dead, due to the extent of his condition.On September 7th, police arrested Damron for vehicular manslaughter and child endangerment.The team at Sweet James would like to offer their sincere sympathies to the family and friends of Duner Larson. May you find comfort and strength through the memori...

Former San Francisco bar owner sentenced to 7 years for receiving 30+ lewd videos from 9-year-old girl

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:48 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — A 39-year-old man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for receiving dozens of lewd videos from a 9-year-old girl, who prosecutors say he referred to as his “girlfriend” and threatened to expose when she tried to cut him off.James Moran, of Reno, was sentenced last month after pleading guilty to receipt of child pornography. In a sentencing memo, prosecutors asked for a prison term of 11 years and eight months, writing that Moran had possessed thousands of additional downloaded child pornography files, and threatened the 9-year-old victim that “I will send all ur (sic) nudes to your dad” when she told him she was through sending lewd videos of herself to him.The girl and Moran met on social media. Prosecutors say it was Moran’s modus operandi to pose as a young boy and ask for explicit content, adding that he did so with several other users who identified themselves as minors. During chats with the 9-year-old, Moran allegedl...

Review: ‘Soul Train Musical’ bursts out of the gate in SF world premiere

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:48 GMT

“Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical” roared into San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater Wednesday night in an explosively kinetic world premiere.Dominique Morisseau’s propulsive new jukebox musical has its sights set on Broadway, where “Ain’t Too Proud,” the Temptations musical, which she also wrote and which debuted at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, generated great acclaim for its celebration of the Motown sound.Movement is the engine that drives “Trip,” a retro pop music delight that pays tribute to “Soul Train,” the groundbreaking TV dance party that brought Black singers and dancers into the mainstream American imagination from the ‘70s to the 2000’s. In a society often ruled by visuals, TV shows take on outsize influence over the culture. In the case of “Soul Train,” the influence was colossal, shining an unwavering spotlight on black culture through the ebb and flow of decades of social tumult. It was a radical alternative to “American Bandstand” in which peo...

Bill cracking down on California school textbook bans heads to Gov. Newsom

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:48 GMT

Banning textbook bans in California is the goal of a bill now headed to the governor’s desk.In mainly party-line votes, the Democratic-controlled state legislature on Thursday, Sept. 7, passed AB 1078, legislation seen as Sacramento’s counter-strike against conservative school boards that keep certain textbooks and related materials out of the classroom.In most cases, the boards say they’re protecting children from pornography and other harmful content. Critics contend they’re trying to erase any mention of LGBTQ people or truthful lessons about the role of race in U.S. history.A textbook showdown occurred earlier this year in Temecula, where the school board rejected an elementary social studies curriculum with supplemental materials that referenced the late LGBTQ civil rights leader Harvey Milk. Two board members called Milk a “pedophile.”Gov. Gavin Newsom threatened to send textbooks to Temecula and fine the Temecula Valley Unified School District if the board did not approve the...

Judge who approved Kansas newspaper raid faces complaint

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:48 GMT

By Whitney Wild, Elizabeth Wolfe and Andy Rose | CNNThe judge who signed off on a search warrant authorizing the raid of a newspaper office in Marion, Kansas, is facing a complaint about her decision and has been asked by a judicial body to respond, records shared with CNN by the complainant show.Kansas resident Keri Strahler filed the complaint against Judge Laura Viar about a week after police raided the office of the Marion County Record, the home of the paper’s publisher and a county councilwoman, seizing reporters’ cell phones and computers, among other items, in a move that drew widespread condemnation from news organizations and press freedom advocates.The complaint requests the Kansas Commission on Judicial Conduct to review “Viar’s mental capacity in her decision to seemingly circumvent federal and state law” when she signed off on the search warrant for the newspaper office, according to a copy of the complaint provided by Strahler.The commission has asked Viar to respond ...