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Push to join organ donor registry during vehicle registration

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:42 GMT

NEW YORK STATE (NEWS10) -- The New York Department of Motor Vehicles is taking new steps to increase organ donor enrollment. Drivers registering a vehicle at the DMV will now be asked to consider joining the donation registry.The question will be displayed on the transaction screen during registration. Donor recipients spoke in Albany on Wednesday and praised the move and shared their stories. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! "I was in dire need of a heart, and I was convinced that I wasn't gonna make it, and I wanted to be there for my 2-month-old at the time," heart transplant recipient Tonya Voronko said. "Through the selfless act of an organ donor, I made it, and I'm alive and I'm here for her."Forty-six percent of New Yorkers are registered organ donors. The national average is 62 percent.

Hundreds protest anti-transgender legislation at Missouri Capitol

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:42 GMT

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Just days after the Missouri Senate passed legislation aimed at the LGBTQ community, hundreds gathered at the Capitol to protest on behalf of trans rights.At the beginning of the January session, Republicans said it was a priority to pass legislation limiting transgender athletes. While the legislation approved by senators last week is moving forward inside the state house, people outside say this is a way for Missourians to learn more about the LGBTQ community."Part of my speech was thanking the majority party for bringing this up, because we know through our history,y that when people start talking, people start learning," Sen. Greg Razer, D-Kansas City, told the crowded gathered on the Capitol lawn. "People in Missouri are talking about trans-Missourians."Last week, the upper chambers passed two bills prohibiting doctors from performing surgeries or prescribing puberty blockers or hormone treatments to minors, and requiring transgender athletes to play on th...

SoCal mountain communities bracing for more snow

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:42 GMT

With a winter storm warning in effect for some mountain communities, many are bracing for snow as yet another weather system moves across the region, just weeks after blizzard conditions left many in San Bernardino County residents trapped in their homes and in need of emergency assistance. Snow had already started falling in the San Bernardino County Mountains by Wednesday afternoon, an area that has already received unprecedented amounts of snow in a short amount of time.   Mammoth Mountain sets all-time snowfall record “You know, it wasn’t too bad, actually,” said a woman who traveled to Big Bear from Whittier. “We got to the foot of the mountain, Caltrans pulled us over and said, ‘Chains required.’ So, we pulled over, paid our $50 and had our chains put on.”  The latest spring storm is expected to bring roughly 18 inches to Snow Valley in Running Springs and several inches to areas around Big Bear, Lake Arrowhead and Crestline. “The last couple of storms we’ve h...

2023 Remarkable Women Nominee: Lisa LaRusso

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:42 GMT

While responding to emergency calls, paramedics see things most people will never experience in their lives. Lisa LaRusso from Menifee is a longtime paramedic who has seen it all, and it influenced her decision to start her own nonprofit to prevent child drownings. Lisa is a nominee for the 2023 Remarkable Women Award. KTLA’s Shelby Nelson has her story.

Newsom Signs Law Against Alleged Gas Price Gouging

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:42 GMT

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law that will attempt to combat alleged gas price gouging, Wednesday.The law allows the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to set a maximum gross gasoline refining margin, regulating the amount of profits an oil company can make from gasoline sales. The commission will also have the authority to fine companies if it finds it exceeds the gross margins.“With this legislation, we’re ending the oil industry’s days of operating in the shadows,” Newsom said in a statement Wednesday. “California took on Big Oil and won. We’re not only protecting families, we’re also loosening the vice grip Big Oil has had on our politics for the last 100 years.”SBX1-2 was presented by California Senator Nancy Skinner and was passed by the California Senate Thursday. The bill then passed the state assembly by a 58-19 vote, before heading to Newsom’s desk to sign into law.“California has sent a clear message to the ...

Alameda: Missing man’s body found in harbor

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:42 GMT

ALAMEDA — A man reported missing to authorities earlier this week was found dead in the waters near Marina Village Yacht Harbor on Wednesday, authorities said.The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office coroner’s bureau identified him as Angel Ambriz, 56, of Alameda.Coroners from the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office wheel away the body of Angel Ambriz, 56, after he was found in the water at Marina Village in Alameda, Calif., on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. Ambriz, a native of Michoacan, Mexico, has lived on his boat at the marina for many years and has been missing since March 18, according to his family. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) Alameda police had asked for the public’s help in finding Ambriz since a missing-person report filed March 23, and investigators had recovered surveillance-camera video footage of Ambriz walking at the city’s Marina Village Yacht Harbor shortly before 2 a.m. March 18.In a social-media post Wednesday, police acknowledged...

Senate votes to end COVID-19 emergency in the US

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:42 GMT

By Ali Zaslav, Phil Mattingly and Manu Raju | CNNThe Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would end the national Covid-19 emergency declared by then-President Donald Trump on March 13, 2020.The final vote was overwhelmingly bipartisan, 68-23. The joint resolution, which cleared the House earlier this year, now heads to President Joe Biden’s desk.The vote comes on the heels of two other successful efforts led by Republicans in approving legislation rescinding Biden administration policies.A White House official said in a statement to CNN that while the President “strongly opposes” this bill, the administration is already winding down the emergency by May 11, the date previously announced for the end of the authority.Still, the official noted, if the Senate passed the measure and it heads to Biden’s desk, “he will sign it, and the administration will continue working with agencies to wind down the national emergency with as much notice as possible to Am...

7 CHP officers charged in death of man in their custody

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:42 GMT

By Stefanie Dazio | Associated PressLOS ANGELES — Prosecutors charged seven California Highway Patrol officers and a nurse with involuntary manslaughter on Wednesday in connection with the 2020 death of a man who screamed “I can’t breathe” while multiple officers restrained him as they tried to take a blood sample.Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced the charges in the death of Edward Bronstein, which the LA County coroner said was caused by “acute methamphetamine intoxication during restraint by law enforcement.”“The officers had a legal duty to Mr. Bronstein,” Gascón said during a news conference. “He was in their custody. We believe that they failed their duty and their failure was criminally negligent, causing his death.”Bronstein, 38, was taken into custody following a traffic stop on suspicion of driving under the influence on March 31, 2020. He died at a CHP station in Altadena, north of downtown Lo...

As support for reparations grows statewide, anger simmers in Alameda County

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:42 GMT

In California, calls for reparations are getting louder: A state task force just released an $800 billion estimate for reparations for Black state residents, while earlier this month, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors expressed support for $5 million payments to every eligible Black adult in the county.The Alameda County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday supplied a fresh victory for advocates of the growing movement to compensate Black people for generations of systemic racism, with the board voting unanimously to create a committee that will study reparations for Black residents.But the meeting also provided a look at just how ugly this fight could get.Although all four supervisors offered support for the study, the level of vitriol expressed against the very concept of reparations showed that, at least in corners of the mostly blue Alameda County, the issue is deeply divisive.Although a majority of residents stood in support of the measure, a vocal minority was vehement...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar visits Oakland HS state championship basketball teams

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:42 GMT

OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) -- Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was in Oakland on Wednesday to meet with a pair of state championship basketball teams. The Oakland High School boys’ basketball team and Oakland Tech High School’s girls’ basketball team each won state titles earlier in March. The former Los Angeles Laker took photos with the teams and gave out autographed copies of his book; On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance. Oakland A’s ballpark ranked worst in U.S. "I think for the students, it's very important that they get recognized for something positive," he said. "So I was real happy to come up here and reinforce that and talk to them about what they're going to do for the rest of their life, cause that's the most important part now." Abdul-Jabbar gave the high schoolers words of encouragement and spoke about the importance of education.“Extraordinary models of social justice inspire us to do better and be better," said State Superintenden...