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Every week, we feature an available animal from Woods Humane Society. This week, it is 12-year-old Chihuahua Iris’ turn in the spotlight! Since coming to Woods, she has been living with a foster family and getting needed medical attention but she is now ready for a new home where she can spend her golden years. The veterinary team at Woods Humane Society thinks she is around 12 years old but she is still very active. She loves walks, meeting new people and above all else finding a lap to cuddle up in. She will be available at noon today at the Woods Humane Society shelter off of Oklahoma Ave. in San Luis Obispo. Click here for more information!

A Santa Barbara County man and former real estate broker has been convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to five years probation, 30 days in jail, and $2 million in fines, according to the District Attorney’s Office. Adam Michael Pirozzi, 42, was convicted of embezzling more than $650,000 of his client’s funds as owner of Santa Barbara Property Management, a company responsible for managing various apartment complexes. Pirozzi previously pleaded no contest to two counts of embezzlement by a real estate broker. As part of the $2 million fine, the Santa Barbara Superior Court ordered the defendant to pay nearly $1.3 million in restitution to his victims. According to the District Attorney’s Office, a tip from one of Pirozzi’s clients and a referral from the Santa Barbara Police Department prompted an internal investigation into Pirozzi’s handling of his client trust accounts. Once the criminal case against him was filed, the District Attorney’s Real Estate Fraud Unit reportedly froze multiple homes and bank accounts belonging to Pirozzi. The frozen assets are designated for the complete payment of victim restitution, including interest, as well as for settling the

The IRS recently notified teachers, nurses, counselors and other faculty members in the Glendale Unified School District that they could not file their taxes this year because they already had — or at least somebody using their information did. In December, the school district with more than 25,000 Los Angeles County students learned that it was the latest victim of a ransomware attack aimed at institutions that store sensitive data, but lack the same type of security standards of a large government agency. The attackers locked district employees out of their own system and demanded an undisclosed ransom for the safe return of their data, according to a district spokesperson. The data included employee and student names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security and driver’s license numbers and financial account information, according to a letter sent to district employees reviewed by The Times. In the ensuing months, the full extent of the breach emerged when district employees tried to file their federal and state income taxes but couldn’t because they’d already been filed fraudulently. As of Friday, at least 231 union members have been impacted

Tens of thousands of people are dusting off their cowboy hats as the 2024 Stagecoach festival returns to the Empire Polo Club in Indio this weekend. But if the heat and the high wind advisory (not to mention the ticket and hotel prices) are keeping you out of the desert, you can still watch your favorite country artists from home — while keeping an eye out for a “Cowboy Carter” cameo. For the second year, “country music’s biggest party” will be livestreamed on the Amazon Music channel on Twitch.tv and via Prime Video starting at 4 p.m. PDT Friday and continuing Saturday and Sunday, starting at the same time. The livestream will include interviews with “Country Heat Weekly” podcast hosts Kelly Sutton and Amber Anderson as well as country radio personality and Bachelor Nation’s own Graham Bunn. Don’t have access to Prime Video? You can access the livestream via a 30-day free trial of Amazon Prime. Fans also can purchase merchandise from more than a dozen performers, including headliners Eric Church, Miranda Lambert and Morgan Wallen, and listen to the official Stagecoach playlist at amazon.com/stagecoach

Los Angeles traffic is so notoriously bad, some residents might be willing to do anything to cut down on wait time — including driving with a mannequin in the passenger seat. A California Highway Patrol officer in Santa Fe Springs stopped a driver recently for crossing solid double lines to enter a carpool lane, only to bust them for having a plastic dummy instead of another human in the passenger seat, the CHP wrote in an Instagram post Thursday. The agency posted a photo of a dummy buckled into the passenger seat, wearing a hoodie sweatshirt and sunglasses. “The goatee was sharp … just a little too sharp,” the CHP wrote of the dummy. The driver, whose name was not released, was cited for multiple carpool lane violations, according to the CHP. “Remember to plan ahead, know your route of travel, and the general challenges of your drive to avoid being in a rush or tempted to push your luck,” the agency wrote. The other obvious lesson: If you’re going to pretend to qualify for the HOV lanes, don’t cross a double line on your

SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — County Supervisor Jim Desmond says San Diego is the new epicenter for migrants and illegal immigration. Desmond’s office reported that on Tuesday alone, Border Patrol agents apprehended 2,000 unlawful border crossers within the San Diego Sector, including 206 Chinese nationals. Desmond says the recent surge in unlawful crossings has “propelled San Diego to the unfortunate position of leading all nine southern border sectors in April, a trend unseen since the 1990s.” Desmond also said that since the current fiscal year began on Oct. 1, 2023, the San Diego Sector “has witnessed a staggering 214,855 apprehensions, representing individuals from over 75 countries across the globe.” Border Report reached out to U.S. Customs and Border Protection to confirm the figures published by Desmond and is awaiting a response. CBP normally releases monthly encounter figures the following month, so numbers for April won’t be made public until the middle of May. Border Patrol says it’s ready for new migrant surge in El Paso In March, according to CBP statistics, there were 33,784 apprehensions in the San Diego Sector. And since Oct. 1, 2023

A 23-year-old Hesperia man died Thursday while he was in the custody of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, authorities said. Eduardo Lopez, who had been arrested by the Hesperia Police Department for alleged vandalism and obstructing a police officer on April 1, was being held at the West Valley Detention Center where he was “observed harming himself in his cell” on April 15, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release. Lopez was moved to a safety cell, and though “Lopez was monitored frequently in the safety cell by deputies and medical staff,” he was found unresponsive in that cell the next day, April 16, authorities said. “Deputies and medical staff performed life saving measures until emergency medical personnel arrived and Lopez was transported to Pomona Valley Hospital for further medical treatment,” the release said. However, his “health continued to decline,” and he died Thursday. An autopsy will determine the cause of death. Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Travis Kleveno at 909-890-4904. To report information anonymously, call WeTip at 800-78CRIME or wetip.com.

The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation will host its annual Memorial Weekend next month, a yearly opportunity to remember and celebrate firefighters and emergency personnel who died in the line of duty. Among the more than 200 firefighters to be honored are 16 who served in the state of California. CAL FIRE and Los Angeles County accounts for the majority of those firefighters. Many died from complications of cancer, which was later deemed by the State of California to be a line-of-duty death. The California firefighters to be honored next month are below: Assistant Chief Joshua Bischof, 46, of CAL FIRE Captain Timothy Rodriguez, age 44, of CAL FIRE Pilot Tony Sousa, 55, of Air Shasta Rotor & Wing Inc. Bischof, Rodriguez and Sousa died on Aug. 6, 2023, when two firefighting helicopters collided in Cabazon while fighting the Broadway Wildland Fire in Riverside County. Firefighter Specialist Robert Brantley, 50, of the Los Angeles County Fire Department Brantley died on Jan. 5, 2018, due to complications of cancer. Firefighter Russell Fagan, 56, of the Los Angeles County Fire Department Fagan died on Nov. 24, 2018, due

  2m ago Witness says he was Cohen’s banker at the time of the Daniels payment Gary Farro is a type of witness described as a “custodian of records.” He’s on the stand to testify to the accuracy of a series of records related to Cohen’s bank accounts and transactions with First Republic Bank. Prosecutors have alleged Cohen used a shell corporation with a First Republic account, called Essential Consultants, to pay Daniels. On Friday, they also showed formation documents for a limited liability corporation created by Cohen called Resolution Consultants. That account was created for the payment to McDougal that was never posted. Farro, who now works for a different company, was Cohen’s banker. He said he was assigned to him after Cohen’s previous private banker at the firm left in 2015. “I was told that I was selected because of my knowledge and my ability to handle individuals that may be a little challenging,” Farro said, adding later that, “frankly, I didn’t find him that difficult.” Farro said Cohen called him “If it was something that was urgent,” but mostly walked to a

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By Caitlin Yilek April 26, 2024 / 3:40 PM EDT / CBS News 4/26: CBS Morning News 4/26: CBS Morning News 20:37 Washington — A group of senators is pressing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for more information on border officers’ broad authority to search travelers’ phones and other electronic devices without a warrant or suspicion of a crime, renewing scrutiny of whether the U.S. government is infringing on Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures. In a letter sent to Mayorkas on Thursday, top Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Senate Finance committees asked the department to brief their staff within the next two weeks on what data is retained from these searches and how the U.S. government is using the data.  “We are concerned that the current policies and practices governing the search of electronic devices at the border constitute a departure from the intended scope and application of border search authority,” Sens. Gary Peters of Michigan, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mike Crapo of Idaho wrote in the four-page letter, referring to an