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Los Angeles General Medical Center is asking the public for help Thursday identifying two women who were brought to the hospital several days ago but whose names remain unknown. The first “Jane Doe” arrived on Sunday after being involved in a train vs pedestrian incident, the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services stated in a news release. The woman is believed to be about 30 years old with brown and blond-colored hair that was shaved on the right side. Los Angeles General Medical Center is seeking help identifying a patient who arrived on Nov. 10, 2024. (L.A. Health Services) She is about 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 146 pounds, according to the release. The second “Jane Doe” arrived a day later on Monday after a “fall from height,” Health Services stated. She is also believed to be about 30 years old and has short dark brown hair and brown eyes. The patient is about 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 160 pounds. Los Angeles General Medical Center is seeking help identifying a patient who arrived on Nov. 11, 2024. (L.A. Health

The Lompoc Valley Chamber of Commerce will be holding a ribbon cutting ceremony today in honor of ‘CommUnify’ and its grand opening. Today at 3:00 p.m., community members are invited to come out and visit the new facility at 200 North H Street. The new center will serve as a resource hub for the community, from children to families to seniors. Services include financial literary training, teen mentoring and repair services among others. Live music, refreshments and tours will be happening for those who stop by.

Millions of holiday lights will soon illuminate the Cambria Pines Lodge area for the annual Cambria Christmas Market. The Christmas Market has been going on for the past 13 years, bringing in more than 70,000 people annually. It was originally an idea to bring tourists out to Cambria during a traditionally slow season. The owner of the lodge here is a big fan of the German Christmas markets and he wanted to bring a taste of that to the Central Coast, said event coordinator Mike Arnold. People come specifically for the Christmas Market and they make reservations far in advance, said Linn’s restaurant employee Brandy Cole. With an expanded display this year and more than 3 million lights, setup begins in August. Arnold tells me some nights are already close to selling out. This is shaping up to be our biggest year yet, Arnold said. Arnold says the approval in February of a 15-year permit is allowing them to incorporate more local vendors into the event. There will be 38 this year, up from 26 last year. We currently have the largest Christmas story in

LeBron James had San Antonio on his mind Wednesday night, but not because the Lakers face the Spurs on Friday. He was thinking of something else — or, rather, someone else. The Spurs revealed earlier Wednesday that longtime coach Gregg Popovich suffered a mild stroke Nov. 2 at the team’s arena in the hours before a game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. He started a rehabilitation program, the Spurs said, and is expected to make a full recovery. The game against the Lakers on Friday will be the eighth in which assistant coach Mitch Johnson will be filling in while Popovich recovers. It also opens the Lakers’ defense of their NBA Cup in-season tournament championship — something James admitted Wednesday he hadn’t even thought about before a reporter brought it up. “For me personally, there’s much bigger news out of San Antonio right now and that’s my dear friend Coach Pop,” James said after the Lakers’ 128-123 win over the Memphis Grizzlies. “I’ll be thinking heavily about him as I travel there tomorrow [for] the game on Friday. And I’m wishing him the best of health

Linkin Park is expanding its comeback tour, taking their From Zero road show across the globe. The Agoura Hills rap-rock group, which relaunched in September with singer Emily Armstrong replacing late frontman Chester Bennington, will roll their tour into 2025, announcing stadium and arena stops across North America, Asia, Europe and Latin America. The “In the End” and “Numb” hitmakers, whose new album “From Zero” drops Friday, will launch the next leg of their tour in Mexico City on Jan. 31. The Northern California rockers of AFI will be their special guests at that show and several others. Additional supporting acts include Queens of the Stone Age, who will make one appearance, Canadian heavy metal rock band Spiritbox, Britain’s Architects, singer Grandson, experimental pop musician Jean Dawson, rapper JPEGMAFIA and pop band PVRIS. The 59-date tour includes three stops in California as well as stops in New York, Paris, London and and Rio. The band will play Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Sept. 13, the SAP Center in San Jose on Sept. 15 and the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento on Sept. 17. The

Todo está listo en el Kaseya Center de la ciudad de Miami para la celebración de los 25 años de Latin Grammy se llevarán a cabo hoy con la presencia de innumerables figuras del mundo del espectáculo entre los que se incluyen los nominados, los presentadores de premios, las personalidades de la industria, celebridades invitadas a cantar y anunciar a los ganadores y por supuesto el público en general que llega con las emociones a flor de piel y con las ganas de celebrar a la Persona del Año, Carlos Vives. En esta oportunidad los premios llegan de celebrarse en Sevilla, España luego de la habitual locación de Las Vegas, para celebrarse desde la cuna de música latina en los Estados Unidos, Miami. Y aquí te ofrecemos todos los detalles que debes conocer para no perderte absolutamente nada de la ceremonia de la música y todos los eventos que se han realizado alrededor de la Semana del Latin Grammy que se inició el pasado domingo hasta culminar esta noche con la entrega de las categorías de Latin Grammy a lo mejor de la música latina.

WASHINGTON —  Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy predicted that President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Matt Gaetz to be attorney general would be rejected by the Republican Senate next year. “Gaetz won’t get confirmed, everybody knows that,” McCarthy said in an interview with Bloomberg Television at the Barclays Asia Forum in Singapore on Thursday. Gaetz, a Florida congressman who resigned from the House hours after Trump announced that he would nominate him to run the Justice Department, orchestrated McCarthy’s ouster as speaker last year. “Doesn’t matter,” McCarthy said of the nomination’s prospects. “It’s a good deflection.” McCarthy, the former congressman from Bakersfield, praised Trump’s other picks, especially Florida Sen. Marco Rubio as secretary of State. He said the president-elect had learned from his earlier experience in the White House and would hit the ground running in part thanks to the work of Howard Lutnick, the chief executive of Cantor Fitzgerald, on the transition. He also praised Trump for tapping Elon Musk, a longtime friend of McCarthy and the world’s richest person, to help lead a new office to overhaul government. “Elon was texting me this morning. Think

Erewhon, the high-end supermarket chain known for celebrity smoothie collaborations, will soon open a location in West Hollywood. Erewhon is set to take over the former Sprouts Farmers Market space at 8550 Santa Monica Blvd. A “coming soon” sign can be seen outside the building, as first reported by WEHO Times. Michio and Aveline Kushi, the founders of Erewhon, opened their first location in Boston in April 1966 after noticing that the food industry abandoned its commitment to nutritional value throughout the 1900s. Soon after, the company moved to Los Angeles and “became a rare provider of natural foods, sourcing organic products that were difficult to come by,” according to the company’s “about” page. Erewhon has since opened locations in Venice, Pasadena, Culver City and more. The company also plans to open a new location in Manhattan Beach. The opening date for the West Hollywood location hasn’t been announced.

A fire official said two people were “very fortunate” to walk away from a crash landing when their plane went down in a field near the 405 Freeway shortly after taking off from Van Nuys Airport Thursday morning. The two occupants, identified only as a man and a woman, safely exited the aircraft after the 1968 Cessna crashed near the 15300 block of West Burbank Boulevard around 7 a.m., the Los Angeles Fire Department stated in a news alert. “We found it upside down in this dirt patch. Fortunately, no fire, no extrication required,” LAFD Capt. Erik Scott said. “Those occupants are very fortunate today to have walked away.” The man and woman got out of the plane on their own and suffered only minor lacerations to their faces, Scott said. Both declined transport to a local hospital. The plane went down in the Sepulveda Basin about three miles south of Van Nuys Airport after losing communication with the tower. The National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration are investigating the cause of the crash. Meanwhile, a fire broke out just a few blocks

November 14, 2024 / 1:04 PM EST / CBS News HarperCollins We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In “Cher: The Memoir – Part One” (to be published November 19 by HarperCollins), the singer-actress writes of her early years in the music business, including her partnership and marriage with Sonny Bono. The duo had eight Top 20 hits in the 1960s and ’70s, and their TV series, “The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour,” was a ratings bonanza.    Read an excerpt below, in which she recounts attending, at age 11, an event that would change the direction of her life: an Elvis Presley concert. And don’t miss Anthony Mason’s interview with Cher on “CBS Sunday Morning” November 17! “Cher: The Memoir – Part One” Prefer to listen? Audible has a 30-day free trial available right now. PREFACE Los Angeles, Summer 1956 Staring at the television open-mouthed, I let my peanut butter and jelly sandwich drop onto the plate in my lap as chills ran up and down my body. Home alone after school, I was sitting cross-legged (my favorite position, still)

Risky bed rails still on the market Bed rails that can injure and kill the elderly still on the market 00:52 The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Thursday issued an urgent warning about portable adult bed rails, saying the devices are behind the suffocation deaths of 18 people since 2021. The agency’s safety alert coincided with the ninth recall of portable bed rails in three years. Medical King of Brooklyn, New York, is recalling about 220,000 adult portable bed rails due to entrapment and asphyxia risks. The recall follows the death of a 66-year-old man who became trapped between a mattress and a bed rail in November at a residential care facility in South Carolina. The recall involves three models of Medical King Bed Assist Rail with Adjustable Heights (model numbers 7007 and 7057) and the Bed Assist Rail Without Legs (model number 7037). The recalled rails sold online for about $40 on Amazon.com, eBay, Kohls.com, medicalkingusa.com and Target Plus from January 2020 through March 2024. Recalled Bed Assist Rail with Adjustable Heights (model 7057)  U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission People who purchased the

By Kelsie Hoffman November 14, 2024 / 12:51 PM EST / CBS News The rise of human composting How human composting is offering a new alternative to burial and cremation 05:18 Most people plan to either be buried or cremated when they die, but there is another, environmentally friendly option: Human composting. “So instead of being cremated and turned into ash, you’re getting gently transformed into soil,” Tom Harries, CEO and founder of Earth Funeral, explained Thursday on “CBS Mornings Plus.” Harries described it as an “accelerated natural process” that takes about 30 days with the help of science and technology. “You get left with soil at the end, and that’s the really neat part is what you do with the soil,” he said. “You can keep it, you can scatter it, you can plant it, and a lot of families donate the soil as well.” Donated soil has been sent to conservation projects where it’s been used for reforestation, ecosystem restoration and wildfire restoration. How human composting originated The process was first legalized in Washington state in 2020. Since then, 11 other states have

WASHINGTON —  Critics of President-elect Donald Trump have long contended that he aspires to use the U.S. military — a nonpartisan force, by rule and tradition — as an instrument of the MAGA agenda that propelled his latest election victory. Now, in the eyes of some, those concerns are being supercharged. The relationship of the executive branch and the military has always been a balancing act. The American president is, after all, the commander in chief of the world’s most formidable fighting machine, and the figure ultimately responsible for the nation’s safety and security. But every senior military officer also takes an oath to defend the Constitution, and pledges to refuse illegal, unconstitutional or criminal directives. During his campaign, Trump flirted with those boundaries, repeatedly musing about using the military to go after domestic political opponents, or to aid in mass deportations of illegal immigrants. Despite a pledge to be a president who presides over peace rather than war, Trump takes office against a backdrop of global upheaval: wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, the increasing closeness of Russia and North Korea, an ascendant China.

We may receive commissions from some links to products on this page. Promotions are subject to availability and retailer terms. Some simple but effective strategies could help you wipe out credit card debt in retirement. Getty Images/iStockphoto Credit card debt among retirees has reached alarming levels, with 68% of retirees now reporting that they have outstanding credit card balances, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute’s latest Spending in Retirement Survey. This marks a dramatic increase from 40% in 2022 and 43% in 2020, signaling that credit card debt is a growing financial challenge for America’s retired population. This trend is particularly concerning given that only about half of retirees maintain adequate emergency savings to cover three months of expenses. Carrying high-interest credit card debt during retirement can also quickly erode fixed incomes and retirement savings, potentially leading to a financial crisis when earning opportunities are limited. And with today’s average credit card rates sitting at a record high of over 23% , it’s easier than ever for retirees to become trapped in a cycle of debt that could erode their financial security. Fortunately, there

By Kerry Breen November 14, 2024 / 11:57 AM EST / CBS News Fighting between Ukraine and Russia intensifies Russia preparing for offensive into region partially held by Ukraine 02:07 Italy and Norway quickly mobilized jets after Russian aircraft were spotted over the Baltic Sea and along the Norwegian coast on Tuesday.  The Italian Air Force intercepted a Russian Coot-A jet over the Baltic Sea, NATO Allied Air Command said in a post on social media. Norwegian Air Force F-35s identified multiple Russian aircraft flying in international airspace off the country’s coast, NATO said.  Both the Norwegian and Italian air forces were scrambled under NATO authority, the command said. NATO did not provide any information about what the Russian aircraft may have been doing, but said they were “not adhering to international norms” when the jets were mobilized.  A Norwegian Air Force jet. Norwegian Air Force/NATO Allied Air Command Russian warplanes have been spotted intercepted multiple times in recent months. In July , the United States intercepted Russian and Chinese aircraft in international airspace off the coast of Alaska. In February 2024, the U.S.  detected

Pumpkin spice menus return Pumpkin spice menus return 03:27 It is Red Cup Day at coffee giant Starbucks, an unofficial holiday for java fans who enjoy discounts and rewards.  Here’s how it works: Stop by a participating Starbucks store on Thursday and get a free, 16-ounce holiday-themed reusable red cup when you purchase one of the coffee chain’s special seasonal drinks.  Former Starbucks CEO calls for revamped customer experience 06:11 Eligible beverages include: Apple Crisp Nondairy Cream Chai Tea Latte  Apple Crisp Oatmilk Macchiato  Apple Crisp Oatmilk Shaken Espresso  Caramel Brulée Latte  Chestnut Praline Latte  Cran-Merry Orange Refresher  Cran-Merry Lemonade Refresher  Cran-Merry Drink  Gingerbread Oatmilk Chai  Hot Chocolate  Pecan Crunch Oatmilk Latte  Peppermint Hot Chocolate  Peppermint Mocha  Peppermint White Hot Chocolate  Pumpkin Cream Chai Tea Latte  Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew  Pumpkin Spice Latte  Salted Pecan Crunch Cold Brew  Sugar Cookie Almondmilk Latte  White Hot Chocolate What do you get other than a free cup? Customers who bring in their red cups to Starbucks locations receive a $.10 discount on their orders. Starbucks Rewards members who use the Starbucks app to order drinks get 25 bonus

Biden to meet with China’s Xi Jinping at APEC summit – CBS News Watch CBS News President Biden is heading to South America Thursday with his first stop coming at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit where he’ll meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes has more. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

A small airplane with two people aboard crashed Thursday near Van Nuys Airport, but neither occupant was seriously hurt. The crash was reported about 7:10 a.m. near the 15300 block of West Burbank Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Firefighters were sent to the scene on a report of a “small aircraft, reportedly Cessna, down in field in Sepulveda basin,” an LAFD statement said. “Plane is upside down, no fire, and both occupants have exited … with undetermined injuries.” A later LAFD report indicated the man and woman who got out of the aircraft were examined by first responders, and “neither appear to have life threatening injuries.” Both declined to be transported by paramedics for hospital treatment, “and will be released on scene,” the LAFD statement said. The crash will be investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board, the LAFD reported.

Police are seeking the public’s assistance Thursday in locating a 49-year-old man suspected of three attempted carjackings in less than seven hours on the Eastside. Officers responded to the 3200 block of North Broadway in Lincoln Heights after Maurice Latorre allegedly approached a woman pumping gas at a gas station around 10:40 a.m. Saturday, entered her vehicle, pushed the woman toward the passenger seat, and demanded her keys moments before exiting the car and running away after a brief struggle with the victim, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. At around 1:50 p.m., Latorre allegedly approached another woman in the 2100 block of North Broadway, near the Golden State (5) Freeway in Boyle Heights, while the victim was entering her vehicle and demanded her keys. “The suspect grabbed onto the driver’s side door, and a struggle ensued. The suspect then let go of the door and smashed the driver’s window with a hard object before fleeing the area on foot,” police said in a statement. That same day, around 4:55 p.m., Latorre approached a third woman in the 2900 block of East Cesar E.

Nine months after U2 wrapped its 40-date residency at Sphere, the veteran Irish rock band is back at the dome-shaped venue just off the Las Vegas Strip. Well, sort of. “V-U2” is a new concert movie that documents the group’s high-tech “U2:UV” show, in which singer Bono, guitarist the Edge, bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Bram van den Berg (filling in for Larry Mullen Jr.) revisited U2’s media-obsessed 1991 album “Achtung Baby” as they inaugurated the $2-billion building outfitted with the world’s highest-resolution LED screen. U2’s stay at Sphere was a critical and commercial success, blanketing social media with eye-popping video clips and raking in nearly $250 million, according to the trade journal Pollstar — and at a moment when the show’s stiff competition included Taylor Swift’s Eras tour and Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour. So it’s no wonder that U2 followed Swift and Beyoncé in bringing its show to the screen. Unlike those pop superstars’ films, though, this one you can see only at the place where the band filmed it — at Sphere, that is, where “V-U2” plays on that massive wraparound screen on nights

With the NBA now in full swing and the brand-new Intuit Dome open for business, the Los Angeles Clippers have unveiled their City Edition uniforms for the new season. The new look, which the team says symbolizes the story and work of L.A.-based artist Jonas Wood, celebrates the “love of basketball that defines the city, culture and organization.” The 2024-25 Los Angeles Clippers City Edition uniforms celebrate the work of L.A. artist Jonas Wood. (Los Angeles Clippers) The jersey and pants are “Pacific Blue,” connecting to the Clippers’ nautical roots, the team says. A black “Clips” wordmark across the chest resembles other alternate jerseys worn in years past. Accompanying the new uniforms is a new court that will be used at home games in which the Clippers sport the look. The court has the new Clippers “L.A.” logo with a Jonas Wood-style flower alongside the “A.” The Los Angeles Clippers city edition court for the 2024-25 season. (Los Angeles Clippers) The court and uniforms make their debut on Sunday when the Clippers host the Utah Jazz at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood. Fans can purchase