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As is every week of high school football, there are some blowouts, some upsets and some games that come down to the wire and in Week 0 of football on the central coast, all three occurred. Golden West 37 Arroyo Grande 44 (2OT) The defending Mountain League champs began with bang. Led by Sam Wulff and Caleb Clark on the offensive end, the Eagles found a way to make a key stop at the end of the first overtime. Then converted on a 4th and one to get the lead in the second overtime followed by a stop on 4th and one to seal the game. Nipomo 7 Lompoc 30 Consistent quarterback pressure and the Braves’ offense on the ground from both their running backs and two quarterbacks were enough to carry a 13-0 lead at halftime into a well-rounded victory. Lompoc heads to Santa Ynez next week while Nipomo looks to rebound with a home game against Righetti. Mt. Whitney 23 San Luis Obispo 34 Tigers grab their first win of the season during their home opener in a battle between two offensive powerhouses.

A safety issue was reported to the Santa Maria-Bonita Elementary School District this week regarding a woman who attempted to walk away with two students in front of Tunnell Elementary School. The Santa Maria Police Department is currently investigating this case. Increased police presence at Tunnell Elementary School on Friday just one day after a scare on campus. According to officials at Tunnel Elementary School, they reported the incident to the district office at 5 p.m. on Thursday. After the district office was informed of the situation, they immediately contacted the Santa Maria Police Department around 6:30 p.m. that same day. Police are investigating the situation along with school and district administrators. Some parents were shocked to hear about this incident occurring at their childs school. Why are little kids outside at 6 oclock by themselves? Because I was scared, said Veronica Uribe, a Santa Maria resident. But I know that we have a lot of support. My parents pick them up. My mom picked them up, so I’m not scared in that sense for my kids. But I am scared that something like that

A 14-year-old girl who was last seen in Paramount and who authorities say suffers from depression was reported missing Saturday. Jaylah Melanie Jaimes was last seen at 3:45 p.m. Friday on the 14000 block of Downey Avenue, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriffs’ Department’s Information Bureau. Jaylah is 5 feet 1inch tall, weighs 110 pounds, has black eyes and black hair. Authorities say she was last seen wearing a black hoodie and blue jeans and has no known destination. Anyone who has seen Jaylah or knows of her whereabouts was asked to call the Lakewood Station’s detective bureau at 562-623-3500. Callers who wish to remain anonymous may call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 and tips may be sent to lacrimestoppers.org.

Saturday Sessions: Blind Pilot performs “Brave” – CBS News Watch CBS News Blind Pilot, the “crown jewel of Oregon indie folk,” started out in 2006 as a duo before gradually growing to include more members over the years. Things took off from there, with numerous albums and tours until the band took a break in 2016. Now, after nearly a decade off-stage, Blind Pilot is back with their newest album, “In the Shadow of the Holy Mountain.” From that album, here is Blind Pilot with “Brave.” Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Saturday Sessions: Blind Pilot performs “Just A Bird” – CBS News Watch CBS News Blind Pilot, the “crown jewel of Oregon indie folk,” started out in 2006 as a duo before gradually growing to include more members over the years. Things took off from there, with numerous albums and tours until the band took a break in 2016. Now, after nearly a decade off-stage, Blind Pilot is back with their newest album, “In the Shadow of the Holy Mountain.” From that album, here is Blind Pilot with “Just A Bird.” Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Robbers tore through a 7-Eleven in San Pedro during a reported street takeover, stealing thousands of dollars in products and leaving a mess in their wake.  Preliminary information indicates that a large crowd had gathered for a street takeover near the convenience store, located near the corner of Gaffey and 1st streets, around 2 a.m. Saturday morning.  It was reported that the thieves stole more than 1,000 packs of cigarettes and two cash registers that had around $5,000 in cash inside before escaping.  Robbers tore through a 7-Eleven in San Pedro during a reported street takeover on Aug. 24, 2024, stealing thousands of dollars in products and leaving a mess in their wake. (TNLA) Robbers tore through a 7-Eleven in San Pedro during a reported street takeover on Aug. 24, 2024, stealing thousands of dollars in products and leaving a mess in their wake. (TNLA) Robbers tore through a 7-Eleven in San Pedro during a reported street takeover on Aug. 24, 2024, stealing thousands of dollars in products and leaving a mess in their wake. (TNLA) Robbers tore through a 7-Eleven in San Pedro during a reported street

Book Review Foreign Agents By Casey MichelSt. Martin’s Press: 368 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. In July, Robert Menendez of New Jersey earned the ignominious distinction of becoming the first sitting U.S. senator to be convicted of having acted as a foreign agent. The federal indictment levied against him alleged that Menendez, then the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and his wife accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, including cash, gold, payments toward a home mortgage, compensation for a low-or-no-show job, a luxury vehicle and “other things of value” in exchange for using his influence to do Egypt’s bidding in Washington. Casey Michel’s lively new book, “Foreign Agents,” unravels the incentives and temptations that have led so many leading American figures to lobby on behalf of foreign governments that plainly do not uphold American values. Menendez does not appear in this story until the afterword, but plenty of other well-known figures — Bill and Hillary Clinton, whose foundation’s donors Michel alleges are “a

Efforts underway to hunt invasive Burmese pythons in Florida – CBS News Watch CBS News Predators are becoming prey in the Florida Everglades as hundreds of hunters descend on the Sunshine State in an effort to catch and kill as many Burmese pythons as possible. The invasive species has wreaked havoc on the Everglades’ ecosystem. While it can feel like a losing battle, biologists say they aren’t giving up on the fight just yet. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Eye Opener: 3 dead after knife attack at German festival – CBS News Watch CBS News Three people are dead and four others seriously hurt after a knife attack at a festival in Germany. Meanwhile, the Taliban is enacting more harsh restrictions on women in Afghanistan. All that and all that matters in today’s Eye Opener. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Eye on America: Nursing home quality concerns, and providing support to family caregivers – CBS News Watch CBS News In California, we look into rising concerns about the quality of care given at nursing homes run by for-profit companies. Then in Arizona, we spotlight a group that’s creating much-needed connections and emotional support to family caregivers. Watch these stories and more on “Eye on America” with host Michelle Miller. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

RFK Jr. endorses Trump as Harris campaign builds on DNC momentum – CBS News Watch CBS News Donald Trump received a key endorsement last night as candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his longshot campaign and threw his support behind the former president at an Arizona rally. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris is seeing a surge in polls after the Democratic National Convention this week. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Aug. 24, 2024 4:30 AM PT The way injuries have been mounting for the tissue paper Dodgers this season, maybe they should refrain from the silly wiggle dances when they get their big hits, so nobody gets hurt! Robert Torres Redondo Beach :: I’ve lost track of how many Dodger runners have beat a throw to the bag but ended up out because their foot was up in the air during the tag. Earlier this week it was Mookie Betts at home. Doesn’t anybody teach the hook slide anymore? If you slide to the right side and reach for the bag [or plate] with your left foot, you can keep your foot on the ground since your right leg isn’t under your left. It’s cost them a couple games this year at least. Let’s hope they learn how to do it right before it costs them a critical loss in the postseason. Roger Zuch Tujunga :: The thinking of Miguel Rojas as reported by Mike DiGiovanna (“A stress test in the west might be best”) is logical and could find the battle-tested Dodgers a champion

NASA leaders to decide return plans for Starliner astronauts – CBS News Watch CBS News It’s decision day for NASA as leaders of the space agency meet in Houston today to decide whether Boeing’s Starliner will return to Earth with or without its two astronauts. The spacecraft experienced problems with its propulsion system on its test flight to the International Space Station in June. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Italian prosecutors launch manslaughter investigation into superyacht sinking – CBS News Watch CBS News Prosecutors in Italy say they’ve launched a manslaughter investigation after a superyacht carrying British tech tycoon Mike Lynch sank off the coast of Sicily. Divers on Friday recovered the final missing body, days after the shipwreck. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

CAMPAIGN 2024 (SMITH) – CBS News Watch CBS News Donald Trump received a key endorsement last night as candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his longshot campaign and threw his support behind the former president at an Arizona rally. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris is seeing a surge in polls after the Democratic National Convention this week. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

An Orange County man was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison Friday after admitting he duped three companies out of $3 million for protective gloves that were promised but never delivered during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the 87-month sentence, Christopher John Badsey, 63, of Lake Forest was ordered to pay $1.94 million in restitution after pleading guilty to four counts of wire fraud. In June and July 2020 — when personal protective equipment such as masks, gloves and hand sanitizer were in short supply — Badsey claimed his Irvine-based company, First Defense International Security Services Corp., could provide millions of boxes of nitrile gloves, according to court documents. Badsey entered into contracts to sell gloves to three other companies, court documents say, and required each to deposit around $1 million before they could inspect the promised goods. The companies wired a total of $3.2 million to accounts Badsey, his company or an unnamed co-schemer controlled, according to court documents. However, prosecutors say Badsey didn’t have the gloves, and concocted elaborate excuses whenever his clients inquired about delivery.

For decades, Robert. F. Kennedy Jr. worked as an environmental lawyer, filing lawsuits against polluters. He helped found a global green group that fought for clean water and helped defeat dam projects in Chile and Peru. Yet even before he announced Friday that he was suspending his presidential campaign and supporting former President Trump, Kennedy had repeatedly disappointed and angered dozens of environmentalists, who said he had abandoned his green roots. “It’s a shock to me knowing the Bobby I used to know,” said Dan Reicher, senior scholar at Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability. “I could not have imagined him supporting former President Trump.” Reicher, a former U.S. assistant secretary of Energy, once worked with Kennedy at the Natural Resources Defense Council, or NRDC, and spent time kayaking with him on rivers in Chile and the U.S. He said he had become increasingly dismayed by Kennedy’s campaign positions and statements on the environment. He pointed to how Kennedy had not presented any meaningful plans for cutting greenhouse gases. Instead, Reicher said, he had criticized the size of the hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies

SAN FRANCISCO —  San Francisco and Humboldt County officials are trading jabs over Mayor London Breed’s plans to more aggressively promote a city program that pays to relocate homeless people to other communities where they have family or other ties. During their Tuesday meeting, Humboldt County supervisors debated sending a draft letter, addressed to Breed, questioning whether San Francisco was making sure the homeless people it’s busing out actually land housing and jobs. “We are concerned that providing bus tickets to other jurisdictions without verifying access to housing, family support or employment does not alleviate homelessness; it simply shifts the person to another county,” the letter states. The supervisors were responding to a recent report in the San Francisco Standard that found the counties of Sacramento, Los Angeles and Humboldt were the top three destinations for homeless people bused out of San Francisco since September 2023. “We don’t need to be a dumping ground,” Humboldt County Supervisor Rex Bohn said at the meeting. “Our cost for taking care of a homeless person that has nothing up here … it’s expensive.” Breed’s office says the notion that

No one knew the burning construction vehicle could become a bomb. Not the driver who tried to douse it with an extinguisher. Not the workers who sent water gushing onto the engine. And not Andrew Pontious, an L.A. County firefighter dispatched to the Palmdale quarry on June 14. Pontious had sprayed water near the vehicle for about two minutes when one of its nearly 7-foot tires exploded, according to a Fire Department analysis completed this month. Hunks of rubber and steel shot the length of a football field. Pontious, 53, died instantly. L.A. County fire fighter Andrew Pontious died while on duty on June 4. (L.A. County Fire Facebook) “It was like an IED,” David Pontious, Andrew’s brother who worked at the same Palmdale fire station before retiring this spring, said, referring to an improvised explosive device, as a roadside bomb in a war zone is known. It’s common for tires to blow out in a fire, with pressure building until the air whooshes out with a loud pop. But, sometimes, the tire doesn’t blow — it explodes. The air inside the tire combines with

Just when the $8.4-billion deal for David Ellison’s Skydance Media to buy Paramount Global was gliding toward the finish line, Shari Redstone’s roller-coaster sale took another sharp turn. Seagram liquor company heir Edgar Bronfman Jr. this week persuaded Paramount’s independent board members to consider his rival bid for the Redstone family’s investment firm, National Amusements Inc., and a minority stake in Paramount. After spending weeks rounding up investors, Bronfman submitted his proposal late Monday — two days before the bidding window closed — and then sweetened the offer to $6 billion. Now the stage is set for more jockeying until Paramount’s Sept. 5 deadline to decide who will win the beleaguered media company that owns CBS, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, MTV and the historic Melrose Avenue film studio. “This has been a very strange process,” Charles Elson, founding director of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at University of Delaware, said Friday. “This company has provided more ‘theater’ than any other company I can think of. … It’s just remarkable that here we are.” Paramount’s decision to extend the deadline for Bronfman did not sit well

When he was a boy of 12 or so, and his parents were busy running the family restaurant, Norm Langer spent hours across the street in MacArthur Park. It was, at the time, an elegant urban oasis, with lollipop palms standing over a lake fed by natural springs. “I grew up in the park,” Langer said, seated in a booth at the famous deli he now owns at 7th and Alvarado streets. “I’d play in the park, go for boat rides, take naps. There was this whole area on the 7th Street side where older people played shuffleboard, backgammon, gin, all kinds of card games.” Today, that carefree boy of yesteryear is 79. Langer’s Deli is 77, with the number in bold yellow on the backs of employee uniforms. California is about to be hit by an aging population wave, and Steve Lopez is riding it. His column focuses on the blessings and burdens of advancing age — and how some folks are challenging the stigma associated with older adults. And the park of Langer’s childhood, which dates to the 1880s, no longer exists. It