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B Market is inviting community members to join them in celebrating their grand opening at the San Luis Obispo Public Market Friday, April 26. B Market, which stands for Bishop’s Market, works with local vendors and farmers to provide fresh products to customers so people can enjoy “farmers’ market every day,” employees at the market said. The shop offers organic produce, meats, fish and more. Omar Rojas, B Market’s executive chef, told KSBY that the market is made possible by the numerous farmers and ranchers we have on Central Coast. “Everything that we get here is from people we know and see every day. We trust them and try to get the freshest quality as possible,” Rojas said. “We know where it comes from, we know who grows it, we know the people around the community so we trust what they do.” There will be butchers and chefs at the market who can help answer customers’ questions about the product, recipes, and more. “They can get you from the a to the z when it comes to the recipe and whatever you want to cook

The City of Paso Robles is unveiling brand new year-round lighting in City Park. City leaders say the decision comes after the success of the holiday lighting display in November 2023. Crowds flocked to City Park until the lights were turned off in January 2024, enjoying the vibrant ambiance and expressing a heightened sense of safety in the festive environment. City leaders say merchants and hoteliers experienced increased business and occupancy rates, with a 20% surge in Transient Occupancy Tax in December alone. City Council expressed a desire to bring year-round lighting to City Park, encouraged by the enthusiastic feedback from residents and local leaders. To pull of the new display, city staff collaborated with L.A. Christmas Light Installers (LACLI), the designers and installers of the holiday lights, to propose a comprehensive plan for year-round lighting. The year-round display includes illuminating 21 trees in City Park, with a focus on enhancing the beauty of the large heritage oaks. Depending on tree size and structure, anywhere from 30 to 150 lights will be installed in each designated tree. The proposed lighting utilizes durable and waterproof lights

As the union representing Los Angeles Metro bus drivers demands better safeguards for its drivers, two violent, bloody incidents unfolded aboard transit buses over the weekend in less than a 24-hour span.  The first of the April 13 stabbings aboard Metro buses occurred at around 1:45 a.m. in the area of Sunset Boulevard and Benton Way in L.A.’s Silver Lake neighborhood.   Video of the scene obtained by KTLA shows paramedics carefully lifting a blood-soaked passenger, who was suffering multiple stab wounds, off the bus and onto a gurney. The man was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.   Details are limited and what led up to the grisly stabbing is unclear, but police were able to track down and arrest a suspect who fled from authorities on Benton Way north of Sunset.   L.A. Metro passenger stabbed on bus on April 13, 2024. (ANG) Authorities have not provided an update on the victim’s condition.   Later that evening at around 8:30 p.m. in South L.A., investigators say a Metro bus driver stopped the bus at East 119th Street and Wilmington Avenue when the

Authorities are investigating after a man was found dead in a trailer fire in San Bernardino County. The victim was identified as Justin Wilkinson, 25, from Victorville, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. On April 15, deputies responded to a trailer fire located in the 7800 block of C Street in Hesperia at around  9:37 p.m. After fire crews extinguished the blaze, Wilkinson’s body was discovered inside the trailer. Detectives who investigated the body determined his injuries were not from the fire, but that he was assaulted before his death. A witness, Angel Cardenas, 23, was interviewed by authorities and later identified as the suspect.  The relationship between Cardenas and the victim was not immediately known. The events leading up to the man’s death remain under investigation. Cardenas was arrested and booked at the High Desert Detention Center. He is being held without bail.  Anyone with information is urged to call the Homicide Detail at 909-890-4904.  Anonymous tips can be provided to We-Tip at 1-800-782-7463 or online at wetip.com.

One person was hospitalized Wednesday evening after a vehicle slammed into a transformer, rolled over into a ditch and knocked down several electrical wires, resulting in a power outage in San Fernando. The crash occurred around 9:45 p.m. near Truman and Workman streets, knocking out power in several city blocks, KCAL 9 reports. Los Angeles Fire Department personnel responded to the scene and took the victim to a hospital in an unknown condition. Representatives from Southern California Edison were contacted and were expected to arrive at the scene to repair the downed wires and broken transformer box. The San Fernando Police Department is investigating the cause of the crash.

LeBron James and his Laker teammate Anthony Davis and Clipper forward Kawhi Leonard were among the 12-player U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team announced Wednesday by USA Basketball. This is the fourth Olympic selection for James, a member of the U.S. gold medal-winning 2008 and 2012 teams and 2004 team that won the bronze medal. Davis was also a member of the 2012 team. Leonard is among the five first-time Olympians on the team, along with Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry, Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards, Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid and Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton. There is a fourth player on the team with a Los Angeles tie, Boston Celtics guard Jrue Holiday, a former standout at UCLA and Campbell Hall School in Studio City. Holiday is among five members of the gold medal-winning team from the Tokyo Olympics seeking a second consecutive gold medal, along with Celtics teammate Jayson Tatum, Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo, Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker and Phoenix forward Kevin Durant, also a member of the 2012 and 2016 gold medal-winning teams. The U.S. will be coached by

A state bill to close a loophole in California’s single-use plastic bag ban that allows stores to distribute a “recyclable” alternative passed through its first hurdle. Senate Bill 1053, introduced by Sen. Catherine Blakespear (D-Encinitas) and Sen. Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica), was approved by the State Environmental Quality Committee in a 5-2 vote on Wednesday. The bill would remove a provision from the ban allowing stores to use thicker, “reusable” bags made out of recycled plastic film. It would also revise the requirement for stores to only provide paper bags made out of 100 percent recycled material, an increase from the previous 40 percent. California is investigating whether those thicker, plastic shopping bags really are recyclable “Plastic waste is destroying our environment and jeopardizing our planet,” Blakespear said in a statement. “A plastic bag has an average lifespan of 12 minutes and then it is discarded, afflicting our environment with toxic microplastics that impact our oceans and landfills for up to 1,000 years. SB 1053 will dramatically cut California’s plastic bag pollution.” California implemented its single-use plastic bag ban in 2016, two years after the

After years of dreaming, Ruben Trujillo had finally launched his own business. It didn’t go the way he had expected. It was 2020 and he was having a tough time. Trujillo had just become the primary caregiver for his grandmother, he was let go from his full-time teaching job, and Cafe Emporos, the company he launched that sells personalized coffee filters, was struggling. “I had this dream, and now I have nothing to show for it,” Trujillo remembered thinking. “I was like, ‘OK, I failed.’ This is what failure feels like. This is the bottom of the bottom.” Having “nothing to lose,” Trujillo stood in front of a red background with Christmas lights and recorded a few TikTok videos plugging his product. “They hold cups of coffee inside,” Trujillo said, giving a demonstration of a packet emblazoned with a group photo and a personalized message. He opened the packet, which expands into a single-use filter that a customer can pour hot water into for a fresh cup of coffee. Suddenly, the clip began picking up views and comments. “This is no lie the most fascinating

As the union representing Los Angeles Metro bus drivers demands better safeguards for its drivers, two violent, bloody incidents unfolded aboard transit buses over the weekend in less than a 24-hour span.  The first of the April 13 stabbings aboard Metro buses occurred at around 1:45 a.m. in the area of Sunset Boulevard and Benton Way in L.A.’s Silver Lake neighborhood.   Video of the scene obtained by KTLA shows paramedics carefully lifting a blood-soaked passenger, who was suffering multiple stab wounds, off the bus and onto a gurney. The man was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.   Details are limited and what led up to the grisly stabbing is unclear, but police were able to track down and arrest a suspect who fled from authorities on Benton Way north of Sunset.   L.A. Metro passenger stabbed on bus on April 13, 2024. (ANG) Authorities have not provided an update on the victim’s condition.   Later that evening at around 8:30 p.m. in South L.A., investigators say a Metro bus driver stopped the bus at East 119th Street and Wilmington Avenue when the

Authorities are investigating after a man was found dead in a trailer fire in San Bernardino County. The victim was identified as Justin Wilkinson, 25, from Victorville, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. On April 15, deputies responded to a trailer fire located in the 7800 block of C Street in Hesperia at around  9:37 p.m. After fire crews extinguished the blaze, Wilkinson’s body was discovered inside the trailer. Detectives who investigated the body determined his injuries were not from the fire, but that he was assaulted before his death. A witness, Angel Cardenas, 23, was interviewed by authorities and later identified as the suspect.  The relationship between Cardenas and the victim was not immediately known. The events leading up to the man’s death remain under investigation. Cardenas was arrested and booked at the High Desert Detention Center. He is being held without bail.  Anyone with information is urged to call the Homicide Detail at 909-890-4904.  Anonymous tips can be provided to We-Tip at 1-800-782-7463 or online at wetip.com.

A man who was brandishing a firearm at a Long Beach park was shot and killed by officers on Wednesday. Long Beach police responded to reports of a man holding a gun at MacArthur Park at around 4:21 p.m. Arriving officers spotted the suspect as other bystanders were also present in the public space.  Police ordered the man to surrender his gun multiple times. However, he refused to cooperate and was eventually shot by officers. Medical aid was given to the suspect before he was transported to a local hospital. He later died from his injuries, police confirmed. Sky5 video showed a large grassy portion of the park was cordoned off by police tape. A park bench with what appears to be clothing and other debris knocked to the ground was isolated by investigators. A male suspect seen brandishing a gun at a Long Beach park was shot and killed by officers on April 17, 2024. (KTLA) Portions of a Long Beach park cordoned off after a male suspect with a gun was shot and killed by officers on April 17, 2024. (KTLA) Fallen debris

Devin Haney expondrá su título de peso superligero del Consejo Mundial de Boxeo (CMB) el sábado por la noche ante Ryan García. El púgil de 25 años es uno de los mejores boxeadores libra por libra tras derrotar dos veces a George Kambosos Jr. en Australia y al vencer apretadamente a Vasiliy Lomachenko. Haney subió a las 140 libras por primera vez en diciembre para competir por el cinturón de peso superligero de Regis Prograis y ofreció otra clase magistral, ganando claramente en las tres tarjetas para convertirse en campeón mundial en dos divisiones. García (24-1, 20 KOs) retó hace un año a Gervonta “Tank” Davis en un combate muy publicitado entre dos de las principales estrellas jóvenes del boxeo. Las cosas no salieron bien para García, quien perdió por nocaut producto de un golpe al cuerpo en el séptimo asalto, en lo que fue su primera derrota en su carrera. García, de 25 años, ostentó el cinturón interino de peso ligero del Consejo Mundial de Boxeo en 2021 y ahora desafiará a Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) para agregar un primer título oficial a su

A man who was seen brandishing a firearm at a Long Beach park was shot and killed by officers on Wednesday. Long Beach police responded to reports of a man holding a gun at MacArthur Park at around 4:21 p.m. Arriving officers spotted the suspect as other bystanders were also present in the public space.  Police ordered the man to surrender his gun multiple times. However, he refused to cooperate and was eventually shot by officers. Medical aid was given to the suspect before he was transported to a local hospital. He later died from his injuries, police confirmed. Sky5 video showed a large grassy portion of the park was cordoned off by police tape. A park bench with what appears to be clothing and other debris knocked to the ground was isolated by investigators. A male suspect seen brandishing a gun at a Long Beach park was shot and killed by officers on April 17, 2024. (KTLA) Portions of a Long Beach park cordoned off after a male suspect with a gun was shot and killed by officers on April 17, 2024. (KTLA) Fallen

A 30-year-old transient accused of igniting a fire that destroyed four businesses in a Palm Desert strip mall was charged Wednesday with recklessly causing a fire resulting in property damage and other offenses. Natalie Ann Marie Radu was arrested Sunday following a Cal Fire arson investigation at the Plaza de Monterey Shopping Center. Along with the felony count, Radu is charged with a sentence-enhancing allegation of perpetrating arson in an area under a state of emergency. Radu pleaded not guilty during an arraignment before Riverside County Superior Court Judge Melissa Hale, who scheduled a felony settlement conference for April 26 at the Larson Justice Center in Indio. The judge ordered Radu held in lieu of $50,000 bail at the Smith Correctional Facility in Banning. The strip mall, located near the intersection of Country Club Drive and Monterey Avenue, sustained massive damage in the fire that erupted shortly before 4 a.m. Sunday. According to county fire officials, multiple engine crews were sent to the two-alarm blaze and encountered flames raging in one business, spreading rapidly to three neighboring ones in the 30,000-square-foot single-story building. Along with

A 73-year-old woman diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease was reported missing after being last seen in Altadena Wednesday. Donna Louise Bertiger was last seen in the 1700 block of Alta Wood Drive, two blocks north of Altadena Drive, around 1 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Deputies described Bertiger as a 5-foot-6-inch tall white woman weighing 110 pounds with blonde hair and blue eyes. She was last seen wearing blue jeans and blue shoes. Anyone with information regarding Bertiger’s whereabouts was urged to call the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau Missing Persons Detail at 323-890-5500. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or visit lacrimestoppers.org.

Walt Disney famously said that Disneyland will never be completed. He was right. The vote by the Anaheim City Council on Wednesday to approve the Disneyland resort’s $1.9-billion expansion plan is the latest of several huge investments made by the media giant at the 100-acre facility known to its fans as the “Happiest Place on Earth.” Once upon a time, Disneyland was just a concept that grew out of a visit by Disney to Griffith Park in Los Angeles. Then on July 17, 1955, the gates were flung open at the then-$17.5-million resort and things have never been the same for the city of Anaheim. Ticket prices on opening day were $1 for an adult and 50 cents for a child, with each attraction charging extra at each location, ranging from 10 to 35 cents. Over the decades, the resort has added new attractions and entire worlds built around new franchises acquired by Disney. Bear Country opened in 1972 and gave way to Critter Country in 1988 in anticipation of Splash Mountain, which eventually closed in May 2023. Splash Mountain will be reopened later this

A Los Angeles Fire Department recruit fatally struck on the 101 Freeway early Monday morning was initially involved in a two-car collision before exiting his vehicle and being hit, a California Highway Patrol collision report has confirmed. Jacob Fuerte, 22, of Riverside was killed just after 5 a.m. on the northbound side of the freeway at Campo De Cuehenga , south of the Vineland Avenue offramp in Studio City, according to the CHP report. Initial reports said Fuerte was rendering aid and may have been in a prior collision. Fuerte was en route to the Fire Department’s Drill Tower Academy for training, fire officials confirmed. The CHP report said that Fuerte’s vehicle had collided with a 2021 Ford sedan driven by a 36-year-old Montclair man. Fuerte exited his 2000 Jeep after the crash, and was struck by an unknown vehicle in a separate multicar accident. A couple in their 60s and another unknown driver were also injured in the series of collisions. Los Angeles fire officials arrived at the scene, where they declared Fuerte dead. The California Highway Patrol, which had begun investigating the incident

Police are searching for a man responsible for a violent assault and robbery of a woman earlier this week in San Fernando, authorities confirmed to KTLA.   The broad daylight attack occurred on April 15 just before 3 p.m. in the 200 block of Park Avenue. The victim, Juliana Murillo, had just bought her mother a bouquet of flowers for her birthday when her attacker came up from behind as she was just outside her apartment building and violently knocked her down, sending everything she was holding, including the flowers, to the ground. “He pushed me really hard and I hit my head on the door,” Murillo told KTLA’s Carlos Saucedo. “My body just went into shock. I couldn’t process what was going on. I kept saying, ‘What are you doing, what are you doing?’ He used force to turn me over and he pulled out my purse and took off.” Despite the hit to her head, Murillo was able to put up a fight, struggling with the man, who eventually made off with her purse, which carried her car keys, credit cards and identification.

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By Jordan Freiman April 17, 2024 / 10:44 PM EDT / CBS News “48 Hours” investigates Idaho student murders Families of Idaho student murders victims share new details to “48 Hours” 05:15 Lawyers for Bryan Kohberger , the man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students in 2022, plan to use cell phone tower data to show he was not at the location where the murders occurred, according to a new court filing. Kohberger is accused of killing Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin in mid-November 2022 at a home in Moscow, Idaho, where the university is located. The home has since been demolished . Court documents providing an alibi for Kohberger stated he “was out driving in the early morning hours of November 13, 2022; as he often did to hike and run and/or see the moon and stars. He drove throughout the area south of Pullman, Washington, west of Moscow, Idaho including Wawawai Park.” The document said a cell site location information expert will testify that cell tower data shows “Kohberger’s mobile device was south of Pullman, Washington

Facing a must-win situation to get back into the Foothill League baseball race, Hart High came through with a 2-1 win over first-place West Ranch on Wednesday to pull within one game of the Wildcats (7-1). Ian Edwards came through with 2 1/3 innings of scoreless relief with four strikeouts. Taj Brar started and struck out eight in 4 2/3 innings. Eddie Gutierrez hit a solo home run and finished with three hits. Nolan Stoll went three for three to lead West Ranch. Hart is trying to give retiring coach Jim Ozella a league title in his final season as coach. The Indians (6-2) were swept by Saugus in a two-game series earlier in league play, forcing them to beat West Ranch on Wednesday and again on Friday at West Ranch to be able to pull into a tie. Servite 1, Santa Margarita 0: Austin Boatwright had an RBI single in the top of the seventh inning to help Servite stun No. 2-ranked Santa Margarita. Miles Scott threw six scoreless innings with four strikeouts. JSerra 8, St. John Bosco 6: Dmitri Susidko finished with three