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HILMAR — Without the services of a handful of key players, taking down defending Trans-Valley League and Sac-Joaquin Section Division 4 champion Escalon was too tall an order for Hilmar, as the Yellowjackets fell 42-17 on Friday night at McSweeney Field.
To start the 2024 season, Denair junior running back Degan Butler has experienced high and lows.
A project that would allow the Turlock Gospel Mission to use a South Broadway property as a day center for unhoused persons hit a snag Tuesday when the city council failed to sign off on an amended loan agreement.
Thursday night the Dodgers won the division for the 11th time in 12 years. And then celebrated like they won the World Series. Something they have done only one time since 1988, and that was the COVID-shortened 2020 season. The last two seasons the Dodgers failed to win a postseasons series, being swept last season by Arizona and in four games in by the Padres in 2022. With a 10-zillion dollar payroll, Thursday’s meaningless celebration better not be the only one the Dodgers have this season. If it is, there are many people on the team who need to be part of another organization next season. Erik Schuman Fountain Valley :: Nice season so far, Dodgers. I didn’t see any trophies handed out on Thursday night. The Dodgers’ first playoff game is in eight days. The first spring training game next year will be on Feb. 20. Please, Dodgers, understand and know the difference. Treat the playoff game like a playoff game, and the spring training game like a spring training game. Steve Hoisch West Hills :: Ahead of the annual letters complaining that the
When 12-year-old Yahushua Robinson died while running during a P.E. class in triple-digit temperatures, his mother could not help but feel like the tragedy was preventable. Now, a little more than a year later, Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill aimed at ensuring all California students are better protected during heatwaves. Senate Bill 1248 — dubbed Yahushua’s Law — will require public schools to adopt uniform safety guidelines for physical activity during extreme weather. Robinson’s family played a key role in getting the legislation to Newsom’s desk. “This law symbolizes a commitment to child safety and the embodiment of Yahushua’s values in recognizing our shared humanity within every student,” said Christina Laster, an advocate for the Robinson family, in a statement on the bill. Yahushua died in August 2023 after collapsing during his P.E. class at Canyon Lake Middle School in Lake Elsinore. The high temperature that day was 107 degrees. The boy died of a heart defect, with heat and physical exertion as contributing factors, according to a report from the Riverside County Coroner’s Bureau. His mother, Janee Robinson, is a P.E. teacher
Eye on America: Farmers installing wind turbines and a look inside The Gentle Barn – CBS News Watch CBS News In Iowa, we learn why many farmers are installing wind turbines on their properties to lift declining revenues. Then in California, we tour a one-of-a-kind rescue shelter giving neglected and abused animals a second chance. 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
By Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times If you feel certain your preferred candidate will lose the presidential election, that AI is coming for your job or that climate change is going to destroy humanity, then you have fallen prey to a cynical mindset, and you’re far from alone. Over the past 50 years, cynicism has spread like a virus across American society, infecting us with the belief that other people can’t be trusted, the world is only getting worse and there’s nothing we can do about it. This potent mix of fatalism and hopelessness has led to a loss of faith in our neighbors, our institutions and our dreams for the future. In 1972, 46% of Americans agreed that most people can be trusted according to the General Social Survey. By 2018, that percentage had fallen to 31.9%. This rise in collective cynicism is not just destroying our hope, it’s also affecting our health. Studies suggest that cynics suffer more depression, drink more heavily, earn less money and die younger than non-cynics. But there may be an antidote to the cynical epidemic. In his new book “Hope for Cynics:
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Hilary Duff, 37; Ranbir Kapoor, 42; Mira Sorvino, 57; Janeane Garofalo, 60. Happy Birthday: Apply pressure and get things done. Release your anxiety by taking care of unfinished business. Clear the way and forge ahead with optimism and a passage to new beginnings that help you fulfill your dreams. Stop waiting for someone to pick up the pieces and deliver what you want. Take responsibility; you’ll value life and your achievements to the fullest. Opportunity begins with you. Your numbers are 2, 6, 14, 27, 35, 41, 48. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Keep the momentum flowing. Channel your energy into something that will improve your surroundings and make your life easier or more eventful. Don’t give in or make concessions that compromise your position or ambitions. Be direct about what you want and what you are willing to give back. 2 stars TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don’t cross lines that will cause emotional turmoil; getting along is half the battle. Find a friendly way to get what you want. Offering incentives, positive suggestions and hands-on help will bring high returns.
TODAY’S WORD — SIGNIFICANT (SIGNIFICANT: sig-NIF-ih-kent: Meaningful; important.) Average mark 43 words Time limit 60 minutes Can you find 53 or more words in SIGNIFICANT? The list will be published Monday. YESTERDAY’S WORD — TUFACEOUS taco tofu tufa face facet fact fast fate fatuous faucet feast feat fest feta fetus focus fuse acute ascot auto cafe case cast caste cause cesta coast coat cost cote cute east safe sate sauce saute scat scot scout seat sect sofa soft suet To purchase the Word Game book, visit WordGameBooks.com. Order it now for just $5 while supplies last! RULES OF THE GAME: 1. Words must be of four or more letters. 2. Words that acquire four letters by the addition of “s,” such as “bats” or “dies,” are not allowed. 3. Additional words made by adding a “d” or an “s” may not be used. For example, if “bake” is used, “baked” or “bakes” are not allowed, but “bake” and “baking” are admissible. 4. Proper nouns, slang words, or vulgar or sexually explicit words are not allowed. Contact Word Game creator Kathleen Saxe at kzsaxe@gmail.com.
If you subscribe to the dictum of “when in doubt, win the trick,” you need to cancel your subscription. Declarer may gain by executing a “hold-up play”: refusing to take a winner at the first opportunity. In today’s deal, West, who overcalled in spades, leads the six against 3NT, and East plays the ten. If declarer wins the trick and finesses in clubs, East takes the king and returns his last spade, and West defeats the contract with four spade tricks. FIRST SPADE South doesn’t need a spade trick to make 3NT: He can see two hearts, three diamonds and at least four clubs. He can’t afford to lose four spades and a club. Since West’s overcall marks him with at least five spades, South should let East’s ten win the first spade. When East returns a spade, declarer plays the jack. West can take the king and ace, but South loses only one more trick to the ace of clubs. If instead West takes the king and shifts, South finesses in clubs and again loses only four tricks in all. DAILY QUESTION You hold:
Dear Eric: About three years ago, my work friend “T” and I quickly became close. T professed her (platonic) love effusively. I, a non-trusting person who usually keeps people at arm’s length, believed I had found a new “bestie.” But, once in a while and completely unexpectedly, T goes into a “mean girl” mode. She’ll make undermining comments about my appearance, snap at me about seemingly trivial things, and act annoyed and pissed off throughout our encounter. In group situations, the irritation seems laser-focused on my behavior and no one else’s. We have already had one blow-up after which I ended the friendship. A year later, we reconciled when she reached out. But on a recent weekend trip together, her “mean girl” persona reared its ugly head. When I told her how it made me feel, she made excuses, saying that it was because I don’t listen to her adequately. These episodes are also a painful reminder of my sister, who has a personality disorder and exhibits similar behavior toward me. I eventually had to distance myself from her for my own well-being. It’s difficult
Saturday, September 28, 2024 6:35AM As disaster sweeps across the southeast sending people from their homes seeking shelter and support. FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — As disaster sweeps across the Southeast, people are leaving their homes seeking shelter and support. Some will be met by Red Cross volunteers from right here in Central California. “So we will be sending our first wave of volunteers for two weeks, and then we’re going to be needing to send more to replace those folks,” said Taylor Poisall, Red Cross Central California. “As they come back, they rest and recover and see if they want to raise their hand to go again or see if it’s someone else who will take the reins.” Volunteers geared up and traveled thousands of miles to help those impacted by Hurricane Helene. That help goes beyond setting up cots and handing out snacks. “We’re providing emotional support. This is the third hurricane this year to affect the Florida Panhandle, and so that’s going to bring a lot of emotional trauma,” said Poisall. “Some people are still recovering from Hurricane Idalia from last year in
By the time 38-year-old Caryl Chessman was executed on the morning of May 2, 1960, he had been on California’s death row for 12 years. His brooding, rough-hewn features were recognizable worldwide, his name a rallying cry from South America to the Vatican. He was mid-century America’s foremost tough-hooligan intellectual, a high school dropout and autodidact who wrote and published four books while waiting to die. He bragged colorfully about his prolific crime sprees, but swore he was innocent of the charges that made him infamous. He inspired literary admiration, hunger strikes, protest songs, diplomatic crises and a crisis of conscience for the state’s Catholic governor. He is mostly forgotten today. But Chessman’s case dominated the debate about capital punishment for years. Apart from his skill as a writer, his gift for publicity and the length of his stay on death row — a record at the time — his case was unusual because he had not been convicted of murder or even charged with it. In this series, Christopher Goffard revisits old crimes in Los Angeles and beyond, from the famous to the forgotten
When Andy Liang stepped outside his apartment building to investigate the fumes he smelled in the early morning of Sept. 13, he saw there was a small fire at the abandoned construction site next door on Bunker Hill Avenue. Liang turned around and walked back into the second-floor apartment that he shared with his parents. Their apartment faced the construction site, but this wasn’t the first fire that had broken out next door. “I thought it was nothing serious until it started spreading,” Liang said. The fire jumped to a neighboring three-story apartment building, injuring six people and displacing 50 individual tenants and families. Liang, who called 911 after the blaze started growing, roused his parents and evacuated when the flames threatened his unit. A fire’s aftermath at a construction site on New Depot Street on Sept. 13. The fire spread to nearby homes and displaced residents. (Wilson) The construction site has been an ongoing issue for the neighborhood, attracting squatters and forcing first responders to put out a number of small fires there after it was abandoned at the end of 2022. Wilson, who
She didn’t spot any glaring red flags the first time she stalked his Instagram page. No photos of him boarding a private jet. Zero reels showing off bottle service sparklers. Nary a shirtless mirror selfie in sight. Instead, what Erin Foster found as she scrolled through the account of the cute guy from her gym was disarmingly wholesome. Shots of him posing with his parents or playing on a local basketball team. The photographic evidence led her to two possible conclusions: Either he was too good for her, or he was too nice — the kind of guy who’d fall all over himself trying to please her, causing her to inevitably get the ick. Erin Foster, the creator of Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This,” at her home in West Hollywood this month. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Her assumptions about Simon Tikhman would end up, thankfully, being incorrect. But Foster’s early social media investigation into her new crush did not uncover a big part of his identity: He was Jewish. That didn’t matter to her — but the fact that she was a gentile mattered
When California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed suit against Exxon Mobil and accused the oil giant of misleading the public about the effectiveness of plastic recycling, many of the allegations surrounded the company’s marketing of a process called “advanced recycling.” In recent years — as longstanding efforts to recycle plastics have faltered — Exxon Mobil has touted advanced recycling as a groundbreaking technology that will turn the tide on the plastic crisis. Company officials and petrochemical trade organizations have used the phrase in radio spots, TV interviews and a variety of marketing material online. In a 2021 blog post, Exxon Mobil president of product solutions Karen McKee painted a particularly promising picture. “Imagine your discarded yogurt containers being transformed into medical equipment for your next doctor’s appointment, and then into the dashboard of your next fuel-efficient car.” But despite its seemingly eco-friendly name, the attorney general’s lawsuit denounced advanced recycling as a “public relations stunt” that largely involves superheating plastics to convert them into fuel. At Exxon Mobil’s only “advanced recycling” facility in Baytown, Texas, only 8% of plastic is remade into new material, while
COALINGA — On a scorching summer day in Fresno County, Rep. John Duarte (R-Modesto) stood in the shade of Axel Gomez’s yard, making his pitch for a second term. As Gomez’s representative in Congress, Duarte said, he had partnered with housing groups to bring more affordable housing to the region to help attract families. More families would mean a stronger tax base to support towns such as Coalinga, which just two years ago nearly ran out of water after its primary source — piped in from a federal reservoir 90 miles away — was severely curtailed during a drought. The city had to buy water on the open market at exorbitant rates to keep residents’ faucets flowing. Gomez, a farmworker, spoke about Coalinga’s need for housing, and for police accountability. He told Duarte that his employer, as well as his father’s, had capped their hours to sidestep a state law that requires farms to pay laborers overtime if they work more than 40 hours a week. “This is the first time I’ve had a congressman come by and take an interest in the people,” observed Gomez
TURLOCK – Police arrested a man on murder charges in a fatal stabbing that took place Friday night. Ahmad Abweny, a 28-year-old Modesto man, was identified and arrested with the assistance of the Modesto Police Department. The incident occurred Friday night at about 10:30pm, when officers were called to a report of a person stabbed near the intersection of Monte Vista Avenue and Golden State Boulevard. Enrique Gomez, a 49-year-old Turlock resident, was found on the ground stabbed. Emergency personnel provided aid, but Gomez died at the scene. Detectives with the Turlock Police Department responded to investigate and learned that the stabbing was the result of a road rage argument that took place at a nearby apartment complex. Through evidence and witness statements, investigators were able to identify the suspect and the involved vehicle. Within hours, Abweny was located with the use of license plate reader technology and with help from the Modesto Police Department. He was arrested and booked into jail on murder charges. In a released statement, Turlock Police Chief Jason Hedden credited the use of the license plate readers in helping find
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is seeking the public’s help Friday evening in finding a 37-year-old man who authorities say has been diagnosed with a mental disability and was last seen in Downey more than two months ago. Andrew Bonin was last seen on the 7700 block of Leeds Street, near Los Amigos Research Institute, north of Imperial Highway, on July 17, at 6:30 p.m., said the Sheriff’s Information Bureau. Bonin is Latino, 5 feet, 7 inches tall, weighs190 pounds and has buzzed gray hair, brown eyes and tattoos on his face and neck as well as on his body. He was last seen wearing a black shirt and tan shorts. Anyone who has seen Bonin or knows of his whereabouts was asked to call the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500. Callers who wish to remain anonymous may call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or send tips to lacrimestoppers.org.
An overturned big rig carrying lithium ion batteries and the hazardous material it spilled on Terminal Island were removed Friday, allowing the Seaside (47) Freeway to be reopened. Firefighters relocated the cargo to a secure location on Terminal Island and removed other hazardous materials affecting the roadway on Friday. The rig overturned shortly before noon Thursday in the 900 block of North Seaside Avenue near the start of the freeway. The truck rolled on its side, and its cargo of lithium batteries caught fire. Los Angeles Fire Department crews responded to the scene, but due to the burning lithium batteries, crews backed away and opted to let the fire burn itself out, noting that putting water on the blaze would have done little to actually fully douse the flames, and potentially cause more of an environmental hazard by sending contaminated water runoff into the ocean. The fire burned through the day Thursday, and the cargo was continuing to emanate heat Friday while authorities considered options for addressing the hazard. There were no reports of injuries, and it was unclear what caused the truck to roll
The Tehama County CattleWomen September- October newsletter headline read, “Beef ‘N Brew: Another huge success!” There were color photos of a crowded store with craft beer being poured, the band at Bob’s Tires; a photo of Chairman Cathy Tobin and Treasurer Donna Marino with Linda Watkins Bennett when they appeared on Action News Now promoting the 14th annual Beef ‘n Brew; two happy men from S & S Smashburgers holding the trophy for People’s Choice and the perpetual trophy for Judge’s Choice. (The first time in 14 years that the attendees agreed with the beef appetizer judges.) Thanks to our generous beef sponsors: California Rangeland Trust, Basin Enterprize, Big O Tires, Corning Ford, Golden State Farm Credit, Cottonwood Animal Clinic, Orland Livestock Commission Yard, Inc; Outback Contractors, Inc; American Hereford Association, Cornerstone Community Bank, and Red Bluff Bull & Gelding Sale. Thanks to their generosity, we could give each beef vendor $250 to help purchase the beef they used. More than 706 lbs of beef was used that evening because I can’t read my scribbles for poundage Smashburger used or the beef sticks at California
