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Disruptive Commanders DTs Daron Payne, Jonathan Allen have Broncos’ full attention: “They’re great power rushers”

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:26 GMT

To find the key matchup Sunday between the Broncos offense and the Commanders defense, look no further than the football.Literally.Whenever the ball gets spotted, Washington defensive linemen Jonathan Allen and Daron Payne won’t be far away.The strength of the Commanders’ defense is right in the middle of the field.In their season-opening win against Arizona, the pair logged two tackles for loss apiece, three quarterback hits and a sack for Allen.Not a bad opening salvo after Payne inked a four-year extension over the offseason worth up to $90 million. Allen got four years and up to $72 million two years ago.Their play matches their status as two of the top 10 paid interior defensive linemen in the NFL.“They create a lot of minus plays,” Broncos coach Sean Payton said. “Just looking at the (video) cut-ups, you’ll see second-and-12s. I’m not even talking about rushing the passer. Just within the framework of the run game, they’re really active, and they’re athletic. … The defense kin...

School district reaches $27M settlement with family of boy killed in bullying incident

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:26 GMT

The Moreno Valley Unified School District has agreed to pay $27 million to the family of an eighth-grader who died in a bullying incident four years ago at Landmark Middle School.The lawyers representing the family of Diego Stolz announced the settlement Wednesday.Diego Stolz was 13 years old when he died. Graphic video of the attack that took his life showed the moment two teenaged boys attacked him on school grounds. In the video, Stolz can be seen with his arms at his side as another student gets directly in his face before smacking him. Stolz, stunned, takes a step back before a second student off-screen sucker-punches him in the back of the head. Stolz goes down immediately and then hits his head against a pillar.Stolz suffered a traumatic brain injury and died nine days after the attack.Video captured on a student's cell phone shows the moments before Diego Stolz is attacked by two teens in September 2019. Stolz died nine days after the attack. (Video provided by family attorn...

California State University board approves 6% annual tuition hike

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:26 GMT

LONG BEACH, Calif. - California State University students will see tuition increase starting next year. On Wednesday, the CSU Board of Trustees approved a proposal to hike tuition by 6% annually for the next five years.Undergraduate tuition at CSU schools will increase from $5,742 to $6,084 in the 2024-25 school year, to $6,450 the following year, $6,840 in 2026-27, $7,248 in 2027-28, and $7,682 in 2028-29.A woman holds a sign during a protest outside the California State University chancellor's office, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, in Long Beach, Calif. The CSU Board of Trustees is considering a 6% tuition increase beginning in fall of 2024. (Paul Bersebach/The Orange County Register via AP)The board’s finance committee had unanimously approved the tuition hike earlier in the day.Administrators say the CSU system needs to address a $1.5 billion budget gap to cover existing programs and services. Like in all sectors, inflation has driven up costs. Tuition hasn’t been increased ...

Trouble, one of oldest bison that lived in L.A. County park, dies at 35

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:26 GMT

A 35-year-old female bison named Here Comes Trouble, or Trouble for short, that lived in William S. Hart Park in Santa Clarita died over the weekend, park officials announced Wednesday.Trouble was one of the oldest and “most spirited” members of a herd living in the sprawling park, located at 24151 N. Newhall Ave.Los Angeles County Parks Director Norma García-González said in a statement that the department was “saddened” by the loss of Trouble. “She will be greatly missed."Trouble was born at the park on April 12, 1988 and gained a reputation of being feisty because she apparently picked fights with herd mates, officials said.“She also had a playful side and sometimes challenged the park staff by squaring up to the truck during the morning feeding time. She was a beloved and memorable character among the herd, enjoyed by park visitors and staff, who frequently said, ‘Here comes Trouble’ when they saw her approaching,” parks officials said in a news release.“Trouble brought a lot of...

Festival tickets for In-N-Out’s 75th anniversary event sold out

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:26 GMT

With just over a month until In-N-Out’s 75th anniversary celebration, festival tickets have officially sold out.The company shared the news Wednesday on its Instagram account and event website.The festival is slated to occur at the newly renamed In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip, formally the Pomona Raceway, on Oct. 22, 2023.The raceway was officially renamed to celebrate the company’s milestone.Visitors can enjoy drag racing, carnival rides, a car show, food, drinks, live musical performances and In-N-Out burgers at the event. Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, spotted at In-N-Out While festival tickets and ticket bundles are gone, In-N-Out fans can still purchase car show tickets for $100 per person. The ticket grants each person entry to the show and access to the festival area.In-N-Out fans looking to participate in the car show should purchase their tickets soon since they are limited, the company said.In-N-Out CEO Lynsi Snyder announced the event last year.In-N-Out Burger open...

Magellan Rutaneahwa Killed in Hit-and-Run Crash on McDowell Road [Phoenix, AZ]

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:26 GMT

49-Year-Old Pedestrian Crossing the Street Dies after Being Struck by Vehicle near 7th StreetSCOTTSDALE, AZ (September 13, 2023) – On Sunday evening, police were called to a hit-and-run that claimed the life of Magellan Rutaneahwa.The incident happened around 7:30 p.m., September 9th, at the intersection of 7th Street and McDowell Road.Paramedics from the Phoenix Fire Department arrived at the scene and found 49-year-old Magellan Rutaneahwa unconscious on the roadway. They performed life-saving measures on him but he succumbed to his injuries at the scene.Furthermore, the driver that struck Rutaneahwa left the scene and did not call for an emergency. Investigation showed that Rutaneahwa crossed 7th Street at a red light when the vehicle headed north crashed into him.At this time, no identification of the driver or the vehicle was released by the authorities. Speed is suspected as the factor of the incident.Further investigation is still active and anyone with information can c...

Oakland rapper arrested after four months on the lam, now faces federal and state felony charges

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:26 GMT

OAKLAND — Eight months after he was arrested and charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with illegal gun possession, an Oakland man is facing new charges related to an Aug. 30 arrest, after allegedly absconding from a halfway house, court records show.Masia Hollins, 22, an independent rapper who uses the stage name Dooder, was charged this month with possessing a concealed weapon and evading police, court records show. He also still faces pending federal charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm, and is being held in Santa Rita Jail in Dublin without bail.Oakland police have been searching for Hollins since late April, when he allegedly ran away from a halfway house in San Francisco. Last January, a federal judge released Hollins, siding against a prosecution motion to keep him detained.Officers finally spotted Hollins and another man in a vehicle driving through Hayward on Aug. 30. They attempted to pull him over, but Hollins allegedly sped away, but struck two p...

Fights break out at protest of landlord party celebrating end of eviction moratorium

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:26 GMT

A protest against the Berkeley Property Owners Association’s celebration of the end of the city’s pandemic eviction moratorium on Tuesday night ended in fistfights and shoving matches, according to witnesses.Nearly 100 protesters from the Berkeley Tenants Union and the Tenants and Neighborhood Councils assembled outside of the ironically named Freehouse Pub around 5 p.m. where around 40 landlords were gathering to fête the end of a policy that banned them from evicting tenants who couldn’t pay rent. As landlords entered the mixer, picketers chanted “See our might, see our power, landlords get no happy hour” and displayed signs reading “No peace for evictors.”Nearly 100 protesters, including members of the Tenant and Neighborhood Councils and Berkeley Tenants Union, gathered outside of a party hosted by the Berkeley Property Owners Association to celebrate the end of the eviction moratorium. (Courtesy of Tenant and Neighborhood Councils) An ho...

Newsom assails right-wing attacks on rights, and on California values

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:26 GMT

Gov. Gavin Newsom in San Francisco on Wednesday assailed conservative attacks on voting rights, LGBTQ rights and books, tying the success of California’s businesses to “blue-state” Democratic values.“I’m watching 50 years, a half century of progress being wiped out,” Newsom said in a talk with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at the software giant’s annual “Dreamforce” conference.“I’m very worried about what’s going on nationally. Folks want to bring us back to a pre-1960 world. This rights regression needs to be called out.”Newsom held up the far-right ideology of former President Donald Trump and other leaders espousing hardcore conservative views as barriers to social, environmental and economic progress.Newsom decried the banning of books, mentioning specifically the blocking of a book by a southern California school board over its mention of slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk, who served on the San Franci...

NFL players union renews call to get rid of turf after Aaron Rodgers’ injury

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:26 GMT

By TERESA M. WALKER AP Pro Football WriterNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Skin scraped down to bloody patches. Sore bodies stinging in post-game showers. Aching shoulders, backs, hips, knees and ankles.Add in season-ending injuries like four-time MVP Aaron Rodgers tearing his left Achilles tendon in his debut with the New York Jets on Monday night and Buffalo pass rusher Von Miller tearing his ACL, an incident that he blames on artificial turf.Yes, NFL players prefer playing on natural grass. It’s why the NFL Players Association called on the league Wednesday to switch all fields to grass in what executive director Lloyd Howell said was “the easiest decision the NFL can make.”It’s a matter of career preservation.“I mean, the NFL is already ‘Not For Long,’ right?” Carolina linebacker Shaq Thompson said. “It sucks it had to happen that way. … Hopefully they run with it. Hopefully they blow it up and shout it out loud and everybody puts it on social media, takes a stand and d...