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Teamsters support California bill requiring a human in self-driving vehicles

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:57:57 GMT

Teamsters and supporters rallied on Monday, Sept. 18 in Arcadia, supporting a Legislative bill that would require a human operator in self-driving vehicles weighing 10,001 pounds or more.The union says Assembly Bill 316 would prioritize safety on the road and put the preservation of an estimated 200,000 California jobs “before the interests of Big Tech.” Opponents say it would derail the state’s move to deliver safe, lower-cost transportation of goods at a time when the trucking industry is struggling to attract and retain drivers.Smart Trucking, an online career and support organization for truckers, said many drivers are leaving the industry in search of jobs that offer better pay, benefits and working conditions, a trend that has resulted in a shortage of about 60,000 U.S. drivers.Smart Trucking added that drivers often get nothing for the time they spend stuck in traffic jams, construction zones, bad weather or other delays they encounter on the road.SB 316 — which a Teamsters r...

Allowing speed cameras in six California cities, including San Jose and Oakland, is up to Newsom

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:57:57 GMT

A bill that for the first time in California history would authorize speed cameras on roadways in six selected cities passed both houses in Sacramento last week and is now on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk awaiting his signature.Assembly Bill 645, by principal author Assemblywoman Laura Friedman, D-Glendale, represents the eighth attempt to bring speed cameras to California since 2005 and the first to make it all the way to the desk of the governor. Gov. Gavin Newsom has until Oct. 14 to sign the bill into law or veto it.“We need new tools in our toolbox to stop traffic violence and the senseless loss of human life,” Friedman said in a statement. “I am confident the governor will sign AB 645 into law.”While there’s no word from the governor’s office about which way he’s leaning, Friedman said many of the provisions in her bill are included in a report from the California State Transportation Agency’s “Zero Traffic Fatalities Task Force.”That report found that studies show roadway systems ...

Suspect in killing of LA County deputy battled mental illness, hallucinations, family says

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:57:57 GMT

The family of a 29-year-old man arrested in the ambush-style killing of Los Angeles County sheriff’s Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer offered a troubling portrait of the suspect Monday, saying he was in the throes of mental health crises that included auditory hallucinations.Although Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna called Kevin Cataneo Salazar a “coward” for shooting the deputy while he was stopped at a redlight Saturday near the Palmdale sheriff’s station, Salazar’s family blamed his mental illness for his actions.“I want you to know that my son has schizophrenia and delusional perceptions and the police know this,” his mother, Marle Salazar, wearily told a throng of reporters in Spanish on Monday as they converged on her residence in the 37600 block of Barrinson Street. “They know my son is sick. And if they are going to judge him, then they need to judge him with the condition he has.”Marle Salazar said she wasn’t minimizing Clinkunbroomer’s slaying, but added that if her son is...

Shannon Beador of ‘Real Housewives of Orange County’ arrested on suspicion of DUI, hit-and-run

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:57:57 GMT

“Real Housewives of Orange County” cast member Shannon Beador was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and hit-and-run in Newport Beach over the weekend, according to police.Beador, 59, was arrested and booked early Sunday, a public information officer for the Newport Beach Police Department told CNN. Alcohol-related DUI and a hit-and-run with property damage are both misdemeanor charges in Beador’s case, according to police.She was released shortly after. City News Service reported she was accused of a collision on residential property. Newport Beach Police Department Sgt. Steve Oberon said the collision occurred Saturday night at Via Oporto and Via Lido.CNN has reached out to Beador’s attorney Michael Fell for comment.“I spent quite a bit of time with Shannon yesterday. She is extremely apologetic and remorseful. We will be awaiting the official information on this case as it becomes available, and Shannon is prepared to accept full responsibility for her actions,” Fell told E...

Walters: Compromise settles dispute over status of fast food franchises

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:57:57 GMT

In some ways, the most interesting — and perhaps most significant — event of the 2023 legislative session’s closing days was a compromise agreement on state oversight of the fast food industry.Last year, unions pushed through legislation that would have created a new state commission to set wages and working conditions in the industry.Inferentially, the legislation set aside the industry’s franchise system and treated locally outlets of as merely branches of their corporate franchisors.While the wage increases that would have resulted garnered most of the media attention, erosion of the franchise model was most worrisome aspect to the fast food corporations and their franchisees.Immediately, big guns in the industry pledged tens of millions of dollars for a campaign to challenge the legislation via a referendum that qualified to go before voters in 2024.The Legislature’s response was entertaining another bill that would have doubled down on attacking the franchise model by making co...

Setup for World Culture Festival shuts down DC roads

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:57:57 GMT

World Culture Festival starts next week in D.C. but restrictions on the roads are already in effect.The festival features music, food trucks and yoga, and is expected to generate $29.8 million for D.C., Angie Gates, president and CEO of Events DC said last spring.Setup for the festival started Monday and many roads are impacted through Oct. 5.Parking restrictionsYou can’t legally park on these streets from Sept. 28 at 6 a.m. through Oct. 1 at 11 p.m.:3rd Street from Independence Avenue SW to Constitution Avenue NW7th Street from Independence Avenue SW to Constitution Avenue NWMadison Drive from 14th Street to 3rd Street NWJefferson Drive from 14th Street to 3rd Street SWThis part of 4th Street will be posted as “Emergency No Parking” from Sept. 18 through Oct. 5, 2023 at noon:4th Street from Independence Avenue, SW to Pennsylvania Avenue NWRoad closuresPortions of 4th Street will also be closed to vehicles from Sept. 18 through Oct. 5 at noon:4th Street from Jeffer...

Llegan al país cinco estadounidenses liberados en un intercambio de prisioneros con Irán

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:57:57 GMT

El gobierno de Estados Unidos confirmó que este martes aterrizaron en el país los cinco estadounidenses que estuvieron detenidos en Irán y que fueron liberados como parte de un acuerdo de intercambio de prisioneros del gobierno de Joe Biden con ese país. Varios de los detenidos estuvieron más de 5 años detenidos en Irán. A pesar de su liberación, varios legisladores republicanos criticaron el acuerdo, diciendo que equivalía a un pago de “rescate” y que sólo alentaría a Irán a encarcelar a más extranjeros. Como primer paso en el intercambio de prisioneros, los cinco estadounidenses fueron puestos bajo arresto domiciliario el 10 de agosto y su liberación estaba condicionada a la transferencia de los $6,000 millones en ingresos petroleros congelados de Corea del Sur al banco central de Catar. El uso de los fondos liberados por parte de Irán será supervisado por Catar y restringido a la compra de alimentos, medicinas u otros artículos con fines humanitarios, según lo permitido por ...

India expulsa a un diplomático canadiense mientras se profundiza la disputa por el asesinato de un activista sij

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:57:57 GMT

(CNN) — La acusación de Canadá de que India podría haber estado involucrada en el asesinato de un activista sij en su territorio ha desencadenado una creciente disputa con Ottawa y Nueva Delhi, que expulsaron a altos diplomáticos, lo que hizo que las relaciones entre los dos países se hundieran.Las expulsiones diplomáticas de represalia se produjeron después de que el primer ministro Justin Trudeau dijera que Canadá estaba investigando “acusaciones creíbles” que vinculaban a India con el asesinato en junio del ciudadano canadiense y destacado líder sij Hardeep Singh Nijjar.“Durante las últimas semanas, las agencias de seguridad canadienses han estado persiguiendo activamente acusaciones creíbles de un vínculo potencial entre agentes del gobierno de la India y el asesinato del ciudadano canadiense Hardeep Singh Nijjar”, dijo Trudeau en el parlamento este lunes, añadiendo que su gobierno tomaría todas las medidas necesarias “para hacer que los perpetradores de este a...

Italy braces for Uruguay passion at the Rugby World Cup

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:57:57 GMT

Uruguay lost its opening game at the Rugby World Cup and received all of the plaudits.Los Teros were tipped to lose by 40-plus points to France last Thursday in Lille. But after 55 minutes they trailed only 13-12, then conceded a fluke try. France eventually prevailed 27-12 and was booed by its own supporters.Rugby-mad Uruguay President Luis Lacalle Pou was at the game with French President Emmanuel Macron after trade talks in Paris, and the former Old Boys player in Montevideo went into the Uruguay changing room to praise Los Teros, and take lots of photos.“Everything that is done in life, if it is not with passion, it does not work,” Lacalle Pou told the team. “And let people who don’t know us notice it.”The rugby world noticed. Uruguay humbled France, albeit a second-string side, but still. Los Teros earned 11 turnovers in their own 22 and stopped every French maul. That sterling work was undone by a vulnerable set-piece and 16 penalties.But the passion with which Uruguay t...

Cherry Creek School District to open mental health facility for struggling students

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:57:57 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — FOX31 and Channel 2 are getting an inside look at a first-of-its-kind mental health facility that will offer intensive support and education.It will be run by the Cherry Creek School District with the help of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Department of Psychiatry.The facility will serve Cherry Creek students aged 10-18 who are experiencing a mental health crisis ranging from anxiety and severe depression to suicidal ideations. Denver Public Schools superintendent ‘encouraged’ by new annual report The whole idea comes as facilities that serve kids in a mental health crisis or have other severe needs have dwindled statewide from 77 to 16 facilities.This is the first program and facility of its kind to be operated by a school district.In response, Cherry Creek Schools, with support from its voters in 2020, made the decision to build their own facility to serve students in the district.After treating students with severe to moderate needs...