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Walters: PG&E rate change tied to Legislature’s abusive ‘trailer bills’

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:07:36 GMT

Few people inside or outside the Capitol were paying much attention last year when Assembly Bill 205 popped up on the California Senate floor on June 29.The measure had been sitting in the Senate for more than four months, one of many so-called “trailer bills” legally connected to the state budget but having little, if any, policy connection to the budget.Over the previous decade, after voters — perhaps unwittingly — reduced the legislative vote requirement for budgets from two-thirds to a simple majority, it had become common practice for governors and legislative leaders to put sweeping policy changes into trailer bills to make their passage easier.Trailer bills need just simple majority votes, take effect immediately on being signed by the governor, and are typically taken up in rapid fire order with little or no serious discussion.Typically, AB 205 was, in fact, a major revision of how regulated utilities, such as Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and Southern California ...

Donald Trump will face judge in historic court appearance over charges he mishandled secret documents

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:07:36 GMT

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER | Associated PressMIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump was set to make his first court appearance Tuesday in a historic criminal case charging the former president with hoarding top secret government documents, boastfully displaying them to visitors and trying to hide them from investigators who demanded them back.Trump approached his Miami court date with characteristic bravado, insisting as he has done through years of legal woes that he has done nothing wrong and was being persecuted for political purposes. But the gravity of the moment is unmistakable as he answers to 37 felony counts that accuse him of willfully retaining classified records that prosecutors say could have jeopardized national security if exposed.The case is laden with political implications for Trump, who currently holds the dominant spot in the early days of the 2024 Republican presidential primary. But it also poses profound legal consequences given the prospect of a years-long pr...

California man accused of crossing state lines to pick up 13-year-old runaway girl for sex

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:07:36 GMT

A 28-year-old Perris man suspected of unlawful sex with a minor faces kidnapping charges after a traffic stop for reckless driving led authorities to discover his 13-year-old female passenger was a runaway from Colorado Springs, Colo., officials said Monday.The suspect, Jacob Orleans, was initially pulled over by the California Highway Patrol at Twentynine Palms Highway and Prescott Avenue in Yucca Valley on May 28. Officers requested assistance from the Morongo Basin Sheriff’s Station after both individuals gave varying stories regarding their relationship, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | JPMorgan reaches settlement with victims of Jeffrey Epstein Crime and Public Safety | Bay Area man gets 10 years in federal prison for distributing film of himself sexually abusing a boy Crime and Public Safety | Hayward handyman charged with violently molesting 8-year-old girl as she screamed ...

Rams owner Stan Kroenke has won NFL, NHL and NBA titles in 18-month stretch

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:07:36 GMT

By ARNIE STAPLETON | AP Sports WriterDENVER — Stan Kroenke’s sports empire has produced an NFL, NHL and now NBA champion in three consecutive seasons.His latest title came Monday night when the Denver Nuggets won their first championship 47 years after joining the NBA. His Rams beat the Cincinnati Bengals, 23-20, in the Super Bowl in February 2022, and his Colorado Avalanche hoisted the Stanley Cup last summer after dispatching Tampa Bay in six games.Through the champagne spray and cigar smoke choking the Nuggets’ locker room following their rugged 94-89 win over Miami in Game 5, Kroenke reflected on his football, hockey and basketball titles and couldn’t pick one over the other.“It’s like having children: You love them all,” Kroenke said. “It’s unbelievably exciting. I’m just so happy for everybody involved, particularly the city, which for 47 years they never had this.”The Nuggets were a founding franchise in the old ABA and played for that league’s championship in 1976, falling i...

Russian missile attack kills at least 10 in Zelenskyy’s hometown kills at least 10; dozens wounded

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:07:36 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles hit civilian buildings in a central Ukrainian city overnight, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than two dozen in a warehouse and a residential building, regional officials said Tuesday.The devastation in Kryvyi Rih, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown, is the latest bloodshed in Russia’s war in Ukraine, as Ukrainian forces are in the early stages of a counteroffensive using Western-supplied firepower.Images from the scene relayed by Zelenskyy on his Telegram channel showed firefighters battling the blaze as pockets of fire poked through multiple broken windows of a building. Charred and damaged vehicles littered the nearby ground. “More terrorist missiles,” he wrote. “Russian killers continue their war against residential buildings, ordinary cities and people.”The governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Serhiy Lysak, wrote on the social media app that the bodies of six people were recovered from the warehouse of an unspecified pr...

Anciana declarada muerta revive durante su velorio tras golpear ataúd

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:07:36 GMT

Los dolientes en Ecuador se habían reunido en el funeral de la enfermera jubilada Bella Montoya cuando escucharon ruidos extraños provenientes del interior del ataúd. Esto puede sonar como un tropo de una película de terror, pero los familiares se sorprendieron al ver que Montoya, quien había sido declarada muerta después de sufrir un derrame cerebral y un paro cardíaco, en realidad todavía estaba viva y respirando, dijeron su familia y funcionarios el lunes. Se quita la vida tras disparar 11 veces a mujer, según la policía Vivo de milagro: padre en EEUU atraviesa un paro cardíaco, arritmias, fallo renal y doble trasplante “Nos dio un susto a todos”, dijo su hijo, Gilberto Barbera, a Associated Press. La mujer, de 76 años, estaba inconsciente cuando su familia la llevó al hospital en la ciudad central de Babahoyo el viernes, dijo su hijo a la AP.Para más información, visita NBCNews.com.Source

ANÁLISIS | La lectura de cargos de Trump por cargos federales es un momento grave para la nación

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:07:36 GMT

(CNN) — El caso es Estados Unidos de América vs. Donald J. Trump.Por primera vez en la historia, la nación busca llevar a juicio penal a una persona que fue elegida para encabezarla como presidente.Trump debe comparecer ante un tribunal en Miami este martes para responder a una acusación de 37 cargos que alega que retuvo deliberadamente documentos clasificados después de dejar el cargo y se negó a devolverlos.Su aparición será un momento trascendental, e incluso trágico, en la historia de una república que ha perdurado durante más de dos siglos tras haberse fundado en el principio de que ningún líder tiene poder absoluto ni debe estar por encima de las leyes que se aplican a otros ciudadanos.Este martes será un día grave que podría abrir divisiones aún más profundas en un país que ya está distanciado, especialmente dado que los partidarios de Trump ya han recurrido a la violencia una vez en un intento por anular la voluntad del pueblo después de que el expresidente se negara a...

Medina Alert issued for car allegedly involved in Broadway hit-and-run

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:07:36 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A person in a stolen car allegedly struck a pedestrian on Broadway leaving them with serious injuries before fleeing the scene. Just after 10 p.m. Monday, Denver Police tweeted that they were investigating a hit-and-run crash at 4th Avenue and Broadway. 11 people shot downtown after Denver Nuggets win NBA Finals DPD said a driver in a stolen 2004 Acura TL allegedly hit a pedestrian and then fled the scene. The pedestrian was taken to a local hospital with serious injuries.NOT PHOTO OF ACTUAL VEHICLE. Denver Police are looking for a similar white 2004 Acura TL that was allegedly involved in a hit-and-run at 4th and Broadway. (CBI)A Medina Alert has been issued for the car. It is described as:2004 Acura TL - four-door sedanWhite in colorHas Colorado license plate CFHC16Has possible damage to the front passenger side DPD said the vehicle was reported stolen on June 11.The car was last seen on southbound Broadway Street. If you see the car, you are asked to call 911 o...

Nikola Jokic's hometown in Serbia celebrates Denver Nuggets' 1st NBA title

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:07:36 GMT

SOMBOR, Serbia (AP) — It was barely dawn when Nikola Jokic’s hardcore fans in his Serbian hometown of Sombor chanted “MVP! MVP!” and celebrated the Denver Nuggets’ first NBA title.Denver trailed the Miami Heat at halftime of Game 5 but rallied to win 94-89, with two-time league MVP Jokic posting 28 points and 16 rebounds and collecting the trophy for the most valuable player of the NBA Finals.Every shot, rebound or block the Serb center made sparked loud cheers and shouts in a decrepit sports hall in the small and otherwise sleepy northern Serbian city near the borders with Croatia and Hungary where fans watched the game on a large screen. 11 people shot downtown after Denver Nuggets win NBA Finals The loudest ovation came when the typically humble and stone-faced Jokic said in a post-game, on-court interview: “It’s time to go home."Soon, those fans who spent sleepless nights watching the NBA Finals will see him in person as he returns home to take care of his racehorses.For the s...

Officials work to identify remains recovered from the wreckage of the I-95 collapse in Philadelphia as demolition work begins

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:07:36 GMT

(CNN) — Authorities are working to identify a body recovered from the wreckage of the Interstate 95 collapse in Philadelphia, where crews have started around-the-clock efforts to demolish the crumbled East Coast artery that could take months to rebuild.The highway overpass came crashing down around 6:20 a.m. Sunday, after a truck carrying 8,500 gallons of gasoline crashed and exploded in flames under it, officials said. The truck had taken an off-ramp, crashed on its side while trying to go around a curve, slammed into a wall and ignited a fire, Pennsylvania Transportation Secretary Mike Carroll said Monday. The truck driver has not been identified, and authorities have not said whether the driver survived the crash.The fire caused a stretch of the overhead northbound I-95 to fall on top of the truck, authorities said. Southbound lanes were also compromised, officials have said, and will similarly need to be repaired.The National Transportation Safety Board has said it’s beginning i...