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Mayor Bass Signs $13B Los Angeles City Budget

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:12:42 GMT

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass signed a $13 billion city budget Friday, with an emphasis on homelessness initiatives and police funding.Before signing the 2023-2024 budget, Bass highlighted the $1.3 billion that is planned for homelessness, calling the allocations an “investment,” as opposed to “spending.”“This budget makes investments to bring people inside, in public safety and in other areas that will net a return in terms of lives saved, in terms of the quality of life… and it will save the city money in the long run,” Bass said in a press conference before officially signing the budget. “This budget charts a new course for a new Los Angeles.”The “Inside Safe” program will be the beneficiary of $250 million, which would purchase hotels and motels for temporary housing, transitions to permanent housing, provide rental assistance and other support services.More than $3 billion of the budget will be allocated to police...

Getting Nasty with grouptherapy

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:12:42 GMT

Getting Nasty with grouptherapy: L.A.-based genre-defying project grouptherapy released new single and video “Nasty” on May 30, and it’s a banger.“Lined with a unique ferocity, the track is an irresistible nostalgic treat,” reads a press release. “Yes they’re cool but man they’re insanely versatile – it’s just DAMN GOOD.  They’re showing all the way out after coming out from a period of real darkness with this new body of work. They’re having fun in their resilience! They’re real life best friends who are so deeply different but yet so intensely connected and create insanely insatiable music rooted in deep vulnerability. Sonically it’s an explosion of EVERYTHING and embodiment of true judgment free zone.”The tune does see the outfit seamlessly bounce between hip-hop, pop, funk and EDM. The result is a joyful, ‘rude-heavy ditty.Meanwhile, the video has them moving between a tiled white room and some sort of parking str...

Can ‘social housing’ help solve California’s housing crisis?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:12:42 GMT

Over the past half-decade, California lawmakers have signed off on almost a hundred laws seeking to alleviate the state’s deepening housing crisis. Yet developers still aren’t building anywhere near enough affordably priced homes for everyone who needs them.Now, a state assemblymember from San Jose is pushing a novel proposal he believes could finally jump-start affordable housing development by allowing the state government to get into the homebuilding business.Alex Lee, a 27-year-old Democrat, has written a bill that would create a state agency to develop “social housing” — publicly owned housing that would be affordable for people with a range of income levels.While skeptics may dismiss the idea as a progressive pipe dream doomed to repeat the failures of underfunded federal public housing programs, Lee points out that California agencies already hire developers to build housing at universities and other public property across the state.“Wouldn...

Genvid and Konami announce ‘Silent Hill’ interactive streaming series

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:12:42 GMT

“Silent Hill” is returning but not in the way fans would expect. The latest entry in the horror franchise is coming courtesy of a collaboration between Genvid Entertainment and Konami and will be an interactive streaming series.Related ArticlesEntertainment | Review: The IQUNIX L80 has bones of a good keyboard but needs some work Entertainment | Top 5 games from the Humble Games showcase Entertainment | ‘Diablo IV’ Server Slam happening this weekend among other gaming events Entertainment | Review: ‘Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’ charts new ground in sprawling sequel Entertainment | Niantic’s ‘Peridot’ brings believable augmented reality to gaming That means it’s not going to be a survivor horror video game with a psychological slant. It’s more of a story-driven show, in which the audience has a hand in determining the fate of each character. T...

One dead in shooting on Hwy-87 in San Jose

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:12:42 GMT

(BCN) -- San Jose police are on the scene of a shooting early Tuesday that injured two people and has closed at least one lane of northbound Highway 87 near Willow Street, according to a 4:52 a.m. tweet from police. Thousands of people drawn to sideshow in Alameda One man and one woman were injured in the shooting. Police confirmed to KRON4 that the man has been pronounced dead, and the shooting is being investigated as a homicide. No further information was immediately available. Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

PGA Tour goes to Memorial, LPGA Tour has new event at Liberty National

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:12:42 GMT

PGA TOURMEMORIAL TOURNAMENTSite: Dublin, Ohio.Course: Muirfield Village GC. Yardage: 7,533. Par: 72.Prize money: $20 million. Winner’s share: $3.6 million.Television: Thursday-Friday, 2-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 12:30-2:30 p.m. (Golf Channel), 2:30-6 p.m. (CBS).Defending champion: Billy Horschel.FedEx Cup leader: Jon Rahm.Last week: Emiliano Grillo won the Charles Schwab Challenge.Notes: The Memorial begins a stretch of three big tournaments in four weeks, with the U.S. Open in two weeks followed by the Travelers Championship, now an elevated event. … The field features seven of the top 10 players in the world. Max Homa (No. 6) is missing to attend his sister’s wedding. Cameron Smith (No. 9) is with LIV Golf and Will Zalatoris (No. 10) is out for the year after back surgery. … U.S. Open qualifying is the Monday after the Memorial, with most PGA Tour players staying in the Columbus area. … Jon Rahm tied for 10th last year, had a six-shot le...

Nuggets run to the NBA Finals stirs up memories of wonderful wackiness in the ABA

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:12:42 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Gone, but never forgotten, the ABA is enjoying a curtain call this season — all thanks to the Denver Nuggets.Nearly 50 years after the breakup of the old, renegade league, with its red-white-and-blue basketballs and the 3-point arc that has redefined the modern game, the Nuggets finally broke through to become the last of the four ABA teams — Spurs, Pacers, Nets and Nuggets — who survived the 1976 merger to make the NBA Finals. Denver hosts Miami in Game 1 on Thursday.One of the nicest compliments those old ABA Nuggets can pay to today’s group: These Nuggets remind them of them. “The new NBA is like the old ABA,” David Thompson, ‘The Skywalker,’ told The Associated Press in a phone interview from his home in Charlotte, North Carolina. “This Nuggets team, we’re pulling for them. I want them to finish the job that we didn’t quite get done.”Thompson’s career with the Nuggets straddled their ABA and NBA days. He is such a fan of the modern-day Nuggets that a si...

Woman hit and killed by driver in stolen car in Capitol Heights

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:12:42 GMT

A woman died after being struck by a stolen car in Prince George’s County, Maryland, Saturday afternoon and police are now looking for both the driver and passenger.Officers found 20-year-old Dyanny Leiva Sabillon of Capitol Heights, critically injured at the 6700 block of Calmos Street in Capitol Heights at around 12:45 p.m. Saturday.According to a news release, she died shortly after being taken to a local hospital.Police said the driver and passenger were traveling north on Calmos Street when they struck a parked, unoccupied vehicle. They then struck Sabillon while she was entering or exiting her car, according to authorities.The driver then struck multiple parked and unoccupied vehicles before coming to a stop, police said. The driver and passenger jumped out of the car and ran away from the scene, leaving behind the stolen vehicle.Police are still searching for the driver and passenger involved in the hit-and-run but did not provide a description.Anyone with information i...

Counties with the warmest summers in Colorado

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:12:42 GMT

DENVER (Stacker) — It's almost summer, and the weather is starting to heat up.With this in mind, Stacker compiled a list of the counties with the warmest summers in Colorado using data from the National Centers for Environmental Information. Data represents the average temperatures from June to August 2022; the historic average is the average for these months from 1901 to 2000.#25. Mesa County- Summer 2022 average temperature: 70 degrees- Historic average summer temperature: 66 degrees-- 2022 difference from historic average: 3.8 degrees#24. Montezuma County- Summer 2022 average temperature: 71 degrees- Historic average summer temperature: 67 degrees-- 2022 difference from historic average: 3.8 degrees#23. Elbert County- Summer 2022 average temperature: 71 degrees- Historic average summer temperature: 67 degrees-- 2022 difference from historic average: 4.1 degrees#22. Las Animas County- Summer 2022 average temperature: 71 degrees- Historic average summer temperature: 70 degrees-- 20...

Coast Guard searching for man who fell from cruise ship off Florida coast

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:12:42 GMT

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday that it’s searching for a man who fell from a cruise ship off the coast of Florida.The 35-year-old passenger fell from the Carnival Magic ship about 185 miles (300 kilometers) east of Jacksonville on Monday, the service said in a statement. Aircraft and ships are being used in the search.The man’s companion reported him missing late Monday afternoon, the statement said. It said security footage on the ship shows that the man “leaned over the railing of his stateroom balcony and dropped into the water” around 4 a.m.Carnival said the Coast Guard released the ship from search efforts and told the captain to head back to port in Norfolk, Virginia. The ship can hold nearly 4,000 guests and is about 1,000 feet (300 meters) long.