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California lawmaker proposes bill to limit the risk of homelessness for state renters

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:05:59 GMT

A California lawmaker wants to provide more tenant protection for state residents as a way to limit the risk of homelessness and protect renters against unjust actions from landlords.  Sen. María Elena Durazo, D-Los Angeles, announced on Friday a measure that would strengthen the California Tenant Protection Act of 2019. The current law provides tenant protection for renters statewide, which includes limits on rent increases, unjust evictions and relocation fees for no-fault evictions, according to the law's text. L.A. County Board of Supervisors votes to extend pandemic-era tenant protections until March During a news conference, Durazo said the bill would improve the 2019 law by limiting rent increases to “make them reasonable and humane” and “close the loopholes for landlords to evict people” along with other protections, the Sacramento Bee reported.More details about the bill, known as the Homelessness Prevention Act, are still being finalized.Supporters of the bill cite ...

Fun Oscars red carpet moments with Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Nicole Kidman, Idris Elba and more

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:05:59 GMT

KTLA 5's Sam Rubin and Jessica Holmes caught up with some of Hollywood's biggest names while live on the Oscars red carpet on Sunday. Once off the air, the fun continued.Halle Berry walked by in her white gown with sparkling flower details. She revealed she was wearing Tamara Ralph.Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and his "Jungle Cruise" costar Emily Blunt arrived at the ceremony together. When Sam assumed Johnson was wearing peach, the star quickly corrected him. "Sam, this is ballet pink," he explained. "Dolce and Gabanna."So did the pair do an outfit check before they arrived? "I said I was wearing white. So, I said 'don't wear the same dress as me.' He went with ballet pink," laughed the "Devil Wears Prada" actress. Johnson laughed along saying he ended up having to change his dress, and that's why he ended up in the pink satin blazer. Eva Longoria dazzled in a silver and white sparkling number. She looked fresh as a daisy considering she flew back to L.A. in the wee hours of the morni...

Richard Dreyfuss Like You’ve Never Seen Him Before: Annie Malee’s Upcoming Film “Abandonment” Showcases the Softer Side of the Oscar Winner and Legend

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:05:59 GMT

Photo courtesy of Malee MoviesOscar winner and screen legend Richard Dreyfuss has crafted a half century career playing stubborn hustlers and arrogant dreamers.  He has even brought a chilling, calculated stillness to his portrayals of real-life figures like Bernie Madoff and Dick Cheney.And while he scraped off a layer of his trademark sarcasm for roles in films like “Always” and “Mr. Holland’s Opus”, Dreyfuss explores an even deeper level of tenderness in Annie Malee’s upcoming thriller “Abandonment”.  He plays a 911 operator frantically trying to save a wounded hiker (Malee) on the Appalachian Trail.  But Dreyfuss’ character is also nursing a very raw emotional wound himself, which casts a heart-wrenching shadow over the pulse-pounding rescue mission.“Abandonment” writer, producer, and co-star Annie Malee says she was thrilled to create a role showcasing the strong but soft duality of a Richard Dreyfuss performance.“Richard brings so many layers to all of his characters”, Malee s...

Missing teen’s phone mysteriously recorded video of murder suspect

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:05:59 GMT

After murder charges were filed in the case of a missing teenage farmer, prosecutors in Utah revealed that a crucial piece of evidence was mysteriously captured on the victim’s phone.Dylan Rounds (Family photograph via Box Elder County sheriff) James Brenner, 59, was charged on March 3 with aggravated murder in connection with the disappearance last year of Dylan Rounds, 19, who lived by himself on his small farm near Lucin, in Utah’s northwest corner.In his last phone call to family, on May 28, Rounds told his grandmother it was going to rain and he needed to put his grain truck in a shed that was five miles from where he was living. Brenner lived in a camper near that shed.Rounds’ boots, spotted with his blood, were found near the shed on May 30, the first day his family went looking for him. Three weeks later, his phone was recovered from a nearby pond.A forensic examination of the phone yielded a startling clue: video that reportedly showed Brenner wearing...

Kenzaburo Oe dies at 88; Japanese author won the 1994 Nobel Prize in literature

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:05:59 GMT

By Mari Yamaguchi | Associated PressTOKYO — Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe, whose darkly poetic novels were built from his childhood memories during Japan’s postwar occupation and from being the parent of a disabled son, has died. He was 88.Oe, who was also an outspoken anti-nuclear and peace activist, died on March 3, his publisher, Kodansha Ltd., said in a statement Monday. The publisher did not give further details about his death and said his funeral was held by his family.Oe in 1994 became the second Japanese author awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe, left, receives the Nobel Prize for Literature from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf at the Concert Hall in Stockholm in 1994. (Gunnar Ask/Associated Press Archives)The Swedish Academy cited the author for his works of fiction, in which “poetic force creates an imagined world where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today.”His ...

Silicon Valley Bank bailout: Did regulators have a choice?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:05:59 GMT

The U.S. economy just escaped a 2008-crash-like moment of the pandemic era – a near-collapse of the banking system – because regulators swiftly chose a bailout option for Silicon Valley Bank.Government officials faced two stark choices after the bank failed last week.Option #1: Concoct a creative rescue for the bank’s numerous depositors with accounts exceeding the $250,000 insurance cap. It’s a group that includes some of the nation’s cutting-edge companies and wealthiest individuals.Option #2: Play it by the book and pray gigantic losses on uninsured deposits didn’t spark a run on the nation’s banking system – particularly smaller, regional institutions.Why choose to save people from their mistakes? Because government officials really had no choice.The cure, technical actions wrapped within bureaucratic lingo, was actually an unprecedented rescue designed to prevent a broader catastrophe. Let’s ponder some of the questions regulators likely faced as they consider...

'No active threat' at West Valley College, lockdown lifted

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:05:59 GMT

(KRON) -- There is "no active threat" on the campus at West Valley College in Saratoga, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office. Earlier, the campus had been placed on lockdown earlier due to reports of an armed intruder on campus, according to an alert from West Valley Education. The weapon, which was described as a "long rifle" earlier, proved to be a replica firearm, according to a tweet from the college. Two suspects were detained in the incident. Principal at school where student was fatally stabbed placed on leave Earlier, police described the intruder as a white man carrying a long rifle. The suspect was associated with a red Cadillac parked in the school's Lot 1.However, as of 1:30 p.m., the police said there was no active threat and that "the campus is safe." A separate tweet from West Valley College confirmed that the campus "is no longer in lockdown."Redwood Middle School, which is located nearby, was also briefly placed under a shelter-in-place order. Howe...

Woman found on Sausalito shoreline identified

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:05:59 GMT

SAUSALITO, Calif. (KRON) -- The identity of a woman whose body was found near the Sausalito shoreline on Friday has been released by the Marin County Sheriff's Office. Highway 1 still underwater, closed due to Pajaro flooding The woman was identified as 70-year-old Carolynn Leslie Dean of Sausalito. On Friday morning, a 911 caller reported that human remains were found somewhere near the surf, not far from the Spinnaker Restaurant. Emergency responders arrived on scene and found an unconscious and unresponsive Dean, fully-clothed and floating in the water. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now KRON4 Breaking News SIGN UP NOW After Dean was pulled from the water, emergency crews pronounced her dead. She had no identification on her person, so authorities conducted a...

Hooray, We Now Have Medicare for All (Bank Deposits)!

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:05:59 GMT

Customers in line outside the Silicon Valley Bank headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., on March 13, 2023.Photo: David Paul Morris/Getty ImagesFor everyone who’s fought and bled for years to get Medicare for All in the United States, I’ve got some great news: The government just created it on Sunday!Yes, this is Medicare for All Bank Deposits, rather than Medicare for All People. But if we think this through, we’ll see that both these things are great ideas and make sense for the same reasons — and there’s no reason that if we have one, we can’t have the other.First of all, it’s important to understand what happened yesterday. Banks are intrinsically vulnerable to runs. They accept deposits from regular people and businesses, which is good, so we don’t have to keep sacks full of cash in our closet and pay armed men to guard them.The problem is that we want to be able to come get our money out of the bank at any time. However, banks don’t keep sacks of all our cash in their vaults wai...

Gun laws, campus policies perplex college sports programs

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:05:59 GMT

At Alabama, one of the team’s best players allegedly delivered a gun that was used in a fatal shooting. At New Mexico State, a player avoided charges for shooting and killing a student in what he said was self-defense, even though he was carrying a gun in violation of school rules. At Michigan State, sports were suspended after gun violence on campus left three students dead. At LSU, the team’s leading wide receiver was arrested, but not charged, for carrying a gun through the French Quarter in New Orleans. The headlines over the past few months illustrate the challenge for athletic departments in determining how gun laws in their states and regulations at their schools should be applied to their programs and communicated to their players. An Associated Press analysis of more than a dozen schools in the NCAA tournaments shows a wide range of policies that govern guns at those schools and uneven efforts to regulate them.“I have no idea,” Michigan State basketball coach To...