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Opinion: Native Americans need voice in solving water issues

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:17:18 GMT

The Supreme Court’s recent 5-to-4 decision in Arizona v. Navajo Nation continues a legacy of restricted water access for Indigenous peoples and limits their access to abundant drinking water, clean drinking water, and adequately treated residential and industrial wastewater.The Nation argues that under the Treaty of Bosque Redondo, the federal government has a duty to establish and secure water and water rights for the reservation under its trust. Writing for the majority, Justice Brett Kavanaugh argued the treaty only established property rights and did not obligate the government to assist in tribal requests.Water, the key to life, is a fundamental right for all humans. However, Native American households are 19 times more likely than white households not to have indoor plumbing. For the Navajo Nation, that number swells to 67 times more likely not to have running water in our homes.For many Native American communities, water access and water policy is determined by the U.S. gover...

Lanes closed on northbound Speer downtown starting Friday

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:17:18 GMT

Downtown drivers Friday morning will be greeted with more lanes closed on North Speer Boulevard.Related ArticlesTransportation | Fatal rollover crash in Aurora forced road closures near South Tower Road and East Kansas Place Transportation | Stretch of eastbound I-70 in Jefferson County shut down by multi-vehicle crash Transportation | Stretch of northbound lanes on I-25 in Douglas County reopen after crash is cleared Transportation | Traffic delays expected as I-70 Floyd Hill Project rock scaling starts Monday Transportation | I-70 reopens after fatal crash near Eisenhower Tunnel Denver’s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure will start work Friday to replace concrete at Speer and Larimer Street. The work will run through next Thursday.Several northbound lanes will be closed heading toward Larimer to give crews space to work, city officials said in a news release. They said the plan is t...

Broncos lose ILB Jonas Griffith for season to ACL tear, Sean Payton confirms, a second major blow in training camp

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:17:18 GMT

The Broncos are off to yet another brutal start to training camp on the injury front.Denver inside linebacker Jonas Griffith tore his left ACL in practice Tuesday and will miss the entire season, coach Sean Payton confirmed after practice Thursday.Griffith was working through a drill and went to the ground without contact. He walked off the field with help from training staff, but medical imaging showed the season-ending injury.The 6-foot-4, 250-pound inside linebacker entered training camp ecstatic to be healthy again after missing the final nine games of the 2022 season with a broken bone at the top of his foot.“It was definitely frustrating, but the thing for me is it taught me a lot,” Griffith told The Post in June. “It taught me how to deal with adversity — it was my first real injury and missed time throughout my career, high school, college and into the NFL. It taught me to appreciate the game and the process of practicing and to enjoy it.“That’s what I’m doing now is just en...

Southern California sailor sold military secrets to China, DOJ says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:17:18 GMT

A Monterey Park man serving in the United States Navy has been arrested and accused of taking bribes in exchange for providing military information to China.Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao, 26, was taken into custody by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service on Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release.Zhao, who also goes by Thomas Zhao, worked at Naval Base Ventura County in Port Hueneme, which is where he was arrested, according to the Associated Press.According to prosecutors, he used his security clearance to provide "non-public, sensitive U.S. military information" to a Chinese intelligence officer starting in August 2021 and continuing until at least May of this year.Zhao captured the information in surreptitious recordings and photographs, including "operational plans for a large-scale U.S. military exercise in the Indo-Pacific Region, which detailed the specific location and timing of Naval force movements, amphibious landings, maritime operations and log...

Man trafficked girl, pimped woman, Long Beach police say

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:17:18 GMT

A girl is safe and her alleged trafficker is facing felony charges after the Long Beach Police Department took the man into custody last month.Calvin Lane of Gardena brought the unidentified girl to Los Angeles to "work as a commercial sex worker," and while she was being trafficked, "she was physically and sexually assaulted," the LBPD said in a news release. The girl was later brought to Long Beach for sex work, and on July 9, police located her at 67th Street and Long Beach Boulevard after receiving a report of a person in distress.Once investigators identified Lane as the girl's trafficker, they located him at his Gardena home and took him into custody."During the arrest, officers discovered an additional adult victim," police said. Lane, who police said is 27 years old but who appears to be listed as 37 in jail records, faces charges of human trafficking of a minor with violence and pimping an adult.He was being held in Men's Central Jail in lieu of $1.1 million bail with a cou...

California's largest wildfire of the year threatening iconic Joshua trees

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:17:18 GMT

Firefighters aided by rain fought to contain a massive blaze that swept through the California desert into Nevada and is threatening the region's famous spiky Joshua trees.The York Fire that erupted last Friday is California's largest wildfire this year. As of Wednesday night it had burned through nearly 147 square miles (380.4 square kilometers) of land and was 34% contained, fire officials said.Humid monsoonal weather conditions Tuesday afternoon brought brief but heavy rain, especially on the south end of the fire, and kept its spread to a minimum, fire officials said. Wednesday saw the rain easing and temperatures rising but fire officials said crews were able to continue mopping up the blaze and reinforcing containment lines on the fire's edges. The National Weather Service forecast dry, sunny weather with a high of up to 99 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2 Celsius) on Thursday.Burned landscape from the York Fire in the Mojave National Preserve on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2...

UCLA Chancellor stepping down after 17-year tenure

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:17:18 GMT

University of California, Los Angeles Chancellor Gene Block will be stepping down after a 17-year tenure as the head of the university, UCLA announced on Thursday.During his time as chancellor, Block helped steer the Westwood campus through a global pandemic, a financial crisis in 2008, and helped the university expand its enrollment diversity, philanthropy and research, the university said in a news release. UCLA purchases historic Trust Building in downtown Los Angeles “Since I became chancellor 16 years ago, UCLA has been my community and my home, a source of endless inspiration, and an indelible part of who I am,” Block said in a statement. “Serving as the leader of our university has been the greatest honor of my life.”While Block’s tenure has been filled with many accomplishments, such as the opening of UCLA Downtown and UCLA South Bay, there was a major controversy. Last October, James Heaps, a former gynecologist at UCLA, was found guilty on five counts in a sexual abuse c...

A man accused of holding a woman in a cinder block cell had been on law enforcement's radar

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:17:18 GMT

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A man who is accused of kidnapping a woman and holding her in a cinder block cell that she escaped by punching her way out had been on law enforcement’s radar and is now suspected in other sexual assaults.The woman was kidnapped from Seattle, chained, and driven to a home in Klamath Falls, Oregon, according to the FBI. Negasi Zuberi, 29, is now behind bars in Nevada, waiting to be extradited to Oregon, where he is charged in federal court with interstate kidnapping and transporting an individual across state lines with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.A search of Zuberi’s rental home and garage turned up the woman’s purse and handwritten notes, according to investigators. One was labeled “Operation Take Over” and included entries that read, “Leave phone at home” and “Make sure they don’t have a bunch of ppl (sic) in their life. You don’t want any type of investigation.”Another handwritten document appeared to include a rough sketch for an underground s...

Warner Bros. Discovery reveals strikes saved major money in Q2

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:17:18 GMT

Executives with Warner Bros. Discovery reported record savings in the second quarter on Thursday's earnings call.The reason for this? The current writers' and actors' strike. On the call, Warner Bros. Discovery CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels revealed the savings are in the "low $100 million range," according to Variety. Q2 runs from April 1 to June 30. Only members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) were on strike at this point in time. Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson makes massive donation to SAG-AFTRA Foundation Wiedenfels explained that the company is hoping for a resolution between the two unions and the studios next month. “While we are hoping for a fast resolution, our modeling assumes a return to work date in early September, should the strikes run through the end of the year, I would expect several $100 million upside to our free cash flow guidance and some incremental downside for adjusted EBITDA,” he said.Members of the Writers Guild of America, WGA picket outside CBS Television Ci...

Two Killed in Fiery Plane Crash at Van Nuys Airport [Van Nuys, CA]

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:17:18 GMT

Pilot and Passenger Pronounced Dead after Single-Engine Plane Crash in Van NuysVAN NUYS, CA (August 3, 2023) – Wednesday morning, two people lost their lives in a plane crash at Van Nuys Airport.The incident happened on August 2nd, at around 10:30 a.m., near the 16300 block of Waterman Drive.According to reports, a flight instructor and a student were in the plane when the pilot contacted the tower and told them the plane was experiencing power loss. The pilot attempted a landing but lost control and the plane crashed nose-first into the tarmac, before bursting into flames.Before the crash, the pilot was able to communicate to the tower that the plane was about to crash. The tower contacted emergency crews and they were able to arrive very shortly after.Firefighters put out the flames quickly. However, the impact of the collision caused the two occupants to sustain fatal injuries. They were pronounced dead at the scene.The team at Sweet James sends their sincere sympathies to ...