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This California town hasn’t had clean drinking water in 11 years

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:01:48 GMT

SAN LUCAS — Three or four times a week, Melva Garza and her 40-year-old disabled son throw shampoo, soap, towels and fresh clothes in a bag, pack up their car and make their way to a truck stop eight miles away to take a shower.She keeps the shower tokens — 50 cents each — stacked next to the truck stop faucet, each one worth three more minutes of water.The Garzas haven’t showered in their own home in over a decade.For years, Garza hasn’t turned on the taps that spew only fetid, discolored water into her house. She has five-gallon jugs strewn about for everything from washing her hands to cooking and cleaning her clothes. She uses her two bathtubs as storage.Andrea Silva holds a glass of cloudy water from the faucet at her home in San Lucas, Calif., on Thursday, April 14, 2023. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) It’s a reality the family has faced for 11 years since nitrate levels in San Lucas’s only freshwater well spiked to dangerous levels. Her family is one of the dozens in t...

Roadshow: Instead of taxing bicyclists for being on the road, how about rewarding them?

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:01:48 GMT

Q: I was surprised that feedback to you was all that bicyclists should pay more for using our roads.Transportation accounts for 40 percent of California’s greenhouse gas emissions. Bicyclists, choosing climate-friendly transportation, are already suffering the hot mess of our future world caused, to a significant degree, by car drivers. Instead of further taxing bicyclists, we should reward them.Doug McKenzie, BerkeleyA: You make valid points. Once I mentioned that all the feedback to that point supported bicyclists paying more, bicycle supporters started to respond.Q: The issue is whether bicyclists pay their fair share. While they pay less in absolute terms, they do far less damage to roads. They pay more than their fair share.Richard Swent, Palo AltoA: Jeff-an-MTC-spokesman said that, per a national travel survey, 83 percent of cyclists own cars, a percentage point higher than the number of non-cyclists who own cars, which is consistent with his experience. He bicycles 4,00...

Is it against the law to fill potholes on your own?

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:01:48 GMT

With hundreds of thousands of miles of roads across California, the possibility of running over a pesky pothole is seemingly endless.If you're like former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, potholes are more than just an annoyance, they can genuinely be a blight on the neighborhood.That reasoning is why Arnold took it upon himself to fill a hole that had been bothering him for weeks in his Brentwood neighborhood. He posted video of the repair on social media and it quickly went viral."I always say, let’s not complain, let’s do something about it," Schwarzenegger said in a tweet.It was later revealed that the hole the Governator filled was, in fact, not a pothole — rather it was an active trench used by a gas utility. The temporary hole was permitted and crews were supposed to fill it in with a permanent solution once work was completed, but that fix was delayed due to weather.Schwarzenegger still maintains that the hole was around far beyond an acceptable timeline, and he ca...

Hit-and-run collision leaves one with life-threatening injuries

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:01:48 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) – One person is left with life-threatening injuries after a hit-and-run-collision early Sunday morning, according to the San Jose Police Department. One dead, one injured in separate Oakland shootings Shortly after 12 a.m., police responded to the scene of a multi-vehicle collision at Piedmont Avenue and Berryressa Road. One person was transported to a local hospital in critical condition, police said.KRON On is streaming news live now.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }The roads remain closed and drivers are advised to use alternate routes.This is a developing story. Stick with KRON4 for more updates.

Six pounds of meth, one pound of fentanyl seized in SF's Tenderloin

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:01:48 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) -- Officers making a narcotics arrest in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood seized 1.1 pounds of fentanyl and more than 6 pounds of methamphetamine, police said Saturday.The seizure came a day after Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged to use the resources of the California National Guard and California Highway Patrol to attack the city's fentanyl trafficking crisis. The state's assistance is needed "to help break up the open-air drug dealing happening in our city," Mayor London Breed said Friday.(Photo: SFPD Tenderloin)Fentanyl is the leading cause of drug overdose deaths in San Francisco, according to the city Department of Public Health. Of the 620 deaths in 2022, 72 percent were attributed to fentanyl, the department said in January. One dead, one injured in separate Oakland shootings A small amount of fentanyl can be fatal and people who use drugs may be unintentionally exposed to it in other drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine, public health offi...

Swiatek beats Sabalenka 6-3, 6-4 to defend Stuttgart title

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:01:48 GMT

STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — Iga Swiatek defended her Porsche Tennis Grand Prix title with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Aryna Sabalenka in Stuttgart on Sunday. Swiatek saved the only break point she faced and took two of her six opportunities to win her 13th title overall in 1 hour, 50 minutes. It was her third successful title defense after Rome last year and Doha this year. Sabalenka had reached the Stuttgart final for the third year in a row. She was beaten by the world No. 1 on each occasion, losing to Ashleigh Barty in 2021, then Swiatek last year and this.This year the Belarussian was appearing as the world No. 2-ranked player. It was the first time the world’s top two met in a WTA singles final since then-No. 2 Caroline Wozniacki defeated Simona Halep for the 2018 Australian Open title.___ More AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports Source

Report: Ukrainian forces across key river, raising hopes

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:01:48 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian military forces have successfully established positions on the eastern side of the Dnieper River, according to a new analysis, giving rise to speculation Sunday that the advances could be an early sign of Kyiv’s long-awaited spring counteroffensive.The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, reported late Saturday that geolocated footage from pro-Kremlin military bloggers indicated that Ukrainian troops had established a foothold near the town of Oleshky, along with “stable supply lines” to their positions. Analysts widely believe that if Ukraine goes ahead with a spring counteroffensive, a major goal would be to break through the land corridor between Russia and the annexed Crimean Peninsula, which would necessitate crossing the Dnieper River in the country’s south.Responding to Ukrainian media reports proclaiming that the establishment of such positions indicated the counteroffensive had begun, Natalia Humeniuk, the...

Encuesta de NBC News: casi el 70% de los votantes republicanos apoyan a Trump

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:01:48 GMT

Dos tercios de los votantes de las primarias republicanas dicen que respaldan al expresidente Donald Trump y descartan las preocupaciones sobre su elegibilidad, a pesar de su reciente arresto criminal y las otras investigaciones legales sobre su conducta pasada, según una nueva encuesta nacional de NBC News.Eso, junto con su ventaja de dos dígitos sobre su posible rival republicano más cercano, el gobernador de Florida, Ron DeSantis, convierte a Trump en el claro favorito en la carrera inicial por la nominación presidencial republicana.El entusiasmo continuo del Partido Republicano por Trump contrasta con el descontento de una nación ansiosa por cómo se perfila la carrera de 2024. La mayoría sustancial de todos los estadounidenses no quiere que Trump o el presidente Joe Biden se postulen para presidente en 2024, lo que prepara una revancha de elecciones generales potencialmente divisiva y poco inspiradora entre los dos hombres, y se espera que Biden lance su candidatura a la reelecc...

Students seek to soothe mental health center halls, clients

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:01:48 GMT

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — Some senior art students from St. John’s Catholic Prep stared intently at a mural of swooping green and purple mountains in the halls of the Mental Health Association of Frederick County.Paint brushes in hand, they expanded the landscape as they traced over old ridge lines with new ones. Some chatted with one another; some concentrated silently.Each student’s calculated stroke brought the larger scene into focus: a mountainous region with coolly colored expanses basked in warm orange-yellow sunlight.The hallways and mural lines all lead to a sun in the middle corridor, eclipsed by a majestically posed bird, standing on a tree branch with its beak held high.The bird was the idea and creation of St. John’s senior Juliana Workman, who stood a few feet away, painting a mountain.Workman said the bird embodies someone with confidence who has grown out of their mental struggles.“The fact that it’s against the sun and being highlighted by the sun, it’s absorbing all th...

New apprenticeship program lends skills training for youths

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:01:48 GMT

BEDFORD, Va. (AP) — Josh Weeks, owner of Wicked Diesel, a diesel and automotive repair facility at 1051 Orange St., recently became the first Bedford County business owner to register with the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry’s Youth Registered Apprenticeship Program.He currently has two apprentices in the program, ages 17 to 21.Weeks works closely with automotive technology instructors at Bedford County Public Schools’ Susie G. Gibson Science and Technology Center to provide job-shadowing opportunities, internships and part-time paid employment opportunities at his shop, which opened in 2014.A 2005 graduate of the center’s automotive technology program himself, he currently employs four other graduates from the same program. He is excited to further his involvement with local students through the apprenticeship program.“We’re able to grow our business and our intention is to keep these employees forever for them to make a career out of it,” he said. “So when we go into it ...