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California judge charged in wife’s murder expected to appear in Los Angeles court

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:57:24 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California judge charged with killing his wife during an argument while he was drunk is expected to appear Tuesday in court.Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson, who is free on $1 million bail, is set to be arraigned on a murder charge in a Los Angeles courtroom. The hearing is scheduled there because Ferguson has been a judge hearing criminal cases in a courtroom about 25 miles (40 kilometers) to the southeast in Orange County.The 72-year-old was arrested on Aug. 3 at his home in the upscale neighborhood of Anaheim Hills after police found his wife, Sheryl Ferguson, shot to death. Prosecutors said in court filings that the couple had been arguing and the judge was drinking when he pulled a pistol from an ankle holster and shot her in the chest. The couple’s adult son and Ferguson called 911, and Ferguson texted his court clerk and bailiff to say he had shot his wife, according to the filings.He texted: “I just lost it. I just shot ...

Going to college? Here’s what you should know about student loans

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:57:24 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — If you’re heading to college or starting to think about where you’d like to apply, you’re probably considering options for funding your education. If you need to borrow money to pursue your dreams, you are far from alone. According to the Federal Reserve, 30% of all U.S. adults said they incurred at least some debt for their education. Borrowers owe a collective $1.77 trillion in student loan debt, including federal and private loans. “Borrowing is almost at the point where it’s a requirement,” said Dana Kelly, from the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.If you’re a high school senior or a college student, you’ll want to apply for federal student loans through the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, also known as FAFSA, in December for the 2024-2025 school year. For private student loans, you can apply whenever you need the loan. When you take out student loans, it’s beneficial have to have an idea of what professiona...

UAW to vote on strike authorization next week as president says talks with Detroit 3 moving slowly

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:57:24 GMT

DETROIT (AP) — About 146,000 members of the United Auto Workers union will vote next week on authorizing their leaders to call strikes against the Detroit automakers.Union President Shawn Fain said in a statement Tuesday that talks are moving slowly and have yet to get to wages and other economic issues. The union’s contracts with General Motors, Ford and Stellantis expire in about a month, at 11:59 p.m. Sept. 14.The union did not name a target company for a strike in its Tuesday statement. Fain is scheduled to hold a Facebook Live meeting with workers later Tuesday.Strike authorization votes are a routine part of contract talks and are often overwhelmingly approved. Messages were left seeking comment from all three automakers. Source

3 Bulgarian nationals arrested in espionage investigation face charges in U.K.

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:57:24 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Three Bulgarian citizens living in England who were arrested in February on suspicion of espionage offenses have been charged with possessing false identity documents, the Metropolitan Police said Tuesday.Orlin Roussev, 45, Bizer Dzhambazov, 42, and Katrin Ivanova, 32, were taken into custody after they appeared last month in the Central Criminal Court in London.The trio is suspected of working for Russian security services, the BBC and other British media reported.The charges allege the three had false documents among 34 pieces of identification in their possession. The BBC said documents, including passports and identity cards, were from the U.K., Bulgaria, France, Italy, Spain, Croatia, Slovenia, Greece and the Czech Republic.Counter-terrorism detectives arrested the three with two others on suspicion of an offense under the Official Secrets Act 1911, which criminalizes spying. That investigation continues.The other two arrested, a 31-year-old man and 29-year-old wo...

CNBC: este trabajo independiente paga hasta $ 250 por hora y puede ser desde tu casa

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:57:24 GMT

El trabajo más popular en el mercado laboral independiente no es la codificación o el diseño gráfico, como es de esperar, es la escritura.Eso es al menos según una nueva investigación de Freelancer.com, que descubrió que la escritura creativa es la habilidad más demandada por los empleadores en su plataforma, según un análisis de casi 300,000 trabajos anunciados en el sitio entre abril y junio.Incluso a medida que más empresas recurren a la IA para la creación de contenido, la demanda de escritores humanos para editar manuscritos, escribir publicaciones de blog optimizadas para SEO y redactar guiones para proyectos creativos ha aumentado desde principios de año, dice Matt Barrie, director ejecutivo de Freelancer.com. .“La IA aún no puede reemplazar la creatividad”, dice. “Vimos una tendencia similar en el primer trimestre del año, ya que los trabajos de diseño creativo florecían a pesar de que el interés por la IA generativa se triplicaba”.Barrie agrega que otras habilidades relacio...

US-focused Opera News, to cease publication in November after 87 years

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:57:24 GMT

NEW YIORK (AP) — Opera News, an 87-year-old publication focused on the Metropolitan Opera and spotlighting the art form in the U.S., will print its final issue in November and be incorporated into Britain-based Opera magazine.The Met announced Tuesday that the Metropolitan Opera Guild, a separate company formed in 1935 by Eleanor Belmont to aid the opera house, will scale back operations and become a supporting organization of the Met. The opera company will take over the education program that allows about 12,000 school children each year to attend dress rehearsals.Opera News has a 43,000 circulation, including 32,000 in print and 11,000 digital. It is distributed to 28,000 Guild members and has an additional 9,000 paid subscribers. After publishing biweekly during the opera season since 1940, Opera News added monthly summer editions in 1972 and switched to a year-round monthly schedule in 2008.“It really is the result of several years of declining economic fortunes,” Met general m...

Work to begin on underground fire near Marshall Fire ignition point

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:57:24 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Work is set to begin after increased activity was noticed at an underground coal mine fire that's been burning for more than 50 years near where the Marshall Fire started.According to the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety, the Lewis Coal Mine Fire has shown increased activity since late 2021 when the Marshall Fire tore through parts of Superior, Louisville and unincorporated Boulder County. Marshall Fire caused by residential burn and Xcel power line, sheriff says Two sites have been identified for work: the Lewis site, which sits north of Marshall Road and east of Cherryvale Road, and the Marshall site, which is at the Marshall Mesa Trailhead.According to DRMS, the fire is at risk of causing the Davidson Ditch, a water supply ditch, to collapse when it fills in the spring. Jeff Graves, director of the Inactive Mine Reclamation Program for DRMS, said this is, "a proactive effort to reduce the potential for surface ignition as a result of the incr...

Springfield police investigating after man opens fire on neighbors, killing woman and wounding two children

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:57:24 GMT

Authorities in Springfield, Mass., are searching for a motive after a man forced himself into a neighbor’s apartment, shot and killed a woman and a dog, and wounded two children before shooting himself.The Hampden District Attorney’s Office said Victor Nieves, 34, was found dead after authorities were called to a multi-family home on Berkshire Avenue Monday afternoon for a report of a shooting.Nieves was found along with the bodies of a female victim and a dog on the first floor at the home around 2:40 p.m., where police also found three children in a bedroom, two of whom had gunshot wounds.“The three children are ages 12, 10, and 5,” the DA’s office stated in a news release, adding that all three were siblings. “The 10 year-old girl was shot and ultimately air-lifted to Boston Children’s Hospital, where she remains in critical condition. The 12 year-old girl was shot and remains at Baystate Medical Center in stable condition.”As of Tuesday ...

Special counsel says Hunter Biden’s gun deal is ‘withdrawn’ and invalid

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:57:24 GMT

(CNN) — Special counsel David Weiss said the deal his team previously reached with Hunter Biden to resolve a felony gun possession charge was never approved by a probation officer and is not binding.The Justice Department prosecutors said in a court filing on Tuesday that for the “diversion agreement” to be legally binding, it would have had to be signed by a probation officer after last month’s court hearing in Delaware.They said the official who needed to sign it was Margaret Bray, the chief United States probation officer for the District of Delaware.“In sum, because Ms. Bray, acting in her capacity as the Chief United States Probation Officer, did not approve the now-withdrawn diversion agreement, it never went into effect and, therefore, none of its terms are binding on either party,” prosecutors wrote.Biden’s lawyers on Sunday said they believed an agreement to resolve a felony gun possession charge was “valid and binding.”The filing states that n...

State: 134,000 People Affected By UMass Chan Data Breach

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:57:24 GMT

The state began getting in touch Tuesday with more than 134,000 people currently or previously enrolled in certain state programs whose personal information, potentially including private medical details and financial data, was part of a data breach involving a file transfer program used by the UMass Chan Medical School.The Executive Office of Health and Human Services said that exposed data varies by person, but in each case includes the person’s name and at least one other piece of information like date of birth, mailing address, protected health information like diagnosis and treatment details, Social Security number, and financial account information.The breach stems from a vulnerability in MOVEit, a product of Burlington-based Progress Software that the state said “was used to transfer files as part of the services provided by UMass to certain EOHHS agencies and programs.”“This incident was part of a worldwide data security incident involving a file-tran...