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'We are fed up': Martinez residents vent frustration over ongoing refinery issues

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:37:48 GMT

MARTINEZ, Calif. (KRON) -- On Wednesday night, an East Bay community came together to voice their concerns to a refining company with repeated issues. Martinez residents say they’ve had enough as the Martinez Refining Company has had problems with flaring, starting a grass fire and sending coke dust into the community. At the Martinez City Council meeting Wednesday, the Martinez Refining Company presented to the city what they’re doing to prevent these things from happening. Residents in attendance gave them an earful, saying they deserve a healthy community.  Serial Bay Area shoplifter arrested 90 times Residents at Wednesday's meeting railed against the Martinez Refining Company.  They say they are fed up with the flaring and dust releases in their community." We don’t feel comfortable here, we don’t feel safe," said one community member at Wednesday's meeting. The refining company has been under fire for issues stemming from a powdery substance being released last Thanksgiving....

Poll Shows Student Debt Policy May Be Killing Biden

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:37:48 GMT

Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign comes at a unique moment for the economy and how the electorate perceives it. Looking at the economy through the standard macroeconomic lens everything points in a positive direction. Unemployment remains below 4 percent for the longest stretch of time in 50 years, and inflation has retreated without the pain of a recession many predicted. Yet many voters, including those in key demographics Biden needs to win, are not experiencing the economy in the same way.At the beginning of the Biden administration, the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in a massive increase in America’s social safety net culminating in the passage of the American Rescue Plan at the start of Biden’s term. Americans received direct cash benefits from the government, health insurance was heavily subsidized, unemployment benefits were expanded, student loan payments paused, and the child tax credit sent cash to nearly every American family, lifting millions from poverty. That’s aside from t...

Correction: Severe Weather-Northeast story

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:37:48 GMT

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — In a Dec. 20 story about a powerful storm in the Northeastern U.S., The Associated Press misspelled Rangeley, Maine, as “Rangely.” Also, although the Saddleback ski resort plans to reopen Friday, its slopes will reopen Saturday.Source

Live updates | Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza and UN says half a million people there are ‘starving’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:37:48 GMT

Israel kept up its airstrikes and ground operations across the Gaza Strip, where the United Nations says more than half a million people are “starving” because not enough food has entered the besieged territory. That’s roughly one out of every four Palestinians in Gaza.Tens of thousands of people are crammed into shelters and tent camps facing shortages of food, medicine and other basic supplies. A World Health Organization official who visited two hospitals in northern Gaza said they were doing more amputations because staff, electricity and other essentials are in extremely short supply. The U.N. Security Council has scheduled a long-delayed vote on a new resolution to halt the fighting in some way to allow for an increase in humanitarian aid deliveries. A territory-wide communications outage has made it difficult to confirm details about the fighting. Hamas, meanwhile, fired a barrage of rockets at Tel Aviv, underscoring the militant group’s resilience in the face of ...

Prague police chief identifies shooter as student at university where at least 15 people killed

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:37:48 GMT

PRAGUE (AP) — Prague police chief identifies shooter as student at university where at least 15 people killed.Source

Youngkin propone ajustar impuestos sobre la renta y las ventas en Virginia

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:37:48 GMT

El gobernador de Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, propuso el miércoles un nuevo presupuesto estatal que reduciría los impuestos sobre la renta y aumentaría el impuesto sobre las ventas del estado.Se trata de un esfuerzo por estabilizar los ingresos y permitir a los residentes de Virginia “conservar una mayor parte del dinero que ganaron con tanto esfuerzo”.El plan de Youngkin para los próximos dos años fiscales también ampliaría el impuesto a las ventas para incluir servicios digitales, como la descarga de música, que ya están gravados en otros estados. Describió el plan como “cerrar la laguna fiscal de las grandes tecnologías”.“Virginia siempre ha gravado los bienes”, señaló Youngkin. “Y durante la última década, la definición de bienes ha evolucionado hacia bienes de la nueva economía, como paquetes de software, descargas digitales, transmisión de música y videos, almacenamiento en la nube y otros medios electrónicos, sobre los cuales hoy Virginia no recauda...

Sismo de magnitud 5,7 sacude Chile, según USGS

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:37:48 GMT

(CNN Español) — Un sismo de magnitud 5,7 sacudió Chile este jueves, según el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS, por sus siglas en inglés).El sismo se produjo a 22 kilómetros al nornoroeste de Tocopilla y a una profundidad de 55,3 kilómetros.Noticia en desarrollo…The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source

Man with mental health history sentenced to more than 2 decades in wife’s slaying with meat cleaver

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:37:48 GMT

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont man with a history of mental health issues who was convicted of killing his wife with a meat cleaver and injuring his mother-in-law will serve at least 27 years in prison. “It was an accident,” Aita Gurung said during his two-day sentencing hearing, which concluded Wednesday. “My mind was not working.” A jury convicted Gurung last year of killing his wife, Yogeswari Khadka, 32, in Burlington, and attempted second-degree murder in the attack on his mother-in-law, hours after he had sought mental health treatment at a local hospital. The attacks happened in 2017 and he was charged. But the charges were dropped in 2019 by the county prosecutor, who said evidence showed Gurung was legally insane at the time. Then-Attorney General T.J. Donovan refiled the charges months later after Republican Gov. Phil Scott asked him to review the case. Donovan said he wanted to restore public trust and that the issue of insanity should be decided by a jury.Gurung’...

EE.UU. promete trabajar con Bernardo Arévalo en Guatemala para frenar la migración irregular

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:37:48 GMT

(CNN Español) — El Subsecretario de Estado Adjunto para América Central, Eric Jacobstein dijo este miércoles que Estados Unidos está confiado en que se llevará a cabo la transición de mando en Guatemala y adelantó que la Administración Biden trabajará con el Gobierno entrante de Bernardo Arévalo para mejorar las condiciones de vida de los guatemaltecos y buscar soluciones a problemas como la migración irregular.“Esperamos trabajar en conjunto con el presidente electo para mejorar las vidas de todos los guatemaltecos y para aumentar nuestros esfuerzos bajo nuestra estrategia sobre las causas y raíces de la migración irregular”, dijo Jacobstein durante una conferencia virtual en la que habló sobre los esfuerzos de los Estados Unidos para restaurar y preservar la democracia en Centroamérica.Estados Unidos es uno de los países que ha condenado las acciones del Ministerio Público para evitar que Arévalo asuma el poder el 14 de enero. “Los esfuerzos de la fiscal general y elementos ...

Colorado law requires drivers to pay traffic camera citations

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:37:48 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Gone are the days of avoiding payment on traffic camera citations. Now, if you are caught speeding or running a red light by camera, you must legally pay the fine.Senate Bill 23-200 titled "Automated Vehicle Identification Systems" passed in June, but it didn't get a lot of attention despite its substantial changes. What happens if you get a red light ticket in Denver? Originally, drivers could legally avoid paying red light camera citations in Colorado. If you weren't served notice of violation through a person or certified mail within 90 days, the ticket would be absolved.But that's not the case anymore, according to attorney Jude Ramirez from Kurtz and Peckham, PC.New red light camera citation lawThe new law passed in June says that when your citation is mailed first class, it's been served to you. It doesn't matter if it was sent to an old address, or you claim that you didn't get it in the mail."As soon as they send it out, you're affirmed guilty," said Ramire...