Usa new news - Part 572

Two area Army vets tour “Portraits of Courage” exhibit with President Bush at Nixon Library, including the portraits he painted of them

Alex Glenn-Camden, an Army infantryman injured in Afghanistan, stood next to President George Bush looking at a portrait the former president had painted of him. Though the Temecula resident has met “43” before at other openings of “Portraits of Courage: …

Giants Linked to All-Star Pitcher Projected to Sign $162 Million Deal

The San Francisco Giants have had a busy offseason preparing for 2024. Their offense is likely to be much improved with the additions of Jung Hoo Lee, Matt Chapman and Jorge Soler. However, their rotation has more questions than answers. …

About half the cats taken in one California county in 2023 died. So what’s being done?

Just 51% of cats that went into Riverside County-run animal shelters in 2023 made it out alive. It’s an unacceptable number to the county’s Department of Animal Services, which is taking a multi-pronged approach — including no longer taking in …

Ballot measure to require personal finance class in California high schools gathers steam

A campaign to make personal finance a California high school graduation requirement submitted nearly 900,000 signatures this week to qualify a statewide ballot measure for the November election. The group, Californians for Financial Education, is led by Palo Alto entrepreneur …

Sale closed in San Jose: $2.4 million for a three-bedroom home

989 Leo Drive – Google Street View A 1,618-square-foot house built in 1957 has changed hands. The property located in the 900 block of Leo Drive in San Jose was sold on Feb. 26, 2024. The $2,420,000 purchase price works …

Anna Li awarded Olympic Trials judging spot despite abuse allegations

Anna Li, a former U.S. national team member and eight-time UCLA All-American, has been selected by gymnastics’ national governing body, to judge the vault at the U.S. Olympic Trials in June. It’s the same event that Li, while coaching at …

Capitola bridge demolition: Officials remind public of planned 24-hour Highway 1 closure

CAPITOLA — A section of Santa Cruz County’s busiest transportation corridor is slated to soon close for 24 hours and local officials are continuing to put the word out about expected impacts and detour plans. Caltrans will close Highway 1 …

Mental competence in doubt for man accused of strangling UC Santa Cruz student

SANTA CRUZ — Proceedings for a fatal Seabright State Beach strangling were put on hold Wednesday after a defense attorney requested the court assess her client’s mental competence to stand trial. RELATED: East Bay woman strangled on Santa Cruz beach ID’d …

Caltrans working on three Highway 1 landslides, Paul’s Slide to open late spring

BIG SUR – A closure on Highway 1 of about 12 miles continues as Caltrans works to right the roadway from the affects of three landslides along the Central California coastline, but the highway remains open for the vast majority …

Former Bay Area elementary school teacher charged with lewd acts with minor

Benicia Unified School District Superintendent Damon Wright issued a statement Monday to address the recent arrest and indictment of multiple counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor against a former Benicia teacher. “Our school district and community, we …

Warriors get sour taste in big-implication game, face ‘daunting’ standings fight

DALLAS — For the rest of the year, the Warriors will be playing two games simultaneously: the one on the court and the one in the standings. Warriors players and coaches check the Western Conference standings daily. They know that …

Opinion: California should not let shady business owners hide their identities

In 2018, when I was a lawyer in the Oakland City Attorney’s Office, a code enforcement inspector walked into my office and said, “I have to tell you about something that keeps me up at night.” It was a heartbreaking …

Meghan Markle Reportedly Wanted to Be on ‘The Bachelor’ After ‘Deal or No Deal’ Gig

Before <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/meghan-markle/”>Meghan Markle</a>‘s Suits role, she was a struggling actor. After her <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/could-meghan-markle-dust-off-suitcase-deal-or-no-deal-role-reboot-series.html/”>Deal or No Deal gig</a> ended, she reportedly set her sights on reality television. According to former The Bachelor producer Mike Fleiss, Meghan wanted to …

Kate Middleton ‘Bullied’ by Press as Palace Pressured to Reveal Health Details: Editor

<a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/kate-middleton/”>Kate Middleton</a>‘s health has been the <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/kate-middleton-hysteria-continues-where-is-princess-of-wales.html/”>subject of much speculation</a> since the Princess of Wales underwent abdominal surgery in January of this year. While the palace initially stated Kate wouldn’t return to public life until after Easter, …

Without much to spend, Broncos may be targeting these free agents

The Broncos are not in the position to spend big in free agency, and their moves thus far indicate that. Denver brought back safety P.J. Locke, tight end Adam Trautman, kicker Wil Lutz, fullback Michael Burton and wide receiver Lil’Jordan …

Denver distillery moving to Boulder County, will close Denver taproom

A Denver distillery is relocating operations to the suburbs, and when it does it will close its taproom and restaurant in the city. Ironton Distillery & Crafthouse, which opened in the River North Arts District in 2018, will soon break …

The aristocratic machinations and foxy dancing of pre-revolutionary Russia | Theater review

Can a musical be a sexy beast? Especially if it’s infused with the yearning and even melancholy of the pre-revolutionary Russian sort? If the goings on at the Arvada Center are any measure, the answer is “yes, yes, a thousand …

What to do this weekend: Frozen Dead Guy Days, St. Patrick’s Day fun

Frozen Dead Guys for everyone! Through Sunday. Colorado’s favorite cryogenically themed hoedown, Frozen Dead Guy Days, returns to Estes Park this week (assuming it isn’t snowed out) with a zombie crawl, Royal Blue Ball (Friday, March 15) and other activities, …

Legislation promotes construction of data centers. Not everyone supports the idea. Here’s why.

A bill that would provide state tax rebates to draw data centers to Colorado has run into opposition from critics who warn of the facilities’ large demands for energy and water and potentially higher costs for other electric customers. The …

Colorado weather: Winter storm hammers metro Denver, Front Range

A major Colorado snowstorm arrived overnight Wednesday and has already dropped more than 2 feet of snow in some areas of the Front Range foothills and up to 10 inches across metro Denver early Thursday morning. The storm is forecast …

SUV fatally rams woman during Grand Crossing hit and run

A 30-year-old woman was killed when an SUV intentionally ran into her and fled the scene on March 13, 2024. Sun-Times file photo A 30-year-old woman died Wednesday evening after an SUV intentionally ran into her as she left a …

MAGA Congresswoman Called Out On $1.8M Funding Boast

MAGA Congresswoman Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) wrote yesterday on X: “I am proud to announce that I secured $1,857,000 for a Water District Development Project for the Town of Massena in this year’s appropriations process. This funding will go toward …

Gwyneth Paltrow was ‘so upset’ when Kourtney K’s Poosh was called a Goop ripoff

Five years ago, in March 2019, Kourtney Kardashian Barker finally found her “thing” when she launched her lifestyle website, Poosh. Given that it was a lifestyle website started by a rich lady from a famous family and had a funny …

Emily Blunt on working with Ryan Gosling: ‘he’s just so easy peasy to be around’

Embed from Getty Images No rest for the weary Oscar nominees! Fresh off their bejeweled appearances at the Academy Awards on Sunday, Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling showed up for promo duty in Austin on Tuesday for the premiere of …

Ryan Gosling says Eva Mendes and his daughters gave him Oscars performance tips

Embed from Getty Images Another awards season has come and gone. And with that, some actors are back to work. After the Oscars, Ryan Gosling headed out to SXSW for the premiere of his new movie The Fall Guy (more …

Princess Eugenie & Zara Tindall attended the Cheltenham Festival

Increasingly, one of my favorite things is when there’s some huge royal story happening, and then in the background, other royals and royal-adjacents are carrying on like nothing is happening. The international media and social media has turned the Princess …

Vine: What if Prince William & Kate are telegraphing their unhappy marriage?!

I was going to skip this but some commenters made reference to it and it seems like even more evidence that there’s a movement afoot to soft-launch a “Wales divorce” storyline. All week, there have been references in American and …

The Guardian edited out Rose Hanbury’s name in their Colbert-monologue summary

The Guardian does summaries of what American late-night hosts discuss in their monologues, and usually it’s political coverage, jokes about Donald Trump or President Biden, jokes about Congress, etc. Then, on Tuesday night, Stephen Colbert devoted about three minutes of …

Misan Harriman claps back on the British media’s lies about his Sussex photos

Misan Harriman is a British photographer and filmmaker, and for years, he’s been one of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s favorite photographers. The Sussexes have asked Misan to photograph some really special moments, including Princess Lili’s first birthday portrait, …

Starter for Ten: ‘very fun’ musical adaptation of ‘One Day’ author’s debut

The novelist and screenwriter David Nicholls is “hard to avoid” at the moment, said Dominic Cavendish in The Daily Telegraph. A new screen adaptation of his 2009 bestseller One Day has become a huge hit on Netflix; his forthcoming novel …

Authorities had been called 5 times this year to California home where 15-year-old boy was fatally shot by deputies

Authorities had previously responded to mental health calls five times since January to the Apple Valley home of a 15-year-old boy who was fatally shot by deputies over the weekend, San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus said during a Wednesday, …

About half the cats taken in one California county in 2023 died. So what’s being done?

Just 51% of cats that went into Riverside County-run animal shelters in 2023 made it out alive. It’s an unacceptable number to the county’s Department of Animal Services, which is taking a multi-pronged approach — including no longer taking in …

Ballot measure to require personal finance class in California high schools gathers steam

A campaign to make personal finance a California high school graduation requirement submitted nearly 900,000 signatures this week to qualify a statewide ballot measure for the November election. The group, Californians for Financial Education, is led by Palo Alto entrepreneur …

Capitola bridge demolition: Officials remind public of planned 24-hour Highway 1 closure

CAPITOLA — A section of Santa Cruz County’s busiest transportation corridor is slated to soon close for 24 hours and local officials are continuing to put the word out about expected impacts and detour plans. Caltrans will close Highway 1 …

Mental competence in doubt for man accused of strangling UC Santa Cruz student

SANTA CRUZ — Proceedings for a fatal Seabright State Beach strangling were put on hold Wednesday after a defense attorney requested the court assess her client’s mental competence to stand trial. RELATED: East Bay woman strangled on Santa Cruz beach ID’d …

Caltrans working on three Highway 1 landslides, Paul’s Slide to open late spring

BIG SUR – A closure on Highway 1 of about 12 miles continues as Caltrans works to right the roadway from the affects of three landslides along the Central California coastline, but the highway remains open for the vast majority …

Former Bay Area elementary school teacher charged with lewd acts with minor

Benicia Unified School District Superintendent Damon Wright issued a statement Monday to address the recent arrest and indictment of multiple counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor against a former Benicia teacher. “Our school district and community, we …

Warriors get sour taste in big-implication game, face ‘daunting’ standings fight

DALLAS — For the rest of the year, the Warriors will be playing two games simultaneously: the one on the court and the one in the standings. Warriors players and coaches check the Western Conference standings daily. They know that …

Love Is Blind Reunion: 8 Bombshells from the Season 6 Reunion

Here we go, folks. Or, perhaps we should say more accurately, there they went, folks. On Wednesday, Netflix dropped the much-anticipated reunion special for Love Is Blind Season 6, bringing cast members Johnny McIntyre, Amy Cortés, Jimmy Presnell, Chelsea Blackwell, …

Taco Bell’s new Cantina Chicken Menu will arrive March 21

Taco Bell will introduce its new Cantina Chicken Menu on March 21, but loyalty members can start trying it out a week early. The menu was part of Taco Bell’s big reveal on Feb. 9, when the Irvine-based fast food …