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AP All-America football team 2023: CU Buffs’ Travis Hunter named to first team; CSU’s Dallin Holker, Air Force’s Trey Taylor honored

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:19:51 GMT

Heisman Trophy winner Jayden Daniels from LSU was one of seven players in either their fifth or sixth season of college football selected to The Associated Press All-America team announced Monday.Daniels, a fifth-year quarterback, won the Heisman and AP player of the year honors last week after accounting for 50 touchdowns and nearly 5,000 yards of offense this season.He was joined in the backfield by Missouri’s Cody Schrader, a sixth-year running back and former Division II player who leads the nation at 124.9 rushing yards per game.The other sixth-year player of the AP first team was North Carolina State linebacker Payton Wilson, who won the Chuck Bednarik Award as national defensive player of the year.Kansas State guard Cooper Beebe, edge rushers Laiatu Latu from UCLA and Jalen Green from James Madison, and Texas defensive tackle T’Vondre Sweat were the other fifth-year players to make the first team.College players who were in school during the 2020 pandemic season were granted ...

Woman killed in overnight shooting in Denver

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:19:51 GMT

One person died Monday morning and another is in the hospital after an overnight shooting in Denver, police said.The Denver Police Department announced just after 10 a.m. that a woman had died of her injuries at a hospital and that they were investigating the shooting near the intersection of North Federal Boulevard and West 2nd Avenue as a homicide.Police officers found the woman when they responded to the shooting, according to a 12:29 a.m. Monday post on X.The woman was taken to the hospital by paramedics while officers remained at the scene for the investigation and to develop suspect information, the department’s post stated.Detectives also learned another victim went to the hospital on their own. That person’s injuries are not clear, and details about their identity, including their age and gender, were not available.Anyone with information should contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867 or file an anonymous report online.This is a developing story and w...

Colorado Rapids trade Andrew Gutman to Chicago Fire for left back Miguel Navarro, sources say

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:19:51 GMT

With a trade window and free agency opening this week, the Colorado Rapids wasted no time getting back to business on Monday.The Rapids executed a trade that sent defender Andrew Gutman to his hometown team, the Chicago Fire, in exchange for Venezuelan international Miguel Navarro and $450,000 in General Allocation Money, league sources confirmed.Gutman, 27, arrived in Commerce City this past summer from Atlanta United and established himself as a rock-solid defender in a position of need. After the season, Colorado exercised his option but did not sign him to a new contract before the trade. The deal was first reported by Men in Red, a Chicago Fire blog, that Gutman will sign a new deal with the Fire through the 2026 season.The Rapids continued the trend of staying young, with Navarro set to turn 25 in February. Navarro will not occupy an international roster spot because of a green card he received in March 2021. Colorado will take on his contract — a deal that runs through ...

Famed L.A. DJ accused of sexually assaulting 6 teen girls: Rolling Stone

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:19:51 GMT

Influential Los Angeles radio DJ Rodney Bingenheimer has been accused of sexually assaulting six underage girls decades ago, including two who went on to successful music careers.On Monday, Rolling Stone published a report detailing Go-Go's guitarist Jan Wiedlin's allegation that Bingenheimer, believed to be 27 at the time, assaulted a then-15-year-old Wiedlin at his club, English Disco, in 1974.“It was weird; it never occurred to me that that had been a crime. I didn’t know what to think. It wasn’t until the #MeToo movement started when I realized I was sexually assaulted by [an adult] when I was 15," Wiedlin told the magazine.Bingenheimer, who hosted "Rodney on the ROQ" on KROQ 106.7 for four decades, did not respond to Rolling Stone's request for comment, the magazine said.In addition to Wiedlin, four other women told Rolling Stone that Bingenheimer assaulted them while they were underage.A sixth woman, Runaways songwriter Kari Krome, also claimed Bingenheimer assaulted her when ...

Bullet train to Vegas could serve as ‘economic catalyst’ for Inland Empire

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:19:51 GMT

Inland Empire officials are touting the Brightline West bullet train project linking Southern Nevada and Southern California as a "catalyst" for the region's economy. "Transportation projects like this one and others underway will bring more than $6 billion to the region and serve as an economic catalyst for development and tourism," a release announcing a news conference Monday stated.Officials from the City of Rancho Cucamonga, Metrolink, Omnitrans and others will gather at Cucamonga Station - the southernmost terminus for the train - at 10:30 a.m. to give further details about the project, which is expected to break ground in 2024.President Joe Biden announced a $3 billion federal grant supporting the project in Las Vegas last week. The railway will mark the “first world-class high-speed rail project in the nation,” Biden said.Brightline West previously agreed to finance $10 billion of the estimated $12 billion project. What we know about the high-speed rail from metro Lo...

Miguel Urias Dies in Hit-and-Run Motorcycle Accident on Manchester Avenue [Los Angeles, CA]

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:19:51 GMT

37-Year-Old Man Killed in Motorcycle Collision near San Pedro StreetLOS ANGELES, CA (December 11, 2023) – Miguel Urias died Tuesday, November 7th, in a hit-and-run motorcycle accident on Manchester Avenue and San Pedro Street.Emergency responders rushed to the scene in response to numerous dispatch calls. According to officers, Urias, riding a motorcycle, was cut off by the driver of a vehicle. Consequently, he fell onto the roadway, where another vehicle struck him.Following the collision, the driver continued without offering assistance or seeking help. Medical personnel, upon arrival, transported the injured motorcyclist to a nearby hospital, where he ultimately succumbed to his injuries.After initial procedures, authorities in Los Angeles identified the deceased rider as 37-year-old Miguel Urias. Currently, law enforcement is on the lookout for a black or green Dodge Charger driven by a female in her 20s or 30s.Anyone with additional information regarding the fatal inciden...

These Bay Area residents live in affordable housing. Why did their rent skyrocket?

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:19:51 GMT

BY JEANNE KUANG | CalMattersWhen California lawmakers passed a rent cap four years ago to protect tenants from large and frequent rent hikes, they exempted hundreds of thousands of units reserved for some of the state’s poorest renters.Low-income housing, after all, is usually built with public subsidies that already impose rent ceilings on developers and property owners. Some are already managed or overseen by local public housing agencies.But California also has more than 350,000 privately owned low-income housing units — built with the help of federal tax credits — exempted from the state’s rent cap. Residents of some of those units have seen their rents soar despite being the exact demographic the law sought to protect.The 2019 law, known as the Tenant Protection Act, prohibits landlords from increasing rents more than a certain amount — 10% this year, though usually it’s less — and more than once a year.It’s meant to guarantee some level of stability for tenants, proponents say...

Israeli forces battle militants in Gaza’s main cities

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:19:51 GMT

By Wafaa Shurafa and Jack Jeffery | Associated PressDEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians dug under crushed buildings Monday to recover the bodies of families killed in strikes around Gaza as Israeli forces battled militants in the territory’s two largest cities, where many thousands of civilians are still trapped by the fighting.Residents said battles went on in and around the southern city of Khan Younis, where Israeli ground forces opened a new line of attack last week. Battles were also still underway in parts of Gaza City and the urban Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, where large areas have been reduced to rubble.Israel has pledged to keep fighting until it removes Hamas from power, dismantles its military capabilities and gets back all of the hostages taken by militants during Hamas’ Oct. 7 surprise attack into Israel that ignited the war. The Israeli campaign has killed thousands of Palestinian civilians and driven nearly 85% of the territory’...

Harry and Meghan among Hollywood’s ‘biggest losers’ in 2023, but Harry still ‘intriguing’

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:19:51 GMT

The Hollywood Reporter’s list of the town’s “biggest winners and losers” in 2023 could make Meghan Markle’s powerhouse agents worry about their efforts to relaunch her U.S. career — if they haven’t already begun to rethink their association, as surmised by PR and branding experts since she and Prince Harry were caught up in furor surrounding Omid Scobie’s controversial book “Endgame.”THR, one of Hollywood’s leading trade publications, placed Meghan and her husband, Prince Harry, among its list of “losers” for the year — along with Disney, Marvel and DC superhero movies, embattled actors Ezra Miller and Jonathan Majors and Elon Musk and X. The winners, on the other hand, include Taylor Swift, Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, Christopher Nolan, Netflix, horror movies and “silver fox” actors like Patrick Dempsey.But it’s not all bad news for Meghan and Harry at the end of what turned out t...

UK leader faces a Parliament in revolt over Rwanda plan

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:19:51 GMT

By Jill Lawless | Associated PressLONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faced a rebellion from restive lawmakers over his signature immigration policy, while fending off tough questions Monday about his judgment during the COVID-19 pandemic.The twin pressures add up to one of the toughest weeks of Sunak’s 13 months in office, with both his present authority and past record at stake.Legislation intended to salvage Sunak’s blocked plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda faces a vote in the House of Commons on Tuesday. While disparate groups of Conservative lawmakers met in Parliament to pick holes in the bill, Sunak was undergoing a six-hour grilling at the U.K.’s pandemic inquiry, where he denied taking risks with public health.Sunak was Treasury chief to Prime Minister Boris Johnson when the pandemic hit, and backed a discount initiative that encouraged people to go back to restaurants in August 2020 after months of lockdown.The government’s scientific advis...