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Fundraiser will send body of California construction worker killed by four dogs back to his family in Guatemala

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:14:22 GMT

Riverside resident Mateo Lucas Salvador worked construction far away from his family in Guatemala.Now his family is seeking support after Salvador was killed by dogs earlier this month while on a job in Jurupa Valley.The 42-year-old was attacked and killed by four dogs while he worked on a property in Jurupa Valley on Tuesday, March 7. After calls from neighbors, Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies found Salvador unresponsive in the front yard. He was taken to Riverside Community Hospital, where he died.A GoFundMe fundraiser was created to help Salvador’s family pay to transport his body to Guatemala, where his wife and youngest children live, and for his funeral, the GoFundMe page states.As of Wednesday, March 22, the fundraiser had passed its goal of $15,000 and collected $17,146.The online fundraiser will continue “to collect funds for Mateo’s family and the needs they will have beyond the funeral,” an update on the GoFundMe page states. “We would love to help Mateo’s wife as she...

Your Donald Trump questions answered. Yes, he can still run for president if indicted

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:14:22 GMT

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, | CNNCould he still run for president? Why would the adult-film star case move before any of the ones about protecting democracy? How could you possibly find an impartial jury?What’s below are answers to some of the questions we’ve been getting — versions of these were emailed in by subscribers of the What Matters newsletter — about the possible indictment of former President Donald Trump.He’s involved in four different criminal investigations by three different levels of government — the Manhattan district attorney; the Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney; and the Department of Justice.These questions are mostly concerned with Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s potential indictment of Trump over a hush-money payment scheme, but many could apply to each investigation.The most-asked question is also the easiest to answer.Can Trump still run for president if he is indicted or convicted?Yes, absolutely.“Nothing ...

Gabe Kapler’s ‘most encouraging’ part of SF Giants’ spring training is also one of their biggest questions

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:14:22 GMT

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — There is no such thing as too much starting pitching, the old adage goes. But, sitting in his manager’s office a week before Opening Day, Gabe Kapler on Wednesday was still working to put together a puzzle that had too many pieces.“It’s a little bit of a puzzle early on,” the Giants manager said of his starting rotation, which has seven capable candidates for only five — or, in the first week of the season, four — spots. With a week of spring training left, the situation has gained little clarity besides the first two games of the regular season, which will feature Logan Webb and Alex Cobb.It’s a good, if still tricky, problem to have.The Giants did not want a repeat last season, when short starts, spot starts and bullpen games taxed their relievers, so while they lost Carlos Rodón, they replaced him with two other experienced starters in Ross Stripling and Sean Manaea. The moves provided some insurance in case Anthony DeSclafani’s a...

Pentagon: Budget readies US for possible China confrontation

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:14:22 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military must be ready for possible confrontation with China, the Pentagon’s leaders said Thursday, pushing Congress to approve the Defense Department’s proposed $842 billion budget that would modernize the force in Asia and around the world.“This is a strategy-driven budget — and one driven by the seriousness of our strategic competition with the People’s Republic of China,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in testimony before the House Appropriations subcommittee on defense. Pointing to increases in new technology, such as hypersonics, Austin said the budget proposes to spend more than $9 billion, a 40% increase over last year, to build up military capabilities in the Pacific and defend allies.The testimony comes on the heels of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow, amid concerns China will step up its support for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine and increasingly threaten the West.China’s act...

After derailment, toxic burn, student-athletes seek normalcy

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:14:22 GMT

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — On the surface, everything looks normal.There’s the East Palestine High School baseball team learning the finer points of baserunning at one edge of Reid Memorial Stadium. At the other, a handful of sprinters dart through the mild March air, the blue parachutes attached to their waists mushrooming behind them as they pick up speed.Same as it ever was at East Palestine as it transitions from winter to spring sports. Only, not really.A little over a mile east of the small school — student population 285 — tucked near the Pennsylvania state line, cleanup crews are still dealing with the aftermath of the Feb. 3 train derailment. While no one was hurt, concerns over a potential explosion led state and local officials to approve releasing and burning toxic vinyl chloride from five tanker cars that forced the evacuations of half the village and closed schools for a week.More than a month later, the cleanup is ongoing. The legal wrangling over who to blame ...

Ukraine president visits front-line areas as new phase nears

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:14:22 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president on Thursday made his third visit in two days to areas that have felt the brunt of Russia’s war, with a trip to the southern Kherson region that was retaken from the Kremlin’s forces, and as a senior Kyiv commander hinted that a brewing Ukrainian counteroffensive could come “very soon.”Ukraine took back control of the Kherson region’s capital, also called Kherson, at the end of last year, pushing out the Russian occupiers who had captured the city in the weeks following the start of Moscow full-scale invasion more than a year ago. The Dnieper River now marks the front line in the region, which is still partially occupied.While in Kherson on Thursday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with local security officials and inspected infrastructure damaged by Russian strikes, his office said.On Wednesday, Zelenskyy visited Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city in northeastern Ukraine. Kyiv’s troops recaptured Kharkiv from the Russian...

South Carolina comptroller to resign after $3.5B error

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:14:22 GMT

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Embattled South Carolina Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom will resign next month after a $3.5 billion accounting error in the year-end financial report he oversaw.The state’s chief accountant will leave the elected post he has held for 20 years on April 30, according to a copy of the resignation letter obtained by The Associated Press.“I have never taken service to the state I love or the jobs to which I have been elected lightly, endeavoring to work with my colleagues, from constitutional officers to members of the General Assembly, to be a strong defender of the taxpayer and a good steward of their hard-earned tax dollars,” Eckstrom wrote in the March 23 letter to South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster. “They deserve nothing less.”The blunder’s revelation last month brought mounting scrutiny. House lawmakers called for an impeachment inquiry. The Senate panel investigating the error issued a damning report last week that suggested Eckstrom resign ...

Bones kept by former eugenics institute buried in Berlin

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:14:22 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of bone fragments, which may include the remains of victims of Nazi crimes, were buried Thursday after they were found on a Berlin university campus where an institute for anthropology and eugenics was once located.Some 16,000 fragments were found on the campus of the Free University in excavations that started in 2015 after human and animal bones were discovered during restoration work. The site was once home to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics, which operated from 1927 until 1945.The university said that the recovered fragments are from “victims of crime contexts” that could include colonial-era events and Nazi crimes. Researchers determined that the bones belonged to people of all age groups, male and female.But the university said that, following non-invasive examinations of the fragments and historical research. it wasn’t possible to identify individual victims or to link the finds to specific colonize...

Parents of Oxford school shooter can face trial, court says

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:14:22 GMT

DETROIT (AP) — The parents of a teenager who killed four students at a Michigan high school can face trial for involuntary manslaughter, the state appeals court said Thursday in a groundbreaking case of criminal responsibility for the acts of a child. The murders would not have happened if the parents hadn’t purchased a gun for Ethan Crumbley or if they had taken him home from Oxford High School on the day of the shooting, when staff became alarmed about his extreme drawings, the appeals court said.The court noted that the legal threshold at this stage of the case is fairly low under Michigan law. “Whether a jury actually finds that causation has been proven after a full trial, where the record will almost surely be more expansive — including evidence produced by defendants — is an issue separate from what we decide today,” the court said in a 3-0 opinion.James and Jennifer Crumbley are accused of failing to secure a gun and ignoring the mental health needs of thei...

Fly fishing retreats offer men with cancer chance to enjoy nature, learn, share journey

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:14:22 GMT

Standing knee-deep in a pristine stream and basking in sunshine, surrounded by the peaceful sounds of nature, is a dream day for someone who enjoys fly fishing — but the experience can produce a lifelong, and perhaps life-saving, effect on men diagnosed with cancer.Reel Recovery is a national non-profit organization that conducts free fly fishing retreats for men living with cancer.Men participating in a Reel Recovery fly fishing retreat, in Syria, Virginia. (Courtesy Stan Golub)Co-founder Stan Golub says the “benefits are many,” for cancer patients who spend a weekend fly fishing in a remote locale, with other men who are in similar situations. The next local retreat is May 1 through May 3, near the Shenandoah Mountains in Syria, Virginia.“Getting men out into nature is very important when they’re often confined to hospital rooms or  their homes dealing with treatment,” Golub tells WTOP. “Most of our retreats are in beautiful places very peaceful...