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No lawyers for miles: Rural Colorado’s shortage of attorneys is “hitting a crisis point”

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:48:12 GMT

Attorney Kim Verhoeff has taken to recruiting her neighbors to the legal profession.Buried in work and worried about her town’s future, she’s pitched career changes to friends and acquaintances, a teacher, a social worker — you can make a good living as an attorney, there’s lots of work to be done, I’ll help you get established. It’s become a practiced spiel, occasionally taking the tone of a used car salesman.“Do you want to be an attorney?” she asked a reporter during a recent phone call.When Verhoeff started her career 30 years ago, close to a dozen private attorneys worked in Lamar, the town of about 7,600 people in southeast Colorado where she lives. But in the decades since, attorneys have retired or moved away without new lawyers arriving to fill their shoes. Just three or four private attorneys work in town now, she said, and there’s more demand for legal services than they can collectively handle.“It’s a prob...

Plane that crashed, killing 6 people, was trying to land in heavy fog

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:48:12 GMT

Six people were killed when a jet crashed near the French Valley Airport in Murrieta early Saturday morning, marking the second deadly crash at the airstrip in less than a week.According to the FAA, the Cessna C550 business jet crashed just north of the airport around 4:15 a.m.The 45-minute flight, which had departed from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, went down in a field and burst into flames.The flight, which had departed from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, went down in a field and burst into flames. (KTLA) Family of missing young girl found at Camp Pendleton says she was raped “Deputies located an aircraft fully engulfed,” the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said. “Six occupants from the plane were located and pronounced deceased at the scene.”The crash caused a small brush fire that crews were able to extinguish in one hour, the Riverside County Fire Department said.The identities of the victims were not immediately released. They were c...

14-year-old girl found in barracks at Camp Pendleton in alleged sex trafficking case

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:48:12 GMT

A 14-year-old girl who was found at Camp Pendleton two weeks after she went missing was allegedly raped by a Marine on the military base, her family said. According to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, the girl was reported missing by her grandmother on June 13.A deputy responded to the grandmother's home on the same day to take a missing person report, the department said.The grandmother allegedly told the deputy that her granddaughter ran away on June 9.A video posted on TikTok by the girl’s aunt claims that the girl, who is Native American and has a learning disability, disappeared from her home on June 10 and wasn’t found until June 27 at Camp Pendleton, located in Oceanside, north of San Diego. At the time of her disappearance, the girl’s information was entered into missing person databases which informed other law enforcement agencies of her disappearance.  Former Orange County Marine killed in missile strike in Ukraine Military police at Camp Pendle...

Scientists: Lake Tahoe is regaining legendary clarity

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:48:12 GMT

LAKE TAHOE – At midnight, researchers aboard the vessel John Le Conte — an old 37-foot diesel-powered salmon trawler — dropped a net into icy cold waters.What was surprising wasn’t what they caught. It’s what they didn’t: Invasive shrimp, which have long held sway over America’s most famous alpine lake, upsetting its balanced ecosystem.In a rare piece of environmental good news, the harmful predators are almost gone. In their place are helpful creatures who are safely returning to eat algae and other fine particles. Scientists say this mysterious shift may be restoring the lake’s legendary clarity.Lake Tahoe’s average visibility has increased from 52.8 feet deep to a stunning 71.7 feet in the past three years, although this summer’s runoff has created some temporary murkiness. That’s like seeing seven stories underwater. In the last five months of 2022, the visibility increased to 80.6 feet, a level not seen since 1988, when it was 81 feet.Daphnia tinted green after cons...

SF Giants’ Farhan Zaidi: How fans feel about the team comes down to psychology

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:48:12 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — Despite the Giants’ recent stretch in which they’ve gone 6-9 while being out-scored 70-46, president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi said Friday the Giants look like a playoff team.With the first half coming to a close on Sunday, the Giants entered their series finale against the Colorado Rockies with a 48-41 record, 3 1/2 games behind the Arizona Diamondbacks in the National League West.Whether or not the first half has been successful really depends on perspective.“I think some of it just comes down to the psychology and how fans feel about the team,” Zaidi said Friday. “Everything has so much to do with what the expectations were. (Last year), we were coming off a 107-win season and when we were five, 10 games over .500, it just felt a little disappointing. This year, whether justifiably or not, I think expectations were low. We got off to a bad start and then started playing better and I think people were really excited.”Zaidi expects the Giants to be a...

Me & My Car: ’65 Alfa Romeo in Contra Costa getting better all the time

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:48:12 GMT

Alfa Romeo has a long and colorful history, starting with its name.Alfa is an acronym for the first letters of the original company name, Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili, founded in 1910. It’s first car was a 24-horsepower racer. In 1915, the entrepreneur and engineer Nicola Romeo took over the company, and the company name was changed five years later to Alfa Romeo.The company made military equipment until 1920, when the first Alfa Romeo-badged car, the Torpedo 20-30, was built. Racing was their thing, and Alfa Romeo did well in the early 1920s.In 1928 Nicola Romeo left the company, and by 1933 the Italian government led by Benito Mussolini took over the company that built fancy cars for the wealthy. Not surprisingly, Alfa Romeo’s factory got bombed heavily during World War II, and it took the company a while to become profitable after the war. Luxury cars were out, and Alfa Romeo began mass-producing vehicles that included sedans, coupes and open two-seaters.After World...

Hundreds gather in Sarajevo to pay their respects to Srebrenica massacre victims

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:48:12 GMT

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Hundreds lined the Bosnian capital’s main street Sunday as a truck carrying 30 coffins passed on its way to Srebrenica, where newly identified victims of Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since World War II will be buried on the 28th anniversary of the massacre.As the truck, covered with a huge Bosnian flag briefly stopped in front of the country’s presidential building in Sarajevo, people from the crowd tucked flowers into the canvas hiding the remains of the victims found in mass graves and identified through DNA analysis.“It is devastatingly sad that hundreds of victims still have not been found and that some people still deny the genocide (in Srebrenica),” Ramiza Gandic, who came to pay her respects, said.Newly identified Srebrenica massacre victims are reburied annually on July 11, the day the killing began in 1995, at a vast and ever-expanding memorial cemetery outside the eastern town.So far, the remains of more than 6,600 people ha...

Taylor Swift invita a su ex Taylor Lautner al escenario para estrenar el video musical de ‘Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:48:12 GMT

(CNN) — Fue una doble ración de Taylors el viernes por la noche, cuando la superestrella Taylor Swift le dio la bienvenida a su ex, el galán de “Twilight” Taylor Lautner, en el escenario durante la parada de la gira “The Eras Tour” en Kansas City.La ocasión fue para presentar el nuevo video musical de “I Can See You”, una de las canciones “desde la bóveda” (es decir, inédita) de “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)”, la edición regrabada de Swift de su tercer álbum de estudio de 2010, que se lanzó este viernes.Innumerables usuarios de las redes sociales capturaron el momento en que Lautner comenzó a hacer volteretas hacia atrás en el escenario en Missouri, mientras Swift lo recibía calurosamente.Swift también marcó el momento en sus redes sociales. Presentó el video musical a los fanáticos en su Instagram verificado y gritó a Lautner como “increíble”, y señaló que “no tenía un doble de riesgo” e...

Reportan 9 heridos de bala en tiroteo en Cleveland, Ohio

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:48:12 GMT

(CNN) — Al menos nueve personas recibieron disparos durante la noche en Cleveland, Ohio, según la policía.“El 9 de julio de 2023, aproximadamente a las 2:30 a.m. hora local, los agentes de policía de Cleveland acudieron a West 6th Street y Johnson Court, con motivo de que a varias personas les habían disparado. Los agentes estaban en el área asignada al departamento de distrito de Almacenes semanal y llegaron rápidamente y brindaron ayuda médica”, dijo a CNN la portavoz de la policía de Cleveland, Jennifer Ciaccia, en un comunicado este domingo por la mañana.Según Ciaccia, nueve víctimas sufrieron heridas de bala; sin embargo, no hay heridos fatales.Aumentan las ventas de armas en EE.UU. en medio de una serie de tiroteos masivos“La información preliminar indica que un sospechoso abrió fuego contra un grupo de personas y luego huyó del lugar”, continuó Ciaccia.Los investigadores están en proceso de revisar la evidencia, los videos y están entrevistando a las víctimas, según Cia...

Western powers race to finish security pledges for Ukraine

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:48:12 GMT

A small group of Western allies are engaged in “advanced” and “frantic, last-minute” negotiations to finalize a security assurance declaration for Ukraine ahead of this week’s NATO summit in Lithuania, according to four officials familiar with the talks.For weeks, the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany have been discussing the issue with Kyiv, and have also reached out to other allies in NATO, the EU and the G7. The idea is to create an “umbrella” for all countries willing to provide Ukraine with ongoing military aid, even if the details vary from country to country.The effort is part of broader negotiations at NATO and among several groups of nations over how Western allies should display long-term support for Ukraine. Kyiv wants to join NATO as soon as possible, giving it access to the alliance’s vaunted Article 5 clause — an attack on one is an attack on all. But many allies within the alliance broadly agree Ukraine can only join after the war ends, at the...