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U.S. bishops’ new guidelines aim to limit trans health care

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:31 GMT

By DEEPA BHARATH (Associated Press)United States Catholic bishops have issued guidelines that seek to stop Catholic hospitals from providing gender transition care, a move LGBTQ advocates say could harm the physical and emotional health of transgender people within the church.The 14-page doctrinal note, titled “Moral Limits to the Technological Manipulation of the Human Body,” sets forth guidelines for changing a person’s sex, specifically with youth. The document, issued Monday, says Catholic hospitals “must not perform interventions, whether surgical or chemical, that aim to transform the sexual characteristics of a human body into those of the opposite sex, or take part in the development of such procedures.” Transgender Catholics have received a mixed response across the U.S. church. Some have found acceptance in specific parishes and rejection in certain dioceses, including those that bar church personnel from using trans people’s preferred g...

Rideshare driver killed in Lynwood was father of 2, Marine veteran

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:31 GMT

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is looking for two men accused of killing a rideshare driver and taking his vehicle in Lynwood early Friday morning.The driver was shot in the upper torso at around 1:30 a.m. in the 2800 block of Imperial Highway, the LASD said in a news release. His wife identified him as 38-year-old Marine veteran Aaron Orozco, a father of two young children.Footage shows the crime scene was outside of a 7-Eleven. Investigators learned that Orozco had been working as a rideshare driver and had stopped in a parking lot, where he and his two passengers became "involved in a physical altercation," authorities said. A passenger then allegedly pulled out a gun and shot Orozco before the one passenger fled in the rideshare vehicle, a black Honda Accord that was found abandoned a short distance away. Initial reports indicated that both suspects fled in the vehicle, believed to be model year 2014 or 2016, but investigators later clarified that one fled on foot. ...

Did you see them? Northern lights were visible over California, western states on Thursday

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:31 GMT

(KTXL) — Did you look up to the sky on Thursday night and see any northern lights?The National Weather Service said that a severe geomagnetic storm alert was in effect Thursday night, with the northern lights visible as far south as Alabama and Northern California. The northern lights, also known as auroras or aurora borealis, are caused by solar flares from the sun and are usually visible in higher latitudes.Cameras operated by PG&E near Mt. Shasta recorded auroras just after 9 p.m., and a passenger on a flight from Alaska to Washington was able to capture video of the northern lights, according to local media outlets.

Caltrans to close 71 Freeway in Pomona for pothole repairs

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:31 GMT

The California Department of Transportation will close both sides of the 71 Freeway from Peyton Drive to Mission Boulevard beginning Friday night to fix the multiple potholes that have plagued the roadway.The closure began at 10 p.m. Friday and will continue until 5 a.m. Tuesday, according to a news release from Caltrans.The full freeway closure plans are as follows:Friday, March 24, from 10:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m.Northbound SR-71 full freeway closure from Peyton Drive to Valley Boulevard / Holt Avenue.Northbound SR-71 Chino Avenue on-rampNorthbound SR-71 Garey Avenue on-rampNorthbound SR-71 Rio Rancho Road on- and off-rampNorthbound SR-71 Mission Boulevard on-rampWestbound SR-60 Connector to Northbound SR-71Saturday, March 25, from 11:00 p.m. to 10:00 a.m.Southbound SR-71 Full Freeway Closure from Valley Boulevard / Holt Avenue off-ramp to Mission Boulevard on-ramp.Southbound SR-71 Valley Boulevard / Holt Avenue East- and Westbound on-rampSouthbound SR-71 Mission Boulevard on-rampSout...

Officer Hospitalized after Head-On Crash on Lakewood Boulevard [Downey, CA]

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:31 GMT

Two Injured in Two-Vehicle Collision on Columbia WayDOWNEY, CA (March 24, 2023) – Early Monday morning, an officer was hospitalized following a head-on crash on Lakewood Boulevard.The collision happened around 1:45 a.m., near Columbia Way according to the Downey Police Department. Dispatchers arrived to the scene shortly after receiving multiple calls in the area.Footage from the incident revealed that both the police SUV and the white sedan sustained heavy front-end damage after colliding head-on. In addition, firefighters also extricated an injured man from the sedan.Emergency personnel eventually transported the officer and the other 25-year-old driver to a hospital for medical treatment. Downey Officials rerouted traffic away from the scene as crews conduct an investigation.Those with additional information about the head-on crash Lakewood Boulevard can contact authorities at 562- 904-2342. At this time, an active investigation to determine more information is still curren...

Teodolfo Morga Rivera Killed in Industrial Accident on Fargo Canyon Road [Indio, CA]

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:31 GMT

53-Year-Old Perris Man Dies in Industrial Accident on Fargo Canyon RoadINDIO, CA (March 23, 2023) – Tuesday morning, an industrial accident on Fargo Canyon Road claimed the life of Teodolfo Morga Rivera.The incident happened on March 21st, at around 11:00 a.m., in the 88200 block of Fargo Canyon Road.According to reports, officers were dispatched to a reported industrial accident. The accident left Rivera with serious injuries.Emergency crews at the scene attempted life-saving measures, but they were unsuccessful. Officials pronounced 53-year-old Teodolfo Morga Rivera dead at the scene.Following initial investigations, authorities said that the incident was not criminal in nature. The cause of the incident is still unknown. Further investigations into the industrial accident that killed Teodolfo Morga Rivera is currently underway.No words can mend the broken hearts felt in this sorrowful time. The Sweet James team sends their warm and sincerest sympathies to the friends and fa...

4 Hurt in Wrong-Way Collision on 14 Freeway [Santa Clarita, CA]

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:31 GMT

Several Injured in Multi-Car Collision near Escondido Canyon RoadSANTA CLARITA, CA (March 24, 2023) – Saturday morning, a wrong-way crash on 14 Freeway left at least four people with injuries.Police responded to the scene around 9:30 a.m., along the northbound lanes of the freeway near Escondido Canyon Road.According to the report, a southbound white Toyota Tacoma pickup veered into the northbound lanes, near the center divider.As a result, the Toyota collided with another vehicle and caused a multi-car crash that involved five vehicles, two of which were overturned. However, the circumstances that led up to the incident remain unclear.Eventually, medical and fire responders arrived at the scene and transported at least two people to a hospital in critical condition. Two others were hospitalized for minor injuries.Santa Clarita Officials later issued a SigAlert around 9:39 a.m. closing all the northbound lanes of 14 Freeway.Local authorities encourage those with additional inf...

Alzheimer’s disease first signs may appear in your eyes, study finds

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:31 GMT

By Sandee LaMotte | CNNThe eyes are more than a window to the soul — they’re also a reflection of a person’s cognitive health.“The eye is the window into the brain,” said ophthalmologist Dr. Christine Greer, director of medical education at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Boca Raton, Florida. “You can see directly into the nervous system by looking into the back of the eye, toward the optic nerve and retina.”Research has been exploring how the eye may help in diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease before symptoms begin. The disease is well advanced by the time memory and behavior are affected.“Alzheimer’s disease begins in the brain decades before the first symptoms of memory loss,” said Dr. Richard Isaacson, an Alzheimer’s preventive neurologist who is also at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases.If doctors are able to identify the disease in its earliest stages, people could then make healthy lifesty...

After drone kills US contractor, US hits targets in Syria

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:31 GMT

By Lou Kesten, Bassem Mroue and Jon Gambrell | Associated PressBEIRUT — A strike Thursday by a suspected Iranian-made drone killed a U.S. contractor and wounded six other Americans in northeast Syria, and U.S. forces retaliated with airstrikes on sites in Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, the Pentagon said. Activists said the U.S. bombing killed at least four people.While it’s not the first time the U.S. and Iran have traded strikes in Syria, the attack and the U.S. response threaten to upend recent efforts to deescalate tensions across the wider Middle East, whose rival powers have made steps toward détente in recent days after years of turmoil.U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement that the American intelligence community had determined the drone was of Iranian origin, but offered no other immediate evidence to support the claim. The drone hit a coalition base in the northeast Syrian city of Hasaka. The wounded included f...

Hailey Bieber ‘death threats’ force Selena Gomez to say ‘stop’ the hate and bullying

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:31 GMT

Selena Gomez has finally spoken out on the supposed feud that’s been going on between her and Hailey Bieber, telling fans she’s unhappy to hear that Bieber has been the target of “death threats and hateful negativity.”In a statement Friday, Gomez said she heard from Hailey Bieber herself to say that she’s been tormented by the recent scrutiny of their relationship. That scrutiny has included reminders that Gomez once dated Justin Bieber, the supermodel’s husband, and suggestions that Bieber might be the “mean girl” in the situation.With her statement, posted in an Instagram Story, Gomez didn’t exactly try to shut down discussion about their supposed feud or say that she and Bieber had called a truce. But she asked her fans and others on social media to tone down the rhetoric.“Hailey Bieber reached out to me and let me know that she has been receiving death threats and such hateful negativity,” Gomez wrote in an Instagram Story, s...