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Oakland tenants displaced from New Year's Eve flood protest at landlord's home

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:53:24 GMT

(BCN) -- A group of tenants who have been displaced for more than half a year from an East Oakland apartment complex protested at their landlord's Oakland home on Sunday morning. Tenants at Oakland's Coliseum Connections apartment building were displaced after a flood on New Year's Eve rendered it uninhabitable. Damage from the flood occurred mainly in the garage area, but the building also sustained damage to the electrical system. Tenants have been shuffled from hotel to hotel, with some families sharing one room without a kitchen, according to a press release from the Coliseum Connections Tenant Association, which works alongside the local tenants union Tenant and Neighborhood Councils. About two-thirds of the apartments' households have children. Family contracts COVID on board Ruby Princess cruise "We are not staying in hotel rooms for pleasure," said Faviola Abendano, a Coliseum Connections tenant in the press release. "There's only so much a 9-5 job can cover." Th...

Summer may be sizzling, but Maryland has already kicked off a back-to-school drive to help kids in need

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:53:24 GMT

School office supplies on board.(Getty Images/iStockphoto/targovcom) School office supplies on board.(Getty Images/iStockphoto/targovcom) School supplies may not be top of mind for families right now, but Maryland state agencies and a local nonprofit have come up with a back-to-school shopping list they hope residents will consider.Starting this week, the Maryland Department of Transportation and the State Board of Education are working with the Boys & Girls Club Maryland Alliance to collect school supplies for students across the state so they’ll be ready for the upcoming school year.From July 10 through July 28, school supplies can be dropped off at specified MDOT Motor Vehicle Administration branch office...

Review: On ‘Playa Saturno,’ Rauw Alejando’s futuristic reggaeton reaches new heights

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:53:24 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Playa Saturno” by Rauw Alejandro (Sony Music Latin/Duars Entertainment)Puerto Rican musician Rauw Alejandro has always had his eye on the future — taking familiar genres and contorting them into something novel.At the beginning of his career, that meant R&B-informed reggaeton when the rest of the industry leaned into “popetón,” a tried-and-true pop formula. Alejandro takes dem bow, the four-on-the-floor, three-beat percussive pattern that lays the foundation for many Urbano Latino genres (that’s the “boom-chk-boom-chk” to the untrained ear), and manages to stretch the sound into new, experimental heights. And maybe to the furthest corners of the galaxy, as his extraterrestrial concept album suggests.Released as a surprise spinoff to his 2022 album “Saturno”, Alejandro’s fourth full-length, “Playa Saturno,” is an idyllic soundtrack for a beach party in outer space, a collection of songs that demonstrate Alejandro’s keen ear and respect for those performers who...

Adultos de la tercera edad pueden aplicar para viviendas asequibles en el condado Fairfax

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:53:24 GMT

Pagar una renta hoy en día es difícil para todos, mucho más para las personas de la tercera edad que aún batallando con las limitadas oportunidades de empleo han tenido que adaptarse a seguir pagando altas sumas de dinero para poder tener un lugar donde vivir. En el condado Fairfax, hay una oportunidad para que ellos puedan beneficiarse de viviendas dignas a bajo costo.Aunque no puede ocultar su elegancia y ganas de seguir adelante, Paulina Máximo Pérez  es una de las residentes del DMV a la que pagar una vivienda digna se le ha hecho una tarea imposible. “No alcanza. Y ahorita me había enfermado mucho, mucho y se quedó mi trabajo”, dijo Máximo Pérez.La señora mexicana llegó a la región hace 17 años. Ahora tiene 74 años y está buscando empleo para poder costear sus gastos. Detalló que vive en una habitación en la que paga $800 mensuales–algo que considera elevado en relación a sus ingresos.“Me gustaría vivir mejor…mejor de la vida que tengo ahorita, porque ahorita pue...

Niña muere al atragantarse con comida en un Costco

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:53:24 GMT

KENNEWICK, Washington.- Una niña de 4 años murió en el hospital Kadlec después de atragantarse con lo que pareció ser un hot dog en la tienda Costco de esta comunidad, el domingo por la tarde. Según el forense del condado Benton, Bill Leach, la niña estaba a unos días de cumplir cinco años.El incidente de asfixia fue “fuertemente presenciado” en la tienda por múltiples testigos, según el forense Leach. Por esa razón no fue programada una autopsia. El personal de emergencia retiró un “tazón de comida” de la escena.Según Ben Shearer, del Departamento de Bomberos de Pasco, el Departamento de Bomberos de Kennewick respondió al incidente, pero hasta ahora no ha hecho ningún comentario o informe.NonStop Local contactó al Costco local para hacer comentarios, pero le dijeron que la tienda “no tiene comentarios en este momento”. Un representante de Costco Wholesale no estuvo disponible para hacer comentarios.La tienda cerró el domingo tras el incidente, pe...

Ella soñaba con defender Japón, pero fue víctima de agresiones sexuales en el Ejército. Esta es su historia

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:53:24 GMT

Tokio, Japón (CNN) — Rina Gonoi es una luchadora.Como exsoldado, como practicante de judo y como mujer que lucha en nombre de todas las mujeres para que aquellos que la agredieron sexualmente se responsabilicen de sus actos.Durante su servicio en las Fuerzas de Autodefensa de Japón (JSDF, por sus siglas en inglés), Gonoi afirma que sufrió agresiones sexuales tanto físicas como verbales a diario durante más de un año, y prometió que a su salida del Ejército, en junio de 2022, tras dos años de servicio, llevaría a sus agresores ante la justicia.Peng Shuai niega haber hecho una acusación de agresión sexual contra el líder retirado del Partido Comunista, pero persisten las preocupaciones de la WTAAl principio, las autoridades no parecían dispuestas a creerle. Cuando denunció los supuestos abusos a las autoridades militares, se iniciaron dos investigaciones que se archivaron prontamente por falta de pruebas.Decidida a no darse por vencida, Gonoi acudió a las cadenas de televisión. ...

Woman dies after 500-foot fall in Rocky Mountain National Park

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:53:24 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- A 26-year-old woman died after falling while free climbing in Rocky Mountain National Park on Sunday, the park said in a release Monday.The woman from Boulder was free-solo climbing on the Four Aces of Blitzen Ridge when she fell approximately 500 feet, according to the release. That ridge is located on Ypsilon Mountain on the east side of the park. Her 27-year-old climbing partner, also from Boulder, contacted park rangers after she fell, the release said. Young man dies after fall at a Rocky Mountain waterfall Due to the remoteness of the location, RMNP search and rescue teams requested assistance from the Colorado Air National Guard helicopter to get the surviving Boulder climber to safety. He was uninjured, the release said. Monday morning, search and rescue team members hiked back to the area to assist in the recovery of the Boulder woman's body. Her identity has not yet been released pending next of kin notification.The Rocky Mountain Rescue Group, the...

New crime thriller mini-series ‘Full Circle’ on Max, uncovers long-held secrets connecting multiple characters

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:53:24 GMT

They say opposites attract so we’re going from all things pink, to dark and dramatic!There’s a new crime mini-series dropping on Max this week and in the show, nothing is as it seems.Franklin Ojeda Smith (as Woulghby): “The things happening to your family are happening for a reason. Claire Daines (as Sam): “Hello?”Timothy Olyphant (as Derek): “Who is this?”Ominous voiceover: “We have your son.”There’s trouble brewing in the Max mini-series, Full Circle. Gerald Jones (as Louis): “What do you think happens next? Adia. G (as Natalia): “They’re gonna kill that boy, but we’re gonna save him.”The new crime thriller with an all-star cast deals with an investigation into a kidnapping that ends up connecting several characters and storylines sounds like a great way to get your detective on!CCH Pounder (as Savitri Mahabir): “You do exactly what I’ve instructed you to do, and the balance will ...

Spain’s Sánchez and Núñez Feijóo clash in fierce pre-election debate

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:53:24 GMT

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and opposition leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo clashed in a brutal one-on-one debate on Monday night, shouting over one another and accusing each other of lying, with the challenger emerging a surprise victor.Tensions ran high throughout the debate, the sole face-off the rivals are set to have before the upcoming July 23 election, with Núñez Feijóo landing several killer blows. Polls project the opposition leader’s center-right Popular Party will score the most votes in the election, but in recent weeks Sánchez’s Socialists have been closing the gap, raising the stakes ahead of the midsummer ballot.With neither party expected to win enough seats in the Spanish parliament to govern on its own, both leaders spent much of the debate trading barbs about each other’s potential coalition partners. The nasty tenor could have a dampening effect on voter turnout in an election scheduled to take place at the height of the holiday season.Sánch...

Lowell community members gather at vigil after body of missing girl found in Merrimack River

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:53:24 GMT

Community members in Lowell came together in prayer Monday night, gathering at Saint Michael Parish for the family of a 7-year-old girl whose body was found in the Merrimack River hours earlier. Anna Mburu was reported missing by her family on Sunday afternoon after she took off on her bike. A day later, Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan said divers recovered a body believed to be Mburu’s in a part of the Merrimack River in Tewksbury. “It’s very sad, very frustrating,” one woman said at Saint Michael Parish. “We were hoping that she would be found alive, but that didn’t happen, so it’s actually very, very sad.”Police said Mburu was on the autism spectrum and nonverbal. Continuing through Monday morning, the search for Mburu was large, with personnel from multiple agencies combing the area using K9 teams, drones, a state police helicopter, bicycles, ATVs, boats and members of the public.The DA’s office, in a statement, said state environmental police were ...