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Santa Barbara Elections Czar Joe Holland Seeks 7th Term while Working from Home, Challenger Melinda Greene Says She is “Present”

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The central question in the campaign for the low-profile — but decidedly consequential — office that musters public records and runs elections in Santa Barbara County is this: Can an […]

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The Taylor Frankie Paul saga puts a spotlight on reality TV’s love of influencers

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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN

(CNN) — Had things transpired differently, Taylor Frankie Paul would be six episodes into her quest to find love on the small screen. Instead, the TikTok influencer-turned-reality personality-and-canceled-Bachelorette-star this week appeared at a contentious court hearing that resulted in Paul and her former partner Dakota Mortensen being granted protective orders against each other.

During the nearly two-hour hearing on Thursday in Salt Lake City, lawyers for Paul and Mortensen described incidents, as they have previously, in which their clients accused each other of being physically abusive during their relationship and as recently as February.

Paul, whose rise from #MomTok earned her a spot on the cast of Hulu’s “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” and Mortensen, who made his first appearance on Paul’s TikTok account less than a year after her divorce, were ordered by Commissioner Russell Minas to stay at least 100 feet away from each other for three years. Minas encouraged them to abide by the order, for themselves and the sake of the two-year-old child they share.

“I’m hoping you’re not people who just thrive on the drama,” he told the pair.

Eric Swinyard, Paul’s lawyer, told CNN in a statement after the hearing that the outcome was a “significant step forward” and that Paul “looks forward to continuing to cooperate with the Court” in the custody case.

CNN has reached out to a representative for Mortensen for comment.

Paul is not the first influencer to have her robust online following open doors for her in the realm of reality TV, but the legal case that’s brought a network’s million-dollar franchise to its knees in an unprecedented way has highlighted a uniquely 2026 debacle: What happens when an influencer-turned-reality star’s life becomes too real for TV?

Trials and tribulations

When announcing Paul as the Season 22 star of “The Bachelorette” in September 2025, ABC touted her as a single mother who “shares the highs and lows of her life with unfiltered candor.”

With “fearless openness,” the network added in its press release, “she inspires others to embrace life’s chaos and own their story.”

Paul aired that chaos openly on “Mormon Wives,” including the 2023 incident at the heart of events that led to her season of “The Bachelorette” being canceled after TMZ published a video showing her in a physical altercation with Mortensen.

These days, she is at times more judicious with her sharing, briefly deactivating her socials as Thursday’s hearing approached.

At the hearing, Paul’s lawyer told the court that Mortensen had been overheard by a witness, who is also a cast member on “Mormon Wives,” discussing the possibility of leaking videos to the media, allegedly naming TMZ in particular at the time. Mortensen’s lawyer denied at the hearing that he was behind the release of the video.

CNN has reached out to TMZ for comment.

In the video, which TMZ said was part of legal proceedings and which CNN did not independently verify or obtain, Paul appears to throw a barstool at Mortensen in the presence of a child.

At the end of Thursday’s hearing, where lawyers for both Paul and Mortensen discussed a range of incidents, Minas said he found that “there’s been violence that’s occurred both ways” before issuing the mutual protective orders.

The release of the 2023 video by TMZ set off an unprecedented series of events, with ABC making the decision to shelve Paul’s fully-shot “Bachelorette” season that was set to premiere that weekend. ABC, which shares the same corporate parent as Hulu, has not addressed whether they were aware of the video and has seemingly stuck by Paul’s side while remaining noncommittal about what to do about

SLO Food Bank braces for major funding cuts amid rising demand

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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KEYT) - SLO Food Bank is bracing for significant cuts to an important funding source at the same time demand for its service is increasing across San Luis Obispo County.

"We're anticipating the real possibility for this summer, beginning in July, is that CalFood, a program that we rely on and really is such a strong partner in helping feed our community will have significant cuts for the coming state fiscal year," said Molly Kern, SLO Food Bank CEO.

"Right now, CalFood helps us ensure that more than half of the food distributed by the SLO Food Bank is fresh food, so it's fruits and vegetables, tortillas, other fresh basics, milk and eggs, things that we all need, and think of as basic groceries. Those are funded through CalFood."

With the state leaders currently going through the budget process, CalFood funding is potentially facing a cut that could wipe out tens of millions of dollars that would go towards providing food assistance throughout the state.

"The proposed budget for CalFood is a 90% cut from what we received last year," said Josh Wright, California Association of Food Banks Government Relations Director. "We received $80 million last year. The governor's proposal is currently at $8 million. We're still early in the process, so the May revise is yet to come out, and the final agreement is yet to come out, but right now we're faced with that funding cut. We are already serving six million Californians per month, up from 4.5 million that we served during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, so our food banks are already facing increased need. A cut of that large of magnitude at right as we need it most would be very difficult for our food banks as we try and meet this moment."

As for what it could mean for the SLO Food Bank, Kern pointed out it would present difficult challenges for the non-profit organization, as well as many community members and local businesses.

"For our food bank, there's hundreds of thousands of dollars in cuts right now," said Kern. "It would be the most significant cut that we would be facing in the coming year and it really does impact those things that are most valuable to our community. It would also not only just impact our food banks ability to purchase, it would impact the bottom line of local farmers and other food producers that we spend this grant through."

"It would have ripple effects that would go well beyond just our food bank and the people that we serve, but really into our agricultural and food producing community across the State of California."

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Una transferencia bancaria errónea los llevó a enamorarse. Después coincidieron en un mismo sueño

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Por Karen Esquivel, CNN en Español

A veces el destino no toca la puerta: se equivoca de timbre. Un número mal escrito, una transferencia a una cuenta errónea, y de pronto la vida abrió una grieta mínima por la que entró algo inmenso.

Isabel Torres y Jean Valentín, ambos residentes de Lima, se encontraron en la situación menos probable, entre cifras y pantallas, en una breve conversación para enmendar un error. Pero hay equivocaciones que no se corrigen: se transforman. Y lo que empezó como un intento de arreglarlo terminó pareciendo una señal.

En medio de esa coincidencia —tan simple como extraordinaria— descubrieron que compartían un mismo anhelo: atravesar el Perú de punta a punta.

Todo comenzó a finales de 2021 con un número erróneo. El hermano de Jean le pidió dinero prestado y él planeaba hacerle una transferencia a través de Yape —una billetera digital del Banco de Crédito de Perú—, pero se equivocó en uno de los dígitos.

“Al momento de transferir el dinero me encuentro con la sorpresa de que el nombre que aparecía en el destinatario no era el de mi hermano, sino de una chica llamada Isabel Torres”, cuenta entre risas a CNN.

Decidido a solucionar el problema, Jean, de 27 años, escribió al número de WhatsApp al que había transferido el dinero para explicarle la equivocación y pedirle que se lo devolviera, ya que se trataba de una emergencia familiar.

“Yo no tenía muchas esperanzas de que me devolviera el dinero, sobre todo cuando es una cantidad fuerte. Pensé que ella simplemente podía bloquearme y no responderme. Pero eso no pasó, fue todo lo contrario”, recuerda.

Isabel respondió con amabilidad y, para verificar que él fuera el titular de la cuenta desde la que se había enviado el dinero, le preguntó su nombre completo.

Ella recuerda que en sus palabras sintió preocupación real. “Desde el primer momento pensé: ‘Ese dinero no es mío, es de alguien más’, así que se lo devolví”. Ese episodio, agrega, la marcó.

Después de algunos minutos —que para Jean fueron eternos— él escuchó el sonido de Yape anunciando la devolución. Le envió un audio a Isabel para agradecerle el gesto, y ahí terminó ese intercambio.

Ese primer contacto pudo haber quedado como una simple anécdota, pero a Jean le impactó la amabilidad de Isabel y la foto de su perfil de WhatsApp, en la que le pareció “guapísima”. Dejó pasar unos días para retomar el diálogo y ella respondió.

“Ahí empezó una conversación tras otra”, dice Jean.

Pese a diferencias de personalidad —ella más pesimista en algunos aspectos de la vida, licenciada en Nutrición, la mayor de tres hermanas; y él, con una actitud más bien positiva, licenciado en Publicidad y el menor de 12 hermanos— coincidieron en gustos de películas, series, música y cultura. “Poco a poco fuimos agarrando confianza y con el tiempo eso se volvió algo más”.

Isabel relata que durante esas conversaciones le contó que quería ver la película “Animales fantásticos” por su gusto por “Harry Potter”. “Él me dijo que la fuéramos a ver al cine, pero la película se estrenaba hasta cuatro meses después; o sea, teníamos una cita pactada, pero a futuro”, recuerda.

Fueron cerca de seis meses de mensajes y videollamadas que se extendían hasta la madrugada, aunque vivían a unos 30 minutos de distancia.

En mayo de 2022 se encontraron personalmente por primera vez. “No me olvido de esa cita. Comimos una hamburguesa, helado. Fuimos al cine. Nos conocimos, y desde ahí no paramos de salir. Así pasó”.

Seis meses después inició su noviazgo.

La probabilidad de que alguien se equivoque al hacer una transferencia bancaria y termine enamorándose del destinatario debe ser minúscula. Por eso, Isabel y Jean tienen una palabra para describir lo que les sucedió.

Jean agrega que también lo llaman un “efecto mariposa”, un concepto que sugiere que pequeñas variaciones —como el al

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