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El supervisor Manuel Perez trabaja para acabar con el problema de los perros callejeros en North Shore

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El supervisor Manuel Perez trabaja para acabar con el problema de los perros callejeros en North Shore

Lina Robles

El Buró de Supervisores del Condado de Riverside aprobó la expansión de un préstamo de $3.4 millones de dolares para apoyar al Hospital de Blythe, que desde hace tiempo enfrenta dificultades después de declararse en bancarrota.

Con esto mantendrán abierto el departamento de urgencias.

Profesionales médicos del Sistema de Salud de la Universidad de Riverside ya están trabajando en Blythe para servirle a los 20,000 residentes que ya no tendrán que recorrer más de 70 millas para servicios médicos de emergencia en el hospital de Indio.

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San Luis Obispo Police turn to the public for help investigating last month’s suspicious death

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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KEYT) – Local police are turning to the public for help identifying a woman who may be connected to a suspicious death in the area last month.

On Feb. 12, 2026, the body of a woman was discovered near an encampment behind a gas station on Los Osos Valley Road and her death is considered suspicious stated the San Luis Obispo Police Department.

On Wednesday, San Luis Obispo Police turned to the public for help identifying a woman shown in the images included in this article in connection with the death.

Additional details about either woman and their connection has not been made available at this point in the investigation.

If you have more information to share or can identify the woman, you are asked to contact Detective Koznek at 805-594-8005.

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Trump promises to endorse either Cornyn and Paxton – and to push the other to drop out

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By Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene, Ted Barrett, Manu Raju, Morgan Rimmer, Sarah Ferris, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he would be endorsing in Texas’ Republican primary for US Senate between incumbent John Cornyn and state Attorney General Ken Paxton – and demanding that the candidate he doesn’t choose drop out.

“IT MUST STOP NOW!” The president wrote on Truth Social of the primary race. “We have an easy to beat, Radical Left Opponent, and we have to TOTALLY FOCUS on putting him away, quickly and decisively! Both John and Ken ran great races, but not good enough. Now, this one, must be PERFECT! “

Trump added that he would ask the other candidate “to immediately DROP OUT OF THE RACE!”

The president’s announcement comes after months of staying neutral in the nasty Texas GOP primary that is now set to become a bruising and expensive runoff election.

As Trump decides, top Senate Republicans ramped up a furious push to persuade the president to endorse Cornyn. They pointed to Cornyn leading Paxton after Tuesday’s results, which they say proves that he can win the 12-week runoff.

“If the president endorses early, it saves everybody a lot of money,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune said of the runoff, where national Republicans are expected to spend tens of millions to support the incumbent.

Thune added that Republicans are eager to avoid “10 weeks of a spirited campaign on our side that keeps us from spending time focusing on the Democrats.”

This latest push by Thune and other GOP senators to get Trump fully behind Cornyn carries more urgency than in past months. The winner of the GOP primary will face off against the one Democrat that party leaders hoped they would not face in November: state Sen. James Talarico.

The 36-year-old seminarian has run a campaign designed to pry moderate voters away from the GOP and is widely considered a greater threat to Republicans than liberal firebrand Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who came in second place.

“Of course, it’s not helpful,” Thune said of Talarico’s name at the top of the ticket for Democrats, before adding: “Which is why if the president can weigh in, it would be enormously helpful.”

Republicans also fear Talarico and national Democrats could have another edge in the race, since Talarico isn’t facing a runoff.

Sen. John Barrasso, the No. 2 Senate Republican, stressed that the party needed to rally behind Cornyn as they work to combat higher-than-expected Democratic turnout in the primary on Tuesday, which has raised alarm bells across the GOP. He insisted that only Cornyn can beat a highly motivated Democratic electorate.

“There were actually more Democrats that voted in the primary than Republicans that voted in the primary, which shows that the Democrats in Texas are motivated,” Barrasso said. “John Cornyn wins that race for the Republicans and for the people of Texas. I support him fully.”

“It’s time for us to come together as a Republican Party and let’s get John Cornyn back here,” added Sen. John Curtis of Utah.

For his part, Paxton has said he hopes to get “closer on the money” with Cornyn and warned nominating him would lead to “six more years of … a guy that’s going to work against the values that we believe in.” In a radio interview, the Texas attorney general spoke with Hunt on Tuesday night and has said he hopes the congressman will “give us a little lift” by encouraging his supporters to side with the Paxton camp in the run-off.

“His decision is his decision, and I respect that, and I’m certainly hopeful that he’ll help us to beat J

What Colin Gray’s murder conviction means for gun-owning parents

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By Eric Levenson, CNN

(CNN) — The conviction of Colin Gray on murder and manslaughter charges is not the first time a parent has been found responsible for a mass shooting committed by their child.

Nor is it likely to be the last.

Legal experts told CNN that Gray’s conviction on Tuesday in Georgia sharpens a message made clear two years ago in the trials of Jennifer and James Crumbley in Michigan: Parents can be convicted of serious crimes if they allow their mentally unstable child access to a firearm that is then used to kill. And that serious crime can now include murder.

“The Crumbley case was the first case where parents were held responsible for their child who committed murder and participated in a mass shooting, but Colin Gray is the first one I’m aware of where he was charged and convicted of murder,” said Elyse Hershon, a criminal defense attorney based in Boston who followed the Gray trial.

“I see this as an escalation of the trend that started with the Crumbleys, and it’s not going to end here.”

Barrow County District Attorney Brad Smith, who led the prosecution of Gray, said explicitly that was his desire in bringing the case.

“We hope that it moves the needle a little further,” he said after the verdict.

The Gray trial is part of a broader push to hold more people accountable for a school shooting, including the shooter’s parents and responding law enforcement officers.

Jennifer and James Crumbley were convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison for their role in the 2021 mass shooting carried out by their teenage son at Oxford High School.

In addition, the father of the Highland Park, Illinois, parade shooter pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges related to signing his son’s firearm application. In Wisconsin, the father of the teenage girl who killed two people at a Christian school faces felony charges for allegedly allowing her access to weapons.

Still, Gray’s case stands out among this group for its seriousness. After less than two hours of deliberations, the jury convicted him on all 27 charges, including two counts of second-degree murder. The murder charges come with a sentence of 10 to 30 years in prison, meaning the 55-year-old could ultimately spend the rest of his life behind bars.

“It is by far the most serious conviction we’ve ever had in this country of a parent being charged with the actions their child did,” said Jean Casarez, CNN’s trial correspondent who closely followed Gray’s case and the Crumbley cases. “Crumbley was a manslaughter conviction. This is murder.”

On a practical level, the prosecution’s success in these cases is a signal to gun-owning parents to get a gun safe or lock, CNN legal analyst Joey Jackson said.

“Any parent, for future reference, boy they’re going to have multiple locks on any types of weapons they have in that home, and they’re going to be taking precautions aplenty,” he said.

The Crumbleys and the Grays

The case against Colin Gray the past two weeks was altogether similar to the cases against the Crumbley parents in early 2024.

In both situations, a parent purchased a gun for their teenage son as a Christmas gift, and the gun was then left unsec

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