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☆ World surpasses key warming threshold across an entire year for the first time
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Sam Meredith | Www.Linkedin.Com In Samuelmeredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Scientists on Thursday said the world surpassed a key warming threshold across an entire year for the first time on record, calling to slash planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. The findings do not represent a break of the landmark Paris Agreement, which aims to "limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels" over the long term. But the EU's climate monitor said the data reinforces the need to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid the worst of what the climate crisis has in store. C3S also confirmed that the first month of 2024 was the warmest January on record, with an average surface temperature of 13.14 degrees Celsius — some 0.7 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2020 average and 0.12 degrees Celsius higher than the previous warmest January, logged in 2020. "Rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are the only way to stop global temperatures increasing."

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The state’s illegal market had flourished for decades, anchored in the storied “Emerald Triangle” region in the northern end of the state. Dicus said in 2023 his department served 411 search warrants for illegal marijuana grow sites countywide and recovered $370 million. “The reality is that Proposition 64, in the fine print, took illicit marijuana and moved it from a felony to a misdemeanor. In 2020, seven people were fatally shot at an illegal marijuana growing operation in a rural town in neighboring Riverside County. “We've invited organized crime to come back into California and compete for an illicit market.”

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BLYTHE, Calif. (AP) — Eight corrections officers and an incarcerated man were injured in a riot involving around 200 inmates in the recreational yard of a Southern California prison, authorities said Thursday. The Jan. 31 riot at Ironwood State Prison in the Riverside County city of Blythe started when an estimated 200 prisoners rushed corrections officers, attacking them with fists and rocks. Eight prison staff members and one incarcerated person were hospitalized with injuries, and later released. The riot began around 10 a.m. when an incarcerated man head-butted a corrections officers who had detained him as part of a contraband investigation. The head butting — which occurred as staffers were escorting the man across a prison yard — prompted 200 inmates to attack the officers.

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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors filed murder charges Tuesday against five suspects in the fatal shootings of six men at a remote dirt crossroads in the Southern California desert after what investigators said was a dispute over marijuana. The suspects each face six felony counts of murder with a special circumstance allegation of multiple murders, the San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office said in a statement. “This mass murder, done in a dark secluded desert, clearly illuminates the violence and crime that exists as a direct consequence of illegal marijuana operations,” District Attorney Jason Anderson said in Tuesday's statement. San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus said Monday that the bodies were found in an area known for black market cannabis about 50 miles (80 kilometers) northeast of Los Angeles. Dicus said in 2023 his department served 411 search warrants for illegal marijuana grow sites countywide and recovered 655,000 plants and $370 million.

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☆ Tesla's Autopilot not to blame for a crash that killed a driver and left his wife and son badly injured, jury finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A California jury found Tesla's Autopilot function did not cause a 2019 crash that killed a driver. Micah Lee's wife and son were seriously injured and sued Elon Musk's EV maker for $400 million-plus. AdvertisementAdvertisementTesla's Autopilot feature was not responsible for a 2019 crash that killed a driver and left two passengers seriously injured, a California jury ruled. Tesla denied its software was to blame and argued that the driver had consumed alcohol before getting behind the wheel. The EV maker also questioned whether Autopilot was in use at the time of the crash.

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The outcome in civil court shows Tesla arguments are gaining traction: when something goes wrong on the road, the ultimate responsibility rests with drivers. The electric-vehicle maker also argued it was unclear whether Autopilot was engaged at the time of the crash. During the Riverside trial, an attorney for the plaintiffs showed jurors a 2017 internal Tesla safety analysis identifying "incorrect steering command" as a defect, involving an "excessive" steering wheel angle. The automaker subsequently engineered a system that prevents Autopilot from executing the turn which caused the crash. "I think that anyone is going to have a hard time beating Tesla in court on a liability claim," he said.

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☆ Southern California wildfire forces 4,000 residents to evacuate homes
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A structure is engulfed in flames as a wildfire called the Highland Fire burns in Aguanga, California, on Oct. 30, 2023. Roughly 4,000 residents in Southern California have been ordered to evacuate their homes due to a raging fire in the small town of Aguanga in Riverside County, which spread further overnight. In the evening, it was reclassified as a "critical rate" spread and had grown to more than 1,200 acres. On Monday, 1,139 homes near the area were ordered to evacuate, equating to about 4,000 people, according to Maggie Cline De La Rosa, a spokesperson for the county fire department. The National Weather Service has issued an air quality alert to surrounding neighborhoods due to the windblown dust and smoke of the wildfire.

Persons: Maggie Cline De La Rosa, De, De La Rosa Organizations: Riverside County Fire Department, National Weather Service, CNBC Locations: Aguanga , California, Southern California, Aguanga, Riverside County, Riverside, De La, California

☆ California wildfire, fueled by desert winds, forces evacuations
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Omar Younis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] A firefighter works to extinguish the Highland Fire, a wind driven wildfire near Aguanga, California, U.S., October 31, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Blake Acquire Licensing RightsTEMECULA, California, Oct 31 (Reuters) - A Southern California wildfire fueled by desert winds burned 2,487 acres (1,010 hectares) and prompted evacuation orders for more than 4,000 people in Riverside County, officials said on Tuesday. The seasonal phenomenon occurs when dry desert air blows toward the ocean, creating a fire hazard in Southern California. Some 1,220 homes and 4,270 residents were under mandatory evacuation orders, with another 1,136 homes and 3,976 residents under evacuation warnings, Cal Fire spokesperson Thomas Shoots said. Southern California has had a mild fire year in 2023, after unusually heavy rainfall that included the first tropical storm to reach heavily populated areas in the state in 84 years.

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☆ Tesla wins first U.S. Autopilot trial involving fatal crash
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The jury verdict represents Tesla's second big win this year, in which juries have declined to find that its software was defective. The trial involved gruesome testimony about the passengers' injuries, and the plaintiffs asked the jury for $400 million plus punitive damages. The electric-vehicle maker also argued it was unclear whether Autopilot was engaged at the time of the crash. During the trial in Riverside, an attorney for the plaintiffs showed jurors a 2017 internal Tesla safety analysis identifying "incorrect steering command" as a defect, involving an "excessive" steering wheel angle. The automaker subsequently engineered a system that prevents Autopilot from executing the turn which caused the crash.

Persons: Tesla, Elon Musk, Micah Lee's, Lee, Matthew Wansley, Wansley Organizations: Tuesday, Court, Cardozo School of Law, Tesla, Reuters Locations: Tesla, California, Riverside County, Los Angeles, Riverside

AGUANGA, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire fueled by gusty Santa Ana winds ripped through rural land southeast of Los Angeles on Monday, forcing about 4,000 people from their homes, fire authorities said. The so-called Highland Fire erupted at about 12:45 p.m. in dry, brushy hills near the unincorporated Riverside County hamlet of Aguanga. The winds were expected to ease somewhat overnight and fire crews would attempt to box in the blaze, LaRusso said. Southern California was seeing its first significant Santa Ana wind condition. The National Weather Service said Riverside County could see winds of 15 to 25 mph (24 to 40 kph) through Tuesday with gusts as high as 40 miles per hour (64 kph) .

Persons: Jeff LaRusso, LaRusso Organizations: National Weather Service Locations: Calif, Santa, Los Angeles, brushy, Riverside County, Aguanga, Southern California, Santa Ana, Pacific, California, Riverside

An advertisement promotes Tesla Autopilot at a showroom of U.S. car manufacturer Tesla in Zurich, Switzerland March 28, 2018. The lawsuit, filed against Tesla by the passengers and Lee's estate, accuses Tesla of knowing that Autopilot and other safety systems were defective when it sold the car. Tesla won a bellwether trial in Los Angeles in April with a strategy of saying that it tells drivers that its technology requires human monitoring, despite the "Autopilot" name. Tesla, for instance, won a bid to exclude some of Musk’s public statements about Autopilot. The trial, in Riverside County Superior Court, is expected to last a few weeks.

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After being rushed in an ambulance to a hospital, the 15-month-old girl died from a fentanyl overdose. Political Cartoons View All 1148 ImagesIn California, where the Legislature has failed to pass such laws, prosecutors in at least three counties are turning to drunk driving laws to charge parents whose children die from fentanyl overdose. Last month, a Maine woman pleaded guilty to manslaughter after her 14-month-old son’s fentanyl overdose. Prosecutors say the parents, like drunk drivers, knew fentanyl can injure or kill people. The boyfriend and girlfriend were charged with murder after their toddler died of a fentanyl overdose in June 2020.

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☆ California’s Largest Wildfire of the Year Sweeps Across the Mojave
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Derrick Bryson Taylor | More About Derrick Bryson Taylor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

California’s largest wildfire this year has swept across thousands of acres in the Mojave Desert since the weekend, and has been so powerful that it has produced spinning columns of fire, officials said. Around 77,000 acres had burned with no containment, fire officials said Monday night, making it the largest wildfire in California so far this year. The state’s second largest active fire, the Bonny fire in Riverside County, has consumed only about 2,500 acres. Wildfires have consumed about 100,000 acres in California so far this year, according to Cal Fire, the state’s firefighting agency. After a couple of devastating wildfire seasons, including a record 4.3 million acres burned in 2020, California had a relatively quiet wildfire season last year, with fewer than 400,000 acres burned.

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☆ One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Prosecutors say a family that made $7.6 million from recycling defrauded the state of California. The family, based in Southern California, is accused of recycling materials they purchased in Arizona. Investigators recovered more than $1 million worth of "illegally imported beverage containers." The recycling operation earned the family $7.6 million, according to a statement from the office of California Attorney General Rob Bonta. Between 2010 and 2019, at least 93 people in California were convicted of recycling fraud, according to a report by the nonprofit Consumer Watchdog.

Persons: Rob Bonta, Bonta Organizations: Investigators, Service, Consumer Watchdog Locations: California, Southern California, Arizona, Riverside County

☆ 6 people die in Cessna plane crash in California
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Rebekah Riess | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

CNN —A Cessna business jet crashed near French Valley Airport in Murrieta, California, early Saturday morning, the FAA said. All six people on board were found dead at the scene, the Riverside County sheriff’s office said. The flight departed Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas and crashed about 65 miles north of San Diego around 4:15 a.m. local time, the FAA said. According to a tweet from Cal Fire, the aircraft went down in a field and caused a fire that burned about an acre of vegetation before being contained. The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate.

Persons: Harry Reid Organizations: CNN, Cessna, FAA, Harry Reid International, Cal Fire, National Transportation Locations: Murrieta , California, Riverside, Las Vegas, San Diego

☆ Six dead in corporate jet crash outside Los Angeles
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

July 8 (Reuters) - All six people aboard a small corporate jet died when the aircraft crashed and burned in a field near an airport outside the Los Angeles area early on Saturday, local and federal authorities said. The aircraft, a Cessna C550 business jet, was traveling from Las Vegas and crashed near French Valley Airport, about 85 miles (136.79 km) south of Los Angeles, at around 4:15 a.m. (0815 GMT), the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. Aerial video from local media showed burnt rubble in the shape of a small aircraft laying in a blackened part of a field across the road from the French Valley Airport. Radar data from flight tracking website FlightAware shows just one business jet traveling from Las Vegas to French Valley at the time. Reporting by Brad Heath in Washington and Ismail Shakil in Ottawa; editing by Diane CraftOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ 6 people dead after private jet crashes in Southern California
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A private Cessna jet crashed in Southern California early Saturday morning. All six people on board the plane were found dead at the scene, according to the FAA. At 4:15 a.m., police officers responded to reports of a plane crash in Murrieta, about a 90-minute drive from Los Angeles. The reported location of the crash is immediately adjacent to French Valley Airport, which has a single runway and averaged just under 300 aircraft operations per day in 2022. The C550 is a twin-engine jet, popular for corporate travel, with some models that have been in service since the late 1970s.

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☆ Man Who Crashed Into Teens After Doorbell Prank Is Found Guilty of Murder
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Lauren Mccarthy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The boy rang the doorbell and returned to the Prius they were riding in, and the group drove off. Three boys, Daniel Hawkins, Jacob Ivascu and Drake Ruiz, were killed, the authorities said. The driver, Sergio Campusano, then 18, and two other boys, Joshua Hawkins, then 13, and Joshua Ivascu, then 14, were injured. He also testified that he had drunk 12 bottles of beer on the night of the crash, the newspaper reported. “The murder of these young men was a horrendous and senseless tragedy for our community,” Mike Hestrin, the Riverside County district attorney, said in an emailed statement.

[1/2] Alec Baldwin attends the 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award Gala in New York City, U.S., December 6, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew KellyTAOS, New Mexico, April 21 (Reuters) - New Mexico special prosecutors dropped charges against actor Alec Baldwin in the shooting death of "Rust" cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on Friday, marking what legal experts said was a logical conclusion to a flawed prosecution. The move followed new evidence about the gun Baldwin was holding when it fired the bullet that killed Hutchins during the movie's filming, a person close to state prosecutors said. "The case is dismissed without prejudice and the investigation is active and ongoing," prosecutors Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis said in a filing. Special prosecutors said on Thursday they might refile charges against Baldwin once new evidence was examined.

☆ 'Trump enjoys being the victim.' Alvin Bragg's 34-count indictment could help him argue he's been unfairly targeted, ex-prosecutors say.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | Warren Rojas | Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Former prosecutors told Insider the indictment against Donald Trump was underwhelming. They said the case could give Trump and his team fodder to argue it was politically motivated. Rep. Nancy Mace, a Trump critic, said DA Alvin Bragg's indictment made Trump a "martyr." They also said the 34 counts could be viewed as excessive — and even give Trump and his team fuel to argue he was being unfairly targeted. "Trump enjoys being the victim in all this, and that's what he's going to lean into," Joshua Ritter, a former Los Angeles County prosecutor and partner with El Dabe Ritter Trial Lawyers, told Insider.

Trump's indictment was unsealed Tuesday, revealing he was charged with 34 counts. The indictment didn't clarify the underlying crimes Trump allegedly committed to justify felony charges. Trump was indicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection to a 2016 hush-money payment to the adult film star Stormy Daniels. "If I were the prosecution, I would ask for a gag order covering the parties and their attorneys," Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor, told Insider. Indeed, House Republicans vowed revenge on Trump's behalf and said Tuesday that they would go after Bragg and President Joe Biden in light of Trump's indictment.

☆ Trump's indictment may 'embolden' prosecutors to bring more charges against him for January 6 and his efforts to overturn the election, legal experts say
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-01 | by ( Hannah Getahun | Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Former President Donald Trump was indicted on Thursday over a hush money settlement. Some legal experts say his indictment could affect the other investigations he faces. Although the charges have not yet been made public, ex-Manhattan prosecutors say that Trump risks felony-level state records-fraud charges that carry punishments of up to four years in prison. "He's testing what happens when a prosecutor charges a former sitting president," Ritter added. Likewise, as more grand juries solidify charges against Trump, the prosecutions look less politically motivated, a perception which may help embolden prosecutors who may otherwise be hesitant to bring charges."

☆ My mom died of an overdose. I'm talking about it openly to help other women going through the same.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-29 | by ( Hayley Folk | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Four years ago, at the age of 45, my mom died of a drug overdose. I share my and her story to help others going through the same things we went through. When she died, I had seen her only once in 11 years, and surprisingly, it was exactly a week to the day before she died. For women who overdose and survive, there is a societal stigma. If you're on the other side — you've lost a woman in your life to an overdose — there are resources for you.

☆ Comedian Andy Dick accused of public intoxication, failing to register as a sex offender
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-14 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

Actor and comedian Andy Dick was accused Friday of public intoxication and failing to register as a sex offender, authorities said. Jail records show he was booked just before 1 a.m. and released roughly two hours later. An attorney who represented Dick in the case, Daniel Kapelovitz, called the case “totally bogus” and said at the time that his client is often falsely accused. In a separate case, Dick was accused of groping a ride-share driver in April 2018 in West Hollywood. As part of the case, Dick was required to register as a sex offender and complete 52 Alcoholics Anonymous sessions, among other terms, according to the Times.

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