press-news

SAN FRANCISCO >> Califoia’s $64 billion high-speed rail plan lacks reliable funding sources and is in danger of ending up with only one line that doesn’t coect to San Francisco or Los Angeles, members of a Congressional panel said Monday during a hearing. Proceeds from a state environment program that is supposed to help fund the project were far below expectations and private funding for the train has yet to materialize, Rep. Doug LaMalfa, a Califoia Republican, said. “Where is the money going to come from,” LaMalfa asked Dan Richard, chairman of the rail authority’s board. Richard said private firms have expressed interest in the system but want to see the first leg up and ruing. Th...

School starts Wednesday in most of Long Beach and it’ll likely be a hot day. Unbearably hot? Depends what you can bear. While we type this, the forecast is for a high of 86 degrees. We can, theoretically, bear that, coming from hardy pioneer stock. But we won’t. We will wake up in our air-conditioned home, make a mad sprint to our air-conditioned car and drive to our air-conditioned office. Hours later, we will do the whole thing in reverse. We don’t live in an average temperature. It’s 72 degrees all the time in our little world. Meanwhile, more than half the students in Long Beach in the K-12 grades will be sitting in classrooms without air conditioning, not made any cooler by 25-30 sweat...

Las Vegas stadium backers eye two potential sites for Oakland Raiders Home → Sports → NFL Stadium Proposal By The Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Proponents of an NFL stadium in Las Vegas say they’ve narrowed their list to two potential sites and are unwilling to accept any less than $750 million in public funding toward the project, which they hope will provide a new home for the Raiders. Representatives from Majestic Realty and the Las Vegas Sands casino company updated an oversight committee Thursday on their effort to reach a deal to lure the Raiders from Oakland. Developers estimate that a 65,000-seat domed stadium near Interstate 15 and the Las Vegas Strip will cost $...

DEL MAR >> Remember when some were calling Califoia Chrome a weak Kentucky Derby wier in 2014? Some in Louisville cringed the day he won the country’s most famous horse race. He wasn’t a mile and a quarter horse, they claimed beforehand. Wonder what those same folks are saying today after Califoia Chrome toyed with arguably the toughest Pacific Classic field in the Del Mar race’s 26 ruings Saturday, demolishing a field that included three-time Eclipse Award wier Beholder and the highly respected Dortmund. Final tally? Califoia Chrome by five lengths under a perfect ride by Victor Espinoza, who guided the 5-year-old son of Lucky Pulpit to a gate-to-wire victory through fractions of 23....

RIO DE JANEIRO >> This time, the devil wore red, white and blue, the bad guy being our guy. In a battle so theatrical that the only thing missing was a pair of dueling light sabres, everything right about track and field Sunday collided with everything wrong about these Olympics. Naturally, good triumphed, just like in those movies about super heroes, this one again as golden as the shoes that carried him to victory. Usain Bolt, accepted to be as clean as he is fast, beat Justin Gatlin, who twice has been busted for PED use and now is ruing faster than ever despite also being older than ever. “Somebody said I can be immortal,” Bolt explained after successfully defending his 100-meter ...

Ranking top 10 sports events Aug. 8-14 you won’t want to miss: NO. 1: GAMES OF THE XXXI OLYMPIAD Details/TV: At Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, nightly from 8 p.m. to midnight (delayed), Ch. 4 Just to make sure we’ve got all the pre-Rio storylines covered, here’s what we suspect you’ll be most keen on following over this seven-day stretch: • Michael Phelps’ week of individual medals starts with the final of the 200-meter butterfly (Tuesday, after the prelims and semis on Monday), and includes the 200 IM on Thursday against Ryan Lochte (with prelims and semis on Wednesday) and the 100 butterfly final Friday (prelims and semis are on Thursday). There’s also the chance of swimming the butterfly leg of ...

Ranking top 10 sports events Aug. 8-14 you won’t want to miss: NO. 1: GAMES OF THE XXXI OLYMPIAD Details/TV: At Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, nightly from 8 p.m. to midnight (delayed), Ch. 4 Just to make sure we’ve got all the pre-Rio storylines covered, here’s what we suspect you’ll be most keen on following over this seven-day stretch: • Michael Phelps’ week of individual medals starts with the final of the 200-meter butterfly (Tuesday, after the prelims and semis on Monday), and includes the 200 IM on Thursday against Ryan Lochte (with prelims and semis on Wednesday) and the 100 butterfly final Friday (prelims and semis are on Thursday). There’s also the chance of swimming the butterfly leg of ...

The $1 million Pacific Classic, aually held in August, has been Del Mar’s signature race since the popular gelding Best Pal won the inaugural ruing in 1991. Since then, such thoroughbred heavyweights as Bertrando, Candy Ride, Lava Man, Game On Dude, Shared Belief and Beholder have won the race. Dare And Go won perhaps the most famous of all the Pacific Classics in 1996 when, at boxcar odds of 39-1, he upset the great Cigar in front of a then-record throng of 44,181. Now fast forward to June 2016 and the anticipation that was begiing to swell as we looked forward to a Pacific Classic on Aug. 20 that could potentially have included defending champion Beholder, 2014 Horse of the Year Califoia C...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio >> Donald Trump sparked bipartisan backlash after the Republican attacked the bereaved parents of a Muslim U.S. Army captain who spoke at the Democratic convention last week. Critics from both parties on Saturday questioned whether Trump had the empathy and understanding to be president, particularly after he questioned why mouing mother Ghazala Khan stayed silent during her husband’s Thursday night address. “He was kind of trying to tu that into some kind of ridicule,” Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine said after a campaign event in Pittsburgh. “It just demonstrates again kind of a temperamental unfitness. If you don’t have any more sense of empathy than ...

Could there be room for another “world class icon” at the already iconic site of the Queen Mary? A Long Beach resident thinks so. Scott Ringwelski on Wednesday revealed a proposal to bring an antique carousel, designed by the late Charles Looff, to Long Beach’s waterfront. For decades, a Looff carousel graced the local shores, standing in Shoreline Village where Ringwelski operated the large machine until the city of San Francisco purchased it in the mid 1990s. Today it stands in the Moscone Center, San Francisco’s largest convention and exhibition complex. Looff, a master carver who built the first merry-go-round at Coney Island in 1876, created over 40 carousels throughout his career, inc...

SPRINGFIELD, N.J. — Rory McIlroy took stock of his game and the shots required at Baltusrol and reached a most logical conclusion Tuesday. He believes the PGA Championship will be his best chance this year to win a major. He overlooked the obvious. It now is his only chance this year to win a major. McIlroy is not alone. Except for the three players who have achieved the ultimate in golf this year by wiing majors — Day Willett at the Masters, Dustin Johnson at the U.S. Open and Henrik Stenson at the British Open — the PGA Championship is all they have left. The focus starts with McIlroy, Jordan Spieth and Jason Day. They began the year as the mode version of the “Big Three” because they had...

HOUSTON — A Texas judge has dismissed the last remaining charge against two Califoia anti-abortion activists who made undercover videos of themselves trying to buy fetal tissue from Plaed Parenthood. District Judge Brock Thomas dismissed the charge of tampering with govement records against 27-year-old David Daleiden and 63-year-old Sandra Merritt upon the request of the Harris County prosecutor’s office. The pair’s attoeys had pushed to have the charge dismissed, saying they never should have been indicted. If they had been convicted of the felony charge, each could have been sentenced to up to 20 years in prison. Prosecutors alleged that Daleiden and Merritt used fake driver’s licenses to...

Southe Califoia is in for a hot — and likely fiery — summer. And late autumn may not provide a reprieve from the flames, either. The ferocious wildfire ravaging thousands of acres in Santa Clarita may portend a relentless fire season that could last into November and December, leaving firefighters to play a game of whack-a-mole — struggling to put out one blaze after another, fire officials and meteorologists waed on Monday. These fires, they added, could be hotter and spread faster than in the past because the years-long drought has sapped chaparral, brush and trees of moisture, and climate forecasts predict hotter than average weather into December. Dry conditions and hot weather are the ...

Los Angeles County sheriff’s union leader George Hofstetter has a stark waing: words can kill. Hofstetter believes recent “verbal attacks on police” including by politicians, the media and Black Lives Matter activists contributed to the shooting deaths of five Dallas police officers on July 7 and likely the deaths of three officers Sunday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Politicians and candidates “jump in on the side of the left and these organizations that are out there condemning all police officers” before investigations of high-profile police shootings are even complete, Hofstetter, president of the Association of Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, said Monday. But some civil rights activists and ...

FORT WORTH, Texas >> Hundreds of law enforcement officers from across the country have joined with Navy persoel to honor Patrick Zamarripa, one of the officers slain last week in Dallas by a gunman. A traditional Catholic funeral service was held Saturday in Fort Worth for the 32-year-old Zamarripa, who served eight years on active duty in the Navy and then in the reserves before joining the police force. Dallas police Chief David Brown told those gathered that Zamarripa’s service to his community was deeply personal because he was willing to give his life to help others. Zamarripa was one of the five officers killed during a march protesting recent fatal shootings of black men in Mie...

Several trucking companies have settled a $5 million class-action lawsuit brought by nearly 400 big-rig drivers who contend they should be classified as employees, not independent contractors. The settlement marks another tu in what has been a bitter dispute between truck drivers, backed by union organizers, and the companies who employ them to haul goods from the local ports to warehouses throughout Southe Califoia. “Hopefully, this sends a message that some of the schemes these companies use to evade responsibility are not going to work,” said Laboni Hoq, litigation director for the Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles, one of two nonprofits that brought the lawsuit. “Workers know...

Several trucking companies have settled a $5 million class-action lawsuit brought by nearly 400 big-rig drivers who contend they should be classified as employees, not independent contractors. The settlement marks another tu in what has been a bitter dispute between truck drivers, backed by union organizers, and the companies who employ them to haul goods from the local ports to warehouses throughout the Southe Califoia. “Hopefully, this sends a message that some of the schemes these companies use to evade responsibility are not going to work,” said Laboni Hoq, litigation director for the Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles, one of two nonprofits that brought the lawsuit. “Workers ...

Several trucking companies have settled a $5 million class-action lawsuit brought by nearly 400 big-rig drivers who contend they should be classified as employees, not independent contractors. The settlement marks another tu in what has been a bitter dispute between truck drivers, backed by union organizers, and the companies who employ them to haul goods from the local ports to warehouses throughout the Southe Califoia. “Hopefully, this sends a message that some of the schemes these companies use to evade responsibility are not going to work,” said Laboni Hoq, litigation director for the Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles, one of two nonprofits that brought the lawsuit. “Workers ...

In second grade, Califoia students will lea about families with two moms or two dads. Two years later, while studying how immigrants have shaped the Golden State, they will hear how New York native Harvey Milk became a pioneering gay politician in San Francisco. The State Board of Education unanimously approved those changes in classroom instruction Thursday to comply with the nation’s first law requiring public schools to include prominent gay Americans and LGBT rights milestones in history classes. The updates are part of a broader overhaul of Califoia’s history and social science curriculum. During four hours of public testimony, dozens of speakers criticized the way the framework discus...

POW! WOW! art event brings splashy murals to Long Beach By Long Beach Press-Telegram The POW! WOW! event, a weeks-long celebration of the arts in Long Beach founded by artist Jason Wong, features bold wall and building murals all over the city. Mayor Robert Garcia kicked off the festivities with a gathering at the Dolly Varden Hotel. Advertisement Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service - if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php#publishers.Recommended article from FiveFilters.org: Most Labour MP...