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Opinion: California rollback of marijuana rules won’t help growers

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:06:21 GMT

Legalizing recreational cannabis in California was supposed to bring illegal growers out of the shadows and into a robust, safe and regulated market. When voters approved Proposition 64 in 2016, the measure promised to end the damage to our lands and water that had long been part of the illegal marijuana industry.Instead, while some of the small growers who characterized the illegal business have been licensed, the new market has quickly become dominated by a handful of huge corporate farmers. Hoping to save the small growers from extinction, the California Legislature is considering rolling back some of the very environmental guardrails that were supposed to make the legal industry more sustainable.This is a big mistake. While the intent of proposals like Senate Bill 508, introduced by John Laird, D-Monterey, may be laudable, removing environmental safeguards would set a bad precedent, and it won’t save the beleaguered growers who are struggling to survive in the new market.In fact...

Man runs across I-80 in Pinole, arrested for alleged domestic battery

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:06:21 GMT

(BCN) -- Pinole police arrested a domestic violence suspect Tuesday after he fled from officers and ran across Interstate Highway 80.Officers were called at 11:45 a.m. to the 1500 block of Fitzgerald Drive for a domestic violence incident involving a male allegedly pushing a female.When officers arrived, the suspect fled on foot toward I-80, then across all lanes of traffic into the open area behind Safeway.Officers established a perimeter and were able to safely take the subject into custody with assistance from Hercules police, their drone unit, and a Richmond Police Department K9 unit. Burglars crash vehicle into Oakland Trader Joe’s store: police Police identified the subject as Aaron Fletcher, a 26-year-old male out of Vallejo, who had warrants from Benicia police, the Marin County Sheriff's Office, and the CHP, for burglary, evading an officer, resisting arrest, reckless driving, and other charges.Fletcher was booked into the Martinez Detention Facility on suspicion of domes...

Pedestrian struck in San Jose fatal collision last week identified

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:06:21 GMT

(BCN) -- A woman who died after being struck by a vehicle last week in San Jose was identified by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner's Office as Justina Beck, a 37-year-old San Jose resident.Beck was struck near Chesbro Avenue and Blossom Hill Road, in San Jose, at about 11 p.m. on Nov. 6.Beck was taken to the hospital following the collision but died from her injuries. Man found in suitcase on Lake Merritt identified The driver was cooperative with responding police officers.It was San Jose's 24th pedestrian death this year.Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

Antioch man arrested for allegedly selling illegal weapons

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:06:21 GMT

(BCN) -- Brentwood police said Wednesday afternoon they arrested a man in Antioch for illegally selling unlicensed firearms in connection with a months-long investigation.Officers this week executed a search warrant in the 2300 Block of Sycamore Drive in Antioch and arrested 21-year-old Jonathan Navarro-Parra.During the search, police found a .38 Smith & Wesson revolver and a loaded 9mm Glock 19 semi-automatic pistol. Neither gun was registered to Navarro-Parra. Man found in suitcase on Lake Merritt identified Officers also found various calibers of ammunition, a large amount of currency, a 50-round drum magazine, along with other evidence indicating the sale of marijuana.Navarro-Parra was arrested and booked into the Martinez Detention Facility on suspicion of various firearm and narcotic-related crimes.Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

Gene therapy for sickle cell and thalassemia gets approval in the UK, a world first

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:06:21 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s medicines regulator has authorized the world’s first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease, in a move that could offer relief to thousands of people with the crippling disease in the U.K.In a statement on Thursday, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency said it approved Casgevy, the first medicine licensed using the gene editing tool CRISPR, which won its makers a Nobel prize in 2020. The agency approved the treatment for patients with sickle cell disease and thalassemia who are 12 years old and over. Casgevy is made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Europe) Ltd. and CRISPR Therapeutics. To date, bone marrow transplants, extremely arduous procedures that come with very unpleasant side effects, have been the only long-lasting treatment. “The future of life-changing cures resides in CRISPR based (gene-editing) technology,” said Dr. Helen O’Neill of University College London. “The use of the word ‘cure’ in relation to sickle cell dise...

Las contraseñas más utilizadas en el mundo: asegúrate de que la tuya no esté en la lista

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:06:21 GMT

Si desea que sus correos electrónicos, “banca en línea”, etc, estén a salvo de los piratas informáticos, sería prudente hacer un esfuerzo en buscar una contraseña segura.NordPass, la herramienta de gestión de contraseñas del equipo detrás de NordVPN, se asoció con investigadores independientes para publicar su estudio de las 200 contraseñas más comunes utilizadas en 2023.De las 20 contraseñas más comunes del mundo, 17 se pueden descifrar en menos de un segundo, así que piénselo dos veces antes de decidir ingresar “123456” o la aún más creativa “contraseña” para proteger sus cuentas en línea.Las contraseñas más populares son algunas de las combinaciones más vagas, incluso cuando las amenazas a la ciberseguridad siguen aumentando: más de 53 millones de ciudadanos estadounidenses se vieron afectados en la primera mitad de 2022, según datos de la AAG.El estudio de NordPass mostró que el 86% de los ciberataques utilizan credenciales robadas, y las cuen...

South Africa recovers to set Australia 213 to win Cricket World Cup semifinal after Miller’s 101

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:06:21 GMT

KOLKATA, India (AP) — South Africa recovered from a bad start to set Australia a target of 213 to win their semifinal match at the Cricket World Cup on Thursday.David Miller struck 101 to help the South Africans rebound from a perilous position at 24-4 in the 12th over and post a respectable 212 all out with two balls remaining in the innings.Heinrich Klaasen scored 47 runs off 48 balls and put on 95 off 113 for the fifth wicket with Miller to rescue the Proteas.The recovery came after Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood took advantage of helpful overhead conditions to rip through the top order, leaving the South Africans struggling after winning the toss and choosing to bat first.Temba Bavuma (0) fell in the first over and a frustrated Quinton De Kock was out for just 3 off 14 balls when he skied Hazlewood to a backpedaling Pat Cummins.Aiden Markram got a thick outside edge off Starc to David Warner for 10 and Rassie van der Dussen (6) edged Hazlewood to Steve Smith at second slip.Th...

Xi-Biden meeting seen as putting rocky relations back on course, though main differences remain

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:06:21 GMT

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Perhaps just shaking hands and sitting down together can be enough sometimes. At their four-hour meeting Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping didn’t resolve any of the vital geopolitical issues dividing the world’s two largest economies and chief rivals for global influence, but they struck a conciliatory tone that came as a relief to other countries, especially China’s neighbors. The two leaders met at a northern California country estate, holding talks, lunching and taking a garden stroll designed to show that while the two countries are global competitors, they’re not locked in a winner-take-all faceoff.“Planet Earth is big enough for the two countries to succeed,” Xi told Biden.Biden emphasized the need to avoid miscommunication. “We have to ensure competition does not veer into conflict,” he said. The leaders’ first face-to-face encounter in a year appears to have put a floor under a relat...

Última hora de Massa, Milei y las elecciones en Argentina 2023 en vivo

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:06:21 GMT

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These places need volunteers for Thanksgiving in Denver

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:06:21 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Thanksgiving is one week away, and it's time to start making plans for the holiday. Whether you're keeping it simple for the holiday, have some time off work or just want to give back, Denver has plenty of places to volunteer and donate. This is how much your Thanksgiving meal will cost this year FOX31 put together a list of places to volunteer or donate in Denver for the holiday. There are plenty of places to donate or volunteer in Denver, these are listed because they are advertised as Thanksgiving-related opportunities to provide families with food and other necessities during the holiday.Donate in Denver for ThanksgivingIf you don't have time to volunteer, you can always donate. These places are looking for monetary or food donations. While these spots promote Thanksgiving donations, they all take donations past the holiday.Ms. Betty's Harvest Madsgiving Dorinda Levy Thanksgiving Fund Denver Rescue Mission Denver Feed-A-Family 2023: In Honor of Daddy Bruce Rand...