What is a driver obligated to do if they hit a dog or cat with their vehicle? - Anaheim news - NewsLocker (2024)

Q: Jim Guthrel of San Bernardino asked what drivers are supposed to do if they hit a dog or a cat with their vehicle. “My understanding, if I accidentally hit a dog or cat, I’m to stop. What for and for how long? What do I do?” he asked.
Guthrel also expressed concerns about putting the animal in his car, about it possibly being vicious, and about the prospect of facing a veterinarian bill he said he can’t pay.
A: This question touches on several issues about the driver&r

Be sun savvy, protect yourself from skin cancer

Mayo Clinic Staff | (TNS) Mayo Clinic News Network
Ultraviolet rays from the sun can cause skin damage in as little as 15 minutes. Prolonged exposure and damage can lead to various forms ofskin cancer, many of which, thankfully, are preventable.
The sun isn’t the only skin-damaging predator. Tanning beds and smoking also can have ill effects on the body’s outer layer.
What are the common forms of skin cancer?
Skin cancer can take many forms, but the three most common are:
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Fact check: Biden’s on target about what repealing ACA would mean for preexisting condition protections

Jacob Gardenswartz | (TNS) KFF Health News
If the Affordable Care Act were terminated, “that would mean over a hundred million Americans will lose protections for preexisting conditions.”
President Joe Biden in a campaign advertisem*nt, May 8
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President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign wants voters to contrast his record on health care policy with his predecessor’s. In May, Biden’s campaign began airing a monthlong, $14 million ad campaign targeting swing-state v

On Juneteenth, a journalist honors ancestor at ceremony for Black soldiers who served in Civil War

By DARREN SANDS (Associated Press)
WASHINGTON (AP) — It was the middle of the night in the summer of 2021 when I finally found the missing piece of my family history.
My great-great-great-great grandfather Hewlett Sands, born into slavery in Oyster Bay, New York in 1820, was one of the more than 200,000 names listed on the African American Civil War Memorial in Washington, D.C. That meant he was a soldier who served in a United States Colored Troops regiment that fought for the Union &ndas

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Trump, Biden tied in a dead heat heading into next week’s debate, poll shows

A new poll shows the former and incumbent presidents tied in a dead heat with just over a week to go before their first head-to-head debate of the 2024 election cycle.
An NPR/PBS News/Marist National Poll released Tuesday shows both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump tied for support at 49%. Trump gains a slight 1% edge, pollsters say, when the survey is limited to those who indicate they will definitely vote this November.
“While Biden has improved his standing among in

Key results from Georgia runoff, Virginia and Oklahoma primaries

Daniela Altimari and Mary Ellen McIntire | CQ-Roll Call (TNS)
WASHINGTON — A veteran lawmaker who chairs the House Appropriations Committee and a former national security official who played a role in former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment both won primaries easily Tuesday as voters cast ballots in Oklahoma, Virginia and Georgia.
Here’s a rundown of key results:
Cole wins easily in Oklahoma
In Oklahoma’s 4th District, Republican Rep. Tom Cole, the powerful chai

Travel: I climbed the ‘stairway to heaven’ next to a Star Wars film set in Ireland

No blarney, the Force was with me. Or at least with Watson, a black Lab mix and crack dolphin spotter who, upon detecting dorsal fins, relentlessly barked while racing throughout our small fishing boat jouncing in the Atlantic off Ireland’s rugged coast. Almost magically, pods of playful cetaceans suddenly swam alongside and under the vessel, as our ancient destination — isolated Skellig Michael island — vaulted up like a jagged, supernatural pyramid on the sea’s di

Kim vows to back Putin ‘unconditionally’ on war in Ukraine

By Soo-Hyang Choi
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged to “unconditionally support” Russia in its invasion of Ukraine at talks with President Vladimir Putin in Pyongyang that emphasized deepening ties amid US concerns about arms supplies to the Kremlin’s war machine.
The two leaders signed a deal Wednesday to come to the other’s aid if attacked, rekindling an agreement dating back to the Cold War, when the Soviet Union was the main backer for Pyongyang. Kim said the ag

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Santa Ana still beholden to the police union

Santa Ana has put itself in a precarious fiscal position after its City Council – dominated by councilmembers allied with the city’s powerful police union – recently approved massive retroactive pay increases for officers and other staff. The deal will cost the city $27.5 million over 3 ½ years even as it faces at coming $30-million drop in sales-tax revenue.
The result will surely mean higher taxes or severe service cutbacks for city residents. These are the fruits of h

UC Riverside professor Alex Espinoza grapples with lucha libre in ‘Sons of El Rey’

Generations of sports fans in Mexico and the U.S. grew up enchanted by lucha libre, the Mexican professional wrestling style that became a phenomenon in the early 20th century. Children, in particular, have been enchanted with the sport, which features wrestlers with colorful, elaborate masks, acrobatic maneuvers, and rivalries between the técnicos, the sport’s heroes, and the rudos, its bad guys.
One of those young fans was Alex Espinoza, a professor at UC Riverside and itsTo

First presidential debate: ‘Let’s get ready to mumble!’

A rarity happens next week: a presidential debate before either party’s convention. Trump probably should not have agreed to the unusual CNN debate this early. If Biden melts down or freezes up, Dems have time to replace him before their official nomination in Chicago. I would have waited, but where there is a camera and a national audience, you will have a Trump.
Trump should want to run against Biden, and more specifically his record, rather than against a player to be named later. Holdi

Hundreds died during Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia amid intense heat, officials say

By SAMY MAGDY
MECCA, Saudi Arabia — Hundreds of people died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as the faithful faced intense high temperatures at Islamic holy sites in the desert kingdom, officials said Wednesday as people tried to claim their loved ones’ bodies.
Saudi Arabia has not commented on the death toll amid the heat during the pilgrimage, required of every able Muslim once in their life, nor offered any causes for those who died. However, hundreds of pe

Entrenched as a starter, Angels’ Jo Adell can breathe easier through slump

LOS ANGELES — If this was four years ago, Jo Adell would be pressing.
He is old enough, now, to recognize the mental strain he once put himself through, his top-prospect shine long stained by jittery cups of coffee where he’d too intensely focus on the black ink of his batting average. His 0-for-20s, the Angels outfielder reflected Monday afternoon, would turn into 0-for-40s. And any extended slump brought the ever-present threat of Salt Lake, another extended stint in Triple-A, cree

Crowdfunding campaign set up for Disneyland employee killed in tragic accident

Family and friends of Club 33 manager Bonnye Lear are trying to cover the cost of her funeral and preparing for a legal battle with Disneyland following her death in a tragic accident at the Anaheim theme park.
A crowdfunding campaign set up for Lear’s family seeks $100,000 for memorial services and “a strong legal team to seek justice for her death,” according to the GoFundMe page.
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Another mysterious monolith appears, this time in Nevada desert

LAS VEGAS — The strange monolith looks like it could have come from another world.
This photo provided by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows a monolith near Gass Peak, Nev., on Sunday, June 16, 2024. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via AP)
Jutting out of the rocks in a remote mountain range near Las Vegas, the glimmering rectangular prism’s reflective surface imitates the vast desert landscape surrounding the mountain peak where it has been erected.
But where di

The Groundlings celebrate 50 years of improv and launching comedy stars

When Los Angeles-born actress Victoria Carroll Bell walked into a new comedy workshop she had recently heard about, she had no idea how much it would change her life, or how much impact this workshop would eventually have on comedy in the decades to come.
“I saw these actors doing fascinating things, lots of laughter and I just looked at them and thought, ‘Well there’s the rest of my people, there’s my family,’” said the now 83-year-old.
Bell, along with some

Long Beach’s Gabriel ‘Fluffy’ Iglesias receives Key to the City

As the youngest of six children, raised by a single mother in Long Beach, world-renowned comedian Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias says he never imagined that he would be recognized by his hometown for what he does.
Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson, left,presents comedian Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias with a Key to the City on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, at the Terrace Theater. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Longtime Long Beach resident and acclaimed comedian Gabri

Very lazy smears against SCOTUS

The conservative majority on the United States Supreme Court understandably has progressives worried. As long as the court maintains its current composition, the court is likely to continue striking down instances of government overreach and flimsy rulings made by prior courts.
The current court has already overruled Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, returning the decision-making on abortion policy to the states.
Through Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the court overruled pri

California’s budget crisis: A call for action

Last week, the California State Legislature faced a pivotal moment in our legislative process. One thing is clear: California is at a critical juncture.
Our current financial crisis, exacerbated by the policies of our current administration, demands immediate attention. While California boasts the fifth-largest economy globally, ominous signs point to future fiscal instability.
The reality is stark: this year California faced a staggering budget deficit, estimated to be $73 billion. The budget t

California workers are third-most productive in US

”Survey says” looks at various rankings and scorecards judging geographic locations while noting these grades are best seen as a mix of artful interpretation and data.
Buzz: Just two states have more productive workers than California.
Source: My trusty spreadsheet looked at “labor productivity” – a measurement of state-level business efficiency – for a window into how this secret sauce works, dating to 2007. To create this metric, the US Bureau of Labor Stati

What Paris and other cities can teach Los Angeles about transit

Paris is about to give Los Angeles a lesson on how to efficiently transport visitors to its Olympic Games. Unfortunately, California’s slow-moving, union-dominated public sector is unlikely to learn anything from the City of Light.
Passengers arriving at Paris’ Orly Airport this summer will be able to take a new automated subway line to the city center and some of the Olympic venues. The driverless trains on Metro Line 14 are expected to arrive at stations every 105 seconds. Two othe

Frumpy Mom: Here are 10 wimpy things that scare me

As some of you know, I make a habit of haranguing you readers about getting out and doing things that scare you. To avoid becoming a crusty old person whose big excitement is rocking on the porch and knitting one of those items that no one will later be able to figure out what it is.
Don’t laugh, I got a pair from my grandmother many years ago, and I still haven’t figured out what they’re supposed to be. Slippers? Gloves? Ear warmers? Bikini tops?
Anyway, that’s not what

America is now almost $35 trillion in debt. That means every American owes $100,000.

America is now almost $35 trillion in debt. That means every American owes $100,000.
The Biden administration doesn’t care. They want to spend more.
Already they are spending so much that they’re increasing our debt by a trilliondollars every 100 days.
President Donald Trump was no better. His administration increased our debt by almost $8 trillion.
This willnot end well.
Last year, we hit a new ugly milestone: Americans must pay $1 trillion per year just for interest on our de

Chapman professor inducted into prestigious Royal Society for lifetime achievement in science

Chapman University professor Yakir Aharonov will be admitted this July into the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences and the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
Aharonov, widely regarded as a leading contemporary quantum theorist, joins the likes of Isaac Newtown, Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer and Stephen Hawking in an elite group of Royal Society fellows. Fellows are leaders in their fields and come from all parts of the w

California’s death penalty law deserves a vigorous defense

The constitutionality of California’s death penalty law is currently under attack in the California Supreme Court by a coalition of criminal defense attorneys and other death penalty opponents. The challengers launched their attack in a lawsuit filed against state attorney general Rob Bonta, himself a death penalty opponent. The challengers like their chances.
But the district attorneys of Riverside and San Bernardino Counties have other ideas. They believe the law deser

PPIC survey shows Californians are displeased with the direction of the Golden State

A bit more than four months before the Nov. 5 election Californians are in a sour mood. A new survey by the Public Policy Institute of California, conducted May 23-June 2, found people are dissatisfied with just about everything in the state.
A hefty majority of those responding, 62%, said California was headed in the wrong direction, up from 54% a year ago. The number has increased sharply from the 38% of 2021. The new tally showed Republicans most pessimistic, at 81%, followed by indepen

Angels can’t overcome Griffin Canning’s rough start against Brewers

ANAHEIM — It wasn’t so much the first inning that got Griffin Canning in trouble this time. It was the first, second and fourth innings that put the Angels in a sizable hole that neither Canning nor the rest of the team could completely overcome.
But the Angels tried with a late rally that came up short in a 6-3 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday night.
Trailing, 6-0, the Angels scored three runs in the ninth before putting two men on first and second base. Taylor Ward then bla

Jason Heyward, Teoscar Hernandez fuel 7-run 9th as Dodgers stun Rockies

DENVER — It was a comeback for the ages.
The Dodgers struck for seven runs in the ninth inning on the strength of a grand slam by pinch-hitter Jason Heyward and a three-run home run by Teoscar Hernandez, turning a five-run deficit into an 11-9 victory on Tuesday night as part of a slugfest between the NL West-leading Dodgers and the last-place Rockies.
According to Elias, the last time the Dodgers overcame a deficit of five runs or more in the ninth inning or later was July 18, 1957 agains

Dodgers produce 7-run 9th inning to stun Rockies

DENVER — It was a comeback for the ages.
The Dodgers struck for seven runs in the ninth inning on the strength of a grand slam by pinch-hitter Jason Heyward and a three-run home run by Teoscar Hernandez, turning a five-run deficit into an 11-9 victory on Tuesday night as part of a slugfest between the NL West-leading Dodgers and the last-place Rockies.
“It was quality of at-bat up and down the lineup,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “Jason was ready when called upon.

Stanley Cup Final: Connor McDavid, Oilers stay alive again with Game5 win

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer
SUNRISE, Fla. — Connor McDavid had two goals and two assists to added to his historic postseason, Evan Bouchard added three assists and the Edmonton Oilers fended off elimination yet again by beating the Florida Panthers, 5-3, in Game5 of the Stanley Cup Final on Tuesday night.
Connor Brown, Zach Hyman and Corey Perry also had goals for the Oilers, who scored the game’s first three goals to take control – then held on late to cut Florida&r