Nearly 300 Trout Saved from Palisades Fire Burn Scar, but Watershed Recovery May Take a Decade

They only had one shot to save the fish. Ash from the Palisades fire had blown into a stream housing the last population of steelhead trout in the Santa Monica Mountains, degrading the water quality. The first rain following the inferno was closing in, bringing threats of debris flows that could choke Topanga Creek. Mud was already clogging the…

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Stepfather Sentenced to Life in Prison for Shaking Baby Boy So Violently It Caused Brain Damage; Minimum Term Set at 25 Years.

A stepfather who shook a 22-month-old toddler to de@th after staying up late playing video games has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years. According to Mail Online, Christopher Stockton, 38, was in sole charge of Charlie Roberts when the boy was shaken so violently that his brain moved inside his…

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Trump vows to probe California’s high-speed rail project: Is it really over budget?

President Donald Trump took dead aim at California’s high-speed rail project Tuesday, promising to lead an investigation into the beleaguered project under construction in Fresno and the central San Joaquin Valley. “The train that’s being built between Los Angeles and San Francisco is the worst managed project I think I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen some of the worst,” Trump told reporters Tuesday. He…

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Sowore Criticizes Nigerian Police for Re-Arresting TikToker Over Alleged Cyberbullying of RCCG Church Leader Pastor Adeboye

Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has expressed his disappointment and concern over the decline of the Nigeria Police Force, describing it as “disheartening, disgusting, and frightening.”    The statement comes after Sowore’s meeting with a tiktoker, Olumide Ogunsanwo, more commonly known as Seaking, who was allegedly kidnapped by police officers from Lagos to Abuja.  …

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