PALM DESERT, Calif. (KESQ) – College of the Desert is helping students get connected as the fall semester gets underway with Welcome Day at its Palm Desert campus.
Sessions begin at 9 a.m. and will give students a chance to learn more about campus resources, ask questions and connect with faculty and staff.
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CHICAGO (WBBM) — A White Sox fan went viral after spilling her purse as celebrated picking up catcher Jake Rogers’ walk-off home run ball on Friday at Rate Field.
Emma Rodriguez didn’t catch Rogers’ home run on the fly, but picked it up when a team employee pointed it out to her on the ground in the front row of the bleachers.
While she celebrated the White Sox’s walk-off 6-4 win over the Mets, jumping up and down, everything spilled out of her Coach purse – including her keys, wallet, cash, change, and lip gloss.
Rodriguez did get everything back after the game, and she gave the ball back to Rogers to help him commemorate his first career walk-off home run.
In return, Rodriguez received a signed bat, ball, and jersey, along with a thank you note from Rogers.
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DELRAN, New Jersey (KYW) — Emergency crews have recovered the body of a woman who went missing in the Delaware River after trying to rescue a girl who was struggling in the water.
Delran police responded to a report of two potential drowning victims shortly before 4 p.m. Monday at Amico Island Park at 81 Norman Ave., a Burlington County spokesperson said in a news release.
The missing woman went into the Delaware River to try to rescue a girl struggling in the water, the spokesperson said. The woman pushed the girl toward shore, where bystanders pulled her to safety.
According to the spokesperson, the woman went underwater during the rescue.
On Tuesday, officials confirmed the woman was located around 8:15 a.m. about 20 feet from a beach at the park.
She has been identified as 33-year-old Priscila Alvares Pereira Dos Santos of Delran.
The search area focused around the mouth of the Rancocas Creek, where it meets the Delaware River.
“At the time when the reports came in that she was submerged, the tide was moving out,” Kevin Peak, deputy chief of the Delran Fire Department, said. “We’ve heard all the stories about the ocean swimmers who get pulled by the undertow. River current is almost the exact same thing. It will pull you right under. If you’re not a strong swimmer or a good swimmer, it’s not going to fare very well for anyone involved.”
The search for the missing woman included the Delran police and fire departments, the Delran Emergency Squad, New Jersey State Police, Camden County dive team and the Philadelphia Police Department.
Amico Island Park is closed Tuesday due to the investigation.
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ATLANTA (WUPA) — A metro Atlanta couple is celebrating 50 years of marriage beneath the Golden Arches.
Mike and Susan Burks married in 1976. During the early years of their marriage, they frequently ate at the McDonald’s on Northside Parkway.
“When we first got married, we lived around the corner in Vinings, and Susan didn’t cook much. She sort of does now,” Mike Burks joked. “But out of necessity, we came down here twice a day.”
“Probably five times a week and sometimes twice a day,” Susan Burks said. “We love McDonald’s.”
Now, decades later, the couple is marking their golden anniversary at the restaurant with their favorite meal.
“The usual is a Big Mac, fries and a Coke,” Mike Burks said.
“There wasn’t a lot of choice back then,” he added. “All the stuff that’s around here right now, you didn’t have all of that back then.”
Mike said he knew almost immediately that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with Susan.
“We met at a bar up on Roswell Road at 2:30 in the morning in 1975,” he said. “I said, ‘I just met the girl I’m going to marry.'”
The Burks say the secret to a lasting marriage is simple.
“Don’t give up, and lots of laughs through the tears,” they said.
They do not eat at McDonald’s as often as they once did, but the Burks chose to celebrate their milestone at the place that helped shape their earliest years together.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — As the new school year began on Monday at Colorado College, campus police are repeating their annual effort to emphasize crosswalk safety for students.
Cathy Buckley, the director of the Campus Safety Police, said that officers traditionally spend the first two weeks of the school year reminding students to use crosswalks and avoid the risks posed by jaywalking.
The challenge is that two busy streets — Nevada Avenue and Cascade Avenue — cut through the campus from north to south, and border the college from east to west.
As classes resumed on Monday, KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior saw many students jaywalking — even cutting between vehicles that were backed up to wait for students properly using crosswalks.
Jaywalking is likely common because it allows students to reach their destinations more quickly, but they may also be preoccupied with going to lunch, the campus routine, or eager to hang out with classmates.
Buckley said that she hopes the safety message eventually sinks in for all students.
“We’ve had some students hit by vehicles while crossing the street over the years,” she recalled. “But few have been serious, and none have been fatal. Sometimes it happened in crosswalks at night when drivers couldn’t see students or other pedestrians. The crosswalk is still the safest place to be. Pedestrians and drivers should make eye contact to ensure that they see each other.”
Buckley added that students face possible disciplinary action from the dean of students, if jaywalking becomes a particular problem or distraction.
Click here to follow the original article.HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (KRDO) – California’s Attorney General canceled Monday’s negotiations with Paramount after he said the company leaked private meetings and acted “in bad faith.”
California and 11 other states, including Colorado, filed an antitrust lawsuit over its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. The 12-state coalition alleges the merger is anti-competitive and will restrict jobs in Hollywood.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta met privately with Paramount on Friday. Bonta said the company leaked the contents of the meeting and misrepresented what was said.
A Paramount spokesperson said it was not the source of the leak and hopes talks can continue.
Paramount has agreed to freeze the merger until June 1, 2027, or until the two sides can agree on a settlement.
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SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — A San Diego woman lost her arms and legs following complications from emergency surgery, and her husband is now asking for skilled volunteers to help modify their home before she is discharged from the hospital.
Leslie Caoili was a healthy, competitive strength athlete who competed throughout San Diego before May 1st changed everything. She underwent an eight-and-a-half-hour emergency surgery to repair a tear in her aorta — the main artery from the heart.
Her husband, Lee Caoili, said the couple had gone in for a routine heart checkup when doctors found the tear.
“Most people who suffer an aortic dissection usually happens pretty quickly, and they don’t survive. So the surgery was necessary in order to save her life. She probably had maybe hours left to live, and we wouldn’t even, we didn’t even know it,” Lee said.
The surgery saved Leslie’s life, but complications that followed altered it permanently. She lost blood flow to her hands and feet in the weeks after the procedure.
“We didn’t really know how her body was gonna respond to the initial surgery, but she ended up losing blood flow to her hands and her feet, and by the end of the first month there, her hands and her feet were blackened and shriveled,” Lee said.
Because of the loss of blood flow to her limbs, Leslie’s hands were amputated at the mid-forearm, and she lost her legs as well.
“Every day has been a battle for her. Every day has been a fight,” Lee said.
Lee has remained by his wife’s side throughout her months-long hospital stay. Now, with her discharge approaching, the family says their home is not ready and needs major repairs and modifications to accommodate Leslie’s needs.
The family is asking for skilled volunteers, including carpenters, electricians, HVAC technicians, roofers, flooring installers, and painters.
For Lee, the work means far more than fixing a house.
“She just wants to come home to her family and her kids and her dog and me and wants to get back to living life as normal as we can make it for her,” Lee said.
Lee said he is getting through the ordeal with the support of their family and community, and he hopes Leslie will have a safe and accessible home waiting for her when she is discharged.
Leslie and Lee are parents to two daughters.
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WATERLO, Iowa (KWWL) — Union workers at John Deere have rejected a contract extension offer that would have kept their current agreement in place through 2029.
Union members voted to turn down the proposal. Union leaders said the offer failed to address several key issues, particularly job security concerns stemming from the 1,600 workers laid off over the last two years.
An economic expert at Iowa State University said John Deere’s move to offer an extension was unusual. However, it’s not surprising given how the Trump administration’s tariffs have impacted the agricultural economy.
“Significant international demand for particularly soybeans and pork, but other areas of agriculture as well,” said Peter Orazem, ISU professor of economics. “They’re pushing up the cost of inputs, both at the farmer side and at the John Deere manufacturing side.”
Orazem said the union’s decision to reject the extension wasn’t a surprise. He said the economic conditions may not be better in 2027 when the current contract expires and formal negotiations will begin.
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DRAIN, Oregon (KEZI) — On Friday, a Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad (CORP) train carrying lumber and sand derailed in Drain.
One resident said a train car ended up in his front yard.
“This train goes by twice every day, you get used to the noise,” Everett Baker, Drain resident, said. “And Friday afternoon at three o’clock I heard an unusual noise from it. Opened my front door in time to see the train come apart.”
Baker recounts the moments leading up to the derailment.
“The effects of seeing a moving train come off the tracks coming at you,” Baker said. “I think it put me in shock. I noticed I couldn’t move. I was just kind of frozen looking at it. I mean, it was unbelievable.”
Luckily, the train didn’t damage Baker’s property. But one of his trucks did sustain some damage to the front of the car, although Baker said the damage came from a train car hitting a post that then hit the car.
“It was a sigh of relief,” Baker said. “I thought it hit everything until I got out there and saw. And it was a relief after I saw it.”
Tom Ciuba, CORP a spokesperson, said 12 cars derailed and they “were either empty or carrying lumber or sand. There were no injuries and no hazardous material was released.”
Crews have been on site working on cleanup all weekend and have made massive progress already.
“They’ve been working pretty diligently from day break until dark, and they’re making headway,” Baker said. “They’re done down by my house … looks like they’ll be here for a few more days.”
CORP said they plan to have the scene restored by Wednesday.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office initially responded to the incident Friday afternoon, eventually handing over the scene to local fire crews to make sure there wasn’t risk of a wildfire starting.
An investigation is now underway into the cause of the derailment.
“At this time, a definitive cause is unknown as the investigation continues,” Ciuba said. “We thank responders working on scene with railroad management, and we ask everyone to stay away from the site so that we can work as safely and efficiently as possible to complete cleanup.”
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JUNCTION CITY, Oregon (KEZI) — Oregon cattle ranchers say the Trump administration’s plan to import foreign beef could hurt local farmers even as it aims to lower record-high prices at the grocery store.
President Trump announced a plan Friday to allow tariff-free imports of up to 300,000 tons of beef for 90 days. Trump says the imported beef will be sold at 25% below market price.
“This deal will reduce prices for Americans while giving space for our Great American Beef Herd to grow again,” President Trump said in an Aug. 21 post to Truth Social.
In response, the Oregon Farm Bureau said it was “deeply disappointed” by the decision, saying imported beef would undercut local ranchers.
“We understand that families are frustrated by high grocery prices, but cheap imports are a short-term fix with a deferred cost,” said Oregon Farm Bureau president Angela Bailey. “The long-term path to affordable beef is growing a healthy domestic cattle industry and pursuing policies that lower the cost of producing food here at home.”
John Deck and his wife Christine opened Deck Family Farm in Junction City in 2004, selling beef among other products through delivery services and local farmers markets. The farm has grown from a family operation to a 20-employee operation.
But Deck says the tariff plan creates uncertainty for local farmers at a time when ranchers are already feeling significant pressure.
“My initial reaction to the tariffs is that this isn’t needed because we produce a lot of beef in this country. And so we need to be focusing on our own game here, we don’t need to be importing foreign beef,” Deck said.
The move comes as beef prices sit at an all-time high, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. According to the bureau, ground beef now costs nearly $7 per pound.
“Right now, it’s expensive, but that’s cyclical supply and demand,” Deck said. “We should see prices lowering, we need to be looking at the long game, in terms of food security in this country, and how do we develop a stable economy for producing our own foods here in this country.”
Deck worries the imports could lower grocery prices short-term but disrupt the local food system long-term.
“I think the ultimate fear is that you’re going to find less local farmers and we’re going to end up outsourcing more of our food to other countries, which is going to create more of a fragile food system,” Deck said.
The Oregon Farm Bureau also raised concerns about the quality of imported beef, after President Trump declined to say where the beef would be sourced.
“We have a lot of organizations and departments, which helps us produce clean beef to help us protect the environment and to make sure that we have all these safeguards in our country,” Deck said. “By outsourcing beef from another country, we’re basically saying, we’re going to throw all that out the window, and it doesn’t matter, and we’re just going to import whatever’s the cheapest.”
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