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Surge in anti-Asian hate crimes raises fears in Southern CaliforniaMarch 5, 2021 at 9:01 PM For several weeks last April, Garden Grove resident Linda Nguyen didn’t leave her home.
She worked remotely. She ordered her groceries and food online. She didn’t take walks in the neighborhood. What Nguyen says “paralyzed” her was not the coronavirus. It was the fear that she, like many other Asian Americans, would be physically attacked by someone who might mistakenly blame her for the pandemic.
“The fear that someone would physically hurt me was very real,” she said.
Linda Nguyen, who has ...Tags: Asia, News, California, La, China, New York City, US, America, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Diversity, Sport, Soccer, San Jose, Lausd, Kim 124 people like this. Like Cal State San Bernardino student who suffered heat stroke during class run wins $39.5 million settlementFebruary 22, 2021 at 7:32 PM A former Cal State San Bernardino student who suffered heat stroke during a class run that left her severely brain damaged and immobile has settled her lawsuit against the university system for $39.5 million, her attorneys announced Monday, Feb. 22.
The settlement is believed to be the largest ever for an injury case involving the California State University system, attorneys for Marissa Freeman said in a news release.
Freeman, now 24, was running outdoors, in 95-degree heat, during a kinesiolog...Tags: News, College, Sport, Soccer, Courts, Jones, CSU, Freeman, Cal State San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, Cal OSHA, California State University, RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Andrew Jones, Cal State, California State University Board of Trustees 49 people like this. Like Before 2020 election, Southern Californians sought online extremist content, report saysFebruary 8, 2021 at 12:17 PM Tens of thousands of Americans — many of them living here in Southern California — searched for specific information about conspiracy theories, joining armed or violent extremist groups, and making Molotov cocktails and other explosives, even napalm, before and after the November 2020 presidential election, a new report shows.
Between September and December, the Anti-Defamation League and Moonshot CVE, a London-based company that attempts to disrupt online extremism with counter-messaging, track...Tags: Politics, London, News, Media, California, Senate, US, America, Los Angeles, Google Search, Sport, Social-media, Soccer, United States, San Diego, Mitch McConnell 90 people like this. Like Experts fear violent demonstrations could continue after Biden’s inaugurationJanuary 12, 2021 at 6:36 PM This week, the FBI confirmed what experts who study violent extremism and domestic terrorism have said they feared since rioters breached the U.S. Capitol — continued violence before and after President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
With a week to go before Biden takes his oath of office, the FBI is warning of plans for armed protests at all 50 state capitals and in Washington, D.C., in the days leading up to the Jan. 20 inauguration. An internal FBI bulletin warned that nationwide protests ma...Tags: Amazon, Facebook, Politics, News, Congress, California, Washington, White House, America, Sport, Joe Biden, Fbi, Soccer, Washington Dc, House, House Of Representatives 87 people like this. Like FBI reassembles shredded plan for 2015 San Bernardino terrorist shootingDecember 11, 2020 at 9:09 PM Thin strips of paper, remnants of a handwritten diagram with notes that Rafia Sultana Shareef allegedly fed into a shredder just after the Dec. 2, 2015, San Bernardino terrorist attack, have been reassembled like a puzzle by federal investigators to provide a new account of the shooters’ planning for the siege that killed 14 people and wounded 22 others at the Inland Regional Center.
Corona resident Shareef, 66, also known as Rafia Farook, is scheduled for sentencing on Jan. 28 in U.S. District ...Tags: News, Sport, Fbi, Soccer, United States, Swift, Doj, IRC, San Bernardino Shooting, Eba, San Bernardino, Tashfeen Malik, Syed Rizwan Farook, U S District Court, U S Department of Justice, Riverside 90 people like this. Like Sentencing for mother of San Bernardino terrorist attack shooter is postponedDecember 3, 2020 at 9:36 PM The sentencing for that was scheduled for Friday, Dec. 4, has been postponed to Dec. 14 because her attorney has symptoms of COVID-19.
Farook, also known as Rafia Sultana Shareef, pleaded guilty on March 16 to shredding a map drawn by son Syed Rizwan Farook in advance of the Dec. 2, 2015, San Bernardino terrorist attack.
The siege on the San Bernardino County Division of Environmental Health holiday party and training session at the Inland Regional Center killed 14 people and wounded 22 others...Tags: Texas, News, Sport, Soccer, San Bernardino Shooting, San Bernardino, Tashfeen Malik, Syed Rizwan Farook, U S District Court, Riverside, Cal State San Bernardino, Farook, Rizwan Farook, Jesus G Bernal, Top Stories PE, Top Stories IVDB 48 people like this. Like CCAA cancels all sports for 2020-21 school year because of COVID-19 issuesDecember 3, 2020 at 7:08 PM Athletes at some of the local colleges who were holding out hope that sports would be allowed to return in the spring got news Thursday, Dec. 3 they were hoping to avoid.
The California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA), an NCAA Division II conference made up of 12 colleges throughout the state, including Cal Poly Pomona, Cal State L.A., Cal State Dominguez Hills and Cal State San Bernardino, announced it had made “the tough decision” to cancel all sports for the 2020-21 academic year due t...Tags: California, Sports, Sport, Soccer, College sports, Ncaa, Usc, Ucla, Cox, Los Angeles County, CSU, Cal State San Bernardino, CCAA, Cal State, Rafer Johnson, Nick Nash 21 people like this. Like CSU presidents encouraged to reassess post-holiday plans due to coronavirus surgeDecember 3, 2020 at 3:56 PM Amid surging coronavirus cases and the likelihood of students and staff traveling over the holidays — despite recent stay-at-home orders that will limit private gatherings — California State University system officials have urged campus presidents to reassess post-holiday scheduling, including possibly delaying the start of already limited in-person instruction.
In a letter to the system’s 23 campus presidents this week, outgoing CSU Chancellor Timothy White and incoming Chancellor Joseph Castro...Tags: News, California, California News, Sport, Soccer, Higher Education, Long Beach, Cal State Fullerton, Castro, White, Gavin Newsom, CSU, Cal State San Bernardino, California State University, Cal State Northridge, Newsom 49 people like this. Like CSU presidents encouraged to reassess post-holiday plans due to COVID surgeDecember 3, 2020 at 3:56 PM LONG BEACH — Amid surging COVID-19 cases and the likelihood of students and staff traveling over the holidays, campus presidents in the Long Beach-based California State University system were being urged Thursday to reassess post-holiday scheduling, including possibly delaying the start of already limited in-person instruction.
In a letter sent to the system’s 23 campus presidents this week, outgoing CSU Chancellor Timothy White and incoming Chancellor Joseph Castro called the coronavirus surge...Tags: California News, News, Cal State Domiguez Hills, Cal State Fullerton, Cal State Northridge, Cal State San Bernardino, Coronavirus, Higher education 33 people like this. Like San Bernardino terrorist attack victims honored in Cal State San Bernardino ceremonyDecember 2, 2020 at 6:35 PM Bell chimes and words of hope marked a virtual ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 2, to mark the fifth anniversary of the San Bernardino terrorist attack.
Cal State San Bernardino organized the ceremony, held online due to the coronavirus pandemic, to honor the 14 killed in the Dec. 2, 2015, shooting, including five who were alumni of the university’s College of Natural Sciences — Robert Adams, Juan Espinoza, Shannon Johnson, Yvette Velasco and Michael Wetzel.
The ceremony broadcast started with virtual o...Tags: News, Sport, Soccer, San Bernardino, Yvette, Cal State San Bernardino, Velasco, Michael Wetzel, Ochoa, Peace Garden, Top Stories PE, Top Stories IVDB, Top Stories RDF, Top Stories Sun, San Bernardino terror attack, San Bernardino County Government Center 37 people like this. Like On 5th anniversary, memorial plans unveiled for San Bernardino terrorist attack victimsDecember 2, 2020 at 7:15 PM On the fifth anniversary of the Dec. 2, 2015, terrorist attack in San Bernardino, county leaders unveiled plans for a memorial to commemorate the tragedy but also celebrate how first responders risked their lives to stop the terrorists and how the community came together afterward.
Family members of the victims were able to lay white roses at the sight of the “Curtain of Courage” Memorial for the victims of the San Bernardino terrorist attack, during a private ceremony at County Government C...Tags: News, Sport, Soccer, Oakland, Hood, San Bernardino, Cal State San Bernardino, Board of Supervisors, San Bernardino County, GONZALES, David Wert, Josie Gonzales, County Government Center, Walter Hood, Top Stories PE, Top Stories IVDB 126 people like this. Like CSU extends fall 2021 application deadline due to COVIDDecember 1, 2020 at 2:35 PM LONG BEACH — The Long Beach-based California State University system announced Tuesday that it is extending its fall 2021 application deadline to Dec. 15 to accommodate students coping with the coronavirus pandemic.
The application deadline was originally this Friday.
Applications for any of the CSU campuses can be submitted online at www2.calstate.edu/apply.
Prospective students were also encouraged to explore CSU financial aid options after applying, with officials noting that 80% of all CSU s...Tags: News, California News, Sport, Soccer, Higher Education, Long Beach, Local News, University Of California, Cal State Fullerton, Usc, CSU, Cal State San Bernardino, California State University, Cal State Long Beach, Cal State Northridge, CSUF 48 people like this. Like Hate crimes in 2019 reached highest level in a decade, FBI report showsNovember 16, 2020 at 8:15 PM Hate crimes in the United States surged to the highest level in more than a decade in 2019, a year that also recorded the highest number of hate-motivated killings, according to the FBI’s annual report on hate crimes released Monday, Nov. 16.
In 2019, there were 51 hate-motivated homicides, including the 23 people who were killed in a shooting at a Wal-Mart store in El Paso where a 21-year-old gunman targeted Latinos. According to the FBI report, there were 7,314 hate crimes in 2019, up from 7,1...Tags: Crime, News, California, Los Angeles, Sport, Fbi, Soccer, United States, Orange County, Lapd, Public Safety, Pittsburgh, Southern California, El Paso, San Bernardino, Los Angeles County 111 people like this. Like Social justice on ballot scores some victories, suffers some defeatsNovember 4, 2020 at 8:56 PM Why should suspects with money be able to leave jail while the gears of justice grind, while those without money are stuck behind bars?
Should skin color, sex and ethnicity be factors in public college admissions, and who gets public jobs and contracts?
Why should criminals who’ve been given probation instead of jail time be allowed to vote, while parolees – who did prison time and are finishing their sentences on the outside – are forbidden from voting?
California voters wrestled with ballots c...Tags: News, 2020 Elections, California Ballot Measures, Elections, Government, Local-government, Top Stories Breeze, Top Stories IVDB, Top Stories LADN, Top Stories LBPT, Top Stories OCR, Top Stories PE, Top Stories PSN, Top Stories RDF, Top Stories SGVT, Top Stories Sun 14 people like this. Like Organization of former extremists gets $750,000 from DHS to counter threats from the far rightOctober 3, 2020 at 9:15 AM Life After Hate, a national nonprofit that works to help individuals leave violent extremist groups on the far right, has received a $750,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Security as part of a $10 million federal program that aims to curb targeted violence and domestic terrorism.
The group, which consists of former far-right extremists who are now fighting to counter such hateful ideologies, was previously expected to receive a $400,000 grant through the Obama administration’s Counterin...Tags: Politics, London, News, Obama, Washington, America, Los Angeles, Sport, Dhs, Fbi, Fox, Soccer, Gop, United States, Cleveland, Donald Trump 10 people like this. Like Castro named California State University chancellor, first person of color to hold postSeptember 23, 2020 at 2:23 PM LONG BEACH >> The first-ever California native and Mexican-American to lead the system, Joseph I. Castro will serve as the eighth chancellor for California State universities starting Jan. 4.
Castro, 53, was appointed by the CSU Board of Trustees on Wednesday, Sept. 23. He succeeds Timothy P. White, who is retiring after holding the position since 2012.
Dr. Timothy White, retiring California State University chancellor. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
Castro, the first person of color to hold the top CSU...Tags: News, Education, California, Washington, Mexico, La, Fresno, Sacramento, Sport, Soccer, Higher Education, University Of California Berkeley, University Of California, Cal State Fullerton, Castro, Stanford University 110 people like this. Like CSU universities expected to choose a new chancellor next weekSeptember 18, 2020 at 7:00 PM LONG BEACH >> The California State University community will learn next week who will be taking over as the system’s new chancellor.
Current Chancellor Timothy White announced last October that he would be retiring, effective in July 2020. He put those plans on hold in March as the coronavirus pandemic took hold, forcing the 23-campus system into a virtual learning environment that will continue through the spring.
The search process for his replacement was also put on temporary hold, but CSU Bo...Tags: Health, News, Education, Government, Sport, Soccer, Higher Education, Lausd, Cal State Fullerton, White, San Bernardino, CSU, Cal State San Bernardino, Alhambra, LA County, California State University 14 people like this. Like As Nov. 3 election draws near, fears mount of escalating street violenceSeptember 7, 2020 at 9:15 AM As a bitterly divided nation barrels toward the Nov. 3 presidential election, experts who study domestic terrorism and extremism are alarmed by the escalating civil unrest across the country, with one warning that “once violence becomes more normalized, it doesn’t go back in the shell.”
A summer of street protests since the Memorial Day killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis is turning more deadly, marked by the Aug. 25 fatal shooting of two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, by an armed youth wh...Tags: Facebook, Politics, News, Protest, Minneapolis, California, Washington, La, US, America, Sport, Fbi, Soccer, Portland, Beverly Hills, Wisconsin 94 people like this. Like Preventing cyberattacks an increasing challenge for academic institutionsAugust 30, 2020 at 11:30 AM Preventing attacks from hackers and cybercriminals is an increasing concern for academic institutions already facing enormous challenges during this time of distance learning.
The Rialto Unified School District and College of the Desert have seen their systems hit by malware attacks this month. Rialto Unified had to suspend its distance learning program and collect any devices that were infected. The district hopes have classes back online for pre-kindergarten through eighth grade as early as Mo...Tags: News, Education, Sport, Soccer, Higher Education, California Supreme Court, Cal State San Bernardino, Woodland Hills, LA County, UC Riverside, Kincaid, Coulson, Phipps, University of Redlands, Michael Morrison, San Bernardino City 48 people like this. Like How stable housing offers a key ingredient to these students’ successAugust 14, 2020 at 9:31 AM It was all smiles when Cynthia Carlin accepted the scholarship with her three young sons looking on. A group of Hope Through Housing volunteers arrived at her front door with balloons, a giant Building Bright Scholars photo frame and her scholarship award package.
Cynthia has been a resident of the Villagio affordable housing community in Rancho Cucamonga for the past several years. As a single mom, raising three boys is challenging enough. But Cynthia is dedicated to providing a better future f...Tags: Business, Housing, Sport, Soccer, Nonprofits, Miguel, Affordable Housing, Cal State San Bernardino, UC San Diego, Isaac, Abraham Maslow, Cathedral City, Cynthia, Indio, Villagio, RANCHO CUCAMONGA 49 people like this. Like Alexander: A reprehensible act that could be a positive turning pointJune 22, 2020 at 9:01 PM The pushback toward Bubba Wallace was predictable, I suppose. The nature of the pushback – the noose surreptitiously placed in the garage of NASCAR’s only Black driver Sunday at Talladega, as cowardly as it was vicious and reprehensible – sort of tells you everything you need to know about those who feel compelled to display or support the Confederate battle flag, which NASCAR decided to ban largely because of Wallace’s efforts.
And the scene before Monday’s rescheduled NASCAR race in Alabama wa...Tags: Sports, Alabama, NFL, Sport, Fbi, Fox, Soccer, Nba, Mls, Associated Press, Espn, Lebron James, Birmingham, Roger Goodell, Luke Johnson, Nascar 44 people like this. Like ‘Zoom University’ students stuck with unwanted leasesJune 19, 2020 at 1:56 PM Liana Chavez was halfway through her freshman year at Cal State Fullerton when she and three sorority sisters signed a lease for next year at the University House Fullerton student housing complex, one block south of campus.
Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, shutting down almost all in-person classes at the state’s fourth-largest four-year university.
Although all but one of her classes — a lab — will be online during the fall, the Northern California resident can’t get out of that lease unless...Tags: Business, Real Estate, Education, College, Housing, Sport, University, Soccer, Higher Education, Universities, Rent, Colleges, University Of California, Cal State Fullerton, Usc, Ucla 65 people like this. Like How your Zoom meeting can avoid ‘Zoom-bombs’ of porn and profanityApril 15, 2020 at 11:39 AM As Californians have stayed home to avoid spreading the coronavirus, many have stayed connected to their campuses, workplaces or government meetings through videoconferencing.
But trouble has followed.
Loopholes in the most popular videoconferencing software, Zoom, have allowed trolls to insert pornographic videos into city council meetings, profanity and racism into high school classes and more.
A screen grab from a video shows a March 31, 2020, Laguna Beach City Council meeting. Security fla...Tags: Spacex, Technology, News, Education, California, La, Government, Singapore, Sport, Canada, Soccer, Higher Education, Lausd, Skype, Los Angeles City Council, Zoom 107 people like this. Like Evacuated Peace Corps volunteers adapting to sudden homecoming, forced by coronavirusApril 11, 2020 at 9:00 AM Together, three Southern California women made a heart-wrenching journey back from Botswana last month, part of the unprecedented evacuation of 7,300 Peace Corps volunteers from 61 countries.
Just days after the Peace Corps’ March 15 order, calling back all of its volunteers to the United States because of the COVID-19 outbreak and related travel constraints, Janet Curiel, Mary Helen Gomez and Lindsay Salem found themselves on a flight out of Botswana’s capital of Gaborone, in Southern Africa.
...Tags: Florida, England, News, California, La, Los Angeles, Sport, Chicago, Soccer, United States, Fema, Salem, Napa, Local News, Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles Dodgers 106 people like this. Like Alexander: When sports return, how different will they be?April 2, 2020 at 8:49 PM Did you believe those suggestions early on that it would only be a few weeks before society, and sports, would be back to normal?
Neither did I. And as the coronavirus pandemic continues, and postponements and cancellations topple the guideposts on the sports calendar one by one, it’s obvious that normal isn’t going to come back for months, or maybe years, or maybe ever.
So when we finally come out on the other side of this, what will spectator sports in this society look like? Radically changed...Tags: Milwaukee, Sports, NFL, Toronto, Sport, Soccer, Nba, Ncaa, Usc, Phoenix, Alexander, Carter, Cal State San Bernardino, Dodgers, Sun Belt, David Carter 40 people like this. Like University of Redlands student tested for coronavirus; most classes to go onlineMarch 12, 2020 at 2:52 PM The same day a University of Redlands student was tested for the novel coronavirus, the college announced most classes would transition to “online” by March 23.
The Redlands campus student was evaluated at the Student Health Center on Wednesday, March 11, and transported to a hospital for evaluation for COVID-19, the university said in a memo to the community.
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Coronavirus concerns lead Cal ...Tags: News, Sport, Public Health, Soccer, Coachella, Stagecoach, Cal State San Bernardino, UC Riverside, Redlands, University of Redlands, Student Health Center, San Bernardino County Department of Public Health, Top Stories RDF, Top Stories Sun, Coronavirus 46 people like this. Like Southern California heavily targeted in 120% increase in white supremacist propaganda in U.S.February 14, 2020 at 7:36 PM White supremacist propaganda heavily targeted the Inland Empire and Southern California as a whole in 2019, according to an annual report released by the Anti-Defamation League.
In communities across the nation, the distribution of white supremacist propaganda — in the form of flyers, leaflets, stickers and banners — reached an all-time high in the United States in 2019, the ADL reported Wednesday, Feb. 12. Last year, 2,713 incidents of propaganda were reported across the country compared to 1,2...Tags: News, Education, California, Los Angeles, Sport, Snapchat, Soccer, United States, San Diego, Long Beach, Orange County, Race Relations, Charlottesville, Young, Southern California, San Bernardino 108 people like this. Like Next stop for ‘college promise’ efforts: Free Cal State University?January 15, 2020 at 3:29 PM By Felicia Mello, CalMatters
In yet another push to make higher education more accessible in California, a bill filed in the state Legislature last week would extend the state’s tuition-free college guarantee to four years — and beyond community college — for some students, making it one of the most generous programs in the nation.
Students who earn an associate’s degree for transfer through the California College Promise program could finish their bachelor’s degrees for free at California State...Tags: Business, New York, News, Education, California, Sacramento, Sport, Soccer, Higher Education, Santiago, Long Beach, Sacramento State, Lausd, Gavin Newsom, Legislature, CSU 32 people like this. Like On a brrrrr-acing but not unbearable morning, Rose Parade fans bundle up on Colorado BoulevardJanuary 1, 2020 at 9:06 AM Lauren, Melody and Michelle Bender from Yucaipa bundle up to keep warm on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena awaiting the Rose Parade on Wednesday, Jan. 1. Photo: Tom Bray, SCNG
Rose Parade-goers wrapped in multiple layers of outwear huddled together on Colorado Boulevard on Wednesday morning, Jan. 1, encountering a chilly but not unbearable morning in Pasadena.
A propane heat lamp keeps the Bender family warm on Colorado Boulevard early Wednesday, Jan. 1 in Pasadena. Photo: Tom Brag, SCNG
Th...Tags: National Weather Service, News, Colorado, Sport, Soccer, Santiago, San Diego, Long Beach, El Salvador, Pasadena, Southern California, Tom, Santa Clarita, Los Angeles County, Pasadena CA, Wilmington 142 people like this. Like On a brrrrr-acing but not unbearable morning, Rose Parade fans bundle up Colorado BoulevardJanuary 1, 2020 at 9:06 AM Lauren, Melody and Michelle Bender from Yucaipa bundle up to keep warm on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena awaiting the Rose Parade on Wednesday, Jan. 1. Photo: Tom Bray, SCNG
Rose Parade-goers wrapped in multiple layers of outwear huddled together on Colorado Boulevard on Wednesday morning, Jan. 1, encountering a chilly but not unbearable morning in Pasadena.
A propane heat lamp keeps the Bender family warm on Colorado Boulevard early Wednesday, Jan. 1 in Pasadena. Photo: Tom Brag, SCNG
Th...Tags: National Weather Service, News, Colorado, Sport, Soccer, Santiago, San Diego, Long Beach, El Salvador, Pasadena, Southern California, Tom, Los Angeles County, Pasadena CA, Wilmington, Cal State San Bernardino 56 people like this. Like |