A man serving a life sentence for two murders died Monday after he was attacked by another inmate at a state prison in Salinas, according to state officials. Michael Spengler, 38, was attacked Monday around 10:30 a.m. at Salinas Valley State Prison by Miguel Espino, 31, who allegedly used an “inmate-manufactured weapon,” according to the California Department of Corrections and …
Tod Lipka, CEO of nonprofit Step Up on Second Street, shown in 2009 at an apartment building in Santa Monica. Lipka says he’d believed the payments came from Shangri-La’s “existing funds,” not funds intended for construction, and would not have approved the transaction if Step Up knew they were Homekey funds. Prior to their Homekey collaboration, Step Up and Shangri-La …
GREEN RIVER, Utah — A plan to extract lithium — the lustrous, white metal used in electric vehicle batteries — in southeast Utah is adding to an anxiety familiar in the arid American West: how the project could affect water from the Colorado River. Gayna Salinas stands near a trailer, left, on land owned by Anson Resources, and a defunct …
Throughout January, a right-wing militant group based out of North Carolina called upon supporters to travel to a small Texas border town to “gather” and help “do the work of closing our borders.” “By Ballot, by choice,” the group’s website promised. Greg Abbott has been feuding with the Biden administration, pitting federal Border Patrol against Abbott’s Texas National Guard and …
LOADING ERROR LOADING With days to go before the midterm elections, a funny thing is happening with GOP congressional candidates in Oregon: They’re pretending they’re moderate, reasonable people after months of fueling election conspiracies in plain sight. Among the tweets Skarlatos has liked in recent months: an August tweet that states “The FBI rigged the 2020 election,” a July tweet …