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Max Morath, Colorado native and renown ragtime pianist, dies at 96

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:37 GMT

Max Morath, a Colorado Springs native who as a pianist and musical director championed ragtime music, and who around 1960 wrote, performed and co-produced 28 programs for public television in Denver entitled “The Ragtime Era,” died June 19 in Duluth, Minn. He was 96.Morath’s career in music and entertainment spanned eight decades, including his watershed program — The Ragtime Era — created at the Denver Educational Television Station KRMA as part of the 60-station National Educational Television network, the predecessor of PBS, according to the New York Times.With the program, now considered a genre classic, “Max pioneered a new concept for American educational TV illustrating that information can also entertain,” according to The Syncopated Times. “That was the essence of his work, that and informing the public about an important era of America’s popular culture.”Morath was widely know as “Mr. Ragtime.”Born October 1...

Seafood restaurateur pivots to Italian for new DTC restaurant

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:37 GMT

Cherry Creek seafood restaurateur Sean Huggard is boiling up something new.The owner of Blue Island Oyster Bar & Seafood is opening a new concept, Oliver’s Italian, at 4950 S. Yosemite St. in the Belleview Square shopping center.“American Italian food was some of the first stuff I ever learned how to cook as a line cook in high school,” Huggard said. “I’ve always been super fond of it.”Customers can expect a simple “approachable” Italian menu, with a mix of items such as Americanized chicken parmesan, pinsa (a Roman-style pizza) and a raw bar.“We’re not sticking ourselves to one type of thing. It’s the idea of Italy as a whole, and also bringing that Americanized Italian food,” Huggard said.Huggard opened the first Blue Island in Cherry Creek in 2015 and expanded the brand to Lone Tree early last year. Like Blue Island, which sources from its own oyster farm on Long Island, Huggard said Oliver’s will be working with small farmers and importing ingredients from Italy.He said the ...

Watch live: Wildfire erupts in Riverside County

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:37 GMT

Authorities are battling a brush fire that has erupted near homes and roads west of Perris in Riverside County. Structures appear to be threatened. Sky5 is overhead.Sky5 view of a brush fire west of Perris in Riverside County, Calif. June 27, 2023. (KTLA)This is a developing story. Stay with KTLA for updates.

CHP officer taken to hospital following crash on 15 Freeway in Lake Elsinore

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:37 GMT

A California Highway Patrol officer was taken to the hospital Tuesday afternoon after a crash on the 15 Freeway in Lake Elsinore.The crash happened around 1:55 p.m. on the southbound side of the freeway, just south of Nichols Road.The officer, who was riding a CHP motorcycle, crashed at some point and suffered undisclosed injuries, officials said.The officer's condition is unclear, but authorities confirmed the injured officer was taken to a nearby hospital.The cause of the crash remains under investigation.Check back for details on this developing story.

Couple found dead inside San Juan Capistrano home

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:37 GMT

An investigation is underway after the bodies of a man and woman were found inside a home in San Juan Capistrano Tuesday morning.The bodies were found around 8 a.m. by civil deputies who were serving an eviction notice at the home, which is located on the 30000 block of Paseo Santiago. According to the Orange County Sheriff's Department, which is contracted to provide law enforcement services in the city, homicide detectives are investigating the deaths.Additional details about the two people found, including their ages and relationship with one another, were not immediately available.The cause of death was not released, but Sgt. Mike Woodroof with the Sheriff's Department said the county coroner's office is investigating.Check back for details on this developing story.

Roseanne Barr slammed for Holocaust comments on podcast; host says it was 'sarcasm'

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:37 GMT

Roseanne Barr is under fire for comments she made while speaking to comedian Theo Von. The disgraced actress and comedian appeared on Von's podcast "This Past Weekend" about a week ago.In an over two-minute clip posted to Twitter, Barr and Von are seen talking about former President Donald Trump and his claims of election fraud. "That's all a lie, the election was not rigged," Barr explained.When Von asked if the election was rigged, Barr exclaimed "Of course not! Thirty-six counties have 81 million people in them. That's the truth and don't you dare say anything against it or you'll be off YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and all the other ones. Because there's such a thing as the truth and facts and we have to stick to it."Then, the "She-Devil" actress seemingly compared claims of election fraud to those that deny the Holocaust happened. “Nobody died in the Holocaust, either. That's the truth. It should happen. Six million Jews should die right now because they cause all the problems in...

Mason Young Pronounced Dead Following Motorcycle Collision on Whitewood Road [Menifee, CA]

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:37 GMT

23-Year-Old Pronounced Dead after Motorcycle Collision near Hellebore StreetMENIFEE, CA (June 27, 2023) – Thursday evening, Mason Young was fatally struck in a motorcycle accident on Whitewood Road.Police responded to the scene around 6:30 p.m., near Hellebore Street on May 18th.Per reports, the 17-year-old female driver of a sedan struck a motorcyclist as they attempted to turn left onto northbound Whitewood Road. The southbound rider then failed to avoid the sedan and struck the side of the vehicle.Due to the extent of injuries sustained, medics pronounced 23-year-old Young dead at the scene.At this time, failure to yield right-of-way is the main factor of the collision. Impairment and speed were ruled out.Further investigation is still ongoing and anyone with information is to contact Murrieta Police Traffic Investigator Anthony Datil at 951-461-6397 or [email protected], you can contact Traffic Bureau Sergeant Steve Whiddon at 951-461-6323 or [email protected]...

A compromise on access to police misconduct records and other state budget takeaways

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:37 GMT

A budget compromise reached Tuesday gives the state agency newly empowered to decertify police officers for misconduct more time before it must disclose all records related to those proceedings, including those produced by local law enforcement agencies.The deal between state lawmakers and the governor’s office ended a budget dispute over access to police records that civil rights, social justice and free press groups argued was a key transparency provision of a landmark 2021 law allowing the state to decertify rogue officers for misconduct.It was among several consequential deals — including one that streamlines the state’s environmental quality law — hashed out in recent days as the Democrat-controlled legislature and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office worked out differences in their budget plans through a series of implementation “trailer bills” for the 2023-2024 budget that becomes effective in July.“This budget increases our fi...

John Goodenough dies at 100; Nobel-winning scientist’s work led to creation of lithium-ion battery

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:37 GMT

By Elizabeth Wolfe | CNNJohn B. Goodenough, the Nobel Prize-winning engineer whose contributions to developing lithium-ion batteries revolutionized portable technology, has died. He was 100.He died Sunday, according to a release from the University of Texas at Austin, where Goodenough served as a faculty member for 37 years. His cause of death was not provided.“John’s legacy as a brilliant scientist is immeasurable — his discoveries improved the lives of billions of people around the world,” UT Austin President Jay Hartzell said in a statement Monday.Goodenough is credited with the crucial discovery and development in the 1980s of materials that would allow for a more stable and powerful rechargeable battery.He became the oldest Nobel Prize winner at 97 when he was awarded the 2019 prize in chemistry for the development of lithium-ion batteries, alongside M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino.Together, the trio’s individual breakthroughs in battery technology “created a rechargea...

Images released of suspect, vehicle in fatal Oakland hit-and-run crash

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:37 GMT

OAKLAND — Police on Tuesday released images of the driver and vehicle involved in a fatal hit-and run collision June 16 in East Oakland that left a 58-year-old woman dead.Police identified the woman Tuesday as Santu Maya, of Oakland.The fatal collision happened about 7:05 p.m. June 16 at the intersection of Foothill Boulevard and Vicksburg Avenue.Maya, who lived in the area, was crossing the street in a marked crosswalk when she was hit by a black Mercedes that was going westbound on Foothill and failed to stop for a red light, police said. Police said they believe the Mercedes was involved in a street race and the driver was speeding when the car hit her. She died later at a hospital.The driver fled in the vehicle.Oakland police released this image of a man they suspect in a fatal hit-and-run crash that killed a woman in East Oakland on June 16, 2023. He was driving the black Mercedes seen here. (Courtesy of the Oakland Police Department) Traffic investigators canvassed ...