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Colorado’s mental health facilities need nurses. Will a $14,000 signing bonus work?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:42 GMT

As Colorado continues to grapple with its state behavioral health crisis — too many in need, without enough to give it — state officials are hoping $14,000 will help strengthen the ranks of needed nurses.The Colorado Department of Human Services is offering that as a hiring bonus to people willing to work in mental health facilities in Pueblo and the Fort Logan facility in Denver. They’re trying to fill some 200 positions that officials said opened as workers pursued pandemic-era pay increases elsewhere and exited due to burnout.“Because of the nursing shortage, we’ve had 100 beds available, but they’re not open,” Leora Joseph, director of the Office of Behavioral Health within the Colorado Department of Human Services. “This isn’t a bed crisis, it’s a staffing crisis.”In 2022, for example, Joseph said they would lose multiple nurses every month. They were able to hire just four replacements. To compensate, they relie...

Jeep smashes into parked trucks, creating vehicle fire before rolling over twice in Woodland Hills

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:42 GMT

At least two cars were burned after a Jeep slammed into parked cars in Woodland Hills late Friday night.In the 22800 block of West Mariano Street at about 10:45 p.m., a dark-colored Jeep — possibly a four-door Wrangler — swerved toward a pair of parked pickup trucks, striking one of them before rolling over twice, according to witness Peter Sarkhoshian.Sarkhoshian, who said he was driving behind the woman who was operating the Jeep, said she was able to get out of her vehicle unassisted, but the truck she hit was badly damaged.A parked truck was hit by another vehicle and caught fire in Woodland Hills on May 29, 2023. (OC Hawk)A parked truck was hit by another vehicle and caught fire in Woodland Hills on May 29, 2023. (OC Hawk)A Jeep was badly damaged after striking a parked truck in a fiery Woodland Hills crash on May 29, 2023. (OC Hawk)A parked truck was hit by another vehicle and caught fire in Woodland Hills on May 29, 2023. (OC Hawk)The gas tank was struck, igniting it and even...

Mission Viejo nurse seriously injured while vacationing in Costa Rica

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:42 GMT

A nurse from Mission Viejo was seriously injured by a falling tree branch while vacationing in Costa Rica over Memorial Day weekend.Deanne Niedziela was on a waterfall hike with her husband when the tree limb fell on her. She suffered a major spine injury that could leave her paralyzed, according to a GoFundMe page set up to help with the costs of getting Niedziela home. The transport is estimated to cost up to $100,000, according to the post. Friends say Niedziela was in surgery for several hours Monday. Niedziela oversees the Spine & Neuroscience Institute and Acute Care Service for Mission Hospital.

Mayor Bass Signs $13B Los Angeles City Budget

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:42 GMT

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass signed a $13 billion city budget Friday, with an emphasis on homelessness initiatives and police funding.Before signing the 2023-2024 budget, Bass highlighted the $1.3 billion that is planned for homelessness, calling the allocations an “investment,” as opposed to “spending.”“This budget makes investments to bring people inside, in public safety and in other areas that will net a return in terms of lives saved, in terms of the quality of life… and it will save the city money in the long run,” Bass said in a press conference before officially signing the budget. “This budget charts a new course for a new Los Angeles.”The “Inside Safe” program will be the beneficiary of $250 million, which would purchase hotels and motels for temporary housing, transitions to permanent housing, provide rental assistance and other support services.More than $3 billion of the budget will be allocated to police...

Getting Nasty with grouptherapy

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:42 GMT

Getting Nasty with grouptherapy: L.A.-based genre-defying project grouptherapy released new single and video “Nasty” on May 30, and it’s a banger.“Lined with a unique ferocity, the track is an irresistible nostalgic treat,” reads a press release. “Yes they’re cool but man they’re insanely versatile – it’s just DAMN GOOD.  They’re showing all the way out after coming out from a period of real darkness with this new body of work. They’re having fun in their resilience! They’re real life best friends who are so deeply different but yet so intensely connected and create insanely insatiable music rooted in deep vulnerability. Sonically it’s an explosion of EVERYTHING and embodiment of true judgment free zone.”The tune does see the outfit seamlessly bounce between hip-hop, pop, funk and EDM. The result is a joyful, ‘rude-heavy ditty.Meanwhile, the video has them moving between a tiled white room and some sort of parking str...

Can ‘social housing’ help solve California’s housing crisis?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:42 GMT

Over the past half-decade, California lawmakers have signed off on almost a hundred laws seeking to alleviate the state’s deepening housing crisis. Yet developers still aren’t building anywhere near enough affordably priced homes for everyone who needs them.Now, a state assemblymember from San Jose is pushing a novel proposal he believes could finally jump-start affordable housing development by allowing the state government to get into the homebuilding business.Alex Lee, a 27-year-old Democrat, has written a bill that would create a state agency to develop “social housing” — publicly owned housing that would be affordable for people with a range of income levels.While skeptics may dismiss the idea as a progressive pipe dream doomed to repeat the failures of underfunded federal public housing programs, Lee points out that California agencies already hire developers to build housing at universities and other public property across the state.“Wouldn...

Genvid and Konami announce ‘Silent Hill’ interactive streaming series

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:42 GMT

“Silent Hill” is returning but not in the way fans would expect. The latest entry in the horror franchise is coming courtesy of a collaboration between Genvid Entertainment and Konami and will be an interactive streaming series.Related ArticlesEntertainment | Review: The IQUNIX L80 has bones of a good keyboard but needs some work Entertainment | Top 5 games from the Humble Games showcase Entertainment | ‘Diablo IV’ Server Slam happening this weekend among other gaming events Entertainment | Review: ‘Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’ charts new ground in sprawling sequel Entertainment | Niantic’s ‘Peridot’ brings believable augmented reality to gaming That means it’s not going to be a survivor horror video game with a psychological slant. It’s more of a story-driven show, in which the audience has a hand in determining the fate of each character. T...

One dead in shooting on Hwy-87 in San Jose

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:42 GMT

(BCN) -- San Jose police are on the scene of a shooting early Tuesday that injured two people and has closed at least one lane of northbound Highway 87 near Willow Street, according to a 4:52 a.m. tweet from police. Thousands of people drawn to sideshow in Alameda One man and one woman were injured in the shooting. Police confirmed to KRON4 that the man has been pronounced dead, and the shooting is being investigated as a homicide. No further information was immediately available. Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

PGA Tour goes to Memorial, LPGA Tour has new event at Liberty National

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:42 GMT

PGA TOURMEMORIAL TOURNAMENTSite: Dublin, Ohio.Course: Muirfield Village GC. Yardage: 7,533. Par: 72.Prize money: $20 million. Winner’s share: $3.6 million.Television: Thursday-Friday, 2-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 12:30-2:30 p.m. (Golf Channel), 2:30-6 p.m. (CBS).Defending champion: Billy Horschel.FedEx Cup leader: Jon Rahm.Last week: Emiliano Grillo won the Charles Schwab Challenge.Notes: The Memorial begins a stretch of three big tournaments in four weeks, with the U.S. Open in two weeks followed by the Travelers Championship, now an elevated event. … The field features seven of the top 10 players in the world. Max Homa (No. 6) is missing to attend his sister’s wedding. Cameron Smith (No. 9) is with LIV Golf and Will Zalatoris (No. 10) is out for the year after back surgery. … U.S. Open qualifying is the Monday after the Memorial, with most PGA Tour players staying in the Columbus area. … Jon Rahm tied for 10th last year, had a six-shot le...

Nuggets run to the NBA Finals stirs up memories of wonderful wackiness in the ABA

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:42 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Gone, but never forgotten, the ABA is enjoying a curtain call this season — all thanks to the Denver Nuggets.Nearly 50 years after the breakup of the old, renegade league, with its red-white-and-blue basketballs and the 3-point arc that has redefined the modern game, the Nuggets finally broke through to become the last of the four ABA teams — Spurs, Pacers, Nets and Nuggets — who survived the 1976 merger to make the NBA Finals. Denver hosts Miami in Game 1 on Thursday.One of the nicest compliments those old ABA Nuggets can pay to today’s group: These Nuggets remind them of them. “The new NBA is like the old ABA,” David Thompson, ‘The Skywalker,’ told The Associated Press in a phone interview from his home in Charlotte, North Carolina. “This Nuggets team, we’re pulling for them. I want them to finish the job that we didn’t quite get done.”Thompson’s career with the Nuggets straddled their ABA and NBA days. He is such a fan of the modern-day Nuggets that a si...