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Xcel Energy’s winter forecast: Heating bills up in October, but 35% lower than last year

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:33:16 GMT

Xcel Energy’s winter forecast is for higher heating bills starting in October, but about 35% lower than last winter, when high natural gas prices and cold weather led to the doubling and tripling of some Coloradans’ monthly charges.Xcel customers will see an increase in gas bills heading into October due to rising fuel prices, the company said in a statement. The average residential monthly bill will be about 15% higher October through December.The average small business will pay roughly 16.7% more per month starting in October.If the temperatures are normal October through December, Xcel said the average residential natural gas bill is expected to be $85.82 per month, compared with $130.90 for the last three months of 2022.The average small business customer’s monthly gas bill for October through December is expected to be about $356.50, compared with $564.57 for the same period in 2022, a decline of 37%.Xcel Energy said it has submitted its proposed quarterly fuel pric...

Broncos Mailbag: From too much time for Tua to Taylor Swift, airing out the grievances after a disastrous football weekend in Colorado

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:33:16 GMT

Denver Post Broncos writer Parker Gabriel posts his Broncos Mailbag periodically during the offseason. Click here to submit a question.I guess we no longer have to worry about winning those one-score games.— Peter Campbell, HotchkissBam. That’s an appropriate way to get this week going, Peter. Indeed, the Broncos came up a mere six touchdowns short of getting back within a score against Miami. The thing about that game that keeps coming to my mind is just how many different ways the preposterous nature of the score and what Miami did can be sliced. And no matter how it gets sliced, it’s still incredible. At some point we’ll mostly stop talking about it, but it will never fully go away. It’s one of those games that’s on the resume of everybody involved for both Denver and Miami. The latest rendition of boggle-the-brain stats that comes to mind is that the Dolphins scored 10 touchdowns in 51 minutes, 59 seconds of gametime.That’s one touchdown every 5:12 on the clock. The Dolphi...

Traffic left at standstill after pursuit crash on 605 freeway

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:33:16 GMT

A pursuit suspect in a possibly stolen vehicle who was wanted for assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer crashed on the 605 Freeway in Irwindale Monday night and was taken into custody.  Officers with the Bell Gardens Police Department initiated the chase, which was traveling in the northbound lanes of the 605 Freeway when the suspect somehow lost control of the vehicle and the crash occurred, just north of the 210 Freeway.  Officers with the California Highway Patrol arrived on the scene to assist Bell Gardens PD.  Initially, the suspect refused to surrender to authorities. He then jumped out of the vehicle and attempted to flee police on foot before being taken into custody.  Traffic backed up on the northbound 605 Freeway in Irwindale after a pursuit suspect crashed on Sept. 25, 2023. (KTLA)A pursuit suspect crashed on the 605 Freeway in Irwindale on Sept. 25, 2023. (KTLA)CHP and first responders of the scene of a pursuit that ended in a crash on the 605...

Condominium sells for $1.7 million in Palo Alto

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:33:16 GMT

555 Byron Street – Google Street ViewThe property located in the 500 block of Byron Street in Palo Alto was sold on Sept. 6, 2023. The $1,650,000 purchase price works out to $904 per square foot. The condominium, built in 1997, has an interior space of 1,825 square feet. The layout of this condominium includes three bedrooms and three baths. In addition, the home features a four-car carport. The property’s backyard additionally features both a spa and a pool.Additional units that have recently been sold close by include:On Fulton Street, Palo Alto, in June 2023, a 1,096-square-foot unit was sold for $1,225,000, a price per square foot of $1,118. The unit has 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.A 1,313-square-foot unit on the 700 block of University Avenue in Palo Alto sold in September 2022, for $1,350,000, a price per square foot of $1,028. The unit has 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.In July 2022, a 1,392-square-foot unit on Forest Avenue in Palo Alto sold for $1,750,000, a price per square foo...

California sheriff’s deputy under investigation after he’s filmed throwing teen girl to the ground

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:33:16 GMT

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the actions of a deputy who was videotaped picking up a 16-year-old, 120-pound girl and throwing her down after the department said she reached for another deputy’s pepper ball launcher during a melee outside a high school football stadium in Victorville on Friday, Sept. 22.Faith Jeffers, 16, is shown in an ambulance on Sept. 23, 2023, while being transferred between hospitals a day after she was injured when a San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy picked her up and threw her down during an altercation at Victor Valley High in Victorville. The Sheriff’s Department said the deputy used force because Jeffers was reaching for another deputy’s pepper ball launcher. (Courtesy of Priscilla Jeffers)Priscilla Jeffers, center, walks down Palmdale Road during a protest in Victorville, Calif., on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. The protest was in response to a viral video showing what appears to be a Southern Californi...

California School for the Deaf coach, son to appear on new season of ‘The Amazing Race’

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:33:16 GMT

A California School for the Deaf, Riverside, coach and his son will be stars in the new season of the reality TV show, “The Amazing Race.”Rob McArthur, who is deaf and a teacher’s aide and assistant football coach at the school, is featured with his 25-year-old son, Corey McArthur, a hearing child of deaf adults, a deaf school news release states.Increasing the excitement on campus is the fact that they are the husband and son of California School for the Deaf, Riverside, Superintendent April McArthur.The show’s new season will begin Wednesday, Sept. 27, on CBS and Paramount Plus at 9:30 p.m.The school is inviting the public to The Amazing Race Kickoff Premiere Watch Party on Wednesday, Sept. 27, at 6:30 p.m. in the campus’ Multi-Purpose Activity Center.Related ArticlesTV Streaming | David McCallum, star of ‘U.N.C.L.E.’ and ‘NCIS,’ dead at 90 TV Streaming | Oscar-winning short becomes an animated series on Max TV Streaming | ...

Two injured after plane crashes onto California soccer field

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:33:16 GMT

A flight instructor and student sustained serious injuries after a single-engine plane suffered a possible engine failure and crashed onto a San Pedro soccer field during an apparent emergency landing attempt on Monday, Sept. 25, authorities said.The Sling 4 TSI plane crashed on the Field of Dreams, a Los Angeles city park site on the 400 block of West Westmont Drive, west of the 110 Freeway, just before 1 p.m., said Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson Margaret Stewart.The aircraft had taken off from Torrance and while making its return, the engine failed, according to air traffic control radio messages from the pilot obtained by CBS Los Angeles. A second Sling plane flying in the area reported the crash to air traffic control.The pilot was still inside the plane when firefighters arrived and had to be extricated, while the sole passenger was able to pull themself from the wreckage.Both were taken to a hospital in critical condition, Stewart said.Los Angeles Fire Department Bat...

Walters: California Legislature punts insurance crisis to Newsom and Lara

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:33:16 GMT

Before the California Legislature adjourned this month, it managed to fulfill most of wishes of majority Democrats’ favorite interest groups, most notably labor unions.However, legislators left town without doing anything concrete about something that threatens the psychic and economic wellbeing of millions of homeowners and those who aspire to ownership: the rapidly shrinking availability of residential fire insurance.One by one, insurers have been reducing or eliminating their exposure in California, having paid out billions of dollars to cover losses from years of major wildfires and, they say, facing a fire threat that is likely to increase with climate change.With Gov. Gavin Newsom and Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara involved in the background, there were weeks of private negotiations among legislators, insurance lobbyists and other stakeholders on how to bolster the state’s insurance market.However, the negotiations ended a week before the Legislature adjourned without agr...

Three LGBTQ proposals could put Southern California city council on ‘wrong side of history,’ critic says

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:33:16 GMT

In recent months, Temecula’s school board has been the venue for fights about the LGBTQ community.But Tuesday, Sept. 26, that showdown shifts to City Hall, where the Temecula City Council will consider three items dealing with LGBTQ history and expression.Councilmember Jessica Alexander is the driving force behind the items, one of which could strike a reference to the 1969 Stonewall uprising from a Pride Month proclamation and take out the plus from the proclamation’s LGBTQ+ mentions.Another proposal could lead to a council resolution affirming parental rights, a term used by conservatives to describe school district policies requiring parents to be told if their child identifies as transgender. The Temecula Valley Unified School District board approved such a policy in August.The third item would lay the groundwork for restrictions on what flags can be flown on city property. While LGBTQ pride flags aren’t specifically mentioned, a similar policy enacted by the Temecula Valley sch...

Opinion: Work-family balance should be a top-tier policy area

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:33:16 GMT

The work-family balance topic is one of the dominant issues in American society, but you would not know this based upon the amount of attention it gets compared with immigration, guns, abortion, national defense, Social Security and Medicare, transportation, climate change and taxes.This is yet another sign of our dysfunctional democracy. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have elevated work-family balance to the pedestal where it belongs, although the Democrats have certainly done more to get it there.The topic is actually a set of interrelated issues, notably paid parental leave, child-care, women’s rights and economic opportunities, preschool policies, LGBTQ benefit rights, a tax credit for a stay-at-home parent, and intergenerational relations between grandparents, their grandchildren and their grandchildren’s parents.Indeed, the work-family balance topic concerns nothing less than 18 years of the life of parents, their children and their children’s gran...