Today’s Headlines: CSU agreed to keep sex harassment findings against 2 professors under wraps

Young people wearing backpacks walk along a sidewalk.
Cal State San Marcos in 2019.
(Howard Lipin / San Diego Union-Tribune)

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TOP STORIES

Cal State agreed to maintain sexual harassment findings in opposition to two professors below wraps

Investigations carried out by Cal State San Marcos discovered that Roger Morrissette and David Bwambok engaged in egregious sexual harassment and misconduct, in violation of college coverage. The professors’ accounts of the occasions have been discovered to not be credible.

As a substitute of pursuing disciplinary motion, nevertheless, the college agreed to beneficiant settlements, which included voluntary resignations, paid administrative depart and, in a single case, expunging information of disciplinary motion from a personnel file, in line with college stories obtained by The Occasions that element the investigations and settlements. Each Morrissette and Bwambok have denied the harassment and misconduct claims.

A college spokeswoman stated the “most assured route to those people now not working for the campus was by way of settlements.” The revelations are the newest jolt to the Cal State system, the place a sequence of scandals have known as into query its dealing with of sexual harassment and different misconduct claims.

Jews, Muslims and different worshipers say the Roe vs. Wade reversal threatens spiritual freedom

Rabbi Barry Silver tells his congregation that conventional Jewish regulation says life begins at start: when the newborn attracts its first breath. In some excessive circumstances, an abortion shouldn't be solely permitted by Jewish regulation however required.

For many years, antiabortion Roman Catholic and evangelical Christian views have dominated the spiritual dialog round abortion. However folks of religion maintain a wide range of views on the difficulty, rooted in their very own traditions, teachings and legal guidelines.

Leaders of non secular organizations are speaking internally and with each other about what the excessive courtroom’s Dobbs determination means for spiritual freedom. At stake, they are saying, is not only the free train of non secular beliefs however the worry that a single theological perspective will dictate state and federal regulation.

L.A. County may keep away from a masks mandate this week

Latest declines in circumstances and coronavirus-positive hospitalizations may pull the county again from the brink of a brand new common public indoor masks mandate. That measure appeared seemingly as of the top of final week, a lot to the chagrin of some residents, enterprise teams and elected leaders who characterised it as an pointless and ineffectual overreach.

Though it’s too quickly to say whether or not this newest wave has peaked — particularly because the ultra-contagious BA.5 Omicron subvariant remains to be widespread — there are some hopeful indicators.

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Crews made beneficial properties within the large Oak fireplace because the presence of a uniformed militia sparked concern

Firefighters and first responders have flooded the Sierra foothills of Mariposa County battling the explosive Oak fireplace. As of Tuesday, the blaze had topped 18,000 acres and destroyed greater than 40 buildings as crews continued to do battle. However it was the group in camouflage fatigues and surplus battle automobiles that alarmed some evacuees and screens of extremist teams this week.

As fireplace crews made headway in opposition to a blaze that has roared by 18,000 acres, destroyed houses and compelled 1000's to flee, the presence of a self-described militia who handed out meals and provided assist to evacuees raised considerations amongst some. On-line, the group posts movies of itself coaching with rifles, shields and different gear for what it calls the “unrest but to return.”

Those that monitor extremist teams questioned whether or not the group’s actions have been altruistic. Self-described militia teams have usually inserted themselves into pure catastrophe zones, they stated. Typically the teams declare to offer assist and provides, whereas really selling right-wing extremist ideologies, antigovernment sentiment and conspiracy theories.

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PHOTO OF THE DAY

A robot moves between rows of strawberry plants in a dusty field
A Tortuga AgTech robotic collects strawberries in Santa Maria, Calif.
(Al Seib / For The Occasions)

Of bots and berries. The staff behind Tortuga — and specialists in California’s $2-billion strawberry trade — see agricultural robots as extra than simply labor-saving gadgets. They see them as the one manner an trade sitting on the intersecting fault traces of local weather change, water rights, labor struggles, land use and chemical regulation can adapt and survive.

CALIFORNIA

The household of a teen lady killed in a Burlington retailer has filed a lawsuit. Kin of 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta are suing Los Angeles police and the officer who fired the deadly shot. They allege that the LAPD didn't “adequately prepare and supervise” the officers who confronted an assault suspect in a North Hollywood division retailer. Valentina was struck whereas inside a dressing room.

The 210 Freeway reopened after a five-day closure, however one other is on the best way. Amid a $30-million challenge, motorists confronted logjams as crews repaired a portion of the freeway that hangs over the San Gabriel River as a bridge. A second closure will happen Aug. 17-23 alongside the identical stretch of the eastbound 210.

Pace bumps are coming to the sixth Road Viaduct. Due to road takeovers and stunt driving which have induced chaos on the bridge, pace bumps are being put in — and a middle median could also be added, in addition to fencing to maintain folks from climbing up the bridges’ arches.

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NATION-WORLD

Californians and different People are flooding Mexico Metropolis. Some locals need them to go house. American vacationers and distant staff are gentrifying a few of Mexico Metropolis’s most treasured neighborhoods. Backlash is rising.

The trial started in Alex Jones’ Sandy Hook damages lawsuit. The conspiracy theorist repeatedly “lied and attacked the dad and mom of murdered kids” when he informed his “Infowars” viewers that the elementary college capturing was a hoax, an lawyer for the dad and mom of one of many victims informed a Texas jury on the outset of a trial to find out how a lot Jones should pay for defaming them.

Russia will pull out of the Worldwide Area Station after 2024. The nation will concentrate on constructing its personal orbiting outpost, its new house chief stated, amid excessive tensions between Moscow and the West over the preventing in Ukraine. NASA and different worldwide companions hope to maintain the house station working till 2030.

Lots of of firefighters battled blazes in Germany and the Czech Republic. A big wildfire was spreading rapidly within the japanese German state of Brandenburg, in a area with bone-dry pine forests the place firefighters should be particularly cautious due to outdated World Battle II ammunition nonetheless buried there.

Peru’s struggling president marked his first yr in workplace. Pedro Castillo’s early reputation is in shambles, decimated by what critics characterize as a chaotic administration fashion and corruption allegations. However in rural areas, many citizens say the fault lies additionally with Congress, which has sought to take away Castillo twice and is desperate to proceed the political squabbling that has seen presidents and lawmakers search to chop brief each other’s phrases.

POLITICS

What to anticipate from the subsequent set of Jan. 6 committee hearings. The Home Jan. 6 committee has to date offered an in depth narrative, together with a number of bombshells, of efforts by former President Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election. However an inflow of recent witnesses and proof reveals there's a lot left for the panel to say when televised hearings resume in September.

The household of a slain Palestinian American journalist lobbied Washington officers for justice. Kin of Shireen Abu Akleh sought a full accounting of the veteran reporter’s dying throughout an Israeli navy raid in Could. They met for a number of hours in Washington with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and members of Congress however stated afterward they remained upset and pissed off.

The chief of federal prisons deflected blame for the system’s failures, angering senators. With simply days left in his tenure, Bureau of Prisons Director Michael Carvajal informed a Senate panel he’d been shielded by his underlings — though he’d been copied on emails, and among the troubles have been detailed in stories generated by the company’s headquarters.

A deliberate go to by Speaker of the Home Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan is inflicting pressure. Pelosi can be the highest-ranking U.S. politician to go to Taiwan since 1997. China has threatened unspecified “resolute and powerful measures” if she goes forward. Beijing objects to all official contact between Taipei and Washington, and routinely threatens retaliation. This time, the stakes look like larger.

HOLLYWOOD AND THE ARTS

Each Hollywood studio handed on “Bull Durham” twice. It bought made anyway. The shut name is among the many illuminating anecdotes in screenwriter Ron Shelton’s new ebook, which is at turns a making-of memoir and a information to Shelton’s artistic course of, going into the main points of how he absorbed his personal minor league baseball experiences into the script and tussled with studio executives.

Lil Nas X, Jack Harlow and Kendrick Lamar lead the VMAs, with seven nominations every. The MTV Video Music Awards launched this yr’s nominations, with sturdy showings additionally from Doja Cat, Harry Types, Billie Eilish, Drake, Dua Lipa, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and the Weeknd.

A information to the books on the massive lists from Barack Obama and the Booker Prize. The books on each lists are various in each manner and embody crime and speculative fiction in addition to a sweeping historical past of the New York Knicks and an examination of democracies. Obama’s favorites embody John le Carré's “Silverview.” Amongst titles on the Booker Prize longlist is Leila Mottley’s “Nightcrawling.”

New York artwork galleries are flocking to Los Angeles, and it’s altering the artwork scene. There’s been an inflow of established New York galleries, with 11 right here or coming quickly. It’s a cyclical phenomenon, however why the nice march west now? New York gallery homeowners or administrators cited L.A.’s strong artist group, quickly increasing museum scene and rising collector base amongst causes for transferring in. One proprietor cited FOMM — Worry of Lacking Cash.

“I used to be ugly-crying more often than not.” Nation star Wynonna Judd talked about participating in Joni Mitchell’s first full public live performance for the reason that legendary singer-songwriter suffered a mind aneurysm. On the Newport Folks Pageant, Mitchell wowed her followers — together with Judd, who stated: “I’m nonetheless like: What the heck simply occurred?”

BUSINESS

Rents are spiking at cell house parks as big-pocketed buyers take over. The purchases are placing residents in a bind, since most cell houses — regardless of the title — can't be moved simply or cheaply. Homeowners are pressured to just accept unaffordable hire will increase, spend 1000's of dollars to maneuver their house or abandon it.

OPINION

3 Good Issues: Herding people, “Each Sides Now” and counting tigers. Deputy Op-Ed Editor Philip Grey has his newest roundup of issues to smile about. Amongst them: Saul the border collie saved his human. Saul positioned and led searchers within the Tahoe Nationwide Forest to the place the hiker had fallen 70 ft, breaking a hip and a number of ribs.

Guide banning is on the rise, as a part of the far-right’s assault on democracy. Assaults on books occupy a particular place among the many signposts of philistinism and anti-democratic suppression. So it’s correct to be alarmed on the upsurge of efforts to ban books from public colleges and libraries, writes columnist Michael Hiltzik.

California staff urgently want an $18 minimal wage. The Legislature ought to act this yr. The center of policymaking is accepting obligatory tradeoffs. On this case, the necessity for poverty aid needs to be our prime precedence. The deserves and established advantages of a better minimal wage outweigh the dangers to some companies and industries.

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SPORTS

After including USC and UCLA, the Massive Ten is leaving the door open to extra growth. Kevin Warren, the Massive Ten commissioner, indicated that a convention on the verge of stretching from coast to coast will not be achieved rising. The Bruins and Trojans are scheduled to return aboard in August 2024, however different engaging prizes may be snagged within the coming years.

Superballs, helmet vehicles and ugly sweaters. The ESPN+ present “Peyton’s Locations,” in its third season, started as a one-off option to honor the NFL’s a hundredth season. However it grew to become a manner for Peyton Manning to inform obscure, typically goofy tales in regards to the sport he loves. The season finale explored the origins of the time period “Tremendous Bowl” and concerned dropping 10,000 Superballs within the parking zone of Arrowhead Stadium.

ONLY IN L.A.

The skid row retailer prepared to face the tensions of L.A.’s Black-Korean historical past. When Danny Park joined the enterprise in 2015, he renamed it Skid Row Individuals’s Market. It’s the newest of many names over time, and the “every part” retailer tries to stay as much as all of them, stocking meals, drinks and objects geared towards life outdoor, corresponding to drink combine, tents, cups of ice on scorching days and heat socks on chilly ones.

On a given shift, staff would possibly function therapists, social staff, confidants or mediators. The shop tries to assist clients construct shallowness, specific themselves, show their artwork, even take steps towards constructing credit score. And among the many keys to its success: Park makes positive the shop remembers the fraught historical past between the Korean and Black communities.

FROM THE ARCHIVES

In a skating bowl, a man holds himself upside down with one arm; the other hand holds his skateboard against his feet.
July 23, 2021: Tony Hawk skates at Ariake City Sports activities Park in Tokyo to advertise the brand new Olympic sport.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Occasions)

Twenty-three years in the past immediately, on July 27, 1999, superstar skateboarder Tony Hawk landed the first-ever 900. He carried out the trick — 2½ full rotations midair — whereas on the X Video games. He additionally carried out it 17 years later, at age 48, with far fewer spectators. “You might name him the ambassador of the game,” stated filmmaker Sam Jones on “L.A. Occasions In the present day.” Jones visited the present earlier this yr to advertise his new HBO Max documentary “Tony Hawk: Till the Wheels Fall Off.”

“You might name him the rationale [skateboarding] is within the Olympics immediately,” Jones went on. “He’s probably the most adorned X Video games award medalist. He’s invented extra methods than anyone, and he began out as this skinny child in San Diego. … He wished to search out his factor and show himself.”

(Examine Tony Hawk’s encounters with the many individuals who sort of know who he's.)

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