Floating mannequins mistaken for body parts near Calif. highway By KOVR Staff | February 16, 2021 at 11:16 AM EST - Updated February 16 at 11:16 AM
STOCKTON, Calif. (KOVR) - Along a busy California off-ramp, there was a sight that could make anyone do a triple take.
“I’d freak out, you know? And that’d be the first thing I do, actually call 911,” Chris Akers said.
Drivers spotted what looked to be a body and several limbs floating in the water. Fortunately, it was all just plastic mannequins.
California Highway Patrol responded to the scene after receiving a 911 call from a trucker who had spotted the mannequin carnage.
Ojai Valley News photo by Laura Rearwin Ward
People rally outside the Ojai Unified School District office March 16 in support of more in-person instruction for students.
Austin Widger,
Ojai Valley News reporter
Ojai Unified School District parents, students and other community members rallied outside the Ojai Unified School District office on March 16 many with signs to show support for more in-person instruction for students.
Gay man appointed transportation undersecretary
Feb 10, 2021 |
Undersecretary Arlando Teller (via Los Angeles Blade)
Arizona state Rep. Arlando Teller, a gay Navajo man, has joined the Biden Administration as Sec. Pete Buttigieg’s deputy assistant secretary for tribal affairs for the U.S. Department of Transportation. Teller is Navajo.
Before Teller was elected to the Arizona House of Representatives in 2018 and served on the transportation committee, he worked for Caltrans, the California Department of Transportation, and then served as deputy director of the Navajo Division of Transportation.
He is a graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
“Elevating indigenous nations’ by the Biden administration only invigorates and encourages me to do more,” Teller told the Los Angeles Blade in a text message. “Representation matters.”
50 Years Later, an Earthquake s Legacy Continues
Release Date:
February 4, 2021
The San Fernando earthquake struck Southern California 50 years ago, killing 64 people and costing over $500 million in damages. The quake prompted federal, state and local action to reduce earthquake risks and bolster public safety.
At 6 o’clock in the morning on February 9, 1971, the reservoir keeper of the Lower Van Norman Dam in Southern California tried to get out of bed.
He couldn’t. A magnitude-6.6 earthquake was shaking his home nestled at the bottom of the dam. After checking on his wife and child, he drove to the top of the dam to examine the damage. “It was hard to believe what I saw,” he said.