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While football fields and NFL stadiums will dominate her life soon enough, it's all beaches and sun for Brock Bowers' girlfriend this week.

The man was riding the CFMoto 650 motorcycle on the eastbound Grand Central Parkway approaching the Jackie Robinson Parkway around 6:30 p.m. with the woman in the backseat when he suddenly spun out and hit the white BMW, police said. 

It’s unclear whether the Padres will be buyers or sellers at the MLB trade deadline, but there is a general consensus president of baseball operations A.J. Preller will orchestrate a wild deal. Entering Friday’s game against the Royals, the Padres were 3 ½ games out of an NL wild-card spot. Depending on how the next...

For many California families, renting isn't just the cheaper option—it can mean keeping tens of thousands of dollars compounding in the stock market every year.

California Grocery Stores Use Facial Recognition Technology To Combat Theft

Via American Greatness,

Faced with a shoplifting epidemic that has battered California retailers for years, Grocery Outlet is fighting back with technology.

Customers are not thrilled about it.

The Emeryville-based discount grocery chain has begun installing facial recognition software called SAFR at a handful of Bay Area stores, including its Pleasant Hill “Bargain Market” location, CBS News San Francisco reported.

Customers walking through the doors will find signs warning them the system is in use, a disclosure the company says is meant to keep shoppers informed.

The rollout comes as California tries to combat a shoplifting problem that has spiraled out of control.

FBI data cited by CBS shows theft in the state has jumped 50 percent since the COVID-19 pandemic, a surge that has forced retailers from big-box chains to neighborhood grocers to spend millions on security measures, or in some cases, shutter stores altogether.

For June Guerrero, who spent years managing a retail store, the new technology is a welcome and overdue response to a problem she saw firsthand.

“I worked for years as a manager of a store and the theft was just unbelievable,” Guerrero told CBS News. “I agree with it.”

Not every customer sees it that way. Barbara Jackson told the outlet she’s uneasy about having her face scanned every time she shops for groceries.

“I do understand, but invading my privacy with my picture, I don’t agree on that,” Jackson said. “You gotta find a better way.”

Shopper Steve Burdette raised a different concern: the risk of the system misidentifying innocent customers as thieves.

“It could lead to a lot of problems, I think for companies and businesses and people,” he said.

SAFR president Charisse Jacques pushed back on the notion that the technology amounts to mass surveillance. She said the company does not maintain a database of every customer who walks through the door, retains information on suspected shoplifters only for a limited window, and does not share data with outside agencies — including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the New York Post.

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The surprising announcement came on Friday.

The surprising announcement came on Friday.

Brandon Booth, 42, who works as an employee of GEO Group that operates the Aurora ICE Processing Center in Colorado, was slapped with charges of assault and attempted second-degree murder in relation to the shooting near the detention center.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex left the UK in 2020 for Southern California.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex left the UK in 2020 for Southern California.

The explosion of a century-old water main beneath Sunset Boulevard this week has thrust Los Angeles' crumbling infrastructure into the spotlight, reinforcing warnings from one City Council member that decades of neglect are catching up with the city.

The implosion of the Platner campaign in Maine went “about as horribly as it possibly could have,” and now attention turns Michigan, where Abdul El-Sayed’s run for US senate is “really thrilling DSA hearts,” snarks National Review’s Jim Geraghty.

This week, millions of Brits discovered we have a new prime minister we never voted for. What does Andy Burnham stand for? Your guess is as good as mine.

A man who killed both parents in front of a four-year-old girl in Northern California was sentenced to nearly 141 years to life in prison on Thursday afternoon.

Christopher Nolan's new blockbuster, based on a 2,500-year-old poetic masterpiece, resonates with Americans because it tells an ancient human tale that to us feels deeply familiar.

NEW YORK — The Dodgers’ expectation is for Shohei Ohtani to make his next pitching start on Wednesday in Philadelphia, manager Dave Roberts said, setting a soft target for his two-way star to return to the mound following treatment he received on his knee during the All-Star break. On Thursday, the Dodgers announced a projected...

These California politicians conveniently went mute as a costly mistake lined their pockets with cash.

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California Congressman Ro Khanna announced last weekend that “Israeli settlers, brandishing American made M4s, detained me & other Americans on my trip to Palestine. When the IDF arrived, they sided with the settlers & continued our detention.”

Vikings star Justin Jefferson might be ready to jump ship. At least that's what Raiders beat writer Hondo Carpenter believes.