Two Riverside officers face charges after resident skateboard smashed

Two Riverside officers face charges after resident skateboard smashed

Last month’s video of the virus surfaced showed two Riverside police officers facing charges as another officer looked at a skateboard of a resident. Riverside Police Commissioner Larry Gonzalez announced Friday that county district attorneys decided to file charges against misdemeanor officials. The department spokesman said the next day, the allegations of the officers who…

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Observer Opera Review: Edmond Dédé's Morgiane

Observer Opera Review: Edmond Dédé's Morgiane

Joshua Conyers, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Chauncey Packer and Patrick Quigley. Jennifer Packard, courtesy of Opera Lafayette In 1887, New Orleans-born composer Edmond Dédé completed a film called Mojian And, perhaps history has been made unconsciously. His large opera is the oldest large opera and the first famous opera by a black American composer. Sometime after…

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Small RFK's astonishing claims about black people and vaccines have attracted attention from medical experts

Small RFK's astonishing claims about black people and vaccines have attracted attention from medical experts

From the conspiracy theories of Covid-19 to confusion about the facts of Medicare and Medicaid, to the refusal to say that vaccines have nothing to do with autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Although his history of anti-vaccine rhetoric was a major topic throughout the hearing,…

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