Newsom announces California redistricting plan; ICE raid conducted nearby
By City News Service
Gov.GavinNewsom joinedstatewide Democraticleaders in downtown Los Angeles Thursday to announce a Nov. 4 ballot measure that would redraw California’s congressional districts to add more Democrat seats in the U.S. House -- countering a similar move in Texas aimed at bolstering the GOP’s hold on Congress.
The highly anticipated announcement, which was hyped by the governor himself with a series of social media posts this week taunting President Donald Trump, became more of a spectacle when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducted a raid outside the Little Tokyo venue where Newsom was speaking.
“You think it’s coincidental?” Newsom asked the partisan crowd at his news conference. “Donald Trump and his minions ... decided coincidentally or not that this was a location to advance ICE arrests.”
The raid didn’t stop Newsom and other Democrats gathered for the event from lashing out at the Trump administration and vowing to follow through with the redistricting process to offset Republican efforts underway in Texas and possibly other GOP strongholds.
Newsom has repeatedly criticized efforts in Texas to redraw that state’s congressional districts ahead of next year’s mid-term elections, with the new maps potentially adding between three and five Republican seats in Congress, bolstering the GOP’s slim majority in the House of Representatives. That redistricting effort has been on hold due to Texas state Democrats leaving the state, blocking
the legislature’s ability to achieve a quorum and vote on the issue.
But Newsom said Thursday California won’t stand by and watch GOP leaders try to rig the 2026 mid-term elections.
“Today is liberation day in the state of California,” Newsom said. “ ... Donald Trump, you have poked the bear and we will punch back.”
He said California is the size of 21 state populations combined.
“I know they say `Don’t mess with Texas.’ Well, don’t mess with the great Golden State,” he said.
He said the California legislature will take up the issue next week to call a Nov. 4 special election to put new maps before voters to increase Democratic representation in Congress -- offsetting the actions of Texas. The move would set aside the current California district maps that were drawn by an independent commission.
Newsom stressed that the move would only be temporary, with the state returning to the independent redistricting process
after the 2030 Census. He defended the move, saying it is essential to counter what he called a clear attempt to rig the 2026 mid-term congressional elections -- noting that Trump called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and told him to come up with five more GOP seats to ensure the party maintains a majority in the House.
“He’s going to lose the mid-terms. He knows ... his presidency ends in 17 months,” Newsom said. “He knows it. Why else would he try to rig the system? Why else would you make the phone call?”
He added, “These guys are not playing by any set of rules.” And he urged other Democrat-majority states to also redraw their district lines to counter the GOP effort.
Corrin Rankin, chair of the California Republican Party, issued a statement this week saying the party would go to court to fight Newsom’s plans to redistrict the state.
“The California Republican Party will fight it in the courts, at the ballot box and in every community,” Rankin said.
Abbott told Fox News that if California does move to redraw its district, Texas will simply counter by amending its lines again to add even more Republican seats in Washington.
“If California thinks they’re going to move their needle to the extreme and eliminate five Republican numbers of the United States Congress there, Texas is not going to do five: We will add 10 more Republican seats using the same procedure they are using in California,” Abbott said.
ChristianMartinez, Western regional press secretary for the National Republican Congressional Committee, issued a statement Thursday blasting Newsom’s proposal.
“Gavin Newsom’s latest stunt has nothing to do with Californians and everything to do with consolidating radical Democrat power, silencing California voters, and propping up his pathetic 2028 presidential pipe dream,” Martinez said. “Newsom’s made it clear: he’ll shred California’s
2025 homelessness count reports sharp decrease in Monrovia
By Joe Taglieri joet@beaconmedianews.com
Crediting local outreach efforts and regional housingprograms, Monroviacityofficials announced a sharp decrease in homelessness this year compared with 2024.
The results of the 2025 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count were released last month and showed the number of unsheltered individuals in Monrovia dropped from 22 in 2024 to nine in 2025. No Monrovia residents experiencing homelessness were staying in temporary shelters, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, a joint LA city and county agency that coordinates the annual point-intime count.
Despite only nine unsheltered individuals counted, the data showed 21 dwellings. This included a reduction in makeshift shelters, tents and vans, while the number of individual vehicles such as cars and RVs slightly increased. In 2024, 28 dwellings were counted.
In 2024, the number of cars used as dwellings totaled seven along with three RVs, compared with 12 cars and five RVs this year. The number of vans decreased from 10 to two.
Monrovia’s Homeless Count Dashboard on the city’s website has additional information.
Officials said assistance
is available for people experiencing homelessness via the city’s partnership with Foothill Unity Center, which offers case management services four days a week at the Monrovia Community Center, 119 W. Palm Ave. Services include help with eviction prevention, housing referrals, food insecurity, senior employment opportunities, health services and financial literacy.
Since starting in 2018, the Monrovia Housing Displacement Response Program has assisted 44 families with financial assistance, according to the city. That support prevented 50 adults and 58 youths from having to leave Monrovia, and has also helped prevent 13 seniors from losing their homes.
Over 72,000 people were experiencing homelessness in LA County with nearly 44,000 in the city of Los Angeles, according to the LAHSA point-in-time count that took place Feb. 18-20. The county and city noted 4% and 3.4% decreases, respectively.
Data from local homeless counts determines how much federal assistance cities and counties receive for outreach efforts, temporary shelters and housing initiatives. More information on case management and homeless services is available from the Foothill Unity Center.
An LA County outreach team speaks with a veteran experiencing homelessness in Monrovia in 2024. | Photo courtesy of Los Angeles County/YouTube
Governor Gavin Newsom was joined by state lawmakers at a press conference in LA Thursday.
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Orange County board skeptical of bond sale for airport
By City News Service
Orange County supervisors Tuesday were skeptical of a plan from its fixed-based operator at John Wayne Airport to sell bonds to finance $120 million in improvements.
After a lengthy discussion, the supervisors voted to postpone any action on the proposal for another 90 days so staff and Clay Lacy Aviation Inc. could negotiate changes.
Usually, the sale of public bonds is done by a governmental agency, but the fixed-base operator has a plan to issue the bonds through the California Municipal Finance Authority.
Clay Lacy Aviation wants to construct a 6,500-squarefoot customer terminal building and four hangars, including an office space. The county would own the new property.
Orange County Supervisor Don Wagner criticized the proposal for having the potential of encouraging the other fixed-base operators at the airport to ask for the same privilege. Wagner was particularly miffed that John Wayne Airport Director Charlene
Reynolds had taken the day off for the county board’s first meeting in a month.
“The airport director had a meeting with me yesterday and she said she would say publicly I don’t like this deal, and she’s not here today,” Wagner said. “So, I’m very frustrated at that bait-and-switch. Does the airport support doing this? She said to me I do not support this.”
Board of Supervisors Vice Chairwoman Katrina Foley texted Reynolds during the meeting and reported that she said she wasn’t opposing the deal if the county “gets something in addition in return.”
Foley, who motioned to approve the proposal, said she was upset to get the news of Reynolds’ stance on the issue during the meeting.
“I’m hearing for the first time the airport director doesn’t support this,” Foley said. “She never said that to me and I’m miffed about that. We shouldn’t be hearing that for the first time in this hearing.”
Orange County CEO Michelle Aguirre said the county has had its issues
with Clay Lacy, which was approved five years ago for 35 years.
“I communicated to the board that we’ve spent the last two years going back and forth with Clay Lacy,” Aguirre said. “We’ve had issues with working with Clay Lacy related to transparency and trust issues.”
But, she added, the company’s proposal “was something we were comfortable bringing to the board for consideration because we believe the risk is de minimis, if anything, to the county.”
Wagner agreed “the county is protected” if the company defaults on its payback of the loans. But he was reluctant to open the doors to a novel waiver that could draw other vendors seeking the same treatment.
“This is an easy no -- we have a deal, let’s stick with the deal,” Wagner said.
Foley argued the county would own the improvements and the bonds would not “burden the taxpayers.” She added that business leaders support it.
But Foley later suggested clearer language in
the agreement that if the company defaulted on the bonds that the county would have clearer authority to take over the operation and seek a new vendor.
The board on Tuesday also banned the sale of the kratom supplement, known by its nickname “gas station heroin.”
Supervisor Janet
Nguyen proposed the ban on kratom and 7hydroxymitragynine products in businesses in unincorporated areas of the county. Kratom, an herbal medicine, comes from evergreen tree leaves in Southeast Asia and has opioid and stimulant effects.
Authorities warn the
6 suspected gangsters arrested in LA sex trafficking
By City News Service
Six suspected members and associates of a South Los Angeles street gang were arrested Wednesday on federal charges alleging they acted as pimps to promote and manage sex trafficking of adults and minors on the notorious Figueroa corridor.
Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles say the 31-count indictment constitutes the first major takedown of a sex trafficking operation on the 3.5- mile stretch of Figueroa Street from Gage Avenue south to Imperial Highway, which is known as a haven for commercial sex workers and customers.
The lead defendant is Amaya Armstead, 25, also known as “Lady Duck,” of South Los Angeles, who is accused of trafficking a 14-year-old girl for prostitution, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Armstead was transferred from state to federal custody and was expected to make her initial court appearance Wednesday
afternoon in Los Angeles federal court.
According to the indictment, members and associates of the gang largely controlled sex trafficking and prostitution along the corridor, acting as pimps by managing and monitoring victims, pooling resources to rent motel rooms, and disciplining each other’s victims.
A victim who refused to hand earnings over to the gang or who otherwise disobeyed a pimp faced assaults, public humiliation, and the “withholding of affection, drugs or food,” according to federal prosecutors.
Victims also were frequently branded with tattoos of a defendant’s street name or moniker, the indictment said.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office contends that women and girls were recruited via social media or in person, and defendants focused on vulnerable minors, particularly those with financial or
emotional struggles or who had run away from home or the foster care system.
Pimps also allegedly plied victims with drugs, including oxycodone and
methamphetamine, while recruiting females via false promises of a luxurious lifestyle, intimidation, and actual or threatened violence, according to court
papers.
drug can be addictive and lead to psychosis in high doses.
The county’s move joins Newport Beach, San Diego and Oceanside in a municipal crackdown on the supplement which can be found as an ingredient in energy drinks and other products sold in convenience stores.
indictment
In April 2024, prosecutors allege, Armstead and an accomplice rented rooms at the Stadium Inn, a South Los Angeles motel, to traffic their victims. One victim included a 14-year-old girl, who worked as a prostitute for three days and was given condoms by Armstead to use for sex dates with customers, prosecutors allege.
According to the indictment, which names 11 defendants, some members of the gang produced rap music and videos, which often glorified the gang, sex trafficking, drug sales and firearms possession.
Members also allegedly posted videos and photographs of their assaults on others to social media, in order to intimidate their victims and ensure compliance, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said convictions for sex trafficking offenses carry harsher sentences under
federal law than state law. If convicted, some defendants in the case would face sentences of 15 years to life imprisonment, he said.
“There are no meaningful consequences for their conduct under state law, so the federal government -- aided by its local law enforcement partners -- will step in to make sure these criminals face lengthy prison sentences,” Essayli said in a statement. “Today’s operation is the first step in returning the Figueroa Corridor -- long known as prostitution haven -- back to its residents who have suffered for too long while criminals were allowed to run amok.”
In September 2024, federal, county and city officials in Los Angeles announced the Figueroa Human Trafficking Initiative, a partnership aimed at disrupting human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of minors in the corridor.
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7 easy ways to start saving for Christmas
By Ashley Maready for Freedom Debt Relief via Stacker
The holidays are a time to celebrate. It’s a great idea to go into the festive season with a plan to save and spend your money wisely, avoiding the need for debt relief next year.
There are plenty of ways to start saving for Christmas this year that don’t bring on financial stress, and there’s no time like the present to start, Freedom Debt Relief explains.
Key Takeaways:
- Decide how much you want to spend on holiday expenses and open a Christmas savings account.
- Try a savings challenge to find extra money.
- Think outside the box to earn more cash and start your shopping early.
1. Open a High-Yield Savings Account
If you don’t already have a high-yield savings account, consider this your sign that it’s time to open one. The highest rates are often offered by online-only banks. You’ll get the benefit of top-notch mobile apps and technology to monitor and grow your savings.
Many of these accounts also offer the chance to create multiple sub-
accounts, so you could designate one of them your official Christmas Savings. While you’re at it, create one for your emergency fund, too—an emergency fund is the gift you give yourself that helps you all year long.
Having a set place to keep your Christmas cash separate from your checking account and the rest of your savings makes it easier to see how much you have, and avoid accidentally spending the money on something else.
Automate contributions to your holiday account (it’s good to aim for a set amount on a weekly or monthly basis). If saving becomes automatic, you don’t have to think about it, and can’t forget to add money.
2. Create a Holiday Savings Budget
Do you know how much you typically spend on the holidays? Now is the time to determine how much you spend on gifts, food, travel, holiday activities, and decor. Take a look at your credit card and checking account statements from last year, and try to create a ballpark estimate of how much you’ll need to save to be ready for Christmas this year. Divide
that amount by the number of weeks or months you have to save, to give yourself smaller and more manageable goals to reach.
Also consider the state of your finances in the wake of last year’s holiday hoopla— did you wind up with credit card debt? If so, dial down the plan this year. If that’s not possible, or you just don’t want to (and that’s fair), the rest of these tips could help you increase the dollar figure in your Christmas savings account before the time comes to spend it.
3. Trim Your Spending to Free Up Cash
Is that your budget collecting dust over there?
If you want to change your spending habits to help you start saving for Christmas, you need a budget. Take a look at your existing budget, or sit down to create one if you’re currently going without.
Once you know how much comes in and where your money goes every month, you can look for places to trim your spending. Here are a few ideas to start:
If you eat out three times
a week, try cutting back to once or twice. It’s cliche to say “cook at home,” but doing so really can save you money—plus it’s fun to experiment with new recipes.
Got a streaming subscription you use very lightly or not at all? Cancel it—you probably won’t even miss it. (And if you do, you can resubscribe.)
Instead of buying new clothes, dig into your closet in search of pieces you may have forgotten about. If you need some fresh looks, organize a clothing swap with friends.
4. Try a Savings Challenge Savings challenges are all over social media. Turning your Christmas savings into a game can make the process more fun. Here are a few ideas to consider—and you can route the cash you save directly into your holiday funds bank account. Round-up savings
Every time you spend money, round up to the next whole dollar and transfer the difference to your Christmas savings account.
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Saving for Christmas
If your grocery tab comes to $90.12, send $0.88 to your savings. Some banks offer round-up savings. When you research high-yield savings accounts, maybe you’ll find one that offers this perk.
Just a dollar a day
Saving $1 per day sounds deceptively simple, but if you do it for a full year, you’ll end up with $365. You can customize this to meet your needs, too. Say you have six months to reach your Christmas savings target of $800. If you can manage to put aside about $4.50 per day (or about $31 per week) over those six months, you’ll reach your goal.
No-spend challenge
It’s probably unsustainable to cut out all your discretionary spending in service of saving for Christmas, but you can customize this idea. Try designating one or two weekends per month as “no-spend weekends,” and vow not to spend on anything but essential purchases. Instead of spending money on dinner out and a movie with friends, host a potluck where everyone brings a dish, and then pick a movie from a free streaming service like Tubi.
5. Take on a Side Hustle
The best way to make extra money is through opportunities that you can fit easily into your schedule. There are a few ways to do this.
Apply for seasonal jobs
There are plenty of retailers who look for extra staff members during busy seasons. You could spend just a few hours working each weekend to build up your holiday savings funds. Are you qualified to be a lifeguard at a pool? Could you stack boxes into a delivery truck? Look for seasonal jobs that are close to home, and that you would enjoy doing for a few hours at a time.
Consider the gig economy
If you want more flexibility, a gig job could work better for you. Consider driving for a ride-hailing or food delivery app for a few hours every week, or hire yourself out to clean houses or assemble furniture on TaskRabbit. You can also freelance using an existing skill. Writers, graphic designers, and even pet sitters have the opportunity to make extra cash— advertise your services on LinkedIn, Upwork, or, in the case of pet sitting, check out the Rover app.
Sell your stuff
Get rid of unwanted items in your home and turn them into cash if you can. This can work especially well if you sell old holiday decor right before the holiday. People love to score a good deal, and you double up by also decluttering your place.
If you’re getting started early (say, in the summer), hold a yard sale. Some of your neighbors might also be looking to downsize, and if you can organize a multiyard sale on your street, you’ll likely draw in more shoppers.
6. Get Creative Life’s too short for boring plans. Here are a few creative and fun ideas that could put extra cash in your pocket for the holidays.
Be a decorator for hire
Love hanging lights and setting up indoor and outdoor displays? Advertise yourself in your local area as a Christmas decorator for hire. If you’re comfortable working on a ladder and enjoy striking the balance between festive and eye-catching, this could be the gig for you. You could stockpile some cash starting right after Halloween, leading right up to Christmas.
Rent out your land or your pool
If you live out in the country and have a few acres of land, consider listing it on Hipcamp. Hipcamp is sort of like Airbnb for unique spots on private land where visitors could camp out. If you don’t have a big property but do have a swimming pool, you could earn some green by renting it out by the hour on Swimply. Your own neighbors might be looking for a convenient place for their kids’ swim lessons right now.
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7. Don’t Wait Until the Last Minute
In addition to starting to save for Christmas early, you can also start your shopping early. There is no better time than the present for presents!
Start by making a list of prospective gifts for loved ones, and scout out sales and coupons that could save you money. Compare prices between retailers to find the best deal on the items you want. Create online
wish lists with Amazon or Etsy so you can keep an eye on prices over time. In addition to saving money on the gifts themselves, shopping well ahead of the holidays could also help you save money on shipping costs if you’re ordering items online. You can opt for the cheapest (and slowest) shipping option if you still have plenty of time before the holiday. By planning ahead and getting your shopping out of the way early, you can breathe easier as we head into the holiday season. You can’t put a price on that benefit.
Ready to start saving for Christmas? Pick a place for your cash (a high-yield savings account really is the best place), trim spending, increase your income, and have a jolly time with it.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much do people spend on Christmas expenses?
According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), 2024 winter holiday expenses were projected to reach $902 per person on average. You can certainly spend less than this, especially if your holiday celebrations don’t involve travel and you’re willing to set a strict budget for gifts, entertainment expenses, and holiday food. Should I use a credit card for my Christmas shopping?
Only use a credit card for holiday expenses if you’re confident that you can pay them off in short order (and preferably before interest charges kick in). Using a credit card for holiday purchases could help you earn rewards like travel points or cash back, but interest charges could quickly cost more than the value of those benefits. If you’re developing the habit of sticking to your budget or just want to keep things simple, shop with cash or your debit card.
How can I spend less on gifts for friends and family?
Try organizing a Secret Santa gift exchange. Everyone participating draws a name out of a hat, and only buys a gift for that person. You can set limits for how much money can be spent, and if everyone offers a few gift ideas for themselves ahead of time, this can be an easy way to spread joy and save money.
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After a train carrying chemicalsderailed and caught fire in East Palestine, Ohio, in 2023, residents were exposed to carcinogens such as vinyl chloride, acrolein and dioxin. Since tumors are typically slow to develop, it could take decades to know what that did to the locals’ cancer risk, but there may be a quicker route to an answer: The residents’ dogs were also exposed, and dogs develop cancer more quickly.
Studying dogs and their cancers turns out to be an excellent way to learn more about cancer in people. And it’s not just that dogs and owners share exposures to many of the same environmental carcinogens. Knowable Magazine reports researchers are also learning that cancers develop along remarkably similar pathways in the two species.
The faster pace at which canine cancers progress also means that researchers testing new therapies can get quicker results than they can in human clinical trials. This benefits scientists, dogs and their owners, proponents say.
“Man’s best friend is man’s best biomedical friend,” said Matthew Breen, a geneticist at North Carolina State University. “It’s like having a mobile biosentinel organism that can help inform us about our own medical prospects over the next 25 years.”
Dogs in the vanguard
The biomedical bond between people and dogs is not new; veterinarians have long treated their canine patients with drugs developed for use in people, and doctors have relied on dogs to test therapies and procedures before deploying them in the clinic. Techniques to treat the bone cancer osteo-
Dogs and their people: Companions in cancer research
By Bob Holmes for Knowable Magazine via Stacker
sarcoma without amputating the patient’s limb, for example, were first developed in dogs.
Yet today this crossfertilization is no longer an occasional, sporadic benefit.
Researchers are realizing that canine tumors parallel those in people so closely that dogs may be the best reference point for understanding many of our own cancers.
One of the most important similarities between canine and human cancers is that they arise spontaneously, as the end result of a protracted struggle at the cellular level: Over the course of years, cells accumulate genetic damage that disables normal controls on cell division, and emerging tumors evolve ways to evade the immune system. That complexity means there can be many different pathways to cancer that differ from tumor to tumor — and, it turns out, even from cell to cell within a single tumor.
Traditional lab-mouse approaches to studying cancer miss much of that heterogeneity, because the system is more artificial: Researchers typically have to implant tumors into inbred strains of mice whose immune systems have been suppressed.
New genetic research underscores how similar the accumulating damage is in dogs and people. In a yet-tobe-published study, Elinor Karlsson, a genomicist at the UMass Chan Medical School, and her colleagues looked at gene sequences from more than 15,000 human tumors of 32 different types and more than 400 canine tumors of seven different types.
The aim was to identify genetic mutations that were
present in the cancers but not in normal cells of the same individual. Such mutations were presumably not inherited but instead were likely to represent genetic damage accumulated over a lifetime, some of which can result in cancer.
That damage looked remarkably similar in the two species, said Karlsson. “Genetically, in terms of what’s driving cancers, it’s basically the same genes in dogs and humans.”
Many of the dog tumors, for example, had mutations in genes already known to drive human cancers, such as the tumor suppressor gene PTEN often mutated in breast and prostate cancers, among others, and the cell-division regulator NRAS that is involved in melanoma and other cancers. Notably, mutations often occurred in or near the same locations in the genes
investigating how tumors with specific genetic mutations respond to human therapies.
The team reviewed records of 1,108 dogs with cancer, finding that dogs whose tumors carried particular mutations had higher survival rates if they were treated with a human drug specific to that mutation. This implies that the underlying biology of the cancers may be similar in the two species, and if so, researchers ought to be able to work in the other direction, too — using dogs as a test bed to develop new therapies for people.
in both species, suggesting that they may cause similar dysfunctions.
A similar recent finding came from researchers at FidoCure, a California-based company working on canine cancer. Scientists there are
A faster path to answers Cancers progress faster in dogs, which means that clinical trials yield results more quickly. For example, tumors often produce an unusual abundance of malformed RNA molecules. Researchers have shown, in mice, that targeting these molecules with a vaccine can delay or prevent the onset of cancers. But testing a preventive vaccine in people wouldn’t yield results for many years, even decades — and funding agencies aren’t likely to support such a long and expensive study based solely on data from mice.
“It would be an enormous leap to go from the mouse studies to some kind of gigantic, 15- or 20-year human cancer prevention study,” said Douglas Thamm, a veterinary oncologist at Colorado State University. Instead, Thamm and his
That has already paid off in a few cancer therapies first developed in dogs that are now in clinical trials or approved for use in people, said Amy LeBlanc, a veterinary oncologist and director of the comparative oncology program at the National Cancer Institute. Examples include immunotherapies for brain cancers; viral therapy that targets lymphoma; and drug therapies against multiple myeloma, lymphoma and brain tumors. Results like FidoCure’s suggest that these therapies could be just the vanguard of many more such drugs.
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colleagues tested the vaccine in dogs, which shrinks the timeline to just five years. All the data — from 804 dogs — have now been collected, and the researchers are analyzing them, with an answer on the vaccine’s effectiveness expected by the end of 2025.
Cancer detection techniques, too, can benefit from testing in dogs. Many golden retrievers, for example, will eventually develop a cancer of the blood vessels called hemangiosarcoma. Drugs can usually forestall the cancer’s progression, but many dogs will eventually relapse. Karlsson and her colleagues are studying whether they can detect that relapse in blood samples drawn from affected dogs, a technique known as liquid biopsy.
The technique is still under development, but the hope is that spotting early signs of relapse will allow veterinarians to abandon failing therapies and try something else more quickly, said project coleader Cheryl London, a veterinary medical oncologist and immunologist at Tufts University, who coauthored a 2016 overview of the similarities between dog and human cancers. In contrast, she noted, doctors can’t ethically try experimental treatments on people until standard treatments have clearly failed.
Eventually, liquid biopsy might be used to screen for previously undetected cancers in both dogs and people, Karlsson said. Here, too, golden retrievers are likely to prove invaluable: Because so many of the dogs will eventually develop cancer, researchers don’t need to screen many animals to find enough tumors to study.
Environmental watchdogs
There’s another important way that dogs can benefit the study of cancer — as environmental sentinels.
“Dogs live in our environment,” said Breen. “They breathe the same air, they drink the same water. The dog runs across the same herbicide-treated grass that
our grandkids run over.”
If those exposures increase the risk of cancer in dogs, they’re likely to do so in people, too, since the genomic pathways leading to cancer are so similar.
In people, exposures to various environmental carcinogens might take 25 years to produce full-blown cancers, Breen said. “But the accelerated lifespan of a dog means they may only need to be exposed to it for two or
cancer.
Earlier research had suggested environmental chemicals were linked to the cancer — but which ones?
To find out, the team identified 25 dogs with the BRAF V595E mutation using urine samples. Then they sent out specially designed silicone tags for the dogs. They also sent tags to 76 dogs matched for breed, sex and age that lacked the mutation. Each wore the silicone for
three years,” he added. That makes dogs a quicker way to spot the chemicals that potentially pose the greatest danger to people.
Breen and his colleagues recently put this sentinel idea to the test. They were interested in environmental toxins that might contribute to bladder cancer. The team knew that in dogs, genetic damage that accumulates in cells of the bladder wall often includes a specific mutation called BRAF V595E that is an early marker for bladder
five days, during which time it absorbed chemicals from the home environment. The owners then returned the tags to the researchers, who extracted and analyzed the chemicals.
The analysis identified 25 chemicals that were more abundant in the dogs with the mutation, and therefore carcinogen candidates. These included flame retardants, plasticizers and combustion byproducts from smoking, fires and vehicle emissions.
“They’re the classic kinds of chemicals that are in everybody’s house,” said Breen.
An earlier study by Breen and his team noted similar exposure patterns recorded by silicone tags on dogs and silicone wristbands worn by their owners.
A similar approach may help to measure the cancer risk from other environmental exposures, such as the train derailment in East Palestine. To that end, Karlsson and her colleagues recently mailed silicone tags to about 75 dog owners who live near the site. The researchers are
now measuring chemicals in the tags and screening blood samples from the dogs to detect genetic changes linked to cancer.
If dogs exposed to chemicals in that train derailment are showing a higher rate of these mutations in their blood, they and their owners might need to be monitored for an increased risk of cancer, Karlsson said.
As researchers continue to study the links between cancers in dogs and people, they often reiterate the benefits that accrue not just to science, but to dog owners and their sick pets. The pets
receive highly sophisticated cancer care that their owners might not have access to otherwise, and the owners may get a little more time with their companions.
“We’re not experimenting on these animals to their detriment,” said Thamm. “We’re trying to help those individuals.” That, he and others say, is a source of great satisfaction.
This story was produced by Knowable Magazine and reviewed and distributed by Stacker. The article was copy edited from its original version. Republished with CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
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Steven Tyler opposes woman’s bid for pretrial info on his financial worth
By City News Service
As Steven Tyler awaits a judge’s ruling on his bid to dismiss the remaining claims in a lawsuit brought by a woman who alleges the Aerosmith frontman had an illicit relationship with her when she was 16-years-old and he was 25, he also is challenging the plaintiff’s attempt to obtain pretrial discovery of the musician’s financial condition.
In court papers previously filed with Inglewood Superior Court Judge Tamara Hall in advance of an Aug. 20 hearing, the 67-year-old woman’s attorneys maintain that it is “very likely” Tyler, 77, will be found liable to the plaintiff by a jury for punitive damages by a finding he engaged in malice, oppression of fraud.
“He engaged in a continuous course of criminal conduct for multiple years that included sex, drugs and lies with a child under his custody which spanned from Oregon to Washington, Washington to Massachusetts, Massachusetts to California and many other states in between,” the plaintiff’s lawyers state in their pleadings.
Tyler also moved the woman “across the country from her family, had sex with her, provided her cocaine, provided her
heroin, impregnated her, coerced her into an abortion later in pregnancy, forced her to have public sex and coerced her mother to turn over guardianship,” the plaintiff’s attorneys further contend in their court papers.
But in court papers filed Thursday in response to the woman’s motion, Tyler’s attorneys say the evidence undermines her claims.
“The record is replete with facts that contradict plaintiff’s claims, including that plaintiff was already using cocaine prior to meeting Tyler, (that) Tyler did not prevent plaintiff from attending school or receiving medical care and that plaintiff made the decision to have an abortion while Tyler was out of town and by the time he returned, plaintiff had already gone through with the procedure,” Tyler’s lawyers counter in their pleadings.
The plaintiff’s attorneys’ court papers also include portions of her deposition testimony offered in support of her motion. In the transcript, she touches on multiple subjects, including her recollection that Tyler allegedly told her that using cocaine was safe.
“That’s what he told me,” the woman said. “He told me it wasn’t heroin. It
was a safe stimulant, like coffee.”
The woman further testified that she knew little about drugs in 1975 and wasn’t exposed to them until she met Tyler, who she further contends told her that cocaine would help her stay awake if she
became sleepy. She also said that Tyler only once proffered her cocaine in a large quantity.
The plaintiff additionally testified that Tyler gave her heroin once, saying, “This is heroin. I want you to snort a little of this,” the woman said. When she resisted,
Tyler pressured her to take the heroin and she finally relented and used a straw, she said.
“I did eventually take a little bit and lied down on the bed and felt (a) sense of despair come over me,” she further said. “It was a horrible feeling. It didn’t make me feel better I never took it again.”
Regarding Tyler’s establishment of a guardianship over her, the woman testified that the musician told her that her mother signed the appropriate papers.
When the plaintiff asked Tyler how he convinced her mother to give her formal consent to the guardianship, the singer told the plaintiff, “I told her I needed them for you to go to school and to get medical care and she signed them,” the woman testified.
The plaintiff “made a conscious decision to leave and escape the music and drug-addled world seeking to be free from the sexualized culture created by Tyler and the industry,” according to her suit filed in December 2022, which additionally states that she went on to have a family and become active in her faith.
But in their court papers, Tyler’s lawyers say there is no evidence of any guardianship.
The 77th Emmy Awards ceremony won’t take place until Sept. 14, but winners in nine juried categories — including animation, costume, emerging media programming and motion design — were announced Tuesday by The Television Academy.
Tuesday’s winners will be presented with their trophies during the Creative Arts Emmy Awards that will be held over two nights at the Peacock Theater on Sept. 6 and 7, when bulk of this year’s Emmys will be handed out.
The Creative Arts Emmys are mainly in technical categories such as picture editing, costuming, hairstyling, makeup and sound, but also include awards for guest acting. An edited broadcast of the Creative Arts Emmys will air Sept. 13 at 8 p.m. PT
on FXX.
The main event — the 77th annual Primetime Emmy Awards — will take place Sept. 14, also at the Peacock Theater, and be hosted by comedian Nate Bargatze. The show will air at 5 p.m. PT on CBS and stream live and on demand on Paramount+.
“Severance,” with 27 nods, led the way when the Emmy nominations were announced last month, followed by “The Penguin” with 24 and “The Studio” and “The White Lotus” with 23 each.
The juried category winners announced Tuesday emerged from screenings by panels of professionals in each particular area in a one-step evaluation and voting procedure.
Winners that will presented Sept. 6 are:
By City News Service
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation
Background design — “Arcane” / “The Dirt Under Your Nails” episode, Netflix, Bruno Couchinho, background designer
Color — “Arcane” / “The Message Hidden Within the Pattern” episode, Netflix, Faustine Dumontier, colorscript and color keys artist
Character animation — “Love, Death + Robots” / “400 Boys” episode, Netflix, Daryl Graham, 2D animation supervisor
Character design — “Love, Death + Robots” / “400 Boys” episode, Netflix, Robert Valley, character design
Production design — “Love, Death + Robots” / “How Zeke Got Religion” episode, Netflix, Gigi Cavenago, art director
“Additionally, although plaintiff claims that Tyler was her legal guardian, she testified that she never went through any guardianship proceeding with Tyler, she was never in a court and there was no hearing where Tyler was awarded guardianship over her, she never spoke to her mother about the alleged guardianship and she never saw papers appointing Tyler as her guardian,” according to Tyler’s attorneys’ pleadings. In their motion to dismiss what remains of Tyler’s accuser’s case set for hearing Aug. 28, his attorneys maintain that only one of her claims have a California connection, while others allegedly occurred in Massachusetts, Oregon and Washington, where her causes of action would be time-barred.
The part of Tyler’s case previously dismissed by Judge Ronald Frank in an anti-SLAPP motion involved the woman’s intentional infliction of emotional distress claim that pertained to statements made in Tyler’s published memoirs. The state’s anti-SLAPP, or Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation law is intended to prevent people from using courts, and potential threats of a lawsuit, to intimidate those who are exercising their First Amendment rights.
Creative Arts Emmy Award winners announced in 9 categories
Storyboard — “Love, Death + Robots” / “How Zeke Got Religion” episode, Edgar Martins, storyboard artist
Outstanding motion design — “Octopus!” / Prime Video / Amazon MGM Studios / Jigsaw Productions / Wells Street Films; Minkyung Chung, designer; Michaela Olsen, creative director; Hayley Morris, art director; Julie Gratz, art director; Anthony Galante, cinematographer; Sabrina Chaney, compositor
Winners to be presented Sept. 7 are:
Outstanding innovation in emerging media programming “White Rabbit” / Shibuya. Film / Shibuya; Maciej Kuciara, director/writer/ production designer; Emily Yang, director/writer Outstanding costumes
for variety, nonfiction or reality programming “Beyoncé Bowl” / Netflix / Jesse Collins Entertainment and Parkwood Entertainment for Netflix; Beyoncé KnowlesCarter, costume designer;
Steven Tyler in the 1970s. | Photo courtesy of Steven Tyler/Facebook
Shiona Turini, costume designer; Erica Rice, assistant costume designer; Molly Peters, assistant costume designer; Chelsea Staebell, costume supervisor; Timothy White, head of workroom
| Photo courtesy of the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards/ Facebook
Pasadena City Notices
Notice of Public Hearing Planning Commission
Zoning Code Amendments related to: 1) Predevelopment Plan Reviews; 2) Design Review; 3) Signs and Awnings; 4) Outdoor and Temporary Uses; 5) Special Purpose Zoning Districts; 6) Accessory Dwelling Units; 7) Implementation of new State Legislation; and 8) Other Miscellaneous Updates
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Proposed are Amendments to various sections of Title 17 (the Zoning Code) of the Pasadena Municipal Code (PMC). This includes changes to the following: 1) Predevelopment Plan Reviews - Chapter 17.60; 2) Design Review - Chapter 17.61; 3) Signs and Awnings - Chapters 17.48 and 17.50; 4) Outdoor and Temporary Uses - Chapter 17.50; 5) Special Purpose Zoning Districts - Chapter 17.26; 6) Accessory Dwelling UnitsChapter 17.50; 7) Implementation of new State Legislation including off-street parking requirements, retail sales with donation drop off, notices for public hearings and employee/farmworker housing; and 8) Other Miscellaneous Updates including parking for changes of use, meeting continuances and glossary definitions.
PROJECT LOCATION: Citywide.
ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION: The Planning Commission will consider whether adoption of the proposed Zoning Code Amendments are exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b) (3), under the “Common Sense” exemption that CEQA applies only to projects which have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment. Where it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity in question may have a significant effect on the environment, the activity is not subject to CEQA. The Amendments focus on procedural changes to the review process and provide additional clarity on terms and standards used. They also revise sections to comply with recent state legislation and implement programs of the 2021-2029 Housing Element. None increase development levels or intensity or add new uses that would generate impacts.
APPROVALS NEEDED: The Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing and consider the proposed Zoning Code Amendments and environmental determination. The Planning Commission recommendation will be forwarded to the City Council, who will make a final decision at a separately noticed public hearing.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing and consider the proposed Zoning Code Amendments and proposed environmental determination. The hearing is scheduled for:
Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2025 Time: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Council Chambers, Pasadena City Hall 100 North Garfield Avenue, Room S249. The meeting agenda will be posted by August 22, 2025 at www.cityofpasadena.net/commissions/plan ning-commission/
PUBLIC INFORMATION: Any interested party or their representative may provide live public comment by following the instructions in the meeting agenda. Prior to the start of the meeting, written correspondence may be emailed to commentsPC@cityofpasadena.net or mailed to the address below (note that this email address will not be checked once the meeting starts).
Contact Person: Jason Mikaelian, Deputy Director Phone: (626) 744-7231
E-mail: jmikaelian@cityofpasadena.net Website: www.cityofpasadena.net/planning
Mailing Address:
Planning & Community Development Department Planning Division, Community Planning Section 175 North Garfield Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91101
ADA: To request a disability-related modification or accommodation necessary to facilitate meeting participation, please contact the Planning & Community Development Department as soon as possible at (626) 744-4009 or (626) 744-4371 (TDD) or commentsPC@ cityofpasadena.net. Providing at least 72 hours advance notice will help ensure availability. Language translation services may also be requested with 72-hour advance notice by calling (626) 744-4009
Publish August 7, 18, 25, 2025 PASADENA PRESS
Probate Notices
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
DAVID RANDALL RUBY
CASE NO. 25STPB07706
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of DAVID RANDALL RUBY.
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by HANNAH RUBY in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that HANNAH RUBY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)
The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 09/09/25 at 8:30AM in Dept. 2D located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner RICHARD L. CHINEN, ESQ. - SBN 105407
BARBARO, CHINEN, PITZER & DUKE LLP
301 EAST COLORADO BOULEVARD, SUITE 700 PASADENA CA 91101- 1911
Telephone (626) 793-5196 8/11, 8/14, 8/18/25
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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
GARY L. OMOTOY
CASE NO. PROVA2500586
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of GARY L. OMOTOY.
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by DENISE GONZALES in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that DENISE GONZALES be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)
The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 09/10/25 at 9:00AM in Dept. F3 located at 17780 ARROW BLVD, FONTANA, CA 92335
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice undera section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for Petitioner
PRISCILLA C. SOLARIO, ESQ.SBN 259607
LAW OFFICES OF PRISCILLA C. SOLARIO 9431 HAVEN AVE., #108
RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Telephone (909) 529-1011 8/11, 8/14, 8/18/25 CNS-3955775# ONTARIO NEWS PRESS
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
MARY CATHERINE CRAIG CASE NO. 25STPB08862
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of MARY CATHERINE CRAIG.
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by DAVID CRAIG in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that DAVID CRAIG be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)
The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 09/12/25 at 8:30AM in Dept. 79 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the
California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for Petitioner
DONALD E. BOSS - SBN 145551, LAW OFFICE OF DONALD E. BOSS
908 S VILLAGE OAKS DR COVINA CA 91721, Telephone (626) 966-9231
8/11, 8/14, 8/18/25 CNS-3955786# BALDWIN PARK PRESS
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
DONALD E. EHRLICH
CASE NO. 25STPB09008
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of DONALD E. EHRLICH.
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by CLAUDIA E. EHRLICH in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that CLAUDIA E. EHRLICH be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)
The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 09/15/25 at 8:30AM in Dept. 9 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for Petitioner
ASHLEY M. ZAVALA, ESQ. - SBN 333561
HAHN & HAHN LLP
301 E. COLORADO BLVD., 9TH FLOOR PASADENA CA 91101
Telephone (626) 796-9123
8/14, 8/18, 8/21/25 CNS-3957283# PASADENA PRESS
NOTICE OF AMENDED PETITION TO ADMINISTER
ESTATE OF: ROGER ELLIOTT COHEN CASE NO. 25STPB07802
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of ROGER ELLIOTT COHEN. AN AMENDED PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by LISA ANDERSON in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE AMENDED PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that LISA ANDERSON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 09/22/25 at 8:30AM in Dept. 62 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner
JEFFREY L. CONDON - SBN 132774
CONDON & CONDON, APC 3435 OCEAN PARK BLVD., STE. 108 SANTA MONICA CA 90405
Telephone (310) 393-0701 8/18, 8/21, 8/25/25 CNS-3957675# BURBANK INDEPENDENT
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: SUPON SIMONE CASE NO. 30-2025-01502334-PR-PLCMC
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contin-gent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of SUPON SIMONE.
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by PONGTEP DANSIRIMITRI in the Superior Court of California, County of ORANGE. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that PONGTEP DANSIRIMITRI be appoint-ed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authori-ty will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very im-portant actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interest-ed person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 10/02/25 at 1:30PM in Dept. CM07 located at 3390 HARBOR BLVD., COSTA MESA, CA 92626 NOTICE IN PROBATE CASES The court is providing the convenience to appear for hearing by video using the court’s designated video platform. This is a no cost ser-
vice to the public. Go to the Court’s website at The Superior Court of California - County of Orange (occourts.org) to appear remotely for Probate hearings and for remote hearing instructions. If you have difficulty connecting or are unable to connect to your remote hearing, call 657-622-8278 for assistance. If you prefer to appear in-person, you can appear in the department on the day/ time set for your hearing.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for Petitioner
LAUREN R. COSGROVE - SBN 334897
ZUBIATE BEAUCHAMP, PC
P.O. BOX 663 SAN DIMAS CA 91773
Telephone (909) 305-5544
8/18, 8/21, 8/25/25 CNS-3958065# ANAHEIM PRESS
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: WALTER ELLIS HERRINGTON
CASE NO. 25STPB09089
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of WALTER ELLIS HERRINGTON.
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by MICHELLE ANDRADE in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that MICHELLE ANDRADE be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)
The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 09/12/25 at 8:30AM in Dept. 79 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult
with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for Petitioner
C. TRACY KAYER - SBN 230022
KAYSER LAW GROUP, APC 1407 N. BATAVIA ST., SUITE 103 ORANGE CA 92867
Telephone (714) 984-2004 BSC 227297 8/18, 8/21, 8/25/25 CNS-3958098# PASADENA PRESS
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ROBERT A. DOTY
CASE NO. PROVA2500640
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of ROBERT A. DOTY.
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by EMILY DOTY in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that EMILY DOTY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)
The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 09/23/25 at 9:00AM in Dept. F1 located at 17780 ARROW BOULEVARD, FONTANA, CA 92335
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner
DANIELLE A. GEYE - SBN 239304
WIEZOREK & GEYE, APC 3450 E. SPRING STREET, SUITE 212 LONG BEACH CA 90806
Telephone (562) 396-5529 8/18, 8/21, 8/25/25 CNS-3958448# ONTARIO NEWS PRESS
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: RICHARD RYAN RADEMACHER CASE NO. PROVA2500636
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of RICHARD RYAN RADEMACHER. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has
LEGALS
been filed by VICTORIA RADEMACHER EAGLESON in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that VICTORIA RADEMACHER EAGLESON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 09/24/25 at 9:00AM in Dept. F3 located at 17780 ARROW BLVD., FONTANA, CA 92335
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for Petitioner
DEBORAH COEL - SBN 262306 AND PEILIN NGO - SBN 303829
33 BROOKLINE ALISO VIEJO CA 92656
Telephone (949) 682-8019
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Public Notices
Order To Show Cause For Change of
Name Case No.30-2025-01500270 To All
Interested Persons: Aarav Pranav Rawal filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT
NAME Aarav Pranav Rawal PROPOSED
NAME Aarav Rawal . The Court Orders that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Notice Of Hearing Date: 10/07/2025 Time: 1:30pm Dept. D-100 REMOTE HEARING The address of the court is Central Justice Center, 700 Civic Center, Santa ANA CA 92701-4045. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Anaheim Press Date: July 30, 2025 Gassia Apkarian Judge of the Superior Court Pub Dates: August 4, 11, 18, 25, 2025 ANAHEIM PRESS
Notice of Self Storage Sale
Please take notice
SecureSpace Self Storage Rialto located at 2850 Foothill Blvd Rialto CA 92376 intends to hold a public sale to the highest bidder of the property stored by the following tenants at the storage facility. The sale will occur as an online auction via www.storagetreasures.com on 8/27/2025 at 1:30 PM. Robert Subero; Richard Duron; Jordan Siganoff; Maximina Morales; Elizabeth Perez-Franco; Dorcey Greenwood; Elisia Hernandez; Edgar Arriaga; Robert Zamora; Robert Hernandez;
Patricia Mejia; Nancy A. Copeland. This sale may be with-drawn at any time without notice. Certain terms and conditions apply.
Publish on August 11, 2025 & August 18, 2025 IN THE SAN BERNARDINO PRESS
Notice of Self Storage Sale
Please take notice SecureSpace Self Storage San Bernardino located at 1320 E Highland Ave San Bernardino CA 92404 intends to hold a public sale to the highest bidder of the property stored by the following tenants at the storage facility. The sale will occur as an online auction via www. storagetreasures.com on 8/27/2025 at 11:00 AM. Autumn Olvera; Arteleia Pugh; David Anthony Lyttle; Lori Ann Trujillo; Richard Joseph Gortarez; Freddie Garcia; Conrad Estrada; Ophelia Duarte; Guadalupe Martinez. This sale may be withdrawn at any time without notice. Certain terms and conditions apply.
Publish on August 11, 2025 & August 18, 2025 SAN BERNARDINO PRESS
CASE NUMBER: (Numero del Caso): 25NNCV02206 SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): SHUANG LI, AN INDIVIDUAL, AND QIAN SUN, AN INDIVIDUAL, AND DOES 1-20, INCLUSIVE
Plaintiff’s Title Thereto. YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): QIAN HE, AN INDIVIDUAL
NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. ¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación. Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le dé un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 ó más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.
The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es): Alhambra courthouse, 150 commonwealth avenue, Alhambra, Ca 91801
The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): Virginia Liu, 660 Newport Center Drive, Suite 600, Newport
Beach, Ca 92660, (949) 627-6886
Date: (Fecha) April 2, 2025
David W Slayton, Clerk (Secretario) By: D. Gallegos, Deputy (Adjunto)
NOTICE OF CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE TO THE PLAINTIFF(S)/ATTORNEY(S) FOR PLAINTIFF(S) OF RECORD:
You are ordered to serve this notice of hearing on all parties/attorneys of record forthwith, and meet and confer with all parties/attorneys of record about the matters to be discussed no later than 30 days before the Case Management Conference.
Your Case Management Conference has been scheduled at the courthouse address shown above on:
Date: 08/14/2025 Time: 8:30 AM
Dept.: V
NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: THE SETTING OF THE CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE DOES NOT EXEMPT THE DEFENDANT FROM FILING A RESPONSIVE PLEADING AS REQUIRED BY LAW.
Pursuant to California Rules of Court, rules 3.720-3.730, a completed Case Management Statement (Judicial Council form # CM-110) must be filed at least 15 calendar days prior to the Case Management Conference. The Case Management Statement may be filed jointly by all parties/attorneys of record or individually by each party/attorney of record. You must be familiar with the case and be fully prepared to participate effectively in the Case Management Conference.
At the Case Management Conference, the Court may make pretrial orders including the following, but not limited to, an order establishing a discovery schedule; an order referring the case to Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR); an order reclassifying the case; an order setting subsequent conference and the trial date; or other orders to achieve the goals of the Trial Court Delay Reduction Act (Gov. Code, § 68600 et seq.)
Notice is hereby given that if you do not file the Case Management Statement or appear and effectively participate at the Case Management Conference, the Court may impose sanctions, pursuant to LASC Local Rule 3.37, Code of Civil Procedure sections 177.5, 575.2, 583.150, 583.360 and 583.410, Government Code section 68608, subdivision (b), and California Rules of Court, rule 2.2 et seq.
Dated: 04/02/2025
Sarah J. Heidel Judicial Officer
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I, the below named Executive Officer/ Clerk of Court of the above-entitled court, do hereby certify that I am not a party to the cause here-in, and that on this date I served the Notice of Case Management Conference upon each party or counsel named below: by depositing in the United States mail at the courthouse in Alhambra, California, one copy of the original filed herein in a separate sealed envelope to each address as shown below with the postage thereon fully prepaid.
Dated: 04/02/2025
David W. Slayton, Executive Officer / Clerk of Court By: K. Carrillo Deputy Clerk
NOTICE RE: CONTINUANCE OF HEARING AND ORDER CASE NUMBER 25NNCV02206
You are hereby notified that the Order to Show Cause Re: Failure to File Proof of Service previously set for hearing on 07/08/2025 in Department V, has been reset for hearing in the same department on 08/14/2025 8:30 AM ORDER
You are ordered to give notice by mail forth-with of such fact to all parties and to file proof of service of such notice forthwith in the assigned department, located at: Alhambra Courthouse 150 West Commonwealth Avenue, Alhambra, CA 91801
06/18/2025 Sarah J. Heidel
Dated: Judicial Officer
Virginia Liu 660 Newport Center Drive, Suite 600 Newport Beach, Ca 92660 (949) 627-6886
Publish August 11, 18, 25, September 1, 2025 ONTARIO NEWS PRESS
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF Jordan Richard-Anthony Maldonado FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 25NNCP00613 Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles 300 E. Olive, Burbank, Ca 91502, Northeast Judicial District TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner Jordan Richard-Anthony Maldonado filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name a. OF Jordan Richard-Anthony Maldonado to Proposed name Jordan Richard-Anthony Pierce 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this
matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reason for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing NOTICE OF HEARING a. Date: 09/19/2025 Time: 8:30AM Dept: B. The address of the court is same as noted above. 3. a. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the day set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Burbank Independent DATED: August 6, 2025. Roberto Longoria JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT Pub. August 11, 18, 25, September 1, 2025 BURBANK INDEPENDENT
To All Creditors and Claimants Against Fontario Land, Inc. and All Other Persons Concerned: Take notice that a Certificate of Dissolution for Fontario Land, Inc., a California corporation, having a principal address at PO Box 740, Turlock, CA, 95381, will be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, on or about December 1, 2025, pursuant to the provisions of California Corporations Code 8610-8618, and that all creditors of and all claimants against the corporation are hereby required to present their respective claims, accounts and demands against the corporation in writing and in detail to the directors thereof at the office of the corporation at PO Box 740, Turlock, CA, 95381, on or before December 9, 2025. All claims, accounts and demands which shall not be presented in accordance herewith shall be forever barred against the property and assets of the corporation and its directors and shareholders.
Dated: August 11, 2025
Publish August 11, 18, 25, 2025 in THE SAN BERNARDINO PRESS
To All Creditors and Claimants Against Lime Road, Inc. and All Other Persons Concerned:
Take notice that a Certificate of Dissolution for Lime Road, Inc., a California corporation, having a principal address at PO Box 740, Turlock, CA, 95381, will be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, on December 1, 2025, pursuant to the provisions of California Corporations Code 8610-8618, and that all creditors of and all claimants against the corporation are hereby required to present their respective claims, accounts and demands against the corporation in writing and in detail to the directors thereof at the office of the corporation at PO Box 740, Turlock, CA 95381, on or before December 9, 2025. All claims, accounts and demands which shall not be presented in accordance herewith shall be forever barred against the property and assets of the corporation and its directors and shareholders.
Dated: August 11, 2025
Publish August 11, 18, 25, 2025 in THE SAN BERNARDINO PRESS
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF Jasmin Martin, Joseph Martin filed on behalf of their daughter Jet Avery Martin FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 25PSCP00419 Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles 400 Civic Center Plaza Pomona, CA 91766, , East Judicial District TO ALL INTERESTED
PERSONS: 1. Petitioner Jasmin Martin, Joseph Martin filed on behalf of their daughter Jet Avery Martin filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name a. OF Jet Avery Martin to Proposed name Avery Jet Martin 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reason for the objection at least two court days
affidavit described in Section 2924m(c) of the Civil Code, so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase.
Date: August 11,
Fictitious Business Name Filings
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.
FBN20250005813
The following persons are doing business as: CMM Advantage, 14427 Huntridge Drive, Victorville, CA 92394. Mailing Address, 14427 Huntridge Drive, Victorville, CA 92394. # pf Employees 1. Monique jennings. County of Principal Place of Business: San Bernardino This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. By signing below, I declare that I have read and understand the reverse side of this form and that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Government Code Sections 6250- 6277). /s/ Monique R. Jennings, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on June 18, 2025 Notice- In accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920. A Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code) File#: FBN20250005813 Pub: 06/23/2025, 06/30/2025, 07/07/2025, 07/14/2025, 07/21/2025, 07/28/2025, 08/04/2025, 08/11/2025 San Bernardino Press
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Solorzano Trucking 2521 2nd St Norco, CA 92860 Riverside County Pedro Muniz Solorzano, 2521 2nd St, Norco, CA 92860 Riverside County
This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on May 5, 2007. I de-
clare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)
s. Pedro Muniz Solorzano Statement filed with the County of Riverside on June 4, 2025 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code). I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202507088 Pub. 06/26/2025, 07/03/2025, 07/10/2025, 07/17/2025 Riverside Independent
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Liberty Real Estate Services 43950 Margarita Road, Suite E Temecula, CA 92592 Riverside County Corporation Styner Enterprises, Inc (CALIFORNIA 43950 Margarita Road, Suite E, Temecula, CA 92592 Riverside County
This business is conducted by: a corporation. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)
s. Deborah A. Styner, Chief executive officer
Statement filed with the County of Riverside on July 22, 2025 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code). I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202509006 Pub. 07/28/2025, 08/04/2025,
08/11/2025, 08/18/2025
Riverside Independent
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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Turning Toward Therapy 32605 Temecula Parkway Suite 303 Temecula, CA 92592
Riverside County Tonya marie Pan-Weisz, 32605 Temecula Parkway Suite 303, Temecula, CA 92592
Riverside County
This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).) s. Tonya marie Pan-Weisz
Statement filed with the County of Riverside on July 22, 2025
NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code). I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202508978 Pub. 07/28/2025, 08/04/2025, 08/11/2025, 08/18/2025 Riverside Independent
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No. FBN20250007021
The following persons are doing business as: Good Water Source, 1721 S Vineyard Ave #J, Ontario, CA 91761. Mailing Address, 4918 South Avocado Trail, ONTARIO, CA 91762-7291. Arashinder
Singh. County of Principal Place of Business: San Bernardino
This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. By signing below, I declare that I have read and understand the reverse side of this form and that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Government Code Sections 6250- 6277). /s/ arashinder Singh, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on July 25, 2025 NoticeIn accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920. A Fictitious Name Statement generally expires
at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code) File#: FBN20250007021 Pub: 08/04/2025, 08/11/2025, 08/18/2025, 08/25/2025 San Bernardino Press
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20256721792. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: (1). America’s Best Property Management (2). Escrow 1 (3). Escrow One (4). National Realty Group (5). National Realty Group – Riverside (6). NRG Commercial Brokerage , 6700 Indiana Ave STE 130, Riverside, CA 92506. Full Name of Registrant(s) National One Mortgage Corp (CA, 6700 Indiana Ave STE 130, Riverside, CA 92506. This business is conducted by a corporation. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on October 31, 1991. (1). America’s Best Property Management (2). Escrow 1 (3). Escrow One (4). National Realty Group (5). National Realty Group – Riverside (6). NRG Commercial Brokerage . /S/ Jeff Maas, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Orange County on July 31, 2025. Publish: Anaheim Press 08/11/2025, 08/18/2025, 08/25/2025, 09/01/2025
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Servlegacy Cooling and Heating 6686 Van Buren Blvd Riverside, CA 92503 Riverside County Servlegacy Inc (CA, 6686 Van Buren Blvd, Riverside, CA 92503 Riverside County This business is conducted by: a corporation. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).) s. Jose Pinedo, CEO Statement filed with the County of Riverside on July 24, 2025 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code). I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202509223 Pub. 08/11/2025, 08/18/2025, 08/25/2025, 09/01/2025 Riverside Independent
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Bridal & Bridesmaid Alterations 3931 Chestnut St Riverside, CA 92501 Riverside County Elvira Esparza, 3931 Chestnut St, Riverside, CA 92501 Riverside County This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).) s. Elvira Esparza Statement filed with the County of Riverside on August 6, 2025 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code). I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202509715 Pub. 08/11/2025, 08/18/2025, 08/25/2025, 09/01/2025 Riverside Independent
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN20250007569
The following persons are doing business as: BAD DOG TRUCKING, 1531 Latham St, Colton, CA 92324. Mailing Address, 1531 Latham St, Colton, CA 92324. THE DIAZ ACQUISITION GROUP LLC (CA201812110333, 1531 Latham St, Colton, CA 92324; SEBASTIAN THOMAS DIAZ, MANAGER. County of Principal Place of Business: San Bernardino This business is conducted by: a limited liability company (llc). Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. By signing below, I declare that I have read and understand the reverse side of this form and that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor
punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing
federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code) File#: FBN20250007569 Pub: 08/18/2025, 08/25/2025, 09/01/2025, 09/08/2025 San Bernardino
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Concerns about tariffs spur cargo movement in July
By City News Service
As retailers and manufacturers seek to get ahead of tariffs, Port of Los Angeles officials Wednesday said July was the busiest month on record with dockworkers handling 1,019,837 twenty-foot equivalent units, an increase of 8.5% compared to the same time last year.
Loaded imports stood at 543,728 TEUs, an 8% increase compared to July 2024. Loaded exports landed at 121,507 TEUs, a 6% increase, and the port also processed 354,602 empty container units, a 10% increase.
Seven months into 2025, the port has handled nearly 6 million TEUs, or a 5% increase compared to the same period in 2024.
“Shippers have been front-loading their cargo for months to get ahead of tariffs and recent activity at America’s top port really tells that story,” port Execu-
tive Director Gene Seroka said during a media briefing Wednesday.
“Port terminals in July were jam-packed with ships loaded with cargo, processed without any delay -- much to the credit of our dedicated longshore workers, terminal and rail operators, truckers and supply chain partners,” Seroka added.
According to Seroka, the port had 107 ship calls in July, 30% more than average over the past five years. Another 11 unscheduled ships arrived, which officials call “extra loaders.”
President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs went into effect Aug. 1, pushing the effective tariff rates to the “highest point in nearly a century,” port officials said. China’s tariff rates stood at 55%. Trade framework deals with Japan, South Korea and the European Union have tariff rates at 15%. While Indonesia,
Malaysia and the Philippines negotiated a 19% rate, Vietnam and Taiwan sat in at 20%.
Beyond these deals, India and Brazil have tariff rates at 50%, Seroka said.
“All this means higher prices, fewer selections and probably lower inventories,” Seroka said. “As we look to the back half of this year already, the Ford Motor Company, Procter and Gamble, Walmart, Nike, Mattel and many others have announced price hikes.”
Zachary Rogers, an assistant professor of supply chain management at Colorado State University, joined Seroka for Wednesday’s briefing. He is a lead author of the Logistics Managers Index, a monthly survey of logistics managers across various industries that serves as a key indicator of industry’s expansion or contraction.
The LMI recorded a robust rate of growth in July, driven by movements in inventories and their costs.
“Inventories are very expensive right now,” Rogers said, citing tariffs and how much inventory is already present. “We haven’t seen the big
County approves sand reuse plan to protect LA beaches
By Joe Taglieri joet@beaconmedianews.com
Aplan to use sand that may have otherwise gone to a landfill is in place to replenish LA-area beaches, county officials announced Wednesday.
The Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors’ beach nourishment plan received unanimous approval from the Board of Supervisors last month.
Once approved by regulatory agencies, the Sand Compatibility and Opportunistic Use Program, or SCOUP will end the timeconsuming process for permits and county approval for small beach nourishment projects.
“The diminishing amount of sand on our beaches is one of the many negative factors of climate change impacting our shoreline,” Supervisor Holly Mitchell, whose 2nd District includes Dockweiler, Manhattan and Redondo beaches, said in a statement. “SCOUP helps the County address this challenge with cost-effective, nature-based solutions to replenish the sand our beaches need, while supporting the County’s commitment to keeping our beaches accessible to everyone.”
The plan also calls for sand replenishment at Zuma and Will Rogers beaches in the northern stretch of county coastline.
price increases yet, but early indicators look like we are going to start seeing those more at the consumer level,” he added.
of “diverse inland communities,” and preservation is key to ensuring equitable access to the coast.
The beaches in Mitchell’s district were chosen using several criteria, including coastal erosion and flood risk, public infrastructure and amenities along with recreational and economic benefits, among others, officials said. The beaches are also popular destinations for residents
The program’s next step is a review by the California Coastal Commission for a development permit. Approval is also required from the California State Lands Commission, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board.
“We’re deeply appreciative of the Board’s
commitment to protecting our beaches for future generations,” Beaches and Harbors Director Gary Jones said in a statement. “SCOUP gives us a sustainable, natural way to protect our beaches — not just for future generations, but for the communities who
depend on them today. It’s a step that balances nature and access.”
Officials said SCOUP is a key part of the county’s Coastal Resilience Initiative that aims to protect beaches “through naturebased solutions and partnerships with regional stakeholders.”
More about the Coastal Resilience Initiative and SCOUP, including the option to sign up for emails about project updates and community engagement opportunities is at beaches.lacounty.gov/ coastal-resilience.
| Photo courtesy of Port of Los Angeles / Facebook
Sand erosion is a concern at LA County beaches. | Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors Efforts are underway to implement a sand replenishment project for five LA-area beaches. | Image courtesy of the Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors
USC launching design contest to help provide shade to LA
By City News Service
As Los Angeles prepares
to host a series of major global sporting events, USC Dornsife Public Exchange and the USC School of Architecture are teaming up to launch a first-of-its-kind student design competition to tackle one of the region’s growing threats: extreme heat.
The Shade Zones Design Competition kicks off in the fall and will run annually through 2027, officials said Wednesday. This year’s competition is part of ShadeLA, a regional campaign led by USC Dornsife Public Exchange in collaboration with the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, and with participation from LA Metro, the city and county of Los Angeles and LA28, the local organizing committee for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
“This is an opportunity for students to see their ideas come to life - - not just in renderings, but in the real world,” said Brett Steele, dean of the USC School of Architecture. “Through this collaboration, we’re giving
young designers a platform to tackle our urban heat challenges with creativity, responsibility and community impact in mind.”
The 2025 competition invites undergraduate and graduate students across the Los Angeles region to design innovative, modular, tempo-
rary shade systems that can transform everyday public places -- from sidewalks and bus stops to open-air gathering places -- into cooler, safer, more inviting environments.
Shade Zones hopes to support Metro by generating scalable streetscape
designs that can cool temporary pedestrian and cyclist pathways that residents, workers and visitors will rely on to navigate their way around Los Angeles during major events.
The challenge asks students to consider the quality of shade, modular-
ity, accessibility, innovation, sustainability and the feasibility of installation. The submissions must also consider the legacy of the structure after the major events are over, and propose how the shade structures could be re-purposed.
LA28 is selling venue naming rights
For the first time in the history of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, LA28 announced Thursday it has created the opportunity for corporations to purchase naming rights at competition venues.
LA28 said in a written statement that this move creates an additional revenue stream for the commercial joint venture between LA28 and the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee as they prepare for the upcoming games in 2028. This new
pilot program will apply to featured venues for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles. Some businesses, like Comcast Squash Center at Universal Studios and Honda Center, have already signed on to name a sport venue.
“From the moment we submitted our bid, LA28 committed to reimagining what’s possible for the Games,” said LA28 Chairperson and President, Casey Wasserman. “Today’s historic announcement delivers on
Constitution and trample over democracy -- running a cynical, self-serving playbook where Californians are an afterthought and power is the only priority.” Assemblyman Carl DeMaio, R-San Diego, called Newsom’s plan “corrupt.”
“California politicians are using Trump as the window
“Metro is proud to serve as a partner in ShadeLA and support this innovative design competition,” Metro Chief Planning Officer Ray Sosa said. “This design competition aims to inspire creative, scalable solutions that help ensure everyone in Los Angeles County can travel safely and comfortably through our system and across the region.”
A jury of architects, Metro leadership and staff, public officials and community leaders will select finalists for public exhibition. Winning designs could be showcased at Metro stations and other public spaces across the city.
The competition will be open for team registration Sept. 2-Oct. 15. Undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at any school or university in the greater Los Angeles region are eligible.
Further details and submission guidelines can be found at shade-la.com/ design-competition.
By City News Service
that promise, creating the first-ever venue naming rights program in Olympic and Paralympic history while advancing LA28’s mission of a fully privately funded and no-new-build Games.”
Under the new pilot program, some LA28 corporate partners will keep existing venue naming rights. Also, the opportunity to buy venue naming rights for up to 19 temporary venues will become available to international partners of the Olympics.
dressing to advance a corrupt and dishonest scheme to end fair elections in our state by eliminating the non-partisan Independent Citizens’ Redistricting Commission process to draw election districts,” DeMaio said. “This is a blatant attempt to rig elections by allowing politicians to choose voters rather than letting
voters choose politicians -and if this measure passes, the independent Citizens’ Redistricting process will be dead forever.”
It was unclear how many people were detained in the ICE raid that occurred in Little Tokyo just as Newsom’s news conference was beginning. Mayor Karen Bass showed
up at the scene after the ICE agents had departed.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem addressed the raid during an appearance on Fox News as video of the operation was shown.
“Every single one of our ICE and Border Patrol operations is built on informa-
tion, on investigative work,” Noem said.
She said an operation is planned “because of who they think could be in that area and what they have for information that shows there are illegal criminals there. Remember we’re focusing on the worst of the worst.”
Noem said she didn’t know specifics about the Los Angeles raid outside Newsom’s event, “but it was based on the investigative work that all law enforcement officers do for every single operation they conduct to make sure they’re getting dangerous criminals off our streets.”
USC campus. | Photo by CheWei Chang CC BY-ND 2.0
Honda Center. | Photo by jondoeforty1 / Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0