Washingtion State Gov Inslee gives LIVE conference coronavirus update
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Home of ‘person of interest’ searched in Kristin Smart’s 1996 disappearance
An investigation into the 1996 disappearance of California college student Kristin Smart took another twist with a second search warrant issued at the home of a former fellow student Wednesday.
Authorities served a search warrant at the Los Angeles County home of Paul Flores, with the San Luis Obispo Sheriff’s Office saying in a statement that investigators were looking for “specific items of evidence.”
Smart, 19, vanished in May 1996 while returning to her dorm at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.
A friend said Smart had attended an off-campus party and was seen returning to the school with Flores, who was also a student.
She was legally declared dead in 2002, although her body was never found.
Flores “continues to be a person of interest” in the cold case, the sheriff’s office statement said. The search warrant is sealed by the court.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office assisted in Wednesday’s search of Flores’ home, which is about 200 miles south of San Luis Obispo.
A search warrant was also served at Flores’ home in February. At that time, authorities also served warrants at two locations in San Luis Obispo County and one in Washington State.
“Today’s search warrant only involved the home of Paul Flores,” Wednesday’s statement from the sheriff’s office said. Flores, who has been the subject of several police inquiries and searches, has never been charged in connection with the disappearance of Smart.
In January, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office said it had seized two trucks that belonged to members of Flores’ family in 1996.
In September 2016, sheriff’s deputies and FBI agents excavated a section of Cal Poly’s campus. The department said at the time that “items of interest” were recovered and were being analyzed, once again bringing attention to the case.
A recent locally produced podcast also renewed interest in the case.
Smart would have turned 43 in February.
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You know 45 must want all his Fanbase to die this is the most ignorant thing out of his mouth within the past 24 hours.
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State orders Tacoma apartment complex to stop eviction notices amid coronavirus crisis
These apartments are trash anyway. It looks nice on the outside but in the inside it’s trash I was so desperate this past summer I was going to move there anyway I’m glad I didn’t
TACOMA, Wash. — A Tacoma apartment complex has been ordered by the Washington Office Attorney General’s Office to cease and desist eviction notices.
Boulders at Puget Sound at 2602 Westridge Ave. W. has been sending emails, calling and posting notices to doors stating that residents need to pay rent or vacate despite Gov. Jay Inslee’s moratorium that temporarily prohibited landlords from evicting renters because they cannot pay rent until April 17.
The Attorney General’s Office provided The News Tribune with a copy of the letter sent Monday to Boulders at Puget Sound and the parent company, JRK Holding Partners.
The letter states Boulders at Puget Sound violated the eviction order by serving notices and taking actions in the eviction process with 14-day pay-or-vacate notices.
The letter also said JRK Property Holdings placed “unfair and deceptive pressure on tenants to pay rent” by telling residents to pay rent as quickly as possible to allow the property company “to support your less fortunate neighbors who are directly battling COVID-19.”
The apartment complex referred all comment to JRK Holding Partners. The phone numbers provided and those listed on the company site are non-operable, and Boulders at Puget Sound did not provide another way to contact the corporation. An email was sent to the JRK Holding Partners’ general inquiries account, but there was no immediate response.
Boulders at Puget Sound is one of several landlords sending eviction notices, according to the Attorney General’s Office. As of Monday, the office had received 403 eviction complaints from renters and contacted 168 landlords over the complaints.
Crystal Martin, a resident for about a year and a half, said management at Boulders in Puget Sound has even called her job.
“We don’t have money to move,” Martin told The News Tribune. “They tried to reach out to me but tried to contact my job, not realizing that I answer the phone for my job. They refused to speak to me. They wanted to speak to my boss.”
Martin, her husband and their three children live in a $1,767 two-bedroom apartment. She is still employed, but it has been difficult to pay rent with only one income. Her husband, a disabled veteran wasn’t working before, but other family members who were helping the couple before can no longer help them out, Martin said. If they can’t pay rent, she is afraid her family will end up on the streets.
“They have given us this notice so when the eviction order is over, they can take action right away,” Martin said. “I’ve called 211 to find some help, and we were thinking about becoming homeless because having an eviction on your record makes it so hard to find another place to live.”
Natascha Jammes, her husband and daughter have lived at Boulders in Puget Sound for three years. They rent a one-bedroom apartment for $1,255. Jammes was laid off about a month ago from a children’s birthday company.
Jammes said there have been issues with management before but never like this.
“I can’t sleep. I’ve got butterflies in my stomach,” Jammes said. “I’ve even considered being homeless this summer and putting up a tent with my daughter and husband because it would be warm enough to live outside.”
In notices obtained by The News Tribune, the apartment complex told residents that unemployment benefits and $1,200 federal stimulus check are for paying necessities, like rent.
“These cash payments are being sent to you directly so that everyone can continue to pay for necessities such as rent and avoid running behind on these essential bills, which can hurt your credit and create serious financial problems for you in the future,” the notice said.
Neither Jammes nor Martin have received money from the government.
Jammes said the company’s tactics are leaving her feeling stress.
“They are calling, emailing us a harassing amount of times, reminding us how much is due and how important it is to pay and how they are not going to give us any leniency,” Jammes said. “They keep hinting that this is going to ruin our credit forever.”
The notice also said that those struggling to pay rent can reach out to the office to create a financial plan or payment options. Both Martin and Jammes said they reached out to the office multiple times, but the manager was never available or a payment plan cost around $300 to set up.
The state Attorney General’s Office has ordered the company to rescind all 14-day pay or vacate notices, notify residents that the apartment complex will comply with the eviction moratorium and provide proof of doing so.
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Trump’s Failed Coronavirus Response
Some people believe Trump is doing a great job . Let me tell you something These trump fans are living in a fantasy.
Amazon fires three critics of warehouse conditions in pandemic
(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday it had fired three critics of the company’s pandemic response for workplace violations, dismissals that drew sharp words from U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and a labor coalition.
The company on Friday fired two user experience designers, Maren Costa and Emily Cunningham, for what it called repeated violations of internal policies, without specifying which ones.
The two workers, who gained prominence for pushing the company to do more on climate change, had recently made public statements questioning Amazon’s pandemic safety measures and pledging to match donations of up to $500 to support staff at risk of getting the virus.
The e-commerce giant also said it dismissed Bashir Mohamed, a warehouse worker in Minnesota, for inappropriate language and behavior. Mohamed told Reuters he had been warning colleagues about the virus and calling on management to increase cleaning; Amazon has been “tripling down on deep cleaning,” it has said in recent statements.
Their dismissals follow Amazon’s termination on March 30 of warehouse protest leader Christian Smalls on the grounds that he put others at risk by violating his paid quarantine when he joined a demonstration at Amazon’s Staten Island, New York, fulfillment center.
In statements shared with Reuters, Cunningham said she believed Amazon could play a powerful role during the crisis, but to do so, “we have to really listen to the workers who are on the front line, who don’t feel adequately protected.”
Costa said in her statement, “No company should punish their employees for showing concern for one another, especially during a pandemic!”
The world’s largest online retailer is facing intensifying scrutiny by lawmakers and unions over whether it is doing enough to protect staff from the novel coronavirus, which has infected more than 1.9 million people, including workers at more than 50 of Amazon’s U.S. warehouses, according to the New York Times.
The company has been racing to update safety protocols, distribute protective gear and keep warehouses functional as it works to ship essentials to shoppers under widespread government stay-at-home orders. Small groups of employees have staged high-profile protests at several Amazon warehouses.
Mohamed, a 28-year-old Somali-American, said his boss told him not to organize other workers at the Minneapolis-area warehouse. Once he began informing colleagues of the risks they faced from the virus, he said, Amazon started targeting him.
“They didn’t like the way I was talking,” he said.
In a statement, Amazon said, “We respect the rights of employees to protest and recognize their legal right to do so; however, these rights do not provide blanket immunity against bad actions, particularly those that endanger the health, well-being or safety of their colleagues.”
Amazon said Mohamed had also violated social distancing guidelines.
A dismissal letter Mohamed shared with Reuters did not specify social distancing but focused on his declining to talk to certain team leaders starting in early March; Mohamed alleged that before that period his manager had discriminated against him.
Public pressure on Amazon mounted on Tuesday, following five Democratic U.S. Senators who wrote to Amazon’s Chief Executive Jeff Bezos last week to request an explanation about what happened with the other fired warehouse worker, Smalls.
Sanders tweeted: “Instead of firing employees who want justice, maybe Jeff Bezos – the richest man in the world – can focus on providing his workers with paid sick leave, a safe workplace, and a livable planet.”
Athena, a labor and activist coalition, called the latest dismissals “outrageous.”
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