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Netflix will end its DVD service after 25 years

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

Call up your Luddite loved ones and your nostalgic friends who still cherish physical media. After 25 years, Netflix is ending its DVD-by-mail business.Before it was upending the entertainment industry and ushering in the streaming era, Netflix was a company whose business model revolved around sending DVDs through the mail in easily recognizable red-and-white envelopes. At its peak, in 2010, roughly 20 million subscribed to the DVD service. But the practice has long felt anachronistic, and the company said Tuesday that it will ship its final DVDs to customers on Sept. 29.How many customers? Netflix doesn’t break out those numbers anymore. But whoever they are, it’s time for them to dust off any DVDs they might have lying around and send their red envelopes back to Los Gatos, California, where they can be retired to the landfills for good.“Those iconic red envelopes changed the way people watched shows and movies at home — and they paved the way for the shift to streaming,” the comp...

St. Paul district renames two schools as Txuj Ci HMong Language and Culture

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

St. Paul Public Schools has announced a new name for two schools that primarily serve Hmong-American students.Txuj Ci HMong Language and Culture will have an upper and lower campus, taking the place of Phalen Lake Hmong Studies Magnet and Hmong Language and Culture Middle School, which opened this year in the former Parkway building.Pronounced “tsoo dyee,” the name “refers to the cultural knowledge of a people. It includes everything from the language, cultural practices and beliefs, and the arts and knowledge,” according to a report to the school board Tuesday.A name change committee considered five options, all of which were in the Hmong language.They decided to capitalize the first two letters in HMong as a nod to both dialects: the White, who write the word “Hmong,” and the Green, who write it “Mong.”School leaders said the new name will help with student recruitment and to avoid “misunderstanding among new families who may not know the types of programming offered at each site....

9 migrants found suffering from exposure after crossing U.S.-Canada border in northern Minnesota

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

WARROAD, Minn. — A group of nine people who had mostly crossed the U.S.-Canada border illegally were found suffering from exposure to harsh weather conditions near Warroad on Tuesday.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police received an emergency call from a member of the group early Tuesday morning. According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, its agents responded at approximately 4:50 a.m.The group was located in a flooded bog west of Warroad, according to CBP.Agents tended to the group before first responders’ arrived; then the individuals were transported to regional medical facilities for treatment.Agents determined seven of the nine travelers entered the United States illegally and didn’t have any legal documentation permitting their presence in the U.S.When the individuals are medically cleared, they will be transported to a U.S. Border Patrol station, according to CBP, which didn’t specify the nationalities of the nine.The investigation is continuing.The management of ...

Outdoor death in Denver’s La Alma-Lincoln Park neighborhood investigated as a homicide

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

An outdoor death in Denver prompted a homicide investigation Tuesday.ALERT: #DPD is conducting an outdoor death investigation in the 1200 block of Mariposa St. #Denver Office of the Medical Examiner will provide victim ID & cause of death. If the status of this investigation changes to a homicide, we will update on this thread. pic.twitter.com/Fxy8lbHg5Y— Denver Police Dept. (@DenverPolice) April 18, 2023Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Barry Morphew’s attorney accuses DA of misrepresenting, withholding evidence in dismissed murder case Crime and Public Safety | Woman killed in southeast Denver shooting Crime and Public Safety | Denver man killed inside RV at Park-N-Ride, sheriff’s office says Crime and Public Safety | Denver police investigating fatal shooting on Vallejo Street Crime and Public Safety | Denver police arrest man in connection with fatal Christmas Day shooting ...

Teen dead, 3 others injured after stabbing suspect plows into pedestrians in Thousand Oaks

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

A 15-year-old boy is dead and three other teens were injured when an alleged assault suspect, fleeing the scene of an earlier stabbing, rolled their vehicle and crashed into the victims near Westlake High School Tuesday, authorities announced.  The incident unfolded at around 2:48 p.m. when officers with the Simi Valley Police Department responded to a Walmart, located at 255 West Cochran Street, to reports of a customer stabbing a store employee.  “The suspect fled the scene before officers arrived, but witnesses provided information about the suspect’s vehicle, white Toyota Camry missing the front bumper, along with the license plate number,” a news release from Simi Valley PD stated.  The stabbing victim was taken to the hospital for treatment.  While Simi Valley police were investigating the stabbing, VCSO deputies responded to reports of an “injury collision,” at around 3:40 p.m., near the intersection of Thousand Oaks Boulevard and Lakeview Canyon Road involving...

Coroner: Aaron Carter drowned after huffing, ingesting drugs

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

Pop singer Aaron Carter accidentally drowned after ingesting prescription drugs and huffing chemicals, according to the autopsy report released Tuesday by the Los Angeles Country Medical Examiner-Coroner.Carter, 34, was found unresponsive by a house sitter in a bathtub at his home in Lancaster, California on Nov. 5. The house sitter was told to perform CPR until paramedics arrived on the scene, at which point he was pronounced dead, officials said. According to the autopsy report, Carter passed out after inhaling difluoroethane and ingesting alprazolam. Difluoroethane is a compressed gas often found in household items such as spray cleaners and alprazolam is a generic form of Xanax. Carter "became incapacitated while in the bathtub as the drugs took effect, slipping under the surface of the water and ultimately drowning," the report states.The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner determined Aaron Carter died from inhaling difluoroethane and ingesting alprazolam. April 2023. C...

Presale Codes for Alicia Keys “Keys to the Summer” Tour

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

Some people want it all, but I don’t want nothing at all — except tickets to go see Alicia keys tear it up on tour this summer. And if you’re like me, you’re in luck. Alicia Keys just announced a tour dubbed the “Keys to the Summer” tour.  The tour will launch on June 28 in Fort Lauderdale, FL and hit 23 dates total, including a final night on August 2 here in Southern California at the Kia Forum in Inglewood — see below for all dates. Passwords and presale codes for the Alicia Keys “Keys to the Summer” Tour tickets are as follows:Presale codes for Alicia Keys “Keys to the Summer” TourPresale tickets for Alicia Keys “Keys to the Summer” Tour go on sale today, April 18 and we’ve been told the following presale codes and passwords may work. Details are subject to change, and vary by event date:Artist presale code or password: KEYS2THESUMMERTicketmaster presale code or password: VIBES23Live Nation website presale c...

Protesters march to Antioch City Hall, call for firing of cops who sent racist texts

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

ANTIOCH — Outside police headquarters, a small crowd of residents, organizers and activists gathered peacefully Tuesday afternoon to register sorrow and outrage, as well as resolve toward change, before marching together toward City Hall to attend a scheduled City Council meeting.Many within the gathering wore T-shirts with slogans calling for firings of specific Antioch police officers who last week were revealed to have sent racist and homophobic text messages, which were discovered during an FBI investigation of at least a dozen Antioch and Pittsburg officers.Civil rights attorneys John Burris and Adante Pointer addressed the crowd gathered Tuesday, as did parents of those victimized by police officers mentioned in the texts.Kathryn Wade, whose son, Malad Baldwin, sued the city in 2015 after Antioch officers beat and injured him said she is still waiting on an autopsy after Baldwin’s death in 2021. “The officers’ texts about my baby made me feel like he died all...

SF Giants’ skid reaches 5 games with loss to Marlins, lose Alex Wood in the process

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

MIAMI — Already beaten up and backsliding, the Giants lost their fifth straight game Monday night and a member of their starting rotation in the process.Starter Alex Wood left in the third inning after straining his hamstring, and the Giants’ bullpen was unable to hold on to another early lead, falling 4-2 to the Marlins, who got a three-run home run from Jazz Chisholm Jr. that proved to be the difference in the game.Having already clinched a losing record on this road trip, the Giants dropped their fourth straight series — three to teams that finished below .500 in 2022 — and will throw Alex Cobb in Wednesday’s series finale as they look to avoid a sweep and a sixth straight loss.They have lost all four games on this trip against the Tigers and Marlins, neither of whom won 70 games last season, despite holding leads in all four games.“It kind of feels like we’re just falling asleep at the wheel right now,” said outfielder Mike Yastrzemski, who gave the...

Robot shuttles at San Jose airport? Major transit plan moves forward

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

An effort to connect a 3.5-mile gap between San Jose Mineta International Airport and Diridon Station may get a Star Trek-like solution.Despite skepticism from transit enthusiasts and the local bus unions, San Jose councilmembers on Tuesday gave their initial approval on what could ultimately become an army of robotic shuttles ferrying passengers between the two travel hubs at a cost of up to $500 million. The project, which could get underway by 2028, comes as the city’s airport and Diridon Station experience increased demand but no efficient public transit option to link them. It currently takes two buses or an Uber to make the journey.In its unanimous approval on Tuesday, the council voted to explore working with a local startup called Glydways, whose driverless shuttles would carry up to four passengers on a designated driveway at a maximum speed of 31 miles per hour. Since the shuttle would run at a continuous speed, officials from Glydways said the journey could take aro...