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Jay Leno on Tuesday was officially granted con- servatorship of his wife, Mavis, amid her ongoing struggles with degener- ative brain disease. Mavis Leno, 77, has been diagnosed with advanced dementia and does not know her hus- according to her doctors. The former host, who has been married to Mavis for more than 40 years, filed for conservatorship in January as her health declined from the most common form of demen- tia. Mavis has been progressively losing capacity and ori- entation to space and time for several read the original petition. While unclear when Mavis was first diagnosed, her husband reportedly delayed seeking conserva- torship of respect to Leno, 73, further said he was only seeking conserva- torship over her estate to set up a living trust to pro- vide for her care in case unable.
Leno suffered serious burns in November 2022 when a car in his garage caught fire and broke multiple bones in a motorcycle accident in January 2023. During hear- ing at Los Angeles County Superior Court, an attorney for Mavis agreed with the conservatorship decision and said his client is ceiving excellent care with her according to People. Jay Leno granted conservatorship of wife Mavis New York Daily News KRIS CONNOR Getty file Jay Leno, left, and Mavis Leno, pictured in 2014, have been married for more than 40 years. PEOPLE Wholesale inflation rose less than expected in March, according to a Thursday report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Producer Price Index March inflation rose 0.2% from the previous month for a 2.1% increase over the past 12 months.
Dow Jones economists had forecast that wholesale prices would rise 0.3% and the PPI 0.6% in February and 0.4% in January. The PPI demand prices for gasoline fell 3.6%. The goods price de- crease compares with a February goods price PPI increase of 1.2%. This wholesale PPI inflation report contrasts with Con- sumer Price Index that came in higher than ex- pected for March at 0.4%. Wholesale inflation rises less than expected UPI.com believed to be similar in appearance to a subject involved in the Nov.
19, 2022, homicide of 22-year-old Crispin Tafolla-Bravo. Police said Tafolla-Bravo was found dead inside his vehicle, and based on leads, detectives have determined a vehicle possibly involved in the death is an early-2000s silver Ford F-150. Authorities have re- leased a rendering that may resemble a person believed to have been involved in a 2022 Merced County homicide. The Livingston Police Department released an artist rendering that is According to police, officers respond to the area of Celia Drive and Hickory Avenue at about 8:30 p.m. Nov.
19, 2022, after receiving a report of a vehicle parked with the engine running for about 30 minutes. Arriving offi- cers located the man in the seat of the vehicle with multiple gun- shot wounds. Anyone with informa- tion regarding the case is asked to contact Living- ston Police Department Detective Taylor Koll- mann at 209-394-7916. Andrew Kuhn: 209-385-2461 Artist rendering may resemble subject believed to be connected to 2022 Livingston homicide BY ANDREW KUHN ANDREW KUHN The Livingston Police Department said a subject believed to be similar in appearance to an artist rendering, may have been involved in the Nov. 19, 2022 death of 22-year-old Crispin Tafolla-Bravo, according to authorities.
Police said an early 2000s silver Ford F-150 pickup truck is believed to be a vehicle involved in the death. Image screenshot from Livingston Police Department news release. to deliver relief supplies to the north as fighting continues. UNICEF said Thursday that one of its vehicles waiting to enter northern Gaza this week had been by live and that it had raised the matter with Israeli authorities. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to questions about the report.
comments came during her congres- sional testimony Wednes- day, when she was asked by Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, about reports that her agency had sent a cable to the National Security Council saying famine had begun in parts of Gaza. The cable was first reported by HuffPost. Power said a famine appeared to have begun according to an assess- ment by the global In- tegrated Food Security Phase Classification ini- tiative, a group of U.N. agencies and relief agen- cies also known as the IPC, whose methodology she described as sound.
She did not specify what JERUSALEM The director of the U.S. Agency for International Development told law- makers Wednesday that a famine is underway in the northern Gaza Strip, which has been devas- tated by six months of Israeli military operations and is the part of the territory most cut off from aid. The director, Samantha Power, is the first senior U.S. official to say public- ly that famine has begun in Gaza, where aid agen- cies and global experts have warned for months that nearly all 2.2 million Palestinians would soon face extreme hunger. Northern Gaza, which was the first part of the territory Israeli forces invaded in October, has been heavily damaged by the war and is far from the two open border crossings in the south through which nearly all aid is arriving.
Aid agencies say it has become all but impossible assessment she was re- ferring to. is their assess- ment, and we believe that assessment is Power said. famine is already occurring Castro replied. is Power said. The IPC said last month that famine was imminent in northern Gaza.
The body usually declares a famine when at least of house- holds face an extreme lack of food, when at least of children suffer from acute malnu- trition and when at least two adults or four chil- dren for every 10,000 people die each day from starvation or disease linked to malnutrition. Power said later in her testimony that the rate of severe malnutrition among children in Gaza had become since Oct. 7, when a Hamas-led terrorist attack prompted Israel to launch its military offen- sive in Gaza. northern Gaza, the rate of malnutrition prior to Oct. 7 was almost zero, and it is now 1 in 3 she said.
She added: terms of actual severe acute malnutrition for under-5s, that rate was in January and be- came in February. awaiting the March numbers, but we expect it to In interviews, people in northern Gaza have de- scribed severe food short- ages. Even in Beit Lahia, once known as breadbasket, diets sometimes amount to little more than boiled bitter weeds, said Yousef Sager, 24, a farmer. never thought we would be talking about famine he said. In the early months of the war, he said he ate only a small plate of rice each day, with breakfast and dinner replaced by tea or coffee.
When rice, tea and coffee ran out, he and many other Palesti- nians in Gaza turned to khobeza, a leafy green that grows in early spring. But the khobeza is starting to run out, he said, so he now lives off of a soup of hot water and stinging nettles. Be- fore the war, not even farm animals ate that, he said. had to close my nose and just swallow it to he said. MAHMOUD ISSA USA In the northern Gaza city of Jabalia, Palestinians crowd around packages of humanitarian aid that had been airdropped March 25, when the region was on the verge of famine.
The director of the U.S. Agency for International Development testified that the area is in a famine now. Famine has begun in northern Gaza, US official says BY LIAM STACK NYT News Service mercedsunstar.com/.
