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About 2,000 people in the Valley have HIV, according to the AIDS Council, and about five people contract the virus every week. About 20 percent of the new cases involve a person less than 24 years old.

Adrian Castellanos, who believes he was infected at 16 years old, is among them. With medication, the HIV in his system is now undetectable.

A lack of local sex education and a reluctance among some Valley parents to talk about sex with their children contributes to the problem, Castellanos said.

CBS 4 News spoke with several Valley parents, who said some Hispanic cultural taboos may be partly to blame for the rate of sexually transmitted diseases.

The lack of sex education also plays a role, said Oscar Lopez of the AIDS Council.

The AIDS Council attempts to help by offering free HIV testing, which shows results in minutes. Testing for other infections takes up to two weeks.

Some infections, including syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia, are curable. Others, including HIV and herpes, aren't.

"Just go get tested," Leestamper said. "I know it's scary and you don't want it to be you, but it can be anybody."



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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut on Wednesday personally welcomed a refugee family from Syria who had been diverted from Indianapolis to New Haven.

Meanwhile in New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, sent a letter to President Obama saying he was directing his state’s Department of Human Services not to participate in the resettlement of Syrian refugees.

On Wednesday, the fate of Syrian refugees in the United States fully erupted into a fight over states’ rights, even though governors and other local officials hold no legal role in the federal program that was authorized by the 1980 Refugee Act.

More than 30 governors have come out in recent days to say that their states will not accept refugees from Syria, even as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York and Governor Malloy, both Democrats, remained staunch in their commitment to take refugees.

A State Department spokeswoman said that it “has no plans to curtail resettlement in any of the 180 communities that have committed to welcoming refugees” despite what state leaders were saying.

For immigration lawyers and constitutional scholars, governors’ threats to bar Syrian refugees from their states and to cut them off from state resources, as the Republican governor of Indiana suggested, struck them as unconstitutional.

“The Supreme Court for more than 100 years has been very clear that on matters of immigration the nation has to speak with a single voice,” said Stephen Legomsky, a former general counsel for United States Citizenship and Immigration Services who is currently a professor at Washington University School of Law. “It shouldn’t be up to one state to decide what U.S. foreign policy may be.”

Were state governments to withhold services only to Syrian refugees who received federal money, he said, that would seem to violate the 14th Amendment ensuring equal protection of the law.

 



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CHICAGO -- They laughed, because a giggle qualifies as an appropriate, unprompted response to a display of dominance. Jamal Murray, who scored 16 points in No. 2 Kentucky's lopsided 74-63 win over No. 5 Duke in the Champions Classic at Chicago's United Center on Tuesday, looked at teammate Tyler Ulis(18 points, six assists, two steals and zero turnovers), adjacent to him on the postgame podium, and smiled.

That smirk accompanied an announcement to the college basketball universe that John Calipari might have built another Wildcats juggernaut that's equipped for another Final Four run following last year's 38-1 campaign.

"We build chemistry and play off each other," Murray said. "We just kind of take turns a little bit between us."

Both chuckled before Ulis added, "When he's feeling it, he lets me know and I give him the ball."

The production of Murray, Ulis and Isaiah Briscoe (46 points combined),Marcus Lee's aggression on both ends (10 points, 10 rebounds and two blocks) and defensive pressure that turned NBA prospects Grayson Allen and Brandon Ingram into a 3-for-17 mess all factored in to an impressive performance and a strong case that Kentucky is the best team in America.

Right now.

In the first week of the season, we don't know much. Much of the analyses and critiques -- the praise, too -- registers as premature or imprudent.

Call a team "great" and the social media trolls will attack, unless you're referencing their team. Ask a coach if his squad should panic after an unexpected loss and he'll tell you that it's a long, long season. Ask a coach if his team should celebrate after a big win and he'll unveil a list of concerns.



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The Giants had Amendola sealed up on the final pass attempt of the game, only for Amendola to juke out a pair of defenders and create a few much-needed yards for Gostkowski. That move alone nearly doubled New England's win expectancy; Burke's model gives the Pats an 18.4 percent chance of winning with a 60-yard field goal attempt, but that figure jumps to 36.3 percent with Gostkowski merely having to hit a 54-yarder.

I don't think Coughlin (and Manning) mismanaged the situation all that badly, given the Giants' strengths and the breaks it took for the Patriots to get the victory. And while the Giants have blown several fourth-quarter leads this season, I'm also not sure why we're treating that as a sure fatal flaw. Coughlin has been conservative with late-game clock management for years now, and he has won two Super Bowls. The idea that a team needs to "learn how to win" late in games has always been nonsense, but that seems doubly naive with a veteran combination of coach and quarterback who have managed to succeed in years past. It's disappointing, but not worth a panic.

Given that it's incredibly important to score a touchdown and not just settle for a field goal, the Giants can't just settle for running the football. This isn't the Seahawks with Marshawn Lynch. The Giants are comfortably the worst short-yardage team this season, converting on 27 percent of their power-running attempts during the first half of the season. The second-worst team, Jacksonville, is at 38 percent. It's reasonable for the Giants to mix in one run play, but the significant value added by scoring a touchdown and the game situation mean the Giants can't just try and chew clock. They have to try and score.

And truthfully, it took a lot of breaks to go the Patriots' way over those final 126 seconds for this to even end up as a loss. What looked an awful lot like an Odell Beckham Jr. touchdown catch on first down was ruled incomplete. Even worse, the play somehow contrived to end before the two-minute warning, narrowly gifting the Patriots an extra timeout. Landon Collins dropped what would have been a game-sealing interception on the first play of the final Patriots drive. And then this happened:



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