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San Jose: Homicide detectives investigating deaths of woman, child at apartment

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:10:50 GMT

SAN JOSE — Homicide detectives continue to investigate the deaths of an elderly woman and a child whose bodies were found in an apartment Friday following a police welfare check, authorities said.Police officers were called at 10:06 a.m. Friday to an apartment in the 1600 block of Parkmoor Avenue, site of the Vista luxury apartment complex, after being asked to check on the welfare of at least one resident.They discovered two bodies, of the woman and child. After the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office was summoned, police declared they were homicide victims.Neither their names nor their cause of death have been publicly disclosed pending their formal identification and notification of their next of kin by the coroner’s office.Authorities confirmed that the victims were an elderly woman and a child, but released no other details. A message from the apartment complex sent to tenants confirmed that the two were residents there, but police have not co...

Preseason all-Bay Area News Group high school football 2023: Defensive line

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:10:50 GMT

PRESEASON ALL-BAY AREA NEWS GROUP DEFENSIVE LINE(Listed in alphabetical order)Jeremiah Bailey, Moreau Catholic, 6-0, 240, seniorThe leader of both the defensive and offensive lines. The strongest player on the team. Student-body president with a 4.0 GPA. First-team all-league in 2022.Romeo Castillo, Wilcox, 6-3, 245, seniorFirst-team all-league and honorable mention all-Bay Area News Group last season. Will also play guard for the Chargers this fall.Delon Craft Jr., Salesian, 6-6, 260, juniorTwo-year starter on both the offensive and defensive line. First-team all-TCAL Rock last season. Will be among the team’s leaders.Nalesoni Fakava, San Mateo, 6-0, 280, seniorCo-defensive lineman of the year in the PAL Ocean and all-BANG honorable mention pick last season. Had 48 tackles, a team-best nine for loss, and two blocked FG attempts in 2022.Aseli Fangupo, Sacred Heart Prep, 5-10, 270, juniorA two-way player was a second-team all-BANG selection last season as an offensive lineman. Also r...

Jennifer Aniston roasted after accusing Jamie Foxx of antisemitism; turns off Instagram comments

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:10:50 GMT

It looks like Jennifer Aniston was right when she once said, “I hate social media. I’m not good at it.”Over the weekend, the “Friends” star found herself embroiled in a social media “fiasco” and turned off her Instagram comments after she inserted herself into an earlier social media controversy involving Jamie Foxx, her co-star in the 2011 film, “Horrible Bosses.” On Friday, Foxx, who has been in a long recovery from an unspecified “medical complication,” posted a message that was initially deemed by some to be antisemitic.Foxx wrote in the since-deleted message: “THEY KILLED THIS DUDE NAME JESUS… WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY’LL DO TO YOU???! #fakefriends #fakelove.”Just Mercy actor Jamie Foxx is interviewed by the media at the Mill Valley Film Festival Opening event in Mill Valley on Thursday. (Douglas Zimmerman/Special to Marin Independent Journal) While the post received thousands of likes, ...

Two more men go missing in the Kern River

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:10:50 GMT

Two men went missing in the Kern River on Saturday, the latest in a string of disappearances and drownings on that river.The first of Saturday’s disappearances was reported around 12:50 p.m. near Lake Ming Campground, 5 miles east of Bakersfield. A 32-year-old man who had been swimming had reportedly started to struggle, then went underneath the surface and did not emerge, the Kern County Sheriff’s Office said.Last month, a Los Angeles man also disappeared in the river near Lake Ming. His body was found four days later about 15 miles downstream.On Saturday evening, around 5:40 p.m., an emergency call reported that a man in his 30s had been swept away in the Kern River near Sandy Flat Campground, 7 miles downstream from Lake Isabella.  The last sighting of him by search crews was at 6:54 p.m. The search continued on Sunday, the sheriff’s office said.Since the start of July, six men have drowned or disappeared in the 50-mile stretch of the Kern River between Kernvill...

Brandon Crawford, SF Giants look forward to Bruce Bochy’s Oracle Park return

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:10:50 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — There isn’t much question how Bruce Bochy will be received by Giants fans when he makes his first return to Oracle Park as a manager next week.“He’s a hero. He’s loved. He’s Bochy,” said longtime broadcaster Marty Lurie. “He’s going to be a Hall of Famer and is a World Series champion. And the fan base still loves him.”Bochy, 68, spent 13 seasons as the Giants manager, winning 1,052 games and three World Series.This is Bochy’s second trip to the Bay Area this season, but the first time facing the Giants since he and the team parted ways after the 2019 season.In May, he brought his new team, the Texas Rangers, to Oakland for a four-game series. They are back in Oakland for a three-game series that starts Monday. On Friday, they open a three-game series in San Francisco.Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford has caught glimpses of Bochy in the Rangers’ colors, either on TV or when the team played in spring training. But for the first time in hi...

Jill On Money: Club Medicare

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:10:50 GMT

On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Medicare bill into law. The program was intended to provide medical care and health insurance to most Americans age 65 or older and has evolved in the near six decades since its inception.Related ArticlesBusiness | Be aware: Someone could steal your medical records and bill you for their care Business | Airfares are back to normal — so why do they feel so high? Business | The busiest days to fly around Labor Day 2023 Business | FHA 203(k) loans: What they are and how they work Business | Don’t let your credit scores retire The first major addition occurred in 1972, which was an expansion to Americans under 65 with certain disabilities and anyone with permanent kidney disease requiring dialysis or transplant and those with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease).The next major change to the Medicare program occurred in December 2003, when Congress added outpatie...

City workers vote to authorize strike in San Jose

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:10:50 GMT

(KRON) -- The voting is done and 4,500 San Jose city workers have voted to authorize a strike, according to an announcement made by city leaders on Monday. Angus Cloud's death not a suicide, mother says Though the workers are not on strike yet, they have voted to authorize a strike if they feel it's necessary. If the city workers do go on strike, they could do so as early as next week.The workers are looking for a pay raise. The city is offering a five percent raise for the first year but the workers say that's not hardly enough The workers including 911 dispatchers, librarians, airport workers and city inspectors Right now the two sides are about 20 million dollars apart. The announcement on whether they will go on strike will take place at 8:30 a.m. on Monday.

Local water utility files lawsuit over ‘forever chemicals’

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:10:50 GMT

The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission has filed a lawsuit against numerous companies, alleging they knowingly polluted the environment with “forever chemicals.”WSSC said damages received would go toward the cost of updating water treatment methods.In the lawsuit, filed in Maryland’s federal court, the utility names nearly 20 companies — including 3M, Dupont and Chemours — for their manufacturing of fire-suppression foams that contain per- and polyfluoroalkyl, or PFAS.WSSC alleges these companies knowingly concealed the chemicals’ toxicity from the public.PFAS are also found in things like nonstick frying pans, stain repellent, carpet and furniture. They are associated with numerous health risks according to the CDC, including increased cholesterol levels, liver damage and increased risk of kidney or testicular cancer.According to WSSC, its lawsuit seeks financial damages for any past, present or future contaminations of its water supply and any changes to wastewater trea...

A Belarusian sprinter who was forced out of the Tokyo Olympics has been cleared to race for Poland

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:10:50 GMT

MONACO (AP) — Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, the Belarusian sprinter whose team tried to force her out of the Tokyo Olympics, has been declared eligible to represent Poland ahead of the upcoming world championships.Tsimanouskaya’s profile on the website of World Athletics, track and field’s governing body, was updated Monday with a note that she became eligible to compete for Poland the day before.World Athletics generally requires athletes who want to switch allegiance to sit out a three-year waiting period. The rules say that period can be waived in “exceptional” circumstances. World Athletics says it doesn’t comment on how individual cases are decided.The world championships start in Budapest, Hungary, on Aug. 19, and Tsimanouskaya wrote on Instagram she believes she has a “large chance” of being selected. It was not clear Monday if Tsimanouskaya would be on Poland’s team to compete at the championships and, if so, in which events. The Polish track and field federatio...

Ruptura de un glaciar causa inundaciones récord en Alaska

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:10:50 GMT

JUNEAU, Alaska – Inundaciones récord de un río destruyeron el domingo al menos dos construcciones en esta ciudad y provocaron una declaración de emergencia que incluyó el desalojo masivo, después de que un glaciar se rompió, reportaron autoridades.El torrente fue causado por la inundación repentina del lago glacial de Suicide Basin, una cuenca llena de hielo y agua ubicada al lado del glaciar Mendenhall de Juneau. El agua helada fluyó tanto hacia las dos cuencas, lo que provocó que el lago alcanzara su punto máximo el sábado por la noche, según el Servicio Nacional del Clima Juneau.Ante esa situación, autoridades de la ciudad hicieron una declaratoria de emergencia, ya que la cantidad de agua es tal que amenazan las orillas del río Mendenhall, donde se ubican algunas construcciones, además de que bloquearon las vías carreteras de acceso con distintos materiales para evitar que las inundaciones avancen.“Aunque los niveles del río continúan cayendo, al menos dos estructuras se h...