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Google, local leaders say huge downtown San Jose village will be built

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:52:48 GMT

SAN JOSE — A top executive of Google owner Alphabet joined a block party this weekend and made it clear the tech titan aims to build a huge mixed-use neighborhood in downtown San Jose.Ruth Porat, president and chief investment officer with Alphabet, which owns Google, was a featured speaker at the first of what’s expected to be a series of Creekside Socials block parties that Google and real estate firm Jamestown are planning to help create lively activities ahead of the actual construction of the search giant’s downtown San Jose transit village.Ruth Porat, president and chief investment officer of Google owner Alphabet, talks to people gathered at the Creekside Socials block party in the footprint of Google’s proposed transit-oriented village near the Diridon train station in downtown San Jose. (George Avalos/Bay Area News Group)Downtown West, as the future neighborhood is known, would sprout near the Diridon train station and SAP Center on the western ...

Photos: Paul Anka lists his six-acre California estate for $10 million

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:52:48 GMT

Pop legend Paul Anka has put his Thousand Oaks estate on the market for $10 million.Decorated with Anka’s gold records in MLS photos, this 7,791-square-foot French-style residence features four bedrooms and six bathrooms. It sits at the end of a long driveway on nearly six acres, making it one of the “largest privately gated lots” in Sherwood Country Club, as the listing notes, and offers mountain views.Records show the “Put Your Head on My Shoulder” crooner bought the newer property in 2007 for $3.96 million.The living room. (Photo by Shawn Cordon)The family room. (Photo by Shawn Cordon)The reimagined gourmet kitchen and pantry. (Photo by Shawn Cordon)The formal dining room. (Photo by Shawn Cordon)The billiard room. (Photo by Shawn Cordon)The recording studio. (Photo by Shawn Cordon)The primary bedroom. (Photo by Shawn Cordon)The infinity-edge pool. (Photo by Shawn Cordon)The glass structure that houses the air-conditioned gym. (Photo by Shawn Cordon)The house sits at the end of a ...

Defunct Sovereign Health to pay $11 million to settle wrongful death lawsuit

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:52:48 GMT

Brandon Nelson was an outstanding student at Santa Monica High School. (Courtesy of the Nelson family) Was it lies and sins of omission that killed Brandon Nelson?The promise of a professional mental health team’s care — psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists — that turned out to include guys with experience in furniture moving and construction and credit card processing and house painting, who took online CPR classes, who were too freaked out by his body dangling from the ceiling to recall the address for the 911 dispatcher?Perhaps it was that the company was imploding financially and workers were fleeing. Or that the “facility” where Sovereign Health placed him was little more than a tract home in San Clemente. Or that no one “treating” him on that final day had any clue about his medical history, his psychotic breaks, his desire to die.The powerful anti-psychotic medications he required twice daily were slow to be filled and forgotten on a desk in a corporate office — Nels...

Man dies after being shot, hit by car in Oakland

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:52:48 GMT

(BCN) -- A man was killed early Sunday morning in Oakland when he was shot right before being hit by a vehicle. Oakland police said they received multiple ShotSpotter activations just before 2:30 a.m. in the 300 block of 14th Street. Responding officers found an Oakland man suffering from injuries consistent with being struck by a vehicle and gunfire. 'Rough doing business in Oakland': Cafe closes after 22 years Medical personnel responded and transported the man to an area hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. The victim's name is being withheld by authorities pending notification of his next of kin. Anyone with information about the homicide is asked to contact Oakland police homicide detectives at (510)238-3821. Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

Man brandishes pickaxe at several students at UC Berkeley

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:52:48 GMT

(KRON) -- UC Berkeley police sent out a public advisory Sunday night warning students and residents of a man reportedly waving a pickaxe at several students. Pigeon coup fire at Lafayette home contained The alleged incident occurred at College Avenue and Haste Street around 8 p.m. The man is described as a white male and was wearing dark clothing and a large black backpack. The suspect fled the scene before police arrived.

Pigeon coup fire at Lafayette home contained

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:52:48 GMT

(KRON) -- A fire in the backyard of a home was contained Sunday night in a Lafayette neighborhood just off of Highway 24, according to the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District.Around 8 p.m., a fire started in two large pigeon coups in the backyard of a home on Sierra Vista Way. The fire spread to trees and backyard debris, Battalion Chief Ross Macumber said.Photo: Contra Costa County Fire Protection DistrictThe fire was eventually contained with the home and backyard able to be saved by fire crews. One pigeon coup was destroyed and the other suffered minor damages.According to the fire department, the fire was able to be contained quickly due to no wind being present at the time. The cause of how the fire started is currently unknown.

Gov. Youngkin pardons sexual assault victim’s father after Loudoun Co. school board meeting arrest

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:52:48 GMT

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin granted a pardon Sunday to a father arrested at a Loudoun County School Board meeting in 2021 after his daughter was sexually assaulted in a school bathroom.The man’s daughter was raped at Stone Bridge High School — leading to the father’s arrest for disrupting a contentious June 22, 2021 school board meeting.The man, whom WTOP is not naming to avoid indirectly identifying the teenager who was sexually assaulted, had been arrested and convicted in District Court of disorderly conduct and obstruction of justice, both misdemeanors.Youngkin called him “a dedicated parent who’s faced unwarranted charges in his pursuit to protect his daughter” in a news release, after the father disrupted a comment period on transgender policy at the school board meeting and resisted arrest.“In Virginia, parents matter and my resolve to empower parents in unwavering,” Youngkin said. “A parent’s fundamental right to be involved in their chil...

Hostess is being acquired by JM Smucker in a deal valued at $5.6B after coming back from the brink

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:52:48 GMT

Hostess, the maker of snack classics like Twinkies and HoHos, is being sold to J.M. Smucker in a deal worth about $5.6 billion. Smucker, which makes everything from coffee to peanut butter and jelly, will pay $34.25 per share in a cash and stock, and it will also pick up approximately $900 million in net debt. In addition to Twinkies, Hostess makes CupCakes, DingDongs and Zingers, and also Voortman cookies. Hostess Brands struggled for years and nearly vanished before it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in early 2012. Workers blamed the troubles on years of mismanagement and a failure to invest in brands to keep up with changing tastes. The Lenexa, Kansas, company said at the time that it was weighed down by higher pension and medical costs than its competitors, whose employees weren’t unionized.In unwinding its business, Hostess, which was founded in 1925, sold off its brands in chunks to different buyers. Its major bread brands including Wonder were sold to Flowers F...

Miami coach says injured safety Kamren Kinchens is ‘in good shape’ after scary hit

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:52:48 GMT

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Miami football coach Mario Cristobal says All-American safety Kamren Kinchens is “in good shape” after being carted off the field following a scary hit late in the Hurricanes’ win over Texas A&M.Cristobal, in his weekly appearance Monday morning on the school’s flagship radio partner WQAM, said all test results have been encouraging. Kinchens was released from a hospital on Sunday. His family posted on social media a photo of him from the hospital bed, thanking people for their support and saying he was “doing better.”“Ran all the tests and all the evaluations and he’s in good shape,” Cristobal said Monday. “He’s fine. He’s going to be well. He’s going to be really good. He doesn’t have anything that’s too serious. He just has some football stuff. We’re going to be in great shape.”Kinchens appeared to take a big hit to his upper body during Miami’s 48-33 win over then-No. 23 Texas A&M on Saturday. Medical staff worked on him for se...

Sept. 11 anniversary ceremony at ground zero begins with tolling bell, moment of silence, 22 years after terror attacks

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:52:48 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Sept. 11 anniversary ceremony at ground zero begins with tolling bell, moment of silence, 22 years after terror attacks.Source