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How’s San Jose’s mayor performing? New data show figures on public safety, homelessness

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:46:43 GMT

As San Jose nears one year into Mayor Matt Mahan’s tenure — are his major campaign promises going anywhere?A new trove of data focused specifically on public safety, blight, homelessness and economic development shows improvements in some areas and setbacks in others as Mahan prepares to run for re-election in 2024 with no opposition thus far.The figures show the city making incremental progress on keeping homeless residents off the streets, the speed of housing permit reviews and the city’s downtown activity rate according to cell phone data. But the city is also facing problems with its enormous backlog of code enforcement cases and housing production.“I would like us to at least once a quarter have a very focused and structured conversation that is rooted in performance data,” said Mahan to reporters on Tuesday. “Where we are actually objectively looking at how the things we’ve funded are doing. Right now we do that every 12 months. But i...

‘We are afraid:’ Earth’s vital signs are now in ‘uncharted territory,’ climate scientists warn

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:46:43 GMT

Massive wildfires in Canada, Greece and Hawaii. All-time record heat waves. Hurricanes with surprising ferocity, like the one that devastated Acapulco last week.This year has presented stark evidence that Earth is already in “uncharted territory” with climate change, scientists say, to the point that unless major progress is made to reduce greenhouse emissions, parts of the world that are home to one-third to one-half of the global population could face extreme heat, food shortages and water shortages by the end of this century.That’s the conclusion of a new study from researchers at Oregon State University and other institutions around the world, that has been drawing growing attention since its publication last week.“As scientists, we are increasingly being asked to tell the public the truth about the crises we face in simple and direct terms,” the researchers wrote. “The truth is that we are shocked by the ferocity of the extreme weather events...

Petaluma woman accused of using $150K of company funds on DoorDash, Amazon, other personal expenses

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:46:43 GMT

(KRON) -- A Petaluma woman has been arrested on suspicion of embezzlement after she allegedly used more than $150,000 of company funds on personal expenses such as DoorDash and Amazon, the Santa Rosa Police Department said Tuesday.The company in question is a landscape design and construction company in Santa Rosa. Los Gatos ‘party mom’ charged with hosting alcohol parties for teens, encouraging sexual assault SRPD was notified of the case in July when the company hired a new bookkeeper who "noticed irregularities in the company's financial records," police said. A further look revealed several unauthorized credit card transactions. An SRPD investigations team served search warrants for businesses and financial institution records. The investigation revealed that the suspect was the company's previous bookkeeper, Jennifer Sutton, 48. Police suspect Sutton made the fraudulent charges over a five-year period. SRPD said she used the credit card for cash advances, purchases on Amazon,...

Owner of SF ice cream shop says vandalism incident being investigated as 'hate crime'

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:46:43 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- The owner of a San Francisco ice cream shop that was vandalized with pro-Palestinian graffiti last week said the incident is being investigated as a hate crime. Smitten Ice Cream in SF's Mission District was vandalized and graffitied last Wednesday.The front windows of the shop were shattered and the shop was vandalized for "unknown reasons," the San Francisco Police Department said at the time. However, according to a report in Mission Local, the vandalism included graffiti that read "FREE PALESTIEN," with a misspelling of "Palestine.""The graffiti suggests that the shop was targeted because I am Jewish," wrote Smitten owner Robyn Sue Fisher in a post on Instagram, "and it is currently being investigated by authorities as a hate crime." Body found in suitcase floating in Lake Merritt Tuesday "When I learned what happened at the store and saw the shattered and graffitied glass, I initially felt only fear and deep sadness," wrote Fisher, who had initially ca...

Third division Port Vale advances to English League Cup quarterfinals

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:46:43 GMT

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — While Premier League giants Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal do not yet know if they will advance to the quarterfinals of the English League Cup, third-division Port Vale has already secured its place in the next round.The Midlands-based team has never played higher than the second tier of English soccer and has never won one of its major trophies.But it could be rubbing shoulders with some of the biggest teams in the land in the last eight of the cup after a 1-0 win against Mansfield on Tuesday. Alfie Devine’s goal five minutes into the second half at One Call Stadium ended fourth-division Mansfield’s own hopes of a potential quarterfinals matchup against top-flight opposition.Port Vale will not be the only team from outside the Premier League in the next round after Middlesbrough came back to beat third-division Exeter 3-2.Middlesbrough won the League Cup in 2004 and is hoping to secure promotion to the Premier League this season unde...

Natalee Holloway’s confessed killer returns from US to Peru to serve the remainder of a sentence in separate murder

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:46:43 GMT

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Natalee Holloway’s confessed killer returns from US to Peru to serve the remainder of a sentence in separate murder.Source

Miles de personas huyen del incendio de Highland en California, mientras los vientos de Santa Ana avivan las llamas

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:46:43 GMT

(CNN) — Un incendio forestal en el condado de Riverside, California, se extendió en tamaño debido a los vientos cálidos y secos de Santa Ana. Las llamas calcinaron múltiples estructuras y obligaron a miles de personas a abandonar sus hogares.Cuando el incendio, llamado Highland, se reportó por primera vez este lunes a las 12:37 p.m., hora del Pacífico (3:27 p.m., hora de Miami), cerca de Aguanga, California, cubría apenas 5 hectáreas. Siete horas más tarde, el incendio consumía más de 485 hectáreas, según el Departamento Forestal y de Protección contra Incendios de California, Cal Fire.A primera hora de la mañana del martes, el incendio de Highland había calcinado 890 hectáreas y estaba contenido al 0%, informó la agencia. Sus llamas destruyeron al menos tres estructuras y dañado otras seis.Las órdenes de evacuación se emitieron por primera vez en la tarde de este lunes, pero se ampliaron rápidamente horas después y de nuevo el martes por la mañana.Más de 1.100 hogares fueron...

Games 2 and 3 of the World Series were the least-viewed in recorded Fall Classic history

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:46:43 GMT

The fears of this year’s World Series between the Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks becoming the least-viewed Fall Classic in TV history are becoming a reality.Games 2 and 3 are the least-watched on record according to Nielsen. Monday’s 3-1 victory by the Rangers averaged 8.13 million on Fox, according to fast national figures. Saturday’s 9-1 Diamondbacks’ win averaged 8.15 million. Before this year, the least-watched World Series game was Game 3 in 2020 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays, which averaged 8.34 million.Game 1 was also the least-watched World Series opener recorded. The three-game average of 8.48 million is on pace to become the least-viewed Series ever, fewer than the 9.79 million in 2020 that watched the Dodgers beat the Rays in six games.Last year’s series — when the Houston Astros beat the Philadelphia Phillies in six games — had an 11.76 million average.Game 3 went up against “Monday Night Football” for the first time since 2...

Bruins’ McAvoy suspended 4 games for an illegal check to the head of Panthers’ Ekman-Larsson

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:46:43 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Boston Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy has been suspended four games by the NHL for an illegal check to the head of Florida’s Oliver Ekman-Larsson.The NHL’s Department of Player Safety announced the ban Tuesday, saying after a disciplinary hearing that McAvoy made Ekman-Larsson’s head the principle point of content on a hit in which head contact was avoidable.McAvoy hit Ekman-Larsson in the head with his left shoulder midway through the third period of the teams’ game Monday night. McAvoy was ejected with a match penalty, and Ekman-Larsson did not return after leaving the ice.The Panthers also took issue with a hit that McAvoy delivered on Carter Verhaeghe in the first period. Asked after the game what his view of the hit to Ekman-Larsson was, Florida coach Paul Maurice said, “I thought it was exactly like the hit on Verhaeghe in the first.”McAvoy scored the tying goal about two minutes before the hit on Ekman-Larsson.It’s McAvoy’s second NHL suspension ...

Israel-Hamas conflict: Has Israel’s war in Gaza expanded beyond Hamas?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:46:43 GMT

toggle audio on and off change volume download audio WTOP's J.J. Green speaks with Fadi Mansour, Washington correspondent for Al Jazeera Arabic $(function () { $('.wtop-audio-container .fa-play').on('click', function(){ var audio_filename = $('div.wtop-audio-file').data("mp3-url"); ga('send', 'event', 'Audio', 'play', audio_filename); }); }); Israel’s attack on the Jabaliya Refugee Camp in Northern Gaza killed and injured hundreds of Palestinians.Fadi Mansour, Washington correspondent for Al Jazeera Arabic, spoke with WTOP national security correspondent JJ Green on the day before the attack, saying that the number o...