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Fresno County assails city’s plan for a César Chávez street

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:45:59 GMT

Fresno’s plan to rename a 10-mile stretch of road after César Chávez has run up against opposition from Fresno County supervisors.On a 5-0 vote Tuesday, the supervisors opposed the renaming of the parts of the route that are outside Fresno’s city limits — four segments totaling about 1½ miles.The county resolution, which alleged a lack of transparency by city leaders, resolved to “maintain the names of California Avenue and Kings Canyon Road within the county islands” and to “discourage the Fresno City Council from proceeding with its plan without full and thorough consideration and consultation of their affected residents.”The city council approved the César Chávez Boulevard plan on March 9 and said $1 million would be set aside to cover the renaming costs and compensate businesses affected by the change. The route to be named after the civil rights and labor leader currently goes under the names California Avenue, Ventura Street and Kings ...

Danville’s Jake Haener on verge of reaching NFL QB dream — just don’t mention Brock Purdy

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:45:59 GMT

SANTA CLARA — The first memory Craig Bergman has of Jake Haener was when Monte Vista High was finishing up football practice, with the local youth league taking the field.“They’d be coming on to start when we were done,” Bergman said in a recent phone interview. “He’d always say, ‘Coach! Watch me throw!’ and I’d watch this little tiny guy, a sixth or seventh grader. And man, he could throw it even back then.”It’s not a stretch to suggest that the “little tiny guy,” at 6-foot and 208 pounds, is still regarded that way in NFL circles and has been striving to prove himself ever since.Haener, a Fresno State product, believes he’ll be selected between the third and fifth rounds of the NFL Draft, which begins in two weeks. He offered the following observations regarding his supposed limitations during a media scrum Wednesday after his practice at the 49ers’ local pro day:— “I’ve been fighting the naysayers, the doubters, fo...

Arrest made in San Francisco slaying of tech CEO Bob Lee: Reports

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:45:59 GMT

By Peter Blumberg and Joel Rosenblatt | BloombergAn arrest has been made in last week’s San Francisco slaying of Bob Lee, chief product officer of crypto startup MobileCoin Inc. and a well known figure in Silicon Valley, according to a local news reports.The San Francisco Police Department early this morning made an arrest in the nearby city of Emeryville in the April 4 stabbing of Lee, and the suspect also works in tech and is a man Lee purportedly knew, Mission Local reported, without identifying the source of its information.Police department representatives didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment and a spokesman for the city’s district attorney declined to comment.San Francisco Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who represents the district where Lee was killed, tweeted about the reported arrest.Lee died after being stabbed multiple times in the middle of the night in a deserted area of San Francisco’s downtown, in what the city’s district attorney called a “senseless act of viol...

Coachella 2023: Set times and schedule announced — plus a surprise guest

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:45:59 GMT

The set times for the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival have finally been announced and, as usual, there are some set conflicts and even a surprise guest.The first weekend of Coachella kicks off at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Friday, April 14 with Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny headlining. Saturday, April 15 is topped by K-pop group Blackpink and Sunday, April 16 closes out with Long Beach singer-songwriter Frank Ocean.When the set times announced, fans were quick to notice that pop punk band Blink-182 has been added to the lineup, performing on the Sahara stage at 6:45 p.m. on April 14. This will be the band’s first performance since reuniting with original vocalist-guitarist Tom DeLonge in nearly a decade. Last year, rock band Arcade Fire was the surprise addition to the fest lineup as it played the Mojave tent on Saturday.There are a few other changes as well including English songwriter and producer Jai Paul moving from the Sunday roster to Saturday. He’s on the ...

DOJ will take emergency dispute over medication abortion rules to the Supreme Court

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:45:59 GMT

The Justice Department will take an emergency dispute over medication abortion drugs to the Supreme Court, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday.Garland’s announcement comes after a federal appeals court overnight froze parts of a Texas judge’s order that would have suspended the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a medication abortion drug. But the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals only partially granted the request by the Justice Department and the drug’s manufacturer to put US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling on hold, with the appellate panel effectively making the drug harder to obtain by leaving in place aspects of Kacsmaryk’s ruling that will reverse moves by the FDA that expanded access to medication abortion pills.In the new statement, Garland indicated that the Justice Department will ask the Supreme Court to intervene now in the emergency dispute over how the FDA has approached the drug, mifepristone.“The...

Fiery Pacifica crash results in DUI arrest

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:45:59 GMT

Parts of westbound Sharp Park Road in Pacifica were closed for about four hours late Monday night as crews removed wreckage from a fiery crash that led to a DUI arrest, police say.First responders arrived to the scene of a single-car crash around 9:48 p.m. Monday in the area of of Sharp Park andGypsy Hill roads. The involved vehicle was on fire upon arrival and fire crews quickly extinguished the flames.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | 5 Peninsula cops will not face charges in fatal shooting Crime and Public Safety | California touts gun seizures from prohibited persons, but will it slow rate of violence? Crime and Public Safety | Redwood City police warn of possibly armed catalytic converter thieves Crime and Public Safety | Pedestrian killed in South San Francisco hit and run Crime and Public Safety | Redwood City police seek information after fatal hit-and-run crash involving bicyclist The dr...

Review: Border blockade divides families in new bittersweet TheatreWorks play

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:45:59 GMT

A border is a strange thing.An imaginary line in the ground divides nations, and people have died to defend it or sometimes simply to cross it.The arbitrary nature of that border is a central feature of “A Distinct Society,” the play by Kareem Fahmy that TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is now premiering at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.The play is set in the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, a real building that straddles the border of the United States and Canada, part of the library in Vermont and part of it in Quebec. During the Trump Administration’s infamous Muslim Ban, some people from nations whose citizens were forbidden to travel to the United States were able to at least visit with U.S.-based relatives inside the library.“A Distinct Society” depicts just such a family in just such a situation. A father has traveled from Iran to Canada to see his daughter who’s a medical student in Boston, but they keep getting separated by timing, bad luck and strict regulat...

Birthing center at Roseville hospital struck by gunfire

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:45:59 GMT

(KTXL) -- A shooting in Roseville on Wednesday night forced the lockdown of the Kaiser Permanente campus along Eureka Road, according to the Roseville Police Department. The shooting took place just before 9 p.m., near the intersection of Douglas Boulevard and Eureka Road. Teenager killed, another injured in shooting near Stockton park Some shots struck the lobby of the hospitals birthing center, but no injuries were reported. The lockdown was lifted shortly after police arrived on scene and secured the area. Law enforcement did not provide any suspect information or about a possible suspect vehicle. On Thursday, the Citrus Heights Police Department confirmed with FOX40 that an early shooting in Citrus Heights is connected to the Kaiser shooting. 4-year-old dies days after Woodland crash involving 13-year-old suspect Prior to the Roseville shooting, an unknown person was traveling in a vehicle northbound along Auburn Boulevard, at around 8:45 p.m., when they reportedly fired m...

After Spying on Standing Rock, TigerSwan Shopped Anti-Protest "Counterinsurgency" to Other Oil Companies

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:45:59 GMT

A new business model for breaking down environmental movements was being hatched in real time. On Labor Day weekend in 2016, private security dogs in North Dakota attacked pipeline opponents led by members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe as they approached earth-moving equipment. The tribal members considered the land sacred, and the heavy equipment was breaking ground to build the Dakota Access pipeline. With a major public relations crisis on its hands, the pipeline’s parent company, Energy Transfer, hired the firm TigerSwan to revamp its security strategy.By October, TigerSwan — founded by James Reese, a retired commander of the elite special operations Army unit Delta Force — had established a military-style pipeline security strategy.There was one nagging problem that threatened to unravel it all: Reese hadn’t acquired a security license from the North Dakota Private Investigation and Security Board. Although Reese claimed TigerSwan wasn’t conducting security services at all, ...

AP sources: FBI wants to question member of Massachusetts Air National Guard in leak of classified documents

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:45:59 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — AP sources: FBI wants to question member of Massachusetts Air National Guard in leak of classified documents.Source