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Spare the Air alert extended through Saturday

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:13:46 GMT

A brief heat wave that will again bake parts of the Bay Area and smoke from the Flat Fire burning in southern Oregon have extended a Spare the Air alert through Saturday, officials said.The Bay Area Air Quality Management District announced its decision at noon Friday, saying smog in the region is expected to be unhealthy. The air district urged residents to stay inside and avoid using vehicles.The air was expected to be at its dirtiest Saturday, a day after temperatures were expected to spike, according to the National Weather Service. Brentwood (107 degrees) and Walnut Creek (101) were expected to be the two hottest spots in Contra Costa County on Friday; Livermore (103) was expected to lead Alameda County; and Morgan Hill (101) was forecasted to be the hottest spot in Santa Clara County.A heat advisory was in effect in those areas through 11 p.m. Saturday.Milder temperatures remained in areas closer to the bay, with the thermometer on Friday likely to reach 90 degrees in San Jose...

San Francisco man convicted for multiple burglaries, residential break-ins

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:13:46 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A San Francisco man who broke into several local residences with the intent to steal property has been convicted of burglary and other charges, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office announced Friday. Alberto Uc, 46, of San Francisco, was apprehended in February of 2021 after he was spotted breaking through the garage door of an Inner Richmond residence with a crowbar.A resident called 911 and Uc was apprehended by SFPD within minutes. An array of burglary tools was found on him, according to the DA. Uc was made to wear an electronic monitor as a result. SF restaurant named among most ‘legendary’ in the world In August of 2021, the monitor helped officers to locate Uc when he broke into a Laurel Heights apartment. He was "repeatedly inspecting residents' locked bicycles in the garage," when he was arrested, according to the DA. Again, police found burglary tools on him.In December of 2022, Uc broke into a residential garage in the Marina District. Fo...

2 arrested in connection with fatal Lower Haight shooting last month

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:13:46 GMT

(BCN) -- Two men have been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting last month in San Francisco's Lower Haight neighborhood, police said Friday. A 20-year-old man died in the shooting reported at 9:16 p.m. in the 400 block of Rose Street. Officers arrived to find the man, who was taken to a hospital and succumbed to his injuries there, according to San Francisco police. His name was not immediately available. Investigators identified two suspects in the case, Kameron Kaywood, 35, and Delvon Carter, 25, and obtained arrest warrants for them. Taipei-bound flight diverted back to SFO due to ‘unruly passenger’ Officers learned on June 28 that Kaywood was in custody in Contra Costa County for an unrelated case and had the warrant detainer placed on him for the homicide. On Wednesday, officers located Carter in South San Francisco and arrested him without incident, police said. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the San Francisco police 24-hour tip line a...

‘Barbenheimer’ arrives as moviegoers flock to a Mattel-mushroom cloud double feature

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:13:46 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Waves of pink-clad moviegoers passed under carboard palm trees on the frenzied first day of “Barbenheimer.”After a feverish drumbeat propelled forward by a mushroom cloud of memes, the most anticipated day on the year’s movie calendar finally arrived as “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” — two movie opposites brought together by cross-marketing fate — landed in theaters.“I think it’s the contrast,” said Lucy Ruiz, 17, as she and a friend made their way into the first showing of “Barbie” on Thursday at the Alamo Drafthouse in Yonkers, New York. “If you want to do both in the same day, it’s like two sides of the same coin.”For Ruiz, the second half of her “Barbenheimer” would have to wait. “Maybe next week,” she said of seeing “Oppenheimer.” But many are flocking to see both on opening weekend. The National Association of Theater Owners says some 200,000 moviegoers in North America have booked same-day tickets to each movie. The movie of the summer has turned out to be not “In...

Threat or not? Elon Musk gets new hearing on tweet about Tesla workers’ stock amid UAW union effort

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:13:46 GMT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court Friday said it will reconsider its March ruling that Tesla CEO Elon Muskunlawfully threatened to take away employees’ stock options in a 2018 Twitter post amid an organizing effort by the United Auto Workers union. Three judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld a National Labor Relations Board order to delete the tweet. The panel also upheld an order to rehire a fired Tesla employee, with back pay.But Friday’s brief order says a majority of the court’s full-time judges have voted to hear the matter again — this time before the full court. The March ruling was vacated — snatching away, at least for now, a UAW legal victory. The case arose amid UAW organizing efforts at a Tesla facility in Fremont, California, and years before Musk bought the platform in 2022.On May 20, 2018, Musk tweeted: “Nothing stopping Tesla team at our car plant from voting union. Could do so tmrw if they wanted. But why pa...

Alabama lawmakers refuse to create 2nd majority-Black congressional district in defiance of U.S. Supreme Court

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:13:46 GMT

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers refuse to create 2nd majority-Black congressional district in defiance of U.S. Supreme Court.Source

Justice Department tells Texas that floating barrier on Rio Grande raises humanitarian concerns

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:13:46 GMT

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department has told Texas that a floating barrier of wrecking ball-sized buoys the state put on the Rio Grande violates federal law and raises humanitarian concerns for migrants crossing into the U.S. from Mexico. President Joe Biden’s administration told Republican Gov. Greg Abbott that the barrier installed this month near the border town of Eagle Pass, Texas, was “unlawful” in a letter dated Thursday and obtained by The Associated Press. “The floating barrier poses a risk to navigation, as well as public safety, in the Rio Grande River, and it presents humanitarian concerns,” reads the letter, which also informs the state that the Justice Department intends to sue if the barriers are not removed. Abbott’s office did not respond to a request for comment Friday, but on Twitter, the governor wrote that Texas was acting within its rights. “Texas has the sovereign authority to defend our border,” Abbott tweeted. The buoys are the latest esc...

Wheelchair pioneers Ester Vergeer, Rick Draney to be inducted into Tennis Hall of Fame

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:13:46 GMT

Esther Vergeer had few role models in wheelchair tennis and limited opportunities when she took up the sport.Those aren’t problems any more, and she’s a big reason why.“That was also what I liked about my career, is that I know I was the one that pioneered. I was the one that could explore it all. And I was the one that needed to figure out what the pathway was,” Vergeer said in a telephone interview as she prepared for her induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. “That was also the fun part.”Vergeer will be added to the Newport, Rhode Island, shrine on Saturday along with American Rick Draney, who won 12 singles titles and six in doubles before the Grand Slam era of wheelchair tennis. Draney has been credited with bringing quad tennis – a classification that accounts for impairment in the arms as well – to the Paralympics and other top tournaments.A 21-time Grand Slam singles champion and seven-time Paralympic gold medalist, Vergeer began her career in an e...

Fleetwood keeps alive home hopes at British Open as nearest challenger to Harman

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:13:46 GMT

HOYLAKE, England (AP) — Tommy Fleetwood is back in the final pairing at a major championship, this time in his home country and about 45 minutes from where he grew up.The last time was at the British Open in 2019, when Fleetwood tried — and failed — to spoil home favorite Shane Lowry’s party on Sunday at Royal Portrush.Now Fleetwood’s the guy the crowd will be going wild for on Saturday at Royal Liverpool, which is just down the coast from his home town of Southport. Just like four years ago, he’ll have to do the chasing to claim the claret jug and win his first major title.Fleetwood scrambled down the stretch to shoot an even-par 71 in the second round on Friday and get into the last group alongside Brian Harman, who has a five-stroke lead — the largest after 36 holes at the Open since 2010.The 32-year-old Englishman still fancies his chances.“At the end of the day, if somebody said you’re going out in the last group on Saturday, I don’t care what the situation was or what anybody ...

Pac-12 commissioner confident conference will flourish even after USC, UCLA leave

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:13:46 GMT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — George Kliavkoff was one day short of his one-year anniversary as the Pac-12 Conference commissioner, finally on the second day of his first vacation when he got the shocking news that USC and UCLA were leaving for the Big Ten.He was driving from Montana to Idaho, but was unaware of the 90 text messages populating his cellphone because there was no reception in that area.Kliavkoff quickly cut his vacation short, flying back to Las Vegas the following day to tackle a topic that more than a year later continues to shape the Pac-12’s future. The two schools in the nation’s second-largest metropolitan area officially depart next year, and the Pac-12 is still trying to cope with that in putting together a new media-rights deal while also considering potential expansion.Through it all, Kliavkoff maintained a sunny outlook at Friday’s conference football media day. He said a media-right’s package will be announced “in the near future” and that he wa...