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‘Inappropriate all the way around’: Peninsula politicos play defense for landlord whose home was deemed uninhabitable

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:50 GMT

SAN MATEO – Two prominent members of a Peninsula political dynasty successfully played defense for a landlord whose tenants lived in uninhabitable conditions for years, a move that critics say unduly influenced the city council’s decision not to hold the landlord liable for thousands of dollars in relocation payments mandated by the city’s red-tag law.Millbrae city council member Gina Papan and State Assemblymember Diane Papan – a former mayor of San Mateo – went to bat for landlord Trina Pierce during an appeal over the relocation payments.Pierce was ultimately able to skirt paying almost $13,000 in relocation fees. But the elected officials’ actions in her defense drew pointed criticisms from other political leaders who say their moves exacerbated the power imbalance between tenant and landlord and undermined the relatively new city law aimed at giving redress to tenants living in unsafe conditions.The Papans’ defense of this landlord, said former Mayor Rick Bonilla, gives “extra ...

Stanford alum Catarina Macario ‘won’t be physically ready’ to play for U.S. at 2023 Women’s World Cup

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:50 GMT

One of the top women’s soccer players in the world won’t be healthy enough to play for the United States at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.Stanford alum Catarina Macario announced on Tuesday that she “won’t be physically ready” in time for the World Cup, which is taking place in Australia and New Zealand starting in mid-July.Macario tore her ACL last year while playing for her French club team Lyon. While she has been training to try and get back on the pitch ahead of the end of the global club season this month, she appears unlikely to do so – and is now out of the World Cup.“The desire to return to play for my club and country has driven my training and fueled my everyday life,” Macario wrote on social media posts. “However, what’s most important right now is my health and getting fit for my next club season.”God’s plan. I will be back pic.twitter.com/JNMsl2RbMz— Catarina Macario (@catarinamacario) May 23, 2023Macario expressed gratitude to U.S. soccer and women’s national...

Police identify Oakland fatal shooting victim

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:50 GMT

OAKLAND — A 24-year-old man shot and killed over the weekend in East Oakland was identified by police Tuesday as Demetrius Jones.A 40-year-old man wounded in the same shooting is recovering.Police said the two men did not know each other and that the 40-year-old man was hit by a stray bullet.The shooting happened about 11:46 p.m. Saturday in the 7700 block of Bancroft Avenue.Police said Jones, an Oakland resident, was part of a group standing outside when someone began shooting at them.Jones died at the scene. The other man, who was walking to a store in the area and was not part of the group, got his own transportation to a hospital.Police have not determined a motive yet for the shooting or if Jones was the intended target of the shooter. No arrests have been made.Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland are offering up to $15,000 in reward money for information leading to the arrest of the shooter. Anyone with information may call police at 510-238-3821 or 510-238-7950 or Crime...

Map: Where the new search for Madeleine McCann has led

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:50 GMT

The search for Madeleine McCann, who was almost 4 when she disappeared from a Portuguese resort in 2007, has led police to a reservoir 30 miles away, they announced this week.The reservoir, near the city of Silves, was searched by divers in 2008, with no findings other than animal bones. This time, authorities said, the search will be focused out of the water.The map above shows key sites in the long-running case.1/ Ocean Club, Praia da Luz. The McCann family, from England — parents Gerry and Kate, Madeleine, and younger twin siblings Sean and Amelie — was on vacation at the resort in Portugal’s Algarve region. On May 3, 2007, the children were put to bed in the villa and their parents went to dine with friends in the complex’s clubhouse, about 100 yards away. An adult went to check on the kids every 30 minutes. Around 10 p.m., Kate McCann went to check on them and found the room’s shutters open and Madeleine gone.2/ Suspect’s rental home. Officia...

Third man killed in Highway 101 pileup near Sunnyvale identified

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:50 GMT

SUNNYVALE —The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner’s Office on Tuesday identified the third man killed on Highway 101 early Monday after a multi-car pileup near Sunnyvale.Nicacio Negrete Gutierrez, a 53-year-old Sunnyvale resident, died along with 28-year-old Tyler Rasay of South San Francisco and 24-year-old Paul Dennig Jr. of Mountain View, according to the medical examiner’s office.The men were in separate vehicles that crashed into a disabled Ford pickup truck that had earlier lost control, hit the center median and blocked the far left lane on northbound Highway 101 just south of Fair Oaks Avenue.After the pileup, the men exited their vehicles and stood in the center median area when two more cars crashed into the collision site, killing one of them and throwing the two other men over the median, where they were fatally hit by a southbound vehicle, CHP Officer Ross Lee said.Lee said the crash remains under investigation. There was no immediate indication that any of...

California fines Walmart $500,000 over illegal online brass knuckle sales

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:50 GMT

Walmart will pay $500,000 to settle California authorities’ claims that the retail giant sold brass knuckles illegal in the state through its website, Attorney General Rob Bonta said Tuesday.The Attorney General’s complaint alleges that approximately 250 products that could be classified as brass knuckles were sold through Walmart’s Walmart.com website, which allows both direct sales to consumers by the retailer and provides an e-commerce platform for third-party sellers. About 60% of those brass knuckles were sold directly by Walmart, and the remaining 40% by third-party sellers, the complain alleges.“Illegal weapons have no place in California,” Bonta said. “The settlement we have reached with Walmart makes crystal clear that online retailers are responsible for what they are allowing to be offered for sale in our state.”The Arkansas-based retail giant had no immediate comment Tuesday afternoon. The company did not admit fault in reaching ...

Stanford’s Zhang wins 2nd straight NCAA golf title

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:50 GMT

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Rose Zhang won just about everything there is in amateur golf.With a flawless performance at the NCAA Championships, the Stanford sophomore now has done something no one else has, not even Lorena Ochoa: win back-to-back national titles.Zhang shot a bogey-free, 4-under 68 on Monday to become the first woman to win multiple national titles and tie the NCAA record for wins in a season.“I was really fortunate to play at the same time as Lorena Ochoa and I felt her greatness was unmatched,” Stanford coach Anne Walker said. “Rose Zhang really reminds me a lot of Lorena.”Zhang turns 20 on Wednesday already with a full amateur resume. She won the U.S. Women’s Amateur in 2020, the U.S. Girls’ Junior in 2021 and the Augusta National Women’s Amateur last month.Starting four shots back, Zhang made up ground and was up one when San Jose State’s Lucia Lopez-Ortega made consecutive bogeys. Zhang saved par on Grayhawk Golf Club’s par-4 17th hole with a de...

Jimmy Carter: Tributes, ice cream sustaining him in hospice care

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:50 GMT

By Bill Barrow | Associated PressNORCROSS, Ga. — Three months after entering end-of-life care at home, former President Jimmy Carter remains in good spirits as he visits with family, follows public discussion of his legacy and receives updates on The Carter Center’s humanitarian work around the world, his grandson says. He’s even enjoying regular servings of ice cream.“They’re just meeting with family right now, but they’re doing it in the best possible way: the two of them together at home,” Jason Carter said of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, now 98 and 95 years old.“They’ve been together 70-plus years. They also know that they’re not in charge,” the younger Carter said Tuesday in a brief interview. “Their faith is really grounding in this moment. In that way, it’s as good as it can be.”The longest-lived U.S. president, Jimmy Carter announced in February that after a series of brief hospital stays, he would f...

3 girls, 6 boys arrested in Oakland robbery crime spree

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:50 GMT

(KRON) -- Nine juveniles, ranging in age from 12 to 17, were arrested in connection to 35 robberies throughout the City of Oakland, the Oakland Police Department said Tuesday. The nearly three dozen violent robberies have occurred citywide, often in broad daylight.On Sunday, May 21, Oakland PD officers spotted a vehicle wanted in connection to one of the recent robberies. The vehicle was tracked to the 100 block of 14th Street. Officers observed multiple occupants exit the vehicle and enter a nearby establishment. 1 killed, 4 injured after carjacked vehicle plows into SF bus stop Before entering the building, officers "methodically coordinated a plan," police said. Just as officers arrived, the vehicle in front of the building took off at a high rate of speed.The vehicle was monitored by OPD helicopter ARGUS and tracked to the area of 6th Avenue and East 15th Street. Four occupants got out of the vehicle and fled on foot. Officers responded and following a quick foot pursuit, took...

San Francisco launching PR campaigns to improve public image

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:12:50 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Mayor London Breed is holding a news conference Tuesday and touting the city's "Roadmap to Downtown San Francisco’s Future." The roadmap is the city's plan to transform downtown from feeling like a ghost town to a "stronger, resilient, economic and global destination." The city suffered blows to its public image when several downtown department stores closed, and the recent airing of a CNN special asking, "What Happened to San Francisco?"San Francisco's image problem was also called out by high-profile figures. Last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said downtown looks like a "derelict zombie apocalypse," while comedian Dave Chappelle declared that the city needs a "Batman" to restore law and order.San Francisco ranks dead-last in a nationwide study examining why some cities' downtowns are bouncing back, and others are dying. "The Death of Downtown" study's researchers said a tech-heavy economy and difficult commutes are partially to blame.Ma...