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SF Giants’ Harrison, Oakland A’s Soderstrom head Bay Area representatives for MLB Futures Game

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:49 GMT

The Giants and A’s representatives for the All-Star Game haven’t been picked yet, but the Bay Area teams will be highly visible for the festivities in Seattle in two weeks.Concord’s Kyle Harrison, one of the top pitching prospects in the minors, and fellow left-hander Carson Whisenhunt will represent the Giants, while catcher Tyler Soderstrom and outfielder Lawrence Butler from the A’s were named to the rosters for the prestigious prospects game to be played on Saturday, July 8 as part of the All-Star Game weekend at T-Mobile Park.Harrison, ranked as the majors’ No. 14 prospect by MLB.com, is the highest-rated pitcher currently scheduled to participate in the game. In all, 28 of the 50 players invited are currently in MLB.coms Top 100 prospects list, including No. 1 (Jackson Holliday of the Orioles), No. 3 Jackson Chourio (Milwaukee) and No. 5 Marcelo Mayer (Boston).Former Seattle Mariners Harold Reynolds (AL) and Raul Ibañez (NL) will be the managers.W...

Single family residence sells in Piedmont for $1.7 million

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:49 GMT

5728 Moraga Avenue – Google Street ViewA spacious historic house located in the 5700 block of Moraga Avenue in Piedmont has new owners. The 2,062-square-foot property, built in 1926, was sold on May 23, 2023, for $1,745,000, or $846 per square foot. The property features three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a garage. It sits on a 0.4-acre lot.Additional houses that have recently been purchased close by include:On Templar Place, Oakland, in February 2023, a 3,927-square-foot home was sold for $3,470,000, a price per square foot of $884. The home has 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.In August 2022, a 2,686-square-foot home on Masonic Avenue in Oakland sold for $2,350,000, a price per square foot of $875. The home has 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.A 2,508-square-foot home on the 5700 block of Harbord Drive in Oakland sold in March 2022, for $2,475,000, a price per square foot of $987. The home has 3 bedrooms. 

Prosecutors seek death penalty in Idaho slayings

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:49 GMT

By Rebecca Boone | Associated PressBOISE, Idaho — Prosecutors say they are seeking the death penalty against a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death late last year.Bryan Kohberger, 28, is charged with four counts of murder in connection with the deaths at a rental house near the Moscow, Idaho, university campus last November. Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson filed the notice of his intent to seek the death penalty in court on Monday.A not-guilty plea was entered in the case on Kohberger’s behalf earlier this year. A hearing in the case is scheduled for Tuesday.The bodies of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were found on Nov. 13, 2022, at a rental home across the street from the University of Idaho campus. The slayings shocked the rural Idaho community and neighboring Pullman, Washington, where Kohberger was a graduate student studying criminology at Washington State University.Police released few details about th...

Scorching temps in Texas expected to spread north, east

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:49 GMT

By Ken Miller | Associated PressScorching temperatures brought on by a “heat dome” have taxed the Texas power grid and threaten to bring record highs to the state before they are expected to expand during the coming week, putting even more people at risk.“Going forward, that heat is going to expand … north to Kansas City and the entire state of Oklahoma, into the Mississippi Valley … to the far western Florida Panhandle and parts of western Alabama,” while remaining over Texas, said Bob Oravec, lead forecaster with the National Weather Service.Record high temperatures around 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) are forecast in parts of western Texas on Monday and relief is not expected before the Fourth of July holiday, Oravec said.WHAT IS A HEAT DOME?A heat dome occurs when stationary high pressure with warm air combines with warmer than usual air in the Gulf of Mexico and heat from the sun that is nearly directly overhead, Texas State Cli...

Opinion: Warriors need to part ways with Draymond Green

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:49 GMT

Editor’s note: This story is part of the annual Mosaic Journalism Workshop for Bay Area high school students, a two-week intensive course in journalism. Students in the program report and photograph stories under the guidance of professional journalists.Draymond Green’s time with the Warriors is up. He was the heart and soul of this team, anchoring Golden State’s defense for years, but times have changed. His antics on and off the court have squandered the Warriors’ chances again and again. He has simply crossed the line.Don’t get me wrong, Green deserves immense love and credit for everything he has done for the Warriors during their dominant dynasty over the past decade. He was the engine that kept the team going, part of the Big Three along with Steph and Klay.However, he has hurt the Warriors’ chances to win on numerous occasions. Let’s start with the 2016 NBA Finals. After a record-setting 73-9 season and overcoming a 3-1 deficit in the Western Conference finals, the Warriors s...

Letters: Re-register copter | Edwards’ challenge | Tax industry | Trump’s arrogance | Don’t pardon | Good works | Stats fail

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:49 GMT

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor.Sheriff’s departmentshould re-register copterI see in the ad for the upcoming Stars & Strides that the Sheriff’s Department helicopter still bears the initials and birthday of Laurie Smith, the disgraced ex-sheriff.I urge Sheriff Bob Jonsen to re-register the aircraft to N409PB, the badge number and initials of Deputy Paul Bush. Paul was killed in the line of duty in 1990, yet the county of Santa Clara has never done anything to formally recognize his sacrifice.I know that I am joined in this by Paul’s fellow friends and colleagues. Let’s recognize someone who deserves to be honored rather than a self-indulgent politician who personalized a piece of publicly owned property.Ted AtlasSanta Clara County Sheriff’s Dept., Sergeant (Ret.)CampbellEdwards will overcomehis latest challengeRe: “His biggest fight” (Page C1, June 18).I was saddened to see that Harry Edwards is fighting bo...

Pedestrian killed while trying to cross I-580 Monday morning

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:49 GMT

(BCN) -- A pedestrian was killed Monday morning after running onto Interstate Highway 580 in the unincorporated Alameda County community of Ashland, according to the California Highway Patrol. These Bay Area cities could see 90-plus degree temps this week The person, whose name wasn't released, was reportedly trying to cross the highway east of 167th Avenue when they were hit by a vehicle at about 9:35 a.m. in the westbound lanes. The driver stopped and is cooperating with investigators, according to the CHP. Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

Information Warfare Was Key to Prigozhin's Mutiny Against Putin

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:49 GMT

Long before he plunged Russia into its most significant political crisis in three decades, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Kremlin caterer turned mercenary warlord and then mutineer, had built a profitable empire interfering in the politics and crises of countries around the world.Prigozhin’s sprawling businesses include not only the Wagner mercenary group that became a household name when it joined Russian forces in Ukraine — before launching an armed insurrection against Moscow last week — but also an online army that has fought wars over information from Sudan to the United States, where Prigozhin remains under federal indictment over his alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election.“The misinformation piece is a huge part of the narrative,” Raphael Parens, a fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program who has long researched Prigozhin and Wagner, told The Intercept. He added that influencing public discourse is one of Wagner’s “top tools.”P...

Putin y Prigozhin rompen el silencio tras la rebelión que sume a Rusia en la incertidumbre

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:49 GMT

(CNN) — El presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, y el jefe de Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, rompieron su silencio tras la breve y caótica insurrección del grupo mercenario este fin de semana, que sumió al país en la incertidumbre. Una serie de hechos que Putin describió como “traición” al país.Última hora y noticias en vivo de la guerra de Rusia en UcraniaEn un breve discurso a la nación, Putin dijo que los combatientes de Wagner tomaron la “decisión correcta” al detener su avance, y añadió que la “rebelión armada habría sido reprimida de todos modos”.Esas fuerzas tendrían ahora la oportunidad de firmar un contrato con el Ministerio de Defensa de Rusia “u otras agencias de seguridad, o de regresar con su familia y amigos”, dijo. Añadió que los combatientes también podrían optar por ir a Belarús, adonde se espera que vaya Prigozhin tras un acuerdo aparentemente mediado por el presidente de ese país, Alexander Lukashenko.ANÁLISIS | ¿Có...

Memphis Grizzlies exercise option on Xavier Tillman Sr.

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:11:49 GMT

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Memphis Grizzlies have exercised their contract option on Xavier Tillman Sr. for next season, the team announced Monday.The 24-year-old forward/center has averaged 6.2 points and 4.2 rebounds over 173 games in three seasons with Memphis. He averaged 7.0 points and 5.0 rebounds, both career bests, last season.Tillman was a second-round pick out of Michigan State in 2020.___AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/nba and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsSource