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9 awesome Bay Area falafel spots to try

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:52:39 GMT

If you want to start a fight — or at least a very impassioned discussion — just bring up falafel’s origin story. Some people believe the first delicious chickpea fritters hit the hot oil in Egypt 1,000 years ago. Others credit sixth-century India. And cultures across the Middle East claim falafel as their own. Who can blame them?There are few things more satisfying than a still-warm pita stuffed with crispy, hot falafels, drizzled with tahini and spicy sauces and nestled among just enough pickle-y veggies and salad-y things to feel downright good for us.So we set out to sample falafel spots across the East and South Bays, from Walnut Creek’s Manakish to Berkeley’s King of Kebab and Santa Clara’s Shawarmaji. Here are our favorites. (And if we missed your fave, let us know. You’ll find a contact form at the end of this story.)Manakish Oven & Grill, Walnut CreekYou could eat at this cute Walnut Creek restaurant almost every other day for a ...

KRON4: New Network, New Newscasts, Live Sports

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:52:39 GMT

Starting September 1, 2023 KRON4 is becoming the Bay Area's CW. Below is everything you need to know about the change. New NewscastsIn addition to becoming the Bay Area's CW, KRON4 is also the Bay Area's Local News Station. Starting September 1, we're adding new newscasts at 2 p.m. and 11 p.m. Our full newscast schedule can be viewed here. New Network As the Bay Area's CW, KRON4 will have a new lineup of primetime programming seven days a week. This includes Inside the NFL as well as scripted and reality shows. The full CW Primetime schedule can be viewed here.What about the Primetime Newscasts?KRON4 will still be providing primetime news, streaming on the KRONon SmartTV App, the KRON4 Mobile App and KRON4.com between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. seven days a week. KRON4 News at 10 p.m. will still be available on broadcast.Live Sports Starting in September, KRON4 is the home of ACC College Football and Basketball. Also beginning in 2025, KRON4 will be the home of NASCAR Xfinity Series Racing....

Sentencing enhancements are 'racially biased': Alameda County DA 

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:52:39 GMT

OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) -- Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price addressed questions from the community on Saturday during a town hall meeting.Before taking questions from a crowd that grew to more than 70 people, Price gave a PowerPoint presentation detailing her office's role in addressing crime and the accomplishments she says she has made in her first eight months as district attorney.The meeting was held at Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church in the Laurel District. Price only took questions from the public for about 30 minutes.She has committed to what she calls restorative justice by pursuing alternatives to incarceration and avoiding charging youth as adults. Her stance on reducing sentencing enhancements has been a point of contention for many in the community. Suspect who fired gun leads to SF police barricade in SoMa "They do not deter crime. They, number two, they are racially biased,” said Price. This meeting comes as the effort to recall Price is underw...

Border Patrol Violating Court Order Against Inhumane Treatment of Migrants, Officials Say

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:52:39 GMT

The U.S. Border Patrol has been detaining asylum-seekers outdoors in a deadly corner of the Arizona desert for the better part of a year — significantly longer than was previously known — according to photos, video, and interviews conducted by The Intercept. The practice was one of several described by concerned officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol’s parent agency, who say that their agency is a flouting a federal court order mandating the humane treatment of migrants.In July, amid a lethal and record-setting heatwave, The Intercept captured photos of roughly 50 migrants caged in an outdoor pen at the Border Patrol’s Ajo Station, deep in the Sonoran Desert two hours west of Tucson. The high temperature that day was 114 degrees. According to CBP officials who are based in the state and have direct knowledge of the situation, the caging was no isolated incident: Supervisors at the remote station have been using the pen, as well as other exposed areas, s...

US Open Results

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:52:39 GMT

MondayAt USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis CenterNew YorkPurse: $44,700,000Surface: Hardcourt outdoorNEW YORK (AP) _ Results Monday from US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center (seedings in parentheses):Women’s SinglesFirst RoundKarolina Muchova (10), Czech Republic, def. Storm Hunter, Australia, 6-4, 6-0.Daria Saville, Australia, def. Clervie Ngounoue, United States, 6-0, 6-2.Source

3M, Boston Scientific rise; Abcam, NovoCure fall, Monday, 8/28/2023

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:52:39 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that are trading heavily or have substantial price changes on Monday:RPT Realty (RPT), up $1.76 to $11.33.Kimco Realty is buying the shopping center real estate investment trust for about $2 billion in an all-stock deal.Abcam Plc. (ABCM), down 76 cents to $22.60.Industrial and medical device maker Danaher is buying the life sciences company.Hersha Hospitality Trust (HT), up $3.52 to $9.80.KSL Capital Partners is buying the hotel real estate investment trust for about $1.4 billion.Nordic American Tankers Ltd. (NAT), down 3 cents to $4.07.The tanker company matched Wall Street’s second-quarter earnings forecasts.Jabil Inc. (JBL), up $8.36 to $111.58.The electronics manufacturer is selling its mobility business to BYD Electronics.Boston Scientific Corp. (BSX), up $2.62 to $53.38.The medical device maker gave investors an encouraging update on a study for a heart device.3M Co. (MMM), up $5 to $103.95.The maker of Post-it notes, industrial coatings and cerami...

Doncic stars for Slovenia vs Georgia. Spain and the US reach the second round at the World Cup

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:52:39 GMT

It was the Luka Doncic show again at the World Cup.After scoring 37 points in Slovenia’s opening-game victory against Venezuela, he came through with 34 on Monday in an 88-67 win over Georgia. He also had 10 rebounds and six assists for Slovenia, which is on the cusp of making the second round.Defending champion Spain and the United States each advanced to the second round with victories. Spain defeated Brazil 96-78, and the Americans beat Greece 109-81. The U.S. finished a lowly seventh at this tournament in China four years ago.South Sudan’s 16-year-old Khaman Maluach scored one point and played 16 minutes in his team’s 89-69 victory over China to become one of the youngest to ever play in the Basketball World Cup.The 7-foot-1 Maluach, who is widely considered a 2025 NBA draft prospect, turns 17 next month. The only players younger than Maluach in World Cup history are Ivory Coast’s Georges Lath (16 years, 3 months in 1986) and China’s Gao Ailun (16 years, 9 mont...

Spanish soccer federation asks UEFA for suspension in apparent leverage play to protect Rubiales

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:52:39 GMT

GENEVA (AP) — The Spanish soccer federation has asked UEFA to suspend it from international competitions because of government interference over demands to remove its beleaguered president Luis Rubiales from office. The move was widely seen as an attempt to silence some of Rubiales’ critics, including government ministers who have asked for his removal, as such a suspension would ban Spanish teams from competitions like the Champions League and could sway public opinion in favor of letting him keep his job. Soccer’s governing bodies have long-standing rules barring national governments from interfering with the running of the domestic soccer federations. However, UEFA will not comply with the Spanish federation’s request for a sanction, a person familiar with the issue told The Associated Press on Monday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision-making process was confidential.Rubiales has faced a torrent of criticism from around the globe ov...

Federal government’s back-to-office push could be latest DC housing market challenge

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:52:39 GMT

The push by federal government agencies, now at the direction of the Biden Administration, to aggressively bring employees back to the workplace impacts tens of thousands of federal government employees in the D.C. region who have been working remotely under pandemic-era loosened telework schedules.Like their private-sector counterparts who found themselves able to work from anywhere during the pandemic, some D.C. area federal government employees relocated to larger homes or more affordable areas away from the District.The migration trends began surfacing early in the pandemic in residential sales trends.“Some of the places we saw the strongest market activity were out in the Fauquier County, Warren County and Winchester areas in Virginia, and we also saw Frederick County in Maryland, which actually had one of the fastest-paced housing markets in the country,” said Lisa Sturtevant, chief economist at mid-Atlantic listing service Bright MLS.Those trends were driven by a ...

Illinois judge refuses to dismiss case against father of parade shooting suspect

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:52:39 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — A judge on Monday refused to dismiss the case against a father who helped his son obtain a gun license three years before authorities say the younger man fatally shot seven people at a 2022 Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago.Illinois prosecutors charged Robert Crimo Jr. under a unconstitutionally vague law, his lawyer argued at a hearing earlier this month in Waukegan, north of Highland Park where the shooting took place.Lake County Judge George Strickland rejected that argument, as well as a defense contention that prosecutors charged Crimo Jr. too late — after a three-year statute of limitations had passed. The court’s rulings mean Crimo Jr.’s Nov. 6 trial will go head as previously scheduled. The judge said at the hearing earlier in August that he would take three weeks to mull a decision, and he announced his ruling at a Monday hearing, which was also in Waukegan. He heard additional arguments on the statute of limitations issue Monday before ru...