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Yosemite’s summer setbacks: Half Dome cables and 5 other delayed openings

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:36:09 GMT

With Memorial Day just two weeks away, Yosemite National Park is dealing with numerous delays in opening for the summer season.The most immediate setback is the short-notice closing of three Yosemite Valley campgrounds (No. 1 on the map below). Lower Pines, North Pines and Housekeeping will be shut down from Monday, May 15, until further notice because of the possibility of flooding on the Merced River.The park has also given these status reports, with locations noted on the map: 2/ Half Dome cables. The installation of the posts and cables that allow hikers to reach Half Dome’s summit has been delayed because of heavy snow, the park reported. The scheduled opening date for that section of trail had been May 26; no revised date has been announced. In 2017 — a year with heavy snow, but lighter than this year’s — the cables were up on June 2.Hikers who have permits for days when the Half Dome trail remains closed will not have to pay the $10-a-person fee, ...

Celebrity chef Sheldon Simeon’s recipe for Hawaiian-style Mochiko Fried Chicken

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:36:09 GMT

We first became enamored with Sheldon Simeon on “Top Chef: Seattle” in season 10, when the Hilo-born celebrity chef emerged not only as a finalist but with the coveted “fan favorite” title to boot. Since then, he’s collected accolades — including Food & Wine magazine’s top new chefs for 2014 and a second “Top Chef” finalist/fan favorite nod — as well as restaurant credits.Now Simeon has gathered all his beloved family recipes – including how-tos for such favorites as the Mochiko Fried Chicken he serves at Maui’s casual Tin Roof – into one volume, “Cook Real Hawaii” (Clarkson Potter, $35). The book came out in 2021, offering tropical flavors and a dash of escapism in the form of poke, garlic shrimp and malasadas in the midst of the pandemic.Co-written with Garrett Snyder and photographed by Kevin J. Miyazaki, the book showcases the food he feeds his ‘ohana — his family and friends — which combines Hawaiian, Filipino, Kor...

Hawaii’s Pacific pathways and winding trails offer plenty of free adventure

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:36:09 GMT

It was a warm, sunny afternoon on Kauai’s Coconut Coast when my daughter and I set out on a leisurely bike ride on the Ke Ala Hele Makalae path from Kapa’a town to secluded Paliku Beach (aka Donkey Beach), eight miles to the north.Our hotel, the splendid, centrally-located Sheraton Kauai Coconut Beach Resort in Kapa’a, provided our bikes free of charge and even packed a backpack — a cooler bag — with a picnic and cold drinks to bring along on our shoreline ride. Mounting our clunky three-speed beach cruisers, we started our ride by winding through the backstreets of Kapa’a, cruising past small shops, pocket parks, food trucks and a kaleidoscope of small town scenery.Soon we were on the outskirts of town, away from the busy main road on a wide ocean side path, enjoying the sheer beauty of the shimmering water, Pacific views and surf crashing against a rugged volcanic shoreline. Here and there, silky smooth patches of sand appeared, and wider beaches, like swimmable Kealia...

Man arrested for murder in San Jose shooting

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:36:09 GMT

(KRON) -- The San Jose Police Department announced they have made an arrest for a shooting homicide that happened in April. On April 19 around 1:38 p.m., police responded to reports of a shooting on the 1000 block of Blossom River Drive.Police said they found one man suffering gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene. San Francisco bike shop closes after multiple break-ins Homicide detectives identified 18-year-old San Mateo resident Matthew Antracoli as the primary suspect. Police arrested Antracoli on May 9 in Morgan Hill, Calif. He was booked into Santa Clara County Jail for murder.This was San Jose's 9th homicide of 2023, officials said.Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Sergeant Martinez #4117 or Detective Valosek #4245 of the San José Police Department’s Homicide Unit via email: [email protected] and/or [email protected] or at 408-277-5283.

Mount Diablo hiker who fell 100 feet rescued by CHP helicopter

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:36:09 GMT

(KRON) -- A California Highway Patrol helicopter successfully rescued a female hiker who fell approximately 100 feet on Mount Diablo Sunday. Dramatic video posted by the San Ramon Valley Fire Department shows CHP H-32 deploying above the mountain and lowering a paramedic down into rocky terrain where the hiker had fallen. San Francisco bike shop closes after multiple break-ins The CHP responded to the incident along with San Ramon Valley Fire, California State Parks personnel and a REACH air ambulance, SRV FD said. The helicopter crew was able to locate the injured hiker in a difficult to access location. A San Ramon Valley FD paramedic was lowered down to the hiker and she was placed into a rescue harness. The helicopter hoisted the paramedic and the rescued hiker from the scene and then lowered them to the waiting REACH air ambulance.The hiker, who suffered major injuries, was transported to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek. She is currently receiving treatment with the ...

New pig-to-human organ center in Virginia aims to further life-saving transplants

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:36:09 GMT

The company behind a pig-to-human heart transplant in 2022 is building a new research and development hub in Southwest Virginia to raise pigs for their hearts and kidneys, for transplantation into people.In March 2022, the first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig died, two months after the groundbreaking surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center. David Bennett was 57 when he died.In July 2022, researchers transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people to learn more before more transplants into living humans.Construction is now underway in the town of Christiansburg, Virginia, to build a facility for Revivicor, the Blacksburg, Virginia, xenotransplantation company behind the 2022 pig-to-human heart transplantation, and United Therapeutics, the Silver Spring, Maryland-based biotechnology company that owns Revivicor.The companies see transplantation as an effective way to deal with a shortage of transplantable human organs. According to organdonor.gov, a ser...

Suspenden a Ja Morant de las actividades de los Grizzlies tras un segundo video en el que se le ve mostrando una pistola

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:36:09 GMT

(CNN) — Ja Morant, escolta de los Memphis Grizzlies, fue suspendido de las actividades del equipo después de que este domingo circulara en redes sociales un video de Instagram Live en el que aparecía mostrando una pistola mientras estaba en un vehículo con otras personas, apenas dos meses después de que el deportista fuera suspendido por un video similar.Morant está suspendido de todas las actividades del equipo “a la espera de la revisión de la liga (NBA)”, anunciaron los Grizzlies en Twitter, añadiendo que el equipo no tenía más comentarios.Se desconoce cuándo o dónde se grabó el video. CNN se puso en contacto con el representante de Morant, los Grizzlies y la NBA para hacer comentarios.En marzo, la NBA suspendió a Morant durante ocho partidos sin sueldo por “conducta perjudicial para la liga” después de que se le viera en otro video de Instagram Live sosteniendo una pistola en un club nocturno de Glendale, Colorado, un suburbio de Denver.En ese momen...

Alcaraz stunned by Hungarian qualifier in early loss at Italian Open

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:36:09 GMT

ROME (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz didn’t see this one coming. How could he have?About to reclaim the No. 1 ranking, Alcaraz was pretty much pushed off the court at the Italian Open by 135th-ranked Hungarian qualifier Fabian Marozsan 6-3, 7-6 (4) in the third round on Monday.Alcaraz suffered his earliest defeat since October.He’d won 30 of 32 matches this year and was on a 12-match winning streak on clay after consecutive titles in Barcelona and Madrid. He secured a return to the top spot next week by winning his opening match in Rome. But he was caught off guard by how Marozsan dictated with spectacular play all over the court, including drop shots that Alcaraz had no answer for.“I just didn’t feel comfortable. He made me feel uncomfortable on court,” Alcaraz said. “He was aggressive all the time. He was playing inside the baseline all the time. It was tough for me to get into the match, into the rally. I made a lot of mistakes that I usually don’t make too much.”The result means Alc...

3M fires company executive for inappropriate conduct weeks after promotion

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:36:09 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — 3M has fired prominent company executive Michael Vale due to “inappropriate personal conduct and violation of company policy,” the maker of Post-it notes, industrial coatings and ceramics announced on Monday.Vale was promoted to group president and chief business and country officer just last month. Vale worked at 3M for more than 30 years, according to an April 25 press release announcing his promotion, which said he would report to Chairman and CEO Mike Roman. The St. Paul, Minnesota-based company said that Vale was terminated on Friday. 3M did not specify many details surrounding the executive’s termination but noted that his inappropriate conduct and violation of policy was “unrelated to the company’s operations and financial performance.”According to 3M’s Monday announcement, the company took “immediate action” after verifying the violation.3M has initated a search to find a replacement for Vale, the company said.When contacted by The Associated Pr...

Jewish teacher arrested for threatening students who drew swastikas, police say

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:36:09 GMT

GRAFTON, Wis. (AP) — A Jewish middle school teacher in Wisconsin was arrested for making terrorist threats toward students who drew swastikas on a paper in his classroom, police said.The Grafton Police Department, north of Milwaukee, has not identified the seventh grade teacher they say told the students that he had 17 guns in his basement and that he wasn’t afraid to use them.The John Long Middle School teacher, who police say is Jewish, was angered by the drawings and also threatened to send his daughter to students’ homes with a baseball bat, WTMJ-TV reported.“At first he kind of just acted normal, he just put it on his desk like, ‘I’m going to tell the office about this,’” seventh grader Ethan Poulos told the television station. “But then he picked up the piece of paper and went on a ramble about how that’s bad and that’s a disgrace to his people. He started mentioning the N-word and how that was worse than writing the N-word on the wall.”The teacher was booked into the Oz...