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California Senate candidates speak on gun reform policy at Monterey Park town hall

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:51:02 GMT

Candidates for the next California U.S. Senator gathered for a town hall in Monterey Park on Friday night to discuss gun violence and policy reform.The four Democratic candidates gathered at East L.A. College, which sits less than three miles from the site of the Monterey Park mass shooting that claimed 11 lives on Jan. 21, 2023.The discussion was hosted by the youth-led organization March for Our Lives, in partnership with People’s Town Hall and Southern California Crossroads.The appearance also marked the first time all four candidates appeared together on stage.The candidates include Rep. Katie Porter of Irvine, Rep. Adam Schiff of Burbank, Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland, and Lexi Reese, a businesswoman from San Mateo.The town hall discussion allowed students and attendees to question candidates on their plans to tackle rising gun violence across the nation.Candidates for the next California U.S. Senator gathered for a town hall at East L.A. College in Monterey Park to discuss gun v...

Riverside awarded $27M for 150-unit affordable housing

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:51:02 GMT

The city of Riverside was awarded $27 million in Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities, or AHSC, funds that will go toward building a 150-unit Mulberry Gardens Family Apartments project.Among 21 applicants for the funds, Mulberry Gardens Family Apartments was the only project in the Inland area to receive funding, according to a Riverside city news release. “Our state is in great need of affordable housing, so it is a testament to our staff’s efforts that this project was the only one in the Inland region to receive funding,” Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson said. “Riverside competed on the statewide stage and came away a winner.”More than $757 million in AHSC funds will pay for 2,552 homes throughout California, in addition to walkways, bikeways, crosswalks, streetlights, trees, and bus stops.All PostsMulberry Gardens Family Apartments will be built near Mulberry and Holding streets in downtown Riverside, just west of Highway 91 at the old CalFire site, 2524 Mulberry Street...

Police shoot, critically injure man outside San Pablo home

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:51:02 GMT

SAN PABLO – An officer shot and seriously injured a 44-year-old man Friday afternoon in San Pablo, according to police.The shooting happened outside a residence in the 2600 block of Dover Avenue, the San Pablo Police Department said in a statement.Officers were initially called to the home around 1:40 p.m. to assist with a mental health evaluation, according to police. A woman told a 911 dispatcher her husband was showing signs of schizophrenia.When officers arrived at the residence, the husband locked himself inside a room and refused to talk to them, police said. He did not live at the home, but he was not acting violent at the time and his wife agreed to call police if he exited and needed help.The wife called 911 around 2:50 p.m. and asked officers to return to the residence because her husband was harassing her, according to police. He was outside now and she did not want him to return.The dispatcher overheard the husband in the background say he would “kill police officers and...

Sale closed in Saratoga: $5.9 million for a five-bedroom home

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:51:02 GMT

14296 Taos Drive – Google Street ViewA spacious house located in the 14200 block of Taos Drive in Saratoga has a new owner. The 3,481-square-foot property, built in 1978, was sold on Aug. 15, 2023, for $5,850,000, or $1,681 per square foot. This single-story house offers a spacious layout with five bedrooms and three bathrooms. Inside, there is a fireplace. In addition, the home provides a three-car garage, granting ample space for parking and storage purposes. The property’s backyard is further enhanced by both a spa and a pool.Additional houses that have recently been sold close by include:On Shadow Oaks Way, Saratoga, in August 2022, a 3,402-square-foot home was sold for $4,850,000, a price per square foot of $1,426. The home has 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms.A 2,568-square-foot home on the 14000 block of Shadow Oaks Way in Saratoga sold in May 2023, for $4,610,000, a price per square foot of $1,795. The home has 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.In December 2022, a 1,866-square-foot home ...

Back-to-back-to-back homers ignite SF Giants offense in comeback win over Rockies

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:51:02 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — Joey Bart, coming in cold from four months in Sacramento, was posed a difficult question before Friday night’s series opener against the Rockies. He’s seen this team at its best and its worst, so what were his observations with the team riding a six-game losing streak?“I’ve witnessed it over the last couple years. I know what it takes” to turn it around, he said. “Sometimes it’s just something different. That’s not saying me. It’s just anything. Someone gets a big hit. Something happens. Then, bam, we’re off to the races.”For five innings against journeyman lefty Ty Blach, a former Giant making his first start at Oracle Park in an opposing uniform, it was more of the same. They put a few runners on, failed to bring them home in the usual ways, and had Blach gunning for a career-high in strikeouts with six through four frames.Something happened. And, bam, they were off to the races. Losing streak over: 9-8.Ignited by back-to-back-to...

Josh Naylor drives in 3 runs as Guardians hold on for 6-3 win over Angels

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:51:02 GMT

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Josh Naylor drove in three runs, Logan Allen picked up his first victory in four starts and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Los Angeles Angels 6-3 on Friday night.It was Naylor’s 11th game with at least three RBIs this season. Bo Naylor also drove in a run, marking the seventh time this season the Naylor brothers have had an RBI in the same game.Josh Naylor is 5 for 17 with five RBIs in five games since coming off the injured list after missing a month due to a right oblique strain.“Obviously, he feels good about himself, as he should,” manager Terry Francona said. “I think you can see that he didn’t just pick up a bat the other day. He’s been working out for a while.”Allen (7-7) allowed one run on three hits and struck out six to get his first victory since Aug. 15. The left-hander is fourth among AL rookies in strikeouts (113) and fifth in wins.Emmanuel Clase retired the side in the ninth for his majors-leading 39th save.The Guardians remained 6 1/2 games b...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the Group of 20 has agreed to make the African Union a permanent member

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:51:02 GMT

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the Group of 20 has agreed to make the African Union a permanent member.Source

Wilmer Flores draws bases-loaded walk for go-ahead run, Giants come back twice to beat Rockies 9-8

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:51:02 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Wilmer Flores drew a bases-loaded walk in the eighth from Evan Justice to bring home the go-ahead run after Mike Yastrzemski hit a tying RBI single that inning, and the San Francisco Giants came back twice to beat the Colorado Rockies 9-8 on Friday night.Justice relieved Jake Bird (2-3) and hit Blake Sabol with a pitch to load the bases. After Luis Matos struck out looking, Flores worked the count full and Justice missed his spot — then did so again in walking LaMonte Wade Jr. next.That insurance run mattered as Camilo Doval surrendered Nolan Jones’ two-out double before finishing for his 36th save. John Brebbia (3-0) pitched the eighth for the win.Elias Díaz hit a go-ahead three-run homer in the seventh and Nolan Jones also connected for Colorado. Sabol hit a two-run shot in the bottom of the seventh to keep San Francisco close.The Giants (71-70) snapped a six-game losing streak to avoid falling below 500 for the first time since beginning the day 29-30 o...

With sexism in Spanish soccer being scrutinized, women players strike for higher league wages

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:51:02 GMT

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — First, Spain’s Women’s World Cup winners said they would no longer play for their country as they fight sexism in the nation’s soccer federation. Now, Spain’s women’s league players are on strike and calling for what they call a dignified minimum wage.The Liga F — Spain’s women’s league — was supposed to kick off its second season on Friday, but instead its players are striking for the first two rounds of games.The strike comes with the nation immersed in the scandal caused by soccer federation president Luis Rubiales when he kissed a Spain player on the lips without her consent during the Aug. 20 awards ceremony in Sydney, Australia after Spain had beaten England in the final.Rubiales’ conduct caused outrage in Spain. It also has drawn attention away from the greatest achievement in the history of Spanish women’s soccer, which has undergone spectacular growth over the last decade but still is fighting for a pay raise that, if granted, would...

Coalition of world leaders calls for tripling renewable energy

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:51:02 GMT

Leaders from the EU, Africa and the Caribbean have issued a united demand for the world to set targets that would transform the global energy system before a child born today is halfway through primary school.In an article published Saturday on POLITICO’s website, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, President of Kenya William Ruto and Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley called for the world to set “a common horizon,” namely global goals to triple renewable energy capacity and double annual savings of energy use by 2030.They issued their statement in the wake of a dire U.N. report on the state of global climate efforts released Friday. Sultan Al-Jaber, the United Arab Emirates official leading the COP28 U.N. climate talks that start in November, was also a signatory on the article.“COP28 will offer the world a critical chance to course-correct on climate change,” they said in the article.The leaders have previously made these demands individually, but they said the...