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Ahead of Team USA scrimmage, SF Giants’ Kapler says Mike Trout is ‘the best player ever’

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:11:26 GMT

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Gabe Kapler was giddy with excitement Wednesday afternoon.The Giants manager had just arrived in the first-base dugout for his pregame session with reporters before San Francisco’s scheduled scrimmage with Team USA ahead of the World Baseball Classic. Kapler took one look at the Americans’ lineup and couldn’t contain himself.“It’s ridiculous,” he said, smiling. “It’s so fun.”Considered to be among the favorites, along with equally stacked teams from Japan and the Dominican Republic, the Americans’ lineup Wednesday evening, “you could say it’s better than a lot of the All-Star lineups,” Kapler said. In fact, one through nine, the batting order boasted 40 All-Star appearances, 30 Silver Sluggers and five MVPs. Their No. 9 hitter was last year’s National League batting champion.One player, though, Kapler was most excited to see.The one who accounts for three of those MVP awards, who was penciled in to...

Atmospheric river storm: When it’s arriving and which areas will be hit hardest

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:11:26 GMT

The atmospheric river storm steaming toward Northern California from Hawaii is likely to bring the wettest conditions the Bay Area has seen in two months.The storm is on track to hit the North Bay by mid-morning Thursday, spreading across the Bay Area by Thursday afternoon, with the heaviest winds, rainfall amounts and disruption — from power outages to flooded roadways — on Thursday night into Friday morning, forecasters said late Wednesday.“This will be similar to what we saw in January,” said Brayden Murdock, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Monterey, who predicted winds up to 50 mph in many areas. “Not as strong as the biggest one of those nine atmospheric river storms in January, but on the same level. Plenty of wind. Strong rain. And chances of rain through the weekend.”The storm is expected to be a category 3 atmospheric river event, perhaps a category 4 in the Big Sur area, on a scale of 1-5, according to scientists at the Sc...

Summit Public Schools must be held accountable for school closure, Sunnyvale officials say

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:11:26 GMT

Summit Denali community members, city government officials and school board trustees joined together Wednesday to denounce the decision to close the Sunnyvale charter school and demand that Summit Public Schools be audited.At the press conference, Sunnyvale Councilmember Richard Mehlinger said he remembers long before he joined the council, when parents first advocated for Summit Public Schools to bring the Denali campus to the city.“I remember how they turned out because they believed in this school, because they believed in its mission,” Mehlinger said. “This is how they have been repaid.”On Jan. 11, Summit Denali’s parent organization, Summit Public Schools, abruptly announced the school was facing a projected $4.5 million deficit for the next school year and would likely shut down permanently after the end of the school year, leaving the school’s 600-plus students suddenly unmoored.Parents, teachers and students of Summit Denali were left in limbo for weeks before the Summit boa...

2 American survivors of deadly Mexico kidnapping are being treated in US hospital as bodies of 2 killed are expected to be repatriated Thursday

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:11:26 GMT

Two of the Americans who were kidnapped at gunpoint in a Mexican border city on Friday have returned to the US and are being treated at a hospital, while the remains of the two Americans who were killed are expected to be brought back to the US Thursday.LaTavia Washington McGee, one of the surviving Americans, is expected to come home Wednesday, her mother, Barbara McLeod Burgess, said in an interview with “CNN This Morning.” Burgess also described her understanding of what happened in the harrowing attack.“They were driving through and a van came up and hit them, and that’s when they started shooting at the car, shooting inside the van,” Burgess said. “She said the others tried to run and they got shot at the same time. They all got shot at the same time. And she watched them die.”The other survivor, Eric Williams, was shot in the legs three times and was brought to a hospital in Texas to undergo surgery, his wife, Michele Williams, told CN...

Phone data, surveillance used to monitor San Jose church that violated COVID rules

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:11:26 GMT

Newly unearthed court documents reveal a bevy of extraordinary surveillance measures Santa Clara County used in trying to prove a San Jose megachurch and its congregants were violating COVID rules at the height of the pandemic.In its ongoing legal battle with Calvary Chapel, Santa Clara County used mobile phone data to map concentrations of congregants gathering on the church’s Hillsdale Avenue grounds and conducted multiple stealthy inspections in late 2020 and early 2021 that experts say raise major civil liberties questions.The use of third-party phone data — a technique known as “geofencing” — and the numerous visits by enforcement officers reveal the lengths to which a county known for its strict COVID response was willing to employ in order to prove that the church was breaking the rules.The county is currently seeking nearly $3 million in public health fines from Calvary, a non-denominational church with 3,000 congregants. Whether or not the church will fork over ...

Rare endangered whale glimpsed in Monterey Bay

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:11:26 GMT

The rarest of all large whales swam through the shallow waters of Monterey Bay last weekend, a sight greeted with elation and awe.A North Pacific right whale, believed to be one of only 32 surviving individuals of the critically endangered species, was spotted, tracked and photographed by a Monterey Bay Whale Watch vessel. Its identity has been confirmed by a government whale expert.“It was truly a once-in-a-lifetime kind of experience,” said Pualani Dalton, captain of the Point Sur Clipper, who first sighted the 45-foot animal just a few miles off the coast.  “I’ve never ever seen one before. And I might never see one again.”Hunted nearly to extinction the whaling heydays of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, the species was protected in 1949. But it has struggled to recover, unlike more abundant and faster-maturing species of humpback and gray whales.It got its name because whalers identified it as the “right” whale to kill, because of its thick blubber and plentiful oil.Wh...

Man charged with stealing $50,000 tractor from Dublin High School

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:11:26 GMT

DUBLIN — Alameda County prosecutors have filed felony charges against a 45-year-old man for allegedly stealing a tractor worth $50,000 from Dublin High, court records show.The 45-year-old Dublin resident was charged in late February with burglary, car theft, and receiving stolen property, all felonies, as well as a misdemeanor count of driving on a suspended license. He was arrested Feb. 17 but released from custody, and remains out of jail while the charges are pending, records show.The John Deere tractor was stolen from campus in the early morning hours of Feb. 11. The theft was discovered later that day.Police say the suspect wasted no time in attempting to sell it online, using Craiglist and OfferUp. He allegedly used his initials on the online listing and included pictures that made it easy for school officials to identify the stolen tractor.Police recognized the suspect from prior contacts. They also recovered video surveillance from elsewhere in Dublin that showed the t...

Man on Bay Bridge experiencing mental health issues, CHP trying to deescalate

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:11:26 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- There is a man on the Bay Bridge experiencing mental health issues and police are working to deescalate the issue, the California Highway Patrol confirmed to KRON4. Traffic is snarled as a result of the activity with eastbound lanes 1, 4 and 5 blocked, the CHP said.The man is on the outer edge underneath the bridge. The scene is active.Drivers are being advised to expect heavy traffic, heavy delays and use alternate routes if possible, according to an alert from San Francisco Department of Emergency Management.SF Muni bus service to and from downtown SF may also be experiencing delays as a result of the activity, according to a tweet from SFMTA.This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

Bay Area Walgreens location halts food sales due to 'pest issue'

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:11:26 GMT

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (KRON) -- Food, candy and beverage sales at a Walgreens location in Mill Valley were suspended due to a rodent problem, KRON4 has learned. An employee at the store informed a KRON4 reporter who visited the store on Tuesday night that they had been told not to sell food items from their store, but were not informed why or how long the stoppage would last. WiLD 94.9 remembers beloved morning show host JV since disappearance Video and photos from the Walgreens, which is located on Shoreline Drive, shows shelves stocked full of food with signs taped to the front. The printed signs read "All food, candy, beverage sales are temporarily suspended."KRON4 reached out to another Bay Area Walgreens location, which said it was selling food items as normal. We also reached out to Marin County Health and Human Services to see if they were aware of sales being suspended at the location and are awaiting a response.The Mill Valley location suspending food sales comes on the he...

Gov. Newsom cancels Walgreens multi-million dollar contract renewal

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:11:26 GMT

(KRON) -- It's official; as California Governor Gavin Newsom warned, the state has pulled back on its renewal of a "multi-million dollar" contract with pharmacy chain Walgreens, Newsom's office announced on Wednesday. Bay Area Walgreens halts food sales due to rodents The decision to pull back on the contract comes just days after Walgreens announced it would not dispense the abortion medication Mifepristone in 21 states, even some where abortion remains legal. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now KRON4 Breaking News SIGN UP NOW “California will not stand by as corporations cave to extremists and cut off critical access to reproductive care and freedom,” said Governor Newsom. “California is on track to be the fourth largest economy in the world and we will le...