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Giants rookie matches Barry Bonds with wild streak
San Francisco Giants rookie Tyler Fitzgerald on Tuesday joined some pretty elite company with his recent home run streak. Fitzgerald entered his team’s contest against the Los Angeles Dodgers with a home run streak of four games. The Giants shortstop made it five in a row in his first at-bat of Tuesday’s game at Dodger... The post Giants rookie matches Barry Bonds with wild streak appeared first on Larry Brown Sports.
VIDEO: Jewelry thief steals nearly half a million dollars from JCPenney in Antioch
ANTIOCH, California — Police are seeking the public's help in identifying a suspect involved in a jewelry theft at JCPenney. Antioch police officers responded to an alarm call just after 10:00 p.m. on June 15 from the JCPenney on Slatten Ranch Road. Officers reviewed store surveillance footage showing the suspect using a hammer or tool to smash glass jewelry cases and steal nearly half a million dollars in jewelry. The suspect was seen entering the store at 8:25 p.m. and hiding for several hours before committing the crime, according to the Antioch Police Department.
City of Orinda announces new city manager
Orinda Mayor Darlene Gee announced the selection of Linda Smith to serve as Orinda’s next City Manager. The Orinda City Council will consider approval of the City Manager Employment Agreement at its July 16, 2024, meeting. Smith, who is the current City Manager of Dublin, CA, will start her tenure with the City of Orinda on October 14, 2024.
Frustrated by school web filters, one teenager created his own
During early COVID lockdowns, a teen worked with his family to raise $1.8 million in venture funding and built a web filter with a team of data scientists and psychologists that he now hopes will help students safely surf the web.
ACC notebook: Cal, Stanford ready for cross-country trips
As the Pac-12 Conference fell apart in summer 2023, a lifeline came for San Francisco Bay Area institutions Cal and Stanford from an unlikely destination: the Atlantic Coast Conference. On Tuesday, the Golden Bears and Cardinal football programs received formal introductions to their cross-country conference mates during ACC media days in Charlotte, N.C. Cal coach Justin Wilcox was asked about his team's "wild" schedule, in which the Golden Bears will travel to Auburn in Week 2 before flying 2,200-plus miles to Tallahassee just two weeks later to take on Florida State in ACC play. "If you would have asked me...
Pleasanton educator recognized as California History Teacher of the Year
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Pleasanton Middle School history teacher Katherine Orenberg was recently named the 2024 California History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, a nonprofit organization dedicated to American history education from elementary to high school. The New York-based organization, which...
Hohler, Kerley To Lead Cumulus San Francisco’s Sports Radio
Cumulus Media has made dual programming promotions within its San Francisco Bay Area sports radio brands. Mike Hohler has been elevated from Assistant Program Director to Program Director of three stations, while John Kerley steps into that same APD role. Hohler, who started with Cumulus San Francisco in 2002 as...
Grants Awarded for Bay Area Adaptive Bikeshare Pilots
The MTC Regional Network Management Committee last week approved $200,000 in grants to help fund adaptive bikeshare pilot projects for people with disabilities in five Bay Area cities. Funding has been provided through the One Bay Area Grants (OBAG 3) Climate Initiatives program. A contract with the San Francisco Recreation...
TIMELINE: Hottest day of inland heat wave with advisories and warnings still in effect
Tuesday is day two of three for the Bay Area's inland heat wave and will be the hottest day of the week.The hottest cities reach 100-104 in the afternoon with Moderate to Major heat risk continuing.LIVE: Track real-time temperatures during Bay Area heat waveHeat Advisory and Excessive Heat Warning continue until Wednesday eveningThe Coast remains comfy in the 60s and 70s.Much cooler air arrives Friday.WATCH: Heat wave vs. heat exhaustion - how to tell the differenceMeteorologist Drew Tuma explains the symptoms of heat stroke and heat exhaustion -- and how to tell the difference.VIDEO: Extreme heat dangers and safety tips:...
Harris supporter from Peninsula mobilizes voters after Biden steps aside
Amid the churn of her printer and chime of her phone, it's been a chaotic couple of days for Kamala Harris supporter Harini Krishnan. "I will say the last 48 hours has been a blur, but it has been a magical blur," she told CBS News Bay Area. Lovingly known as Harini Auntie to young Harris supporters, Krishnan has been championing the current vice president since 2019, and as friend for longer. She leads an organization that was known as South Asians for Biden just 48 hours ago, but has since rebranded to South Asians for Harris in the wake...
State celebrates five years and secure water for hundreds of thousands of Californians thanks to the SAFER drinking water program
State officials, advocates and residents gathered in Porterville on Monday to celebrate the five-year mark of a state drinking water program born of the crippling 2012-2016 drought. That’s when the entire community of east Porterville went dry – for months. There was no government program available to help and nonprofits...
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