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California heat wave updates: Five Bay Area cities break or tie heat records
With an excessive heat warning extended to next week, the National Weather Service announced several daily record-high temperatures on Tuesday evening. Oakland reached 90 degrees, breaking by one degree the record set on this day in 2001. San Jose's scorching 102 degree day tied the record previously set in 1970,...
Police: 7-Eleven robbed at gunpoint in Midtown
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Palo Alto police are looking for a man who they said robbed a 7-Eleven in the Midtown neighborhood at gunpoint and assaulted a store clerk before running away late Monday night. The man reportedly entered the store at 708 Colorado Ave. shortly before midnight,...
Men’s rights activists drop suit against Palo Alto golf course
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A pair of men’s right activists who earlier this year filed a lawsuit against Palo Alto’s municipal golf course over its women’s clinic have dropped their legal challenge, court records indicate. Steve Frye and George St. George, who have a track...
Cobb Earns Academic All-America Selection
STANFORD, Calif. – Graduate student Owen Cobb has been named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-America second team, it was announced on Tuesday. Including Cobb, five members of this year’s Academic All-America® Division I baseball team are earning a recognition for the second time. Jesse Barker (University of Central Arkansas) is the only player on this year’s first team to also be a first team honoree in 2023. Cobb repeats as a second team selection, previously earning the honor in 2023. Ryan Campos (Arizona State), Slade Wilks (Southern Mississippi), and Travis Bazzana (Oregon State) are on the first team this year after earning third team honors in 2023.
Stanford and Cal officially say goodbye to the Pac-12 and hello to the ACC
By Ben Parker, CardinalSportsReport: On July 1st, 2024, Stanford and Cal were officially welcomed into the ACC as the newest members of the conference along with SMU. While they won’t officially be members of the league until August 2nd, the conference decided to get a jump on officially welcoming them as football media days will be happening later this month.
ACC Welcoming 3 New Teams to League
The ACC is welcoming three new teams. Two Former PAC-12 members are set to join in early August, and one former AAC team joined on July 1st. Cal, SMU, and Stanford are the newest members of the Atlantic Coastal Conference, and their arrival has changed the landscape of college basketball. With that said, how does this affect the rest of the conference? Will these new members rise to the top, or fall to the bottom of the standings? The ACC is one of the toughest college basketball conferences, and none of these newbies will have an easy in-conference schedule.
Where to find SF Bay Area July 4th parades, festivals and fireworks shows
July 4th festivities will be held across the Bay Area this week through the actual holiday on Thursday with parades, festivals and fireworks shows.Below is a rundown of confirmed events:PARADES AND PICNICSAlameda 10 a.m. The annual July 4th parade returns. There will be additional July 4th festivities held at the USS Hornet starting at 10 a.m. Event infoAmerican Canyon This year's parade starts at 3 p.m. at American Canyon Road and Elliot Drive, traveling north on Elliot Drive to Benton Way, ending at Community Park II where there will be a celebration with food trucks, live music and other activities. Event...
National Weather Service issues extreme weather warning for Bay Area
San Francisco’s Department of Emergency Management says that while the whole city is under a heat advisory warning, the neighborhoods that will be most impacted include the Mission, the Tenderloin, Bayview, SOMA, and Chinatown. Temperatures will be even higher inland and in other parts of the Bay: Brentwood is...
Bay Area heat wave could be 'deadly, historic' as parts of region face extreme weather next few days
Parts of the Bay Area will be experiencing triple digit heat for several days this week beginning on Tuesday.On Tuesday afternoon, the National Weather Service said the Bay Area is headed into "an exceptionally dangerous situation" with the triple-digit heat wave."An exceptionally dangerous situation is underway as we enter a potentially deadly, historic, and prolonged heat event. Protect yourself during excessive heat and stay," the NWS tweeted on X.An exceptionally dangerous situation is underway as we enter a potentially deadly, historic, and prolonged heat event. Protect yourself during excessive heat and stay #WeatherReady. https://t.co/alBAaph8rU pic.twitter.com/jXSZqTNdfi— NWS Bay Area 🌉 (@NWSBayArea)...
Transient pushes woman into California commuter train, killing her
A homeless man allegedly pushed a 74-year-old woman into an arriving San Francisco Bay Area commuter train, killing her, police said Tuesday. Authorities with Bay Area Rapid Transit, better known as BART, said in a statement that the woman hit her head on the train and fell onto the platform in downtown San Francisco. She […]
‘Everything rests on this’: Will taxpayers loan Bay Area counties $20B to fix housing?
With state and federal funds drying up, banks lending less, and more cities facing budget deficits, tens of thousands of newly proposed affordable homes have been stuck in limbo, unable to get off the ground. So come this November, Bay Area voters will not only be weighing in on the...
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