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Longtime councilmember announces run for State Assembly

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:43 GMT

Longtime Antioch City Councilmember Monica Wilson announced on Monday that she will seek the state Assembly seat held by Tim Grayson, who is widely expected to run for state Sen. Steve Glazer’s seat.Grayson, who represents the 15th state Assembly District, has yet to announce his intentions for higher office, but Wilson said if he does vacate his current seat, she will seek it. Grayson could not be reached for comment Monday morning.A moderate Democrat from Concord and the city’s former mayor, Grayson was first elected to state office in 2016 and is currently chair of the banking and finance committee.Wilson, a four-term Antioch City Council member, became the first Black woman elected to the city’s council in 2012. While on the council, she has advocated for an end to human trafficking, pushed for police reform and sought to help those experiencing mental health crises, among other issues.“I am ready to take my results-oriented leadership to Sacramento – where I can do even more to...

Another Bay Area P.F. Chang’s set to close, this time in Walnut Creek

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:43 GMT

Fans of Chinese food – and Thai, and Japanese, and Korean, given all that’s on the pan-Asian menu – will soon have one less place to dine in Walnut Creek, as the P.F. Chang’s there is closing permanently this month.The chain-restaurant location’s last day will be June 23, an employee confirms over the phone. “There were a few things that led us to believe that we can’t have this location anymore,” the employee says. “We’re just really sad. Come see us before we close!”News of the shuttering was first broken by the Bay Area Telegraph.This is the second P.F. Chang’s to close in the Bay Area this year. The location in the Bay Street Emeryville shopping mall shut down in January; it’s going to be replaced by the Brazilian steakhouse chain Fogo de Chão. That leaves just three left in Pleasanton, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale.A spokesperson for the Arizona-based company, which has more than 300 locations worldwide, did not immedi...

Survivors of deadly train crash in India are ‘haunted by it’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:43 GMT

By Krutika Pathi and Rishi Lekhi | Associated PressBALASORE, India — Gura Pallay was watching another train pass by the one he was sitting in when he heard sudden, loud screeching. Before he could make sense of what was happening, he was thrown out of the train.Pallay, 24, landed next to the tracks along with metal wreckage of the train he’d been riding in, and instantly lost consciousness. The first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was the twisted remains of train on the tracks.His train had derailed after colliding with a stopped freight train shortly after leaving Balasore, a coastal city about 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of the state capital. Another passenger train, the one he had seen pass by moments earlier, then hit the derailed carriages.“I saw it with my own eyes, but I still can’t describe what I saw. I am haunted by it,” he said Sunday at a hospital, where he lay on a stretcher with a broken leg and dark wounds on his face and arms.Pallay...

R.I.P. Dave FM: Here is the final song that the radio station played

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:43 GMT

Since 2021, Dave FM had been proudly peddling its brand of “Totally Random Radio” to Bay Area listeners at 105.3 FM on the dial.And it all came to an end on Monday when Live 105 made its much anticipated return to that spot on the dial after a six-year absence.Dave wasn’t so random in its last moments, leaning heavily toward classic rock during its final batch of songs. Although there was one surprise in the mix.Here are the final four songs in descending order:4. ‘Life in the Fast Lane’Not sure if programmers were thinking that live-fast-die-young theme served as a good summary for this short-lived radio station. Or perhaps the were just Eagles fans. (Probably the latter.)Related ArticlesMusic | Live 105 is back and this is the first song that the radio station played Music | Cindy Blackman Santana visits SFJAZZ Center, Blue Note Napa Music | Live 105 returns to the airwaves on Monday, while Dave FM goes bye-b...

The Glen in Granite Bay by Blue Mountain receives rave reviews

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:43 GMT

Blue Mountain Communities’ newest neighborhood, The Glen in Granite Bay, recently opened to rave reviews. Tucked into this charming suburb, northeast of Sacramento near Folsom Lake, The Glen offers a lifestyle balanced with city conveniences, outdoor recreation and a nationally top-rated school district.Blue Mountain Communities adds enhanced features to the new single- and two-story homes at The Glen in Granite Bay. This addition to their spectacular lineup of premium locations is now selling from the $800,000s. “We were excited to unveil our new model and Enhanced Features Specifications at The Glen,” comments Joe Klusnick, director of marketing, Blue Mountain Communities. “Home shoppers remark at the impressive level of detail and value each home will include.”With features such as 20 mil vapor barrier beneath the foundation, two-by-six walls and full sheer wrap of exterior walls, as opposed to many builders’ standard of only wrapping sections, these homes are more structura...

Newsom calls DeSantis 'small, pathetic man,' implies kidnapping charges over migrant stunt

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:43 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom seemed to imply that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis could be potentially charged with kidnapping in connection to apparently sending a group of migrants to Sacramento on Friday. "This isn't Martha's Vineyard. Kidnapping charges?" wrote Newsom in a tweet in which he called DeSantis a "small and pathetic man."The California governor included a screenshot of a section of California penal code, stating that: "Every person who, being out of this state, abducts or takes by force or fraud any person contrary to the law of the place where that act is committed, and brings, sends, or conveys that person within the limits of this state, and is afterwards found within the limits thereof, is guilty of kidnapping." Suspect wanted in Oakland shooting of 4-year-old turns himself in Newsom also included a link to section of the California penal code on kidnapping. Newsom and DeSantis have sparred on social media previously. In September of 2022, New...

Alexis Gabe's family plans funeral services, 'Our daughter is coming home'

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:43 GMT

(KRON) -- After more than a year of searching and waiting, Alexis Gabe's remains have now been given over to her family. The Gabe family has scheduled public and private events to celebrate her life later this month. Two SFPD officers slashed with knife in San Francisco hotel standoff Gabe disappeared in January of 2022. Her family and hundreds of members of the public spent the following months scouring various wooded places in the Plymouth area in hopes of finding any sign of her. The first of Gabe's remains was found in November 2022. Gabe's family announced in March of this year that more partial remains belonging to her had also been found by volunteers searching off Highway 49 near Amador City. Amador County and Contra Costa County both needed to complete an autopsy and forensic tests before returning the remains to her family.A one-day memorial service will be held on Saturday, June 17 at Diablo Valley Cremation & Funeral Services in Concord, and members of the pu...

Ex-part owner of Minnesota Vikings gets over six years in cryptocurrency scam

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:43 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — A former part owner of the Minnesota Vikings who defrauded a short-lived professional football league known as the Alliance of American Football in a $700 million cryptocurrency scam was sentenced Monday to over six years in prison.Reginald Fowler, 64, of Chandler, Arizona, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to six years and three months in prison and was ordered to forfeit $740 million and pay restitution of $53 million.The Alliance of American Football met a speedy end in 2019 when it ran out of money.Prosecutors said Fowler lied to the league’s executives when he claimed to control bank accounts with tens of millions of dollars from real estate investments and government contracts that he could use to support the league.In 2005, he tried to buy the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings, becoming a minority owner before his involvement in the team ended in 2014.U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement that Fowler broke the law by processing hundreds of millions of...

Montgomery Co. police searching for suspect after teenager shot at Silver Spring block party

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:43 GMT

Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, are looking for suspects after a 16-year-old girl was shot at a block party in Silver Spring on Friday night.According to police, a group of people were at a block party on the 11400 block of Stewart Lane, near White Oak Community Center, when a dark sedan carrying three to four people drove into the area and began shooting into the crowd.When police arrived around about 10 p.m., a teen was found suffering from a gunshot wound. She was taken to hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries, according to a police news release.Police said over 30 shell casings from a handgun and a high-powered rifle were recovered from the crime scene. Three cars that were parked at an apartment complex were hit by bullets.No suspects have been identified.An investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and police are asking anyone with information on the shooting to contact Crime Solvers of Montgomery County toll-free at 1-866-411-TIPS (8477).Anyone at t...

Coco Gauff wanted a French Open rematch against Iga Swiatek; it’ll happen in the quarterfinals

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:43 GMT

PARIS (AP) — Coco Gauff could have hoped for the easy way out. Ever since the French Open bracket determined that the 19-year-old Floridian might end up in a quarterfinal against Iga Swiatek, perhaps it would have been understandable if Gauff wished to avoid that particular matchup.After all, Gauff lost to Swiatek in the final at Roland Garros a year ago. And, after all, Swiatek owns a 6-0 head-to-head lead over their still-nascent careers. But, at least in part because of what happened on June 4, 2022, and at least in part because she knows Swiatek sets the bar in women’s tennis these days, Gauff was thinking about, even wishing for, a rematch on June 7, 2023.That is what will happen on Wednesday in Paris: No. 1 Swiatek vs. No. 6 Gauff for a berth in the semifinals. In Monday’s fourth round, Gauff put aside a bloody knee to produce a 7-5, 6-2 victory over 100th-ranked Anna Karolina Schmiedlova, before Swiatek moved on when her opponent, 66th-ranked Lesia Tsurenko, stopp...