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US suicides reached an all-time high in 2022

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:09 GMT

By Mike Stobbe | Associated PressNEW YORK — About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever, according to new government data posted Thursday.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which posted the numbers, has not yet calculated a suicide rate for the year, but available data suggests suicides are more common in the U.S. than at any time since the dawn of World War II.“There’s something wrong. The number should not be going up,” said Christina Wilbur, a 45-year-old Florida woman whose son shot himself to death last year.“My son should not have died,” she said. “I know it’s complicated, I really do. But we have to be able to do something. Something that we’re not doing. Because whatever we’re doing right now is not helping.”Experts caution that suicide is complicated, and that recent increases might be driven by a range of factors, including higher rates of depression and lim...

Stanford, Cal in limbo as ACC presidents don’t vote on western expansion

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:09 GMT

The Atlantic Coast Conference presidents chose not to vote Wednesday night on whether to add Stanford and California to the league, keeping the schools in limbo as they look for an escape from the crumbling Pac-12, two people with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press.The people spoke on condition of anonymity because neither the ACC nor the schools were speaking publicly about internal discussions.Both people stopped short of calling the league’s exploration of westward expansion dead after three days of meetings on the subject, but added that it was clear getting the necessary 12 votes to add the Northern California schools would have been difficult.The ACC has also been looking at SMU, the Dallas-based school from the American Athletic Conference, as an expansion target.Cal and Stanford have been searching for a path from the Pac-12 to another Power Five conference for days, also reaching out to officials with the Big Ten, two people with knowledge of that situatio...

Oakland police ID woman who was chased and fatally shot at close range in one of four homicides that day

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:09 GMT

OAKLAND — Police have identified a 27-year-old woman who was chased down and fatally shot at close range after she tripped while running from her attacker.Nicole Marcy, a Seattle native who lived in Oakland, was fatally shot around 4:45 a.m. on July 19, on the 1200 block of 18th Avenue in East Oakland. She was the third of four victims of fatal shootings across the city that day.Police have not made any arrests. They say the masked gunman who killed Marcy was seen chasing after her on International Boulevard and caught up with her on 18th Avenue after she tripped and fell. He then stood over her and shot her multiple times, police said.While processing the homicide scene, police learned a second victim, a 39-year-old man, had checked himself into Highland Hospital that morning. The man was suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his legs, but survived.Police believe that Marcy called the 39-year-old man to pick her up while hiding from the suspect. When the man arrived to th...

Condominium sells for $2.1 million in Palo Alto

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:09 GMT

3286 Berryessa Street – Google Street ViewThe property located in the 3200 block of Berryessa Street in Palo Alto was sold on July 27, 2023. The $2,050,000 purchase price works out to $1,195 per square foot. The condominium, built in 2009, has an interior space of 1,715 square feet. This apartment features three bedrooms and four bathrooms. The property is equipped with forced air heating and a cooling system. Additionally, the home is equipped with a two-car garage, accommodating vehicles and storage needs efficiently. The property’s lot measures 961 square feet square feet in area. 

49ers-Raiders practice: Top takeaways from first joint session

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:09 GMT

HENDERSON, Nev. — A 49ers-Raiders affair with passes instead of punches? Such was the case Thursday as these former Bay Area neighbors squared off in the first of two joint practices before Sunday’s preseason opener.“There’s no bad blood or anything,” 49ers linebacker Fred Warner said. “It’s all about ball.”It also was mostly about Jimmy Garoppolo wearing No. 10 in a different uniform, and, in the crispest drill of the 90-minute session, producing a touchdown drive, then both he and the 49ers exchanging kind words about his previous 5 1/2-year tenure in the red and gold.Here are the top takeaways from before and after practice at the Raiders’ headquarters since 2020 upon leaving Oakland:INJURY WATCHTight end George Kittle (thigh) and linebacker Dre Greenlaw (hamstring) showed up on the injury report, but the biggest blow sure to linger into the season was to return specialist Ray-Ray McCloud, who sustained a fractured left wrist ...

Indictment shows battle between lawyer factions in White House

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:09 GMT

By Farnoush Amiri | Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — A few hours after rioters laid siege to the Capitol, overpowering police in a violent attack on the seat of American democracy on Jan. 6, 2021, the White House’s top lawyer, Pat Cipollone, called his boss with an urgent message.It’s time to end your objections to the 2020 election, Cipollone told Donald Trump, and allow Congress to certify Joe Biden as the next president. Trump refused.Trump was no longer listening to his White House counsel, the elite team of attorneys who take an oath to serve the office of the president. But by all accounts, he hadn’t been listening to them for some time.The extraordinary moment — fully detailed for the first time in the latest federal indictment against Trump unsealed last week — vividly illustrates the extent to which the former president’s final weeks in office were consumed by a struggle over the law, with two determined groups of attorneys fighting it out as the fu...

Google loses bid to toss lawsuit over ‘potentially embarrassing’ Incognito mode data grabbing

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:09 GMT

A federal court judge this week shot down Google’s attempt to scuttle a multi-billion-dollar class-action lawsuit accusing it of making an Orwellian grab of “potentially embarrassing” data from users’ “Incognito mode” and other private browsing.The three Californians and two others suing Google on behalf of themselves and tens of millions of other internet users claim Google captured the data despite promising it would not.Google, in its bid to get the case thrown out, argued in a March court filing that it “never made any such promise.”In her order in U.S. District Court in Oakland, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said she agreed with the plaintiffs who filed the lawsuit in 2020 that anyone using Incognito mode in Google’s Chrome browser could reasonably deduce from the mode’s opening “splash” screen that their data would not be accessible by Google. She also noted that Google’s “Search & Browse Pr...

High-profile downtown Walnut Creek retail and dining center lands buyer

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:09 GMT

WALNUT CREEK — A restaurant and retail complex in downtown Walnut Creek has been bought in a deal that shows investors still thirst for commercial properties in prime locations.Midtown Plaza, a complex at a high-profile downtown site, has been bought by an affiliate whose controlling entity is the Colorado Public Employees’ Retirement Association, according to documents on file with Contra Costa County and the state of California.The buyer, in separate transactions, paid a combined $16.1 million for Midtown Plaza, as well as two adjacent properties, grant deeds filed on July 25 with the Contra Costa County Recorder’s Office show.1422 North California Boulevard in downtown Walnut Creek. (Google Maps)The Colorado employee pension group paid $12.35 million for Midtown Plaza, which has addresses ranging from 1410 through 1444 North California Boulevard.In a separate transaction, also on July 25, the Colorado pension association paid another $3.75 million for adjac...

Pelosis to open home to DePape's lawyers

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:09 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul Pelosi have granted the lawyers representing the man accused of attacking Paul access to their home, KRON4 has confirmed. A representative for Speaker Emerita Pelosi noted that attorneys for the prosecution as well as the defense would be granted access to inspect the home in relation to the case. Silicon Valley Bank vice president sentenced David DePape, the man caught on police body cam footage striking Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer, has pleaded not guilty. DePape is accused of breaking into the Pelosi's Pacific Heights home with the intent to find and kidnap Nancy Pelosi, an FBI affidavit states. In addition to the hammer allegedly used in the attack, he also had zip ties, tape and rope with him at the time.He is charged with premeditated attempted murder, burglary, inflicting injury on an elder likely to cause great bodily injury, assault with a deadly weapon, false imprisonment, and threatening ...

Lil Tay says her Instagram account was hacked, report of her death a hoax

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:09 GMT

Editor's note: Following the publication of this article, Lil Tay has claimed the social media post announcing her death was a hoax.(KTLA) – Lil Tay, a rapper and social media personality who was widely reported to have died on Wednesday, is still very much alive and was the victim of a hoax, she says."My Instagram account was compromised by a 3rd party and used to spread jarring misinformation and rumors regarding me, to the point that even my name was wrong," the social media star's family said in a statement to TMZ. The initial post on Lil Tay's Instagram account, which has since been removed, also said her brother had passed away. "I want to make it clear that my brother and I are safe and alive, but I’m completely heartbroken, and struggling to even find the right words to say. It’s been a very traumatizing 24 hours. All day yesterday, I was bombarded with endless heartbreaking and tearful phone calls from loved ones all while trying to sort out this mess," the statement read...