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49ers mailbag: Nick Bosa’s ramp-up, offensive line concerns and looking ahead to L.A.

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:10 GMT

SANTA CLARA – The 49ers’ next tour stop is Sunday at Los Angeles, where they’ve won their past four regular-season visits. Before fans converge on Levi’s South and unleash “Let’s Go Niners!” chants like they did during the Week 1 closeout in Pittsburgh, they submitted questions for our Week 2 mailbag:Why were Christian McCaffrey and Nick Bosa still playing in garbage time? -@Giants_NinersA 20-point lead in the fourth quarter sure seemed like enough of a cushion to sit your MVPs. But not all fourth-quarter leads are safe, and that isn’t a dig at Kyle Shanahan’s playoff history. He often refers to the 2021 opener in Detroit, when a 24-point fourth-quarter lead was jeopardized by two Lions touchdowns in the final two minutes of a heart-stopping 41-33 win.Will Aiyuk and CMC carry my fantasy team again? -@nickc_182Let’s answer that with Steelers coach Mike Tomlin’s response Tuesday about Brandon Aiyuk’s big game: “Some of his exploits had to do with our desire to ...

Berkeley PD launches 'Drive Safer, Drive Longer' classes for aging drivers

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:10 GMT

(KRON) -- Berkeley Police Department’s Traffic Bureau has introduced a new program for aging drivers, the department announced Tuesday. The "Drive Safer, Drive Longer" class for aging drivers, according to the BPD, is designed in an effort to “keep everyone on the road safe.” The classes will have a one-hour-long educational portion. The September 14 class will be held at the South Berkeley Senior Center at 10:00 a.m. The following class will be held at the North Berkeley Senior Center on September 20 at 10:00 a.m. Caltrans to alternate partial, full closure of Highway 12 later this month in Santa Rosa Interested parties can RSVP by calling (510) 981-5984. Information on future classes or further questions can be directed to Shellie Hill-Williams at [email protected], according to Berkeley PD.

San Francisco tech company laying off 17% of its staff

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:10 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Online e-commerce platform Wish will be laying off 152 employees from its headquarters in San Francisco, according to a filing on the California Employment Development Department website from its parent company, ContextLogic Inc. The layoffs will go into effect at the end of the month, according to the filing, which was received by the EDD on Monday.Wish is an e-commerce platform that facilitates transactions between sellers and buyers that was founded in 2010, according to its investor relations page. The company describes itself as "one of the largest global ecommerce platforms," and says that it connects "millions of value-conscious consumers to thousands of merchants around the world." Apple set to unveil the iPhone 15. Here’s what to expect "Wish combines technology and data science capabilities and an innovative discovery-based mobile shopping experience to create a highly-visual, entertaining, and personalized shopping experience for its users," its ...

San Francisco area gains nearly quarter-million people after correction of errors

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:10 GMT

(AP) -- Some of the most high-profile urban areas in the U.S. gained population on Tuesday. But it's not because of a sudden flood of moving trucks into San Francisco, Atlanta and New Orleans.Rather, the U.S. Census Bureau corrected errors made in the population and housing counts of urban areas that were officially released in December, according to a Federal Register notice published Tuesday.The San Francisco-Oakland urban area's population was corrected to 3.5 million residents from 3.2 million. The addition of nearly a quarter million residents, as well as more than 100,000 homes, came from the San Rafael-Novato, California, urban area, which had been counted separately by accident when it actually should have been deleted and merged with the San Francisco-Oakland urban area.The Atlanta urban area had its population adjusted to 5.1 million residents from 4.9 million residents. An additional 100,853 residents living in more than 37,000 homes had been mistakenly assigned to the Ga...

NY Philharmonic gets $40 million gift that endows Gustavo Dudamel’s job as music director

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:10 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Incoming music director Gustavo Dudamel will conduct the New York Philharmonic at its spring gala on April 24, the orchestra said Tuesday as it announced a $40 million gift from co-chairman Oscar L. Tang and wife Agnes Hsu-Tang that will endow his position.Dudamel was hired in February to become the Philharmonic’s music director for the 2026-27 season. He conducted the orchestra last May in three performances of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony but was not scheduled to lead it in the 2023-24 season, which opens Sept. 27. The program of Dudamel’s concert was not announced.As part of the gift, the music director will become The Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Music and Artistic Director Chair starting with the 2025-26 season, when Dudamel becomes music director designate. The 42-year-old Dudamel has been music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2009, a tenure that will end after 17 seasons when he starts in New York. He quit as music director...

5 former officers charged in death of Tyre Nichols are now also facing federal civil rights charges

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:10 GMT

MEMPHIS (AP) — 5 former officers charged in death of Tyre Nichols are now also facing federal civil rights charges.Source

France’s Foreign Ministry says French elected official has been arrested in military-run Niger

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:10 GMT

PARIS (AP) — France’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that a French official has been arrested in military-run Niger, and called for the junta to immediately release him.Military officers in Niger deposed elected President Mohamed Bazoum in July and later ordered French officials to leave the country — an order that France has refused to heed, saying that Niger’s junta is not the country’s legitimate authority.The ministry said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that Stephane Jullien, counsellor for French citizens abroad — a non-diplomatic, elected post — , was arrested last Friday, and called for his “immediate release.” French President Emmanuel Macron has said that France’s ambassador would stay at his post in Niger despite being asked to leave, Addressing ambassadors in August, Macron dismissed concerns that standing up to the junta could be dangerous. The arrest of a French official was sure to further raise tensions between France and Niger.The Foreign Mi...

Tickets sales for Euro 2024 in Germany start soon at $32. High-end seats at the final cost $2,100

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:10 GMT

GENEVA (AP) — More than 1.2 million tickets for soccer’s 2024 European Championship in Germany go on sale next month with seats priced from 30 euros ($32) at group-stage games up to 1,000 euros ($1,072) for the final, UEFA said Tuesday.The most expensive seats of all the 2.7 million tickets for the 51 games will be in a new high-end “Prime Seats” category that more than doubles the highest prices from Euro 2020.The prime halfway line spots will go on sale in December at 400 euros ($429) for group-stage games and 2,000 euros ($2,146) for the final at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin on July 14, UEFA said.Soccer tournaments in Germany are traditionally high-revenue events and the cheapest hospitality package prices next year are about 40% more expensive than at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.Tickets being sold from Oct. 3-Oct. 26 are for games on specific dates before the full schedule is known for the month-long tournament in 10 German cities. This first sales phase is “the best chance esp...

UConn loses its starting quarterback to injury for the 2nd straight season

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:10 GMT

UConn starting quarterback Joe Fagnano will miss the remainder of the season after suffering a shoulder injury in the Huskies loss to Georgia State, coach Jim Mora announced Tuesday.Fagnano, a transfer from Maine, was injured during a designed quarterback run in the second quarter of last Saturday’s 35-14 loss in Atlanta.“It’s a fairly significant injury, we didn’t think it was that significant until they got a real good look at it with the MRI, so Friday he’s scheduled for surgery and he’s obviously pretty down about it,” Mora said.Ta’Quan Roberson, a transfer from Penn State, will take over the starting duties for UConn (0-2), which hosts FIU on Saturday.Roberson completed 19 of 30 passes for 216 yards and two touchdowns in relief of Fagnano on Saturday night.He returns to the starting role he lost after suffering a season-ending knee injury in UConn’s opening game a season ago.“Now this year, the guy ahead of Ta’Quan gets hurt and now Ta’Quan gets his chance aga...

France’s Foreign Ministry says a French elected official has been arrested in military-run Niger, and calls for his release. (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously reported that a ministry official was arrested.)

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:10 GMT

PARIS (AP) — France’s Foreign Ministry says a French elected official has been arrested in military-run Niger, and calls for his release. (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously reported that a ministry official was arrested.).Source