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Tech, non-tech firms slash hundreds more Bay Area jobs in fresh layoffs

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:00:58 GMT

CAMPBELL — Tech and non-tech companies have revealed plans to slash hundreds of Bay Area jobs with one local company telling state officials that it’s having trouble raising cash for ongoing operations.All told, the latest rounds of layoffs have heralded the elimination of 211 jobs in the Bay Area, according to official notices filed with the state’s labor agency.Tech companies intend to eliminate 137 jobs in the Bay Area, according to the new disclosures, while a maker of recycled materials is cutting another 74 jobs in the region, the filings with the state Employment Development Department show.During 2022 and so far in 2023, tech companies have revealed plans to eliminate more than 28,500 jobs in the Bay Area, this news organization’s compilation and analysis of the state EDD WARN notices show.In 2022, tech companies chopped more than 10,400 jobs in the nine-county region. So far in 2023, Bay Area tech job cuts have totaled slightly more than 18,100, acco...

Detached house in San Jose sells for $4.3 million

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:00:58 GMT

1122 Nevada Avenue – Google Street ViewThe spacious property located in the 1100 block of Nevada Avenue in San Jose was sold on Sept. 25, 2023. The $4,299,000 purchase price works out to $820 per square foot. The house, built in 2000, has an interior space of 5,242 square feet. This two-story house offers a roomy layout with four bedrooms and four baths. Inside, there is a fireplace. The property is equipped with forced air heating and a cooling system. In addition, the home includes a three-car garage, offering generous space for vehicles and storage requirements.Additional houses that have recently changed hands close by include:In March 2023, a 1,614-square-foot home on Telfer Avenue in San Jose sold for $1,660,000, a price per square foot of $1,029. The home has 3 bedrooms 1 bathroom.On Nevada Avenue, San Jose, in October 2022, a 4,346-square-foot home was sold for $4,200,000, a price per square foot of $966. The home has 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms.A 5,994-square-foot home on th...

San Mateo County jail opens new detox for inmates

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:00:58 GMT

(KRON) -- The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office launched a new Detox Program inside the county's main jail, Maguire Correctional Facility in Redwood City, to help inmates struggling with addiction."We are proud to introduce the groundbreaking Detox Program within our jail facility as part of our ongoing efforts to combat the fentanyl crisis in our community," Sheriff Christina Corpus said. Through blending medical expertise with compassionate care, the program aims to provide incarcerated persons with medical and mental health support to "overcome their addiction and reclaim control of their lives," the Sheriff's Office wrote. The goals of the program include reducing recidivism rates, boosting public safety, and transforming the lives of inmates suffering from substance abuse disorders. The Detox Program began helping inmates over the summer. It served 227 incarcerated persons in August, 217 in July, and 238 in June, according to the Sheriff's Office. Key features of the Detox Pro...

School crossing guard struck by SUV in Pleasanton

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:00:58 GMT

(BCN) -- A vehicle hit a pedestrian in Pleasanton on Thursday morning, according to police.Pleasanton police said shortly after 9 a.m. that the collision happened near Vineyard Avenue and Adams Way. The Pleasanton Police Department is investigating the collision, which occurred at 7:48 a.m. According to witnesses cited by Pleasanton PD, a midsize SUV struck a crossing guard who was assigned to the intersection.Officers rendered aid to the victim and he was transported to a local hospital with head injuries. The driver of the vehicle remained on the scene and is cooperating with the investigation, police said.Alcohol, drugs or distracted driving do not appear to have been factors, according to police.Investigators were still on the scene and police said roads in the area are expected to be closed for "several hours." Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

Williams expects tough matchup as No. 10 Trojans renew rivalry at No. 21 Notre Dame

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:00:58 GMT

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — USC quarterback Caleb Williams expects a hard-nosed tussle under the lights of Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday. It doesn’t matter that the 21st-ranked Fighting Irish (5-2) are on the ropes after losing two of their last three games.Williams is familiar with the extra weight that historic rivalries carry. He led the Trojans to a 38-27 victory over Notre Dame in the regular-season finale last fall and suited up for Oklahoma in the 2021 Red River Rivalry.“No matter how good the teams are, no matter how bad the teams are, it’s just like Oklahoma and Texas,” Williams said. “When you play against a team like that, with the sense of rivalry, the game is always a little bit harder than what the teams’ records are or whatever the case may be.”No. 10 USC (6-0) has torched opposing defenses this season by scoring an FBS-best 51.8 points per game. Thus far, Williams is outperforming his historic 2022 campaign when he practically won every accolade imaginable, including AP...

Stock market today: Wall Street falls as the vise tightens from rising yields in the bond market

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:00:58 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are slipping Thursday as the clamps tighten on Wall Street from rising yields in the bond market. The S&P 500 was 0.7% lower in afternoon trading and on track to break a four-day winning streak, its longest since August.The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 204 points, or 0.6%, as of 3 pm. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.8% lower.The stock market has largely been taking its cue from the bond market recently, and weak results announced in the afternoon for an auction of 30-year Treasury bonds sent yields of all kinds of Treasurys higher. Higher yields can knock down prices for stocks, all else equal, and slow the economy by making borrowing more expensive. Yields had already been on the rise in the morning following a report that showed inflation at the consumer level was a touch higher last month than economists expected. That raises worries about the Federal Reserve keeping its main interest rate high for a long time, as it tries to...

Gaza authorities say at least 45 Palestinians killed in Israeli strike on a refugee camp

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:00:58 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Gaza’s interior ministry on Thursday said that an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the densely populated Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza has killed at least 45 people and wounded dozens more.Eyad Bozum, the spokesperson of the interior ministry, told The Associated Press that a late afternoon airstrike hit the al-Shihab family house at the center of the Jabaliya camp. The al-Shihab house was packed with dozens of relatives at the time of the airstrike. Some family members had fled heavy bombing from other parts of the strip and taken refuge there. Bozum said the death toll was likely to rise from that airstrike, because civil defense workers were still pulling bodies from the rubble and counting the dead.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israel military pulverized the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip with airstrikes, prepared for a possible ground invasion and said Thursday its complete siege on the terr...

French police are probing possible poisoning of Russian journalist who denounced Ukraine war on TV

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:00:58 GMT

PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors are investigating a suspected poisoning Thursday of a Russian journalist who fled after denouncing the war in Ukraine on live TV.Marina Ovsyannikova called emergency services and was hospitalized after suddenly falling ill as she left her Paris apartment and said she suspected she was poisoned, the Paris prosecutor’s office said.Police were examining her apartment and an investigation was underway, the prosecutor’s office said.Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, which helped Ovsyannikova escape Russia and settle in France, said its team has been ‘’at her side’’ since she sought medical attention. The group, known also by its French acronym RSF, did not have further information about what happened.Ovsyannikova, who worked at Russian state television Channel One, drew international attention in March 2022 after appearing behind the anchor of an evening news broadcast with a sign that said, “Stop the war, don’t believe the propaganda, they are lyin...

California governor signs 2 major proposals for mental health reform to go before voters in 2024

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:00:58 GMT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two major pieces of legislation Thursday to transform the state’s mental health system and address the state’s worsening homelessness crisis, putting them both before voters in 2024.The Democratic governor needs voters’ approval because he wants to borrow billions of dollars through a bond to pay for the proposals. They would allow the state to borrow $6.38 billion for 11,150 new treatment beds, housing and 26,700 outpatient treatment slots to serve up to 100,000 people a year. The measure also would overhaul how counties pay for mental and behavioral health programs. Newsom spoke to state and local leaders at an event Thursday in a historic hospital in Los Angeles, cheered by those present as he signed the measures. The vacant General Hospital is being converted into roughly 1,000 affordable units.Newsom said the proposals will bring accountability to the system, adding he understands why residents in C...

2nd grand jury indicts officer for involuntary manslaughter in Virginia mall shooting

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:00:58 GMT

McLEAN, Va. (AP) — A special grand jury in Virginia indicted a former police officer on Thursday for involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed shoplifting suspect outside a suburban shopping mall.Wesley Shifflett, a Fairfax County police officer assigned to patrol the busy Tysons Corner Center shopping mall at the time of the shooting in February, was also charged with reckless discharge of a weapon. Timothy McCree Johnson, 37, was shot and killed outside the mall after two officers chased him when a security guard said he had stolen sunglasses from a Nordstrom department store. While both officers shot at Johnson, an investigation determined Shifflett fired the fatal shot, police said.In April, a grand jury declined to indict Shifflett. It was then that Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano initiated a special grand jury to reinvestigate. Descano said Virginia law gives him greater ability to oversee the investigation. When the initial grand ...