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USPS provides shipping deadlines ahead of busy holiday season

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:10 GMT

With the holiday season quickly approaching, many people will be sending holiday gifts and packages all across the world. To help customers plan their shipping timelines during the busy holiday season, the United States Postal Service has released their holiday shipping and mailing deadlines. To allow ample time for packages to arrive to their destination by December 25, USPS advises shoppers to adhere to the shipping deadlines listed below: USPS Ground Advantage — Dec. 16First-Class Mail (including greeting cards) — Dec. 16Priority Mail — Dec. 18Priority Mail Express — Dec. 20 USPS Ground Advantage is a new shipping option that provides a simple, reliable and affordable way to ship packages in 2-5 business days based on distance. USPS also announced that there will be no holiday peak or demand surcharges this year to allow customers to accurately budget for shipping costs. Shipping deadlines for international mail vary depending on the destination. Check out Int...

Powerball ticket sold in Kern County wins $1.73 billion jackpot

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:10 GMT

FRAZIER PARK, CALIF. – A single ticket sold in Kern County claimed the $1.73 billion Powerball jackpot Wednesday night.Related ArticlesCalifornia News | Powerball jackpot leaps to $1.73 billion, second largest prize in the lottery’s history California News | Powerball ticket worth $1.3 million sold in San Francisco California News | Powerball jackpot climbs to an estimated $1.2 billion for Wednesday’s drawing California News | San Jose Powerball player so close to $800 million, will have to settle for $800K California News | Powerball jackpot swells to $925 million after no winner snagged the prize Wednesday night The grand prize, the second-largest in U.S. history, has an estimated cash value of $756.6 million.The ticket was sold at Midway Market & Liquor on Frazier Mountain Park Road, about 6½ miles west of Interstate 5.The $2.04 billion jackpot won last November in California still ranks as the la...

VIDEO: RV catches fire in Oakland

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:10 GMT

(KRON) -- An RV caught fire in Oakland on Wednesday night, the Oakland Fire Department said. The RV was parked on 17th Street and Willow Street where the blaze has since been knocked down. Nine firefighters responded to the fire, officials said. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Vehicle crashes into SF building, causes large gas leak: officials Video from the Citizen App shows the vehicle engulfed in flames. Watch the video in the media player above. Willow and 17th Street is located in West Oakland near Raimondi Park.

A Powerball player in California snags an estimated $1.73 billion lottery jackpot, ending long stretch with no winner

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:10 GMT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Powerball player in California snags an estimated $1.73 billion lottery jackpot, ending long stretch with no winner.Source

Twins whiff their way to ALDS loss to Astros with 14 more strikeouts by MLB record holders

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:10 GMT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Carlos Correa waited on deck with two outs in the ninth inning and the Minnesota Twins trailing by one run, eager for another at-bat against his former team.Tied for the third-most RBIs in postseason history, Correa has occasionally pointed to his wrist after clutch hits to signify the biggest situations are his time to shine.This moment never came. Houston closer Ryan Pressly completed a perfect ninth by striking out the side, hitting the outside corner with a full-count fastball that froze Max Kepler and ended a 3-2 victory for the Astros that eliminated the Twins in Game 4 of their AL Division Series on Wednesday night.The Astros advanced to their seventh straight ALCS. Correa played for them in the first five before coming to Minnesota.“The experience matters, and they played really good baseball this series,” Correa said. “They were just a little bit better than us.”Just a little bit better, but in a lot of ways.The Twins, who set a major league record ...

Another 100-win season leads to another October flop for Dodgers

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:10 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers’ third straight 100-win season led to a third consecutive postseason flop.A three-game Division Series sweep by the Arizona Diamondbacks that ended with a 4-2 defeat Wednesday night highlighted how much expanded playoffs have devalued the regular season.Los Angeles has reached the playoffs in 11 straight years, the third-longest streak in major league history behind the Atlanta Braves’ 14 from 1991-2005 around the 1994 strike and the New York Yankees’ 13 from 1995-2007.The Dodgers won the NL West in 10 of those seasons, yet their only World Series in that span was following the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.Led by manager Dave Roberts, they have 100 or more wins in five of the last six full seasons.Expectations once again were high this year, with a starry roster and a $222 million opening-day payroll, baseball’s fifth highest.From April through September, they set the standard. Then in October, they turned so ordinary.After winning 106 games ...

Antisemitic hate symbol found inside Torrey Pines High School bathroom

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:10 GMT

SAN DIEGO - Just days after the conflict in Israel began, a hate symbol was found drawn in a Carmel Valley school bathroom. Police did confirm the graffiti Wednesday afternoon. “It's a way to install fear inside the Jewish community. It’s a hate symbol, and this is not acceptable," shared Fabienne Perlov, who is the Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League of San Diego. “We are horrified and condemning this hate symbol in the most serious terms.” It's a triggering sight for Perlov who works directly with local schools throughout the county to fight hate crime and extremism targeted toward the Jewish community; something Perlov says is on the rise. "Since January, antisemitic incidents reported to ADL have increased by 45%,” Perlov said. This crime comes as unrest, protests and demonstrations spark globally and here at home, between pro-Israel and pro-Palestine groups as the death toll continues to mount. The principal of Torrey Pines High School, Robert Coppo, released this s...

Australian minister credits improved relations with China for the release of a detained journalist

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:10 GMT

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong on Thursday credited improved relations with China for the return home this week of an Australian journalist whose three-year detention in China in a murky espionage case had strained ties.A teary-eyed Wong had greeted Cheng Lei with a hug at the airport Wednesday in Melbourne, where Cheng’s two children, 11 and 14, have been raised by their grandmother while Cheng was detained.“She was in extraordinarily good spirits. I think I was more emotional than she was,” Wong said of Cheng. “I think she’s pretty tough. She looked great.”Wong revealed that she had promised Cheng’s children some time ago that the government would do all it could to bring their mother home.“It was really moving to meet Cheng Lei yesterday and speak to her kids who are not much older than mine,” Wong said.She said she encouraged Cheng to thrive and be healthy and happy now that she’s free. “That’s what all Australians want you to be,”...

Japan government panel to decide whether to ask court to revoke legal status of Unification Church

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:10 GMT

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government is convening a religious affairs council on Thursday to ask experts to decide whether to seek a court order to revoke the legal status of the Unification Church. The church’s fundraising tactics and cozy ties with the governing party have triggered public outrage.Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government has taken tough stance in a perceived move to shore up support, hurt by his governing Liberal Democratic party’s decades-long ties with the South Korea-based church that surfaced in the investigation of former leader Shinzo Abe’s 2022 assassination.The alleged Abe killer told police that his motive was the former prime minister’s link to the church that had bankrupted his family due to his mother’s excessive donations.Education Minister Masahito Moriyama told experts on the panel in his opening remarks that his ministry, if endorsed by the panel, hopes to file for a court approval to strip the church’s legal status. If the pane...

After troubled start, New York is shaking up its legal marijuana market with new competitors

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:10 GMT

RAVENA, N.Y. (AP) — New York officials launched legal recreational marijuana sales by promising many of the first retail licenses to people with past drug convictions, hoping to give people harmed by the war on drugs a chance to succeed before competitors crowded in.But more than nine months after sales started, only about two dozen state-sanctioned dispensaries have opened their doors. Legal challenges over the state’s permitting process have left more than 400 provisional licensees in limbo. Marijuana farmers are reeling because there are too few stores to sell their harvest.State regulators are now expanding the market amid those troubles. They recently opened up a 60-day general application window to grow, process, distribute or sell marijuana, expecting to issue more than 1,000 new licenses. New rules also will allow companies licensed to grow and sell medical marijuana in New York to get into the recreational market.The moves are expected to boost the number of legal dis...