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Editorial: Union contract will damage San Jose’s ability to provide services

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:59 GMT

San Jose has been down this road before. It didn’t end well.Roughly two decades ago, the San Jose City Council agreed to union contracts with costly pension benefits that plague the city to this day. The labor-backed deal resulted in a devastating reduction of the city’s police force and severe cuts to library hours and parks maintenance work.The City Council is poised Tuesday to approve another labor-backed deal with city employees that could have equally devastating impacts on the city’s budget. Contract negotiations with firefighters will be held next year and police the following year. It’s hard to imagine firefighters and police, who put their lives on the line on the job every day, agreeing to a smaller raise than that given to San Jose’s administrative workforce.The end result? This year’s budget won’t be largely impacted. But a back-of-the-envelope projection would add $20 million in annual ongoing costs to the general fund in the th...

High school football roundup: Sacred Heart Prep, Menlo School among Saturday’s winners

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:59 GMT

SaturdaySacred Heart Prep made the short trip to Palo Alto on Saturday night and returned home with a 28-14 victory and a 2-1 record.The visitors never trailed after scoring 14 points in the first quarter. The Gators led 14-7 at halftime and stretched the advantage to 21-7 in the third quarter.Anthony Noto ran for two second-half touchdowns to help lead the way. Ravu Savali and Greg Gamitian also rushed for TDs for Sacred Heart Prep, ranked No. 19 by the Bay Area News Group.Declan Packer threw a short TD pass to bring No. 25 Palo Alto to within seven points in the second quarter and a 49-yard TD pass to Jason Auzenne late in the third quarter to cut the deficit to seven points again.Next Friday, Palo Alto (2-1) travels to Los Gatos and SHP visits undefeated Hillsdale.— Darren SabedraMenlo School 51, Watsonville 6Mikey McGrath ran for two touchdowns and passed for two as Menlo School, playing at home in Atherton on Saturday, cruised to a non-league victory over Watsonville. The...

Police announce another confirmed sighting of escaped murderer on the run in Pennsylvania

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:59 GMT

PHOENIXVILLE, Pa. (AP) — An escaped murderer on the run for more than a week in southeast Pennsylvania has been spotted with what police called “a changed appearance.”Pennsylvania State Police said in a statement on Sunday that Danelo Souza Cavalcante was seen overnight near Phoenixville in northern Chester County. Cavalcante is now clean-shaven and wearing a yellow or green hooded sweatshirt, black baseball cap, green prison pants and white shoes, the statement said. Cavalcante was operating a 2020 White Ford Transit van bearing Pennsylvania registration ZST-8818, police said on X (formerly known as Twitter). The van has a refrigeration unit on the top.Cavalcante, 34, escaped from the Chester County Prison while awaiting transfer to state prison on Aug. 31 after being sentenced to life for fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend in 2021. Prosecutors say he wanted to stop her from telling police that he’s wanted in a killing in his home country of Brazil.Phoenixville is about 13 miles (2...

Storms across DC area bring heavy rainfall throughout Sunday

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:59 GMT

Ominous storm clouds were captured overhead on Saturday afternoon Sept. 9, 2023.(Courtesy Carol Brown) Ominous storm clouds were captured overhead on Saturday afternoon Sept. 9, 2023.(Courtesy Carol Brown) Forecasters expect another round of wet weather on Sunday after severe storms brought flash flood warnings and widespread power outages to the D.C. area. Here’s what you need to know.7News First Alert Meteorologist Veronica Johnson said that residents across the region should “stay weather ready today and have that rain gear ready to go.”Heavy rainfall could bring about another wave of watches for the D.C. area, with a flood watch already set for the afternoon in the Potomac Highlands.“So...

Solo 2 minutos de caminata después de comer pueden ayudar a reducir el nivel de azúcar en la sangre, según un estudio

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:59 GMT

(CNN) — Durante siglos, la gente del soleado Mediterráneo se levantaba después de comidas largas y tranquilas y daba un paseo, a menudo hasta la plaza del pueblo para ver a los vecinos y socializar. Caminar es una parte tan importante de ese estilo de vida que está catalogado como la base de la dieta mediterránea súper saludable.Ésa puede ser una de las razones por las que los estudios han encontrado que la dieta mediterránea puede reducir el riesgo de diabetes, colesterol alto, enfermedades cardíacas, accidentes cerebrovasculares y algunos tipos de cáncer, al mismo tiempo que fortalece los huesos, mejora la salud del cerebro, previene la demencia y la depresión y ayuda con pérdida de peso saludable.Ahora puede agregar otra razón para dar un paseo después de las comidas: puede reducir el nivel de azúcar en la sangre.Esa excursión tampoco tiene por qué ocupar una gran cantidad de tiempo: caminar tan solo de dos a cinco minutos después de una comida puede ser suficiente, según u...

Family of 9 left homeless after Sunrise home breaks out in flames overnight

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:59 GMT

A Sunrise home caught on fire Sunday morning, leaving a family of nine homeless. Officials said the fire ignited around 4:30 a.m. in the garage of a house along the 6000 block of Northwest 18th Place. First responders reported that the house was wood-framed which allowed the flames to quickly move through the home to the second floor.Fortunately, everyone in the home evacuated on time. “I mean it’s crazy, I knew this family for a very long time, they don’t deserve this,” said Elvens, a neighbor of the impacted family. “But they don’t really know what the cause of the fire was… Luckily they came out alive and safe.”Firefighters said it was a two-alarm fire with several engines responding which took about four hours to put out the fire. Extensive damage to the home was also reported.The American Red Cross is also assisting the family.

Crispy Quesadillas / Belkys

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:59 GMT

Ingredients: 2 Tsp. oil (grapeseed, olive or sunflower oil)1 8-inch flour tortilla2/3 cup shredded cheese (such as Cheddar, Monterey Jack or Mexican Cheese Blend)Sour cream or salsa for dippingMethod of Preparation: Add oil to a medium nonstick skillet over medium heat. Let the oil heat up for 20 seconds, swirling the pan around so the oil coats the bottom.Place the tortilla in the skillet and sprinkle the cheese evenly over the top. Once the cheese begins to melt (about 1 minute or less) use a spatula to fold the tortilla in half. Using the spatula, press down firmly on the top of the tortilla until some of the cheese runs out into the pan. Let the quesadilla cook until the cheese that’s leaked out gets crispy and turns brown- about 2 to 3 minutes.Flip the quesadilla over and let cook on the other side for another minute or so. When it’s crispy and golden – serve it up and enjoy!!

Greek floods bring more flak over government’s handling of disasters

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:59 GMT

ATHENS — The government of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has come under attack for its handling of another natural disaster, as the death toll from severe flooding in central Greece rose to 10 people and the extent of the calamity remained unknown.With whole villages under water, rescue crews in helicopters, boats and bulldozers continued on Saturday to evacuate residents from rooftops, amid fears that the number of missing could rise sharply. Local media reporting apocalyptic scenes with dead bodies floating in the water.The flooding follows last month’s massive wildfires in the region of Athens, which also sparked charges of insufficient preparations for disasters.  The rainstorms that started on Tuesday turned streams into raging torrents that burst dams, washed away roads and bridges and hurled cars into the sea. Mudflows have reached the rooftops of the houses in several villages.The Thessaly plain, which accounts for more than 25 percent of the country’s ...

Column: Chicago Cubs’ luck runs out in 10-inning loss — and they need a reality check before the series finale

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:59 GMT

The ability to avoid losing streaks fueled the Chicago Cubs in their surge from a sub-.500 team to a postseason contender.They hadn’t lost more than two straight games since the start of July, when they dropped three in a row.But their 3-2, 10-inning loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday before 40,391 at Wrigley Field ended that two-month stretch of consistency, and the third straight loss to their closest wild-card pursuer left them a game ahead of the Diamondbacks for the second spot.“We went through obviously some struggles and challenges early in the year, but this is a resilient bunch,” shortstop Dansby Swanson said. “We’ve proven time and time again we will bounce back. These games have been competitive. It’s not like we’re laying down.“I felt like we’ve put a lot of effort in. It just hasn’t happened for us. We’ve got so many great players at some point it will (even out). Sometimes you’ve got to g...

A drone attack kills at least 43 in Sudan’s capital as rival troops battle, activists say

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:59 GMT

CAIRO (AP) — A drone attack Sunday on an open market south of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, killed at least 43 people, activists and a medical group said, as the military and a powerful rival paramilitary group battle for control of the country.More than 55 others were wounded in the attack in Khartoum’s May neighborhood, where paramilitary forces battling the military were heavily deployed, the Sudan Doctors’ Union said in a statement. The causalities were taken to the Bashair University Hospital for treatment.The Resistance Committees, an activist group that helps organize humanitarian assistance, posted footage on social media showing bodies wrapped in white sheets in an open yard at the hospital. Sudan has been rocked by violence since mid-April, when tensions between the country’s military, led by Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, commanded by Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, burst into open fighting.The RSF blamed the military’s air...