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Yosemite Park set to reopen Saturday to visitors

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:49 GMT

By Cheri Mossburg | CNNYosemite National Park will begin to reopen Saturday with limited access and hours, the US National Park Service has announced. The park remains closed today.The popular park, nestled in the Sierra Nevada mountains, was closed because of a series of damaging storms that have swept across the region in recent weeks.Since February 21, the park has seen more than 15 feet (4.6 meters) of snow at Tuolumne Meadows, higher than the average single story house. Warmer storms left behind 21 inches (53 centimeters) of rain.The winter storms damaged roads and facilities throughout much of the park, with almost two dozen documented rockslides and debris flows affecting roadways. Most of these have been cleaned up, the park said.The main roads are cleared, and snow has been plowed in the upper elevations. The park’s smaller roads will remain closed, along with the areas of the park they serve.Yosemite will be open from sunrise to sunset this weekend. The park plans to...

Santa Rita Jail had eight fentanyl overdoses over two-week period

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:49 GMT

DUBLIN — Within a two-week period in early February, Santa Rita Jail saw a reported eight fentanyl overdoses — more than one every two days on average — including at least one fatality, authorities say.The staggering tally doesn’t include the suspected fatal drug overdose that killed 33-year-old Candice “Cody” Vanburen on Feb. 28. Vanburen was the fourth person to die in the jail within a month, include two suspected fentanyl overdoses, one suicide and one that remains under investigation but was initially classified as a medical emergency.All of those who died were in the intake area of the jail run by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office.The four deaths led to a joint statement by six local civil rights organizations calling on Alameda County to “significantly decrease the jail population, divest from the ACSO and SRJ, and put those resources back into the community.” Santa Rita Jail is the only adult jail in Alameda County sinc...

Mountain View art teacher arrested for inappropriately touching teen

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:49 GMT

(KRON) -- An art teacher in Mountain View was arrested on Thursday after one of his students came forward to say he touched her inappropriately, police said. The art teacher was identified by the Mountain View Police Department as 55-year-old Oleg Tumasov, who operated a studio, Tumasov Fine Art Studio and Gallery, on the 800 block of West El Camino Real. Gun discharged in fight aboard BART train Police say the victim, a teenage girl, came forward on Wednesday to say Tumasov touched her inappropriately on at least one occasion. The girl was a student at Tumasov's studio.Tumasov, who also teaches private tennis lessons in the area, was located and arrested without incident just after noon on Thursday in Mountain View, police said. Police say that based on their ongoing investigation, they are concerned there may be additional victims.

BART needs to change from 'top down,' says outgoing inspector general

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:49 GMT

ORINDA, Calif. (KRON) -- In Orinda on Friday, BART's outgoing inspector general said that the transit agency needs to make some changes. The BART inspector general position was created in 2019 with the mandate of conducting oversight at BART.  Four years later, the first person to hold the role, Harriet Richardson, says she is leaving the job early, four months before her term was set to end.  She says that during her time as IG, BART management and BART employee unions made it difficult for her to do her job. These are the top 10 vehicles targeted for catalytic converter theft, according to Carfax She says she had trouble accessing records, talking to employees, and securing funding for the IG office, all of which led her to conclude she couldn't continue in the role."You reach a point where you say enough is enough," Richardson said.BART, meanwhile, is facing potential budget deficit of up to $300 million per year due in large part to a decrease in ridership following the coron...

March Madness without Self: Roberts has KU running smoothly

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:49 GMT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Norm Roberts appears to have transitioned smoothly into his acting head coach role for top-seeded Kansas despite all the day-to-day uncertainty and chatter about Bill Self’s status in the NCAA Tournament.Roberts said Friday that Self was doing well in his recovery from the heart procedure he had less than two weeks ago but that it was unknown if Self would be on the bench for Saturday’s second-round West Region game against Arkansas.The 57-year-old Roberts is Self’s right-hand man, having been on Self’s staff at four coaching stops. Backup guard Joseph Yesufu described Roberts as a “mirror image” of Self.“We have been together for almost 25 years, so we probably do finish each other’s sentences in basketball terms,” Roberts said.The Jayhawks beat Howard 96-68 in the first round on Thursday. Other than Self not being with the team on the bench, the Jayhawks’ routine is mostly unchanged. The staff meets with Self twice a day ...

Spring training’s loss is WBC’s gain as viewership jumps

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:49 GMT

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Many of Major League Baseball’s biggest stars, like Mike Trout, Mookie Betts and Shohei Ohtani, aren’t playing in spring training. They’re in the World Baseball Classic.Some baseball fans, particularly New York Mets fans, aren’t sure that’s a good thing.But one thing appears certain: People are watching.The fifth WBC tournament drew just over one million fans in the first round, according to numbers released Friday from MLB. That was up from about 500,000 in 2017. Part of the reason is there are more games since the tournament was expanded to 20 teams from 16.But this year’s average attendance of 25,275 is considerably higher than the 20,402 average in 2017.Several individual games were among the highlights. Mexico beat the United States 11-5 in front of 47,534 fans at Chase Field in Phoenix, which set the WBC attendance record for a first-round game. The games at the Tokyo Dome in Japan drew an average of 36,198 per game ...

South Carolina women roll in March Madness opener

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:49 GMT

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Zia Cooke scored 11 points as No. 1 South Carolina moved five wins away from a perfect season after opening the women’s NCAA Tournament with a 72-40 victory over No. 16 seed Norfolk State on Friday.Aliyah Boston had seven points, nine rebounds and two blocks for the Gamecocks (33-0), who won their 39th straight game dating back to last year’s NCAA title run and moved to 11-0 in first-round games under coach Dawn Staley. They’ll face No. 8 seed South Florida on Sunday for a spot in the Sweet 16 in the Greenville, South Carolina Regional.This was a colossal mismatch from the tip like so many other games South Carolina’s been a part of this season.Norfolk State’s tallest player is freshman forward Skye Robinson at 6-foot-2. South Carolina has seven players that tall or taller. The Spartans’ tallest player on the bench? Larry Vickers, the team’s 6-9 head coach, who walked onto the Spartans’ men’s team and eventually became a team captain.Kierra Wheeler led Norfolk ...

Elizabeth Holmes returns to court in bid to avoid prison

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:49 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes on Friday made what might be her final court appearance before beginning a 11-year prison sentence, unless a judge grants her request to remain free while her lawyers appeal her conviction for masterminding a blood-testing hoax.The 90-minute hearing came four months after Holmes’ last court hearing. That was when U.S. District Judge Edward Davila sentenced her for duping investors in Theranos, a startup she founded 20 years ago and rode to fleeting fame and fortune on her promises of a revolutionary blood-testing technology.Before the hearing started, a man in the audience in the San Jose, California, courtroom tried to approach the table where Holmes was sitting while carrying a document in his hand. He was quickly intercepted by security officers who forcibly removed him. Holmes didn’t appear flustered by the disruption.The proceedings ended without a determination whether Holmes, 39, will be able to stay ...

How Moscow grabs Ukrainian kids and makes them Russians

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:49 GMT

Olga Lopatkina paced around her basement in circles like a trapped animal. For more than a week, the Ukrainian mother had heard nothing from her six adopted children stranded in Mariupol, and she was going out of her mind with worry. The kids had spent their vacation at a resort in the port city, as usual. But this time war with Russia had broken out, and her little ones — always terrified of the dark — were abandoned in a besieged city with no light and no hope. All they had now was her oldest son, Timofey, who was still himself just 17.The questions looped endlessly in her head: Should she try to rescue the children herself — and risk being killed, making them orphans yet again? Or should she campaign to get them out from afar — and risk them being killed or falling into the hands of the Russians? She had no idea her dilemma would lead her straight into a battle against Russia, with the highest stakes of her life.___The Associated Press first published this story on Oct. 13, 2022....

Sports on TV for March 18-19

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:49 GMT

(All times Eastern)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsSaturday, March 18AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN’S)4 a.m.FS2 — AFL: Western at Melbourne12 a.m. (Sunday)FS2 — AFL: Essendon at HawthornAUTO RACING9:25 a.m.ESPN2 — Formula 1: Practice, Jeddah Corniche Street Circuit, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia11:30 a.m.FS1 — NASCAR Cup Series: Qualifying, Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, Ga.12:55 a.m.ESPNEWS — Formula 1: Qualifying, Jeddah Corniche Street Circuit, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia2 p.m.FS1 — NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series: The Fr8 208, Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, Ga.4:30 p.m.USA — IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship: 12 Hours of Sebring, Sebring International Raceway, Sebring, Fla.5 p.m.FS1 — NASCAR Xfinity Series: The RAPTOR 250, Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, Ga.BASEBALL7 p.m.FOX — World Baseball Classic: U.S. vs. Venezuela, Quarterfinal, MiamiBASKETBALL AFRICA LEAGUE10 a.m.NBATV — Stade Malien vs. REG, Dakar, SenegalBOWLING11 a.m.FS2 — PBA: The Tournament of Champions, Ste...