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49ers coaches to honor longtime colleague Knapp with stair climb before Seahawks game

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:14:24 GMT

SANTA CLARA — Members of the 49ers’ coaching and personnel staffs will participate pregame Sunday in the second annual Greg Knapp Stair Climb Challenge, along with Knapp’s widow, Charlotte. The event raises awareness about the dangers of distracted driving, and it carries on Greg Knapp’s tradition of running stairs before games.Knapp was a 49ers assistant from 1995-2003 as part of a 25-year NFL coaching career, which came to a tragic end in July 2021 when he was struck by a distracted driver while cycling near his Danville home. He was set for his first season as the New York Jets’ quarterbacks coach when he died.General manager John Lynch was among the 49ers’ crew that ran Levi’s Stadium’s steps before last December’s win over the Tampa Bay Bucs. Although Sunday’s event will occur at 9:30 a.m. before fans enter the stadium, others are encouraged to stage their own Knapp Stair Climb Challenge, with proceeds benefitting the Coach Knapp Memorial Fund, a charity focused on ...

Ex-San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo is officially running for U.S Rep. Anna Eshoo’s Congress seat

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:14:24 GMT

After weeks of speculation, former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo is making a run for Congress.When Liccardo filed paperwork to run for U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo’s open congressional seat last week, he said at the time that he had not made a final decision on whether he’d enter the race. On Friday, though, the ex-mayor made it official.“My experience as mayor, I saw too many missed opportunities for the federal government to play a more significant role in helping local communities tackle our biggest challenges such as homelessness, crime and the rising cost of living,” he told The Mercury News. “I believe I can bring my experience as a local leader to Congress and ensure that the ideas that come from our communities, the world’s most innovative, are brought to bear on these national challenges.”The race for the highly coveted District 16 congressional seat has become a crowded one in the last several weeks since Eshoo, 80, announced last month she won’t ...

Prep roundup: Archbishop Riordan boys, Vallejo girls basketball, Mountain View soccer among Thursday’s winners

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:14:24 GMT

Archbishop Riordan 70, San Ramon Valley 59Andrew Younghill scored 20 of his 25 points in the second half as he helped Riordan rally past an early deficit to defeat San Ramon Valley at the Gridley Invitational. Zion Sensley provided 16 points and Jasir Rencher was a threat on the wing and scored 12 for Riordan. San Ramon Valley got 25 points from junior guard Luke Isaak, and senior big Seamus Deely scored 11 points to go along with eight rebounds and seven assists. No. 2 Salesian 80, Gridley 30Salesian steamrolled the home team at the Gridley Invitational on Thursday night, with six different players for the Pride scoring at least eight points. Aaron Claytor led Salesian with 13 points and seven assists, and sophomore shooting guard Elias Obenyah put in 10 points. Alvin Loving IV scored nine, and Zander Jimenez, Deundrae Perteet and Zion Yeargin all scored eight points for 4-0 Salesian. Branson 66, Clayton Valley Charter 42Jase Butler scored 21 points and had five assists as Branson ...

FDA approves first CRISPR gene editing treatment that may cure sickle cell disease

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:14:24 GMT

By LAURA UNGAR | AP Science WriterRegulators on Friday approved two new gene therapies for sickle cell disease that doctors hope can cure the painful, inherited blood disorder that afflicts mostly Black people in the U.S.The Food and Drug Administration said the one-time treatments can be used for patients 12 and older with severe forms of the disease. One, made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, is the first approved therapy based on CRISPR, the gene editing tool that won its inventors the Nobel Prize in 2020. The other is made by Bluebird Bio and works differently.“Sickle cell disease is a rare, debilitating and life-threatening blood disorder with significant unmet need,” the FDA’s Dr. Nicole Verdun said in a statement announcing the approvals. “”We are excited to advance the field especially for individuals whose lives have been severely disrupted by the disease.”Related ArticlesScience | The dirty truth about taking your shoes off at the door Sci...

Palo Alto mail carrier robbed by 2 men; $150,000 reward offered 

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:14:24 GMT

(KRON) – A female United States Postal Service mail carrier was robbed by two men in Palo Alto on Wednesday. Palo Alto police’s 24-hour dispatch center received a call from a mail carrier reporting she had been the victim of a strong-arm robbery that had occurred about 10 minutes earlier in the 3400 block of Alma Street around 1:59 p.m. on Dec. 6.  Three USPS workers assaulted and robbed in SF’s Mission District According to the police investigation, the victim was delivering mail when two men approached her. One of the men demanded her postal keys. When she did not comply, the other suspect pushed her to the ground. The suspects then forcibly took the keys and her cell phone and fled on foot.The victim is in her fifties. She sustained moderate injuries: a chipped tooth, facial swelling, and pain in one of her wrists. Paramedics from the Palo Alto Fire Department treated her at the scene.The victim described the suspects as Hispanic men in their thirties. She recalls one...

The Rise and Rollout of AOC's Green New Deal

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:14:24 GMT

Ahead of the publication of “The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution,” right-wing media outlets, in a series of reports in Fox News, the New York Post, the Daily Mail, and so on, wildly distorted the book. One of the chapters they mangled most aggressively was on the rise of the Green New Deal. Below is an adapted excerpt from Chapter 8: “It Is A Dream.”Not long after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won her shock 2018 primary, Saikat Chakrabarti and Corbin Trent ventured to Washington, D.C., to scope things out. Both had started as volunteers on the first Bernie Sanders campaign, worked their way up the skeleton crew, then left to found what became Justice Democrats, and then threw themselves full time into electing Ocasio-Cortez in her primary campaign against Rep. Joe Crowley. Now they had made it to Washington as AOC’s chief of staff and communications director, and the first question everyone they ran into asked them was the same, a question born of both curiosity and a s...

Encuentran bebés muertos y en descomposición en la unidad de cuidados intensivos de un hospital evacuado en Gaza. Esto es lo que sabemos

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:14:24 GMT

Nota del editor: El siguiente reportaje incluye contenido explícito. Se recomienda la discreción del público.(CNN) — La escena en la unidad de cuidados intensivos del hospital Al-Nasr es escalofriante. Los diminutos cuerpos de bebés, varios de ellos aún conectados a los cables y tubos que debían mantenerlos con vida, se descomponen en sus camas de hospital. Junto a ellos, sobre las sábanas, todavía hay biberones de leche y pañales de repuesto.El video del interior del hospital fue grabado el 27 de noviembre por Mohamed Baalousha, reportero en Gaza del medio de comunicación emiratí Al Mashhad. Baalousha compartió con CNN una versión sin difuminar en la que se ven los restos de al menos cuatro bebés.Guerra entre Israel y Hamas en vivo: combates en Gaza, situación de los civiles y másTres de ellos parecen seguir conectados a las máquinas del hospital. Los cuerpos de los bebés parecen haberse oscurecido y estar desintegrándose por la putrefacción, y en algunas de las camas quedan ...

Unionized DHL Express workers strike at critical Cincinnati air cargo hub

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:14:24 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — More than 1,100 unionized DHL Express workers walked off the job at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG), a critical logistics hub for the package delivery company, during the busiest time of the year.The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents over 6,000 DHL workers across the country, said its DHL-CVG members went on strike Thursday to further demand a fair contract and protest unfair labor practices.“For too long, DHL has walked all over our rights to collective action,” Gina Kemp, a DHL-CVG ramp and tug worker, said in a statement shared in the Teamsters’ announcement. “This company’s repeated acts of disrespect — from the tarmac where we work to the bargaining table — leave me and my co-workers with no choice but to withhold our labor.”Negotiations between DHL and the Teamsters for a first union contract at CVG began back in July — after ramp and tug workers, who load and unload airplane cargo, voted to organize with th...

France’s president visits Notre Dame a year before the fire-damaged cathedral’s planned reopening

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:14:24 GMT

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron visited Notre Dame Cathedral on Friday, one year before its scheduled reopening in 2024.After a blaze burned through the roof and spire on April 15, 2019, Macron’s visits have become a tradition, with Friday marking his sixth to highlight the rebuilding progress. Huge oak beams have been hoisted skyward so the cathedral can be re-roofed. The French leader on Friday went up the spire, reconstructed from its previous design by the famed 19th-century French architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. It stands at 96 meters (315 feet) and was crowned with a cross earlier this week. It is soon to be topped by a rooster, restoring an emotional symbol for the French of their heritage. The rooster was first used as a symbol of hope and faith in the Middle Ages, gaining its association with the French nation during the Renaissance. “Since April 2019, the entire nation has been rebuilding,” Macron told reporters. “And it’s very moving to be here a year befor...

Dénis Bouanga leads LAFC into the MLS Cup final against the Crew

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:14:24 GMT

When LAFC advanced to last season’s MLS Cup final, Dénis Bouanga was still finding his way on a new team and in a new country. Bouanga was still important to the team’s finish and run in the playoffs last year, but this season’s Golden Boot winner is far more comfortable as he aims to help LAFC secure a second straight title. “I was a part of the preseason so it was easier than last year. Last year, I arrived just for the MLS Cup and we won, but I was not really at my level,” he said. “This year, because I started in the preseason, I was able to step up my game being with the team on the field, but also on the language.” LAFC visits the Columbus Crew on Saturday in the MLS Cup title match. Los Angeles can become just the fourth team in league history with back-to-back championships — and the first since the LA Galaxy won in 2011 and 2012. Bouanga made the most of his full year in Los Angeles, taking home the Golden Boot award after scoring 20 goal...