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Stern Grove Festival returns this Sunday with free summer concerts

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:52:17 GMT

(BCN) -- The Stern Grove Festival will kick off its 86th season of free concerts at San Francisco's Sigmund Stern Recreation Grove this Sunday. Jazz fusion band Snarky Puppy and guitarist Isaiah Sharkey will be the first performers of the summer. Movie theater to leave San Francisco Centre after Westfield departure Concerts will continue weekly on Sundays until Aug. 20 and feature the Indigo Girls, the San Francisco Symphony, The Flaming Lips and more. Tickets are free but limited and must be reserved in advance on Stern Grove's website, www.sterngrove.org. They are released one month prior to each show date at 2 p.m. The next available tickets will be released this Friday at 2 p.m. for Angelique Kidjo's July 16 performance. Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

SF 'hot prowl' burglar convicted in armed home invasion

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:52:17 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A man who stole $30,000 worth of jewelry, cash and designer bags while holding a gun on a victim during a 2021 home invasion has been convicted, the San Francisco District Attorney announced Wednesday. Travis Fields, 41, was convicted of first-degree residential burglary and auto burglary in a trial by jury.The conviction stems from his involvement in an armed home invasion burglary on Sept. 21, 2021, the DA's office said. An allegation that the burglary was a "hot prowl" was also found to be true. San Jose family loses livelihood after thieves steal $100K worth of stage equipment A hot prowl burglary is a first-degree burglary in which "another person, other than an accomplice, was present in the residence during the commission of the burglary," according to the San Francisco Police Department.Field was convicted in connection to a crime that occurred when he and two additional suspects followed two victims as they left their home on the 600 block of Paris...

28-year-old woman accused of posing as Louisiana high school student

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:52:17 GMT

HAHNVILLE, La. (AP) — A 28-year-old woman who enrolled at a Louisiana high school and posed as a 17-year-old student to learn English has been arrested along with her mother, authorities said Wednesday.Martha Jessenia Gutierrez Serrano and her mother, Marta Elizabeth Serrano Alvarado, 46, both of Boutte, were arrested Tuesday, the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Each are charged with a one count of injuring public records.Serrano Alvarado used a fake passport and birth certificate from Honduras to register and enroll her daughter at Hahnville High School for the 2022-2023 school year, the sheriff’s office said. Sheriff Greg Champagne, at a news conference Wednesday, said Gutierrez Serrano told investigators she enrolled in school to learn the English language. “She wanted to learn English. She wanted to become proficient in the English language,” Champagne said. “There was no nefarious reason behind this,” he said, adding that the falsifying of gove...

Enzo Biochem: Fiscal Q3 Earnings Snapshot

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:52:17 GMT

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Enzo Biochem Inc. (ENZ) on Wednesday reported a loss of $15.2 million in its fiscal third quarter.The Farmingdale, New York-based company said it had a loss of 31 cents per share.The life sciences and biotechnology company posted revenue of $16.1 million in the period._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on ENZ at https://www.zacks.com/ap/ENZSource

Robert Gottlieb, literary giant who edited Toni Morrison, Robert Caro and many other luminaries, dies at 92

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:52:17 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Gottlieb, literary giant who edited Toni Morrison, Robert Caro and many other luminaries, dies at 92.Source

Oregon jury: PacifiCorp must pay punitive damages for fires, plus award that could reach billions

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:52:17 GMT

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A jury on Wednesday ordered the electric utility PacifiCorp to pay punitive damages for causing devastating wildfires in Oregon in 2020 — on top of an earlier verdict already expected to amount to billions of dollars.The decision came two days after the jurors found PacifiCorp liable for the fires and said it must pay for damage to property as well as emotional distress. The jury on Monday awarded $73 million to 17 homeowners named as plaintiffs in the case, with damages for a broader class involving the owners of nearly 2,500 other properties to be determined later.The property owners alleged that PacifiCorp negligently failed to shut off power to its 600,000 customers during a windstorm over Labor Day weekend, despite warnings from then-Gov. Kate Brown’s chief of staff and top fire officials, and that its power lines were responsible for multiple blazes. They said that after the fires, PacifiCorp started an internal investigation — without communicating that ...

Derek Carr laments tough ending with Raiders but hopes hard lessons helped

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:52:17 GMT

METAIRIE, La. (AP) — Saints quarterback Derek Carr apologetically said he failed to give the Las Vegas Raiders the best version of himself last season and is focused on not letting that happen again with his new team. “They just didn’t get my best and that drove me crazy at the end of the year because I felt so spread out in so many different ways,” Carr said during minicamp this week. “I just didn’t feel like myself and I feel bad for the (Raiders) coaches and players.”Carr’s self-described regression in 2022 wasn’t a matter of effort or desire, he said. Rather, it came down to his approach to a mix of professional and personal challenges which he regrets, but from which he also grew.The professional challenges last season included learning a new offense under then-new coach Josh McDaniels. Carr also alluded to unspecified personal matters that he preferred remain private. The Raiders were the only team for which Carr had played until they released him...

Giants rally for 8-5 win over Cards in 10 innings to complete 3-game sweep

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:52:17 GMT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mike Yastrzemski is comfortable at the plate with the game on the line and he showed it on Wednesday.Yastrzemski hit a game-tying two-run homer in the ninth inning and Thairo Estrada had the go-ahead single in 10th, and the San Francisco Giants rallied to complete a three-game sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals with an 8-5 victory.“The kind of thought process is, I’ve struck out plenty of times in my life, like one more doesn’t change anything,” Yastrzemski said. “So, there’s a calmness in that.”Yastrzemski’s shot, which came on a 2-2 count with two outs in the ninth inning off Cardinals closer Giovanny Gallegos, made it 5-5. The Cardinals extended their skid to five games and fell to a season-worst 15 games under .500. It was the third blown save of the season for Gallegos.“We just don’t execute,” Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado said. “This has nothing to do with the coaches, it has to do with the players and as players we don’t execute.”The late offensive spar...

Mets’ Drew Smith suspended 10 games for banned sticky stuff at Subway Series

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:52:17 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mets pitcher Drew Smith was suspended for 10 games by Major League Baseball on Wednesday, the fifth pitcher and second on his team penalized for using banned sticky stuff.The penalty was announced by MLB senior vice president for on-field operations Michael Hill, one day after Smith entered in the seventh inning of a Subway Series game against the Yankees at Citi Field and was ejected without throwing a pitch.Smith has the right to appeal the discipline to John McHale Jr., a special assistant to baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred. “They said both of my hands were too sticky,” Smith said following the Mets’ 7-6 loss. “Really surprised, because I haven’t done anything different all year. Sweat and rosin. I don’t know what else to say. Nothing changed. It’s just, I think the process is so arbitrary. It can change from one crew to the other and I think that’s the main issue.”Smith was stopped for a routine check as he reached the infield. Within moments, se...

Diggs returns to practice with Bills coach McDermott saying receiver’s concerns are resolved

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:52:17 GMT

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Stefon Diggs was back on the field practicing on Wednesday, and Bills coach Sean McDermott said whatever lingering issues from last season that raised concern and confusion over the absence of Buffalo’s top receiver a day earlier have been resolved.To begin with, McDermott said Diggs didn’t skip the team’s mandatory session on Tuesday, but was in fact excused. As for the issues that led to Diggs’ concerns in questioning his role in the offense, the coach said the team and the receiver are “in a real good spot.”McDermott made an unscheduled appearance with reporters after practice to address questions raised regarding Diggs’ status, by clarifying and expanding on the limited comments he made in helping create the stir a day earlier when saying he was “very concerned” with the receiver leaving the team’s facility and missing a mandatory practice.In laying out a timeline, McDermott said he and team officials spent Monday and Tuesday having conversations with D...