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Police make arrest in North Lake Ave homicide case

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:43:00 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- A 40-year-old woman from Albany was arrested in connection to the fatal stabbing on Saturday. Police identified Vanesia Brundage as the suspect in the homicide and arrested her for second-degree murder. Get the latest news, weather, sports and more delivered right to your inbox! Brundage is accused of stabbing Charles Gaddy, 74, multiple times. Gaddy was treated on scene and pronounced dead. The incident occurred on North Lake Ave.Brundage was arraigned in Albany City Criminal Court. She was remanded to the Albany County Jail.

St. Louis has a cinematic connection to a Christmas classic, "It's a Wonderful Life"

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:43:00 GMT

LOS ANGELES - DECEMBER 20: George Bailey and Frank Faylen as Taxi Driver Ernie Bishop. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)ST. LOUIS – The 1946 Christmas classic "It’s a Wonderful Life" has two St. Louis connections. Two people in the movie were from St. Louis: Frank Faylen, who played Ernie Bishop, a taxi driver, and Mary Treen, who played Cousin Tilly at the bank. Both originally hail from the St. Louis area.The St. Louis ConnectionFrank Faylen was born on December 8, 1905, in St. Louis, and he was raised in the theatrical world because his family included him in their shows. Faylen initially attended St. Joseph's Preparatory College in Kirkwood, Missouri, but later felt drawn back to the theater.Faylen's role in the film is that of George Bailey's close friend, named Ernie Bishop, who serves as his chauffeur and taxi driver. He is often seen driving George around Bedford Falls.LOS ANGELES - DECEMBER 20: Seen here, Mary Treen as Cousin Tilly. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)Mary Treen ...

Ring in the New Year with local sparkling wines

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:43:00 GMT

Winemaker Denis Hoey of Odonata Wines South in Salinas landed in the right place at the right time when he began apprenticing for renowned Jeff Emery of Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard after graduating from UC Santa Cruz in 2004. Odonata is the Sacramento native’s personal label, begun in 2005: it’s the Japanese word for dragonfly, as the name Dragonfly Cellars was already taken.Through Emery’s complex grapevine of connections, Hoey began making sparkling Riesling from Monterey for a client and his world opened up to bubbles. He now makes several, including a 2020 Blanc de Noir of Grenache from Hook Vineyard, Santa Lucia Highlands, as well as a 2019 sparkling Riesling from Tondre Grapefield in the Santa Lucia Highlands. His Bubbles Club gets you two bottles quarterly.Another Santa Lucia Highlands superstar that’s made the closest thing to Champagne since 2006, Caraccioli Cellars employs techniques learned from a French master who worked for Roederer. The 2017 Caraccioli Brut is fine-bu...

From stories to action: Share the Spirit readers respond

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:43:00 GMT

The spirit of giving is shining brightly in the East Bay. Share the Spirit readers are stepping up to help their neighbors in need. As of Dec. 18, your generous donations have reached a heartwarming $367,543!We’d like to express our deepest gratitude to our amazing donors. Your contributions will fuel essential programs that support countless families struggling in our local communities. Every dollar you give goes directly to work in the East Bay and will make a difference for so many.  It is readers like you that make Share the Spirit a success year after year.We are continuing to count contributions, and there is still time to bring joy to families featured in our news sections and online this holiday season. To learn more about these families and discover how you can donate, visit Sharethespiriteastbay.org.Below is a partial list of generous contributors; we will publish a full list in January.  We are also grateful to the many anonymous donors who choose to quietly share t...

Today in Sports – RB Alvin Kamara equals Ernie Nevers 1929 NFL record of 6 touchdowns in a game

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:43:00 GMT

Dec. 251956 — Corky Devlin of Fort Wayne goes 0-for-15 from the field against the Minneapolis Lakers to tie an NBA record.1971 — Garo Yepremian’s 37-yard field goal at 7:40 of the second overtime gives the Miami Dolphins a 27-24 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in the first round of the AFC playoffs. At 82:40, it’s the longest game in NFL history.1984 — Bernard King of the New York Knicks scores 60 points in a 120-114 loss to the New Jersey Nets.1995 — Emmitt Smith of the Dallas Cowboys scores his 25th touchdown of the season in a 37-13 win over Arizona, breaking the record for most TDs in a season. Smith passes John Riggins of Washington, who scored 24 in 1983.1999 — Hawaii beats Oregon 23-17 in the Oahu Bowl to cap a remarkable turnaround for the Rainbow Warriors. Hawaii improves from 0-12 in 1998 to 9-4 — the greatest single-season improvement in NCAA history.2002 — Katie Hnida becomes the first woman to play in a Division I football game when she attempts an extra point follo...

Sports on TV for Monday, December 25

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:43:00 GMT

(All times Eastern)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsMonday, December 25IIHF HOCKEY (MEN’S)6 a.m. (Tuesday)NHLN — World Junior Hockey Championship Group Stage: Slovakia vs. Czech Republic, Group B, Gothenburg, SwedenNBA BASKETBALL12 p.m.ESPN — Milwaukee at New York2:30 p.m.ABC — Golden State at DenverESPN — Golden State at Denver5 p.m.ABC — Boston at LA LakersESPN — Boston at LA Lakers8 p.m.ESPN — Philadelphia at Miami10:30 p.m.ESPN — Dallas at PhoenixNFL FOOTBALL1 p.m.CBS — Las Vegas at Kansas CityNICKELODEON — Las Vegas at Kansas City (Nickelodeon’s NFL Nickmas Game)4:30 p.m.FOX — NY Giants at Philadelphia8:15 p.m.ABC — Baltimore at San Francisco_____Source

Detienen a hombre por robar una obra de Banksy en Londres

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:43:00 GMT

LONDRES – Un hombre ha sido detenido por robar una obra de Bansky, que consistía en una señal de stop roja con tres drones militares en ella, en un barrio de Londres. Los vídeos de los ciudadanos, que se viralizaron en redes sociales, ayudaron a la identificación del ladrón. En la grabación se ve a un individuo que se encarama hasta la señal de tráfico, con ayuda de otro hombre que sujeta una bicicleta y posteriormente recoge las tenazas, mientras un grupo de personas lo presencian asombrados.La policía, que ha iniciado una investigación sobre lo ocurrido, confirmó que detuvo a un hombre y que lo mantiene bajo custodia después de que el Ayuntamiento de Southwark denunciara el robo. Arrestan a una mujer sospechosa de asaltar al actor Charlie Sheen en una casa en California Video capta a hombre robando los regalos del árbol de Navidad de una casa Las autoridades locales han colocado una nueva señal de stop en lugar de la obra ...

Así ha sido la restauración de US$ 760 millones de la catedral de Notre Dame en París

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:43:00 GMT

(CNN) — La aguja de Notre Dame, coronada por un nuevo gallo dorado, recuperó su lugar en el horizonte de París a mediados de diciembre de 2023.Mientras turistas y parisinos se reunían frente a la catedral, declarada Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco, para admirar el regreso de uno de sus elementos más emblemáticos (por ahora, todavía con andamios), las obras en Notre Dame seguían en pleno apogeo. Casi 500 artesanos están ocupados con los esfuerzos de reconstrucción, trabajando para garantizar que el monumento parisino esté listo para su gran reapertura al público en 2024.“Es fascinante ver cómo se está restaurando algo de tal valor histórico”, dijo Stephan Book, un turista que visita París desde Suecia con su hija y su padre de 80 años. “Y la ambición de hacerlo todo en cinco años”, añadió, “es como cuando Kennedy dijo que (los humanos) iríamos a la Luna”.En una visita reciente al sitio de construcción, el presidente Emmanuel Macron p...

The NBA’s annual Christmas slate awaits. Teams insist it’s special to be picked

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:43:00 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — Erik Spoelstra was part of 12 Christmas games as a staff member, assistant coach or head coach in his first 20 seasons with the Miami Heat.And in the eight seasons that followed, the Heat played on Christmas only once.Here’s what he realized: For an NBA team, playing on Christmas beats not playing on Christmas. The Heat return to the league’s holiday slate for the first time since 2020 on Monday, when they play host to the Philadelphia 76ers as part of the NBA’s traditional Christmas quintuple header.The other games: Milwaukee at New York, Golden State visits defending champion Denver, Boston visits the Los Angeles Lakers in the rekindling of the NBA’s greatest all-time rivalry and Dallas goes to Phoenix.“It is an honor to have that opportunity to play on Christmas,” Spoelstra said. “The whole league doesn’t play on the holiday and there were several years in a row where we were never even considered for playing on Christmas. And then you go back...

Cómo ver la “luna fría” navideña: la última luna llena del año

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:43:00 GMT

(CNN) — La última luna llena de 2023 se asomará por el horizonte el lunes, la noche de Navidad, y alcanzará su punto máximo la noche siguiente.La luna llena de diciembre podrá verse completamente redonda a simple vista ya el domingo y continuará iluminando el cielo nocturno durante algunas noches después de que alcance su máxima plenitud el martes a las 7:33 p.m. ET, según el Almanaque del Granjero.Los astronautas del Artemis II, que viajarán a la Luna, fueron elegidos como la imagen del día por la NASA¿Qué es la “luna llena fría”?La luna llena de este mes también se conoce como “luna fría”, un término acuñado por los nativos americanos, específicamente el pueblo Mohawk, en referencia a las temperaturas más frías típicamente asociadas con diciembre en el hemisferio norte. (Aunque el cambio climático está haciendo que los meses de invierno sean rápidamente más cálidos).Otros nombres para la última luna llena del año incluyen “Luna de nieve”, “Luna creadora de invier...