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Downtown San Jose is poised to escape “doom loop” scenario: experts

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:05:45 GMT

SAN JOSE — Some signs of hope have sprouted for the feeble office markets in downtown San Jose and Silicon Valley — yet a rebound remains a year or two away — experts said Wednesday.These were among the numerous assessments offered by a panel of top real estate executives during a Silicon Valley Breakfast event Wednesday organized by law firm Hoge Fenton and moderated by Sean Cottle, one of the company’s attorneys and shareholders.The panelists were executives from Jay Paul Co., a veteran and savvy real estate firm; Urban Community, a local real estate firm that has teamed up with mega-developer Westbank; Bay View Development Group; and Urban Catalyst, a local real estate firm that is active in downtown San Jose.People walk through the Serpentine Pavilion in downtown San Jose, located at 350 South First Street near East San Carlos Street, as part of one of the events during a SoFA block party, June 2023. (George Avalos/Bay Area News Group)“Things a...

Georgia judge: lawyers Powell, Chesebro to be tried together

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:05:45 GMT

By Kate Brumback | Associated PressATLANTA — The judge overseeing the Georgia election subversion case involving former President Donald Trump on Wednesday denied requests by two of the 19 defendants to be tried alone, instead saying the pair would be tried together starting next month.Since lawyers Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell have both filed speedy trial demands, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said their trial would begin Oct. 23, but he seemed skeptical of prosecutors’ arguments that all 19 defendants could be tried together that soon.The hearing provided some insight into how the case could play out, with prosecutors estimating a trial would take four months and that they’d call more than 150 witnesses. It was also broadcast live on television and on the judge’s YouTube channel, a marked difference from the other three criminal cases against Trump, where cameras have not been allowed in the courtroom during proceedings.Special prosecutor ...

Fruit-fly quarantine will cover large portion of Santa Clara County through mid-2024

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:05:45 GMT

SANTA CLARA COUNTY — The detection of eight oriental fruit flies in Santa Clara County has prompted officials to declare a quarantine of homegrown fruits and vegetables in portions of the area through mid-2024.The oriental fruit flies, an invasive pest native to Asia, are known to burrow themselves into hundreds of fruits, rendering them inedible, according to a news release from the county. Among the fruits most susceptible to the pest are key California crops like avocados, apples, citrus fruits, tomatoes and peppers.“It would be disastrous for the oriental fruit fly to get established in Santa Clara County and California,” county Agricultural Commissioner Joe Deviney said in the statement. “We all need to be vigilant in protecting our agricultural and natural resources. Please do not bring or ship any fruits, vegetables or plants into California without ensuring they are permitted by law.”In efforts to prevent the spread of the flies, the quarantine covers a 112-square-mile area ...

San Mateo County: Driver charged with manslaughter in wrong-way crash that killed two

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:05:45 GMT

SAN MATEO COUNTY — Prosecutors have charged an Australian man with two counts of vehicular manslaughter after a deadly crash last week in which he was allegedly driving on the wrong side of the road on Highway 84 near La Honda.Luke Nardini, 31, was driving eastbound in the westbound lane of Highway 84 around 5 p.m. Friday evening when he collided with a Ford Taurus carrying four passengers, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.A male backseat passenger was pronounced dead at the scene, while the other backseat passenger, a woman, died later at a hospital. The two other passengers were injured; their condition was not known Wednesday.Killed in the crash were Jack Davis and Linda Davis, both of whom were 80 and living in La Honda, according to the San Mateo County coroner’s office.Nardini, who was driving a BMW M4, encountered a road closure of the eastbound lane, according to prosecutors; once he passed the closure, they said, he “(forgot) to...

Police in standoff with armed suspect near SF high school

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:05:45 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A road near a high school is blocked off due to a police standoff Wednesday afternoon, the San Francisco Police Department said. Around 12:22 p.m., SFFD responded to a suspect who had a gun inside their vehicle near Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory (SHCP) high school.Police are currently negotiating with the suspect near Eddy Street and Franklin Street. Officers are trying to get the suspect to surrender. The public is asked to avoid the area at this time as this is an active scene. Eddy and Franklin are one block away from SHCP.This story will be updated. Check back as KRON4 learns more.

An Idaho woman convicted of killing two of her children and another woman is appealing the case

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:05:45 GMT

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A woman sentenced to life in prison in the murders of her two youngest children and a woman she saw as a romantic rival says she will appeal her conviction to the Idaho Supreme Court. Attorneys for Lori Vallow Daybell filed a notice of appeal last week. She will ask the Idaho Supreme Court to consider several issues, including whether the judge in her case wrongly found her competent to stand trial. The judge had ordered Vallow Daybell to undergo mental health treatment. She spent roughly 10 months in a mental hospital before he declared her competent. She’ll also argue that her right to a speedy trial was violated and that there were problems with jury selection, evidence and other procedural issues, the documents show. The criminal case against Vallow Daybell, 50, was complex and included claims that she called her son and daughter zombies and believed she was a goddess tasked with ushering in an apocalypse. A jury found Vallow Daybell guilty in May of ki...

Tenor Stephen Gould says he has been diagnosed with incurable bile duct cancer

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:05:45 GMT

Tenor Stephen Gould, 61, says he has been diagnosed with incurable bile duct cancer.Gould withdrew this summer from the Bayreuth Festival in Germany, where he was to have sung the title roles in “Tannhäuser” and “Tristan und Isolde” and Siegfried in “Götterdämmerung.”Gould said in a statement Wednesday that he has bile duct cancer with complications. He said it is fatal with “an outlook of several months to 10 months,” he wrote. “There is no cure.”Gould said he made the announcement after the Bayreuth Festival ended last week because “I did not wish anything to cloud this years achievements.”Gould was born in Virginia and has sung in many of the world’s major opera houses.According to the Mayo Clinic, biliary tract cancer often doesn’t cause any symptoms in the early stages. It’s often discovered by accident — for example, through routine blood tests or imaging done for an unrelated reason.Source

Phreesia: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:05:45 GMT

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Phreesia Inc. (PHR) on Wednesday reported a loss of $36.8 million in its fiscal second quarter.The Wilmington, Delaware-based company said it had a loss of 68 cents per share.The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 75 cents per share.The developer of health care software posted revenue of $85.8 million in the period, which also beat Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $84.8 million.Phreesia expects full-year revenue in the range of $353 million to $356 million._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on PHR at https://www.zacks.com/ap/PHRSource

Pennsylvania murderer escaped by scaling a wall topped with razor wire, prison official says

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:05:45 GMT

This photo provided by the Chester County Prison shows Danelo Cavalcante. Cavalcante, convicted this month of fatally stabbing his girlfriend escaped Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023 from the suburban Philadelphia prison and prosecutors say he is also wanted in his native Brazil in a separate slaying. (Chester County Prison via AP) This photo provided by the Chester County Prison shows Danelo Cavalcante. Cavalcante, convicted this month of fatally stabbing his girlfriend escaped Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023 from the suburban Philadelphia prison and prosecutors say he is also wanted in his native Brazil in a separate slaying. (Chester County Prison via AP) WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — A murderer on the loose in suburban Philadelphia...

Movie Review: Pinochet as a vampire in surreal, frightening ‘El Conde’

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:05:45 GMT

The Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is not dead in Pablo Larraín’s “El Conde.” He is instead a 250-year-old vampire living in semi-exile and wishing for death in this audacious allegory about history’s tendency to repeat itself, shot in sublime, otherworldly black and white.It is fitting that the film, in theaters Friday and on Netflix Sept. 15, is being released around the 50-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 1973 coup which brought Pinochet to power for almost 17 years. Pinochet’s regime tortured, killed and disappeared 3,065 people in the name of fighting communism, but for some in Chile the legacy is now remembered as not all bad.Evil ideas, Larraín cautions, have a tendency to live on, to mutate and to infect societies again and again even many years after they’re supposedly dispelled and destroyed. Kind of like vampires living in stark, hellish exile as greedy heirs circulate to try to claim what’s theirs and keep the money flowing.Larraín, the 47-year-old filmmaker behind “...