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Single family residence in Palo Alto sells for $4.2 million

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:50 GMT

730 Josina Avenue – Google Street ViewA 2,630-square-foot house built in 1950 has changed hands. The spacious property located in the 700 block of Josina Avenue in Palo Alto was sold on Oct. 6, 2023. The $4,150,000 purchase price works out to $1,578 per square foot. This two-story home offers a capacious living environment with its four bedrooms and three bathrooms. Inside, a fireplace enhances the ambiance of the living area. In addition, the house provides a one-car garage.Additional houses have recently changed hands nearby:A 1,738-square-foot home on the 700 block of Barron Avenue in Palo Alto sold in September 2022, for $2,860,000, a price per square foot of $1,646. The home has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.On Barron Avenue, Palo Alto, in May 2023, a 979-square-foot home was sold for $2,260,000, a price per square foot of $2,308. The home has 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.In August 2023, a 1,291-square-foot home on Cass Way in Palo Alto sold for $2,580,000, a price per square foot o...

Fremont hotel guests recount fatal shooting inside room, as police detail how investigation went from suicide to murder

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:50 GMT

A 24-year-old man was held to answer on charges of killing his girlfriend in a case where prosecutors say he immediately began working on a suicide cover-up story, court records show.Nolan Hurd was ordered to stand trial on a charge of murdering 20-year-old Nikha Marcella DeGuzman in a shooting at Room 219 of the Good Nite Inn in Fremont. At Hurd’s August preliminary hearing, hotel guests testified to hearing an argument, followed by a shot, followed by a man screaming for “help” after about a minute went by.As guests trickled out into a courtyard at the hotel, they witnessed DeGuzman frantically running from the room, with Hurd following her a few moments later, they testified. He began yelling for help and attempting to revive her, one woman said on the witness stand.“I remember him crying. He was real hysterical,” Chanel Henderson, a guest in an adjacent room at the hotel, testified.Henderson’s then boyfriend, Edgar Casillas, testified that Hur...

A Michelin Bib Gourmand Mexican restaurant is set to open in Emeryville

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:50 GMT

The dining scene at the Bay Street Emeryville shopping mall continues to get more interesting with the arrival of Flores, a Mexican restaurant whose San Francisco location has received a Michelin Bib Gourmand award.Flores is set to open Nov. 3 at 5614 Bay St., Suite 244, right by the new pizza-and-hot-wings joint Arthur Mac’s Little Snack. Soon it will have company in the shopping mall from a Fogo de Chão, which is nearing completion judging from its facade work this week, as well as a Mumu Hot Pot specializing in interactive dining with meat and vegetables cooked at the table.Flores comes from the Back of the House restaurant group, which aside from the San Francisco flagship runs a third Flores in Corte Madera. The Emeryville restaurant will be split into two: a full-service restaurant and, next door, a Flores Taqueria offering grab-and-go tacos, bowls and salads. It’s a bit like a Chipotle in that customers can make their own meals by selecting beans, rice, pico de gallo, a...

Photos: Robin Williams’ Sea Cliff mansion in San Francisco listed for $25 million

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:50 GMT

The San Francisco mansion of the late legendary actor and comedian Robin Williams is for sale for $25 million.The San Francisco home of the late legendary actor and comedian Robin Williams is for sale. (Open Homes) Williams and his second wife, Marsha Garces Williams, raised their three children in the home; Garces Williams currently resides there.The San Francisco home of the late legendary actor and comedian Robin Williams is for sale. (Open Homes) The 10,598-square-foot Sea Cliff property has six bedrooms and five-and-a-half bathrooms and was almost entirely rebuilt in the early 1990s, according to listing agent Steven Mavromihalis with Compass.The San Francisco home of the late legendary actor and comedian Robin Williams is for sale. (Open Homes) “(The Williams family) took great pains to preserve the rare and valuable building materials used in 1926, which are simply no longer available in the construction of modern homes,” according to a statement by...

Bob Melvin introduced as SF Giants’ manager in ‘surreal moment’ for Bay Area native

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:50 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — In Gabe Kapler’s four years here, he came to enjoy nights when the moon was full. From his perch in the third-base dugout, its glow would slowly rise over the brick wall in right field, catching the attention of the former Giants manager. It’s a vantage point inaccessible from the visitor’s dugout along the first base line, so Bob Melvin was always left to his imagination.And, yes, the Menlo Park-raised, Berkeley-educated former Giants catcher admitted Wednesday morning, it did cross his imagination. He thought about the possibility of one day occupying the home dugout as he ran the stadium stairs before the first game of his teams’ series here. He slid down the slide in the Coca Cola bottle beyond left field, at least until they roped it off, dreaming about the chance to do it 81 times a year.“At least once every time I was here,” Melvin said, taking in that view beyond the right field wall from the suite level above third base, M...

New House speaker once argued for criminalizing gay sex

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:50 GMT

By Andrew Kaczynski and Allison Gordan | CNNSpeaker of the House Mike Johnson has a history of harsh anti-gay language from his time as an attorney for a socially conservative legal group in the mid-2000s.In editorials that ran in his local Shreveport, Louisiana, paper, The Times, Johnson called homosexuality a “inherently unnatural” and “dangerous lifestyle” that would lead to legalized pedophilia and possibly even destroy “the entire democratic system.”And, in another editorial, he wrote, “Your race, creed, and sex are what you are, while homosexuality and cross-dressing are things you do,” he wrote. “This is a free country, but we don’t give special protections for every person’s bizarre choices.”At the time, Johnson was an attorney and spokesman for Alliance Defense Fund, known today as Alliance Defending Freedom, where he also authored his opposition to the Supreme Court ruling in Lawrence v. Texas – which overturned state laws that criminalized homosexual activity between cons...

Borenstein: With U.S. House speaker fight over, the real chaos begins

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:50 GMT

The unprecedented three-week Republican search for a new House speaker ended Wednesday. Now the real chaos begins.In the end, GOP members unified behind Rep. Mike Johnson, a little-known social conservative who supports a national abortion ban, opposes federal recognition of same-sex marriages and led efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.It should serve as a stark reminder that much of the nation doesn’t share the political values of the Bay Area and most of California. That Donald Trump is now fully in control of the Republican Party. And that any hope that moderate Republicans and moderate Democrats could somehow unify behind a speaker and work on bipartisan solutions was fantasy.Johnson, in his first remarks after the vote electing him speaker, promised Republicans would “serve the people of this country. We’re going to restore their faith in this Congress.”But it’s doubtful he means all the people. It remains to be seen whether he will work with Democrats or without the...

Pregnant woman killed in San Jose hit-and-run crash, baby survives

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:50 GMT

(KRON) -- A pregnant woman suffered fatal injuries when her car was struck by a stolen vehicle on Blossom Hill Road in San Jose, police said. Her baby was delivered through an emergency surgery, however, the newborn remained in critical condition on Wednesday, police said.The deadly crash happened at 8:42 p.m. Tuesday. A stolen 2013 white Hyundai sedan collided with the woman's 2008 black Nissan sedan at the intersection of Winefield Boulevard and Blossom Hill Road.Two men bolted out of the stolen car immediately after the collision and fled the scene, according to San Jose Police Sgt. Jorge Garibay. Police are still looking for the hit-and-run driver. "The pregnant female driver was transported to a local hospital with life threatening injuries where she was subsequently pronounced deceased. Emergency surgery was initiated on the driver and her child was successfully delivered but remains in critical condition," Garibay wrote. The victim's name will be released by the Santa Clara C...

Mission District ice cream shop vandalized overnight in San Francisco

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:50 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- An ice cream shop in the Mission District was vandalized overnight on Wednesday, the San Francisco Police Department said. The front windows of Smitten Ice Cream were shattered as a result, police said. 49ers QB Brock Purdy enters concussion protocol The business located at 904 Valencia St. was vandalized around 2:49 a.m. when an alarm was triggered. SFPD officers arrived at the scene and determined Smitten Ice Cream was vandalized for "unknown reasons."As of Wednesday afternoon, no arrests have been made. SFPD did not provide any information about any suspect(s). San Francisco-based Smitten Ice Cream first hit the streets in 2009 when it began as a popup throughout the city. The business now has two other locations in San Jose and Las Vegas. SFPD says anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact 415-575-4444 or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the message with "SFPD."KRON4 contacted Smitten Ice Cream for more information about the incident...

Hamas Attack Provides “Rare Opportunity” to Cleanse Gaza, Israeli Think Tank Says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:50 GMT

Israeli military combat vehicles are seen near the Israeli-Gaza border on Oct. 14, 2023.Photo: Ilia Yefimovich/Picture Alliance via Getty ImagesThe Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy, an Israeli think tank, published a paper last week stating that thanks to the vicious Hamas attacks of October 7, “There is currently a unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the entire Gaza Strip.”The paper continues, “There is no doubt that in order for this plan to be enacted, many conditions need to exist in parallel. At the moment, these conditions exist, and it is unclear when such an opportunity will arise again, if at all.” Approximately 1,400 Israelis were killed during the initial assault.The think tank advocates a bizarre scheme in which Israel would ethnically cleanse the entirety of Gaza and pay Egypt to house its former inhabitants in currently empty apartments near Cairo. (The paper was first reported and translated from Hebrew by Mondoweiss.)The Misgav Insti...