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West Nile Virus found in multiple Bay Area counties

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:19:50 GMT

(KRON) – More cases of West Nile Virus have been found throughout Contra Costa County and Santa Clara County. We are still in the thick of mosquito season, so people are being warned to stay proactive in preventing more of the insects from breeding.In South San Jose and Sunnyvale, the Santa Clara County Vector Control District will be spraying for mosquitoes. These pests are breeding in standing water so it’s important to check even the smallest objects where water has collected near your homes and dump that water out. The Contra Costa Mosquito and Vector Control District explains that the bugs can breed in a space even as small as a bottle cap. Baseball equipment stolen from Rodeo little league Now consider unused pools or water fountains, and you have yourself a lot more room for the unwelcome pests to procreate and multiply. And the district reports West Nile Virus activity is intensifying.We know mosquitoes carry the virus and spread it to people and animals. There were f...

More Oakland sideshows over the weekend

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:19:50 GMT

OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) – Citizen video recorded Friday just after midnight on 80th Avenue and International Boulevard shows an illegal sideshow in Oakland. These sideshows are occurring as the city continues to struggle with public safety. While an Oakland police weekly crime report shows that year-to-date homicides are down by 8%, the vast majority of crimes, including aggravated assault, burglary, carjacking, rape and robbery are up.  Baseball equipment stolen from Rodeo little league "It's almost a perfect storm. Violent crime, low staffing and lack of consequences in this city," said Barry Donelan, president of the Oakland Police Officers’ Association. Donelan gave the union’s perspective behind this year’s increased crime stats"We're at 20% increase in 911 calls. Our response times have reduced. It's a function of increased calls and lower number of officers. It's demand and supply Delta that's helping to drive these crime stats,” he explained.In the first week of August...

Stock market today: Asian stocks mixed after China reports weak July data and cuts key interest rate

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:19:50 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday after China reported weak July consumer and business activity and its central bank cut a key interest rate to shore up the struggling economy.Shanghai and Hong retreated while Tokyo and Sydney gained. Oil prices rose.The Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.3% to 3,169.18 after official data showed growth in Chinese consumer spending and factory output slowed more than expected. The People’s Bank of China cut its interest rate on one-week loans to banks. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong lost 0.8% to 18,622.55.“Policymakers are starting to hit the panic button,” said Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management in a report.The Nikkei 225 in Tokyo gained 0.8% to 32,314.90 and Sydney’s S&P-ASX 200 rose 0.5% to 7,310.30. Markets in Korea and India were closed for holidays. New Zealand, Singapore and Jakarta gained while Bangkok declined.Chinese leaders are trying to shore up flagging economic growth without resorting to an across-the-board s...

Bethancourt homers and singles in run, Rays beat Giants 10-2

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:19:50 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tyler Glasnow knew a few days ago throwing a bullpen that he felt almost right again, and he sure looked like his dominant self after a two-week layoff dealing with back spasms.Catcher Christian Bethancourt realized it when Glasnow unleashed a 98 mph fastball that actually broke the webbing on his glove.“He was great,” Bethancourt said. “To be honest he was definitely better than what I expected coming from almost two weeks without pitching with back spasms.”Bethancourt homered and singled in a run to back Glasnow’s fourth straight winning decision, and the Tampa Bay Rays won their first game since placing All-Star shortstop Wander Franco on the restricted list, beating the San Francisco Giants 10-2 on Monday night.It was Bethancourt’s first homer since May 20 against Milwaukee.“I almost forgot what to do in the dugout, run the bases, it’s been a very long time,” Bethancourt joked.Osleivis Basabe hit a two-run single in the fourth for his first...

South Bay city looks to its neighbor for reference on adoption of encampment ban

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:19:50 GMT

CHULA VISTA, Calif. -- Chula Vista city leaders are trying to get ahead of the growing homeless population. This comes after San Diego began enforcing its encampment ban. Now, the South Bay city says it's looking to its neighbor for reference. “Earlier I was passing by, and I saw these guys and I knew I had to stop and get them dinner," shared Jake Stonebreaker, a longtime Chula Vista resident who was providing food to the homeless Monday evening. The area and people he's referring to are a group of unhoused people camped right across the street from the county's Health and Human Services building along Oxford St. It's where Chieko Tanaka and her husband set up their tent Monday as she and others flock to the South Bay; some, choosing a tent over shelter for now. “It’s not safe. You’re actually more at risk going into the shelter than you are on the street," Tanaka said. After San Diego's controversial encampment ban, Chula Vista Mayor John McCann says more unhoused people are migra...

Russia targets western Ukraine with missiles overnight and hits civilian infrastructure

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:19:50 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian missile attack overnight damaged multiple civilian buildings in Ukraine’s western region of Lviv and injured local residents, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday.Lviv, on the border with Poland, is hundreds of miles (kilometers) away from the frontline but is regularly a target of Russian attacks as Moscow tries to disrupt supply routes for Western weapons and as its war in Ukraine nears the 18-month mark.Multiple buildings in the region and its namesake capital were damaged in the attack, Lviv Gov. Maksym Kozytskyi said.A multi-story residential building caught fire in the city of Lviv after missile debris fell on it in the early hours of Tuesday, the governor said. Ten other residential buildings were damaged in the Stavchany and Sukhovolya villages outside the city.Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said one missile hit a yard at a local kindergarten, injuring four people. Sadovyi said the explosion destroyed the kindergarten completely and damaged more t...

Massive explosion at gas station in Russia’s Dagestan kills 30, injures scores more

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:19:50 GMT

MOSCOW (AP) — A massive explosion at a gas station in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan killed 30 people and injured scores more, Russian officials said Tuesday.Russia’s Emergency Ministry reported Tuesday that a total of 105 people were injured, and 30 of them died. Three of those killed were children, Dagestan’s governor Sergei Melikov said. The explosion took place Monday night on the outskirts of Makhachkala, the region’s capital. A fire started at a car repair shop and spread to a nearby gas station, prompting a blast, Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti reported, citing the country’s Emergency Ministry. The subsequent fire raged on the area of 600 square meters (yards), the report said. Some of those injured will be airlifted to Moscow for treatment, according to the report.Russian authorities have begun a criminal investigation.Families of the victims will receive 1 million rubles (about $10,000) each, Dagestan’s authorities said, a...

As the Black Sea becomes a battleground, one Ukrainian farmer doesn’t know how he’ll sell his grain

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:19:50 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Victor Tsvyk harvested 4,800 tons of wheat this month, but after Russia exited a wartime deal that allowed Ukraine to ship grain to the world, he has no idea where his produce will go. Or how his beloved farm will survive.Tsvyk, who normally exported up to 90% of his harvest from the southern port of Odesa, faces a crisis: His yield is 20% higher compared with last year, which would have been a boon in times of peace, but in war, exorbitant logistics costs and Russia’s blockage of the ports has made shipping grain too expensive for him.Tsvyk is one of thousands of Ukrainian farmers facing a similar dilemma. “It’s too painful to talk about,” the 67-year-old said when asked how he envisions the future.Last month, Russia pulled out of the deal that the U.N. and Turkey brokered to provide protection for ships carrying Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea. Moscow has since stepped up attacks on Ukrainian ports and grain infrastructure while Ukraine has hit one of Ru...

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin acquitted of four graft charges

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:19:50 GMT

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Former Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin was acquitted by the high court of four corruption charges on Tuesday, just days after his opposition bloc expanded its influence in local elections. Muhyiddin, 75, said the high court struck down four charges of abusing his power to obtain 232.5 million ringgit ($50 million) in bribes for his Bersatu party. He was charged in March and still faces three charges of money laundering involving 200 million ringgit ($43 million). “From the start, I have said that these are politically motivated charges. I have not done anything wrong … and today it has been proven that these were false allegations,” he told reporters outside the courthouse.His lawyer, Hisyam Teh Poh Teik, said the court agreed with the defense contention that the charges were defective legally and lacked details on how the offenses were committed. With the collapse of the four main charges, Teh said they were confident the other th...

4 Australians and 2 Indonesians are rescued after being missing in waters off Aceh for 2 days

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:19:50 GMT

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Four Australian tourists and two Indonesians were rescued after being missing for two days in the waters off Indonesia’s Aceh province, officials and the father of one of the Australians said Tuesday.Peter Foote, the father of Elliot Foote, who had traveled to Indonesia to celebrate his 30th birthday with friends, said he received a text message from his son saying he is okay.“It says: ‘Hey Dad, Elliot here. I’m alive. Safe now. Love you. Chat later,’” Peter Foote said at a news conference in Sydney on Tuesday. “It’s great, it’s good news. I’ll have to talk to him and want to see photos and see what he looks like. It’s all good.”A wooden speedboat carrying the four Australians and three Indonesian crew members ran into bad weather on Sunday. The details of how they ended up in the sea remain unclear.One Indonesian crew member is still missing, according to the head of the local rescue agency.Peter Foote was told his son had paddled his surfboard...