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Former Stanford stars Girma, Smith dedicate World Cup to late teammate Katie Meyer

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 04:00:31 GMT

Note: This story includes reporting about suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling with feelings of depression or suicidal thoughts, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline offers free, round-the-clock support, information and resources for help. Call or text the lifeline at 988, or see the 988lifeline.org website, where chat is available.On the eve of the biggest tournament of their lives, Naomi Girma and Sophia Smith are thinking about a teammate who won’t be at the World Cup, or watching back home.The first-time World Cup players from Stanford are dedicating their efforts in the tournament, which kicks off early Thursday morning in Australia and New Zealand, to former Stanford goalie Katie Meyer, who died by suicide in March 2019.Girma penned an emotional tribute to Meyer this week in The Players Tribune that highlighted the positive spirit Meyer shared with her teammates and friends, and introduced a partnership with soccer charity Common Goal to launch a mental ...

San Jose apartment deals bolster county agency’s affordable homes push

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 04:00:31 GMT

SAN JOSE — A Santa Clara County housing agency says its deals to buy senior citizen apartment complexes in San Jose will help it chart a successful course for the organization’s affordable homes mission. 

Opinion: How the government can solve America’s obesity epidemic

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 04:00:31 GMT

Dying younger. Living harder. Going broke. It is difficult to overstate the longitudinal effects of excess weight in America.An estimated seven in 10 Americans are overweight or obese. The combination, according to the National Institutes of Health, results in an estimated 300,000 preventable deaths per year with extreme obesity lowering life expectancy by 14 years on average.Added weight not only makes everyday life more difficult, but it also produces serious health consequences that include cardiovascular disease, diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders and cancer. In total, obesity costs an estimated $260 billion annually in inpatient and outpatient care.Whether weight gain is caused primarily by genetics, societal influences or individual will, scientists aren’t altogether sure. What’s clear, however, is that most efforts to lose weight ultimately fail.Ozempic, one of a new class of medications, has been shown in studies to spur significant weight loss. The others include Mounjaro,...

49ers camp preview: Which backups are in play for offensive line jobs?

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 04:00:31 GMT

SANTA CLARA – One-on-one combat between Trent Williams and Nick Bosa is typically the marquee attraction among linemen drills at 49ers training camp.This camp’s undercard is worth following, however. Williams’ fellow offensive linemen, after all, must be able to ensure the ever-precarious health of the 49ers’ quarterbacks.At right tackle, Colton McKivitz enters as the already appointed successor to Mike McGlinchey, who left in free agency for Denver (after a five-year term featuring great praise for run blocking and heaping criticism for pass-protection lapses).On the interior, guards Aaron Banks and Spencer Burford will flank center Jake Brendel for a second straight year, which bodes well for their chemistry.So, since the starters are all set, time to look elsewhere, right? Not so fast.Assuming all five first-string linemen – Williams, Banks, Brendel, Burford, McKivitz – make it through a season as 17-game starters is a stretch. Reserves must be schooled up to maintain the consist...

Five-bedroom home in San Ramon sells for $2.7 million

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 04:00:31 GMT

2287 Rosemount Lane – Google Street ViewThe spacious property located in the 2200 block of Rosemount Lane in San Ramon was sold on June 29, 2023 for $2,725,000, or $805 per square foot. The house, built in 2005, has an interior space of 3,387 square feet. This two-story home provides a generous living space with its five bedrooms and four bathrooms. The property is equipped with central A/C. In addition, the home comes with an attached two-car garage, allowing for convenient vehicle storage and additional storage space. The property occupies a sizable 8,592-square-foot lot.Additional houses have recently been purchased nearby:A 3,826-square-foot home on the 2200 block of Rosemount Lane in San Ramon sold in August 2022, for $2,585,000, a price per square foot of $676. The home has 5 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms.On Longleaf Circle, San Ramon, in May 2023, a 3,826-square-foot home was sold for $2,650,000, a price per square foot of $693. The home has 5 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms.In April 202...

Warriors’ Kerr shares thoughts on Dunleavy’s first offseason, Chris Paul and personal goals

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 04:00:31 GMT

Steve Kerr doesn’t have much time to rest.He has just a few days with family in Southern California before training begins for Team USA Basketball when August begins. The Warriors’ head coach will reprise his role leading the national team for the 2023 FIBA World Cup, with warm-up games in Las Vegas, Spain and the United Arab Emirates before next month’s tournament in the Philippines.But Kerr paused for a few minutes this week to debrief the Warriors’ busy offseason so far.On Dunleavy’s offseason movesKerr noted that he had been in constant communication with Mike Dunleavy Jr. when it became apparent former general manager Bob Myers was likely to leave his post once his contract ran out and Dunleavy was his likely successor. They got on the same page throughout the season about how the roster needed to change to keep the championship contention window open.“It’s seamless, really, given that he’s been here the last five years,” Ke...

Opinion: California foster youth suffer as state shortchanges agencies

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 04:00:31 GMT

California’s foster children are too often being warehoused in hotels, office spaces and former juvenile halls rather than receiving intensive services to heal their trauma.Christine Stoner-Mertz is CEO of the California Alliance of Child and Family Services. (Photo courtesy of Christine Stoner-Mertz.)The state is failing the children who need us most because it has failed to invest at every level of the system supporting them. The state budget just adopted offers a thin lifeline to essential programs for youth yet misses crucial opportunities to fix devastating gaps in our system for the most vulnerable young people.From the viewpoint of the nonprofit programs that help children heal and reunite families, a total collapse is on the horizon without a surge in funding, and better coordination among public and private sectors to meet the growing needs of vulnerable children.First, helping them starts with prevention. Family resource centers, embedded in communities and with the t...

Fifty years after Bruce Lee’s death, this man keeps his promise

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 04:00:31 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — Jeff Chinn says Bruce Lee saved his life.Now, 50 years after Lee’s death, Chinn works to keep Lee alive in the minds of visitors at a San Francisco museum.“Many times I get burned out and I get tired, but I keep reminding myself that Bruce Lee helped me so I have to keep up my part of the bargain,” Chinn said this week. “It’s just kind of strange because half my tour group doesn’t know he was born here.”Lee died on July 20, 1973, after an allergic reaction to headache medication. He was 32 and not yet the martial arts movie superstar he would become.Chinn, 62, is a retired mail carrier who serves as a docent in the Museum of the Chinese Historical Society of America in San Francisco’s Chinatown, where he guides tourists through an exhibit dedicated to Lee’s life.“His tour is really quite personal, quite in depth, and very intentional,” said the museum’s collections manager, Palma You.About 60% of the displayed artifacts, including the blue suit Lee wore i...

Fatal San Jose crash closes East Capitol Expressway east of I-87

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 04:00:31 GMT

(BCN) -- San Jose Police are on the scene of a fatal crash early Thursday that has closed the East Capitol Expressway in both directions between Snell Avenue and Vistapark Drive. A collision between two vehicles about 1:11 a.m. resulted in one man dying after he was taken to a local hospital. Another man suffered life-threatening injuries and is at a local hospital, according to a social media post from police, who advised the public to avoid the area. This marks the city's 28th traffic fatality of 2023. Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

BCB Bancorp: Q2 Earnings Snapshot

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 04:00:31 GMT

BAYONNE, N.J. (AP) — BAYONNE, N.J. (AP) — BCB Bancorp Inc. (BCBP) on Thursday reported second-quarter net income of $8.6 million.The Bayonne, New Jersey-based bank said it had earnings of 50 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 53 cents per share.The community bank posted revenue of $48.4 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $28.1 million, exceeding Street forecasts.BCB Bancorp shares have declined 29% since the beginning of the year. The stock has decreased 29% in the last 12 months._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on BCBP at https://www.zacks.com/ap/BCBPSource