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Presidential Power Index: Ranking the Pac-12 presidents based on boardroom influence

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:33:41 GMT

The Pac-12 is staggering, the Big 12 is circling and one school currently sits in the crosshairs. Will Arizona be the next defection?The conference’s future hangs in the balance as the media rights contract negotiations approach their 14th month and commissioner George Kliavkoff scrambles to hold the conference together.The Los Angeles schools left last summer.Colorado left last week.Will Arizona follow the Buffaloes out the door?And if the Wildcats leave their home of the past 45 years, then what? Could that trigger departures by Arizona State and Utah? Would Washington and Oregon begrudgingly accept offers — any offers — from the Big Ten? Would Stanford and Cal do the same? Where would that leave Washington State and Oregon State?Resolution should come soon, with Kliavkoff expected to present a media rights deal to the anxious presidents as early as this week.At the center of the storm resides Arizona president Robert Robbins, who has stated repeatedly — bo...

Hearing for East Bay man accused of killing Cash App founder Bob Lee offers a first look at legal strategies

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:33:41 GMT

By Joel Rosenblatt | BloombergThe accused killer of a cryptocurrency startup executive returns to San Francisco criminal court with a revamped legal team facing off against prosecutors who will try to persuade a judge to move the closely watched case to trial.Nima Momeni had pleaded not guilty to murdering Bob Lee after being charged with stabbing him on a dark downtown street in April. The preliminary hearing scheduled to begin Monday, and which could last for days, offers the first real peek at the legal strategies at play in a case that has drawn international attention because of Lee’s status in the world of high technology, and the gruesome and salacious details surrounding his death.Momeni’s lawyers will likely use the hearing to size up the prosecution’s case, probe witnesses, challenge evidence, and possibly lay the groundwork for a deal down the road in which Momeni agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter, rather than try to have the murder charge thrown o...

Woman wounded in Oakland freeway shooting

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:33:41 GMT

OAKLAND — The California Highway Patrol continued to search Monday for a suspect in a shooting Saturday morning on an Interstate 980 onramp that left a woman who was passenger in a car with a gunshot wound to her chin, authorities said.The shooting happened about 4:07 a.m. Saturday on the 11th street onramp to the eastbound lanes of I-980.The CHP said the victim was a passenger in a white Lexus sedan. The victim and driver were the only occupants.The CHP said the two heard gunfire coming from the right side of their car before the woman was wounded in the chin. No other information was released about the woman.The driver was not hurt and took the victim to an Oakland hospital where the CHP was notified.Detailed descriptions of the shooter and the vehicle they were in were not available.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Hearing for East Bay man accused of killing Cash App founder Bob Lee offers a first look at legal strategies Crime and Public Safety | ...

Scientists find antibodies capable of beating COVID variants

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:33:41 GMT

By Noushin Ziafati | CTV Network via CNNNewly discovered antibodies can neutralize virtually all known variants of COVID-19 and may have the potential to prevent future coronavirus outbreaks, according to a new study.Published in the peer-reviewed Science Advances journal Thursday, the study describes how a team of researchers was able to isolate potent neutralizing antibodies from a recovered SARS patient, who was vaccinated against COVID-19, that “exhibited remarkable breadth” against known sarbecoviruses, or respiratory viruses, like SARS and COVID-19.The international team was led by Duke-NUS Medical School and involved scientists from the National University of Singapore, the University of Melbourne in Australia and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the United States.By isolating antibodies from the COVID-19-vaccinated SARS survivor, the researchers found that the combination of prior coronavirus infection and vaccination generated an “extremely broad and powerful” ...

Mar-a-Lago manager De Oliveira makes first court appearance

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:33:41 GMT

By Adriana Gomez Licon and Alanna Durkin Richer | Associated PressMIAMI — The property manager of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate made his first court appearance on Monday on charges in the classified documents case against the former president but did not enter a plea because he has not found a Florida-based attorney to represent him.Carlos De Oliveira is accused of scheming with Trump to try to delete security footage sought by investigators probing the former president’s hoarding of classified documents at his Palm Beach club. De Oliveira was added last week to the indictment with Trump and the ex-president’s valet, Walt Nauta, and faces charges including conspiracy to obstruct justice and lying to investigators.De Oliveira, wearing a blue suit and tie, answered questions from a magistrate judge during a brief hearing in Miami federal court. He was ordered to turn over his passport and sign an agreement to pay $100,000 if he doesn’t return to court. He wa...

San Jose airport trips zoom higher, but pre-COVID heights stay distant

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:33:41 GMT

SAN JOSE — Passenger activity soared in June at San Jose International Airport as well over 1 million people transited through the Silicon Valley aviation hub — but the airport remains well below its pre-COVID heights.San Jose airport handled slightly over 1.12 million passengers during June, which was 4.6% above the passenger levels during the same month the year before, airport officials reported Monday.Despite the improvement, the South Bay air travel complex remains well below the record levels that it achieved in 2019, the final full year before the onset of coronavirus-linked business lockdowns.In 2019, San Jose Airport handled 15.65 million passengers or an average of 1.3 million passengers a month.Over the one-year period that ended in June, San Jose Airport accommodated 12.13 million passengers or 1.01 million a month.This means that during the most recent 12 months, total passenger activity at San Jose Airport was 22.5% below the total for 2019.Like San Jose, t...

What is a sunburn?

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:33:41 GMT

Laurel Kelly | Mayo Clinic News Network (TNS)July is UV Safety Month, which makes this a good time to learn about sunburn and why it’s important to avoid one by protecting your skin from the harmful effects of ultraviolet, or UV, radiation from sunlight.Sunburn is inflamed, painful skin that feels hot to the touch. It’s caused by too much exposure to UV light. That UV light may be from the sun or artificial sources, such as sunlamps and tanning beds. UVA is the wavelength of light that can penetrate to the deep layers of skin and lead to skin damage over time. UVB is the wavelength of light that penetrates the skin more superficially and causes sunburn.UV light damages skin cells. The immune system reacts by increasing blood flow to the affected areas, which causes the inflamed skin known as sunburn.Any exposed part of your body, including your earlobes, scalp and lips, can burn. Even covered areas can burn if, for example, your clothing has a loose weave that allows UV light throug...

Accused Bob Lee killer Nima Momeni in court Monday: Live updates

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:33:41 GMT

(KRON) -- Accused killer Nima Momeni is back in court on Monday morning for a preliminary hearing, and he will have a new attorney by his side. Racist fliers left on driveways in Corte Madera Nima Momeni, the man charged in the fatal stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee, makes his way into the courtroom at the Hall of Justice for his arraignment in San Francisco, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. (Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool)Momeni faces murder charges in the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee. He previously pleaded not guilty to the charges last month. Not long after, Momeni's previous attorney stepped down from the case citing a conflict of interest. Momeni hired a celebrity defense attorney named Saam Zangeneh to take over the case, but he had several attorneys with him in court on Monday.Live Updates11:00 a.m. -- Crime scene investigator takes the standNext on the stand was San Francisco Police Department crime investigating Officer Rosalyn Check. Prosect...

Lady Gaga pens moving tribute to Tony Bennett

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:33:41 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Lady Gaga took to Instagram Monday and posted an emotional tribute to the late Tony Bennett. Bennett, who passed away last week at the age of 96, was a frequent collaborator with Gaga and the two were known for their musical collaboration and cross-generational friendship."I will miss my friend forever," Gaga wrote. "I will miss singing with him, recording with him, talking with him, being on stage together. With Tony, I got to live my life in a time warp." Pee-wee Herman star Paul Reubens dies at age 70 after cancer fight Bennett, who immortalized the City by the Bay with his iconic hit, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2016. In her tribute, Gaga also spoke of their time together following the disease taking hold of him."Losing Tony to Alzheimer's has been painful but it was also really beautiful," she wrote. "An era of memory loss is such a sacred time in a person's life. There's such a feeling of vulnerab...

Forecast calls for 108? Phoenix will take it, as record-breaking heat expected to end

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:33:41 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — A hellish and historic 31-day run of temperatures cracking 110 degrees (43 degrees Celsius) in Phoenix appeared headed for a welcome end on Monday, as monsoon rains moved through the region from Mexico.The relief wasn’t all that great — the day’s highs were forecast near 108 degrees, or about 42 Celsius — and the heat was expected to rise past 110 again later in the week. But residents and visitors were taking what they could get.“It’s not going to last more than a couple of days, but I’m enjoying this break,” said Christine Bertaux, 76, who was cooling off Monday at a downtown day center for older people who are homeless.“It has been REALLY hot here!” said Jeffrey Sharpe, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, who was in town for a long weekend that on Monday included watching his son’s poodles frolic in a grassy dog park. “But today it was about 85 degrees, more like Wisconsin.”High heat blasted much of the Southwest all through July, ranging from West Texas...