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More scam calls and one reader’s way of handling them: Roadshow

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:36:00 GMT

Q: Like many other people, I am irritated with multiple unwanted calls about auto and other warranties, even after multiple attempts to place myself on the Do Not Call List. I take a page out of Jerry Seinfeld’s comedy show. I choose prompt #1 to speak to a representative. When the person answers the call, I ask for their home phone # so I can call them multiple times a day. I ask when they eat dinner and go to sleep. I explain that it seems like those would be great times to call them.They usually hang up. A few get upset. I know it does not stop the next call to my phone, but I tie up their phone lines for a few minutes and it gives me a little smile.Tim Pasqua, MilpitasA: Scam calls are very frustrating. Ignore them.Q: I vehemently disagree with recent comments regarding closure of the downtown ramp to Highway 17 to avoid congestion in Los Gatos. As a tax-paying Los Gatos resident who lives on Black Road, my family and I rely on that ramp to get into town and home every day...

California puts a price on slavery’s legacy and draws a blueprint for reparations

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:36:00 GMT

By Karen Breslau | BloombergThe numbers are striking in their precision. The statistical value of each year of human life, accounting for racial differences in life expectancy: $13,619. Wealth missing due to lower rates of Black home ownership: $148,099. Average devaluation of Black-owned businesses: $77,000. Each year of disproportionate incarceration factored by race, combining lost wages and freedom: $159,792.These calculations by California’s Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, buried in the nearly 500-page draft of a report that will go to the state legislature in late June, belie the complexity and raw emotion underlying the first state-level effort to provide compensation for the legacy of slavery and discrimination in the US. By even considering reparations for harms that have compounded for centuries, California is transforming what has been a largely theoretical concept into a detailed model that may be adopted elsewhere as others al...

Juvenile dies in fatal pedestrian collision in San Jose

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:36:00 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) -- A juvenile is dead following a fatal collision early Wednesday morning, according to the San Jose Police Department. Fremont deaths of woman, 2 children ruled murder-suicide: police Just before 1 a.m., a collision involving a vehicle and a pedestrian occurred in the 2400 block of Rinconada Drive. The area was partially closed for several hours during the investigation, police said. KRON On is streaming news live now.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }This incident marks the city's 19th fatal collision and 12th pedestrian death of the year.

Semi-truck overturns on Hwy 92 in Foster City

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:36:00 GMT

FOSTER CITY, Calif. (KRON) – All lanes are reopened after a semi-truck overturned early Wednesday morning on Highway 92 causing several packages to fall out.  Juvenile dies in fatal pedestrian collision in San Jose Around 2 a.m., the driver of the semi-truck was driving westbound on Hwy 92 at Foster City Boulevard when they lost control of the truck. The vehicle eventually flipped over onto its side causing several packages to spill out onto the highway.KRON On is streaming news live now.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }The driver was not injured and all packages were loaded back onto the semi-truck. The cause of the incident is currently under investigation.

San Jose fatal stabbing suspect in custody 

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:36:00 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) – The San Jose Police Department arrested a woman who was identified as a person of interest in the fatal stabbing of a man on Sunday. Harrowing details of San Jose and Milpitas killing rampage released Christy Herrera was identified and taken into custody without incident. San Jose police say Herrera and the victim knew each other. She was booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail and is facing a charge of homicide. The identity of the victim will be released by the Santa Clara County’s Coroner’s Office once next of kin is notified. This fatal incident marks the city’s 15th homicide.KRON On is streaming news live now.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }The motive of the stabbing is currently under investigation.

Iga Swiatek beats Coco Gauff to reach French Open semifinals

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:36:00 GMT

PARIS (AP) — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek kept her French Open title defense on track with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Coco Gauff to reach the semifinals on Wednesday.In a rematch of last year’s final, Swiatek recorded another straight-set victory over the American and will next face Beatriz Haddad Maia as she chases her third trophy at the clay-court major.The 19-year-old Gauff fell to 0-7 against Swiatek, and the Floridian has yet to take a set against her. Swiatek, a 22-year-old Pole, won 6-1, 6-3 in last year’s final.Earlier on Court Philippe Chatrier, Haddad Maia scored another comeback win, upsetting Ons Jabeur 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-1 to become the first Brazilian woman since 1968 to reach a Grand Slam semifinal.The 14th-seeded Haddad Maia, who served a 10-month suspension for failing a doping test in 2019, shook off a slow start against the seventh-seeded Jabeur.After playing nearly four hours to beat Sara Sorribes Tormo in the fourth round, Haddad Maia won only one of her service games in t...

CNN head Chris Licht out after brief, tumultuous tenure at the news network, reports say

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:36:00 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — CNN head Chris Licht out after brief, tumultuous tenure at the news network, reports say.Source

Activist’s fight against segregation evolved into political action to push for voting rights

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:36:00 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Norman Hill was at the AFL-CIO office in Washington, D.C., in August 1965, and recalls cheering when he learned the Voting Rights Act had passed Congress. He then took a moment to remember the people “who were killed, literally, struggling to try to get Blacks registered to vote.”Now 90, Hill started working in the Civil Rights Movement with the NAACP in Chicago before joining the Congress of Racial Equality in the early 1960s to work on its Route 40 Project.Route 40 was the major corridor between Washington, D.C., and New York, but many restaurants along the highway in Maryland and Delaware served whites only. CORE staged sit-ins and was preparing a massive motorcade to fight the practice when several restaurants relented and desegregated.That prompted the Maryland Legislature to pass a public accommodations law in 1963 banning discrimination in hotels and restaurants, becoming the first state below the Mason-Dixon Line to do so.Hill then helped coordinate the March...

Voting rights marcher recalls being clubbed, hearing fatal gunshot during pivotal day of protests

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:36:00 GMT

MARION, Ala. (AP) — Della Simpson Maynor was just 14 when she marched for voting rights in her hometown of Marion, Alabama. Her most distinct memory of that evening is of the police attacking the demonstrators.She recalls one officer, on horseback, swinging at her head with a club.“I remember going up with my elbow, trying to protect my head,” she said, pointing to the place where the club cracked down on her arm. “They didn’t care who they hit — children, women. I remember a lady, she was pregnant.”The Feb. 18, 1965, march ended with the shooting of a young activist and set in motion events that galvanized support for Congress passing the Voting Rights Act later that year.The group had gathered to walk from Zion Methodist Church to the nearby jail to protest the arrest of James Orange, a leader in the civil rights movement. There was a rumor that white people in the town planned to lynch Orange that night to send a message.Maynor had wiggled her way near the front of the line, but ...

13-year-old endangered runaway missing out of Jeffco

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:36:00 GMT

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) -- Jefferson County Sheriff's Office is searching for a 13-year-old endangered runaway.Lauren Thompson left her house in south Jeffco at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday and was last seen at the Denny's at West Hampden Avenue and South Wadsworth Boulevard at 12:30 a.m.She is described as 5 feet, 5 inches tall, 115 pounds with red hair and blue eyes. She was wearing a white hooded sweatshirt, grey sweatpants and was carrying a dark-colored backpack.Jeffco asks that anyone who sees her contacts law enforcement immediately.