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Series of Bay Area robberies target postal workers

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:13:50 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – There are growing concerns after a series of robberies involving Bay Area postal workers. In one incident in San Francisco, a mail carrier was beaten before having their postal keys stolen.The thefts are threatening not only the workers but also the people getting the mail. The postal service inspector for the Bay Area says these crimes targeting mail carriers have become outrageous and alarming. Car crashes into Round Table Pizza in Hayward after road rage incident: police The robbers’ main target is usually the postal keys, which open up mailboxes, allowing the criminals to sift through or steal items. But the postal inspection service does have some tips to help keep your information out of the wrong hands.“Threatening violence against anyone who’s trying to do their job, certainly someone like a letter carrier who is such a vital member of the community, this is outrageous and unacceptable,” said U.S. postal inspector Matthew Norfleet. Norfleet says...

Teoscar Hernandez’s game-winner against former team gives Mariners 3-2 win over Blue Jays

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:13:50 GMT

SEATTLE (AP) — Teoscar Hernández lined a two-out RBI single in the bottom of the ninth to score Jose Caballero and the Seattle Mariners rallied for a 3-2 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night.Hernández jumped on the first pitch from Jordan Romano (4-5) and hit a line drive over the head of George Springer in right field and off the wall, allowing Caballero to jog home with the winning run.Seattle trailed 2-0, but scored once in the seventh, tied the game in the eighth and Hernández’s third hit of the game was the winner in the ninth. It was the eighth time in the past 10 games between the teams that the outcome was decided by either one run or in extra innings, including last year’s AL wild card series.Caballero walked on a 3-2 pitch to open the ninth and was sacrificed to second by J.P. Crawford. Toronto intentionally walked Julio Rodríguez and Caballero moved to third on Eugenio Suarez’s deep fly ball before Hernández’s winning hit.Paul Sewald (3-0) pitche...

Rangers All-Star SS Seager leaves game against former team after spraining right thumb

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:13:50 GMT

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Texas Rangers shortstop Corey Seager left Friday night’s game against the Los Angeles Dodgers after he sprained his right thumb on a headfirst slide to beat out a double in the eighth inning against his former team. Seager was initially called out on right fielder Mookie Betts’ throw from the right-center field gap. The Rangers challenged the play, but Seager was already headed back to the dugout with his right arm hanging low, and the All-Star clearly in discomfort. Manager Bruce Bochy said X-rays on Seager’s thumb were negative. Seager’s right hand jammed awkwardly into the bag as he slid in and reached to beat the tag of second baseman Miguel Rojas.“So I’d put him day to day right now. Obviously, you hate to see that,” Bochy said after the 11-5 loss. “Hopefully he comes in feeling better tomorrow.”The out call was overturned on replay. Josh Smith then came in to run for Seager, who hit his 15th homer in the sixth to put the AL...

Dodgers beat Texas 11-5 in return to Globe Life Field, where they won 2020 World Series; Seager hurt

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:13:50 GMT

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Mookie Betts insists that he didn’t even think about 2020, or hear the loud chants for the visiting team, when the Los Angeles Dodgers returned to Globe Field for the first time since winning a World Series title there.“That’s done and over with,” Betts said. “Great memory. But you know, today we have a different team, different lineup and same results.”Freddie Freeman hit a two-run double and a solo homer before scoring the go-ahead run as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Texas Rangers 11-5 on Friday night, snapping the AL West leaders’ six-game winning streak. J.D. Martinez, in his first season with Los Angeles, had two RBI singles and drew a bases-loaded walk.“We’ve been playing really good baseball for a while now. We came to hit today,” said Freeman, who got a World Series ring with the Braves in 2021 before joining the Dodgers last season. “When all of us are swinging the bats like that, it’s usually a good night for us.”Before beating...

Kyle Tucker hits 3 HRs and drives in 4 runs as the Astros beat the Athletics 6-4

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:13:50 GMT

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Kyle Tucker hit three home runs in a game for the first time in his career and drove in four runs, Alex Bregman also went deep and the Houston Astros beat the Oakland Athletics 6-4 on Friday night.Tucker, who entered the game hitting .351 against left-handers, improved on that from the outset. The 26-year-old right fielder hit a solo homer off A’s starter JP Sears in the first inning that extended his road hitting streak to 18 games. Tucker hit a two-run shot off Sears in the fifth inning and added a solo homer into the right field stands off Tayler Scott in the seventh for his 17th of the season.It was the fifth multi-homer game of Tucker’s career, including playoffs.Houston’s Framber Valdez (8-6), who left his last start due to a left calf cramp, pitched five uneven innings and beat Oakland for the third time this season. The 29-year-old left-hander allowed six hits and four runs with four strikeouts and two walks, helping the Astros win th...

Israeli forces shoot and kill Palestinian motorist after alleged car-ramming attack in West Bank

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:13:50 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces on Saturday shot and killed a Palestinian in disputed circumstances in the northern West Bank — the latest in an ongoing surge of violence that has gripped the region.The Israeli army said in a statement that two Palestinian men tried to drive a car into soldiers at Sebastia near the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, around midnight, but the claim could not be verified. Soldiers opened fire, killing one and wounding the other.The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the young man killed as Fawzi Hani, 18. Palestinian media quoted the victims’ family as saying the two did not target soldiers but that they were ambushed while driving and their car was riddled with bullets.Local media reported that Hani had just passed his high school exams and was in good spirits before the shooting.The shooting came hours after a 17 year old Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire elsewhere in the West Bank.The spiral of violence, which shows no signs of ab...

Spanish general election tipped to put the far right back in office for the first time since Franco

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:13:50 GMT

MADRID (AP) — Voters in Spain go to the polls Sunday in an election that could make the country the latest European Union member to swing to the populist right, a shift that would represent a major upheaval after five years under a left-wing government.Here’s what you need to know about the vote.___WHAT IS AT STAKE?Opinion polls indicate the political right has the edge going into the election, and that raises the possibility a neo-fascist party will be part of Spain’s next government. The extreme right has not been in power in Spain since the transition to democracy following the death of former dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.With no party expected to win an absolute majority, the choice for voters is basically between another leftist governing coalition or one between the right and the far right.The right-of-center Popular Party, the front-runner in the polls, and the extreme right Vox party are on one side. They portray the vote as a chance to end “Sanchismo” — a t...

Ukraine wants ships to keep exporting its grain despite Russian attacks. Some are interested

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:13:50 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Russia has repeatedly fired missiles and drones at Ukrainian ports key to sending grain to the world. Moscow has declared large swaths of the Black Sea dangerous for shipping. Even the U.S. said ships are at risk of being targeted.There is still interest from ship owners in carrying Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea — if they can mitigate the risk, according to a major shipping group. And that’s a big if.Despite the warnings and port attacks, which have leveled grain infrastructure, “shipping has always been very, very resilient in the face of these sorts of risks,” said John Stawpert, senior manager of environment and trade for the International Chamber of Shipping, which represents 80% of the world’s commercial fleet.This week’s strikes came after Russia pulled out of a wartime accord that the U.N. and Turkey brokered last year to provide safeguards for shipping companies in a bid to end a global food crisis. Ukraine — which, along with Russia, is a m...

Temecula school board adopts state curriculum after previously banning book for LGBTQ+ figures

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:13:50 GMT

The Temecula Valley Unified School District voted unanimously to adopt California's new social studies book and curriculum during a Friday meeting after previously rejecting it twice.The board had objected to the book's coverage of LGBTQ+ figures in history. Despite agreeing to adopt the curriculum, the board says it will pull any material referencing gay rights activist Harvey Milk, which was one of the main points of contention.After reviewing options, the board said it may consider replacing the text referencing Milk with the biography of another gay rights leader instead.Emotions were high during the hours-long Friday meeting as both sides presented arguments in favor of the curriculum or against it. The policy's adoption will likely avoid a $1.5 million fine from the state for compliance violations.This follows a previous five-hour Tuesday hearing that saw parents, teachers, and community members debating over the curriculum for elementary school kids. The board later voted 3-2...

Robert Oppenheimer once taught at U.C. Berkeley

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:13:50 GMT

BERKELEY, Calif. (KRON) – The movie “Oppenheimer” debuts in theaters across the country Friday, but few may know that the man behind the world’s first atomic bomb got his start at U.C. Berkeley. Robert Oppenheimer taught physics there when he was recruited by the government to help with war efforts against Nazi Germany.Oppenheimer’s bombs were detonated over Japan causing much suffrage, but he was regarded as a hero for our national security during World War II.Oppenheimer was hired as an assistant professor of physics at U.C. Berkeley in 1929. He was said to have chain-smoked with a cigarette in one hand and a piece of chalk in the other – furiously scribbling equations on a blackboard. Marin theater fully booked as Barbie fever hits Bay Area He was quirky, but his contributions to quantum mechanics were explosive. So much so that the U.S. Government tasked Oppenheimer with creating the first atomic bomb in what is known as the Manhattan Project once word got out that Germany was...