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2 planes aborted landings in San Francisco when a Southwest jet taxied across their runways

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:50:36 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — Two airliners aborted landings at San Francisco International Airport last week after pilots spotted a Southwest Airlines jet taxiing across runways on which the other planes had been cleared to land.An air traffic controller told the Southwest pilots they should not have been on the runways during the May 19 incident.The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday that the Southwest plane cleared the runways when the other planes passed directly overhead, and the decision to abort the landings was “precautionary.”“The FAA looked into the events and determined the appropriate steps were taken to ensure safe operations,” the agency said.The National Transportation Safety Board said it is not investigating the matter.The incident comes after a half-dozen close calls in recent months that are being investigated by safety officials. Those include one in February in which a FedEx plane flew about 100 feet (30 meters) over the top of a Southwest jet in Austin, Texas, aft...

Rave arrival: California woman goes into labor at Electric Daisy Carnival

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:50:36 GMT

By Regina Ahn | KVVULAS VEGAS, Nevada (KVVU) — A woman who was pregnant and not due for weeks had her Electric Daisy Carnival experience cut short. She went into labor at the music festival.”Yeah she decided to come out this weekend,” said Cristina Celis.Celis was enjoying her time at EDC the highlight of her year, she’s gone now for five years. This time it was no different.“We were there for the whole weekend Friday, Saturday. Friday felt fine, Saturday felt completely fine, then just vibing to the music,” she said.At 32 weeks pregnant she was taking it easy, but it was during artist Zedd’s performance, something felt odd.“Out of nowhere on Saturday night I started to get some weird pains, it’s my first baby so I wasn’t sure what I was feeling,” Celis said.After a quick trip to the medic at the rave, she said she was in an ambulance on her way to University Medical Center.“Within not even an hour of everything they transferred me within 30 mins to this hospital and within 15...

Why SF Giants pushed back Logan Webb’s start vs. Brewers

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:50:36 GMT

MILWAUKEE — Instead of their ace, Logan Webb, the Giants opted for a bullpen game Thursday in their first of four games with the Brewers.Webb was lined up to start the series opener on regular rest but will instead get a couple extra days, setting up a pitcher’s duel with Milwaukee’s Cy Young winner, Corbin Burnes, on Saturday. Left-hander Scott Alexander got the nod Thursday, the second time in the past four games the Giants have used an opener.Webb left his last start on Saturday with back tightness, but manager Gabe Kapler downplayed the significance of pushing back his next start.“We just like to give a guy an extra day or two when we can,” Kapler said Wednesday. “We saw what it did for Alex Cobb. We want to repeat that from time to time, give guys an extra day and come out with their best stuff.”It will be Webb’s second time this season pitching on six days’ rest, while Cobb has already done it twice, most recently on his last tur...

Supreme Court limits EPA authority to protect wetlands

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:50:36 GMT

By Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko | Associated PressWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday sharply limited the federal government’s authority to police water pollution into certain wetlands, the second decision in as many years in which a conservative majority narrowed the reach of environmental regulations.The outcome could threaten efforts to control flooding on the Mississippi River and protect the Chesapeake Bay, among many projects, wrote Justice Brett Kavanaugh, breaking with the other five conservatives.The justices boosted property rights over concerns about clean water in a ruling in favor of an Idaho couple who sought to build a house near Priest Lake in the state’s panhandle. Chantell and Michael Sackett objected when federal officials identified a soggy portion of the property as a wetlands that required them to get a permit before filling it with rocks and soil.By a 5-4 vote, the court said in an opinion by Justice Samuel Alito that wetlands can only be...

Debt ceiling talks on the brink as lawmakers leave town

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:50:36 GMT

By LISA MASCARO, STEPHEN GROVES and KEVIN FREKING (Associated Press)WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are pushing debt ceiling talks to the brink, displaying risky political bravado as they prepare to leave town Thursday for the holiday weekend just days before the U.S. could face an unprecedented default that could hurl the global economy into chaos.Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he’s directed his negotiating team “to work 24/7 to solve this problem.”Arriving at the Capitol, McCarthy, R-Calif., said that “every hour matters” in talks with President Joe Biden’s team as they work toward a budget deal. Republican are demanding spending cuts the Democrats oppose, and McCarthy said a deal could come together “at any time.”From the White House, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the president continues to fight for his priorities and “productive discussions” continue. Negotiators met virtually Thursday morning, she said.“We’re fighting against extreme Republican proposals,” she said,...

Oath Keepers leader, guilty of seditious conspiracy, gets 18 years

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:50:36 GMT

By Michael Kunzelman, Alanna Durkin Richer and Lindsay Whitehurst | Associated PressWASHINGTON — The founder of the Oath Keepers extremist group was sentenced Thursday to 18 years in prison for orchestrating a weekslong plot that culminated in his followers attacking the U.S. Capitol in a bid to keep President Joe Biden out of the White House after the 2020 election.Stewart Rhodes is the first person charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack to be sentenced for seditious conspiracy, and his sentence is the longest that has been handed down so far in the hundreds of Capitol riot cases.It’s another milestone for the Justice Department’s sprawling Jan. 6 investigation, which has led to seditious conspiracy convictions against the top leaders of two far-right extremist groups authorities say came to Washington prepared to fight to keep President Donald Trump in power at all costs.Before handing down the sentence, the judge told a defiant Rhodes that he is a continued threat to the...

Gap discloses massive job cuts in East Bay and San Francisco

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:50:36 GMT

PLEASANTON — Gap has revealed the details of massive layoffs that are affecting the jobs of several hundred workers in the Bay Area, along with employees in the Central Valley, official state government filings show.The retailer has decided to chop 700 Bay Area jobs, primarily in San Francisco, but also in Pleasanton, according to WARN letters on file with the state Employment Development Department.Related ArticlesEconomy | Hey, California bosses: 2 workers quit for every 3 you hire Economy | Here’s how AI will change the way we work in the next 25 years Economy | Facebook’s parent company Meta caps rounds of job cuts, offering remaining staff a cold clarity Economy | Nordstrom chops 300-plus jobs as Bay Area store closures loom Economy | 10x Genomics opens new building in Pleasanton expansion Gap’s layoffs include 663 workers in San Francisco and another 37 in Pleasanton, the filings ...

Sale closed in Palo Alto: $2.5 million for a four-bedroom home

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:50:36 GMT

1023 Maddux Drive – Google Street ViewA 1,530-square-foot house built in 1952 has changed hands. The property located in the 1000 block of Maddux Drive in Palo Alto was sold on May 10, 2023. The $2,460,000 purchase price works out to $1,608 per square foot. The property features four bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a garage. There’s also a pool in the backyard and one parking space. The unit sits on a 9,450-square-foot lot.These nearby houses have also recently been purchased:On Otterson Court, Palo Alto, in August 2022, a 1,608-square-foot home was sold for $2,600,000, a price per square foot of $1,617. The home has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.In September 2022, a 1,663-square-foot home on Otterson Court in Palo Alto sold for $2,735,000, a price per square foot of $1,645. The home has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.A 1,355-square-foot home on the 3200 block of Morris Drive in Palo Alto sold in February 2023, for $2,858,000, a price per square foot of $2,109. The home has 3 bedrooms and 1 b...

Poll: Two-thirds of Californians say Feinstein unfit to serve

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:50:36 GMT

Five years ago, California voters blessed their senior U.S. senator with a decisive vote of confidence, sending the then 85-year-old Dianne Feinstein back to the nation’s capital for the sixth time instead of a much younger fellow Democrat.But a poll out Thursday suggests many of those voters now have buyer’s remorse. The Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll found two out of three registered California voters surveyed now say Feinstein, who missed months in the Senate this year due to complications of shingles and reportedly suffers memory lapses, is “no longer fit to continue serving in the U.S. Senate.”Even so, the poll found voters divided over whether Feinstein should remain in office. While the largest proportion, 42%, said Feinstein should resign from the Senate and allow Gov. Gavin Newsom to appoint a successor, 27% said she should continue serving and 31% were undecided.“The poll clearly shows that while support for Senator Feinstein ...

Kim Kardashian claims she’s protecting kids while slamming Kanye West on show

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:50:36 GMT

In the Season 3 premiere of her family’s Hulu show, “The Kardashians,” Kim Kardashian goes on about how she’s focused on protecting her children’s relationship with their father Kanye West, so that’s why she always talks positively about him in their presence and refused to comment publicly on his social media “shenanigans” last year.The “shenanigans” Kardashian apparently is referring to are the attacks West made against her as they were going through their divorce — accusing her of being unfaithful in their marriage and a bad mother because she once made a sex tape, according to Rolling Stone. The shapewear mogul also appears to be referring to the series of offensive, hateful remarks the rapper made in late 2022 about Jewish people, including when he proclaimed in an interview with Alex Jones: “I like Hitler.”But it seems that Kardashian is undercutting her claims of protecting their four children by op...