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Fruit-fly quarantine will cover large portion of Santa Clara County through mid-2024

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:49:48 GMT

SANTA CLARA COUNTY — The detection of eight oriental fruit flies in Santa Clara County has prompted officials to declare a quarantine of homegrown fruits and vegetables in portions of the area through mid-2024.The oriental fruit flies, an invasive pest native to Asia, are known to burrow themselves into hundreds of fruits, rendering them inedible, according to a news release from the county. Among the fruits most susceptible to the pest are key California crops like avocados, apples, citrus fruits, tomatoes and peppers.“It would be disastrous for the oriental fruit fly to get established in Santa Clara County and California,” county Agricultural Commissioner Joe Deviney said in the statement. “We all need to be vigilant in protecting our agricultural and natural resources. Please do not bring or ship any fruits, vegetables or plants into California without ensuring they are permitted by law.”In efforts to prevent the spread of the flies, the quarantine covers a 112-square-mile area ...

San Mateo County: Driver charged with manslaughter in wrong-way crash that killed two

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:49:48 GMT

SAN MATEO COUNTY — Prosecutors have charged an Australian man with two counts of vehicular manslaughter after a deadly crash last week in which he was allegedly driving on the wrong side of the road on Highway 84 near La Honda.Luke Nardini, 31, was driving eastbound in the westbound lane of Highway 84 around 5 p.m. Friday evening when he collided with a Ford Taurus carrying four passengers, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.A male backseat passenger was pronounced dead at the scene, while the other backseat passenger, a woman, died later at a hospital. The two other passengers were injured; their condition was not known Wednesday.Killed in the crash were Jack Davis and Linda Davis, both of whom were 80 and living in La Honda, according to the San Mateo County coroner’s office.Nardini, who was driving a BMW M4, encountered a road closure of the eastbound lane, according to prosecutors; once he passed the closure, they said, he “(forgot) to...

Police in standoff with armed suspect near SF high school

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:49:48 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A road near a high school is blocked off due to a police standoff Wednesday afternoon, the San Francisco Police Department said. Around 12:22 p.m., SFFD responded to a suspect who had a gun inside their vehicle near Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory (SHCP) high school.Police are currently negotiating with the suspect near Eddy Street and Franklin Street. Officers are trying to get the suspect to surrender. The public is asked to avoid the area at this time as this is an active scene. Eddy and Franklin are one block away from SHCP.This story will be updated. Check back as KRON4 learns more.

An Idaho woman convicted of killing two of her children and another woman is appealing the case

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:49:48 GMT

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A woman sentenced to life in prison in the murders of her two youngest children and a woman she saw as a romantic rival says she will appeal her conviction to the Idaho Supreme Court. Attorneys for Lori Vallow Daybell filed a notice of appeal last week. She will ask the Idaho Supreme Court to consider several issues, including whether the judge in her case wrongly found her competent to stand trial. The judge had ordered Vallow Daybell to undergo mental health treatment. She spent roughly 10 months in a mental hospital before he declared her competent. She’ll also argue that her right to a speedy trial was violated and that there were problems with jury selection, evidence and other procedural issues, the documents show. The criminal case against Vallow Daybell, 50, was complex and included claims that she called her son and daughter zombies and believed she was a goddess tasked with ushering in an apocalypse. A jury found Vallow Daybell guilty in May of ki...

Tenor Stephen Gould says he has been diagnosed with incurable bile duct cancer

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:49:48 GMT

Tenor Stephen Gould, 61, says he has been diagnosed with incurable bile duct cancer.Gould withdrew this summer from the Bayreuth Festival in Germany, where he was to have sung the title roles in “Tannhäuser” and “Tristan und Isolde” and Siegfried in “Götterdämmerung.”Gould said in a statement Wednesday that he has bile duct cancer with complications. He said it is fatal with “an outlook of several months to 10 months,” he wrote. “There is no cure.”Gould said he made the announcement after the Bayreuth Festival ended last week because “I did not wish anything to cloud this years achievements.”Gould was born in Virginia and has sung in many of the world’s major opera houses.According to the Mayo Clinic, biliary tract cancer often doesn’t cause any symptoms in the early stages. It’s often discovered by accident — for example, through routine blood tests or imaging done for an unrelated reason.Source

Phreesia: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:49:48 GMT

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Phreesia Inc. (PHR) on Wednesday reported a loss of $36.8 million in its fiscal second quarter.The Wilmington, Delaware-based company said it had a loss of 68 cents per share.The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 75 cents per share.The developer of health care software posted revenue of $85.8 million in the period, which also beat Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $84.8 million.Phreesia expects full-year revenue in the range of $353 million to $356 million._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on PHR at https://www.zacks.com/ap/PHRSource

Pennsylvania murderer escaped by scaling a wall topped with razor wire, prison official says

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:49:48 GMT

This photo provided by the Chester County Prison shows Danelo Cavalcante. Cavalcante, convicted this month of fatally stabbing his girlfriend escaped Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023 from the suburban Philadelphia prison and prosecutors say he is also wanted in his native Brazil in a separate slaying. (Chester County Prison via AP) This photo provided by the Chester County Prison shows Danelo Cavalcante. Cavalcante, convicted this month of fatally stabbing his girlfriend escaped Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023 from the suburban Philadelphia prison and prosecutors say he is also wanted in his native Brazil in a separate slaying. (Chester County Prison via AP) WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — A murderer on the loose in suburban Philadelphia...

Movie Review: Pinochet as a vampire in surreal, frightening ‘El Conde’

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:49:48 GMT

The Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is not dead in Pablo Larraín’s “El Conde.” He is instead a 250-year-old vampire living in semi-exile and wishing for death in this audacious allegory about history’s tendency to repeat itself, shot in sublime, otherworldly black and white.It is fitting that the film, in theaters Friday and on Netflix Sept. 15, is being released around the 50-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 1973 coup which brought Pinochet to power for almost 17 years. Pinochet’s regime tortured, killed and disappeared 3,065 people in the name of fighting communism, but for some in Chile the legacy is now remembered as not all bad.Evil ideas, Larraín cautions, have a tendency to live on, to mutate and to infect societies again and again even many years after they’re supposedly dispelled and destroyed. Kind of like vampires living in stark, hellish exile as greedy heirs circulate to try to claim what’s theirs and keep the money flowing.Larraín, the 47-year-old filmmaker behind “...

Flooding in southern Brazil leaves at least 31 dead and 2,300 homeless

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:49:48 GMT

MUCUM, Brazil (AP) — Flooding from a cyclone in southern Brazil washed away houses, trapped motorists in vehicles and swamped streets in several cities, killing at least 31 people and leaving 2,300 homeless, authorities said Wednesday. More than 60 cities have been battered since Monday night by the storm, which has been Rio Grande do Sul state’s deadliest, Gov. Eduardo Leite said.“The fly-over we just did, shows the dimension of an absolutely out of the ordinary event,” Leite said in a video posted on the state’s social media accounts. “It wasn’t just riverside communities that were hit, but entire cities that were completely compromised.”Videos shot by rescue teams Tuesday and published by the online news site G1 had shown some families on the top of their houses pleading for help as rivers overflowed their banks. Some areas were entirely cut off after wide avenues turned into fast-moving rivers.Leite said Wednesday that the death toll had reached 31, and state emergen...

Messi and Bonmati lead Ballon d’Or nominee lists, Ronaldo misses cut

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:49:48 GMT

PARIS (AP) — Seven-time Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi is back in contention for the prestigious award a year being omitted from the nomination list, which this time doesn’t include longtime rival Cristiano Ronaldo.Messi, who led Argentina to the World Cup title in December, was named on Wednesday to the 30-man list of nominees along with Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappé for the prestigious award.Ronaldo, a five-time winner who now plays for Al-Nassr in Saudi Arabia, didn’t make the cut for the first time since 2003.The winner will be announced in Paris on Oct. 30.France Football magazine has given out the award to men every year since 1956 and to women each year since 2018 — when Ada Hegerberg became the first female winner — though both were canceled in 2020 because of the pandemic.Aitana Bonmati, who last week was named the UEFA women’s player of the year, is one of six female nominees from Spain, most of whom played for the team that won the Women’s World Cup.“Grate...