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By The Associated Press NEW YORK — James Michael Tyler, the actor known widely for his recurring role as Gunther on “Friends,” has died. He was 59. Tyler died Sunday at home in Los Angeles from prostate cancer, said his manager, Toni Benson. Tyler was first diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in 2018. “The world […]
Evacuations have been ordered in San Mateo County and Santa Cruz County because of the risk of debris flows amid Sunday’s heavy rain. The evacuation zones — in red on the map above — are in areas where slopes were denuded by last year’s CZU Complex wildfire. They include Loma Mar, Dearborn Park, Big Basin, […]
By LISA MASCARO and HOPE YEN WASHINGTON (AP) — Pivotal Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin appears to be on board with White House proposals for new taxes on billionaires and certain corporations to help pay for President Joe Biden’s scaled-back social services and climate change package. Biden huddled with the conservative West Virginia Democrat and Senate […]
By Mark Thiessen | Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Alabama native whom a judge alleged was “leading the charge” during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was denied release Thursday in an Alaska courtroom while his case proceeds. Christian Matthew Manley then waived his right to preliminary hearing and asked that he […]
SAN JOSE — The Sharks on Sunday traded Dylan Gambrell to the Ottawa Senators for a 2022 seventh-round draft pick that was originally their own. Gambrell, 25, was the Sharks’ second-round draft pick in 2016. He had 45 points in 51 games for the Barracuda in 2018-19, and played 110 games for the Sharks over […]
Sanya Kamidi | The Baltimore Sun BALTIMORE — Eight people were shot in Baltimore this weekend, including four fatally, according to the Baltimore Police Department. Most recently, just before 4:30 p.m. Sunday, police responded to the 300 block of S. Fulton Ave. in Carrollton Ridge for a shooting detected by the city’s ShotSpotter devices. A […]
The 49ers opened their first drive Sunday night against the Colts with a short bootleg pass from a two-gloved Jimmy Garoppolo to Deebo Samuel in an apparent effort to prove they wouldn’t cave to the rainy conditions in Santa Clara. But sloppy play and turnovers by both teams in the first half showed just how […]
SACRAMENTO — The Warriors have been very clear: Andre Iguodala isn’t going to play all 82 games. His first night off came in the third game of the season, Sunday against the Kings. Iguodala, 37, continues to nurse a sore left hip that he bruised on a hard fall in the fourth quarter of the […]
RICHMOND — A process upset unit at the Chevron refinery Sunday sent flames, smoke and foul odors into rain-soaked West Contra Costa County skies. A Richmond city public-safety alert sent at 9:06 a.m. said excess flaring began at the refinery at 8:25 a.m. and was ongoing. Social-media reports from observers took note of the flaring. Here’s […]
The first major storm of the year pummeled the Bay Area and beyond with massive rain and wind on Sunday. The storm downed trees and utility lines, left more than 130,000 households and businesses without power and prompted evacuation orders in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties amid the growing risk of flooding. The “atmospheric […]