San Jose Airport passenger trips cruise to higher levels in July
Despite robust upswing, San Jose airport remains well below pre-COVID heights SAN JOSE, Calif. — As it struggles to recover from the effects of the coronavirus, San Jose International Airport handled at least 1 million passengers for the fourth month in a row. In July, the South Bay aviation hub served nearly 1.15 million passengers,…
UC Riverside professor resigns over ‘pretendian’ claims, but will keep teaching for another year
‘Academia has become a pretendian factory,’ says Jacquelyn Keeler, a journalist and citizen of Navajo Nation Following a complaint from 13 faculty members, an ethnic studies professor at UC Riverside whose claims of Cherokee ancestry have been called into question for 15 years and sparked public outrage has agreed to resign. Andrea Smith will be…
Mariners rally past A’s, 5-4, as Seattle finishes with best month in team history
SEATTLE (AP) — On Wednesday afternoon, the Oakland A’s nearly matched their best month of the season. Instead, it was their opponent, the Seattle Mariners, who wished August would never end after rallying to defeat the A’s 5-4. “Isn’t there like 60 days in August?” “I wish there was,” joked Mariners manager Scott Servais. “What…
San Jose risks penalties after plan to add more than 60,000 new homes fails to meet state requirements
San Jose is the last of the big Bay Area cities without a final housing plan California regulators say San Jose’s proposal to build more than 60,000 new homes over the next decade is inadequate, leaving the city as the only one of the Bay Area’s three largest cities without a finalized state-mandated housing plan.…
Oakland A’s prospect Soderstrom back in the majors as MLB rosters expand for September
Tyler Soderstrom is back after eight games at Triple-A; season-ending surgery for rotation hopeful On Friday, the A’s recalled top prospect Tyler Soderstrom and left-hander Sam Long as teams increased their rosters from 26 to 28 players. Soderstrom did not start the first game of the A’s weekend homestand against the Los Angeles Angels, but…
Inside an FBI interrogation room: Here’s what happened after a Boogaloo follower showed up to confess role in Oakland federal cop killing
When the FBI turned up the heat, he pled stupidity Robert Alvin Justus Jr. had had enough. He needed the FBI to help him get something off his chest. Justus had driven an unmarked white van past the federal building in Oakland two weeks earlier, in May 2020, while his acquaintance, a U.S. Air Force…
Alleged Pittsburg gang member convicted of killing teen in drive-by shooting
Shooting was over Bully Boys/Midtown Rivalry — MARTINEZ A Contra Costa jury convicted a 20-year-old man of murder and conspiracy in the shooting death of a 17-year-old boy in a case that was partly based on messages between gang members in an Instagram group chat. Anthony McCoy was convicted Thursday of murder and conspiracy to…
Two dead, three injured in three separate Oakland shootings
The two people killed in unrelated shootings were 40-year-old women, according to authorities OAKLAND, Calif. — According to authorities, two women were killed and three others were injured in three separate Oakland shootings on Wednesday night and early Thursday morning. The first incident occurred around 4:30 p.m. on Linden Street in West Oakland’s 90 block.…
The CFB Hot 25 rankings: The most influential (behind-the-scenes) people in the sport, from media executives to labor lawyers
We included conference commissioners but not coaches or ADs Welcome to the Hotline’s first Hot 25 ranking, a look at the 25 most influential people in college football with a twist. Behind the scenes, these are the key players. With one exception, athletic directors, coaches, players, and front-facing media members were not considered. Did we…
