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Antioch city manager names next acting police chief

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:18:53 GMT

ANTIOCH — Acting Police Capt. Joe Vigil has been named the temporary head of Antioch’s police force following the chief’s retirement.Acting City Manager Kwame Reed made the announcement in an email on Monday evening. Vigil’s appointment as acting chief becomes effective on Aug. 12.Vigil will replace Antioch Police Chief Steven Ford, who announced in late July that he was retiring on Aug. 11 after less than one year in the permanent position.Vigil was one of four internal candidates Reed interviewed for the top job.“He’s done a lot in his career,” said Reed, noting that Vigil earned a master’s degree in emergency service administration from California State University, Long Beach.A 23-year veteran of law enforcement, Vigil joined the Antioch Police Department in May of 2020 and was recently promoted to captain, the highest ranking position under police chief.When hired, Vigil brought Antioch’s rank numbers up to 115, the first time the department had been fully staffed si...

Former SF Giants manager wants to reel in fish, and wins, in return to Bay Area

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:18:53 GMT

OAKLAND – Texas Rangers manager Bruce Bochy, like many visitors to the region, has a busy week ahead in the Bay Area. There are places to see and people to visit, and many conversations to be had.Of greatest interest to local baseball fans, though, will be Bochy’s return to Oracle Park in San Francisco on Friday when the Rangers begin a series against the Giants.It’ll be the first time Bochy manages a game at China Basin since he stepped down as San Francisco’s manager in 2019 after winning three World Series titles in 13 years at the helm.But before that series begins, and after the Rangers’ three-game series with the A’s at the Coliseum is over. Bochy plans on enjoying some peace and quiet with a rod and reel in his hands during Thursday’s day off.“I’ve got a lot of friends to see, but I don’t have many (I can see on my day off),” Bochy said before Monday’s A’s-Rangers series opener. “I might be out on the water fishing. That’s kind of my plan right now.”Texas Rangers manage...

¿Qué le pasó a María Fernanda Sánchez, la mexicana que murió en Berlín?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:18:53 GMT

(CNN Español) — María Fernanda Sánchez Castañeda, la estudiante mexicana de 24 años que desapareció en la ciudad de Berlín a finales de julio, fue hallada sin vida el sábado 5 de agosto en un canal de la capital de Alemania, según confirmaron autoridades mexicanas y alemanas.La joven se había mudado a Berlín hacía cinco meses. Allí había comenzado un máster en Diseño de Nuevos Medios en la Universidad Europea de Ciencias Aplicadas (UE).¿Qué fue lo que pasó? La investigación del caso sigue en curso. A continuación, te presentamos lo que se sabe hasta el momento.La desaparición de María Fernanda SánchezEl primer reporte oficial de la desaparición de Sánchez lo hizo la Policía de Berlín.En un mensaje de Twitter publicado el martes 25 de julio, la institución comentó que la estudiante desapareció tres días antes, el 22 de julio, luego de salir de su residencia: “María Fernanda SC, de 24 años, salió de su apartamento en #Treptow-#Köpenick el 22/07/23 y ha estado desaparecida ...

Raonic edges Tiafoe in an epic first-round match at Toronto tournament

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:18:53 GMT

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s Milos Raonic beat American Frances Tiafoe 6-7 (12), 7-6 (4), 6-3 in an epic first-round match Monday night at the National Bank Open.The ninth-seeded Tiafoe outlasted the Canadian in a 20-minute tiebreaker in the first set.But Raonic, who grew up in nearby Thornhill, Ontario, took the second set in a tiebreaker and went on to complete the victory in 2 hours, 44 minutes.This is Raonic’s third tournament appearance since returning to the ATP Tour in June after an injury absence of nearly two years.Vasek Pospisil of Vernon, British Columbia, was scheduled to play Italy’s Matteo Arnaldi in the late match.___AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennisSource

Pac-12’s downfall came after it could not adjust to changing media landscape

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:18:53 GMT

Larry Scott boasted five years ago that the Pac-12 Conference would be able “to adapt, react and take advantage of this new world media order that’s coming in a way others can’t.”As it turns out, Scott’s statement instead ended up reflecting what rival conferences and commissioners did.Scott didn’t have a chance to negotiate a second Pac-12 media deal. He stepped down as commissioner in 2021 and his successor, George Kliavkoff, didn’t land the deal the conference needed.Last week’s Pac-12 collapse, which saw five of the remaining nine members announce they were leaving the “Conference of Champions” for either the Big Ten or the Big 12, drove home in a dramatic way two points: football drives college athletics and there are limits to what the media market will pay for content.“I think this was a factor of timing and potential media partners not being willing to provide the right fees that the conference and the institutions wanted,” said Tag Garson, senior vic...

Biggio’s homer sends Blue Jays to 3-1 win over Guardians after Ryu exits with knee injury

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:18:53 GMT

CLEVELAND (AP) — Cavan Biggio hit a two-run homer to break a scoreless tie in the eighth inning after Toronto lost starting pitcher Hyun Jin Ryu to a knee injury, lifting the Blue Jays to a 3-1 victory over the Cleveland Guardians on Monday night.Biggio’s 415-foot drive to center field came off reliever Enyel De Los Santos (4-2) and scored Daulton Varsho. Toronto had been held to one hit over the first seven innings by Guardians rookie Gavin Williams, who struck out a season-high 12.Ryu was struck on the right kneecap by Oscar Gonzalez’s line drive that turned into the final out of the fourth, forcing him to exit with a bruised knee in his second start since undergoing Tommy John surgery in June 2022.The 36-year-old left-hander tossed four hitless innings but was removed to start the fifth.Cleveland pulled to 2-1 in the bottom of the eighth when Bo Naylor singled in Brayan Rocchio, but Toronto answered in the ninth with George Springer’s RBI single that scored Brandon Be...

The Tory heartlands where Liz Truss’ name is mud and ‘Boris’ is a dirty word

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:18:53 GMT

ST ALBANS, England — For decades they were U.K. Conservative heartlands; the prim, middle-class shires of southern England which voted Tory come what may.But such has been the ruling Conservatives’ slump in popularity following a prolonged period of chaos at Westminster that strategists believe this so-called Blue Wall of Tory seats may at last be about to fall.“We’re in a situation where approval of the government’s performance, and views of the Conservative party as a whole, are so negative that many of these seats — a good number of which saw 10,000-plus majorities in 2019 — are easily in play,” said Philip van Scheltinga, a pollster for Redfield and Wilton Strategies.During a week spent touring these true-blue Conservative seats, POLITICO spoke to MPs on the ground about the local and national pressures that will feed into the next general election, expected in 2024.The disastrous final stages of Boris Johnson’s premiership — followed by the brief Liz Tru...

Ukraine declares war on Russia’s Black Sea shipping

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:18:53 GMT

Russian ports and ships on the Black Sea — including tankers carrying millions of barrels of oil to Europe — could justifiably be attacked by the Ukrainian military as part of efforts to weaken Moscow’s war machine, a senior Kyiv official warned Monday in the wake of two recent attacks on Russian vessels.“Everything the Russians are moving back and forth on the Black Sea are our valid military targets,” Oleg Ustenko, an economic adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, told POLITICO, saying the move was retaliation for Russia withdrawing from the U.N.-brokered Black Sea grain deal and unleashing a series of missile attacks on agricultural stores and ports. “This story started with Russia blocking the grain corridor, threatening to attack our vessels, destroying our ports,” Ustenko said. “Our maritime infrastructure is under constant attack.”Over the weekend, Ukraine declared the waters around Russia’s Black Sea ports a “war risk area” from August 2...

Drug-resistant killer bugs linked to air pollution, top scientists say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:18:53 GMT

As if air pollution wasn’t deadly enough.Now new research suggests tiny airborne pollutants may be linked to higher rates of drug-resistant lethal bacteria.In the study, researchers from Zhejiang University, China and the University of Cambridge, England, concluded that air pollution is one of the leading factors driving antimicrobial resistance (AMR) after compiling data from 116 countries between 2000 and 2018, with more than 11.5 million lab test results covering nine bacterial pathogens and 43 types of antibiotics. The world is battling to combat the growing threat from antimicrobial resistance — a phenomenon caused by bugs such as bacteria, fungi and parasites evolving to survive against drug treatments. Without effective antibiotics, routine operations and previously minor infections, for example, could once again turn deadly. “Our analysis presents strong evidence that increasing levels of air pollution are associated with increased risk of antibiotic resistance,” said the au...

Stick with net zero, Tory voters tell Sunak

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:18:53 GMT

LONDON — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been under pressure ever since he watered down government rhetoric on net zero targets — from campaigners, industry leaders, and his own warring MPs. Now he faces a challenge on another front: his own voters. Even as the Tories prevaricate on key climate policies, new polling shows that voters planning to support the Conservative Party at the next election overwhelmingly back the government’s target of reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050.Around two thirds of all voters support the 2050 deadline, with support among Conservative voters slightly higher at 73 percent, according to a poll from the research company Focaldata, alongside the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) think tank. The data comes as the government continues to shift its tone on green policies, more than a fortnight after the Conservatives narrowly clung onto their Uxbridge seat in a by-election by campaigning against the expansion of an anti-air pollution sc...