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Historic Big Sur property, once owned by William Randolph Hearst, to get new owners

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:04 GMT

BIG SUR — It may be one of the most scenic Boy Scout camps in America — a rustic collection of cabins and campsites, with a dining hall, waterfalls, hiking trails, a rifle range and an outdoor amphitheater, all nestled under towering redwood trees on 718 acres in the Big Sur wilderness.Newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst hunted and fished here in the 1920s and 30s, then donated the property to the Boy Scouts in 1948, allowing thousands of children to enjoy it for generations.Now, 75 years later, Camp Pico Blanco is about to change hands in a deal that supporters hope will usher in a new generation of campers and return much of the property to the ancestors of its original inhabitants.The Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council of the Boy Scouts, based in San Jose, has agreed to sell the historic property to the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County, and two nonprofit groups: Camping Unlimited, which runs programs for disabled children, and White Stag Youth Leadership Development Academy,...

49ers’ Brock Purdy finally has a bad game vs. Browns. It’s amazing it took so long

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:04 GMT

We temporarily interrupt the Brock Purdy fairy tale with a dose of harsh reality, courtesy of the Cleveland Browns.The 49ers’ second-year quarterback fell to earth with a 12-for-27, 125-yard performance that included a shovel pass touchdown to Christian McCaffrey, his first interception in 248 passes, and a skittery, off-rhythm performance that in no way resembled the previous 12 starts and victories in which he went wire to wire.Purdy even had the ball slip out of his hand and fall to the turf on one pass attempt. He recovered his own fumble.Coming off his best game with a 144.4 passer rating and four touchdown passes against Dallas, Purdy bottomed out with a 55.3 rating. He’d never before been below 87.4.More amazing than the drop-off in performance was that it took so long to happen. Bad games happen to every quarterback who has ever played, including Joe Montana, Kurt Warner or any one of the number of legends to whom Purdy has been compared in recent weeks.And even ...

East Bay man arrested for wrong-way intoxicated driver after Highway 101 crash

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:04 GMT

Police arrested a man on suspicion of intoxicated driving Friday after he allegedly went the wrong way on Highway 101 and struck a vehicle near Sausalito.The investigation started at about 12:15 a.m., when police received a report of a potentially drunken driver heading north on the Golden Gate Bridge in a Land Rover Range Rover, said Officer Darrel Horner of the California Highway Patrol.A short time later, the Land Rover went south in the northbound lanes and crashed into a Honda CRV. Based on witness accounts, police think the driver of the Land Rover might have entered the wrong lanes from the Seminary Drive exit in Strawberry, Horner said.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | East Oakland shooting leaves teenager dead on Saturday night Crime and Public Safety | Shooting leaves another man dead in Oakland, the 101st homicide this year Crime and Public Safety | Man fatally shot in Oakland’s 100th homicide of the year Crime...

Marin County to expand involuntary medication of jail inmates

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:04 GMT

Marin County plans to expand a program that allows medications to be administered to jail inmates against their will.Last fall, the Board of Supervisors allowed court-ordered medications to be given to inmates who have been deemed incompetent to stand trial — without their consent, if necessary. Prior to the authorization, inmates had to remain in jail for months until a bed became available at a state hospital.Involuntary medication has been allowed since the passage of Senate Bill 568 in 2007. When Marin supervisors gave their approval, several other Northern California counties — Contra Costa, Sonoma, Solano and Napa — were already making use of the law.On Tuesday, the supervisors received a report from Behavioral Health and Recovery Services, a division of the Marin County Department of Health and Human Services, on how the first year of implementation has gone. Michelle Funez Arteaga, a division director, briefed supervisors on plans to expand the program beyond inmates who hav...

Rite Aid files for bankruptcy, will close more stores

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:04 GMT

By Amelia Pollard and Ameya Karve | BloombergUS pharmacy chain Rite Aid Corp. filed for bankruptcy as it looks to restructure debts, and said it will shutter more stores.As part of a court-supervised process, Rite Aid received a commitment for $3.45 billion in new financing from certain lenders, it said in a statement, without elaborating. It also said it clinched a restructuring deal with holders of its senior secured notes and also appointed Jeffrey S. Stein as chief executive officer, citing his expertise in turning around companies.“This financing is expected to provide sufficient liquidity to support the company throughout this process,” it said in a statement.The Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based chain has been laboring under more than $3 billion of long-term borrowings. The situation worsened after the US government claim it filled unlawful prescriptions for opioid painkillers.Junk-Rated S&P Global Ratings cut the retailer further into junk in August, citing a large debt l...

Surfer suffers injuries from possible shark attack in Pacifica

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:04 GMT

(KRON) -- Emergency personnel responded to a reported shark attack on a surfer at Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica on Friday, according to the Pacifica Police Department.A 52-year-old man, who had been surfing at Linda Mar Beach, told officers at the scene something bit his lower leg. The surfer didn’t see what caused his injuries and could not confirm it was a shark, police said.The man was able to get out of the water on his own accord and call for medical assistance. Pacifica police, North County Fire Authority and AMR were dispatched, and the surfer was transported to a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.Anyone with information is asked to contact the Pacifica Police Department at (650)-359-4444.

Newsom approves 'Melanie's Law' requiring fentanyl safety plans in California schools

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:04 GMT

(BCN) -- Middle and high school students across California will be protected by a new law requiring life-saving prevention and response resources for fentanyl overdoses under legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday. Newsom announced on Friday that he had signed Senate Bill 10 or Melanie's Law, introduced by Sen. Dave Cortese, D-San Jose, which aims to prevent and respond to youth fentanyl overdoses through mandated school safety plans requiring prevention, response, training, education and awareness. Senator Laphonza Butler tests positive for COVID According to Cortese's office, fentanyl is responsible for one in five youth deaths in California. It added that in Santa Clara County, fentanyl deaths spiked by 863 percent between 2018 and 2021.SB 10 mandates that every public school in California provide training to school employees on opioid prevention and life-saving response under a formal plan known as a Comprehensive School Safety Plan, or CSSP. Additionally, the bill ...

7 activists in Norway meet with the king to discuss a wind farm that is on land used by Sami herders

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:04 GMT

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Seven of the activists who repeatedly have demonstrated against a wind farm in central Norway that they say hinders the rights of the Sami Indigenous people to raise reindeer met with the Norwegian king on Monday and his son who is heir to the throne.”It was a very strong moment for us — emotionally charged,” activist Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen told the VG newspaper after the meeting with King Harald and Crown Prince Haakon at the royal palace in Oslo. “We experienced not only being believed, but a human meeting with someone who really meets people with compassion and sympathy.””It makes a world of difference in the face of this state, which is so strong and arrogant and difficult to talk to,” she told the daily.Before the meeting, another activist told Norwegian news agency NTB that “we have nowhere else to go.” “We hope his majesty will listen to us and remind the responsible state of its responsibility,” Elle Nystad said.At the center of the dispute are t...

A British man pleads guilty to Islamic State-related terrorism charges

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:04 GMT

LONDON (AP) — A British Muslim convert who was convicted in Turkey of being part of the Islamic State group pleaded guilty at a U.K. court Monday to having a firearm for terrorism purposes and two charges of funding terrorism.Aine Davis, 39, was deported to the U.K. in August 2022 after serving time in prison in Turkey. He was charged and detained by British counterterrorism police upon arriving at London’s Luton Airport.Davis on Monday pleaded guilty by video link from a southeast London prison to possessing a firearm for terrorism purposes and funding terrorism between 2013 and 2014.British authorities had long suspected that Davis was part of an Islamic State group cell known as “The Beatles” — so called because of the men’s British accents — that tortured and killed Western hostages in Syria a decade ago, when IS controlled a large swath of Syria and Iraq. Davis denies being connected to the cell. Two members of the “Beatles” cell, Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elshei...

Hezbollah destroys Israeli surveillance cameras along the Lebanese border as tension soars

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:04 GMT

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group said Monday it has started destroying surveillance cameras on several Israeli army posts along the border as tension rose following the Israel-Hamas war that began Oct.7.Hezbollah’s military media arm released a video showing snipers shooting at and destroying surveillance cameras placed on five points along the Lebanon-Israel border including one outside the Israeli town of Metula.The militant group appears to want to prevent the Israeli army from monitoring movements on the Lebanese side of the border after days of fire exchange that left at least seven people dead, including four Hezbollah fighters, on the Lebanese side.Since the Oct. 7, attack by the Palestinian militant Hamas group on southern Israel that killed more than 1,400 Israeli civilians and troops, tension has been on the rise along the Lebanon-Israel border. Hezbollah fighters fired anti-tank missiles on Israeli army positions and Israeli troops shelled border areas on ...