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Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:17:50 GMT

Even in a large, master-planned development or in a neighborhood of 50 to 100 homes offered by a single builder, Bay Area and Northern California builders design and build for each buyer’s needs.Although a home may share a general floor plan with 10% of the homes in its community, many aspects of its interior can include special or even unexpected — yet practical — features.This is yet another reason to join interest lists for existing communities or coming-soon communities that haven’t begun vertical construction on some or all of their homes.A buyer expects the new-home design process to include everything from flooring choices, cabinet styles, tile and stone fabrication and plumbing fixtures to lighting, cabinet hardware, kitchen counters and bathroom vanities.And only with new construction can the buyer rethink entirely the ways that standard features are installed or used in different ways.Add more light Today’s builders are incorporating more natural light with windows than ev...

Four-bedroom home sells in Pleasanton for $1.8 million

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:17:50 GMT

2707 Turnstone Drive – Google Street ViewThe spacious property located in the 2700 block of Turnstone Drive in Pleasanton was sold on Feb. 10, 2023 for $1,790,000, or $824 per square foot. The house, built in 1972, has an interior space of 2,172 square feet. The property features four bedrooms, two baths, and a garage, as well as a pool in the backyard. The unit sits on an 0.3-acre lot.Additional houses that have recently been sold close by include:In June 2022, a 2,128-square-foot home on Blackbird Drive in Pleasanton sold for $1,750,000, a price per square foot of $822. The home has 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.A 2,024-square-foot home on the 2600 block of Willowren Way in Pleasanton sold in January 2023, for $1,497,500, a price per square foot of $740. The home has 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.On Willowren Way, Pleasanton, in July 2022, a 2,235-square-foot home was sold for $1,650,000, a price per square foot of $738. The home has 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. 

Word Game: March 23, 2023

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:17:50 GMT

TODAY’S WORD — ADDICTION (ADDICTION: uh-DIK-shun: A chronic, harmful need for a habit-forming substance or activity.)Average mark 21 wordsTime limit 35 minutesCan you find 30 or more words in ADDICTION? The list will be published tomorrow.YESTERDAY’S WORD — SELFISHLY self selfish sell shelf shell shelly shies shill sill silly elfish elfishly less life lily lisle fell felly file fill filly fish fishes fishy flesh fleshy flies illy isle hell hill hilly hiss hissy yellTo purchase the Word Game book, visit WordGameBooks.com. Order it now for just $5 while supplies last!RULES OF THE GAME:1. Words must be of four or more letters.2. Words that acquire four letters by the addition of “s,” such as “bats” or “dies,” are not allowed.3. Additional words made by adding a “d” or an “s” may not be used. For example, if “bake” is used, “baked” or “bakes” are not allowed, but “bake” and “baking” are admissible.4. Proper nouns, slang words, or vulgar or sexually explicit words...

Success-starved Kings close in on long-awaited playoff berth

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:17:50 GMT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Sacramento Kings might just be riding the beam all the way to the NBA playoffs.The resurgent Kings are on the verge of ending the longest postseason drought in league history, with first-year coach Mike Brown employing a fast-paced offense led by the dynamic duo of De’Aaron Fox and Domantas Sabonis to put Sacramento in first place in the Pacific Division. “It’s a great feeling. It’s great because it’s my first time,” Fox said of being in the playoff hunt. “This is something we want to make annual. We want to be contending for a title. … It’s great for the city and organization. We still want bigger things for ourselves.”The Kings (43-29) are in third place in the Western Conference and might be able to clinch the franchise’s first playoff berth since 2006 during the final three games of a four-game homestand that ends Monday night against Minnesota.The 16 seasons without a playoff berth are the longest in NBA history and th...

China’s Xi invites Spanish PM on state visit next week

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:17:50 GMT

MADRID (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has invited Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to Beijing for a state visit as Xi tries to galvanize support for China’s peace proposal for Ukraine.Spain’s minister for the presidency, Félix Bolaños, confirmed late Wednesday that Sánchez would visit China on March 30-31, citing Xi’s “possible mediation in the war in Ukraine” as a key reason for the visit. Spain takes over the European Union’s rotating presidency in July, and Sánchez has portrayed his nation on the world stage as a staunch NATO ally of Ukraine.He plans to hold commercially focused meetings during the Boao Forum for Asia on the Chinese island of Hainan on March 30 before traveling to Beijing to meet with Xi on March 31, Sánchez’s office said.Xi met in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week to promote Beijing’s peace plan for Ukraine, which Western nations have all but dismissed as unviable. Putin said it could be a basis for ending the figh...

Palestinian killed in Israeli military raid in West Bank

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:17:50 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli security forces killed a Palestinian militant during a raid in the northern West Bank on Thursday, Palestinian health officials said, the latest escalation of violence in what has been the deadliest start of a year for Palestinians in the occupied territory in more than two decades. Israeli forces stormed into the northern city of Tulkarem, home to an emerging militant group with ties to the armed offshoot of the nationalist Fatah party. The Palestinian Health Ministry said that 25-year-old Amir Abu Khadija was shot multiple times in the head and legs. The Tulkarem branch of Fatah’s Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed Abu Khadija as its leader.The Israeli military said Abu Khadija was wanted for recent shooting attacks on Israeli settlements and security forces. Troops raided his hideout apartment in Tulkarem and shot and killed Abu Khadija when he drew his gun, the military said, adding that the army confiscated an M-16 assault rifle and the car he allegedly ...

Denver weather: Cool Thursday with mountain snow showers

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:17:50 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver's weather will stay cool on Thursday with isolated showers in the lower elevations and more rounds of snow in the mountains. The unsettled weather will stay in the forecast through Monday of next week. Weather today: Low 50s and breezyTemperatures on Thursday will hit the low 50s with partly cloudy skies and a 10% chance for a rain or rain and snow mixed shower Thursday evening. East High School shooting suspect found dead near car in Park County Winds will be breezy at times with gusts up to 20mph on the Front Range, but it will be calmer than Wednesday's winds. There will be scattered showers across the mountains with slick roads possible. Weather tomorrow: Similar to ThursdayFriday's temperatures will stay around the low 50s in Denver with a 20% chance for scattered showers. Once again, depending on the time, temperature, and location, a few snow showers could mix in with the rain. Totals will stay less than an inch across Eastern Colorado with no road i...

Investigation underway after shooting on SR-826 entrance ramp leaves 1 hospitalized

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:17:50 GMT

A driver is now hospitalized and in serious condition after being shot while driving on the Palmetto Expressway entrance ramp just after 2 a.m., Thursday. The Florida Highway Patrol reported that someone inside a silver vehicle opened fire on the driver of a white BMW SUV as he was heading southbound on State Road 826. Detectives investigating the incident said that two drivers were heading east on Northwest 36th Street onto the southbound entrance ramp of the Palmetto when a silver vehicle pulled up alongside the white BMW and began firing shots. The man behind the wheel of the SUV was shot several times and was rushed to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital as a trauma alert.7SkyForce showed an aerial view of the scene, revealing the bullet-riddled BMW. Meanwhile, the silver vehicle fled the scene and continued south on SR-826. The driver who was shot called 911, leading to police closing the entrance onto the Palmetto Expressway south.The closure caused delays for morning commuters, with...

Zoo Miami’s Sumatran tigress undergoes health exam ahead of transfer to Fort Worth Zoo

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:17:50 GMT

N’dari, the Sumatran tigress born at Zoo Miami on Jan. 5, 2021, underwent a thorough routine health examination Wednesday as part of her preparation for transfer to the Fort Worth Zoo later this spring. The procedures included radiographs, dental cleaning, blood collection, an abdominal ultrasound, and an eye exam. The tigress also received vaccinations for rabies and distemper. From an approximate birth weight of 3 pounds, N’dari has steadily grown and now weighs 180 pounds.N’dari is scheduled to move to the Fort Worth Zoo as part of the Species Survival Plan (SSP) recommendation. The SSP managed through the Association for Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), is a cooperative population and management program designed to maintain a healthy and self-sustaining population of most threatened and endangered species under human care. The program recommends the best pairing of animals within the program to achieve the healthiest genetic diversity.There are less than 500 Sumatran ...

Labour’s Starmer slams Boris Johnson ‘circus’ in crime-fighting pitch

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:17:50 GMT

LONDON — Labour leader Keir Starmer attacked the “circus” around Boris Johnson as he tried to slot the ex-prime minister’s dramatic parliamentary grilling into an anti-crime pitch. In an address Thursday in the key election battleground of Stoke, Starmer brought up his old political foe’s interrogation by the House of Commons privileges committee. The cross-party group spent much of Wednesday afternoon probing whether Johnson misled MPs over rule-breaking gatherings in government offices at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Starmer — formerly director of public prosecutions (DPP) — sought to link the issue to his own host of anti-crime promises that he hopes will persuade voters that Labour has their back on an issue traditionally seen as a Conservative strength.The Labour leader said his own time as DPP — attacked by some Conservatives — meant he “found the pandemic parties in Downing Street under Boris Johnson so reprehensible” and the ...