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Ex-Ohio House speaker sentenced to 20 years for bribe scheme

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:07 GMT

By Julie Carr Smyth | Associated PressCINCINNATI — Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday for his role in the largest corruption scandal in state history.The 64-year-old Republican appeared before U.S. District Judge Timothy Black, who meted out the punishment, about an hour after he and his wife Taundra arrived at the federal courthouse.Householder had pleaded for mercy ahead of the sentencing — not on behalf of himself, but his wife of 40 years, sons and friends. His son Nathan and other friends and family were present in the courtroom.Black instead delivered a blistering rebuke, accusing Householder of abusing voters’ trust.“You were a bully with a lust for power who thought he was better than everyone else,” he said.Householder also received one year of probation and showed little emotion before being led out of the courtroom in handcuffs as he was remanded into the custody of U.S. Marshals.Householder and lo...

Bay Area temperatures will go up, and snakes likely will be coming out

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:07 GMT

As a precursor to the summer’s first intense warm-up, the National Weather Service issued a Bay Area heat advisory that will kick in Friday and could last the whole weekend.A Bay Area fire official kicked in another advisory, as well.“As it gets warm, the snakes will come out,” Darren Johnson, an Assistant Fire Chief for the Rodeo-Hercules Fire Department in Contra Costa County, said. “They’re gonna want to get to where it’s warm. Sometimes, that’s cement, sometimes that’s a driveway. Sometimes, it’s where mud has been by a side of a road. But it happens when it gets warm.”And some of those snakes carry a rattle, he said. Johnson is considered a bit of snake expert among Contra Costa County firefighters, but he’s hardly the only official who has signaled a warning to hikers to be aware of poisonous rattlesnakes.“If you’re out hiking, you won’t want to be on the grass or anywhere off the trail where y...

Sale closed in San Ramon: $2.2 million for a four-bedroom home

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:07 GMT

1622 Banbury Drive – Google Street ViewThe spacious property located in the 1600 block of Banbury Drive in San Ramon was sold on June 12, 2023. The $2,150,000 purchase price works out to $861 per square foot. The house, built in 2005, has an interior space of 2,496 square feet. The property features four bedrooms, three bathrooms, an attached garage, and two parking spaces. The unit sits on a 4,902-square-foot lot.Additional houses have recently changed hands nearby:On Banbury Drive, San Ramon, in November 2022, a 2,661-square-foot home was sold for $1,851,000, a price per square foot of $696. The home has 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms.A 2,569-square-foot home on the 800 block of Mornington Court in San Ramon sold in November 2022, for $2,005,000, a price per square foot of $780. The home has 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.In May 2023, a 3,231-square-foot home on Melbourne Way in San Ramon sold for $2,330,000, a price per square foot of $721. The home has 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. 

Alameda County judge robbed at downtown Oakland ATM

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:07 GMT

OAKLAND — A retired Alameda County judge was robbed at gunpoint Wednesday after leaving an ATM in downtown Oakland, authorities said.The robbery happened about 5:05 p.m. Wednesday in the 1900 block of Franklin Street. Authorities said she had just used a bank ATM and was walking to her car when a man with a gun confronted her and took her bag containing her phone, wallet and cash.The robber fled in a waiting vehicle and was last seen going northbound on Franklin Street at 20th Street. Police believe the same suspects were involved in another armed robbery of a man who had just made a deposit at a bank in the 2000 block of Franklin Street at about 3:45 p.m. Wednesday. The man lost his phone, wallet and other personal items in the robbery.Recently, Oakland police have warned about an “uptick” in robberies at ATMs throughout the city. Two such robberies happened Monday evening, one outside a Montclair bank and the other on Lakeshore Avenue near Trestle Glen.Although r...

SF Giants trainer selected to NL All-Star Game staff

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:07 GMT

TORONTO — The San Francisco Giants gained their first selection for the 2023 All-Star Game on Thursday.Trainer Anthony Reyes was named to the staff of National League manager Rob Thomson, of the Phillies, for the 2023 Midsummer Classic, which takes place Tuesday, July 11, at T-Mobile Park in Seattle (5 p.m. PT, FOX).A graduate of San Jose State, Reyes was one of two trainers selected by Thompson, along with the Reds’ Tomas Vera.Related ArticlesSan Francisco Giants | Editorial: With MLB, San Jose should be careful what it wishes for San Francisco Giants | Belt, Blue Jays tag Logan Webb for five-run first inning, send SF Giants to first road loss of June San Francisco Giants | Michael Conforto exits SF Giants game with apparent leg injury San Francisco Giants | Was Kevin Gausman the one who got away? He says split with SF Giants ‘water under the bridge’ San Francisco Giants | Balk, bullpen com...

'Hottest temps of the summer' on the way, according to National Weather Service

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:07 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- The hottest temperatures of the summer are about to arrive in the Bay Area, according to the National Weather Service. The warming trend will begin Thursday afternoon before really kicking into gear high Friday, the NWS said. Bay Area Heat AdvisoryA heat advisory goes into effect on Friday and will remain until Sunday. Temperatures will be especially high in the inland Bay Area and Central Coast. The heat will bring a moderate to high risk to those who are heat sensitive, the NWS said."We are going to be under an advisory starting at 11 a.m. Friday and going through Sunday evening," said KRON4 Meteorologist Kyla Grogan. "It looks like the inner East Bay will be our hottest spot, but that is not to say we will not have heat elsewhere."Graphic: Kyla GroganWhere will it be the hottest?Temperatures in the inner East Bay could climb above 103, 103 degrees, according to Grogan. Antioch, Concord and Livermore will be particularly hot.Graphic: Kyla GroganTips for sta...

Grad student commutes to UC Berkeley by plane to save on rent

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:07 GMT

A Los Angeles graduate student is going viral for how he avoided paying Bay Area rent while attending the University of California, Berkeley.In a now-viral Reddit post, user "greateranglia" wrote a post titled, "I survived living in LA and commuting to Cal by plane over the past academic year to save on rent, AMA." In an interview with KRON's Los Angeles sister station KTLA, the user, who wishes to only be identified by his first name, Bill, says all his professors and classmates knew he was a super commuter, "My classmates, instead of asking 'What's for dinner?' they would ask 'When's your flight back?'" Bill says he was living in Los Angeles with a rent he could afford when he got accepted into a one-year Master of Engineering program at Cal. Knowing he would return to Los Angeles after graduation, he wanted to avoid having to pay rent in the Bay Area. $100K a year is low-income in the Bay Area, according to new report Bill commuted between LAX and SFO at least three times a wee...

All clear given after suspicious package found on steps of Supreme Court

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:07 GMT

A suspicious package was found on the steps of the Supreme Court Thursday, causing several road closures around the building before officials later gave an "all clear."U.S. Capitol Police had announced in a tweet that it was assisting the Supreme Court Police with the package and helping to keep the area clear “out of an abundance of caution.” It said in an alert that it is conducting an investigation into the package on the Unit Block of First Street Southeast Washington, D.C., on the court’s steps, and staff and other personnel should avoid the area until further notice. Capitol Police said road closures were in effect on Maryland Avenue between Constitution Avenue and First Street Northeast, on First Street between Constitution Avenue Northeast and Independence Avenue Southeast and on East Capitol Street between First and Second streets. It later said the package is all clear and roads around the area would reopen soon.The Hill has reached out to the Supreme Court’s public inform...

DeSantis State Government Appointee Holds DeSantis Fundraiser in The Villages

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:07 GMT

A key Florida state government appointee of Ron DeSantis hosted a high-dollar fundraiser for the governor’s presidential campaign on Wednesday evening in The Villages, according to an invitation reviewed by The Intercept. The host, Gary Lester, is also a top executive at The Villages, a retirement community owned by a corporation with close ties to DeSantis.Lester, in sending his invitation to the high-dollar affair being held at a secret location, used his Villages Inc. email and instructed attendees to RSVP to his Villages assistant.  Most Read Samuel Alito’s Wife Leased Land to an Oil and Gas Firm While the Justice Fought the EPA Daniel Boguslaw Prigozhin and Putin...

Top NIH Official Advised Covid Scientists That He Uses Personal Email to Evade FOIA

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:58:07 GMT

A top adviser to Anthony Fauci at the National Institutes of Health admitted that he used a personal email account in an apparent effort to evade the strictures of the Freedom of Information Act, according to records obtained by congressional investigators probing the origin of Covid-19. The official also expressed his intention to delete emails in order to avoid media scrutiny.“As you know, I try to always communicate on gmail because my NIH email is FOIA’d constantly,” wrote David M. Morens, a high-ranking NIH official, in a September 2021 email, one of a series of email exchanges that included many leading scientists involved in the bitter Covid origins debate. “Stuff sent to my gmail gets to my phone,” he added, “but not my NIH computer.”After noting that his Gmail account had been hacked, however, he wrote to the group to say that he might have to use his NIH email account to communicate with them instead. “Don’t worry,” he wrote, “just send to any of my addresses, and I will d...