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Soap opera star Nicolas Coster dies at 89; had long-running roles on ‘Santa Barbara’ and ‘Another World’

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:29:21 GMT

By Alli Rosenbloom | CNNNicolas Coster, a veteran actor known for his work on the daytime dramas “Santa Barbara” and “Another World,” died Monday, his daughter announced in a Facebook post.He was 89.“It’s with great sadness that I am posting this to my father’s book page,” Dinneen Coster wrote. “Nicolas Coster passed on this evening in a hospital in Florida. Please remember him as a great artist. He was an actor’s actor! I will always be inspired by him and know how lucky I am to have such a great father!! Rest In Peace.”In a statement to CNN, Coster’s agent Chrystal Ayers said he died of complications from a long-term battle with cancer.A veteran actor with more than 100 film and television credits, Coster’s film, television and theater career spans decades. Among many other titles, Coster worked extensively on various long-running daytime soap operas.Coster was best known for his role as Robert Delaney on NBC’s television series “Somerset,” joining the cast in 1970 and continuing ...

‘Stabbed’ man was actually blasted with pressure washer, Folsom police say

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:29:21 GMT

Wounds that left a man covered in blood after a dispute at a Folsom shopping center were determined to have been made by a pressure washer, police said.The man was initially thought to have been stabbed.The fight between two men took place around 6 a.m. Monday outside a hotel near the Folsom Premium Outlet Mall.One man had been hired to clean the outside of a building with the pressure washer, of the type that blasts water through a long wand. The other man reportedly got in a dispute with him and tried to take the washer away, police said — and the cleaning employee then apparently let loose on him with the forceful spray.“I can confirm it was not a stabbing,” Folsom police Officer Matt Stone told TV station KOVR. “The pressure washer, because of the pressure coming from it, looks like it created puncture-type wounds.”A pressure washer used for medium-duty professional jobs emits water at about 2,000 pounds per square inch. That is about the same force...

NHL’s schedule-makers do Sharks no favors to start next season

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:29:21 GMT

The San Jose Sharks will open the 2023-24 regular season on Oct. 12 at home against the defending Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden Knights — and their early schedule doesn’t much easier from there.The Sharks will continue a homestand against the Colorado Avalanche on Oct. 14, the Carolina Hurricanes on Oct. 17, and the Boston Bruins on Oct. 19. Those three teams, plus the Golden Knights, all won their respective divisions this past year and all finished within the top seven in the league’s overall standings.The Sharks’ grueling opening month then continues with a five-game, nine-day road trip with stops in Nashville, Florida, Tampa Bay, Carolina, and Washington.The Sharks got off to a 0-5-0 start this past season and were never able to climb above a .500 points percentage. They’ll likely need to get off to a better start this season if they have any hope of ending a four-year playoff drought.Related ArticlesSan Jose Sharks | Erik Karlsson wi...

Three-bedroom home in Oakland sells for $1.9 million

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:29:21 GMT

458 Hudson Street – Google Street ViewA 1,460-square-foot house built in 1910 has changed hands. The historic property located in the 400 block of Hudson Street in Oakland was sold on May 22, 2023, for $1,885,000, or $1,291 per square foot. The property features three bedrooms and three bathrooms. It sits on a 4,000-square-foot lot.Additional houses have recently been sold nearby:In February 2023, a 2,605-square-foot home on Lawton Avenue in Oakland sold for $2,825,000, a price per square foot of $1,084. The home has 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.On Shafter Avenue, Oakland, in December 2022, a 1,281-square-foot home was sold for $1,375,000, a price per square foot of $1,073. The home has 2 bedrooms 1 bathroom.A 1,633-square-foot home on the 5200 block of Miles Avenue in Oakland sold in November 2022, for $1,530,000, a price per square foot of $937. The home has 3 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. 

Cal/OSHA fines two farms where Half Moon Bay shooter killed seven people

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:29:21 GMT

HALF MOON BAY — State officials fined two farms where a mass shooter killed seven people in January, citing the companies’ failures to provide employees with active shooter training that could’ve saved their lives.Cal/OSHA cited California Terra Garden, Inc. and Concord Farms Inc. for a combined 41 violations, nine of them defined as “serious,” for failing to have a plan or procedures to immediately notify employees of an active shooter threat and for not addressing previous incidents of workplace violence, according to a Monday press release.California Terra Garden — where the mass shooting began — was hit with 22 violations and $113,800 in penalties while Concord Farms Inc. — where the shooter ended his killing spree — was fined $51,770 for 19 violations.Both employers, state regulators say, failed to establish workplace safety plans that evaluated the threat of workplace violence and train workers in a language they can unders...

San Jose: Retired prosecutor named acting police auditor

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:29:21 GMT

SAN JOSE — Retired longtime prosecutor Karyn Sinunu-Towery has been appointed to serve as acting Independent Police Auditor for San Jose following the sudden departure of the previous auditor, the city announced Tuesday.Sinunu-Towery, who retired as a Santa Clara County Assistant District Attorney in 2013, steps in for Shivaun Nurre, who had worked in the IPA’s office for nearly two decades in various roles before being appointed to head the agency in 2018. Nurre was renewed for a four-year term in 2021, which means there are about two more years left in the current term.Nurre’s intent to retire as IPA was never widely announced, and no news release was issued by the city after it was reviewed by the City Council in closed session earlier this month. The council unanimously approved Sinun-Towery’s appointment in closed session Tuesday, according to the city.In a statement, Mayor Matt Mahan said Sinunu-Towery “will bring stability and continuity” t...

Jam-packed Merola Opera season features new take on Britten classic

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:29:21 GMT

The Merola Opera Program returns this summer with four events in store: an opening recital, a Schwabacher Summer Concert , the Merola Grand Finale, and — as the season’s centerpiece — a new production of Benjamin Britten’s “The Rape of Lucretia.”Britten’s 1946 opera is one of the English composer’s enduring works – one that, according to San Francisco Opera Center artistic director Carrie-Ann Matheson, still speaks to contemporary issues.“When we choose the repertoire that we present at Merola, we’re guided by the overarching question: ‘What can our artists learn from this?” Matheson noted, adding that Britten’s unique compositional style “offers the program’s artists considerable opportunities for growth and discovery. Performed July 13 and 15 at Herbst Theatre, the new production will be conducted by Judith Yan; Jan Ebinger is the director.Set in Rome in 509 B.C., “The Rape of Lucretia” introduces Tarquinius, son of the Roman king, who is heading Rome’s war again...

Mobile bakery owners buy new van after GoFundMe raises over $18,000

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:29:21 GMT

(KRON) -- A pair of mobile bakery owners is back in good spirits after the community donated funds to help them purchase a new van for their San Jose business. $10,000 reward offered in Oakland flower delivery homicide Ernesto Botello and Juan Soto, co-owners of Zeledon's Bakery on Wheels, have been serving the San Jose community for over two decades. The pair were baffled when their business van went missing last weekend. The van was later found crashed in Merced County, with all of their equipment and supplies missing.Botello and Soto were unsure when they might get back on their feet, but the community came together faster than they ever could have predicted. In just eight days, over 350 people donated $18,000 to a GoFundMe to replace the bakery's van. Soto was able to find and purchase a new van. He says, it's in great shape. "Yes I’m so happy, and I feel blessed by everyone helping me out and the van feels good," Soto told KRON4. Botello and Soto have been traveling from Lo...

Good Samaritan rescues two people from flaming vehicle after it crashes into a Sunnyvale Walgreens

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:29:21 GMT

(KRON) -- A good Samaritan rescued two strangers when he pulled them from a flaming car after it crashed into a Sunnyvale Walgreens on Sunday, the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety confirmed to KRON4. Mobile bakery owners buy new van after GoFundMe raises over $18K The crash happened around 2:25 a.m., when a vehicle collided into a Walgreens on the corner of South Sunnyvale Avenue and Old San Francisco Road. The car then burst into flames. When police arrived on scene, they saw that the driver was unresponsive and trapped in the vehicle, and they were unable to extricate him. He was later declared dead. Speed and alcohol are believed to have played a role in this fatal crash.Police found two passengers nearby, but, at first, it was a mystery as to how they escaped the blaze. However, DPS officers learned that a good Samaritan had pulled both passengers out of the burning vehicle before first responders arrived. An eyewitness who asked to remain anonymous said the good Samarit...

Released Guantánamo Detainees Are Still Being Denied Human Rights, U.N. Report Warns

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:29:21 GMT

The United Nation’s special rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, published an exhaustive investigation this week into human rights abuses at Guantánamo Bay. Following a historic visit to the detention center and interviews with current and former detainees, victims of the 9/11 attacks, and human rights lawyers, the report details delayed justice for the victims of terrorist attacks and ongoing injustice for the victims of torture.At the core of the report is the problem of inexplicable indefinite detention. “Arbitrariness pervades the entirety of the Guantánamo detention infrastructure — rendering detainees vulnerable to human rights abuse and contributing to conditions, practices, or circumstances that lead to arbitrary detention,” the report says. Life beyond Guantánamo, for some men, is just another Guantánamo. Those who cannot be repatriated are instead sent to a “third” country like Kazakhstan, where former detainees have been met with more arbi...