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Seeking integrity: How the Pac-12 moved to protect itself from a gambling scandal

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:56:55 GMT

Sports gambling scandals have impacted schools in the SEC, Big Ten and Big 12 recently. Assuredly, the Pac-12 is next. After all, gambling is legal in four of the six states within the conference footprint, the football championship game and basketball tournaments are held in Las Vegas, and misfortune seems to follow the conference like extra-point attempts follow touchdowns.“Everybody’s due in some sense,” said Matt Holt, president of U.S. Integrity, which provides sports wagering oversight to numerous NCAA conferences, including the Pac-12. “It’s like the financial world, where people get caught doing things they shouldn’t. Everyone can be tempted. It’s no different in sports betting.”Temptation and opportunity within college athletics have soared since 2018, when the Supreme Court struck down a federal ban on sports wagering. Currently, 33 states and Washington, D.C. have legal, live betting, according to the American Gaming Association. (Wagering is legal in four more stat...

Sale closed in San Ramon: $2.5 million for a four-bedroom home

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:56:55 GMT

12 Henry Ranch Drive – Google Street ViewA 2,961-square-foot house built in 2002 has changed hands. The spacious property located in the first block of Henry Ranch Drive in San Ramon was sold on May 31, 2023. The $2,460,000 purchase price works out to $831 per square foot. The property features four bedrooms, three bathrooms, and an attached garage as well as three parking spaces. The unit sits on a 0.3-acre lot.Additional houses that have recently been sold close by include:In April 2023, a 4,111-square-foot home on Westside Drive in San Ramon sold for $2,800,000, a price per square foot of $681. The home has 4 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms.On Welford Ranch Court, San Ramon, in July 2022, a 4,203-square-foot home was sold for $3,045,000, a price per square foot of $724. The home has 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms.A 2,014-square-foot home on the first block of Terraced Hills Way in San Ramon sold in August 2022, for $1,565,000, a price per square foot of $777. The home has 4 bedrooms and 3 b...

GOP rivals struggle with response to Trump’s woes

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:56:55 GMT

By Steve Peoples and Jill Colvin | Associated PressBEDMINSTER, N.J. — Just last week, former Vice President Mike Pence said he hoped federal prosecutors would not bring charges against former President Donald Trump. On Wednesday, a day after Trump was arraigned on dozens of felony counts related to classified documents, Pence described the allegations as “a very serious matter.”“I cannot defend what is alleged,” Pence, who is now challenging Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, said on CNBC. Later in the day, the former vice president faced pointed questions from a conservative radio host after refusing to say whether he would pardon Trump if given the chance.Pence’s evolving message highlights the high-stakes dilemma for Trump’s Republican rivals, who are struggling to find a clear and consistent strategy to take on the frontrunner as Trump’s unprecedented legal troubles threaten to dominate all other issues in the 2024 preside...

Movie theater to leave San Francisco Centre after Westfield departure

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:56:55 GMT

(KRON) -- Another business has announced it will be leaving San Francisco Centre after Westfield's decision to pull out of operating the biggest mall in the city. Man dies in head-on collision in Monterey County The Century San Francisco Centre 9 and XD theater will be closing permanently after its current lease with the mall ends, the theater's owner Cinemark, confirmed to KRON4. Cinemark says its decision came after a "comprehensive review" of local business conditions. Cinemark is the first company to announce it will be departing the mall space since Westfield's announcement to transfer the management of the shopping center to its lender. Now, the city waits to see if more of the businesses based at the mall will choose to leave too.Shoppers walk by a Nordstrom sign at Westfield San Francisco Centre (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Nordstrom announced in May that the company would not renew its lease due to "unsafe conditions" in the city, city Supervisor Matt Dorsey sa...

Stern Grove Festival returns this Sunday with free summer concerts

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:56:55 GMT

(BCN) -- The Stern Grove Festival will kick off its 86th season of free concerts at San Francisco's Sigmund Stern Recreation Grove this Sunday. Jazz fusion band Snarky Puppy and guitarist Isaiah Sharkey will be the first performers of the summer. Movie theater to leave San Francisco Centre after Westfield departure Concerts will continue weekly on Sundays until Aug. 20 and feature the Indigo Girls, the San Francisco Symphony, The Flaming Lips and more. Tickets are free but limited and must be reserved in advance on Stern Grove's website, www.sterngrove.org. They are released one month prior to each show date at 2 p.m. The next available tickets will be released this Friday at 2 p.m. for Angelique Kidjo's July 16 performance. Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

SF 'hot prowl' burglar convicted in armed home invasion

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:56:55 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A man who stole $30,000 worth of jewelry, cash and designer bags while holding a gun on a victim during a 2021 home invasion has been convicted, the San Francisco District Attorney announced Wednesday. Travis Fields, 41, was convicted of first-degree residential burglary and auto burglary in a trial by jury.The conviction stems from his involvement in an armed home invasion burglary on Sept. 21, 2021, the DA's office said. An allegation that the burglary was a "hot prowl" was also found to be true. San Jose family loses livelihood after thieves steal $100K worth of stage equipment A hot prowl burglary is a first-degree burglary in which "another person, other than an accomplice, was present in the residence during the commission of the burglary," according to the San Francisco Police Department.Field was convicted in connection to a crime that occurred when he and two additional suspects followed two victims as they left their home on the 600 block of Paris...

28-year-old woman accused of posing as Louisiana high school student

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:56:55 GMT

HAHNVILLE, La. (AP) — A 28-year-old woman who enrolled at a Louisiana high school and posed as a 17-year-old student to learn English has been arrested along with her mother, authorities said Wednesday.Martha Jessenia Gutierrez Serrano and her mother, Marta Elizabeth Serrano Alvarado, 46, both of Boutte, were arrested Tuesday, the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Each are charged with a one count of injuring public records.Serrano Alvarado used a fake passport and birth certificate from Honduras to register and enroll her daughter at Hahnville High School for the 2022-2023 school year, the sheriff’s office said. Sheriff Greg Champagne, at a news conference Wednesday, said Gutierrez Serrano told investigators she enrolled in school to learn the English language. “She wanted to learn English. She wanted to become proficient in the English language,” Champagne said. “There was no nefarious reason behind this,” he said, adding that the falsifying of gove...

Enzo Biochem: Fiscal Q3 Earnings Snapshot

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:56:55 GMT

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Enzo Biochem Inc. (ENZ) on Wednesday reported a loss of $15.2 million in its fiscal third quarter.The Farmingdale, New York-based company said it had a loss of 31 cents per share.The life sciences and biotechnology company posted revenue of $16.1 million in the period._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on ENZ at https://www.zacks.com/ap/ENZSource

Robert Gottlieb, literary giant who edited Toni Morrison, Robert Caro and many other luminaries, dies at 92

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:56:55 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Gottlieb, literary giant who edited Toni Morrison, Robert Caro and many other luminaries, dies at 92.Source

Oregon jury: PacifiCorp must pay punitive damages for fires, plus award that could reach billions

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:56:55 GMT

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A jury on Wednesday ordered the electric utility PacifiCorp to pay punitive damages for causing devastating wildfires in Oregon in 2020 — on top of an earlier verdict already expected to amount to billions of dollars.The decision came two days after the jurors found PacifiCorp liable for the fires and said it must pay for damage to property as well as emotional distress. The jury on Monday awarded $73 million to 17 homeowners named as plaintiffs in the case, with damages for a broader class involving the owners of nearly 2,500 other properties to be determined later.The property owners alleged that PacifiCorp negligently failed to shut off power to its 600,000 customers during a windstorm over Labor Day weekend, despite warnings from then-Gov. Kate Brown’s chief of staff and top fire officials, and that its power lines were responsible for multiple blazes. They said that after the fires, PacifiCorp started an internal investigation — without communicating that ...