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Crush of Thanksgiving traffic underway in SoCal

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:03:04 GMT

As the Thanksgiving Day holiday approaches, millions of Southern Californians are headed out of town, creating a days-long crush of traffic on the freeways and at the airports.  At Los Angeles International Airport, traveling over the holiday weekend can be a bit worse than some people might anticipate.  “The airport, getting in, still like 30 minutes just trying to get in and park,” one traveler told KTLA’s Jennifer McGraw. “Thirty whole minutes, literally, just trying to get over to the Southwest part. It was ridiculous.”  Once inside the Southwest terminal, long lines of passengers waiting to check in their bags awaits those just arriving at the airport.  Holiday travelers in the Southwest terminal at LAX on Nov. 20, 2023. (KTLA)An estimated 2.5 million people are expected to pass through LAX over the next 10 days, a number that airport officials said is 300,000 more than last year. Of course, if holiday travelers aren’t flying, they are driving.  The American...

Steph Curry on verge of another major record

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:03:04 GMT

Nobody is as synonymous with the Golden State Warriors as Steph Curry and soon nobody will have worn the uniform for more minutes on an NBA court.If Steph Curry logs his season average of 33.2 minutes per game Monday night against Houston, he will pass Nate Thurmond as the franchise’s all-time leader in minutes played, adding to a list of accomplishments that includes the most 3-pointers in NBA history, four NBA championships and a unanimous MVP.Curry needed 30 minutes to pass Thurmond, who totaled 30,729 over 11 seasons with the Warriors from 1963-74.Related ArticlesGolden State Warriors | Amid 6-game losing streak, Steve Kerr says Warriors ‘need some practice time’ Golden State Warriors | Kerr identifies one reason why the Warriors can’t find offensive flow Golden State Warriors | Andrew Wiggins breaks out, but Warriors lose in overtime to Oklahoma City Golden State Warriors | Steph Curry returns to play ...

Musk is now giving new life to the ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:03:04 GMT

By Clare Duffy | CNNElon Musk on Monday boosted the dangerous, years-old “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, just days after being roundly criticized and facing an advertiser exodus following his embrace of an antisemitic conspiracy theory.In a post Monday, an X user attempted to link the founder of Media Matters — the progressive media watchdog that last week identified ads for major brands running alongside pro-Nazi content on X — to the owner of the “Pizzagate restaurant.” Musk replied: “Weird.” By replying, Musk called the post to the attention of his more than 160 million followers on X.Pizzagate is an anti-Hillary Clinton conspiracy theory that spun up on 4chan, Reddit, Twitter and other platforms in the final days before the 2016 US presidential election. Believers imagined a pedophilia ring supposedly being run out of a Washington, DC pizza shop that involved Clinton and other Democrats.The wildly false claims were behind sel...

Amid 6-game losing streak, Steve Kerr says Warriors ‘need some practice time’

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:03:04 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — Riding a six-game losing streak entering their matchup Monday night against the Houston Rockets, what the Golden State Warriors need, coach Steve Kerr said, is more practice.“We need some practice time and kind of sharpen some things up,” Kerr said before tipoff.The losing streak, longer than any they had last season, has been a trying stretch of basketball. Without Steph Curry for two games, and with Draymond Green missing his third straight Monday serving a five-game suspension, the Warriors’ offensive rating has sunk to fourth from the bottom of the league over the six-game skid.They entered Monday night at 6-8, in 10th place in the Western Conference.Kerr chalked up their early struggles to a feeling-out period, as he attempted to trim down his rotation.“The biggest thing with this team now is there hasn’t been separation in terms of the nine or 10 guys who are going to play night after night,” Kerr said. “By my count, if we’re...

McClymonds has a new Silver Bowl opponent after Castlemont forfeits semifinal win

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:03:04 GMT

OAKLAND — McClymonds was supposed to face Castlemont on Saturday night in the Silver Bowl for the Oakland Section championship.Instead, the powerhouse program will play host to Oakland Tech after section officials learned that Castlemont used an academically ineligible player in a semifinal game Friday night.Castlemont beat Oakland Tech 27-20.The player had improved his grades during a two-week window the Oakland Unified School District allows for missed assignments, Castlemont coach Ed Washington said. But the CIF cutoff date had already passed.Washington said he accidentally looked at the player’s post-cutoff date grades.“It’s on me and it’s because of a mix-up of the date by me,” Washington told the Bay Area News Group on Monday. “It’s not the kid’s fault, it’s not the school’s fault, it’s Ed Washington’s. It was literally an honest mistake and a mix-up.”Castlemont, which lost to McClymonds in las...

South Bay coffee shop burglarized

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:03:04 GMT

(KRON) -- A South Bay coffee shop said employees are feeling "shaken up" and "violated" after a break-in over the weekend. Nirvana Soul, located at 19700 Vallco Parkway in Cupertino, announced the burglary in a Facebook post on Sunday. The break-in happened Saturday night, and other neighboring businesses were targeted as well, Nirvana Soul said. A glass panel next to the coffee shop's front door was smashed in the burglary. Popular SF pizza spot to close after 19 years "We know through desperate eyes, it may look like some small businesses are doing well or better than others. But the truth is, everyone is struggling, including us — and these unexpected costs only compound the challenges we’re all already facing," a Facebook post by Nirvana Soul read.Nirvana Soul included surveillance photos of two suspects, which can be seen below. This is the second time this year that Nirvana Soul has been broken into. The other time, the shop's location at 315 S. First St. in San Jose was ta...

Former Mountain View elementary school teacher arrested for sexual assault

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:03:04 GMT

(KRON) -- Monday, Mountain View detectives arrested former Theuerkauf Elementary school teacher Bryan Rios for allegedly inappropriately touching a former student. Detectives said they believe there may be more victims and are looking for any information.Recently, a victim came forward and told police that a teacher inappropriately touched them during class while they were a student at Theuerkauf Elementary in Mountain View several years ago. Detectives found it was 42-year-old Rios, of Santa Clara, who is no longer an employee at the school.The student is not being identified. Suspects kidnap Amazon delivery driver in San Ramon, force him to withdraw cash: police Detectives arrested Rios in Santa Clara without incident.If you or anyone you know may have been a victim of Rios, please contact Detective Lauren Riffel at [email protected].

Israeli military ‘deeply distressed’ about hostages

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:03:04 GMT

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Mitchell scores 22 points to lead No. 16 Kentucky to a 96-88 overtime win over Saint Joseph’s

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:03:04 GMT

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Tre Mitchell scored nine of his season-high 22 points in overtime, leading No. 16 Kentucky to a 96-88 win over Saint Joseph’s on Monday night.Mitchelll hit back-to-back 3-pointers to open Kentucky’s scoring in overtime, and the Wildcats outscored the Hawks 19-11 in the extra period.D.J. Wagner had a career-best 22 points for the Wildcats (4-1). Antonio Reeves scored 20 points, Rob Dillingham added 13 and Justin Edwards 12.Saint Joseph’s forward Christ Essandoko hit one of two free throws with 14 seconds left in regulation to tie the score at 77. Kentucky had a chance to win it at the buzzer, but Wagner missed a jumper in the lane.Dillingham provided a spark off the bench for the Wildcats, scoring 10 points in the first half. Kentucky, which made 17 3-pointers in a 101-67 win over Stonehill on Friday, missed its first three shots from long distance, but rebounded and connected on seven shots from long range in the opening half. Kentucky made 12 3-pointers in the...

Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic, coach Mike Malone ejected in first half of game against Pistons

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:03:04 GMT

DETROIT (AP) — Nikola Jokic and Nuggets coach Mike Malone were ejected in the first half of Denver’s game at Detroit on Monday night.Jokic received his first technical for arguing a call in the first quarter. Malone was ejected for going onto the court to dispute a call late in the period. Jokic was tossed after arguing another call with 1:22 left in the first half.Jokic had nine points, five rebounds and five assists in 15:13 minutes before being tossed.___AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/nbaSource