Ryan Campbell (1) and her teammates celebrate with the fans after beating Nebraska to advance to the College Cup. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) Campbell’s big opportunity arrived in the second game of the 2022 season, when Stanford hosted China’s national team for an exhibition game in front of a packed house at 2,000-seat Cagan […]
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Wish Book: Preventing homelessness and hunger in Sunnyvale
Things were looking up for Benjamin Johnson. After a few years living out of his car in Fremont, he’d landed an apartment in Sunnyvale and a steady job as a cook at a bar and grill in town. He was even in line for a raise, set to take home $2,500 a month. Then suddenly in […]
Will the first cemetery built in San Jose since the 1880s come to Coyote Valley?
The latest in a long line of battles to develop Silicon Valley’s most coveted green space is finally coming to a head after years of anticipation. And this time, it may be the difference between life and death. Heritage Oaks Memorial Park in Coyote Valley could become the first San Jose cemetery to be built […]
Bay Area News Group girls athlete of the week: Zakara Cooper, Cornerstone Christian basketball
Cornerstone Christian basketball player Zakara Cooper is the Bay Area News Group’s girls athlete of the week for Nov. 20-25 after she received 36.68% of the vote by the deadline Wednesday. Oakland Tech flag football player Jhai Johnson finished second. Congratulations to all the candidates for this week’s recognition. Related Articles High School Sports | […]
Is 49ers-Eagles the biggest game of the year? Don’t ask the Niners
SANTA CLARA — It’s finally here: 49ers vs. Eagles on Sunday. Brock Purdy and Jalen Hurts. The Brotherly Shove. The bitter 49ers howling at the injustice of losing Purdy, whose elbow was rendered useless after a Haason Reddick sack off the edge with 7:03 left in the first quarter in the NFC title game. The […]
Pedestrians need to look up from their phones: Roadshow
Q: I think it is important to remind pedestrians about how to safely cross streets. I don’t see anything about that anywhere. So many pedestrians pay no attention to what’s going on around them as they stare at or talk on their phones while crossing the street. It’s so dangerous. — Georgia Schumann A: That’s […]
Opinion: Californians want lawmakers to safeguard elections from AI
Since 2020, voters in California and beyond have seen disinformation proliferate and poison our politics more than ever before. Generative artificial intelligence has the power to rapidly intensify this trend for the worse. After all, we’re one year away from another enormously consequential presidential election. With current AI tools, it doesn’t take much effort to make a […]
Big San Jose apartment complex lands affordability-preserving buyer
SAN JOSE — A real estate firm that’s on a mission to preserve affordable rental housing has bought a big San Jose apartment complex in a deal that tops $100 million. The Grove, an apartment complex at 1919 Fruitdale Avenue in San Jose, has been bought for $102 million by an affiliate of Jonathan Rose […]
Bay Area News Group boys athlete of the week: Kevin Chapman, Moreau Catholic basketball
Moreau Catholic basketball player Kevin Chapman is the Bay Area News Group’s boys athlete of the week for Nov. 20-25 after he received 55.16% of the vote by the deadline Wednesday. Miramonte football player Carson Blair finished second. Congratulations to all the candidates for this week’s recognition. Related Articles High School Sports | Poll closed: […]
Princess Diana’s Butler Claims Queen Elizabeth ‘Went to Her Grave Worrying’ of ‘Upset in the House of Windsor’: ‘Prince Harry Should Be Ashamed’
Former butler to Princess Diana, Paul Burrell, claims that Queen Elizabeth “went to her grave worrying” of “upset in the house of Windsor” after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle alleged racist claims were made against their firstborn son, Prince Archie. Burrell believes “Prince Harry should be ashamed” of his actions. Prince Harry ‘upset his grandmother’ […]
Bay Area woman in horrific child abuse case likely to serve four months of supervised release
A 34-year-old Fairfield woman linked to a 2018 child abuse case likely will serve four months of supervised release after essentially being in “custody” for nearly five years after earlier pleading no contest to 10 charges of child cruelty, her defense attorney told The Reporter on Thursday. Ina A. Rogers While the attorneys in the […]
Single family residence sells in Saratoga for $2.6 million
18720 Harleigh Drive – Google Street View The property located in the 18700 block of Harleigh Drive in Saratoga was sold on Nov. 9, 2023. The $2,628,000 purchase price works out to $1,537 per square foot. The house, built in 1958, has an interior space of 1,710 square feet. The layout of this single-story house […]