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Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Value of parent-teacher partnership apparent As a teacher, one of the most absurd things I’ve heard people say recently is that this year’s Teacher of the Year should be parents. Of course, teachers have appreciated the hard work of so […]

By Jonathan Stempel | Reuters NEW YORK – A U.S. judge will seek to start Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial on charges she procured teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse on Nov. 29, rejecting the British socialite’s request to begin three weeks earlier. U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan said on Tuesday the later […]

How fun is it to watch Stephen Curry play? Curry sealed the game against the Utah Jazz on Monday night at the Chase Center with a super-long 3-point basket with just 13 seconds left. The Warriors had already clinched a spot in the play-in tournament before the end of game, but against the Jazz, they […]

In 1997, the Berkeley Art Museum exhibited some 20 works by Richmond quilter Rosie Lee Tompkins, and even that modest display was a sensation. The dazzling color, unusual forms and startling juxtapositions led a New York reviewer to call it a “life-changing, history-altering exhibition.” Now the museum, 24 years later, has reopened after the pandemic […]

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Larger sheriffs candidate pool will improve policing Re. “Californians deserve a new type of sheriff in town,” Page A6, May 5: The passage of SB 271 is crucial to the foundation of our democracy. We are living in a time […]

There might be playoffs for schools in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League, after all. After two weeks of outrage from parents and families since the league’s Board of Managers voted to stick with the plan to not participate in the Central Coast Section playoffs this spring, Palo Alto Unified School District officials have asked […]

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and FARES AKRAM JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Tuesday stepped up its attacks on the Gaza Strip, flattening a high-rise building used by the Hamas militant group and killing at least three militants in their hideouts as Palestinian rockets rained down almost nonstop on parts of Israel. It was the heaviest fighting […]

By Lynn Elber and Mark Kennedy | Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Norman Lloyd, whose role as kindly Dr. Daniel Auschlander on TV’s “St. Elsewhere” was a single chapter in a distinguished stage and screen career that put him in the company of Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin and other greats, has died. He […]

As one Bay Area baseball team considers ditching its stadium and moving elsewhere, another can’t get enough of playing at home. With a 4-2 victory over the Texas Rangers on Tuesday, the Giants completed a two-game sweep to move a season-high eight games above .500 with a 22-14 record. Behind a career-high 10 strikeouts from […]

Normally this time of year, as Memorial Day and the unofficial start of summer beckons, we’re looking over the packed schedules of our favorite venues and arts groups and wondering where we’ll get the time and money to see all the cool shows and concerts we want to attend. This year? Not so much. The […]

Bob Melvin went to Day on the Green concerts at the Coliseum long before he ever played or coached there as a major leaguer or became manager of the A’s. But he’s not about to delve too deeply into stadium politics and the news that Major League Baseball has encouraged the A’s to find a […]

While a new book says that Donald Trump Jr.’s ex-wife Vanessa got “inappropriately — and perhaps dangerously – close” to a Secret Service agent before she filed for divorce in 2018, multiple reports from that time describe a marriage between the former model and Donald Trump’s oldest son that had been troubled for years. Page […]