By Jan M. Olsen | Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Firefighters stabilizing the burned-out husk of Copenhagen’s historic Old Stock Exchange tried to use giant shears on a crane Friday to cut away dangling scaffolding, but suffered a setback when the implement fell into the debris. A large blaze broke out Tuesday at the 400-year-old […]
Lakers’ LeBron James on Nikola Jokic: “He’s one of the best players to ever play this game.”
From Tim Duncan to Kevin Garnett and Steph Curry, LeBron James’ 21-year NBA career has featured postseason matchups against some of the best to ever do it. For the Lakers forward, Nikola Jokic is right there among them. “He’s one of the best players to ever play this game. It’s that simple,” James said after […]
Colorado home sales: Prices continue to climb, days on market drop
Colorado’s spring housing season started quickly in March as the single-family listings statewide increased by nearly 18%. The Colorado Association of Realtors’ latest housing trends report shows that statewide median sales prices and pending/under-contract listings climbed while the average number of days on the market dropped from 63 to 56. “We have entered the spring […]
Why Meghan Markle’s Big Product Reveal Has Been Dubbed ‘The Twilight Zone’
Meghan Markle visits the Woodstock Exchange to meet female entrepreneurs working in technology during the royal tour of South Africa | Pool/Samir Hussein/WireImage Commentator rips Meghan’s new brand, likens it to ‘The Twilight Zone’ Royal commentator and To Di For Daily podcast host Kinsey Schofield shared her thoughts on Meghan’s big launch of jams. She […]
First stage of world’s largest election under way in India
By Ashok Sharma and Krutika Pathi | Associated Press NEW DELHI — Millions of Indians began voting on Friday in a six-week election that’s a referendum on Narendra Modi, the populist prime minister who has championed an assertive brand of Hindu nationalist politics and is seeking a rare third term as the country’s leader. People […]
US may still bare scars of Columbine 25 later – but victims memorial is withering away
Stephen and Cheyenne Izaguirre, from Austin, Texas, visit the Columbine Memorial, located near Columbine High School (Picture: Getty Images) Twenty-five years have passed since the Columbine High School shooting that took 13 lives, and still, victims’ families and many in Colorado, the US and world struggle to grapple with the tragedy. Saturday marks the quarter-century […]
Getting rid of open world games would solve a lot of gaming’s problems – Reader’s Feature
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth – would it have been better without the open world sections? (Picture: Square Enix) A reader suggests that open world design is behind many of gaming’s ills and getting rid off it would save time and money and improve games. Like any gamer at the moment, I’m very concerned about the […]
Fallout from alleged harassment and a desk on a roof: Antioch school board president demands superintendent’s resignation
The Antioch Unified school board president has called for Superintendent Stephanie Anello’s resignation, after several employees accused her of failing to discipline a supervisor whom they say bullied them. The action comes a day after NBC Bay Area News reporter Candace Nyguen broke a story about employees’ written complaints that Kenneth Turnage II — the […]
Analysis: Why star Nathan MacKinnon is going to win MVP honors
Nathan MacKinnon did not become one of five players to ever record 100 assists in an NHL season. He did not score the most goals in the league in nearly 30 years. He is still going to win the Hart Trophy or the Ted Lindsay Award (or both) as the NHL’s most valuable player for […]
Shoppers return to ‘eerie, quiet’ Sydney mall after mass stabbings
By Mark Baker and Keiran Smith | Associated Press SYDNEY — Shoppers and workers returned to a “really quiet” Sydney mall Friday, where six days earlier an assailant stabbed six people to death and wounded more than a dozen others in an attack that police believe targeted women. Westfield Bondi Junction mall near world-famous Bondi […]
Skeletal remains found on highway identified as mom 40 years later
Bones found along a Texas highway in 1985 have been identified as belonging to Sindy Gina Crow (Picture: WFAA) Skeletal remains discovered alongside a Texas highway nearly four decades ago have been identified as belonging to a mother whose death was a cold case mystery. The Smith County Sheriff’s Office and the DNA Doe Project […]
Letters: Ending relationship | Cap utility tax | No expansion | Punish protesters | Crying victim
Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Oakland ended abusive relationship with A’s Re: “From the East Bay to West Sacramento” (Page A1, April 14). It may seem, to outsiders, that Oakland “failed” to keep the A’s. I would take exception to the characterization that Oakland “failed” […]