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Among Broncos’ free agency tasks: Stop the spinning wheel at right tackle

Published Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:00:35 GMT

New Broncos offensive line coach Zach Strief knows how difficult it can be to create long-term stability for an NFL offensive line. He had a front-row seat in the not-too-distant past when he played more than a decade for New Orleans as a guard and then eventually as a tackle.Strief, now in charge of his own room for the first time after two seasons as the assistant offensive line coach in New Orleans, will essentially be looking for someone to provide Denver what he provided the Saints.Amazingly, the Broncos’ instability at right tackle dates back to the middle of Strief’s playing career. He started all 87 games he appeared in at right tackle for Sean Payton from 2011-17.Denver has had no such continuity.The right tackle job in 2022 was supposed to belong to free-agent addition Billy Turner, but offseason knee surgery kept him from appearing in a game until Week 6. Instead, Cam Fleming started the season opener after returning to the franchise as a free-agent signing just before ca...

The nine most expensive homes that reported sold in Oakland the week of Feb. 27

Published Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:00:35 GMT

A house in Oakland that sold for $1.8 million tops the list of the most expensive real estate sales in Oakland in the last week.In total, 9 real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $691,283, $571 per square foot.The prices in the list below concern real estate sales where the title was recorded during the week of Feb. 27 even if the property may have been sold earlier.9. $347,870, single-family home in the 6900 block of Hamilton StreetThe property in the 6900 block of Hamilton Street in Oakland has new owners. The price was $347,870. The house was built in 1926 and has a living area of 658 square feet. The price per square foot is $529. The house features 2 bedrooms and 1 bathrooms.Hamilton Street8. $395,000, single-family residence in the 4500 block of Fleming AvenueThe 732 square-foot detached house in the 4500 block of Fleming Avenue, Oakland, has now been sold. The transfer of ownership was settled in January and the total purcha...

81-year-old California man survives nearly a week stuck in snowbank on croissants and candy

Published Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:00:35 GMT

By Cheri Mossburg | CNNAn elderly man survived on croissants, candy and biscotti for nearly a week alone in his car, stuck in a snowbank on a desolate California highway.Jerry Jouret, 81, set out from his mountain house in Big Pine, California, on February 24 to return to his family home in Gardnerville, Nevada — just over three hours away in good driving conditions.According to his grandson Christian, Jouret thought he could beat the impending snow storm. He was wrong.During the drive, Jouret accidentally veered onto a smaller road and his SUV became stuck near Gilbert Pass, he told CNN.Temperatures in the area dropped from the mid 30s into the teens overnight.The mathematician and former NASA employee was ill-prepared for the weather, wearing only a light windbreaker, his grandson said. “He’s a pretty small,” Christian added. “He doesn’t have a whole lot of meat on his bones.”A light quilt and a hotel bath towel were the only things Jouret...

Barabak: In today’s politics it’s all about nastiness and party loyalty

Published Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:00:35 GMT

Last weekend, the Texas Republican Party voted to punish one of its own.Tony Gonzales, a two-term congressman from San Antonio, was censured for, among other things, backing a modest gun safety law after 19 children and two teachers were slaughtered at an elementary school in Uvalde.The day after the party issued its condemnation, Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson appeared on Fox News (motto: “Lying to viewers for fun and profit”) where he cracked wise about the removal of a cancerous growth from President Biden’s chest.“Biden is the cancer,” the Amarillo Republican said. “He’s what needs to be removed, not the lesion they found.”There has been no clamor among Texas Republicans to sanction Jackson for his callous and tasteless remark, and none is expected.Together, the events — though unrelated — say a good deal about the state of our politics and, especially, the nature of the Trumpified GOP.Forget basic human decency. What counts is pugnacity, acting out and blind, unswerving allegiance to...

Opinion: How has American health care gone so terribly wrong?

Published Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:00:35 GMT

We all have bad weeks. Mine recently made me marvel at the astonishing dysfunction of our health care system. In calling out the system I intend no disrespect to the talented and heroic overachievers in nursing, pharmacy, medicine and the other providers who fight the system every day on behalf of our patients.Despite such efforts, the sad but undeniable fact is that our health care system — the way the U.S. distributes and pays for health care — makes it the most expensive failed enterprise in the history of human civilization.Part of what set me off that week was a series of examples of my patients’ chronic struggles to access mental health services. After years of poor funding and a deluge of demand since the pandemic began, providers are in short supply. Scarcity is coupled with barriers imposed by insurance networks. Absent reasonable access to services, primary care doctors like me become the psychiatrists of first and last resort, pushing the bounds of our competence. But wha...

Pedro Gomez’s son, Rio, has homecoming to remember with Team Colombia

Published Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:00:35 GMT

MESA, Ariz. – Rio Gomez has pitched hundreds of innings since his father first introduced him to baseball.But Wednesday was different.Representing Colombia, his mother’s home country, the Arizona native pitched in his hometown for the first time since his father, longtime baseball reporter Pedro Gomez, died on Super Bowl Sunday two years ago. And Rio was facing the A’s, a team his dad covered for the San Jose Mercury News and Sacramento Bee before becoming a star at ESPN.Rio’s mom, Sandi, was in the stands at Hohokam Stadium for the exhibition game and said the scenario couldn’t have been much better.“It just seemed like the perfect game,” Sandi said.Rio Gomez, and mom Sandi, spend some time together after the Oakland A’s spring training game against the Columbian National team at Hohokam Stadium on March 8, 2023 in Mesa, Arizona.Photo by John Medina Gomez, who was born and raised in Arizona, got to pitch in front of his mother, friends and a crowd of roughly 2,000 ...

Bodies of 2 Mexico kidnapping victims expected to be returned to the US for further autopsies, source says

Published Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:00:35 GMT

By Josh Campbell, Fidel Gutierrez, Karol Suarez and Elizabeth Wolfe | CNNThe bodies of two Americans killed in an armed kidnapping in Mexico are expected to be returned to the US on Thursday, a source from the Mexico Attorney General’s Office tells CNN, as the two survivors have returned to the US for treatment at a hospital.The remains of Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown likely will be transported to a funeral home in Brownsville, Texas, a US official familiar with the investigation said. The repatriation would come two days after the bodies were discovered alongside their two surviving friends in a house around the Mexican city of Matamoros.Autopsies were completed Wednesday morning in Mexico, an official from the Tamaulipas Prosecutor’s Office told CNN, though Mexican authorities have not released causes of death. Second autopsies will be performed in the US, the US official said.CNN has reached out to the US State Department about the repatriation of remains.The dece...

Is Disney teasing an Avatar land with multiple rides at Disneyland?

Published Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:00:35 GMT

The Disneyland resort may soon be home to a version of Walt Disney World’s Pandora themed land with a banshee flight simulator and a water ride through a bioluminescent rainforest — or at least that’s what Disney’s official D23 fan group appears to be teasing.Media outlets are interpreting a new D23 story as confirmation by Disney that a new Avatar themed land with multiple rides is coming to Disneyland.SEE ALSO: 11 places Disneyland could build an Avatar experience — See the listDisney CEO Bob Iger announced in February that an Avatar experience is coming to the Disneyland resort following the success of “Avatar: The World of Water” in theaters and the Pandora — The World of Avatar themed land at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida.Disneyland has not made an official announcement about what the Avatar experience will be, where it will be located or when it will open at the Anaheim theme park resort.SEE ALSO: Disney World’s struggling $5,000 Star Wars hotel cuts fall dates for midwee...

California lawmaker seeks to establish 20-year cardroom moratorium

Published Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:00:35 GMT

Smaller cardrooms would be able to expand if a proposed a new gambling bill backed by California tribes gets the approval of the state legislature.On March 8, the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee approved advancing AB341, a proposal to invoke a new cardroom moratorium for the next 20 years. State Assemblymember James Ramos, the first California Indian ever elected to the state legislature, proposed the bill on Jan. 30.The new bill would create a new moratorium, that was previously established by the Gambling Control Act of 1997, which prevented new cardrooms from opening and existing ones from expanding in the last 25 years. The act set a 10-year moratorium on cardroom expansions, which the state legislature extended periodically with the exception of last year.The vote on a bill to extend the moratorium failed back in August after California Senate Governmental Organization Committee Chair Bill Dodd broke the deadlocked 3-3 vote causing the bill not to meet the Senate’s...

ANI: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

Published Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:00:35 GMT

BAUDETTE, Minn. (AP) — BAUDETTE, Minn. (AP) — ANI Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ANIP) on Thursday reported a loss of $4.2 million in its fourth quarter.The Baudette, Minnesota-based company said it had a loss of 28 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs and stock option expense, were 76 cents per share.The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 68 cents per share.The drugmaker posted revenue of $94.2 million in the period, also surpassing Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $86.8 million.For the year, the company reported that its loss widened to $47.9 million, or $3.05 per share. Revenue was reported as $316.4 million.ANI expects full-year earnings in the range of $2.09 to $2.59 per share, with revenue in the range of $360 million to $385 million.ANI shares have increased 7% since the beginning of the year. The stock has increased 17% in the las...