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SANTA CLARA — Instead of mourning another Super Bowl loss or NFC Championship heartbreak, coach Kyle Shanahan and general manager John Lynch assembled the media Wednesday to dissect one of the worst seasons of their eight-year tenure: a 6-11, last-place …

Brady Corbet’s audacious decades-spanning epic (it clocks in around 3 hours, 45 minutes and includes a 15-minute intermission) is a stunner to behold, a meticulously crafted piece of cinematic finery that is filmed in glorious VistaVision and is something you …

Universal Studios Hollywood sent out a rare closure e-mail, shutting its doors Wednesday “due to extreme winds and fire conditions.” Both the park and CityWalk are expected to re-open on Thursday, Jan. 9, it read. The Palisades Fire and the …

MOUNTAIN VIEW — A barber who is currently on the lam after being charged with drugging and sexually assaulting unconscious men has now been tied to more than two dozen additional cases, and authorities are urging his victims to seek …

By Brenda Goodman | CNN With reports of the first human death from bird flu in the US, some Americans are feeling an uncomfortable flashback to the early days of Covid-19, when infectious disease experts were talking about a new …

Strong winds continue to fuel Los Angeles-area wildfires. The Palisades fire has already charred thousands of acres and forced the evacuation of at least 30,000, and the Eaton fire near Pasadena has claimed two fatalities. Fire officials are concerned about …

LOS ANGELES — “Wicked” is the leading nominee for the 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards, with the Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” following closely behind. Related Articles TV Streaming | Angelina Jolie uncomfortably avoids Brad Pitt drama on Golden …

OAKLAND — Police here have identified two brothers who were killed after an unidentified gunman allegedly kicked down their door and shot them both in the back. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | DA won’t charge East Bay man …

Welcome to a new weekly feature on the Hotline. We’ll break down Big 12 basketball using key metrics (NET rankings, KenPom ratings, etc.), our observations and a dose of old-fashioned sarcasm (when needed) — all in the name of providing …

By George Ramsay and Kevin Dotson | CNN Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr acknowledged the “terrifying” impact of the wildfires in California, while also revealing that his mother was forced to evacuate her home in Pacific Palisades. Related …

UNION CITY — The suspect in a lengthy sex abuse case has been freed from jail after posting $100,000 bail, just a few days after his attorney argued he couldn’t afford such a high amount. Related Articles Crime and Public …

There’s going to be more than just hoops being played when the NBA All-Star festivities take place in the Bay area in February. Related Articles Music | Skylar Tang’s winter break? Full of Bay Area gigs, of course Music | …

There are nine-and-a-half weeks until Selection Sunday — more than enough time for a fragile situation to turn bleak, especially in a conference as rugged as the Big 12. No matter, the Hotline is calling its shot here and now. …

ORINDA — A man in his 70s who shot and killed another driver during a violent road-rage incident won’t face criminal charges, the Contra Costa District Attorney’s office has determined. The man, who this news organization is not naming, was …

CUPERTINO — A South Bay hotel with a trendy design and a prime location near a famed Apple office hub has lurched into a loan default, a grim reminder of the weakness in the Bay Area’s feeble lodging sector. Aloft …

Here we are one week into the new year. By now, all those New Year’s Eve endcap displays of sparkling wine in every supermarket anywhere have been replaced by nonalcoholic beer displays. In days gone by, that was your only …

On a second front in Los Angeles County’s wildfire battle, the Eaton Fire forced evacuations of residents near the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. Related Articles Crashes and Disasters | Palisades fire doesn’t grow much overnight — firefighters focused …

By Jason Gale | Bloomberg San Francisco reversed some of the highest rates of syphilis and chlamydia in the US after county health officials recommended a low-cost tablet taken like a “morning-after pill.” Two analyses published this week confirm that …

ALL-BAY AREA NEWS GROUP FOOTBALL 2024 ATHLETES First team Deji Ajose, Bishop O’Dowd, 6-2, 188, senior MVAL/WACC Foothill Division first-team offense selection did a little bit of everything. The Washington commit caught 47 passes for 813 yards and 12 touchdowns. …

A wind-driven brush fire grew minimally overnight in Pacific Palisades and Malibu, now standing at an estimated 3,000 acres charred after destroying dozens of structures Tuesday, Jan. 7, authorities said. Related Articles Crashes and Disasters | Map: Eaton Fire evacuation …

The Bay Area awoke Wednesday morning relatively free from major damage following high winds that were not blowing as heavily as they did in the previous 24 hours. It took only a glimpse toward Southern California to see how much …

The Best of the West offers fans a candid assessment of the top teams in the western third of the country — a collection that includes the Mountain West and the former Pac-12 schools now scattered across the ACC, Big …

Tom Hanks, Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck, Reese Witherspoon and Adam Sandler are among the many celebrities facing the possibility of losing their luxury homes as the raging, windstorm-fueled Palisades fire roared through this tony, oceanside Los Angeles neighborhood Tuesday and …

OAKLAND — Former Rep. Barbara Lee announced Wednesday she will run to be the next mayor of Oakland, presenting herself as a uniting force for a town that has struggled to re-establish stability after the pandemic. “Time and time again, …

Late Tuesday night, a wildfire in Sylmar quickly threatened homes and closed the 210 freeway. The Hurst fire was reported shortly before 10:30 p.m. near Diamond Road, according to CalFire. It quickly burned 100 acres in the footprint of the …

ALL-BAY AREA NEWS GROUP FOOTBALL 2024 RUNNING BACKS First team Jarious Hogan, St. Ignatius, 5-8, 180, senior WCAL running back of the year ran for 21 touchdowns and scored the winning TD in comeback victories over Serra in the regular …

The evacuation zone for the Palisades Fire continued to expand in the early hours of Wednesday, sending tens of thousands of Los Angeles County residents from their homes. Related Articles Crashes and Disasters | Eaton fire doubles overnight to 2,227 …

A destructive, fast-moving brush fire that broke out above Altadena Tuesday evening, Jan. 7, doubled in size overnight as evacuation orders were added to include all of La Canada Flintridge. Related Articles Crashes and Disasters | Map: Palisades Fire evacuation …

ApartmentList’s December rent highlights for 100 US metros.  “How expensive?” tracks measurements of California’s totally unaffordable housing market. Related Articles Housing | Alameda County supervisors reconsider tenant protections as renters seethe Housing | Workforce housing real estate firm buys San …

ALL-BAY AREA NEWS GROUP FOOTBALL 2024 WIDE RECEIVERS First team Jalen Arnold, Moreau Catholic, 5-10, 150, senior Offensive most valuable player in West Alameda County Conference Foothill Division. Caught 65 passes for 1,509 yards and 19 touchdowns, leading Moreau Catholic …

Bay Area News Group boys soccer Top 10 (Mercury News & East Bay Times) No. 1 ARCHBISHOP MITTY Previous ranking: 1 Since last ranking: Beat Cardinal Newman 1-0, Watsonville 7-1 Up next: Wednesday vs. Riordan, 3:15 p.m. No. 2 MOUNTAIN …

SANTA CLARA – Nick Bosa dismissed it as “an off year.” He could be right. The 49ers could revive in 2025 after relinquishing their NFC crown without much of a fight this past season. It’s as if they charged this …

A 70-year-old Las Vegas man accused of killing a doctor and wounding five other people during a mass shooting at a Taiwanese Presbyterian church event in Laguna Woods will face a jury trial for special circumstances murder and attempted murder …

This week’s dire weather forecasts, and public safety warnings, are filled with some unfamiliar terms and abbreviations. Here are a few and what they mean, per the National Weather Service, UCLA and the Sierra Club. Santa Ana winds: Dry, downslope …

Perry, a playful and feisty miniature donkey, was euthanized at age 30 on Jan. 2 after a long battle with laminitis, a painful hoof disease, according to Jenny Kiratli, a volunteer at Bol Park in Palo Alto. Known as the …

RICHMOND —When Richmond High School senior Cesia Mejia found out she’d been accepted to Columbia University, she was shocked. Even a few weeks before the deadline, Mejia was unsure if she’d apply for college through the QuestBridge program, an organization that …

When the Alameda County Board of Supervisors failed to pass “just cause” eviction protections at its Dec. 17 meeting, tenant advocates warned that the decision would lead to evictions in the county’s unincorporated areas. Related Articles Housing | Workforce housing …

Stanford and Cal are still without victories over their new men’s basketball brethren in the Atlantic Coast Coast Conference. But that hasn’t prevented the Cardinal’s Maxime Raynaud and the Bears’ Andrej Stojakovic from making names for themselves in their new …

Four members of a San Diego State University fraternity have been charged after one of them, a 19-year-old pledge, was set on fire during a party, the District Attorney’s Office said. The members of Phi Kappa Psi were charged with …

In 1975, familiar faces dominated the album charts as artists including Elton John, Chicago, Paul McCartney and Olivia Newton-John — all of whom had No. 1 albums the previous year — returned to the top of the Billboard 200 with …