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Today is Wednesday, Feb. 19, the 50th day of 2025. There are 315 days left in the year. Today in history: On Feb. 19, 1942, during World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which paved the …

DEAR HARRIETTE: I need advice on how to set boundaries with my neighbor. Related Articles Advice | Harriette Cole: I desperately want to know why he ditched me Advice | Harriette Cole: How do I solve my roommate problem without …

Dear Eric: My husband and I (second marriage) had a disagreement earlier today, and I would love your help. Related Articles Advice | Asking Eric: She’s furious that I met her husband’s girlfriend Advice | Asking Eric: I get these …

CONCORD — For Ygnacio Valley, it’s all about controlled chaos.  The goal for the Wolves is to make their opponents tired and uncomfortable with their full court press and aggressive attacks to the basket.  On Tuesday, the strategy worked to …

DEAR ABBY: I’ve been married to my husband for 30 years. For the past five years, I’ve noticed that he is acting a little different. Related Articles Advice | Dear Abby: When I leave him, do I say it’s because …

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a friendly, but introverted, person. I enjoy the company of others in very small doses. Related Articles Advice | Miss Manners: You shouldn’t assume the blind person is offended Advice | Miss Manners: Someone should …

LIVERMORE: COWBOYS WIN EARN FIRST NCS WIN IN OVER 30 YEARS Despite not winning a league game in 12 years, Livermore accomplished something that it hadn’t done in a long time.  After beating No. 9 San Marin 71-61 at home …

Boys basketball Open Division Thursday’s opening round No. 1 De La Salle (25-4), bye No. 2 Salesian (25-2), bye No. 4 Dublin (23-5) at 5 No. Liberty (24-2), 7 p.m. No. 6 California (23-5) at No. 3 San Ramon Valley …

OAKLAND — Ursula Jones Dickson took the oath of office Tuesday to become Alameda County’s next district attorney, promising numerous changes and declaring that “we need to get back to business” after the historic recall of her successor, Pamela Price. …

SAN JOSE – The San Jose Sharks are all too used to being out of the playoff picture at this juncture of the season and were probably guilty in recent years of simply wanting to play out the string. While …

UNION CITY – A driver hit and killed a pedestrian Monday in Union City, police said. Related Articles Crashes and Disasters | Triple-fatal East Bay Cybertruck crash involved alcohol and cocaine, autopsies say Crashes and Disasters | Authorities identify two …

Schools and colleges have until the end of the month to dismantle diversity programs and practices or risk losing federal funding, the U.S. Department of Education warned in a memo Friday. The warning has left the University of California and …

OAKLAND — Hard times are in full swing in Oakland, where nonprofits providing free meals to senior citizens, legal defense to immigrants, violence interruption strategies and other crucial services are reeling from a sudden loss of $2.6 million in public …

While President Donald Trump and Republicans take drastic measures to curtail federal spending – including possible cuts to Medicaid – local Democrats in Congress have no illusions about their limited power to stop them. “They have the votes,” said Rep. …

East Bay Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks and state Senator Christopher Cabaldon, a Yolo County Democrat, on Tuesday brought back a proposal to place a $10 billion bond for affordable housing programs on the June 2026 ballot after failing to get a …

By Andrew Dalton | Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Rapper A$AP Rocky was found not guilty Tuesday of firing a handgun at a former friend on a Hollywood street in 2021. Los Angeles jurors deliberated for only about three hours …

MARTINEZ — After deliberating for less than a day, a Contra Costa jury on Tuesday convicted a 41-year-old San Pablo man of murdering his wife and mother-in-law, a verdict likely to send him behind bars for life. The jury found …

PHOENIX — For roughly a decade, Bruce Bochy counted on Buster Posey as the backbone of the San Francisco Giants on the field. Now, entering his third year as the Texas Rangers’ manager, Bochy will be tasked with beating the …

By Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed | CNN A federal judge declined on Tuesday to temporarily block Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency from accessing federal data systems at a slew of executive branch agencies. The decision by …

SAN JOSE — The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office has purged its policy manual of language that authorized broad cooperation with federal immigration officials and remained on the books well after county sanctuary laws rendered it moot. In a training …

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Immigrants share vision of American dream I’m a 20-year-old immigrant brought to the United States at age 2, and a third-year criminal justice student at …

By Eleonore Hughes and Mauricio Savarese | Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s prosecutor-general on Tuesday filed charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro for attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat. Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet …

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Fremont votes to make the vulnerable suffer Re: “Homeless camp ban is among state’s toughest” (Page B1, Feb. 13). I attended the Fremont City Council …

An Australian woman was arrested at San Francisco International Airport last week after her bag was selected for a random search and security agents allegedly found more than 40 pounds of methamphetamine inside, according to San Mateo County District Attorney Stephen …

Veteran linebacker Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles was released by the 49ers Tuesday, with the club retaining seven other players through one-year exclusive rights tenders. Flannigan-Fowles is a core special teams player who has played in 73 games with seven starts at linebacker …

Bay Area News Group boys basketball Top 20 (Mercury News & East Bay Times) (Records through Monday) No. 1 ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN (22-1) Previous ranking: 1 Since last ranking: Beat Archbishop Mitty 65-40, Valley Christian 83-36 Up next: Tuesday vs. St. …

Bay Area News Group girls basketball Top 20 (Mercury News & East Bay Times) No. 1 ARCHBISHOP MITTY (20-3) Previous ranking: 1 Last week: Beat Archbishop Riordan 71-50, Sacred Heart Cathedral 69-23 Next game: Tuesday vs. St. Francis, 6:30 p.m.  …

Fresh off hosting an All-Star Game that celebrated the most important member of the Warriors’ dynasty, Stephen Curry, the team will pay tribute to the remaining cast members during its first homestand out of the break. Players from the 2014-15 …

It’s not immediately clear whether Meghan Markle’s international travels ever included a visit to a small, 13th-century town on the Spanish island of Mallorca, but leaders in that town are saying she appears to have copied their community’s traditional coat …

By Marnie Hunter | CNN Warm, tranquil, sun-splashed beaches? Yes, please. Tripadvisor’s annual compilation of the world’s very best stretches of shoreline, released Tuesday, offers a head start on picking a great beach to visit in 2025. The travel reviews …

By Annie Correal | The New York Times Costa Rica announced on Monday that it would receive a flight this week from the United States carrying 200 migrants from Central Asia and India, making it the second nation in Central …

Carved out of San Jose Jazz’s downtown office during the height of the pandemic, the SJZ Break Room has become a proving ground for artists eager to share new music. With last month’s shuttering of neighboring venue Mama Kin, the …

By Devi Shastri | Associated Press The measles outbreak in rural West Texas has grown to 58 cases as of Tuesday, and eight people in neighboring eastern New Mexico also have been diagnosed with measles. Public health officials in New …

By Chris Isidore | CNN New York — Tesla sales are in an unprecedented slide. Competitors are rapidly gaining ground. There’s a lot of bad news for Tesla lately – but it’s unclear if the politics of its polarizing CEO, …

By Graham Lee Brewer and Curt Anderson | Associated Press SUMTERVILLE, Fla. — Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his life sentence …

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — As Hayden Birdsong threw one of his first bullpens of camp, a voice from behind peppered him with constructive criticism. That’s a good miss.  Not quite that far. You’re like a ball off. That’s beautiful, man.  The words …

Jesse Madden is following his late grandfather John’s Hall of Fame footsteps into the NFL coaching ranks. The Washington Commanders revealed Tuesday that Madden will serve as an offensive quality control coach under Dan Quinn, who got his NFL start …

CONCORD — A man was fatally shot by police Tuesday morning after they confronted him actively stabbing a family member inside a residence, authorities said. The name and age of the man killed has not yet been released. Police have …

By Amanda Seitz, Andrew DeMillo and Kevin Freking | Associated Press WASHINGTON — Republicans are weighing billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, threatening health care coverage for some of the 80 million U.S. adults and children enrolled in the …

When Blake Lively was promoting “It Ends With Us,” she faced a torrent of online criticism for appearing to minimize the film’s focus on a woman surviving domestic violence, in favor of hyping the movie up as if it were …