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Hawaii’s Pacific pathways and winding trails offer plenty of free adventure

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:20 GMT

It was a warm, sunny afternoon on Kauai’s Coconut Coast when my daughter and I set out on a leisurely bike ride on the Ke Ala Hele Makalae path from Kapa’a town to secluded Paliku Beach (aka Donkey Beach), eight miles to the north.Our hotel, the splendid, centrally-located Sheraton Kauai Coconut Beach Resort in Kapa’a, provided our bikes free of charge and even packed a backpack — a cooler bag — with a picnic and cold drinks to bring along on our shoreline ride. Mounting our clunky three-speed beach cruisers, we started our ride by winding through the backstreets of Kapa’a, cruising past small shops, pocket parks, food trucks and a kaleidoscope of small town scenery.Soon we were on the outskirts of town, away from the busy main road on a wide ocean side path, enjoying the sheer beauty of the shimmering water, Pacific views and surf crashing against a rugged volcanic shoreline. Here and there, silky smooth patches of sand appeared, and wider beaches, like swimmable Kealia...

Man arrested for murder in San Jose shooting

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:20 GMT

(KRON) -- The San Jose Police Department announced they have made an arrest for a shooting homicide that happened in April. On April 19 around 1:38 p.m., police responded to reports of a shooting on the 1000 block of Blossom River Drive.Police said they found one man suffering gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene. San Francisco bike shop closes after multiple break-ins Homicide detectives identified 18-year-old San Mateo resident Matthew Antracoli as the primary suspect. Police arrested Antracoli on May 9 in Morgan Hill, Calif. He was booked into Santa Clara County Jail for murder.This was San Jose's 9th homicide of 2023, officials said.Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Sergeant Martinez #4117 or Detective Valosek #4245 of the San José Police Department’s Homicide Unit via email: [email protected] and/or [email protected] or at 408-277-5283.

Mount Diablo hiker who fell 100 feet rescued by CHP helicopter

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:20 GMT

(KRON) -- A California Highway Patrol helicopter successfully rescued a female hiker who fell approximately 100 feet on Mount Diablo Sunday. Dramatic video posted by the San Ramon Valley Fire Department shows CHP H-32 deploying above the mountain and lowering a paramedic down into rocky terrain where the hiker had fallen. San Francisco bike shop closes after multiple break-ins The CHP responded to the incident along with San Ramon Valley Fire, California State Parks personnel and a REACH air ambulance, SRV FD said. The helicopter crew was able to locate the injured hiker in a difficult to access location. A San Ramon Valley FD paramedic was lowered down to the hiker and she was placed into a rescue harness. The helicopter hoisted the paramedic and the rescued hiker from the scene and then lowered them to the waiting REACH air ambulance.The hiker, who suffered major injuries, was transported to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek. She is currently receiving treatment with the ...

New pig-to-human organ center in Virginia aims to further life-saving transplants

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:20 GMT

The company behind a pig-to-human heart transplant in 2022 is building a new research and development hub in Southwest Virginia to raise pigs for their hearts and kidneys, for transplantation into people.In March 2022, the first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig died, two months after the groundbreaking surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center. David Bennett was 57 when he died.In July 2022, researchers transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people to learn more before more transplants into living humans.Construction is now underway in the town of Christiansburg, Virginia, to build a facility for Revivicor, the Blacksburg, Virginia, xenotransplantation company behind the 2022 pig-to-human heart transplantation, and United Therapeutics, the Silver Spring, Maryland-based biotechnology company that owns Revivicor.The companies see transplantation as an effective way to deal with a shortage of transplantable human organs. According to organdonor.gov, a ser...

Suspenden a Ja Morant de las actividades de los Grizzlies tras un segundo video en el que se le ve mostrando una pistola

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:20 GMT

(CNN) — Ja Morant, escolta de los Memphis Grizzlies, fue suspendido de las actividades del equipo después de que este domingo circulara en redes sociales un video de Instagram Live en el que aparecía mostrando una pistola mientras estaba en un vehículo con otras personas, apenas dos meses después de que el deportista fuera suspendido por un video similar.Morant está suspendido de todas las actividades del equipo “a la espera de la revisión de la liga (NBA)”, anunciaron los Grizzlies en Twitter, añadiendo que el equipo no tenía más comentarios.Se desconoce cuándo o dónde se grabó el video. CNN se puso en contacto con el representante de Morant, los Grizzlies y la NBA para hacer comentarios.En marzo, la NBA suspendió a Morant durante ocho partidos sin sueldo por “conducta perjudicial para la liga” después de que se le viera en otro video de Instagram Live sosteniendo una pistola en un club nocturno de Glendale, Colorado, un suburbio de Denver.En ese momen...

Alcaraz stunned by Hungarian qualifier in early loss at Italian Open

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:20 GMT

ROME (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz didn’t see this one coming. How could he have?About to reclaim the No. 1 ranking, Alcaraz was pretty much pushed off the court at the Italian Open by 135th-ranked Hungarian qualifier Fabian Marozsan 6-3, 7-6 (4) in the third round on Monday.Alcaraz suffered his earliest defeat since October.He’d won 30 of 32 matches this year and was on a 12-match winning streak on clay after consecutive titles in Barcelona and Madrid. He secured a return to the top spot next week by winning his opening match in Rome. But he was caught off guard by how Marozsan dictated with spectacular play all over the court, including drop shots that Alcaraz had no answer for.“I just didn’t feel comfortable. He made me feel uncomfortable on court,” Alcaraz said. “He was aggressive all the time. He was playing inside the baseline all the time. It was tough for me to get into the match, into the rally. I made a lot of mistakes that I usually don’t make too much.”The result means Alc...

3M fires company executive for inappropriate conduct weeks after promotion

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:20 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — 3M has fired prominent company executive Michael Vale due to “inappropriate personal conduct and violation of company policy,” the maker of Post-it notes, industrial coatings and ceramics announced on Monday.Vale was promoted to group president and chief business and country officer just last month. Vale worked at 3M for more than 30 years, according to an April 25 press release announcing his promotion, which said he would report to Chairman and CEO Mike Roman. The St. Paul, Minnesota-based company said that Vale was terminated on Friday. 3M did not specify many details surrounding the executive’s termination but noted that his inappropriate conduct and violation of policy was “unrelated to the company’s operations and financial performance.”According to 3M’s Monday announcement, the company took “immediate action” after verifying the violation.3M has initated a search to find a replacement for Vale, the company said.When contacted by The Associated Pr...

Jewish teacher arrested for threatening students who drew swastikas, police say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:20 GMT

GRAFTON, Wis. (AP) — A Jewish middle school teacher in Wisconsin was arrested for making terrorist threats toward students who drew swastikas on a paper in his classroom, police said.The Grafton Police Department, north of Milwaukee, has not identified the seventh grade teacher they say told the students that he had 17 guns in his basement and that he wasn’t afraid to use them.The John Long Middle School teacher, who police say is Jewish, was angered by the drawings and also threatened to send his daughter to students’ homes with a baseball bat, WTMJ-TV reported.“At first he kind of just acted normal, he just put it on his desk like, ‘I’m going to tell the office about this,’” seventh grader Ethan Poulos told the television station. “But then he picked up the piece of paper and went on a ramble about how that’s bad and that’s a disgrace to his people. He started mentioning the N-word and how that was worse than writing the N-word on the wall.”The teacher was booked into the Oz...

Zelenskyy’s European tour aimed to replenish Ukraine’s arsenal and build political support

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:20 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Volodymyr Zelenskyy set off across Europe with a long shopping list. Ukraine’s president will head home with much of what he wanted — though not the Western fighter jets he seeks to defend against Russian air attacks.European leaders promised Zelenskyy an arsenal of missiles, tanks and drones during a whirlwind three-day visit to Italy, the Vatican, Germany, France and the U.K. that sought to replenish Ukraine’s depleted weapons supplies ahead of a long-anticipated spring offensive aimed at turning the tide of the war.The trip was also about shoring up European political and military support for the longer term, to ensure Ukraine can hold any ground it takes back and press for a favorable peace.“They’ve got to show … they’re in this conflict for the long term and that they’re able to keep sustaining this effort,” said Justin Crump, a former British tank commander who heads security consultancy Sibylline. “It’s not going to be one shot and done.”Zelenskyy’s energetic in...

Don’t have udon? Try spaghetti in this `Asian noodle’ dish

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:20 GMT

With bold, exciting flavors and speedy cooking, savory Asian noodles are ideal for weeknight meals. But what happens if all you have in the pantry is spaghetti? No problem.Though the dish won’t be traditional, Italian noodles can make a good stand-in for Asian noodles if that’s what you have on hand. All you need are a few heavy-hitting pantry staples to strike the right balance of sweet, savory, salty and umami.For this recipe from our book “Cook What You Have,” which draws on pantry staples to assemble easy, weeknight meals, you can use udon noodles if you have them, but spaghetti or fettuccine will work just fine, too.Since we were throwing tradition out the window anyway, we decided to blend the meatiness of Sichuan dan dan mian, or spicy noodles with ground pork, with the simplicity of peanut noodles. Whisking together soy sauce, peanut butter and oyster sauce (or hoisin) creates a rich, savory sauce loaded with umami, and the creaminess of the peanut butter helps it cling to ...