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Great snow produces another record year for Colorado ski resort visits

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:48 GMT

Colorado resorts racked up a record 14.8 million skier visits this past season, a million more than the previous record set last year, according to Colorado Ski Country USA.That represents approximately 23% of U.S. skier visits, according to a Ski Country news release posted during the trade association’s annual meeting on Thursday.Related ArticlesOutdoors | 15 pieces of gear worth packing for summer adventures Outdoors | Moose calf, mother reunited after calf was swept away by fast-moving Yampa River Outdoors | 16 Colorado lakes and reservoirs for a dreamy summer day Outdoors | Startup Oso Meals looks to add more flavor to backcountry dining Outdoors | Uncommon brown trout reeled in at Stagecoach Reservoir Ski Country reported that its 21 member resorts recorded an increase of nearly 8% over the 2021-22 season. Ski Country uses those numbers and “publicly available information” from no...

Orange County high school teacher placed on leave after discussing sexual pleasure in class

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:48 GMT

A teacher at a Placentia high school has been placed on administrative leave after video of her anatomy and physiology lesson was released online and drew controversy.The El Dorado High School teacher, identified by the Orange County Register as Judy Rehburg, discussed the prostate and its role in providing sexual pleasure, the video shows. She also discussed anal sex and sex toys being sold at popular retailers like Target.The video sparked outrage among some parents, who filed a complaint against Rehburg with the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District, the Register reported.Placentia is a city in northern Orange County, next to Anaheim.The El Dorado High School teacher, identified by the Orange County Register as Judy Rehburg, discussed the prostate and its role in providing sexual pleasure. While some parents have criticized Rehburg's lesson and said it was inappropriate for physiology class, others defended the teacher and the concept of teaching sexual education topics ...

Man, woman arrested in Apple Valley homicide

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:48 GMT

A man and a woman have been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of another man in Apple Valley, authorities said Thursday.The incident was reported around 10:15 p.m. June 1, when San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department deputies responded to a hospital about a gunshot victim.The victim had been taken to a trauma center were he was pronounced dead a day later, officials said.An investigation revealed that the victim, identified as 25-year-old Anthony Valva, and a female passenger were stopped a red light at Highway 18 and Central Road when a Dodge Charger drove up and stopped in the lane next to him.Valva got out of the car, apparently to speak to the occupants of the other vehicle about an earlier incident at a nearby liquor store. The driver of the Charger, identified as Coffee Brown, 19, allegedly fired a gun at Valva, striking him once, officials said. His unidentified passenger was not injured. Brown and his passenger, Chaaliyah Marie Griffin, 19, then drove away fr...

Another day, another comeback: SF Giants rally late to complete sweep of Rockies

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:48 GMT

DENVER — No lead is safe at Coors Field, as the San Francisco Giants demonstrated Thursday for the second time in as many games.Again erasing an early deficit with a late-inning rally, the Giants beat the Rockies 6-4 to complete a three-game sweep.Pinch-hitting for Casey Schmitt, Brandon Crawford lined the game-tying double into the right-center field gap, and LaMonte Wade Jr. lofted a fly ball deep enough to score the go-ahead run from third. Like the previous late-inning comeback, the ninth inning started with a pair of free passes as Pierce Johnson struggled to find the strike zone.Blake Sabol, who drew the leadoff walk, raced home from second on Crawford’s double, and Mike Yastrzemski, who reached on another walk after Sabol, made it to third, where he was in position to score what amounted to the game-winning run on Wade’s sac fly to right field.Entering this series, the Giants were 1-25 when trailing after seven innings. They have won the past two games, despite fa...

Community hub Open San Jose ready for its grand opening

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:48 GMT

After more than four years of construction, COVID-19 delays and a few months of preview events, Open San Jose is ready for its grand opening on Saturday. The 18,000 square-foot community hub in downtown San Jose is home to CreaTV San Jose and six other anchor nonprofits including three arts organizations, Chopsticks Alley Art, Works/San Jose and Mosaic America.But CreaTV San Jose CEO Chad Johnston says the space is meant to be much more, with tech-ready spaces available for groups to use for workshops, retreats, film screenings, rehearsals and art exhibitions. “We want everyone and anyone to come use this space,” he said.Open San Jose, a community media hub driven by nonprofit CreaTV and involving seven partner organizations including Chopsticks Alley gallery and the performing arts group Mosaic America, in San Jose, Calif., on Wednesday, June 7, 2023. (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group) When CreaTV began planning a move from its old studio space on West Julian Stree...

Sale closed in Saratoga: $2.5 million for a three-bedroom home

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:48 GMT

20301 La Paloma Avenue – Google Street ViewThe property located in the 20300 block of La Paloma Avenue in Saratoga was sold on May 25, 2023 for $2,475,000, or $1,620 per square foot. The house, built in 1942, has an interior space of 1,528 square feet. The property features three bedrooms, three bathrooms, and a garage, as well as a pool in the backyard and one parking space. The unit sits on a 9,536-square-foot lot.Additional houses that have recently been sold close by include:In March 2023, a 1,009-square-foot home on Oak Place in Saratoga sold for $2,000,000, a price per square foot of $1,982. The home has 2 bedrooms and 1 bathrooms.On Aloha Avenue, Saratoga, in May 2023, a 2,213-square-foot home was sold for $3,609,000, a price per square foot of $1,631. The home has 3 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms.A 2,829-square-foot home on the 14000 block of Loma Rio Drive in Saratoga sold in November 2022, for $3,450,000, a price per square foot of $1,220. The home has 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms...

Ankle-monitor wearing parolee committed Livermore robberies, police say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:48 GMT

LIVERMORE — A 21-year-old ex-convict from Fremont has been charged in the robbery and attempted robbery of two women at gunpoint last month at a shopping center here — crimes allegedly done while he was wearing an ankle monitor as a condition of his parole, according to authorities and court records.The suspect, who was paroled from prison in January after serving a brief term for shooting into an inhabited dwelling, was charged June 1 with second-degree robbery, attempted second-degree robbery, assault with a semi-automatic firearm, carrying a concealed firearm and two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm.He has pleaded not guilty to the charges and is scheduled for a pre-trial hearing June 13. He also faces a parole revocation hearing that day. He is being held at Santa Rita Jail in lieu of $340,000 bail.According to authorities and the documents, about 5 p.m. May 21 Livermore police responded to numerous reports of an altercation in the parking lot of the Arro...

Five hospitalized after walkway collapse in Texas

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:48 GMT

Associated PressSURFSIDE BEACH, Texas — Nearly two dozen teenagers from a summer camp were injured when an elevated walkway collapsed Thursday in a beachside city in Texas, with five flown to the hospital by helicopter.None of the injuries were expected to be life-threatening, Brazoria County officials said. The cause of the walkway collapse in Surfside Beach, a small city on the Gulf of Mexico, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) south of downtown Houston, was under investigation.Surfside Beach Volunteer Fire Department Assistant Chief Justin Mills said his department responded to an emergency call at 12:34 p.m. and set up landing areas for the medical helicopters.Sharon Trower, public information officer for Brazoria County, said all of the victims were between 14 and 18 years old and from the Bayou City Fellowship summer camp. Six were taken to hospitals by ambulance, and about 10 more were taken to hospitals by private vehicles, Trower said.Aerial video from TV station KTRK showed th...

How long can Warriors’ Steph Curry stay elite? His father believes it’ll be ‘several more years’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:48 GMT

Dell Curry remembers what he felt like when he was 35 years old in the NBA.That’s why he can marvel better than anyone at what his son Steph is able to do on the floor — and why he thinks Steph can stay among the NBA’s elite for years still to come.“I don’t see him slowing down,” Dell Curry said. “I remember how I felt at 35 and I didn’t have the mileage he has, but his work ethic in the summer gets him ready for the grind and what he has to go through.”Steph Curry made his ninth All-NBA team in 2022-23, finishing the regular season with 29.4 points (on 49.3% shooting and 42.7% 3-point shooting), 6.3 assists and 6.1 rebounds per game. He arguably was even better in the postseason, leading the Warriors to their first round win over their NorCal rival Kings with a 50-point effort in Game 7 at Sacramento.When he’s performing like this even after turning 35 in March, it makes it hard to think he can’t keep up this level – especially for those close to him, like Dell.“I don’t want to put...

Man charged in South Bay crime spree a no-show again for arraignment

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:48 GMT

SAN JOSE — The man blamed for a violent and indiscriminate crime spree last week that killed three people and injured seven others once again missed a court appearance to answer to 13 felony charges related to the three-hour rampage across San Jose and Milpitas.Kevin Parkourana, a 31-year-old San Jose resident, was initially scheduled to be arraigned on the charges Tuesday, but he refused transport to the Santa Clara County Hall of Justice — which is next door to the Main Jail where he was being held without bail — and Judge Elizabeth Peterson postponed the arraignment by two days. On Thursday, he was not transported to court again, and Peterson set the new arraignment date for next Tuesday.“I am working on it,” Lara Wallman, the deputy public defender who appeared on behalf of Parkourana, told Peterson of the efforts to get him in court.Santa Clara County Deputy Public Defender Lara Wallman, right, who is representing Kevin Parkourana, and Santa Clara County Deput...