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Sainted: Eric the ump, you help make our city great

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:35:59 GMT

SaintedMost years, our adult softball season highlights entail wild catches, miraculous hits after a dry spell, base running that doesn’t result in pulled muscles, and enjoying a few cold beverages with friends. This year, we have been lucky to add an extraordinary umpire named Eric to the highlight list.It’s rare to see a person truly care and connect with those around them, with no agenda beyond the joy it brings. As the umpire for our St. Paul Parks and Recreation 9 p.m. softball game this week at Dunning Field, Eric exuded a sense of humor, community pride and connected humanity with everyone in attendance. He asked our names and confirmed again, his smile was infectious and sincere, his willingness to stay late on a cold night despite the other team’s no-show was a reminder of the importance some still hold for doing the job well, no matter what.In speaking with him about his love for our city, his work within the rec centers and the public school system, his delight in familia...

Hudson Valley Dance Festival celebrating 10 years

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:35:59 GMT

CATSKILL, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Local and internationally regarded talent will grace the stage at the 10th Hudson Valley Dance Festival on October 7. The charitable performance is presented by Dancers Responding to AIDS and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! Among the 470 organizations supported nationwide by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, there are 15 in the Hudson Valley, including the Albany Damien Center.NEWS10's Giuliana Bruno was joined by Corey Snide and Jenna Snide, co-founders of Capital Region Arts Initiative, a week before the festival to discuss their involvement from choreography, to raising funds through their own Trunk-or-Treat event. You can watch the full interview in the video player above.

Bones in a box: Mystery of missing Illinois veteran solved

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:35:59 GMT

MATTOON, Ill -- In 2017, mysterious bones discovered in a military footlocker in Wyoming were positively identified as those of Joseph Mulvaney, a World War II veteran of the Illinois National Guard. After his National Guard service, Mulvaney took a job with the railroad but disappeared in 1963 in Des Moines, Iowa. His children were initially told that he had simply wandered off. However, a different story emerged through his granddaughter, Shelley Statler, and an unexpected discovery with a grocery bag.  Curiosity Revealed a Mystery:Joseph Mulvaney and his parentsIn Thermopolis, Wyoming, Newell Sessions had been a good neighbor to “Gabby” or also known as “David Tanner." It would be revealed that is name was actually John Morris. In 1986, Morris entrusted Sessions with a footlocker to hold while he was out of town, but Morris disappeared for six years without reclaiming it. On Halloween in 1992, Sessions finally managed to open the securely padlocked footlocker ...

On the brink of a government shutdown, the Senate tries to approve funding but it's almost too late

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:35:59 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is on the brink of a federal government shutdown after hard-right Republicans in Congress rejected a longshot effort to keep offices open as they fight for steep spending cuts and strict border security measures that Democrats and the White House say are too extreme.With no deal in place by midnight Saturday, federal workers will face furloughs, more than 2 million active-duty and reserve military troops will work without pay and programs and services that Americans rely on from coast to coast will begin to face shutdown disruptions.The Senate will be in for a rare Saturday session to advance its own bipartisan package that is supported by Democrats and Republicans and would fund the government for the short-term, through Nov. 17. But even if the Senate can rush to wrap up its work this weekend to pass the bill, which also includes money for Ukraine aid and U.S. disaster assistance, it won't prevent an almost certain shutdown amid the chaos in the...

Newsom faces challenging decision in Feinstein replacement

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:35:59 GMT

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is faced with a difficult decision over who will fill the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) seat after her passing Friday at age 90. Feinstein, the longest-serving woman in the Senate, died after three decades in the upper chamber. The pressure is now on Newsom to appoint a replacement to temporarily serve as senator for the Golden State until voters elect their next choice in 2024.  Newsom has said he will pick a Black woman to fill the seat, though he has also signaled he wants to stay above the fray in next year's Senate race — drawing rebukes from Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), one of the declared candidates, in the process. “He has a big political calculation to make,” California-based Democratic strategist Kate Maeder said of Newsom’s “huge task at hand” in picking a replacement to follow Feinstein’s “titan” legacy representing her state.  “Choosing her replacement is no easy ...

Contra Costa County judge shows no leniency to man convicted of killing two girls in 2018 crash

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:35:59 GMT

A man accused of killing two young girls while driving a stolen truck received no leniency Friday from a Contra Costa County judge, who had been tasked with reconsidering his sentence after an appellate court tossed one of the man’s five convictions.Noe Saucedo, 29, saw his potential prison term effectively reduced by only a few years after Judge Rebecca Hardie imposed the stiffest possible remaining sentence against him during an emotional and tear-filled hearing inside a Pittsburg courthouse.Calling the case “profoundly disturbing and sad,” Hardie said she saw few — if any — mitigating factors suggesting Saucedo should walk free anytime soon. She also expressed regret that that she couldn’t do more to help ease the enduring pain felt by the girls’ parents.“These little girls will never go to school, have a wedding, find love — and that’s not going to change today,” Hardie said.During the hearing, the girls’ father, Jesus Cardoz...

East Bay firefighter with pending child porn case allegedly drowned in mysterious boating accident. The feds aren’t so sure

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:35:59 GMT

OAKLAND — Charles Johnathen Harris ‘ legal and personal problems had been stacking up last March. But a week after he was indicted of federal charges of possessing child pornography, and in danger of losing his Alameda County firefighter job, he got one small amount of relief.A magistrate judge on March 14, 2023 lifted requirements that Harris remain on home detention and submit to location monitoring by a pretrial services officer, court records show. Just three weeks later, Harris was gone.To Harris’ family and lawyer, he died a tragic death before he had a real chance to demonstrate his innocence in a court of law.The U.S. Department of Justice isn’t so sure. Citing her many unanswered questions, a federal prosecutor convinced a judge in April to issue an arrest warrant for Harris, should he turn up alive. Now, five months later, the case and the warrant remain active, newly obtained court records reveal.The mystery centers on Dutton Island, a remote marsh...

Moody surprises young Warriors superfan paralyzed by stray bullet

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:35:59 GMT

OAKLAND — Warriors guard Moses Moody came to the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital on Thursday with a bag full of team gear. His mere presence was a gift to the boy in the wheelchair.Asa is an 8-year-old from Oakland whose young life was forever changed on July 14, when he was struck in the back of the neck by a stray bullet. He was hit while riding in the backseat of a car driving down I-580 that was caught between two cars with people shooting at each other.Asa is paralyzed from the neck down. He lives on a respirator and a feeding tube and requires round-the-clock nursing care, therapy and more surgeries to come.Through it all, though, his family sees Asa’s passions glimmer at the surface.“He’s not always that excited to get up in the wheelchair, which is new to him,” said Asa’s mom, Melissa Neuwelt. “But when he found out Moses Moody was coming he said, ‘Let’s do this.'”Asa loves to read, play chess and requests to hear ...

‘Police playground:’ Opposition grows to $44 million regional training facility and HQ in San Pablo

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:35:59 GMT

SAN PABLO — A $43.6 million law enforcement regional training center and new police headquarters is coming to San Pablo, a largely low-income, Hispanic and aging enclave in West Contra Costa County home to roughly 31,000 residents and 62 sworn officers — and not everyone is happy about it.According to the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office, San Pablo is the most policed city in the county, relative to its population. Now after quietly slogging through more than three years of planning, construction on this project — one of the largest in city history — is scheduled to start in October, despite growing controversy and public protest.The proposed two-story, 42,000-square-foot facility is slated for a vacant city-owned lot on Gateway Avenue, replacing the city’s current police department headquarters.The development promises to attract law enforcement agencies from across the Bay Area and alternative public safety organizations, such as Contra Costa County’s m...

49ers vs. Cardinals: Five keys to avoiding upset against ‘scrappy’ division rival

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:35:59 GMT

SANTA CLARA – Sandwiched between last Thursday night’s home-opening hoopla and next Sunday night’s visit by the Dallas Cowboy is … a trap game?No, no, that can’t be right. The 49ers’ schedule says this Sunday’s matinee is simply against the Arizona Cardinals.Any NFC West matchup carries extra weight, and the undefeated Niners (3-0) insist they aren’t taking lightly the incoming Cardinals (1-2). Nor should they.“They’re a team that really should be 3-0 right now,” 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan said.The Cardinals have taken a fourth-quarter lead into each of their games, only to lose against the Washington Commanders and the New York Giants before upsetting the previously undefeated Dallas Cowboys last Sunday, 28-16.“Arizona looked like a really solid team that was playing harder than Dallas,” said defensive end Nick Bosa, who caught that game on television over the weekend after Thursday night’s 30-12, home-opening win by the 49ers over the New York Giants.Speaking of L...