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Bay Area suffers net job losses in March as hiring slowdown jolts region

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:45 GMT

The Bay Area economy, staggered by a widening slump in the tech sector, lost thousands of jobs during March, a disquieting jolt that hints at a slowdown in the region’s economy.The loss of 5,600 jobs in the Bay Area, reported Friday by a government labor agency, brings to a halt a remarkable streak of employment gains in the nine-county region that had extended 25 consecutive months. The Bay Area last lost jobs in January 2021, this news organization’s analysis of the government releases shows.The East Bay shed 6,400 jobs in March while the San Francisco-San Mateo region — hit hard by employment cutbacks in the tech sector, lost 5,600 jobs last month, the labor agency reported.The South Bay was the main bright spot in an otherwise grim report. Santa Clara County added 2,200 jobs in March, the primary reason why the employment setbacks in the Bay Area weren’t worse.Related ArticlesEconomy | BuzzFeed to close news division, cut 15% of all staff ...

Lyft to cut 1,200 jobs in latest layoffs: WSJ

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:45 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Lyft plans to cut 1,200 jobs in the latest round of layoffs for the San Francisco-based ride-share accompany, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the plan. The cuts represent a significant reduction of Lyft's workforce. The company currently employs around 4,000 people, so the cuts represent about 30% of its workforce. These are the most popular craft breweries in the US: data Lyft does not count its drivers among its employees.Lyft's most recent round of layoffs occurred in November of last year when the company let go about 13% of its workforce. The company also laid off about 60 employees last summer.According to the WSJ, the latest round of cuts could help the company reduce its operating expenses by half. The reported layoffs are the latest in a series of tech layoffs that have seen companies like Google, Salesforce and Meta all cut jobs in recent months. Earlier this week, Buzzfeed also announced it would be s...

BART employee makes initial court appearance for fatal hit-and-run

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:45 GMT

A BART employee made his initial appearance in court Thursday to face vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run charges for hitting and killing a pedestrian with his transit agency service truck earlier this month in South San Francisco, prosecutors said. Joaquin Duarte Jr., 52, a systems service foreworker for BART, was arrested Tuesday in connection with the collision reported early on the morning of April 5 in the 1500 block of El Camino Real, according to South San Francisco police. Millbrae 6th grade teacher arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting students A pedestrian, identified by the San Mateo County Coroner's Office as William King, 45, of South San Francisco, was trying to cross the southbound lanes of El Camino Real near the intersection to the entrance to a Costco store parking lot when he was hit, the county District Attorney's Office said. KRON On is streaming live news now.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hid...

Bagent’s journey typifies NFL draft’s small school prospects

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:45 GMT

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Tyson Bagent played college football in relative obscurity.At Shepherd University in West Virginia’s eastern panhandle, it would be easy to bypass this Division II school and its star quarterback. But when the New York Jets visited Shepherdstown in 2019, Bagent’s whole world changed.Suddenly, the son of an international arm-wrestling champion saw the NFL become a realistic opportunity. Next week Bagent just might be the first Shepherd player drafted since the Houston Oilers took Wayne Wilson in the 12th round in 1979.“I know I’m right where I’m supposed to be,” Bagent said. “I know I’m just as good as any quarterback in this draft class. And I know I have exactly what it takes to play at this level.”The strong-armed Bagent certainly looks the part at 6-foot-3, 213 pounds. He also has numbers that would make Bryce Young or C.J. Stroud jealous — completing 69.9% of his throws last season, setting a Division II career record with 17,034...

Virginia Beach leads nation for Gen-Z homebuyers

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:45 GMT

Fewer adults under 25 are homeowners, but Virginia Beach, Virginia, leads the nation for the share of homeowners who are.Redfin ranks Virginia Beach No. 1 for Gen-Z homebuyers last year. Those under 25 years old bought roughly 9% of primary homes that sold there last year, a bigger share than anywhere else in the country.Virginia Beach is home to one of the biggest U.S. military bases, and Redfin said nearly half of mortgaged home sales there last year used VA loans. Those loans are available to service members and require very low or no down payments. That makes purchasing a home more attainable for young buyers who have not built up a lot of savings.Nationwide, Gen-Z homeowners are ahead of their parents’ generation. In 2022, 30% of under 26 adults owned their home, higher than the 27% rate for Gen Xers when they were the same age.It is slightly lower than the homeownership rate for baby boomers, 32% when they were the same age.Redfin said a 25-year-old homeowner’s med...

Canadian academic convicted in 1980 Paris synagogue bombing

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:45 GMT

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court has convicted a Lebanese-Canadian academic in absentia on terrorism charges and sentenced him to life in prison over a bombing outside a Paris synagogue in 1980 that killed four and wounded 46.The court issued an arrest warrant for suspect Hassan Diab, lives in Ottawa, Canada and denies wrongdoing. His lawyers say he was in Lebanon at the time of the attack and is a victim of mistaken identity.The trial that marked the culmination of decades of investigation in one of France’s longest unsolved crimes.French authorities accuse Diab of planting the bomb outside the synagogue where 320 worshipers had gathered to mark the end of a Jewish holiday on the evening of Oct. 3, 1980, , including children celebrating their bar mitzvahs. French investigators attributed the synagogue attack to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-Special Operations. But no one ever claimed responsibility.The conviction was a surprise to many even in the court. Among t...

Judge scolds 1/6 lawyer, but won’t seek disciplinary action

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:45 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Washington reprimanded an attorney whose withdrawal from a Jan. 6 defendant’s case led to a delay in the man’s trial — potentially keeping him behind bars longer — but the judge declined to refer him for disciplinary action. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, suggested last month that he was considering referring attorney Joseph McBride to the court’s committee on grievances, saying it appeared the attorney misled the court when he withdrew from the case of a man charged with assaulting officers during the riot. McBride withdrew from Christopher Quaglin’s case last month — just weeks before the man’s April trial date — because McBride said he needed to focus on another Jan. 6 case. McBride told the judge that another attorney, Jonathan Gross, would take over, saying Gross “knows Quaglin’s case well.”Soon after, however, Gross told McFadden that he wanted to delay Quaglin’s t...

Erie police give 'all clear' after sweeping King Soopers for possible pipe bomb

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:45 GMT

ERIE, Colo. (KDVR) -- The Erie Police Department said a King Soopers was "all clear" after it was swept for a possible pipe bomb threat on Friday morning.Police evacuated the store as the bomb techs investigated the building. The department said a bomb-sniffing dog was deployed to the store located at 1891 State Highway 7 to assist in the investigation.The store was closed to all public entry but reopened just before noon.

Colorado no longer nation's cocaine capital

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:45 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado is no longer the nation's cocaine capital, though it still has one of the highest use rates among 18 to 25-year-olds.In 2020, Colorado had the nation's highest self-reported cocaine use, according to survey data from the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Among people 12 years old and up, 2.24% of Coloradans had used cocaine in the past year. Denver no longer nation’s top city for weed SAMHSA's 2021 survey shows other states have higher usage rates. In 2021, 1.81% of Coloradans 12 and over had used cocaine in the past year - the 20th-highest use rate of U.S. states. East Coast locales have the nation's highest cocaine use rates. The District of Columbia had the highest rate with 3.66% of residents aged 12 and over reporting using it in the last year. Vermont, New York, Maryland and Massachusetts come next. Texas, Utah and Idaho have the lowest rates. Broncos among most popular franch...

Nearly 100 dogs removed from Weld County residence

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:40:45 GMT

WELD COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) -- A residence in Weld County had nearly 100 dogs removed from the property and the owners were cited for operating a kennel without a license, the Weld County Sheriff's Office said.The Colorado Department of Agriculture’s Pet Animal Care and Facilities Act program and the sheriff's office animal control took 95 dogs from a Weld County residence on Tuesday. The CDA issued a cease and desist order to the owners of the dogs "for operating an animal shelter or sanctuary at their residence without a valid license," WCSO said. What Purina says it’s doing to eliminate odor at Denver plant The sheriff's office said the owners were cooperative and that were small Chiweenie (mix between Chihuahua and Dachshund)/terrier mix dogs.Thirty-five of the dogs went to the Larimer Humane Society transported and 60 dogs will be divvied out to the Foothills Animal Shelter, the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region and the MaxFund Animal Shelter. After intake and examinatio...