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Sale closed in Los Gatos: $7 million for a five-bedroom home

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:31:09 GMT

139 Longmeadow Drive – Google Street ViewA spacious house located in the 100 block of Longmeadow Drive in Los Gatos has new owners. The 8,763-square-foot property, built in 1958, was sold on Aug. 28, 2023. The $6,975,000 purchase price works out to $796 per square foot. This single-story house offers a spacious layout with five bedrooms and five baths. Inside, a fireplace enhances the ambiance of the living area. Additionally, the house comes with a two-car garage, allowing for convenient vehicle storage and additional storage space. The property’s backyard also includes both a spa and a pool.Additional houses have recently been sold nearby:A 3,105-square-foot home on the 100 block of Blueberry Hill Drive in Los Gatos sold in December 2022, for $4,125,000, a price per square foot of $1,329. The home has 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.On Clover Way, Los Gatos, in May 2023, a 2,442-square-foot home was sold for $4,250,000, a price per square foot of $1,740. The home has 4 bedrooms and 3 b...

Deputies clear out heated Sunol Glen school board meeting

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:31:09 GMT

SUNOL, Calif. (KRON) -- An Sunol Glen school board was cleared out by sheriff's deputies Tuesday night after it became disorderly, according to a KRON4 photographer at the scene. The board passed a resolution to restrict all non-state-required flags on school campuses. It only allows flags like United States and California flag, and bans items such as Pride flags. At about 9 p.m., before it was voted on, the school board asked everyone to leave and called in Alameda County Sheriff's deputies to escort people out. The vote passed 2-to-1 at about 9:40 p.m. Massive sinkhole forms in SF intersection after water main break The resolution raised questions about whether the school board was discriminating against the LGBTQ+ community, and the meeting became heated when some people felt the comments were becoming one-sided. "It takes away educational factors for our school," said a parent at the meeting named Rhiana B. "LGBTQ rights are part of our social studies history curriculum here ...

Five former Memphis officers federally indicted in Tyre Nichols case

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:31:09 GMT

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) --- An indictment was filed in federal court Tuesday charging five former Memphis police officers with depriving Tyre Nichols of his rights during a January 7 arrest that led to his death. The indictment lists four separate counts including excessive force and failure to intervene, deliberate indifference, conspiracy to witness tamper, and witness tampering for former officers, and Emmitt Martin, Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr., and Justin Smith. It also lists overt acts committed by the officers during the incident. One of the acts includes Haley and Mills taking off their body-worn cameras and setting them aside before gathering with the other officers to discuss the force used on Nichols and making statements such as "I thought when he wasn't going to fall, we about to kill this man," while emergency medical personnel were at the scene. “The country watched in horror as Tyre Nichols was kicked, punched, tased, and pepper sprayed, and we a...

Putin, Kim sit down for talks at Russia’s biggest domestic space launch center, Russian state media report

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:31:09 GMT

MOSCOW (AP) — Putin, Kim sit down for talks at Russia’s biggest domestic space launch center, Russian state media report.Source

Putin welcomes Kim Jong Un with tour of rocket launch center

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:31:09 GMT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The leaders of Russia and North Korea met at a remote Siberian rocket launch facility for a summit that underscores how the two leaders’ interests are aligning in the face of their separate, intensifying confrontations with the United States.The two men began their meeting with a tour of a Soyuz-2 space rocket launch facility, at which North Korean leader Kim Jong Un peppered a Russian space official with questions about the rockets.The meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin came hours after North Korea fired two ballistic missiles toward the sea, extending a highly provocative run in North Korean weapons testing since the start of 2022, as Kim used the distraction caused by Putin’s war on Ukraine to accelerate his weapons development.South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff didn’t immediately say how far the North Korean missiles flew. Japan’s Coast Guard, citing Tokyo’s Defense Ministry, said the missiles have likely already landed but still urged vesse...

NSYNC reunites, Taylor Swift wins as VMAs celebrate hip hop

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:31:09 GMT

Taylor Swift took home the top prize at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards for her “Anti-Hero” music video on a night full of surprises.“This is unbelievable. The fact that this is a fan-voted award means so much to me,” Swift said in her acceptance speech. “I can’t believe it was a year ago that I announced the ‘Midnights’ album.”The show, held at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, was Swift’s from nearly the beginning. The night’s first presenters were none other than NSYNC, who reunited to hand the best pop video award to Swift.In coordinating suits, Justin Timberlake, Joey Fatone, Lance Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick and JC Chasez shared the stage with Swift. Bass handed her a friendship bracelet, just as fans do at the superstar’s shows. “You’re pop personified,” she told the group.The night’s top nominee later returned to the stage to pick up the song of the year trophy for “Anti-Hero” and also the best direction award.Swift took home nine of the 11 awards sh...

Olson ties team homer mark, Braves beat Phillies 7-6 in 10 innings to move to brink of NL East title

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:31:09 GMT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Matt Olson could have picked any number of milestones that stood out as his favorite in a season where his 51 homers matched the best in Braves’ history. Olson even considered Atlanta’s 281 total homers — a number stretched when the Braves hit three more against the Phillies — the most in a season for any team in National League history.But the most impressive feat?For Olson, make it 95 wins for the Braves — and put the champagne on ice.Olson matched Andruw Jones for the Braves’ season home run record with 51 and Atlanta moved to the cusp of the NL East title, beating the Philadelphia Phillies 7-6 in 10 innings Tuesday night.The Braves can wrap up their sixth straight division crown with a win Wednesday over the Phillies.“That’s why we play this game,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said. “It’s an exciting time of year and everybody’s aware of it. It’s kind of special that you get to experience that. Heck yeah, they should enjoy ...

Mariners snap 4-game losing streak and gain ground in playoff race by blanking Angels 8-0

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:31:09 GMT

SEATTLE (AP) — After struggling on their last road trip and losing in extra innings when they returned home, the Seattle Mariners needed an easy night at the ballpark. J.P. Crawford hit a three-run double that broke open the game, Eugenio Suárez homered and had an early RBI single, and the Mariners scored seven runs with two outs in an 8-0 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday.The Mariners snapped a four-game losing streak and took advantage of Houston’s loss to last-place Oakland to pull within 1½ games of the AL West-leading Astros. Seattle also tied Toronto for the third and final AL wild card.“You go through the highs, you go through the lows and once you learn how to maintain that evenness of that you just keep going day by day, you keep grinding and things are going to go our way eventually,” Crawford said. A night after losing to the Angels in part because of their failure to get two-out hitting, the Mariners put together two big innings centered around clutch hits with ...

Concern raised over mental health provider swap at Grossmont Union High School District

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:31:09 GMT

EL CAJON, Calif. -- People in the Grossmont Union High School District community are upset after the school board abruptly ended a decades-long relationship with San Diego Youth Services. Parents and students are now questioning why the sudden switch was made, which has led to more questions about if the district truly supports its LGBTQ population as well.“They canceled the contract after one meeting without doing any diligence in my opinion,” Krysta Henningsen said.At a July 20 board meeting, public comment included some concern over the provider offering gender affirming care. Though board members haven’t given a clear reason why they ended the relationship with San Diego Youth Services, board member Dr. Gary Woods said “we need to look for alternatives that best reflect East County values,” before voting to cancel the contract.“The comments made at that meeting were enough to raise serious concern among many members of our community regarding the true motives of the GUHSD board ...

Australia’s highest court finds Qantas illegally fired 1,700 ground staff during pandemic

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:31:09 GMT

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Qantas Airways lost its challenge to a court ruling on Wednesday that the Australian flag carrier had illegally fired 1,700 baggage handlers, cleaners and other ground staff at the height of pandemic travel disruptions.Seven High Court judges unanimously rejected Qantas’ appeal against a Federal Court full-bench decision. That court upheld a Federal Court judge’s ruling that the sacking of Qantas staff at 10 Australian airports in 2020 was illegal.The ruling is another major blow for the airline, which Australia’s consumer watchdog is suing for more than 250 million Australian dollars ($160 million) for allegedly selling thousands of tickets mid-2022 for flights that had already been canceled.Australian Competition and Consumer Commission initiated the Federal Court lawsuit two weeks ago for what it considers Australia’s most serious-ever breach of consumer law.That prompted Qantas former chief executive Alan Joyce to retire last week two months ahead of s...