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‘Absolute loyalty’ rings as true to members of the 1990 San Jose State football team now as it did then

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:42:53 GMT

The San Jose State Spartans took the field Saturday night and whether they knew it or not, they had the absolute loyalty of the 1990 team at their backs.Absolute loyalty. Two words introduced to them as young men, two words that became a mantra that carried those Spartans through the 1990 season, two words that still bind them tightly 33 years later.“Whenever we text each other,” said Ralph Martini, the quarterback of the 1990 team, “the last words are always ‘absolute loyalty.’”San Jose State quarterback Ralph Martini shows off a text proving he and his 1990 football teammates still use the “absolute loyalty” mantra to this day. The team held a reunion Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023, before this year’s game against Fresno State, in San Jose, Calif. (Bud Geracie/Bay Area News Group) Those two words ran like a current through a cocktail party at a Santa Clara hotel Friday night. Absolute loyalty. I heard it from the first person I interviewed to the last. At one point, I looked around ...

They said it: Not rising to the occasion

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:42:53 GMT

“The county dropped the ball.”— Santa Clara County Executive James Williams, acknowledging county agencies in charge of protecting children made mistakes by allowing a father with a history of drug abuse to care for his 3-month-old daughter Phoenix Castro, who died of a fentanyl and methamphetamine overdose in May.

San Francisco CEO summit offers welcome boost — and some risk — for Biden, Newsom, Breed

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:42:53 GMT

The massive convergence of world and corporate leaders on San Francisco for this week’s Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation gathering offers a welcome boost — but also some risk — for Democratic Party leaders from President Joe Biden to Gov. Gavin Newsom and Mayor London Breed.All three have seen their popularity sag in recent polls amid mixed economic signals, troubles abroad and domestic woes from crime to homelessness, while the host city itself has seen its spectacular vistas, cable cars and sourdough eclipsed by news reports of rampant retail thefts, car break-ins and homelessness.The APEC CEO Summit — said to be the biggest gathering of world leaders in the city since the founding of the United Nations there in 1945 — offers a chance to reset that narrative.“There’s a lot at stake,” said David McCuan, a political science professor at Sonoma State University. “It’s a bit of a forward-looking, turning of the page.”The event will bring toge...

Today in Sports – Nathan Vasher returns a missed FG 108 yds. for a TD, longest play in NFL history

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:42:53 GMT

Nov. 131934 — Ralph Bowman of the St. Louis Eagles scores the first penalty-shot goal in NHL history. Bowman’s goal comes on the second penalty shot attempt in league history and is the only goal for the Eagles, who lose to the Montreal Maroons 2-1.1949 — Chicago’s Bob Nussbaumer intercepts four passes, and the Cardinals set an NFL record for points in a regular-season game with a 65-20 victory over the New York Bulldogs.1955 — Goalies Glenn Hall and Terry Sawchuk play to a 0-0 tie at Boston Garden. Hall, a rookie goalie with the Detroit Red Wings, and Terry Sawchuk of the Bruins, played to a 0-0 tie on Oct. 22 at the Olympia in Detroit. The shutout is the 61st for Sawchuk and the fourth for Hall.1964 — St. Louis Hawks forward Bob Pettit becomes the first NBA player to score 20,000 points, with 29 in a 123-106 loss to the Cincinnati Royals.1971 — Colorado’s Charlie Davis sets an NCAA record for a sophomore by rushing for 342 yards in a 40-6 victory over Oklahoma State.1982 — Souther...

Boos ring out in Naples as defending champion loses to lowly Empoli in Serie A

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:42:53 GMT

MILAN (AP) — Defending champion Napoli fell to its third loss of the season in Serie A to pile the pressure on coach Rudi Garcia as a stoppage-time goal saw lowly Empoli win 1-0 at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona on Sunday.Viktor Kovalenko scored with a stunning strike late on for Empoli, which had lost eight of its previous 11 matches, and the boos rang out in Naples.All three of Napoli’s losses have come in front of its own fans and it has only won one match at home since the end of August. It lost just two matches at home on its way to the title last season under Luciano Spalletti.Napoli remained fourth, eight points behind league leader Juventus although Inter Milan can move back top when it plays Frosinone later. Empoli moved a point clear of the relegation zone.Napoli’s matches immediately after the international break are against Atalanta, Real Madrid, Inter and Juventus.Lazio was also playing Roma later in the capital derby.Napoli could have moved third, following AC...

Man wanted for gas station robberies in Thornton

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:42:53 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Police in Thornton were searching for a man who was wanted for aggravated robbery after two incidents at gas stations along East 104th Avenue.According to police, after both incidents, the suspect drove away in a 2005 Chevrolet Silverado that was reported stolen several days earlier.Anyone with information on the suspect was asked to call the tip line at 720-977-5069.

Netanyahu: Israeli ground invasion ‘the one thing’ that might lead to a hostage deal

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:42:53 GMT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined to confirm reports about a possible deal with Hamas to free Israeli hostages trapped in Gaza on Sunday, but attributed any movement toward an agreement to Israel’s deadly ground offensive in the region.“There could be [a deal], but I think the less I said about it, the more I’ll increase the chances that it materializes,” Netanyahu told NBC’s Kristen Welker on Sunday during an interview on “Meet the Press.”“I can say that we weren’t close at all until we started the ground operation,” Netanyahu said, adding that the pressure the Israel Defense Forces has put on Hamas leadership “the one thing that might create a deal.”Israel began its ground invasion into Gaza following the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack, during which around 1,200 Israelis were killed, according to Israeli officials, and an estimated 240 people taken hostage.Thousands more Palestinians have been killed since the war began — more than 11,000, two-thirds ...

The third of four men who escaped a Georgia jail in mid-October has been captured at an Augusta home

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:42:53 GMT

MACON, Ga. (AP) — The third of four men who escaped from a Georgia jail last month was captured Sunday morning at a home in Augusta, local and federal authorities said. Johnifer Dernard Barnwell, 37, was captured in a home where police also found large quantities of drugs, according to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI.Barnwell was being held on drug charges when he and three other inmates escaped through a damaged window and a cut fence at the jail early Oct. 16.Authorities continue to search for 52-year-old Joey Fournier. Georgia news outlets reported that Fournier was being held on a murder charge in connection with the 2022 death of his ex-girlfriend when he and the others escaped. Chavis Demaryo Stokes, 29, was caught on Oct. 26; Marc Kerry Anderson, 25, was captured Nov. 3. Video footage from the day of the escape showed that a blue Dodge Challenger had been just outside the jail hours before the escape. Video also appeared to show someone tampering with the f...

Longtime Democrat from New York, Brian Higgins, to leave Congress next year

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:42:53 GMT

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Brian Higgins, D-N.Y., will leave Congress in February after 19 years, a spokeswoman confirmed Sunday.The Buffalo area Democrat scheduled a news conference for mid-morning.In an interview with The Buffalo News published Sunday, Higgins said he has grown frustrated with the House of Representatives.“Congress is not the institution that I came to 19 years ago,” Higgins told the newspaper. “And, you know, it’s in a very, very bad place right now. I am hopeful, as I always am, that it gets better. But unfortunately, I think we’re at the beginning phases of a deterioration of the prestige of the institution.”He did not immediately say what he would do next.The announcement comes two days after Republican Rep. Brad Wenstrup of Ohio announced he will not seek reelection next year.Higgins is credited with leading the efforts to revitalize Buffalo’s waterfront.The Associated Press

Over 30 workers are trapped after a portion of a tunnel under construction collapses in India

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:42:53 GMT

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Part of an under-construction road tunnel in a mountainous north Indian state popular with tourists collapsed after a landslide Sunday, trapping more than 30 workers, officials said.Rescue work is in progress and oxygen is being pumped through a pipe into the collapsed section of the tunnel to help workers breathe, said Manohar Tamta, an Uttarakhand state relief official. “It will take some time to bring them out,” Tamta said.The workers have sent out signals indicating that they are safe,” the Press Trust of India news agency cited a state government official as saying.“I am in touch with the officials on the spot and constantly monitoring the situation,” said the top state elected official, Pushkar Singh Dhami.The collapsed portion of the tunnel is about 200 meters (500 feet) from the entrance, said police officer Arpan Yaduvanshi. Food is also being sent to the trapped workers, PTI quoted him as saying.About 160 rescuers from federal and st...