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Single-family house in Piedmont sells for $3.5 million

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:20:41 GMT

245 Hillside Avenue – Google Street ViewThe spacious historic property located in the 200 block of Hillside Avenue in Piedmont was sold on April 4, 2023. The $3,450,000 purchase price works out to $1,078 per square foot. The house, built in 1909, has an interior space of 3,199 square feet. The property features five bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a garage sits on a 7,600-square-foot lot.Additional houses that have recently changed hands close by include:A 3,057-square-foot home on the 200 block of Hillside Avenue in Piedmont sold in July 2022, for $3,925,000, a price per square foot of $1,284. The home has 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.In November 2022, a 1,642-square-foot home on El Cerrito Avenue in Piedmont sold for $1,725,000, a price per square foot of $1,051. The home has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.On Magnolia Avenue, Oakland, in July 2022, a 2,062-square-foot home was sold for $1,740,000, a price per square foot of $844. 

15-month-old child struck by gunfire during attempted robbery in Oakland

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:20:41 GMT

(KRON) -- A 15-month-old child was struck by gunfire during an attempted robbery in Oakland Tuesday afternoon, according to the Oakland Police Department. The incident occurred on the 800 block Trestle Glen Road near Lakeshore just before 11 a.m. Man who fell off pier near SF Presidio transported to hospital in critical condition When officers arrived on the scene, they learned that two individuals approached the victim and the child, demanding the victim's belongings. One of the individuals had a firearm.The firearm was discharged during the incident and the child suffered shrapnel injuries, police said. First responders and paramedics with the Oakland Fire Department responded and treated the child. The child was taken to a local hospital for additional treatment and is reportedly in stable condition. An investigation into the incident is active, police said.This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

Two Bay Area students declared co-champions at state spelling bee

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:20:41 GMT

(KRON) -- After three hours of spelling, two Santa Clara County junior high school students were named as co-champions of the 2023 California State Spelling Bee, and earned spots to compete in the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee.Eighth-grader Vikrant Chintanaboina from Discovery Charter School - Falcon Campus, and seventh-grader Shradha Rachamreddy from BASIS Independent Silicon Valley Upper School, became co-champions last weekend. Judges declared Rachamreddy, 13, and Chintanaboina, 14, as winners after exhausting an extensive list of words at the state's spelling bee championship held in Stockton. The two super spellers out-spelled 41 stellar students from counties across the state.Shradha Rachamreddy is seen competing at the 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee, in Oxon Hill, Md., on May 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)“A big congratulations to them both for their determination and dedication to challenging their competitors and themselves," said County Superintendent of ...

MATCHDAY: Man City hosts Real Madrid in Champions League semifinals

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:20:41 GMT

A look at what’s happening in European soccer on Wednesday:CHAMPIONS LEAGUEArguably the two best teams in Europe face each other in the second leg of the Champions League semifinals when Manchester City hosts Real Madrid at Etihad Stadium on Wednesday. The repeat of last year’s semifinal is tied at 1-1 after the first leg in Madrid. Pep Guardiola and Carlo Ancelotti will once again go head-to-head, with City having a score to settle after losing in dramatic circumstances last season. City led 5-3 on aggregate going into the 90th minute of the second leg at Bernabeu Stadium, but went on to lose 6-5 after extra time. Guardiola is trying to win the Champions League for the first time as City manager, while Madrid can win it for a record-extending 15th time.ENGLANDMiddlesbrough hosts Coventry at Riverside Stadium in the second leg of the Championship playoffs semifinals. The first leg on Sunday ended in a 0-0 draw. ___More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitt...

Massachusetts US Attorney Rachael Rollins to resign after Justice Department watchdog probe

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:20:41 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins will resign after a monthslong ethics investigation by the Justice Department’s inspector general into her appearance at a political fundraiser and other potential issues, her attorney said Tuesday. The Justice Department’s watchdog has yet to release its report detailing the findings of its investigation, but an attorney for Rollins told The Associated Press that she will be submitting a letter of resignation to President Joe Biden by close of business Friday. “Rachael has been profoundly honored to serve as U.S. Attorney over the past 16 months and is incredibly proud of all her office has accomplished during that limited time, especially in the areas of gun violence and civil rights,” her attorney, former Justice Department Inspector General Michael Bromwich, said in a statement. “She is optimistic that the important work she started will continue but understands that her presence has become a distraction...

Child dead, 23 missing after hippopotamus capsizes canoe in Malawi

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:20:41 GMT

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — A 1-year-old child died and 23 people were missing and feared dead after a hippopotamus charged into and capsized a canoe on a river in southern Malawi, authorities said Tuesday.The long wooden canoe was carrying 37 people across the Shire River on their way to neighboring Mozambique when it was hit by the hippo in the Nsanje District on Monday. Malawian police rescued 13 with the help of World Food Program personnel who were working in the area and provided boats for the rescue operation, Nsanje District Police Commissioner Dominic Mwandira said.The people were feared dead because the search had been going on for more than 24 hours, police spokesperson Agnes Zalakoma said.Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera sent Minister of Water and Sanitation Abida Mia to the scene. She said locals told her hippos often caused problems in the area and they wanted authorities to relocate some of the animals.___More AP Africa news: https://apnews.com/hub/africaSource

Girl allegedly abducted in Illinois by noncustodial mother found safe in North Carolina

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:20:41 GMT

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A girl who was allegedly abducted in suburban Chicago in 2017 by her noncustodial mother has been found safe in North Carolina after she was spotted at a business, authorities said.The child was found safe Saturday in Asheville, North Carolina, by officers who were called to a business by someone who “believed she had recognized a woman who kidnapped a child in 2017,” Asheville police said Tuesday in a news release.Officers found a woman and a minor child at the business and were able to confirm their identities, police said. They said the woman, Heather Unbehaun, was wanted on an extradition warrant out of Illinois for child abduction.Unbehaun was taken into custody and booked into the Buncombe County Detention Facility on a $250,000 secured bond, police said.The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said the girl was 9 when Unehaun, her noncustodial mother, allegedly abducted her from South Elgin, Illinois, on July 5, 2017.In its news release, t...

Jackson Mahomes grabbed and kissed woman against her will three times, prosecutors say

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:20:41 GMT

Jackson Mahomes, the brother of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, grabbed a woman by the neck and kissed her against her will three times earlier this year, according to new information in an affidavit. Mahomes was charged with three counts of aggravated sexual battery and one count of battery after the incident at Aspens Restaurant and Lounge in Overland Park, Kansas, on Feb. 25.During a brief hearing on Tuesday, a Johnson County judge agreed to Mahomes’ request to have his bond agreement modified so he could talk to three of four people listed as witnesses, who are his friends.Mahomes declined to comment before and after Tuesday’s hearing. He has been free after posting $100,000 bond. The hearing came a day after a redacted affidavit provided more details of the alleged assault on the restaurant’s owner, Aspen Vaugh.Investigators said Mahomes shoved a waiter at the restaurant who tried to come into a room where he was with Vaughn. After the waiter l...

Jurors deliberate in trial over limousine wreck that killed 20 people in rural New York

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:20:41 GMT

SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — A jury heard closing arguments and began deliberations Tuesday in the trial of a limousine company manager accused of deadly indifference to safety rules before a crash that killed 20 people.Nauman Hussain is charged with criminally negligent homicide and second-degree manslaughter in connection with the 2018 wreck of a stretch SUV limousine in Schoharie, New York — one of the deadliest U.S. road wrecks of the past two decades.In closing arguments to the jury Tuesday, special prosecutor Frederick Rench said Hussain intentionally failed to follow maintenance regulations for the 2001 Ford Excursion, which was packed with birthday revelers when it hurtled down a hill, went off the road, and hit a parked car and trees before stopping in a streambed.Prosecutors say defective brakes failed to stop the heavy limo. Rench said that if Hussain had done routine state vehicle inspections, as required, it would’ve revealed brake defects and prevented the wreck.Hussain̵...

Grains mostly lower and Livestock mixed

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:20:41 GMT

Wheat for Jul. lost 13.25 cents at $6.4750 a bushel; Jul. corn fell 11.25 cents at $5.8125 a bushel, Jul. oats was up 4 cents at 3.45 a bushel; while Jul. soybeans declined 36.75 cents at $13.64 a bushel.Beef was lower and pork was higher on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Jun. live cattle was off .45 cent at $1.6387 a pound; May. feeder cattle fell .80 cent at $2.0570 a pound; while Jun. lean hogs rose 1.05 cents at $.8720 a pound.Source