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Is it more expensive to own or rent in the Bay Area?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:18 GMT

(KRON) -- The Bay Area is the most expensive place in the country to own a home, according to a new Redfin report.The report says the Bay Area has the highest homeownership premiums, where it’s twice as expensive to buy a home than it is to rent. Mortgage rates have gone up everywhere, but in San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland more homes are considered high end. The interest rates of those homes are what make them so much more expensive to own.The high cost of living isn’t news to Bay Area residents, but for those deciding between renting or owning a home, Redfin says it’s a cheaper option to rent here.Chief Economist at Redfin, Daryl Fairweather says that’s because of higher mortgage rates and the interest on them.“Having a really large amount of debt it allows that compounding to kind of accumulate faster than if it was a small amount of debt. So that’s it hurts a bit harder in the most high-end markets,” Fairweather said. The Redfin report listed San Jose as having the largest h...

Dog suffers injuries after falling over cliff in San Francisco

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:18 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – A dog suffered injuries on June 3 after jumping over a wall and falling down onto the beach next to the Cliff House."My dog is very good off leash. We go to the beach all of the time. He must have thought the beach was on the other side from where we were standing, and he jumped over the barrier to get to the beach and fell. I don't know how many feet but a very long distance,” said Jim Taugher, the dog’s owner.  9 people shot in SF Mission District Friday night He said he rushed down to the beach where he found his dog, Booker, severely injured and rushed him to an emergency veterinarian. "We have a cast under here. Then we have this little covering to protect it. You can see they had to shave here. He has a few cuts on his face. He is just here recovering,” said Taugher.KRON On is streaming news live now.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-co...

Muere en una cárcel “Unabomber”, uno de los terroristas más despiadados de EEUU

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:18 GMT

Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, conocido como el “Unabomber” y quien fue considerado uno de los terroristas más despiadados de Estados Unidos, murió en una prisión federal, informó el sábado a The Associated Press un portavoz de la Oficina de Prisiones.Kaczynski, un prodigioso matemático de 81 años, fue hallado muerto alrededor de las 8 de la mañana en una prisión federal en Carolina del Norte. De momento se desconoce la causa de su deceso.Fue trasladado a la instalación médica de la prisión federal en Carolina del Norte después de pasar dos décadas en una prisión federal Supermax en Colorado por una serie de ataques con bomba contra científicos.Kaczynski cumplía una condena perpetua sin posibilidad de libertad bajo fianza después de su arresto en 1996 en una rudimentaria cabaña en la que vivía en el occidente de Montana. Se declaró culpable de provocar 16 explosiones que mataron a tres personas y lesionaron a 23 más en varias partes del país entre 1978 y 1995.Source

Estaban deshidratados: así hallaron a los cuatro hermanitos perdidos en la selva por 40 días

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:18 GMT

Los cuatro hermanos indígenas rescatados luego de vagar extraviados durante 40 días por la selva colombiana tras sobrevivir a un accidente aéreo recibían el sábado atención médica en un hospital de Bogotá, adonde arribaron la madrugada del sábado para ser evaluados.Está previsto que el presidente Gustavo Petro visite por la mañana a los menores en el Hospital Militar, que fue resguardado por fuerzas policiales y militares.El anuncio del rescate el viernes puso un final feliz a una aventura que tenía en vilo a muchos colombianos, un periplo con altibajos mientras los rescatistas peinaban frenéticamente la selva en busca de los niños. Colombia: tras 40 días, hallan a los cuatro niños que sobrevivieron a accidente aéreo Tragedia aérea en Colombia: los mensajes del piloto antes de que se estrellara el avión en la selva Damaris Mucutuy, tía de los menores, en entrevista telefónica con Radio Blue de Colombia el sábado, aseguró que “los ...

Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber for years of attacks that killed 3, dies in prison at 81

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:18 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday. He was 81.Branded the “Unabomber” by the FBI, Kaczynski died at the federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina, Kristie Breshears, a spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons, told The Associated Press. He was found unresponsive in his cell early Saturday morning and was pronounced dead around 8 a.m., she said. A cause of death was not immediately known.Before his transfer to the prison medical facility, he had been held in the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998, when he was sentenced to four life sentences plus 30 years for a campaign of terror that set universities nationwide on edge. He admitted committing 16 bombings from 1978 and 1995, permanently maiming several of his victims.Years before the Sept. 11 ...

These two San Diego reservoirs are almost 100% full

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:18 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Two reservoirs in San Diego County are almost 100% full, according to data released Monday. The City of San Diego updated its water levels information page on June 5, showing the Barrett Reservoir in Jamul and the Lower Otay Reservoir in Chula Vista are both over 96% filled. 6 places to go kayaking in San Diego At its max capacity, the Barrett Reservoir would have a depth of 160.40 feet. The most recent measurements show it's 96.5% full, according to the city.As for the Lower Otay Reservoir, its full depth would be 136.08 feet. That same data shows it's currently 97.4% full.Here's a look at city's calculations, which includes other reservoir levels in the county:*AF = acre foot; 1 acre foot equals about 326,000 gallons, or enough water to cover an acre of land, about the size of a football field, one foot deep. *MGD = Million gallons per day.ReservoirDepth When FullCurrent DepthStorage Capacity (AF)Current Storage (AF)Storage Change (AF)Percent FullSpill MGDBarrett1...

Biden marks LGBTQ+ Pride Month with celebration on White House South Lawn

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:18 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden welcomed hundreds to the White House on Saturday for a delayed Pride Month celebration aimed at showing LGBTQ+ people that his administration has their back at a time when advocates are warning of a spike in discriminatory legislation, particularly aimed at the transgender community, sweeping through statehouses.The event, which the administration described as the largest Pride event hosted at the White House, was initially scheduled for Thursday, but was postponed because of poor air quality from hazardous air flowing in from Canadian wildfires. But the haze that blanketed a huge swath of the East Coast this past week had lifted over the nation’s capital, allowing the president and first lady Jill Biden to hold their South Lawn party.“So today, I want to send a message to the entire community — especially to transgender children: You are loved. You are heard. You belong,” Biden said.Pride Month is being celebrated this year as state lawma...

LGBTQ+ Pride parade is back in Boston after quarrel over inclusivity

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:18 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — The biggest Pride parade in New England returned to Boston on Saturday after a three-year hiatus, with a fresh focus on social justice and inclusion rather than corporate backing.Marchers cheered, danced and held signs representing various causes during the two-hour event, while people along the sidelines cheered back. About 10,000 marchers signed up before registration was shut down, according to organizers. Mason Dunn, 37, of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, said the crowd was diverse: “All different gender identities, all different race, ethnicity, age, ability. We’re seeing a really great representation.”Some participants memorialized transgender people who died because of bias or hate in the U.S. by carrying signs with one of their names in the parade, Dunn said.Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, one of the nation’s first two openly lesbian governors, said ahead of the parade that she was excited to participate.“This is a particularly special one to be marching in th...

James Cameron feels he ‘walked into an ambush’ in Argentine lithium dispute

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:18 GMT

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Movie director James Cameron says he feels he “walked into an ambush” this week during a visit to Argentina in which he believes there was an attempt to use his image as an environmentalist to give a positive spin to lithium mining operations despite Indigenous opposition.Cameron, the director of “Avatar” and “Titanic,” said Friday he would now devote attention and money from his Avatar Alliance Foundation to support Indigenous communities opposing lithium operations in South America.“Ironically, the outcome of this is that I am now aware of the problem and we will now assist through my foundation with the issue of Indigenous rights with respect to lithium extraction,” Cameron told a group of journalists gathered in his hotel room in the capital of Buenos Aires Friday evening.Cameron came to Argentina this week to speak at a sustainability conference in Buenos Aires on Friday.“I believed that I was coming here to make a kind of motivational speech abou...

Mass slated in solidarity with LGBTQ Catholics canceled after protests

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:18 GMT

A Roman Catholic Mass to be held in western Pennsylvania this weekend in solidarity with LGBTQ Catholics has been canceled at the request of the diocese after protesting emails and calls, some of them threatening, officials said.The Mass scheduled Sunday at Duquesne University was organized by Pittsburgh-based Catholics for Change in Our Church with the help of LGBTQ outreach ministries, said Kevin Hayes, the group’s president. He said it was to be similar to those held monthly by the group at the Catholic university, some aimed at different groups such as Black or Hispanic parishioners, and similar to a Mass in solidarity with LGBTQ Catholics he said was held last year without incident.Bishop David Zubik of the diocese of Pittsburgh said, however, that independent sponsors of the event promoted it with a flyer “that confused some and enraged others.”“This event was billed as a ‘Pride Mass’ organized to coincide with Pride Month, an annual secular observance that supports memb...