Новости за 09.04.2016

Villanova fans descended on downtown Philadelphia on Friday to cheer their NCAA championship basketball team, flooding the city in a raucous sea of blue. Thousands of people filled Market Street and Dilworth Park to celebrate Villanova’s victory over North Carolina in Monday night’s final. Fans lined up 10-deep on some city sidewalks, and blue and white confetti fluttered between office buildings as the players passed by, tossing T-shirts into the crowd from a double-decker bus. The parade capped... Читать дальше...

After a hearing that was notable mostly for its lack of opposition, the San Francisco Planning Commission on Thursday night unanimously approved 1601 Mission St., a 12-story mid-rise that proponents said would inject a shot of street life on a wedge-shaped parcel that currently serves 500 cars a day. The property is home to Tower Car Wash, which is frequently jammed with police cruisers getting washed and Uber drivers filling up their gas tanks. The project is part of a fast-growing part of town... Читать дальше...

Though other planes were delayed as much as an hour and 25 minutes because of heavy cloud cover, Air Force One touched down gently a few minutes ahead of schedule at about 1:20 p.m. The president went from SFO to his hotel South of Market, which was surrounded by heavy security. Later Friday, he was to attend a Democratic National Committee fundraiser on Potrero Hill and then a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser at the home of Ann and Gordon Getty in Pacific Heights.

Bay Area home prices are now even higher than they were before the recession, according to data released Friday by the State Board of Equalization. [...] it also highlights the critical need to assure affordable housing options are available for working families in the Bay Area. Median single-family home prices in the Los Angeles area, in contrast, remain 18 percent below their 2006 level.

The auto theft suspect who was beaten in a San Francisco alley by two Alameda County sheriff’s deputies was arrested earlier this year after federal agents seized methamphetamine and a gun during a raid on his Visitacion Valley residence, court records show. In court documents unsealed Friday, the FBI agents said Stanislav Petrov was arrested on March 8 after a court-ordered search of his residence on Teddy Avenue was conducted in connection with a cyber crime investigation unrelated to Petrov.’’ During the search... Читать дальше...

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(AP) — Five companies involved in the construction of a Berkeley apartment building where six college students were killed when a balcony collapsed performed inferior work that led to the accident last year, the board that licenses California building contractors concluded Friday. The firms implicated by the California State Contractor's Licensing Board include the general contractor on the Library Gardens project, the subcontractors that did framing, plastering and waterproofing work, and a supplier of ventilation equipment... Читать дальше...

Drone strike: A senior Egyptian al Qaeda figure fighting in Syria was killed in a U.S. drone strike this week, the latest to be killed in such attacks in Syria, a Syrian opposition monitoring group and relatives said Friday. Before joining al Qaeda, Taha was a top figure in Egypt’s notorious militant group Gamaa Islamiya, which massacred 58 foreign tourists in the ancient Egyptian city of Luxor in 1997. People working in North Korean-operated restaurants overseas have previously defected, but this... Читать дальше...

Focus at Santa Anita is on Kentucky Oaks prospect Songbird There are three million-dollar Kentucky Derby prep races Saturday — the Santa Anita Derby, the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct and the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland — but the day’s star 3-year-old isn’t running in any of them. Trained by Jerry Hollendorfer, Songbird has won all six of her starts in such front-running domination under jockey Mike Smith that her smallest margin of victory is 3¾ lengths. [...] it isn’t just races that Songbird... Читать дальше...

A violent felon who escaped from a Washington state psychiatric hospital remained missing Friday. Anthony Garver was charged in 2013 with tying a woman to her bed with electrical cords, stabbing her and slashing her throat. The former Navy SEAL who says he fired the shots that killed Osama bin Laden was arrested Friday on a drunken-driving charge after police found him asleep in a car parked at a convenience store in his Montana hometown. Customers at the store in Butte called police to report... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — Self-driving cars are more likely to hurt than help public safety because of unsolved technical issues, engineers and safety advocates told the government Friday, countering a push by innovators to speed government approval. Even a trade association for automakers cautioned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration at a public meeting that a slower, more deliberative approach may be needed than the agency’s plan to provide its guidance for deploying the vehicles in just six months. Читать дальше...

Many other position battles are going on, but all eyes will be on the quarterbacks in Stanford football’s Cardinal and White Spring Game at 1 p.m. Saturday. Instead of Stanford Stadium, the game will be at cozier Cagan Stadium, the soccer/lacrosse facility, because the coaches want to give the players a different setting to spice up the routine — and Levi’s Stadium would have been a little pricy. The format will follow that of recent years: offense vs. defense, with the defense accruing points if it... Читать дальше...

In the video, recorded Sept. 13, 2014, Huntsman is standing in a forested area between two separately lit blazes, which prosecutors construed as a sign that the fire was intentionally set. Huntsman was also caught on surveillance video, after starting the fire, stealing liquor from a local grocery store, prosecutors said. The fire fast-moving inferno burned for nearly a month across 97,717 acres of mostly mountainous terrain along Highway 50 in the El Dorado National Forest. Huntsman has a... Читать дальше...

Minnesota Wild left wing Thomas Vanek will miss the start of the team’s first-round playoff series with an upper-body injury. Devils coach John Hynes was named the coach of the U.S. team that will compete at the International Ice Hockey Federation men’s world championships in Russia next month. ...

The NCAA announced Friday that it is barring football coaches from holding camps or clinics on other campuses, siding with the SEC in its high-profile dispute with Harbaugh after the Big Ten turned out to be the only Power Five conference in favor of them. The Division I Council approved a proposal from the SEC and the ACC requiring Bowl Subdivision schools “to conduct camps and clinics at their school’s facilities or at facilities regularly used for practice or competition,” the NCAA said. Additionally... Читать дальше...

Duke Students & Workers in Solidarity issued a statement on its Facebook page Friday saying the protest is leaving the Allen Building, which houses the office of school President Richard Brodhead.

NHL season-ending awards we’d like to see Quite frankly, the NHL’s individual awards lack suspense this season. Major award winners should include Blackhawks scoring champ Patrick Kane (Hart Trophy), Capitals goalie Braden Holtby (Vezina), Kings defenseman Drew Doughty (Norris), Kings center Anze Kopitar (Selke), Blackhawks rookie winger Artemi Panarin (Calder) and Flames forward Johnny Gaudreau (Lady Byng). Sharks defenseman Brent Burns is a shoo-in finalist for the Norris, but it feels more like Doughty’s year... Читать дальше...

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein confirmed Friday she is seeking new legislation to compel technology companies to assist government agencies in gaining access to encrypted technology, opening a new front in a continuing battle over the issue. A leaked draft of the legislation co-sponsored by Feinstein appeared online as the Department of Justice renewed its efforts to obtain access to an iPhone in a Brooklyn drug-dealing case and an Apple executive accused the government of attempting to expand its powers beyond what the law allows. Читать дальше...

SpaceX resumed station deliveries for NASA on Friday, and in a double triumph, successfully landed its booster rocket on an ocean platform for the first time. Hundreds of SpaceX employees gathered outside the company’s glassed-in mission control in Hawthorne (Los Angeles County) cheered wildly, jumped up and down, and chanted, “USA, USA, USA!.” SpaceX’s founder Elon Musk wants to ultimately reuse rocket parts to shave launch costs. Besides a bevy of biological experiments — including 20 mice for a muscle study... Читать дальше...

Graduate student workers with photo identification can vote. Students rallied after university officials in August gave graduate assistants 24-hour notice that health insurance subsidies would no longer be offered.

Holders of over 97 percent of Marriott shares present and voting at the meeting, representing over 79 percent of outstanding shares, voted in favor of a proposal to issue shares of Marriott common stock in connection with the transaction. Holders of over 95 percent of Starwood shares present and voting at the meeting, representing over 63 percent of outstanding shares, voted in favor of a proposal to approve the transaction. The company has struggled to grow as fast as its rivals, particularly... Читать дальше...

Brazil’s football confederation has told Spanish club Barcelona that it wants to have star striker Neymar available for both the Copa America Centenario in the United States in June and the Rio Olympics in August. Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane is resting star players for Saturday’s Spanish league match against Eibar, with the goal of overturning his team’s stunning loss at Wolfsburg in the Champions League. Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson is set to miss the rest of the season and possibly... Читать дальше...

SACRAMENTO — Wayne Allen Huntsman pleaded guilty Friday to setting the devastating King fire in 2014 that torched nearly 100,000 acres in El Dorado County, a plea that came about in part because the suspect videotaped himself near the ignition point. “In the minutes after the ignition of the fire, Lars Knutsen and Stephen and Sheila Mancuso observed unusual behavior on the part of Huntsman and had the presence of mind to convey those observations to arson investigators,” Pierson said Friday.... Читать дальше...

According to a story written by the San Antonio News Express, Spurs coach Gregg Poppovich is going to give five players — LaMarcus Aldridge, Manu Ginobili, Danny Green, Kawhi Leonard and Tony Parker — Friday night off when San Antonio plays at Denver. If the Warriors (70-9) beat Memphis on Saturday and the Spurs on Sunday, they would go into their season-finale at home on Wednesday against Memphis with a chance to become the first NBA team to win 73 games. [...] while Golden State, which locked up the Western Conference’s No. Читать дальше...

A storm moving through the Bay Area brought light rain to parts of the region on Friday morning, the beginning of a weekend that will bring similar wet weather, forecasters said. The light rain showers are expected to last through the weekend and bring around a quarter of an inch of rainfall to parts of the region, said Mark Strudley, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Monterey.