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Horoscopes May 8, 2024: Stephen Amell, make yourself heard

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Celebrities born on this day, today's birthday horoscope and numbers and the daily horoscope for each zodiac sign.

Word Game: May 8, 2024

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TODAY’S WORD — SAPLING (SAPLING: SAP-ling: A young tree.) Average mark 27 words Time limit 40 minutes Can you find 35 or more words in SAPLING? The list will be published tomorrow. YESTERDAY’S WORD — YOGURTS yogurt your yours yurt orgy…

Bridge: May 8, 2024

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Cy the Cynic defines middle age as when you’re old enough to know better — but young enough to keep doing it anyway. Cy is in his forties; he’s old enough to know not to play without thinking, but he keeps doing it. At 3NT, Cy won the…

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Ask Amy: The athletes were using the big stalls, and I really needed one

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Plus: It hurts me that my brother is closer to his friends than he is to me.

Harriette Cole: After I got the job, I realized they think I’m someone else. What do I do?

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DEAR HARRIETTE: I’m being offered a job I’m not qualified for. Should I accept it?

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Miss Manners: Her golf outfit makes everyone uncomfortable

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DEAR MISS MANNERS: We live in a 55+ community on a golf course. One woman, who is very heavy, always wears a knee-length or above-the-knee skirt when golfing. She is actually the only woman here who does.

Dear Abby: He’s no longer the man I fell for, but he won’t admit it

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DEAR ABBY: I met a co-worker about a year ago and we started dating.

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Four-bedroom home in San Jose sells for $2.7 million

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A 2,282-square-foot house built in 1969 has changed hands. The spacious property located in the 1300 block of Hillcrest Drive in San Jose was sold on April 15, 2024, for $2,700,000, or $1,183 per square foot.

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Driver killed in crash on Highway 101 in San Jose

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The collision happened in northbound lanes of the roadway at Trimble Road.

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Man arrested after Antioch lockdown was wanted in connection with fatal shooting

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Authorities said the suspect gunned down a 40-year-old man on March 18 in Stockton.

US Open Cup: Teenager from Saratoga helps save SJ Earthquakes from Oakland Roots upset bid

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US Open Cup: Eighteen year-old Niko Tsakiris from Saratoga gets game-winning assist in Open Cup victory over Oakland Roots

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Prep roundup: Leigh clinches league title as Ollie Obenour hits 2 HRs, drives in five

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Baseball: Valley Christian, Serra advance to WCAL tournament semifinals. In softball, Mitty turns back Gilroy; Livermore, California reach EBAL tournament final.

Kyle Harrison shoves in Coors Field to lead Giants past Rockies

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LaMonte Wade Jr., San Francisco's hottest hitter, reached base four times and drove in two runs.

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Oakland police seek person of interest in homicide last summer

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Authorities said the suspect in the Aug. 30 shooting was driving a white Ford F-150.

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Pittsburg adopts blueprint for future growth, allowing for more housing and industrial uses

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City staff cautions the long-awaited plan is only a blueprint for the city's development; no projects are proposed or entitled.

Newsom backs bill to add more affordable housing for California’s poorest residents

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The bill would require cities plan for potentially hundreds of thousands of extremely low-income homes.

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Modi escalates rhetoric against Muslims as India continues to vote

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In recent campaign rallies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called Muslims "infiltrators" and said they "have too many children," referring to a Hindu nationalist trope that Muslims produce more children with the aim of outnumbering…

Person shot to death Sunday night in San Leandro

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The victim was found at the scene of a solo-vehicle collision in the 1800 block of Benedict Drive.

Australian woman denies murdering former in-laws with mushrooms

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Erin Patterson, 49, appeared briefly in Latrobe Valley Magistrates Court by video link from a Melbourne prison, where she has been held since her arrest in November last year. She is accused of killing her former parents-in-law, Don and…

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Trans activists flood Utah tip line with thousands of hoax reports

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Within hours of its publication Wednesday night, trans activists and community members from across the U.S. already had spread the Utah tip line widely on social media. Many shared the spam they had submitted and encouraged others to…

Workers displaced by shooting priority for new Half Moon Bay housing project

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San Mateo County Supervisors set aside $6 million in grant funds to build the affordable housing project.

Design unveiled for huge Sharks ice skating complex in Gilroy

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A massive ice sports center is coming to Gilroy in 2026, and will feature two NHL-sized rinks, a restaurant and bar, a café and a fitness center, and will host year-round public skating.

Three co-workers spent day off burglarizing cars at Oakland airport, police say

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Only one of the three suspects has been arrested, but he told police that he and two co-workers traveled to the airport together to burglarize cars, and that he was sorry.

Steph Curry won’t defend Tahoe golf title due to Olympic commitment

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Stephen Curry will miss out on an opportunity to defend his American Century Championship title as he participates in his first Summer Olympics

Kurtenbach: Sharks add No. 1 pick, hope with Bay Area-tied Celebrini likely on the way

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Sometimes losing pays; On Tuesday, it paid out in a big way for the San Jose Sharks.

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Macklin Celebration! Sharks win draft lottery, will have No. 1 pick

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Macklin Celebrini will in all likelihood become a member of the San Jose Sharks at the NHL Draft next month in Las Vegas

Police ID man killed in East Oakland last month

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A 25-year-old Oakland man was killed on the 6900 block of Hamilton Street, in a broad daylight shooting.

Athletics knocked out early by Rangers a day after absorbing late-inning gut punch

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After losing a heartbreaker late on Monday night, the A's were out of it early in a Tuesday matinee.

In Berkeley Public Schools, a War Gives Rise to Unusual Tensions

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"There's a definite fracture," said one parent, who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisal a common sentiment these days while speaking outside a tense school board meeting on a recent night. "People who were just marching…

3-alarm Oakland fire nearly destroys one vacant residence, badly damages a second occupied home

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An Oakland Fire spokesman said the residence where the fire started had been "red tagged" by city officials last month, meaning it was not supposed to be occupied.