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Heisman Watch: Penix on top (again) as Nix rises and Elliss, Martinez join the list of Pac-12 candidates

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:11 GMT

Welcome to our weekly look at the Pac-12’s leading Heisman Trophy candidates via an assessment of the top players in the conference. Consider this one Heisman voter’s view of the landscape.The rankings are based on individual performance, value to the team and quality of competition. And yes, we consider defensive players.It took four games, but Oregon’s Bo Nix has ascended to the top tier of the Heisman Trophy race, at least according to the folks with money on the line.Oddsmakers currently have Nix as the No. 4 betting favorite.FanDuel and PointsBet list the fifth-year quarterback at 10-to-1 to win the award, while BetMGM and Caesars have assigned 12-to-1 odds.Either way, there are only three players with lower odds: Washington quarterback Michael Penix and USC quarterback Caleb Williams are the co-favorites in the 4-to-1 range, followed by Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers at 6-to-1.A week ago, Nix was on the third tier of betting favorites at 20-to-1.His rise follows a stellar...

Contra Costa County educators honored at Teachers of the Year Celebration

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:11 GMT

(KRON) -- The 51st Annual Teacher of the Year Celebration took place last Thursday, and two winning Contra Costa County educators from the Mount Diablo Unified School District and the Liberty Union High School District were announced.Joseph Alvarico, an engineering teacher at Ygnacio Valley High School, and Annalouisa Gonzalez-Ortega, a Spanish teacher at Freedom High School, were named the 2023-2024 Contra Costa County Teachers of the Year. In all, 21 teachers in the county representing 16 school districts were honored at the celebration.2023-2024 Contra Costa County Teachers of the Year winners Annalouisa Gonzalez-Ortega (left) and Joseph Alvarico (right) standing next to KRON4's Reyna Harvey. (Photo: Camargo Photo)KRON4’s own Reyna Harvey emceed the celebration at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek on Sept. 21. Both winning teachers later joined Harvey on KRON4 to speak about their backgrounds and what motivates them as teachers and pillars of the community. Watch the...

Job alert! Paris Olympics are looking for cooks, security guards and others to fill 16,000 vacancies

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:11 GMT

SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Paris Olympics organizers and their partners set up a giant job fair on Tuesday meant to help fill about 16,000 vacancies in key sectors including catering, security, transport and cleaning, 10 months before the opening of the Games.About 50 companies are now recruiting in various fields to be able to welcome millions of spectators and more than 14,500 athletes next year for the Olympics and Paralympics. The job fair was organized in Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of the French capital, on the future site of the Olympic village. Jobseekers can also apply via a specific website. “There are many opportunities globally in France, for Paris 2024 and beyond, because definitely there are also some jobs that will have for sure a second life after the Olympics,” said Tony Estanguet, the organizing committee president for Paris 2024.“We will welcome the world in 300 days. And definitely we are more than determined to be at the best level,” he added.The workin...

Latino charitable giving rates drop sharply — but that’s not the full story

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:11 GMT

The share of Latinos who give to established charities has dropped sharply since 2008, a new study has found. The same has been true for other Americans, but the percentage of Hispanics who give to help people in need through less formal efforts is higher than for others in the United States.Those findings come from a study released last week by Hispanics in Philanthropy, an organization that works to advance Latino giving, and the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.The report found that 26% of Latinos gave in 2018, the most recent data available, compared with 44% in 2008. The share of all Americans who give has also been on the decline: Only half of households gave in 2018, compared with two thirds in 2000.One likely reason for the disparity between Latinos and other donors can be traced to the lack of economic growth for Hispanics, who are the country’s second largest ethnic group.The average income for Latino households has stayed largely flat from 2000 to 20...

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Judge dismisses all charges against Philadelphia police officer in fatal shooting during traffic stop

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:11 GMT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Judge dismisses all charges against Philadelphia police officer in fatal shooting during traffic stop.Source

Namibia’s Deysel banned 6 games for dangerous tackle on France’s Dupont at the Rugby World Cup

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:11 GMT

LYON, France (AP) — Namibia captain Johan Deysel was suspended for six games on Tuesday for the dangerous head-on-head tackle on France captain Antoine Dupont at the Rugby World Cup.Dupont suffered a facial fracture that required surgery on Friday night, a day after the game in Marseille where France won 96-0.Deysel’s yellow card for the incident soon after halftime was upgraded to red by a bunker review. He accepted his offense was red-card worthy at his judicial hearing on Tuesday.The panel “categorized the act of foul play as being at the top end of the scale of seriousness of offending, having regard to the degree of recklessness involved in the offending, the vulnerability of the victim player and the significant injury to him.”For a sanction, the panel started at 12 weeks and halved it after taking into account Deysel’s disciplinary record and apology to Dupont.His six-match ban was to include Namibia’s last Pool A game on Wednesday against Uruguay, for which...

$2 million for pickleball included in proposed Denver budget

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:11 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- For what may be the first time in Denver history, pickleball's name was dropped in the city budget. Not only was it included, but it was also allotted $2 million for Mayor Johnston's proposed 2024 City Budget.For the budget proposal, there's $1.72 billion to go around, and most of that goes to employee salaries, property maintenance and other recurring expenses. Beyond that, Johnston focused on affordable housing for everyone and a safer community as his priorities. But pickleball is drawing attention as about 8% of the $24 million allocated for parks improvement projects in the proposal from Johnston. Glendale bans pickleball at Infinity Park, plans to build new pickleball courts Pickleball has been a hot topic for the past few years. Some communities have banned pickleball while others begged council members for a space to play. Councilwoman Shontel Lewis recalled that the District 8 community specifically wanted more space for pickleball. Every weekday evening ...

There’s room for a pet in your heart, but is there room in your budget?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:11 GMT

Brooks Johnson | (TNS) Star TribuneAmericans will spend more than $140 billion on their pets this year.Much of that will go to normal expenses like food, toys and routine checkups, according to the American Pet Products Association. But sometimes Scooby finds his way into mysteries that can lead to eye-popping price tags.“As anyone with a pet knows, things are going to come up you don’t expect,” said Vicki Stevens, a spokeswoman with the Humane Society of the United States. “Financial planners advise us to have an emergency fund in case something goes wrong — we lose a job or something comes up with the house — and that is also true for pets.”That’s the consensus experts have for managing the costs of pet ownership: Set money aside specifically for pet emergencies. That should happen before bringing home a new furry family member, but for current pet parents, starting to save now is better than putting it off any longer.“One of the most comm...

Dan Rodricks: Yeah, Baltimore, we can have nice things, like these 2023 Orioles | STAFF COMMENTARY

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:11 GMT

This is Baltimore, Queen City of the Patapsco Drainage Basin. It doesn’t take much to keep us happy around here.We want good neighbors and friendly dogs. We want to see tall ships in the Inner Harbor once in a while. Give us an excellent crab cake now and then, a cold beer, a juicy corned beef-on-rye, decent pizza, clean tap water and a snowball in July. We want strong schools and safe streets. We want an adequate supply of toilet paper for when it snows. We want that certain spontaneous wackiness that almost always happens when you open yourself to Baltimore and start conversations with amiable, quirky strangers.Some of these things we already have. Some are aspirational. Some are — stand by for a new word — exasperational. But you get what I mean. It doesn’t take much.We want the comfort of community that comes from going to places like Lexington Market or Fells Point or to events that bring us together — city and county parades, farmer’s market...