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Los Gatos resident reports stranger with candy banging on door

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:22:09 GMT

July 24TRAFFIC HAZARD: 4:36 p.m. at Posh Bagel on West Main Street and North Santa Cruz Avenue: A man in all black clothing was dancing in middle of the street and stopped traffic for a bit.July 25PETTY THEFT: 10:54 a.m. on Belblossom Way. Someone stole speakers from a vehicle.July 26TRAFFIC HAZARD: 6:57 a.m. at North Santa Cruz Avenue and Blossom Hill Road. A man in all black clothing was standing in middle of intersection waving his arms and wouldn’t let motorists pass. He was arrested.SUSPICIOUS PERSON: 2:45 p.m. at Los Gatos Saratoga Road and Highway 17. A man was standing near the northbound entrance to Highway 17 trying to get people to pull over and buy jewelry from him. The reporting party thought it was dangerous and illegal.MUNI CODE VIOLATION: 3:48 p.m. at West Main Street and Broadway. Someone was posting door hangers for tree trimming and cutting, saying they needed to cut trees due to PG&E wires. The reporting party thought they were falsely representing PG&a...

Bed Bath & Beyond is officially back from the dead

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:22:09 GMT

By Parija Kavilanz | CNNNew York  — A month after Overstock.com announced it bought Bed Bath & Beyond’s brand out of bankruptcy, the company has dumped its name and morphed its website and app.On Tuesday, Overstock’s website relaunched as BedBathandBeyond.com, a move that merges Overstock’s online business model and merchandise categories with popular branded products favored by Bed Bath & Beyond shoppers.“All of Overstock’s categories will transition over and new products will also come in,” Jonathan Johnson, CEO of Overstock, said in an interview with CNN.“Since this deal was announced, we have added over 600,000 new products to the site,” he said, adding that a lot of the new products “are the name-brand products that people have always bought and expected to buy at the old Bed Bath & Beyond.”Overstock, which sells furniture, home furnishings, bath, lighting, rugs and an array of other products online at discounted prices, acquired Bed Bath & Beyond’s name, intell...

Bed Bath & Beyond is back, this time as an online retailer

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:22:09 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Overstock has officially relaunched the Bed Bath & Beyond domain online Tuesday in the U.S., after acquiring the bankrupt retail chain’s intellectual property assets for $21.5 million last month.The online retailer Overstock.com said in late June that it was dumping its name online and it will become Bed & Bath & Beyond, which declared bankruptcy earlier this year. The name change was made in Canada on June 29, but at the time the Midvale, Utah-based company didn’t specify a date for the U.S. relaunch.Overstock.com’s CEO Jonathan Johnson told The Associated Press in a phone interview last week that the relaunch in Canada has “run without a hitch.” The company has added roughly 600,000 bed and bath items since its bid for the retailer became public last month, Johnson said.The company has still not made any decisions on a corporate name, he said.Johnson had said that the name change was necessary because Overstock still confuses some customers and su...

Sports on TV for Wednesday, August 2

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:22:09 GMT

(All times Eastern)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsWednesday, August 23ICE HOCKEY8 p.m.CBSSN — Week 6: Team Murphy vs. Team Mullen, Team Fuhr vs. Team Patrick, Consolation, Final, Clarksville, Tenn.HORSE RACING9 a.m.FS2 — The Sussex Stakes: From Goodwood Racecourse, Chichester, EnglandMLB BASEBALL12 p.m.MLBN — Regional Coverage: LA Angels at Atlanta OR Detroit at Pittsburgh (12:30 p.m.)7 p.m.MLBN — Regional Coverage: Tampa Bay at NY Yankees OR Baltimore at TorontoRUGBY (MEN’S)5:30 a.m. (Thursday)FS2 — NRL: Manly-Warringah at SydneySOCCER (MEN’S)7:30 a.m.CBSSN — Club Friendly: Liverpool vs. Bayern Munich, Singapore8:25 p.m.ESPNU — Club Friendly: Chelsea vs. Borussia Dortmund, Chicago9 p.m.ESPN2 — La Liga Summer Tour: Real Sociedad vs. Atlético Madrid, Guadalupe, Mexico11 p.m.ESPN2 — La Liga Summer Tour: Real Betis Vs. Sevilla, Zapopan, MexicoSOCCER (WOMEN’S)3 a.m.FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Argentina vs. Sweden, Group G, Hamilton, New ZealandFS1 — FIFA World Cup Grou...

Sweden plans to step up border controls as security situation worsens during Quran burning crisis

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:22:09 GMT

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden plans to step up border controls and identity checks at crossing points as its security situation deteriorates during a Quran burning crisis that has shaken both Sweden and neighboring Denmark in recent weeks.Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said the measure is expected to be approved by his government on Thursday.It is meant to prevent “people with very weak connections to Sweden” to come to the country “to commit crimes or to act in conflict with Swedish security interests,” he said at a news conference in Stockholm on Tuesday.A recent string of public Quran desecrations in Sweden and Denmark conducted by a handful of anti-Islam activists have sparked angry demonstrations in Muslim countries. Among other incidents, protesters attacked the Swedish Embassy in Iraq and set it on fire in July. Last week, Sweden’s domestic security service warned that the security situation has worsened after the recent Quran burnings in the country and protests in the Muslim worl...

Lawyer for Henrietta Lacks’ family announces settlement with Thermo Fisher Scientific over HeLa cell line

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:22:09 GMT

BALTIMORE (AP) — Lawyer for Henrietta Lacks’ family announces settlement with Thermo Fisher Scientific over HeLa cell line.Source

Colorado Springs woman sentenced to 2 decades in deadly DUI crash

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:22:09 GMT

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KXRM) — A Colorado Springs woman has been sentenced to more than two decades in prison for hitting a pedestrian in Parker and leaving the scene, according to the 18th Judicial District Attorney's Office.Just after 2 a.m. on June 16, 2022, officers with the Parker Police Department responded to the intersection of Parker Road and Cottonwood Drive for a car crash. When officers arrived, they found a pedestrian, later identified as 25-year-old Lacy Lewis, in the middle of the road. Lacy Lewis, courtesy: 18th Judicial District Attorney's OfficeLacy Lewis, courtesy: 18th Judicial District Attorney's OfficeLacy Lewis, courtesy: 18th Judicial District Attorney's OfficeThe investigation revealed that Lewis and her boyfriend had been walking home in the crosswalk when 46-year-old Jessica Stahl hit Lewis. Lewis' boyfriend was not injured.According to the DA, Stahl initially stopped and asked Lewis' boyfriend "Did I hit her?" but Stahl did not call 911 or offer any ass...

Kevin Costner snaps a photo with RTD police at Union Station

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:22:09 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — While Kevin Costner has spent plenty of time in Montana playing John Dutton in the hit show "Yellowstone," the actor traveled south to Colorado and snapped a photo with RTD's transit police.According to RTD, Costner was "just passing through the area" on July 21 when Transit Police officers spotted him at Union Station in Denver. Luke Bryan invites Northglenn girl with terminal cancer backstage Commander Broderick Fowler snapped the group photo and said Costner was kind enough to spend a few minutes with the officers.Actor Kevin Costner stopped to snap a photo with RTD transit police at Denver's Union Station on July 21. (Credit: RTD Transit Police Commander Broderick Fowler)Since Fowler posted the photo online, RTD said he has gained lots of positive attention for the interaction.The "Field of Dreams" actor is no stranger to the Centennial State. Costner used to be the owner of the Dunbar Ranch in Aspen. It sits on 160 acres of what Coldwell Banker's Mason Morse-A...

Aurora passes first reading of proposal to reinstate reserve police officers

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:22:09 GMT

Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect the multi-reading procedure for approving a bill.AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — Monday night, Aurora City Council members passed the first reading of a bill to reinstate its reserve police force, which was dissolved in 2005.The vote was 9-1, with Councilmember Crystal Murillo casting the sole vote in opposition.In a study session earlier this month, Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky said the Aurora Police Department had requested the program. 17-year-old national cycling team athlete killed in Boulder crash City officials said some paramedics who work with SWAT already carry concealed weapons, and the proposal could protect the city from liability.The volunteer program would accept other applicants as well, city council members said. These could potentially include other city employees, retirees in good standing and former police officers from other jurisdictions in good standing. Under the plan, medics tied to SWAT could apply to t...

Scooter rider hospitalized after hit-and-run in Miami Beach; police searching for driver

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:22:09 GMT

A scooter went up in flames after a hit-and-run on the streets of Miami Beach, sending the rider to the hospital. The search is on for the person who slammed into him. Just feet from Miami Beach’s famous Lincoln Road, a fiery crash has police trying to track down the driver who left a scooter rider to die.A witness reacted to the incident moments after the wreck happened around 7 p.m. on Monday night.“I tell you, in today’s accident, people don’t stop,” said one witness.A couple of witnesses told 7News that a red BMW hit the scooter on 16th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, sending the rider straight to the ground. “He was going to turn to the right, and the red car t-boned him and he flew,” said witness Carlos Farreyo. Minutes later, first responders arrived, quickly loading the victim into the back of an ambulance. He was rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital, wheeled in wearing a neck brace.Firefighters doused the scooter with water, becoming...