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Sunnyvale Community Players launches Studio Series for directors of color

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:39:56 GMT

Players’ 55th seasonMurderous barbers and magical nannies are part of the Sunnyvale Community Players’ 55th season, announced last week.The season opens in September with Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” followed by Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd” in October. In February 2024, the Players are set to stage Disney’s “Mary Poppins” as the company’s junior show. The regular season closes in April with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Jesus Christ Superstar.”In January the Players are staging the first show in the company’s new Studio Series, which will give new and aspiring directors of color the opportunity to direct for the first time under the mentorship of seasoned directors.  The series’ inaugural play is “The Last Five Years,” a modern musical that chronicles the five-year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up from the groom’s point of view and from break-up to meeting from the bride’s.Season tickets are available at https://www.sunnyvaleplayers.org.Public Safety awardsThe Sunnyvale Departme...

San Jose police investigating Sunday morning stabbing

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:39:56 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) – San Jose police are investigating a stabbing that occurred early Sunday morning. New details, arrest information released in knife altercation on San Mateo High School campus At 3:45 a.m., units responded to the 1300 block of Shawn Drive and located a male suffering from at least one stab wound. The victim was transported to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to a tweet by the police department.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-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }This is a developing story. Stick with us for updates.

Man arrested for DUI, possession of firearms in San Carlos

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:39:56 GMT

SAN CARLOS, Calif. (KRON) – Officers arrested a man who was driving under the influence and in possession of two firearms Saturday morning, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. Just before 7 a.m., officers responded to the 200 block of Industrial Road after a report was made of a vehicle blocking the exit of a business. Officers arrived and located Andrew Cuestas, who was inside his white Chevrolet Express van, police said. New details, arrest information released in knife altercation on San Mateo High School campus Cuestas displayed signs of being under the influence and he admitted to SCPD of being in possession of a rifle in his vehicle. Officers located an unloaded rifle, a loaded handgun and several high-capacity magazines, police said. 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-container object, .embed-container embed { pos...

Verstappen wins Spanish GP from pole for 40th career victory

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:39:56 GMT

MONTMELO, Spain (AP) — Max Verstappen of Red Bull won the Spanish Grand Prix from pole position on Sunday to strengthen his hold on the Formula One championship.The two-time defending champion was never challenged on the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya after beating Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari to the first turn.Lewis Hamilton crossed the finish line second in his Mercedes to equal his best finish of the season. Fellow Mercedes driver George Russell completed the podium.Verstappen has won five of seven races this season.His 40th career win, including his third in Barcelona, leaves Verstappen one win behind the late Ayrton Senna’s total of 41. He also seems well on course to matching Senna’s three world titles.Verstappen’s Red Bull teammate Sergio Pérez, who finished fourth, has won the other two races.The Dutchman grew his lead over Pérez to 55 points.___More AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing and https://twitter.com/AP_SportSource

MATCHDAY: Stuttgart takes 3-goal lead into 2nd leg of Bundesliga playoff at Hamburg

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:39:56 GMT

A look at what’s happening in European soccer on Monday:GERMANYStuttgart has a handy 3-0 lead from the first leg of its Bundesliga promotion-relegation playoff against Hamburger SV but the second leg is being played in Hamburg’s 57,000-capacity stadium in front of a passionate crowd. If Stuttgart can hold off an unlikely Hamburg comeback, it will secure top-division status for a fourth successive season. Hamburg played every season since the Bundesliga’s foundation until relegation to the second division in 2018 and hasn’t been back since.___More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsSource

China tightens access to Tiananmen Square, 24 detained in Hong Kong on anniversary of 1989 protests

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:39:56 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — China tightened access to Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on Sunday, the anniversary of the military suppression of 1989 pro-democracy protests that left a still unknown number of people dead and discussions and commemorations forbidden within the country. In Hong Kong, which had been the last Chinese-controlled territory to hold commemorations, eight people, including activists and artists, were detained on the eve of the anniversary of the crackdown, a move that underscored the city’s shrinking room for freedom of expression. Another 16 or more people were detained around Victoria Park on Sunday. The large public space with its lawns and sports grounds used to be the scene of an annual candlelight gathering to remember the hundreds or thousands killed when army tanks and infantry descended on central Beijing on the night of June 3 and into the morning of June 4, 1989. Discussion of the seven weeks of student-led protests that attracted workers and artists and th...

China tightens access to Tiananmen Square on anniversary of crackdown

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:39:56 GMT

China tightened access to Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on Sunday, the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators.Additional security was seen around the square, which has long been surrounded with security checks, according to media reports.In Hong Kong, police arrested four people while conducting stop and search operations near Victoria Park on Sunday, as people commemorated the 34th anniversary of the crackdown. Police said they had arrested the four for “breaching public peace,” according to reports. Victoria Park, a famous site of yearly vigils, saw a barrage of armored vehicles and police deployed, according to the reports. Pro-Beijing groups held a food carnival in part of the park, while sealing off other areas with barricades.Hong Kong was once the center of the largest vigils marking the anniversary of Tiananmen Square, when Chinese troops violently suppressed pro-democracy demonstrators and killed 300. But fol...

Half a million march in Warsaw against Poland’s ruling party

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:39:56 GMT

An estimated 500,000 people marched through downtown Warsaw Sunday afternoon in a huge rally against the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, held on the 34th anniversary of the breakthrough election that effectively ended communist rule in Poland.The march was called by Donald Tusk, former Polish prime minister and former president of the European Council, who is now leading his Civic Platform (PO) party in a bid to defeat PiS in an election due later this year.“You’re all here because you have just believed we can win,” Tusk told the crowd, which filled Warsaw’s Castle Square. People in the crowd were holding up white-and-red flags and anti-government placards, including the locally famous ones with eight asterisks, denoting the Polish for “f*** PiS.”“Here’s my pledge to you today: We are going to win this election and hold PiS accountable,” Tusk said.The rally, which appeared to be the biggest political demonstration in Poland in decades, took place just a few days after PiS-frien...

Chuck Todd is stepping down from ‘Meet the Press’

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:39:56 GMT

New York (CNN) — Chuck Todd, the longtime host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” is stepping down from his role, he shared with the audience on Sunday.Colleague Kristen Welker, who is a regular fill-in on the Sunday broadcast, will take over the role.Welker, who has been with NBC News since 2010, was Todd’s co-anchor on election nights beginning in 2021, a memo from NBC News President of Editorial Rebecca Blumenstein and NBC News Senior Vice President of Politics Carrie Budoff Brown said.“When I took over ‘Meet the Press,’ it was a Sunday show that had a lot of people questioning whether it still could have a place in the modern media space,” Todd said on the show. “Well, I think we’ve answered that question and then some.”Todd became the show’s moderator in September 2014, leading the show through two presidential election cycles, the memo said.But it’s important media leaders do not “overstay their welcome,” Todd said on the show. “I’d rather leave a little bit too soon than stay a ...

Error in signaling system led to train crash that killed 275 people in India, official says

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:39:56 GMT

By KRUTIKA PATHI, SHEIKH SAALIQ and ASHOK SHARMA (Associated Press)BALASORE, India (AP) — The derailment in eastern India that killed 275 people and injured hundreds was caused by an error in the electronic signaling system that led a train to wrongly change tracks and crash into a freight train, officials said Sunday.Authorities worked to clear the mangled wreckage of the two passenger trains that derailed Friday night in Balasore district in Odisha state in one of the country’s deadliest rail disasters in decades.An Odisha government statement revised the death toll to 275 after a top state officer put the number at over 300 on Sunday morning. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to reporters.Jaya Verma Sinha, a senior railway official, said the preliminary investigations revealed that a signal was given to the high-speed Coromandel Express to run on the main track line, but the signal later changed, and the train instead entered an adjacen...