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Warriors: Steph Curry’s knee injury to be re-evaluated later this week
Steph Curry will miss the Warriors’ Thursday night game against the Thunder, the team announced Wednesday. Curry, who has a sore right knee — a vestige of hard contact with the floor late in Sunday’s Warriors loss — does not have structural damage and his stay on the bench is expected to be short. He…
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Pebble Beach Invitational tees off Thursday
PEBBLE BEACH — During its half-century legacy, the appeal of the TaylorMade Pebble Beach Invitational has been its diversity. Men and women, young and old, fathers and sons, brothers, sisters, major tournament winners and newbie professionals have competed. Minus the tournament’s tradition of also including amateurs, the tournament’s 52nd edition begins Thursday with possibly its…
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Sandbag filling stations being offered around the Central Coast
Ahead of the rain this week, several agencies on the Central Coast are offering sandbag filling stations.
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State park closes as strong winds blow through Central Coast
Due to high winds coming through Santa Cruz County, California State Parks rangers closed Big Basin Redwoods State Park on Wednesday out of an abundance of caution.
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Patrice Vecchione, Walkabout Town: Writing, not walking, on the water
The mercury serpent welcomes poets. The pelicans are calm in silent flight. The gull’s call heralds mystery. The sea otters slurp marine worms. The sky paints cotton over indigo. The kayakers interlope alien yellow, and the grebes gather in their onyx flotillas, facing bow to wind like little boats on their moorings. The world is…
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Get ready for an even busier holiday travel season in 2023
By Sally French | NerdWallet If last year’s winter holiday travel season felt costly or chaotic, this year’s might seem even more so. That’s because half of Americans (50%) plan to spend money on flights or hotel stays this holiday season, according to a new NerdWallet survey conducted online by The Harris Poll. The survey…
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WHO makes loneliness a global health priority with new Commission on Social Connection
The World Health Organization is making loneliness a global health priority, it said Wednesday, launching a new Commission on Social Connection.
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Review: ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ is a prequel for pre-sold fans only
Michael Phillips | Chicago Tribune (TNS) Like its title, “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” takes its sweet time getting where it’s going. Seriously, I would’ve gone with just songbirds, or snakes. As is, it’s two-fifths of the way to “The Ballad of Songbirds, Snakes, Presidential Origin Stories, Katniss Everdeen Wannabes and…
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Novelist Tess Gerritsen’s neighbors are retired spies. So she wrote about it.
A mystery writer moves into a town full of spies. It sounds like the plot of the latest streaming series, but that’s really what happened to the internationally bestselling mystery writer Tess Gerritsen, best known for her police procedural series featuring Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles (which inspired the TNT…
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Nurses At Watsonville Hospital Picket
Dozens of nurses gathered outside Watsonville Community Hospital on Monday afternoon for a publicity picket, saying they want a contract that will allow them to attract and retain nurses, thus improving patient safety and care. “We want to advocate for a just and safe contract that will promote safe staffing, that will allow us to…
