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Scientists finally know why people get more colds and flu in winter

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:35:30 GMT

By Sandee LaMotte | CNNThere’s a chill is in the air, and you all know what that means — it’s time for cold and flu season, when it seems everyone you know is suddenly sneezing, sniffling or worse. It’s almost as if those pesky cold and flu germs whirl in with the first blast of winter weather.Yet germs are present year-round — just think back to your last summer cold. So why do people get more colds, flu and now Covid-19 when it’s chilly outside?In what they called a “breakthrough,” scientists uncovered the biological reason we get more respiratory illnesses in winter — the cold air itself damages the immune response occurring in the nose.“This is the first time that we have a biologic, molecular explanation regarding one factor of our innate immune response that appears to be limited by colder temperatures,” said rhinologist Dr. Zara Patel, a professor of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine in California. She was not involved in the n...

Person injured in East Bay freeway shooting Monday

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:35:30 GMT

SAN PABLO — A person was injured by shattered glass Monday afternoon after someone shot at their vehicle while they drove on Interstate 80, the California Highway Patrol said.The shooting happened about 2:30 p.m. Monday on westbound I-80 near San Pablo Dam Road, which is near the Richmond border, authorities said.Someone presumably in another vehicle shot at the victim’s vehicle. The person was able to drive themselves to a hospital but their condition was not available Tuesday.A motive for the shooting is under investigation. No suspect information was released and no arrests were announced.The westbound lanes of the freeway were closed for some 20 minutes starting about 4:20 p.m. Monday while investigators searched for evidence.Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the CHP at 707-917-4491.The CHP is also investigating two non-injury East Bay freeway shootings from last week.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | FBI investigating bom...

Home sale prices from Santa Clara and The Peninsula, October 15, 2023

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:35:30 GMT

Residential transactions in Santa Clara and The Peninsula. Click here to browse previous weeks’ transactions.Occasional incorrectly reported, atypical home sales and special circumstances may be listed or alter the average cost per square foot. If the cost looks erroneous, please email [email protected] for more information.Atherton 9402741 Belbrook Way $8,019,00008/31/23 Built 19913800 SF, 2 BR, 2.5 BTH3421 El Camino Real #28e $1,500,00008/30/23 Built 19912072 SF, 3 BR, 3.5 BTH301 Greenoaks Drive $7,450,00009/01/23 Built 19554230 SF, 4 BR, 3.5 BTH49 Magnolia Drive $8,330,00008/25/23 Built 19543670 SF, 4 BR, 4 BTH156 Selby Lane $7,000,00008/25/23 Built 19404500 SF, 5 BR, 4.5 BTH338 Walsh Road $27,750,00008/28/23 Built 202012322 SF, 7 BR, 7.5 BTHBelmont 940023407 Beresford Avenue $2,580,00008/29/23 Built 19601790 SF, 3 BR, 2 BTH1502 Escondido Way $2,450,00009/01/23 Built 19531280 SF, 2 BR, 1.5 BTH1216 Ladera Way $1,950,00008/25/23 Built 19551290 SF, 3 BR, 2 BTH400 Live Oak...

Homicides in city shoot past 100 for 4th consecutive year

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:35:30 GMT

(BCN) -- Oakland hit a grim milestone last week as the city passed 100 homicides recorded so far in 2023, according to the latest data from the Oakland Police Department.Between Oct. 9 and Sunday, six people were killed in Oakland, bringing the year-to-date total to 104. This makes 2023 the fourth consecutive year that the number of homicides in the city shot past 100, the Oakland Police Officers' Association said in a statement Monday. Five people charged for alleged retail theft at Walgreens last week By the same time last year, the city had already recorded 105 homicides. In 2021, there were 110 homicides by mid-October. The last year homicides in Oakland did not reach 100 was in 2019, when the city recorded a total of 78 killings, the police union noted"These statistics paint a stark picture of Oakland's public safety crisis, marked by a shortage of law enforcement personnel, the absence of a permanent police chief, and a mayoral administration that lacks a comprehensive publi...

19 suspects go on trial in Paris in deaths of 39 migrants who suffocated in a truck in 2019

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:35:30 GMT

PARIS (AP) — A trial opened in Paris on Tuesday of 19 people suspected of playing critical roles in a smuggling operation that went awry and sent 39 Vietnamese migrants to their deaths four years ago when they were locked inside a stifling hot truck trailer. Courts in Britain, where the truck was found on Oct. 23, 2019, and in Belgium, where the truck boarded an English Channel ferry, have already tried and convicted 23 people.Most of those facing justice in Paris are French helpers in a highly structured network who face charges including aiding the illegal entry into France of the migrants and criminal association. Four of the 19, all Vietnamese, are also charged with manslaughter. The defendants risk 10 years in prison.Among the 19 are taxi drivers, apartment landlords in the Paris suburbs who housed the migrants and organizers who considered the travelers “like chickens that you stack up,” according to the investigating magistrates’ file.“The arguments advanced by the Vietnamese...

General Motors delays electric pickup truck production at plant near Detroit as US EV demand slows

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:35:30 GMT

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors will delay electric pickup truck production at a factory near Detroit due to slowing U.S. demand for electric vehicles, to better manage its capital investments, and to make some engineering changes.The company said in a statement Tuesday that the factory in Orion Township, Michigan, will instead start making electric Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups in late 2025. Originally the company had planned to start production sometime next year.GM spokesman Kevin Kelly said the change has nothing to do with the ongoing four-week partial strike by members of the United Auto Workers union. “What’s happening in the marketplace does play a factor,” said Kelly, who added that the company wants to make engineering changes that will improve the trucks’ profitability.About 1,000 workers at the Orion plant will keep building the Chevrolet Bolt hatchback small electric car and Bolt electric utility vehicle through the end of this year as planned, th...

Arlington tops list of ‘most educated’ cities (DC is close behind)

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:35:30 GMT

Rosslyn Virginia skyline viewed from Memorial Bridge, Washington, DC(Getty Images/iStockphoto/f11photo) Rosslyn Virginia skyline viewed from Memorial Bridge, Washington, DC(Getty Images/iStockphoto/f11photo) Forbes Advisor’s new rankings of “The Most Educated Cities in the U.S.” puts Arlington, Virginia, at the top and the District at No. 3.The rankings count college degrees among populations, but it also factors in high school dropout rates and racial disparities. Cities with smaller gender gaps in education also ranked higher.Forbes Advisor said Arlington boasts a sky-high bachelor’s degree completion rate of over 76% among residents 25 years and older. Nearly 42% of adults there hold a graduat...

Defending champion LSU is No. 1 in women’s preseason AP Top 25 for first time. UConn, Iowa next

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:35:30 GMT

Defending champion LSU is ranked No. 1 in the women’s preseason AP Top 25 college basketball poll for the first time in school history.LSU, which won its first NCAA title last April behind star player Angel Reese and Co., received 35 first-place votes from a 36-member national media panel in the poll released Tuesday. UConn received the other top vote. The second-ranked Huskies have now been ranked in the AP poll for 565 consecutive weeks, tying Tennessee’s record.Caitlin Clark and national runner-up Iowa was third. It’s the same spot the Hawkeyes held last year in the preseason poll. UCLA and Utah round out the top five.The Tigers were ranked second in 1977 and third twice in 2004 and 2005 in the preseason poll, but never No. 1 until this year. There is a lot of optimism around LSU as they return a stellar group, including Reese, along with two talented transfers in Hailey Van Lith and Aneesah Morrow.“We appreciate the recognition of being the No. 1 ranked team going into the...

Could this October be one of the driest in Denver history?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:35:30 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- After May and June ranked as some of the wettest months in Denver history, October's going the opposite way with one of the driest Octobers so far. Since the significant rainfall in May and June of this year Denver's rainfall has gone from above average to below average, according to FOX31's Pinpoint Weather Meteorologist Travis Michels. July, August and September tallied below-average levels. In the past two and a half months, Denver's only received 1.61 inches of rain.To put that into perspective, Denver had about a foot of rain in May and June.According to the National Weather Service, there was only slightly more than trace amounts of rain in October so far this year. Fall leaves set to be more colorful than usual There were trace amounts of rain on Oct. 2 and Oct. 12. The only rain that was recorded other than the trace amounts was on Oct. 11 which tallied 0.01 inches, the lowest amount the NWS can record. According to Michels, it goes beyond that with that ...

Photos: Cirque Du Soleil on ice is coming to Denver

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:35:30 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Cirque du Soleil’s CRYSTAL is coming to Denver in 2024. The performance is just like any Cirque du Soleil show, except this time it's on ice.CRYSTAL started in 2017 as the company’s very first acrobatic experience on the ice. In six years, the show has toured 135 cities in 15 different countries worldwide. Most popular unique names in Colorado The show includes Cirque du Soleil's circus favorites like hand-to-hand, Banquine, aerial straps, hand-to-trapeze, juggling and hand balancing, all on ice.Cirque du Soleil 2019. Costumes : Marie Chantale Vaillancourt . Photos : Matt Baker and Olivier BrajonCirque du Soleil 2019. Costumes : Marie Chantale Vaillancourt . Photos : Matt Baker and Olivier BrajonCirque du Soleil 2019. Costumes : Marie Chantale Vaillancourt . Photos : Matt Baker and Olivier BrajonCirque du Soleil 2019. Costumes : Marie Chantale Vaillancourt . Photos : Matt Baker and Olivier BrajonCirque du Soleil 2019. Costumes : Marie Chantale Vaillancou...