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Three-bedroom home sells for $1.6 million in Los Gatos

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:08:21 GMT

21701 Summit Road – Google Street ViewA spacious house located in the 21700 block of Summit Road in Los Gatos has a new owner. The 2,045-square-foot property, built in 1962, was sold on May 1, 2023, for $1,600,000, or $782 per square foot. The property features three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a garage, and two parking spaces. There’s also a pool in the backyard. The unit sits on a 9,797-square-foot lot.These nearby houses have also recently been sold:A 731-square-foot home on the 18100 block of Zella Court in Los Gatos sold in October 2022, for $650,000, a price per square foot of $889. The home has 1 bedroom and 1 bathrooms.In April 2023, a 1,295-square-foot home on Mountain View Court in Los Gatos sold for $980,000, a price per square foot of $757. The home has 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.On Mary Alice Way, Los Gatos, in April 2023, a home was sold for $895,000. 

Bay Area arts: 8 cool shows to see this weekend and beyond

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:08:21 GMT

There’s a ton of cool shows and concerts to see and hear in the Bay Area this weekend and beyond. Here is a partial roundupo.Hiromi settles into Yoshi’sOver the past 20 years, no musician has done more to expand the idiom of jazz/rock fusion than Japanese pianist/keyboardist Hiromi.Ever since Ahmad Jamal co-produced her first album, 2003’s “Another Mind,” she’s recorded a series of fascinating projects displaying her overwhelming technique and fecund imagination. Equally commanding performing solo, trio or quartet with a guitarist, Hiromi has yet to record her own music with a horn player, which makes her divided five-night Yoshi’s run particularly intriguing.The new quartet she brings to Oakland bristles with brilliance, featuring French electric bass star Hadrien Feraud, who’s toured and recorded with fusion pioneers Chick Corea and John McLaughlin; Los Angeles studio mainstay Gene Coye on drums; and rising 28-year-old trumpeter Adam O’Farrill, scion of one of Latin jazz’s l...

Student with gun arrested on campus of Willow Glen High in San Jose

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:08:21 GMT

(KRON) -- Law enforcement units are on the campus of Willow Glen High School in San Jose amid reports of a student with a firearm on campus, according to the San Jose Police Department. Two school resource officers arrested a student after a brief foot pursuit and a loaded ghost gun was found on his person, police said. Holmes granted new prison date following rejection of bail request "Thanks to the quick actions of these on-campus School Resource Offices, this gun was seized and possibly prevented a tragic event from occurring," police said on Twitter.Officers will remain in the area while an investigation is conducted. There is no ongoing threat to the public, police said.This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

Dianne Feinstein says she hasn't 'been gone,' despite absence: Reports

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:08:21 GMT

(KRON) -- Senior Sen. Dianne Feinstein appeared not to remember being away from the Senate for nearly three months when questioned by reporters this week, according to reports. Feinstein (D-California) went on medical leave back in February to undergo treatment for shingles.The 89-year-old senator was absent from late February until last week. During the two-and-a-half-month absence, Feinstein missed dozens of votes and faced calls to resign from Democratic colleagues, including Rep. Ro Khanna. Holmes granted new prison date following rejection of bail request Feinstein, the longest-serving current U.S. senator, was back on the Senate floor this week to cast votes. It was when she was being wheeled away from the floor in a wheelchair by an aide that she reportedly had a puzzling encounter with a reporter.According to Slate, when a reporter asked Feinstein what the response from her colleagues had been like since she returned, she replied, "No, I haven't been gone.""You should foll...

Man injured in Mission District shooting after altercation over car break-in

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:08:21 GMT

A 52-year-old man was injured in a shooting after getting into a physical altercation with someone breaking into his vehicle in San Francisco's Mission District on Tuesday night, according to police. The shooting was reported at 10:55 p.m. in the 1200 block of Shotwell Street after the altercation over a broken car window. Holmes granted new prison date following rejection of bail request A male suspect, believed to be between 18 and 25 years old, shot the 52-year-old twice before fleeing with a second suspect. The victim was taken to a hospital and is expected to survive, while the two suspects remained at large as of Wednesday morning, San Francisco police said. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the Police Department's tip line at (415) 575-4444 or to send a tip by text message to TIP411 with "SFPD" at the start of the message. Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

New chair appointed to head elections board in Georgia’s Fulton County

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:08:21 GMT

The elections board in Georgia’s most populous county, a Democratic stronghold targeted by former President Donald Trump after his narrow 2020 loss in the state, will soon have new leadership.The Fulton County Board of Commissioners voted Wednesday to approve the selection of lawyer Patrise Perkins-Hooker to serve as chair of the county Registration and Elections Board. Her nomination — announced at the start of Wednesday’s commission meeting — came as a surprise to many since commission Chairman Robb Pitts had last week nominated former commissioner Lee Morris to fill the seat.The nomination of Morris, a Republican, would have shifted control of the the elections board from Democrats to Republicans in the heavily Democratic county, which includes most of Atlanta and is home to just over 1 million people. The county Democratic and Republican parties get two appointments apiece to round out the five-person board.Democrats and voting rights activists had raised alarms and ...

Mark Gietzen, abortion foe who forced recount of Kansas vote, dies in plane crash at 69

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:08:21 GMT

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Mark Gietzen, a longtime conservative Republican and anti-abortion activist in Kansas who forced a recount of the state’s decisive vote affirming abortion rights last year has died in a plane crash. He was 69.The Kansas Republican Party said in a Facebook post that Gietzen, of Wichita, died Tuesday evening in Nebraska. He was flying a single-engine Cessna 172 Skyhawk when it crashed in a field near O’Neill, Nebraska, about 190 miles (306 kilometers) northwest of Omaha, according to the Federal Aviation Administration’s crash log. Gietzen was the only person on board and the log said the plane crashed “in unknown circumstances.”Jim Howell, a county commissioner in Sedgwick County, Kansas, which includes Wichita, told The Wichita Eagle that Gietzen had flown to Nebraska to visit his mother. Gietzen grew up in the Bismarck, North Dakota, area and served in the U.S. Marines before coming to Kansas in the late 1970s to work for aircraft manufacturer...

Ex-division rivals Carolina, Florida set to clash in East final for a shot at he Stanley Cup

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:08:21 GMT

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Florida Panthers and Carolina Hurricanes entered the Stanley Cup Playoffs facing challenges that made it unclear how long either might stick around.The former Southeast Division peers are still here, halfway to winning the Cup as they enter the Eastern Conference final in what could be a bruising series. Game 1 of the best-of-seven series starts Thursday at Carolina which is in its second conference final in five seasons. It is Florida’s first trip this far since 1996.The Panthers pushed their way into the postseason only to earn a date with Boston, which had just posted the greatest regular season in NHL history. The Hurricanes were facing injuries to key forwards that made a weakness exposed from past playoff stumbles even more acute.“It’s amazing, but it’s pretty hard right now to think about accomplishments to this point,” Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov said. “We want to keep going. We want to keep playing and that’s what we’re thinking about.”...

Independent candidate poised to become first elected Black mayor of Colorado Springs

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:08:21 GMT

DENVER (AP) — An independent mayoral candidate was poised Wednesday to defeat his Republican opponent to become the first elected Black mayor in the conservative city of Colorado Springs, Colorado’s second largest city. The apparent win in Tuesday’s run-off election by Yemi Mobolade, a Nigerian immigrant, is the latest political setback for Republicans in a state that was once a battleground state.Mobolade moved to the city of nearly 485,000 residents known for its military bases and being a hub of evangelical Christianity to start a church just over a decade ago and went on to co-found a cafe and restaurant, according to his campaign website. He also worked in city government in posts promoting economic development and helping small businesses.At an election night party, Mobolade cast his victory as a win for those who are looking for something different in politics and those who have become disillusioned with the “great experiment” of the United States.“To anyone who d...

US beats Austria 4-1 for 4th straight win at ice hockey worlds, Canada eases past Kazakhstan 5-1

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:08:21 GMT

TAMPERE, Finland (AP) — The United States maintained a perfect record at the ice hockey world championship by beating Austria 4-1 on Wednesday for a fourth straight victory in the group stage.Lane Hutson and Nick Perbix contributed a goal and an assist each while Rocco Grimaldi and Carter Mazur also scored for the Americans, who moved four points clear atop Group A. Denmark is second with a game in hand, while Austria stayed on one point in seventh.Nick Bonino skated around the goal to feed the unmarked Grimaldi, who opened the scoring with a shot high into the net 7:16 minutes into the middle period at Nokia Arena.Captain Thomas Raffl equalized for the Austrians 10 minutes later but Mazur restored the U.S.’ lead after just 57 seconds, netting from the slot.Hutson doubled the advantage on a solo effort in the final period and Perbix finished it off into an empty net.In the Latvian capital of Riga, Canada eased past Kazakhstan 5-1 for its fourth straight win to move to the top of Gro...