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Best Bay Area sandwiches: Readers share their 16 Bay Area favorites

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:03 GMT

When we published our list of 16 super Bay Area sandwiches, we knew we had only scratched the surface. So we asked readers to tell us about their favorites. And wow, did they respond! We discovered that people are passionate about pastrami. That they love warm, just-baked sourdough rolls. Oh, and they’re fiercely loyal. Everyone insists the deli in their town is the best anywhere. Who are we to argue?At Antipasto’s Deli in San Jose, the many, many meatball sandwich is doused with house-made sauce. (Bay Area News Group) Check out these reader favorites. And if we missed your go-to sandwich, use the form at the bottom to tell us about it. Judging from the number of reader recommendations, we’re nowhere close to done with great sandwich roundups.The Best Sandwich, Milpitas: Fans of this hefty Torta Cubana ($13.99) love the combination of marinated lomito (pork), ham, turkey, manchego, pickles and apricot habanero sauce on ciabatta. Sarah Conner-Brown of San Jose ...

Sacramento River roadhouse shut down after teen’s fatal fall

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:03 GMT

A Colusa roadhouse lost its liquor license after a patron — a 17-year-old boy — was killed when he fell from his stepfather’s pickup truck as they were driving away.Slough House Social served alcoholic beverages to the boy as well as the man, said the notice Tuesday from the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.The accident happened around 7 p.m. on May 19, 2022. The pair, from Montana, had been drinking at Slough House, and video obtained by Sacramento TV station KOVR indicates the boy had 10 drinks in the course of 90 minutes, ending with three shots in quick succession. He then got in a confrontation with a bartender, who slapped him and helped him walk to the parking lot and get in the pickup truck.Shortly afterward, the California Highway Patrol was called to an accident scene on Butte Slough Road about a mile from the bar. The CHP report said the boy suffered major injuries when he was ejected out of the passenger window; the stepfather, who ha...

Bay Area university property reeling from loan default goes up for sale

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:03 GMT

OAKLAND — A private university in the Bay Area that’s been jolted by financial woes including a real estate loan default has been officially put up for sale even as it prepares to close its doors this year.Related ArticlesReal Estate | Kitchens, coffee bar, dining are eyed at San Jose food hall Real Estate | Valley Fair rebounds: San Jose mall adds merchants, hits record sales and visits Real Estate | Bed Bath & Beyond is closing hundreds of stores. But they won’t be empty for long Real Estate | How many Bay Area concrete buildings might fall like those in Turkey’s deadly earthquake? Real Estate | Downtown San Jose hotel tower goes up for sale Holy Names University, including the buildings and the Oakland site’s land, has wound up on the sales block in a property offering that’s being handled CBRE, a commercial real estate firm.The 58.6-acre campus, nestled in the ...

Oakland: Arrest made in August killing of 24-year-old man

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:03 GMT

OAKLAND — A Vallejo resident has been arrested and charged with murder in connection with a fatal Oakland shooting from last August, court records show.Kevin Gray, 48, was charged Feb. 22 with murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The victim, identified in court records as 24-year-old Sosefo Feao, was shot and killed around 11 p.m. on Aug. 7, on the 1200 block of 84th Avenue.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Woman shot at Oakland homeless camp Crime and Public Safety | One dead, one hurt after falling tree hits vehicle in East Bay Crime and Public Safety | One dead, one injured after shooting at East Bay strip mall Crime and Public Safety | Former Bay Area theater employee, center of scandalous 2013 child porn case, is sentenced to six years for 2020 arrest Crime and Public Safety | East Bay man charged with killing driver in wrong-way Highway 4 crash, fleeing onto nearby Pittsbur...

What to watch: New ‘Great Expectations’ lives up to its literary legend

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:03 GMT

An edgy “Great Expectations,” Zach Braff’s latest feature, a top-notch BritBox series and a sensational neo-noir from China stand out this week.Here’s our roundup.“Great Expectations”: In a rundown, dust-bunnied estate, a zonked-out Miss Havisham (Olivia Colman) takes a long pull on a pipe packed with opium; later she coerces poor Pip, the older orphaned teen whom she’s in charge of, into ditching his virginity via a sex worker awaiting his arrival in an upstairs bedroom.You might well ask what in the Charles Dickens is going on with FX’s racy, Gothic to the extreme adaptation of the classic novel nearly every high school kid got assigned (or saddled with)?The answer: A hell of a lot.And even though executive producer/writer Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders,” “Taboo”) ups the kink factor and adds references to colonialism and other hot-button matters to Dickens’ durable yarn about a lad (played well by Tom Sweet and Fionn Whitehead) and his treacherous journey to better his own statio...

Suspect arrested following alleged assault in South San Jose

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:03 GMT

A man was arrested after he allegedly assaulted a family member and fled, forcing police to clear out a South San Jose neighborhood as they searched for him, according to authorities.San Jose police were called to the scene of an assault involving family members at 9:35 a.m. Tuesday on the 5600 block of Chesbro Avenue, according to tweets from the department. Authorities did not release any information on the victim or their condition, or how the assault unfolded.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | East San Jose shooting leaves person with life-threatening injuries Crime and Public Safety | Leader of White supremacist group arrested in San Jose for threatening to kill journalist reporting on organization Crime and Public Safety | Couple sentenced to prison in notorious San Jose baby kidnapping Crime and Public Safety | San Jose: Man arrested in connection to father’s death Crime and Public Safety | ...

Senior driver Dick Van Dyke faces DMV test after California car crash

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:03 GMT

Veteran actor Dick Van Dyke escaped serious injury in a solo car crash last week but a report said that police have submitted paperwork to the Department of Motor Vehicles, asking the agency to re-test the 97-year-old’s driving abilities due to his advanced age.This move isn’t unheard of after police respond to the scene of an accident involving a senior driver. As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, older adults’ driving abilities can be affected by changes in vision, physical function and ability to reason, while people 70 and older have higher death rates per 1,000 crashes than people in younger age groups.On the morning of March 15, police in Malibu responded to an accident involving a silver sedan that had crashed into a gate, TMZ reported. There, they found the TV and film legend behind the wheel of a  2018 Lexus LS 500. Van Dyke said that his car slid, and he lost control before it slammed into the gate. That morning, roads in the area we...

Review: Country music’s coolest new artist took the stage in San Francisco

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:03 GMT

Morgan Wade was in the midst of telling a story about, of all things, her energy bill when she suddenly stopped herself.“I’m getting old,” she blurted out to the crowd during her sold-out show at the Fillmore in San Francisco on Tuesday night (March 21). “I’m drinking peppermint tea and talking to you all about about lightbulbs.”Yes, things are changing for this recent homebuyer, as more and more fans begin to find out about the coolest new artist in all of country music. And if things continue to escalate at this pace — for example, if she ends up winning breakthrough female video of the year for “Wilder Days” at the CMT Music Awards in April (as she should) — then she’ll be able to buy more houses and have even bigger electric bills to complain about.Wade underscored all the reasons why so many people are excited about her career as she filled a roughly 90-minute set at the legendary Bay Area venue with one great tu...

Photos: Self-driving cars get tangled in downed Muni wires during storm in San Francisco

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:03 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Tuesday's atmospheric river brought heavy rain and strong winds to the Bay Area once again causing power outages and road closures throughout the region. While humans can see the road closure signs, viewer photos sent to KRON4 show autonomous vehicles cannot.Photos show two self-driving cars that apparently did not detect road closure tape and drove through the closed street due to downed Muni wires at the intersection of Leavenworth Street and Clay Street."Now they are tangled up like flies in sticky traps," the viewer tweeted.(Photo: John Bettencourt)(Photo: John Bettencourt)(Photo: John Bettencourt)(Photo: John Bettencourt)The photos show the cars are with Cruise, a self-driving car company affiliated with General Motors and Honda. San Francisco has allowed these autonomous cars to navigate its streets without drivers since 2020. Cruise announced recently that it wants to begin testing driverless autonomous vehicles across California.Cruise replied to...

California is 'all-hands-on-deck' for storm response, Newsom says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:03 GMT

(KRON) -- Governor Gavin Newsom mobilized emergency disaster response teams to regions of California hit hardest by relentless atmospheric rivers this winter."We’re continuing to mobilize an all-hands-on-deck response to protect Californians during this latest round of devastating storms," Newsom said Wednesday. "With communities from San Diego to Siskiyou County reeling from recent storms, the state is working closely with federal and local partners to provide immediate relief and support the ongoing recovery."California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to members of the press addressing damages sustained by floodwaters after a breached levee in Pajaro, Calif., on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. (Brontë Wittpenn/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)Newsom has proclaimed a state of emergency in 43 counties. His administration is working to maximize federal aid for storm-battered communities while state and county officials conduct preliminary damage assessments. PHOTOS: Pajaro turns into a water wo...