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Photos: Tahiti Fete wraps up 4-day celebration in San Jose

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:32 GMT

Tahiti Fete of San Jose, said to be the biggest Tahitian dance competition in the U.S., just wrapped up its 26th celebration.This year’s event featured dancers from the United States, Europe and Mexico. Tahia Cambet School of Dance traveled from France, while Kawailehua Hula Ohana danced in their home city of San Jose. In total about 50 groups performed during the four-day event.Polynesian and Tahitian vendors were outside the auditorium selling arts and crafts, and Tahitian language and dance workshops were offered at San Jose Civic and the San Jose Marriott Hotel.Pua Tokumoto, who started the festival as a one-night celebration at the Civic Center, has seen it grow into a four-day affair.The festival​, which began​ in 1990 at San Jose Civic​,​ ​returned to its first home after moving to San Jose State, then being on hiatus for a few years. Tahiti Fete highlights Polynesian culture, primarily Tahitian, and helps build camaraderie among dance groups.Dancers from Makamae Melia ...

Senegal’s president says he won’t run for a third term

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:32 GMT

By Babacar Dione | Associatd PressDAKAR, Senegal — Senegalese President Macky Sall declared Monday evening that he will not run for a third term in next year’s elections, ending years of uncertainty over his political future that had helped fuel deadly opposition protests last month.Top opposition leader Ousmane Sonko already had called for more demonstrations around the West African country in the event Sall had instead announced his intention to run again in February.In a speech carried live on his official Facebook page, Sall maintained that Senegal’s constitution would have allowed his candidacy despite having already been elected to a second term in 2019.“Even if I have the right, I felt that my duty is not to contribute to destroying what I have built for this country,” Sall said. “I had said that the 2019 mandate was my last mandate. I know that this decision will come as a surprise to all those who have a friendship with me. Senegal is more than...

Cal State proposes regular tuition hikes to forestall budget gap

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:32 GMT

Multiple years of tuition increases are likely heading to California State University students as the 23-campus system seeks desperately needed cash to afford its academic mission.The institution on Thursday published its proposal to begin raising undergraduate and graduate school tuition by 6% annually starting in the fall 2024 academic year.For undergraduates, that would mean an increase of $342 in the first year. However, nearly 60% of Cal State’s students would be unaffected by the tuition hikes because they receive state financial aid.Tuition for those who pay would rise steadily, from $6,084 in the first year of the hike to $7,682 by 2028-29.The series of hikes has no end-date; instead, the proposal said Cal State leaders would reassess the plan after five years.The system’s Board of Trustees will hear the sweeping proposal at the July 11 meeting, and, according to the agenda, vote on whether to approve the tuition increases in September. Board members could choose to change t...

The Battle of Gettysburg remembered 160 years later

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:32 GMT

One of the bloodiest battles in American history is being remembered 160 years later. The Battle of Gettysburg, in addition to its ferocity, is known as a major turning point in the Civil War.On July 1, 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and Union Maj. Gen. George Meade and their forces violently clashed around the small Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg.Lee had just been victorious a month earlier in the Battle of Chancellorsville and decided to take the 75,000 man Army of Northern Virginia north of the Mason-Dixon Line, hoping to force negotiations to end the fighting.Maj. Gen. George Meade had just taken command of the 90,000 man Army of the Potomac and was ordered to keep his forces between Lee and Washington D.C.The three-day long engagement resulted in 50,000 casualties.“This was a huge moment, sometimes actually referred to as the high watermark of the Confederacy, and the Union victory there had a tremendous impact on the outcome of the war,” said Mary Koik with the Am...

Sospechoso recibe disparo y otros dos huyen tras intentar robar camión blindado en Hyattsville

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:32 GMT

Un hombre resultó herido y otros dos se dieron a la fuga luego que las autoridades presuntamente frustraron un robo a un camión blindado en Hyattsville, Maryland. El camión blindado venía a llenar un cajero automático cuando al parecer tres sujetos intentaron llevarse el dinero que venía en el furgón. Sin embargo, la policía dijo que con el acorazado venían oficiales encubiertos a modo de medida de seguridad. Al menos uno de esos oficiales abrió fuego e hirió a uno de los sospechosos. “Escuchamos los disparos al frente. Yo personalmente solo vi al muchacho que estaba disparando. No vi a la persona a quien le disparaba. Después pudimos salir afuera y ya fue que vi a la persona en el suelo con un disparo en la pierna”, dijo Brenda Cruz, una trabajadora del lugar.Cruz y sus compañeros vivieron de cerca la balacera ocurrida a eso de las 9 a.m. cuando apenas comenzaban su jornada.“No sabría decirle [cuántos disparos escuché]. Quizás más de cinco”, agregó.Lamentablemente, ellos ...

Guardians’ Triston McKenzie to continue rehab program for elbow, team hoping he returns in ’23

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:32 GMT

CLEVELAND (AP) — After getting a second opinion on his sprained right elbow, Cleveland Guardians starter Triston McKenzie will continue his rehab program with the hope he can avoid surgery and return to the mound this season.McKenzie was shut down recently after just his second start with discomfort in his elbow. He was diagnosed with a strained ulnar collateral ligament, an injury that often requires Tommy John surgery.The 25-year-old was examined last week by Guardians team physician Dr. Mark Schickendantz, who recommended rest and rehab. The team encouraged McKenzie to see other specialists, and it’s been decided that he will be shut down for three more weeks.“He feels real good now about the direction he wants to go,” manager Terry Francona said Monday before the Guardians opened a three-game series against the Atlanta Braves. “I guess you call it the conservative way, which is non-surgical.”Francona said McKenzie will continue to get therapy over the next three weeks befo...

20-year-old Md. man charged with stealing forklift from Lowe’s and running down, killing woman

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:32 GMT

A man has been arrested and charged with stealing a forklift from Lowe’s in Waldorf, Maryland, and running over and killing a woman in the parking lot.The Charles County Sheriff’s Office has charged Bryce Caleb Timothy Brown, 20, of Waldorf, with first-degree murder, second-degree murder, assault, theft and other related charges.The sheriff’s office says officers responded to a burglary in process at the Lowe’s in the 2500 block of Crain Highway at 12:40 a.m. on Sunday.Brown broke into Lowe’s and stole a forklift and rammed it through the rear gates, according to a news release.Once he was in the parking lot, the sheriff’s office said Brown rammed the forklift into a vehicle that was parked in the parking lot with a woman sleeping inside. The Charles County Sheriff’s Office said that Brown did not know the woman.When the woman got out after the forklift struck her car, Brown followed her with the forklift as she was running away and ran her over, ...

Maternal deaths in the US more than doubled over two decades. Black mothers died at the highest rate

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:32 GMT

Maternal deaths across the U.S. more than doubled over the course of two decades, and the tragedy unfolded unequally.Black mothers died at the nation’s highest rates, while the largest increases in deaths were found in American Indian and Native Alaskan mothers. And some states — and racial or ethnic groups within them – fared worse than others. The findings were laid out in a new study published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers looked at maternal deaths between 1999 and 2019 — but not the pandemic spike — for every state and five racial and ethnic groups.“It’s a call to action to all of us to understand the root causes — to understand that some of it is about health care and access to health care, but a lot of it is about structural racism and the policies and procedures and things that we have in place that may keep people from being healthy,” said Dr. Allison Bryant, one of the study’s authors and a senior medical director for health eq...

Cardinals sign RHP Chen-Wei Lin, their first player ever out of Taiwan

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:32 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — The St. Louis Cardinals on Monday signed right-handed pitcher Chen-Wei Lin, the franchise’s first player signed out of Taiwan.The 21-year-old Lin is a native of Tainan City, Taiwan, and played college baseball at Chinese Culture University in Taipei. He pitched in nine games for the Kenosha, Wisconsin, Kingfish last summer in the collegiate league in his United States debut.Lin was also an invited college player for the Taiwanese World Baseball Classic team earlier this year in their preparation camp.He will soon report to the Cardinals’ facility in Jupiter, Florida.Lin, who is 6-foot-7, made four starts and had a 3.24 ERA this summer for the Frederick Keys, a collegiate summer baseball team of the MLB Draft League.Lin’s uncle, Hong-Chih Kuo, pitched for the Los Angeles Dodgers for seven seasons from 2005-2011. He had a 3.73 ERA in 218 career appearances after signing as an international free agent with the Dodgers in 1999.___AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/m...

Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman will participate in Home Run Derby at All-Star Game

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:32 GMT

Baltimore Orioles' Adley Rutschman runs out of the box while hitting an infield single against the Minnesota Twins in the eighth inning of a baseball game, Sunday, July 2, 2023, in Baltimore. The Orioles won 2-1. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)(AP/Julio Cortez) Baltimore Orioles' Adley Rutschman runs out of the box while hitting an infield single against the Minnesota Twins in the eighth inning of a baseball game, Sunday, July 2, 2023, in Baltimore. The Orioles won 2-1. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)(AP/Julio Cortez) NEW YORK (AP) — Adley Rutschman of the Baltimore Orioles said Monday he will participate in the Home Run Derby on July 10 in Seattle as he attempts to become the first catcher to win the event.The Orioles posted a T...