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Santa Clara County budget proposal would cut jobs to remedy $120 million deficit

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:10:59 GMT

Santa Clara County has released an $11.2 billion budget proposal that wrestles with a $120 million deficit and a potential economic downturn by turning to one of its costliest annual expenses: the county’s employees.The final budget recommendation, a more than 600-page document, is the last for outgoing county executive Jeff Smith, who took on the role in the 2009-10 fiscal year when the budget was $4.3 billion and county employees totaled 14,000. Now there are 22,205.To bridge the massive financial gap, Smith and county counsel James Williams — the incoming county executive — have recommended cutting nearly 20% of the county’s vacant positions, a total of more than 650 jobs, and other ongoing cost reductions.“This will put us on better footing for the coming fiscal years, even if the road ahead will still be challenging,” Williams wrote in his budget message.The proposal has alarmed some county workers, especially those working in health care, as...

Pacifica woman sentenced to one year in jail for abusing children at daycare center

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:10:59 GMT

PACIFICA — A 21-year-old Pacifica woman has been sentenced to one year in San Mateo County jail and four years of supervised probation for abusing children at a daycare center, prosecutors said.Mikala Alexis Ghirarduzzi pleaded no contest to one felony count of child cruelty in October. Ghirarduzzi received her sentence Thursday and was remanded into custody to begin serving her jail term, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office. She has one day credit for time served.Ghirarduzzi was initially charged with three felony counts of child endangerment and two misdemeanor counts of child endangerment.The Pacifica Police Department launched an investigation in July 2021 after receiving a tip that Ghirarduzzi had been “acting cruelly and potentially harming children” in her care at Terra Nova Christian Preschool in Pacifica, prosecutors said.Police found numerous videos and photographs that showed Ghirarduzzi doing things such as passing gas in the face of a sleeping c...

Arrodillado ante su padre: te explicamos este gesto del príncipe William en la coronación

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:10:59 GMT

Una de las imágenes que más llamó la atención durante la coronación del rey Charles III como nuevo monarca británica la protagonizó el príncipe William.Durante la ceremonia, el príncipe William se arrodilló ante su padre el rey Carlos III, para jurar su lealtad al monarca.“Seré su vasallo y devoto servidor. Que Dios me ayude”, dijo. Por qué el rey Charles cambió de coronas durante su ceremonia EN VIVO: El Reino Unido corona al rey Charles en una histórica y milenaria ceremonia Tradicionalmente, los miembros de la realeza y los lores se arrodillan ante su nuevo monarca y le rinden homenaje.Sin embargo, esta vez ese gesto fue reemplazado por lo que los organizadores han llamado como “El homenaje del pueblo”: las personas que miran en casa y desean hacerlo están invitadas a decir “Dios salve al rey Carlos”, o seguir las palabras de la liturgia.Source

Packed Virginia pub celebrates King Charles’ coronation

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:10:59 GMT

toggle audio on and off change volume download audio WTOP's Luke Garrett talks with celebrating patrons and the pub's owners. $(function () { $('.wtop-audio-container .fa-play').on('click', function(){ var audio_filename = $('div.wtop-audio-file').data("mp3-url"); ga('send', 'event', 'Audio', 'play', audio_filename); }); }); Tea, coffee and even a few brews flowed early Saturday morning as English expats, Premier League fans and Britain enthusiasts gathered at the Hawk and Griffin pub in Vienna, Virginia, to watch the coronation of King Charles III.All eyes were glued to the dozen TVs and a projector screen broadcasting fr...

Newly crowned King Charles III and Queen Camilla greet crowds of well-wishers from Buckingham Palace balcony

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:10:59 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Newly crowned King Charles III and Queen Camilla greet crowds of well-wishers from Buckingham Palace balcony.Source

Por qué el rey Charles cambió de coronas durante su ceremonia

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:10:59 GMT

El rey Carlos III fue coronado este sábado como nuevo monarca británico en su misa solemne de coronación y la congregación proclamó “Dios salve al rey”.El arzobispo de Canterbury colocó la pesada corona de oro y joyas de St. Edward sobre la cabeza de Charles a la mitad de la misa de dos horas.La coronación es la pieza central de la ceremonia y es la única vez durante su reinado que Carlos usará la corona de oro macizo de 22 quilates y conserva ciertos aspectos de la corona original medieval. EN VIVO: El Reino Unido corona al rey Charles en una histórica y milenaria ceremonia En video: los trajes del rey Felipe y la reina Letizia en la coronación de Charles La corona fue la misma que usó su madre Isabel cuando fue coronada reina en 1953 y fue modificada y agrandada para adaptarla a la cabeza del nuevo monarca británico.Tiene un gorro de terciopelo morado, una banda de armiño y arcos entrecruzados rematados por una cruz. Tiene rubí...

Premier League teams mark coronation of King Charles III

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:10:59 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Premier League clubs planned to mark the coronation of King Charles III by playing the national anthem before the start of Saturday’s games.In the morning, Chelsea women’s team striker Sam Kerr led the Australian delegation in the formal procession into Westminster Abbey. Kerr was her country’s flag-bearer as part of a group with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.Tottenham was showing live coverage of the coronation on a big screen outside Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for fans with tickets to its home game against Crystal Palace.Like other teams with home games, Tottenham said players and officials would gather at the center of the field for a rendition of the national anthem — “God Save the King” — just before kickoff.On Friday, Liverpool confirmed that it would also play the national anthem but acknowledged that “ some supporters have strong views on it.” It said the league had contacted clubs playing home games and “strongly suggested” they note the his...

¿Por qué coronaron a Camila? ¿será llamada ‘reina’?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:10:59 GMT

(CNN) — ¿Reina Camila? Técnicamente sí. Eso es porque si un soberano varón está casado cuando accede al trono, su esposa es tradicionalmente ungida y coronada en una breve ceremonia.Eso tuvo lugar después de la coronación de Carlos III y se rindieran los homenajes.Este sábado, Camila se convirtió en la vigésima novena reina consorte en ser coronada en la Abadía de Westminster.La ceremoniaAl igual que su esposo, el arzobispo de Canterbury la ungió con aceite sagrado, esta vez sin pantalla, lo que demuestra la naturaleza diferente de ungir a una consorte en comparación con un soberano reinante.El Guardián de la Casa de las Joyas luego presentó el Anillo de la Consorte, que simboliza la promesa y el compromiso, “casándola” con el Rey y con Dios y su pueblo.Luego, fue coronada con la corona de la reina María, marcando la primera vez en la historia reciente que no se hizo una nueva corona específicamente para esta ocasión.Cuando la reina María pagó por la corona de plat...

Spring Showers Return this Weekend

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:10:59 GMT

Following a fantastic stretch of beautiful weather this week, moisture returns for the weekend, leading to the chance for a few showers. Also given more moisture in place, humidity will become more present again and it will feel muggy outside.On Saturday, expect a mix of sun and clouds with a few isolated showers and storms during the afternoon and evening hours. Rain chances will be highest inland and to our west. Otherwise it will be another warm day with highs in the mid to upper 80s. It will also be more breezy with an east-northeast breeze.Our best rain chance out of this weekend looks to be Saturday night into Sunday morning as an area of higher moisture sweeps through, leading to more scattered showers. The showers will generally move from northeast to southeast, so by Sunday afternoon it should turn drier and brighter across Miami-Dade and Broward while a few showers linger on Sunday. Temperatures will also be more seasonable on Sunday into the mid 80s.High pressure regains ...

Bracing for impact: Biden world preps for Hunter Biden fallout

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:10:59 GMT

The White House is bracing for the political fallout from the charging decision in the Hunter Biden case.And they’ve concluded that Republicans will attack them over it whether President Joe Biden’s son is criminally indicted or not.In conversations, Democrats and senior West Wing aides are downplaying the potential impact, arguing Hunter Biden was a factor in the 2020 election and voters elected his father anyway. They point out the president’s top rival, Donald Trump, was just indicted himself.But people close to Biden still worry about the personal toll it will take on a father who has already felt anguish about a son’s struggles amid a long history of family tragedy. And they wonder how long he can compartmentalize personal anger with the attacks on Hunter and the political calculation that he’s better off not responding to it. Biden has long agonized over the fate of his surviving son, expressing that worry in phone calls with longtime friends and to Hunter himself.Attorneys fo...