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Pruneyard Cinemas isn’t toying around with its ‘Barbie’-themed cocktails

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:50:15 GMT

It’s a “Barbie” world at Pruneyard Cinemas this week. In anticipation for what’s expected to be a huge response to the new movie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, which opens Friday, the dine-in movie theater in Campbell has outpinked itself.The bartending staff at the Cedar Room Lounge have concocted a pair of cocktails themed to the movie, and they’re not toying around. The Malibu Barbie — made with Malibu rum, of course — is a refreshing sipper, while the Greta Gerwig, named after the movie’s director and made with watermelon vodka, tastes a bit like a Jolly Rancher candy and goes down very easy.Moviegoers can take photos in a life-size Barbie box in the lobby of Pruneyard Cinemas in Campbell. “Barbie,” starring Margot Robbie as the famous doll, opens July 21, 2023. (Sal Pizarro/Bay Area News Group) Both are bright pink — did you have any doubt they would be? — and because of the sizeable number o...

1 dead after DUI driver runs red light in San Jose, police say

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:50:15 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) -- Within the past 72 hours, multiple deadly collisions have unfolded on San Jose roadways. At 1:11 a.m. Thursday, two men were ejected from their Scion sedan after they were struck by an SUV, the San Jose Police Department said. One of the men suffered fatal injuries and died at a hospital. The second man remains hospitalized in critical condition. Witnesses told police that the Nissan SUV driver ran a red light. The SUV driver was arrested on suspicion of felony Driving Under the Influence and vehicular manslaughter. SJPD investigators wrote, "A 2006 Nissan SUV, occupied by an adult male driver, was travelling westbound on Capitol Expressway through the intersection at Snell Avenue when it struck a 2006 Scion sedan. The Scion was traveling southbound on Snell Avenue. Witnesses stated the Nissan ran a red light at the intersection."The suspected DUI driver's name was not immediately released by police.Thursday morning's wreck was San Jose's 27th fatal collis...

Mariners’ Jarred Kelenic breaks his foot kicking a water cooler, makes emotional apology to team

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:50:15 GMT

SEATTLE (AP) — Jarred Kelenic’s emotional outburst after a tough at-bat resulted in a damaged water cooler, a broken bone in his left foot and had the Seattle Mariners young left fielder apologizing for his actions.Kelenic was placed on the 10-day injured list on Thursday, a day after he kicked a water cooler following a ninth-inning strikeout in Seattle’s loss to Minnesota.Kelenic was apologetic fighting through tears for letting his emotions get out of hand and expressing his frustration.“I made a mistake. I let the emotions get the best of me there. I just feel terrible, especially for the guys,” Kelenic said. “I just let the emotions get the best of me and I just let them down and take full responsibility for it. It’s on me. It just can’t happen.”Seattle manager Scott Servais said Kelenic will be out for an extended period of time but did not estimate a timeframe. The team doesn’t believe surgery will be needed.“I think it’s a learning lesson for him. For all players...

Homicides in Brazil at the lowest level in over a decade, report says

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:50:15 GMT

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian researchers say the number of violent deaths last year reached the lowest level in more than a decade, puzzling some experts because there has been an explosion of firearms circulating in the country in recent years.About 47,500 people were slain in Latin America’s largest nation in 2022, said a report Thursday by the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety, an independent group that tracks crimes. Its statistics are widely used as a benchmark because there are no official statistics on a national level. While the number of killings in 2022 was down 2.4% from the previous year, it remained roughly even with levels recorded since 2019. The last time Brazil had less violent deaths was in 2011, with 47,215 killings.The fall in homicides has left many public security experts somewhat puzzled, as it has been accompanied by a sharp increase in the number of firearms held by Brazilians. Some studies have suggested that more guns circulating among the populati...

Bolivia boosts lithium resources estimate, cementing spot as global leader

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:50:15 GMT

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The total of Bolivia’s confirmed lithium resources has increased 2 million tons to 23 million tons, the Andean country’s president said Thursday.The new estimate further cements Bolivia’s position as the country with the world’s biggest known deposits of lithium, which is in high demand for use in batteries.“We are the largest lithium reserve in the world, and we have to know how to manage it intelligently to exploit and transform this resource,” President Luis Arce said at the Coipasa salt flat, around 280 kilometers (175 miles) south of the capital of La Paz.Bolivia has stepped up its search for international partners to help develop its lithium reserves at a time when demand for the metal is soaring amid the transition to renewable energy around the world and the growth in electric vehicles powered by lithium batteries.The increase in the estimate of Bolivia’s reserves came after further geological studies in the Coipasa and Pasto Grandes salt f...

W.R. Berkley: Q2 Earnings Snapshot

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:50:15 GMT

GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — W.R. Berkley Corp. (WRB) on Thursday reported second-quarter net income of $356.3 million.On a per-share basis, the Greenwich, Connecticut-based company said it had profit of $1.30. Earnings, adjusted for investment gains, were $1.14 per share.The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.07 per share.The insurance company posted revenue of $3 billion in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $2.94 billion._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on WRB at https://www.zacks.com/ap/WRBSource

Arson caused house fire that killed Memphis firefighter and injured 3 others, officials say

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:50:15 GMT

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities searched on Thursday for the person who set a fire that killed a Memphis firefighter and sent three others to the hospital.The Memphis Fire Department said arson was to blame for a fire late Tuesday that killed Lt. Jeffrey Norman and injured three other firefighters when they were trapped inside a burning house.The blaze started in a trash bin located outside of the house, fire officials said in a news release Thursday. It spread to a carport and into an addition to the home above the carport.Injuries suffered by Norman and the three firefighters who were hospitalized have not been disclosed. Fire officials asked the public to help identify the person who set the fire.Norman, a 20-year veteran firefighter, was “a courageous and dedicated member of our team,” Memphis Fire Chief Gina Sweat said in a statement. “Jeffrey was a leader and hard worker who took pride in serving his community,” Sweat said Wednesday.Source

Scholastic: Fiscal Q4 Earnings Snapshot

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:50:15 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — NEW YORK (AP) — Scholastic Corp. (SCHL) on Thursday reported earnings of $75.7 million in its fiscal fourth quarter.On a per-share basis, the New York-based company said it had profit of $2.26.The publishing, education and media company posted revenue of $528.3 million in the period.For the year, the company reported profit of $86.3 million, or $2.49 per share. Revenue was reported as $1.7 billion._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on SCHL at https://www.zacks.com/ap/SCHLSource

Hate speech posted on economics website is traced to some leading universities, research finds

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:50:15 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Anonymous comments with racist, sexist and abusive messages that were posted for years on a jobs-related website for economists originated from numerous leading U.S. universities, according to research released Thursday. Some economists have long condemned the website, Economics Job Market Rumors, for its toxic content. The site, known by its acronym EJMR, is run by an anonymous individual and is not connected to a university or other institution. That fact had fed speculation that those who posted hateful messages on it were mostly online cranks who might not be economists. Yet the new research indicates that users of the website include individuals at top-tier colleges and universities, including Harvard, Stanford and the University of Chicago.“Our analysis reveals that the users who post on EJMR are predominantly economists, including those working in the upper echelons of academia, government, and the private sector,” the paper concluded. It was written by Flor...

President Biden visits Philly shipyard as he courts organized labor and pushes green jobs

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:50:15 GMT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Flanked by cranes and shipyard workers, President Joe Biden made the pitch Thursday that unions will be building America’s renewable energy future — a courtship of organized labor at a moment when some major unions are weighing strikes that could disrupt the growth he wants to campaign on in 2024.The president toured the Philly Shipyard, where there was a steel-cutting ceremony for the Acadia, a vessel that will help to build offshore wind farms. Biden ticked through the various union jobs being created by the project, promoting a message he has started to amplify as he seeks a second term.“A lot of my friends in organized labor know, when I think climate, I think jobs,” the president said. “Union workers are the best in the world.”But tensions are rising between unions and companies about a rapidly evolving economy in which artificial intelligence, clean energy and e-commerce are rewriting some of the basic rules of work. Biden is trying to allay those con...