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Single-family residence in Danville sells for $2 million

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:18:53 GMT

571 Indian Home Road – Google Street ViewA spacious house located in the 500 block of Indian Home Road in Danville has a new owner. The 2,728-square-foot property, built in 1972, was sold on July 28, 2023, for $2,000,000, or $733 per square foot. This two-story home offers a spacious layout with five bedrooms and three baths. On the exterior, the house is characterized by the use of wood shake roofing / shingles. Inside, a fireplace enhances the ambiance of the living area. Additionally, the house includes an attached three-car garage, offering generous space for vehicles and storage requirements. The property occupies a sizable 10,080-square-foot lot which provides abundant outdoor space, including a pool.Additional houses have recently been sold nearby:A 2,820-square-foot home on the 300 block of Merrilee Place in Danville sold in November 2022, for $2,500,000, a price per square foot of $887. The home has 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.On Bridgewater Circle, Danville, in July 2022, a...

North Korea confirms presence of missing US soldier King

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:18:53 GMT

By Gawon Bae, Oren Liebermann and Natasha Bertrand | CNNNorth Korea on Wednesday confirmed publicly for the first time that US Army Private Travis King crossed into its territory.A statement from the country’s government-controlled Korean Central News Agency claimed King had expressed “his willingness to seek refugee” in North Korea or a third country. It also claimed King confessed that he had decided to enter North Korea as “he harbored ill feeling against inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination within the U.S. Army.”King crossed the military demarcation line from South Korea into North Korea in July during a tour of the Joint Security Area inside the demilitarized zone. King, a junior enlisted soldier assigned to US Forces Korea, had faced assault charges in South Korea and was due to return to Fort Bliss, Texas and be removed from the military just one day before he crossed into North Korea, CNN has reported.KCNA added that he had admitted of “illegally” intruding into th...

Australia e Inglaterra se juegan el paso a la final contra España en el Mundial de Fútbol femenino

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:18:53 GMT

(CNN) — Australia e Inglaterra se enfrentan este miércoles en un partido decisivo en el que cada equipo busca sellar una aparición histórica en la final del Mundial Femenino de Fútbol 2023.Ninguno de los equipos se ha clasificado nunca antes para una final del Mundial Femeni de Fútbol y, en un torneo tan abierto, ambos tendrán aspiraciones de llegar hasta el final.Y este miércoles la lucha está en pasar a la gran final que enfrentará al rival, España, que este martes venció 2-1 a Suecia, en un partido de locura que dejó a las dirigidas por Jorge Vilda en la final del mundial femenino por primera vez en la historia.Esta es una Copa del Mundo para recordar por muchas razones y el partido de este miércoles en el Estadio Australia en Sydney es el último encuentro en una rivalidad ferozmente reñida en numerosos deportes entre las dos naciones.El partido se jugará a las 6:00 am hora del este de EE.UU.España venció a Suecia y alcanzó la final del Mundial Femenino de Fútbol por primer...

Las Vegas and New York square off in battle of top offenses

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:18:53 GMT

New York Liberty (24-6, 13-3 Eastern Conference) at Las Vegas Aces (27-3, 15-1 Western Conference)Las Vegas; Thursday, 10 p.m. EDTBOTTOM LINE: The WNBA’s top two scoring offenses face off in a meeting between the Las Vegas Aces and the New York Liberty.The Aces are 15-0 on their home court. Las Vegas ranks third in the WNBA with 39.7 points in the paint led by A’ja Wilson averaging 12.1.The Liberty are 12-2 on the road. New York is 8-4 against opponents over .500.TOP PERFORMERS: Wilson is scoring 21.3 points per game with 9.6 rebounds and 1.9 assists for the Aces. Kelsey Plum is averaging 19 points and 5.1 assists over the past 10 games for Las Vegas.Breanna Stewart is scoring 23.3 points per game and averaging 9.2 rebounds for the Liberty. Sabrina Ionescu is averaging 3.9 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games for New York.LAST 10 GAMES: Aces: 9-1, averaging 94.2 points, 34.9 rebounds, 20.8 assists, 9.3 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 48.2% from the field....

Se espera que Trump sea fichado en la cárcel del condado de Fulton, dice el alguacil

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:18:53 GMT

(CNN) — Se espera que el expresidente Donald Trump se entregue en la cárcel del condado de Fulton, dijo este martes el alguacil local en un comunicado, junto con los otros 18 coacusados acusados este lunes en el caso de interferencia electoral de Georgia 2020.Trump, quien fue acusado de 13 cargos, incluido el crimen organizado, no ha indicado públicamente cuándo tiene la intención de entregarse antes de la fecha límite del 25 de agosto impuesta por la fiscal de distrito del condado de Fulton, Fani Willis. La declaración de la oficina del alguacil del condado de Fulton abordó la cuestión clave de dónde arrestarían y procesarían al expresidente como acusado penal.“En este punto, con base en la orientación recibida de la oficina del fiscal de distrito y el juez presidente, se espera que los 19 acusados nombrados en la acusación sean fichados en la cárcel de Rice Street”, dijo el comunicado.“Tenga en cuenta que los acusados pueden entregarse en cualquier momento. La cárcel está ab...

Stock market today: Global shares trading mixed amid worries about China economy

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:18:53 GMT

TOKYO (AP) — Global shares were trading mixed Wednesday amid worries over discouraging data on China, as well as over the future of the U.S. economy.France’s CAC 40 edged up 0.4% in early trading to 7,292.89, while Germany’s DAX rose 0.2% to 15,799.93. Britain’s FTSE 100 was little changed, inching down less than 0.1% to 7,387.74.U.S. shares were set to drift higher with Dow futures up 0.2% at 35,073.00. S&P 500 futures gained 0.2% to 4,463.00. But benchmarks fell in Asia earlier in the day.New Zealand’s central bank left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 5.5% on Wednesday. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s monetary policy committee said the headline inflation rate had declined, but core inflation remained too high. The committee said it would take a prolonged period of subdued spending to reduce inflation pressure. The New Zealand dollar was little changed on the news, trading at around U.S. $0.60.“A recent set of disappointing economic data out of Chin...

New Zealand jury finds mom guilty of murdering her 3 young daughters

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:18:53 GMT

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A New Zealand jury on Wednesday found a mother guilty of murdering her three young daughters after rejecting her defense that she was so mentally ill at the time she couldn’t be held responsible.Lauren Dickason, 42, had earlier admitted killing her 2-year-old twin daughters Maya and Karla, and their 6-year-old sister Lianè, at their home in the town of Timaru nearly two years ago.She had pleaded not guilty to murder, arguing she was suffering severe depression that could be traced back to postpartum depression. Prosecutors acknowledged Dickason had suffered from depression but said it wasn’t enough to warrant a medical defense. They said she killed her children out of anger and resentment.They pointed to Dickason’s troubling phone messages and online history in the weeks before the killings, including comments about wanting to kill her children and Google searches for “most effective overdose in kids.”Dickason and her husband Graham D...

Nigeriens call for mass recruitment of volunteers as the junta faces possible regional invasion

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:18:53 GMT

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Nigeriens are preparing for war against regional countries threatening to invade, three weeks after mutinous soldiers ousted the nation’s democratically elected president.Residents in the capital, Niamey, are calling for the mass recruitment of volunteers to assist the army in the face of a growing threat by the West African regional bloc, ECOWAS, which says it will use military force if the junta doesn’t reinstate the deposed President Mohamed Bazoum. ECOWAS has activated a “standby force” to restore order in Niger after the junta ignored a deadline to reinstate and release Bazoum. The initiative, spearhead by a group of locals in Niamey, aims to recruit tens of thousands of volunteers from across the country to register for the Volunteers for the Defense of Niger, to fight, assist with medical care, and provide technical and engineering logistics among other functions, in case the junta needs help, Amsarou Bako, one of the founders, told The ...

A plan for how Indonesia will spend $20 billion to transition to cleaner energy has been submitted

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:18:53 GMT

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A plan for how Indonesia will spend $20 billion to transition to cleaner energy was submitted Wednesday to the government and its financing partners, the planners said.Indonesia’s Just Energy Transition Partnership deal was announced last year and aims to use the funds over the next three to five years to accelerate retirement of the nation’s coal plants and development of renewable energy.Details were not made public. The investment plan will be reviewed and revised further by Indonesia and its JETP partners before being made available for public review and comment, according to a statement from Indonesia’s JETP Secretariat.“The Indonesian public will have the opportunity to review the full draft text of the (plan) and submit comments and feedback,” Dadan Kusdiana, Indonesia’s Secretary General of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, said in a statement.A person with direct knowledge of the talks who was not authorized to comment on the deal told ...

In the news today: Feds talk new Canadians and housing, First Nations policing delays

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:18:53 GMT

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today…Liberals say newcomers can help solve housing crisis …The alarm bells are becoming bull horns: Canada’s housing supply isn’t keeping up with the rapid rate of population growth.Academics, commercial banks and policy thinkers have all been warning the federal government that the pace of population growth, facilitated by immigration, is making the housing crisis worse.“The primary cause for (the) housing affordability challenge in Canada is our inability to build more housing that is in line with the increase in population,” said Murtaza Haider, a professor of data science and real estate management at Toronto Metropolitan University.A TD report released in late July also warned that “continuing with a high-growth immigration strategy could widen the housing shortfall by about a half-million units within just two years.”B...