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Broncos CEO Greg Penner: Under coach Sean Payton, Denver “teed up to be a very different team next year”

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:48 GMT

PHOENIX — Sean Payton’s team won’t start playing for more than five months, but the new Broncos head coach has already made a clear impact on the franchise in his boss’ eyes.“He immediately set a different tone coming into the building,” CEO Greg Penner told a small group of reporters at the league’s spring ownership meetings here Tuesday. “As a head coach probably the most important thing that you do is the staff that you hire and right away he came in and he’s built a staff that’s diverse. And I mean diverse across multiple dimensions — it’s age, you’ve got everyone from (75-year-old assistant head coach) Mike Weshtoff to (28-year-old quarterbacks coach) Davis Webb, diverse backgrounds from different coaching trees and perspectives — and that’s probably the most impressive thing.”The first football season under the Walton-Penner Family Ownership Group did not go the way anybody expected when they closed on the acquisition of the club in August. It culminated in the firing of first...

Broncos coach Sean Payton pays $4.5M for Belcaro home

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:48 GMT

New Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton purchased a home in a gated section of the Belcaro neighborhood for $4.55 million on March 6, according to property records.Payton, who signed a five-year contract for $18 million per year with the Broncos, is the NFL’s second-highest-paid coach behind New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick.The 6,000-square-foot home within the gated Belcara community has four bedrooms and six baths.The main floor features 11-foot ceilings and a white oak floor in a herringbone pattern. The kitchen includes an oversized island and a glass wine wall holding hundreds of bottles.The two-story home includes an elevator and a primary suite with a fireplace and dual closets.Raymond Development Group developed the home and neighborhood. Dawn Raymond, a Kentwood Real Estate Cherry Creek realtor, was the listing agent and also listed as the owner. The home originally was listed for $4.6 million.Rachel Sartin with Corken + Company Real Estate Group represented...

Storm arrives late Tuesday night; rain continues into Thursday

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:48 GMT

After several warm and sunny days, Southern California’s weather is about to shift again as another Pacific storm moves in.The rain arrives late Tuesday night and will linger throughout the day on Wednesday and into Thursday, according to the National Weather Service office in Los Angeles.The first band of rainfall is expected to hit Ventura County around 10 p.m. and Los Angeles County between midnight and 3 a.m.Rain “will be steady but short-lived and generally on the lighter said,” NWS said. Interactive Storm Radar Rainfall rates will be a tenth of an inch per hour in the coastal areas and valleys and up to a quarter inch per hour in the foothills and mountains.The first band of rain will be followed by a six to eight-hour break with clearing skies before the next band arrives late Wednesday into Thursday morning.Satellite-radar composite. March 28, 2023. (KTLA)“This (second band) will be more showery in nature but with higher rain&nb...

If Disney is over the metaverse ...

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:48 GMT

Walt Disney Co. is beginning several rounds of layoffs this week intended to reduce Team Mickey's head count by 7,000 jobs and cut costs by more than $5 billion.But no less striking than layoffs at the Happiest Place on Earth is news from the Wall Street Journal that, as part of the cuts, Disney will eliminate its entire division focused on developing content for the metaverse."All of the team’s roughly 50 members have lost their jobs," the Journal reported, citing "people familiar with the situation."The metaverse, in case you're late to the party, is a reimagining of the internet with virtual and augmented reality. Which is to say, you have to wear bulky headsets to experience it.And that's something most people so far would rather not do.Former Disney CEO Bob Chapek was bullish on the metaverse. He wanted Disney's metaverse division to find cool new ways to tell stories using the technology.New/returning CEO Bob Iger, on the other hand, has clearly decided otherwise.As the Journa...

Remains of Korean War vet identified 70 years later as Southern California man

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:48 GMT

A Santa Barbara County man killed during the Korean War more than 70 years ago has finally been properly identified.Corporal Carmen Carrillo of Lompoc had been reported as a missing soldier since 1951. He was 20 years old when he was reported missing in action.Carrillo was a member of the United States Army and lost his life during a skirmish in South Korea."Corporal Carrillo entered the U.S. Army from California and served in Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division," according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA).On February 2, 2023, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Corporal Carmen Carrillo, missing from the Korean War. (DPAA)The DPAA is U.S. Military agency that is tasked with identifying and recovering military personnel who were taken as prisoners of war or reported missing in action. The agency says Carrillo was holding a defensive position on a hill between two rivers as part of a Unite...

Fontana man gets 10 years in federal prison for scamming romantic partners, businesses

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:48 GMT

A San Bernardino County man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for defrauding eight women, some of whom he developed romantic relationships with, as well as nine businesses.Over the span of six years, Ze’Shawn Stanley Campbell, 35, of Fontana, conned victims into believing that he was a successful business investor, millionaire and former Navy SEAL. He claimed that he would use the victims’ money and property to support his businesses, fund investments on the victims’ behalf, or pay his purported medical bills, according to the United States Department of Justice. “To enhance his purported creditworthiness in [the victims’] eyes, he told them lies, such as falsely saying that he had millions of dollars and operated successful businesses, including McDonald’s franchises, a security company and a chain of gyms in Texas,” the DOJ said in a statement. “Campbell also boosted his stature with the victims by falsely telling them he was a successful investor in real estate and Bitcoin...

The five most expensive homes reported sold in Palo Alto in the week of March 20

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:48 GMT

A house in Palo Alto that sold for $5.1 million tops the list of the most expensive real estate sales in Palo Alto in the past week.In total, 5 real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $3.3 million. The average price per square foot ended up at $2,006.The prices in the list below concern real estate sales where the title was recorded during the week of March 20 even if the property may have been sold earlier.5. $2 million, single-family home in the 200 block of Charleston RoadA sale has been finalized for the single-family residence in the 200 block of Charleston Road in Palo Alto. The price was $2,000,000 and the new owners took over the house in March. The house was built in 1951 and the living area totals 1,080 square feet. The price per square foot ended up at $1,852. The house features 3 bedrooms and 1 bathrooms.West Charleston Road4. $2.8 million, single-family house in the 100 block of Colorado AvenueThe property in the 100 bl...

Kehinde Wiley’s new exhibit of ‘Silence’ in SF has a LOT to say

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:48 GMT

Kehinde Wiley’s paintings and sculptures at San Francisco’s de Young Museum are “a direct response to the murder of George Floyd,” he explains.The works were also created against the backdrop of the Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID pandemic, which isolated Wiley at his studio in Dakar, Senegal.But for all the timeliness, the exhibit titled “An Archaeology of Silence” was also inspired by a painting created 500 years ago by German artist Hans Holbein the Younger, “The Dead Christ in the Tomb.” Holbein painted a life-size cadaver laid out horizontally, and as an art historian points out, “he spared none of death’s horror.”“As we see George Floyd slain in the streets of America,” Wiley continues, “I start thinking about not just this explosive moment that triggers the whole world into thinking about Black bodies in a different way, but I start thinking about imaging of bodies slain, historically. I start digging into pictures of the fallen Christ.”And so, near the beginning of...

Source: No more Trump grand jury action this week

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:48 GMT

By Michael R. Sisak | Associated PressNEW YORK — The Manhattan grand jury that has been hearing testimony about hush money paid on Donald Trump’s behalf will not take up that inquiry again this week, meaning any potential vote on an indictment won’t happen until next week at the earliest, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.The panel did meet on Monday, and a longtime Trump friend and potential key witness in the investigation was seen leaving the building where the grand jury has been meeting.The grand jury has been meeting regularly on Monday and Wednesday afternoons, but did not hold last Wednesday’s session and met last Thursday for other unrelated matters.Trump himself has ratcheted up anticipation that an indictment could be near by posting on his social media platform that he expected to be arrested imminently. His representatives later said that they had not received any such indication on timing from Manhattan prosecutors.The Manhattan distric...

Woman accused of deadly San Jose hit-and-run identified

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:54:48 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) -- San Jose police identified a hit-and-run driver Tuesday as a 27-year-old Santa Clara woman.Silvia Solorio was driving a Honda sedan on Blossom Hill Road in San Jose when her Honda struck a mother, the victim's teenaged daughter, and their dog, according to the San Jose Police Department. Police said the mother and daughter were walking their dog across Blossom Hill Road in a marked crosswalk near Leigh Avenue when they were struck at 6:50 p.m. Sunday. The driver immediately fled, while the mother and dog died at the scene, police said. The mother was identified by the Santa Clara County Coroner’s Office as 45-year-old Cao Limin of Los Gatos. Limin's daughter suffered minor injuries and was transported to a hospital. A memorial for a pedestrian killed in San Jose is seen on March 27, 2023. (KRON4 image) Detectives later found Solorio's vehicle abandoned outside city limits. Solorio's vehicle was identified using Automatic License Plate Reader technology. Po...