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In Campbell, a turtle and an embroidery shop share a common thread: they are used by a small business to support people with disabilities like autism. Founded in 2020 by Cupertino resident Sherry Meng, Turtleworks is known by South Bay residents for being an accessible custom embroidery service where people of all abilities can work together. The business’s mascot is the humble turtle, and serves as a reminder that anyone, no matter their pace or ability, can work hard and achieve their goals, Meng said. Local businesses and private parties can place orders online or in-person at Turtleworks’ West Campbell Avenue office, located west of San Tomas Expressway. With the help of several commercial embroidery machines, the crew stitches uniform designs onto dozens of bags, caps, shirts and more. Although only a handful of employees and interns work consistently on orders, the business collaborates with nearby Fremont Union, Campbell Union and Los Gatos-Saratoga Union high school districts to recruit adults with disabilities to help. They are paid by the school districts for their time. Making machine-made embroidery products is a very visual process that can

OAKLAND — Departing sports teams and frustrating politics haven’t detracted from the elegance of Oakland’s waterfront — a gleaming reminder that, despite its troubles, the city and its bustling port remain a cultural and economic cornerstone of the Bay Area. But for years, Oakland has struggled to establish a large-scale vision to place the waterfront — with its nightlife hub at Jack London Square and the industrial harbor a short walk away — at center stage in the city’s attractions. “People see an incredible amount of potential in the neighborhood,” said Savlan Hauser, executive director of the Jack London Square Improvement District. “It’s not so much about needing to change it, but (rather) about realizing the full vision of a waterfront neighborhood.” In a recent court settlement, a major Bay Area regulatory agency quietly reversed a key decision that would’ve helped transform a sizable port property, Howard Terminal, into a 35,000-seat ballpark and thousands of waterfront homes. The reversal was a major victory for the port’s shipping industries, which have long opposed housing on the land south of the railroad tracks along Embarcadero West. The development

TODAY’S WORD — MAGNESIUM (MAGNESIUM: mag-NEE-zee-um: A silver-white metallic element used in alloys, fireworks and flashbulbs.) Average mark 50 words Time limit 60 minutes Can you find 64 or more words in MAGNESIUM? TODAY’S WORD — MAGNESIUM magi magnum maim main mane mange manse mean means mega menu mesa mien mime mine minus misname muse musing aegis ageism ague amen amuse amusing anime animus anise gain game gamin gamine genius genus gimme guise gummies name easing egis enigma sage same sane sang seam semi sigma sign sine sing singe smug snag snug suing summing sung image imam immune inseam usage using To purchase the Word Game book, visit WordGameBooks.com. Order it now for just $5 while supplies last! RULES OF THE GAME: 1. Words must be of four or more letters. 2. Words that acquire four letters by the addition of “s,” such as “bats” or “dies,” are not allowed. 3. Additional words made by adding a “d” or an “s” may not be used. For example, if “bake” is used, “baked” or “bakes” are not allowed, but “bake” and “baking” are admissible. 4. Proper

“I bought a microwave oven online,” Cy the Cynic told me, “and I messed up the transaction. They wanted a credit-card number, and I gave them the one on my organ-donor card by mistake.” “Did your oven come?” “I got it, but I’m afraid it’ll cost me an arm and a leg.” In a penny game, Cy was today’s South. He speculated by bidding a grand slam, hoping North held KQ5,8763,K2,9852 to jump to six spades. But when West led the queen of clubs, North put down a dummy with one more diamond and one fewer trump. The Cynic still had a chance. He ruffed and peeled off six rounds of trumps, pitching the remaining clubs and a diamond from dummy. West kept his three diamonds, and East saved all four hearts. Cy then cashed his A-K-Q of hearts and the K-A of diamonds, but he lost the 13th trick to West’s queen of diamonds. Cy’s play was costly — to the tune of 2310 points. Cy must lead a trump to dummy at Trick Two, ruff a club, lead a trump to dummy and

Dear Amy: My son “Jack” is 26 years old. Five years ago, he came out to me as gay. While this didn’t fully surprise me, it saddened me. I wanted Jack to have a traditional life. I wanted to have grandchildren. Despite these feelings, I told him I accepted him. Jack has lived on his own for the past several years. Recently he told me that he has been in a relationship with “Samuel” for six months. He asked if I would be OK with him bringing Samuel home to a family function. Not knowing how to respond, I said it was fine. While Samuel seemed nice enough, I was not prepared for the feelings that seeing them dance together and be affectionate would bring up in me. I thought about what others were thinking. I wondered what I may have done that contributed to him being this way. I felt anger at Jack’s father for never being a positive male role model or steady presence in his life. I thought about his safety with STDs that run rampant in the gay community as well

DEAR ABBY: I’m a 67-year-old father to a wonderful daughter. She has decided to stay with her boyfriend, who recently got out of jail for stealing $200,000 from his grandparents. Because of this, I do not want to leave her a large sum of money when I pass. (As of now, she stands to inherit more than $400,000.) My problem is, how do I tell her I am removing her from my will? If I tell her, I’m scared she will hate me and end our relationship. But if I don’t tell her now, she’ll be so disappointed when that time does come. Her boyfriend has already stolen $200 from her checking account since his release from jail. He has a gambling problem but continues to deny it. I cannot take the chance that he wouldn’t steal from her on a much bigger scale. How do I tell her? I know I can set up a trust for her, but telling her my decision is the difficult problem. — PLANNING AHEAD IN FLORIDA DEAR PLANNING: You didn’t say that you are in ill health. You

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) — Cristian Espinoza had a goal and an assist, Vitor Costa de Brito added two assists and William Yarbrough had five saves to help the San Jose Earthquakes rally from a two-goal deficit to beat the Colorado Rapids 3-2 Saturday night. San Jose (3-8-1) beat Los Angeles FC 3-1 last time out to snap a five-game winless skid in which the Earthquakes conceded 14 of their MLS-high 28 goals this season. Costa de Brito, on the left side, played a cross to a charging Espinoza, who slipped behind a defender an rolled a shot inside the back post to give the Earthquakes their first lead of the game at 3-2 in the 66th minute. Colorado (5-4-3) lost for just its second time in its last seven matches. Rafael Navarro waited patiently as the play developed and then slipped between a pair of defenders and redirected a corner kick played by Djordje Mihailovic into the net from the top of the 6-yard box to give Colorado a 1-0 lead in the 33rd minute Omir Fernández, a 25-year-old who spent his first five

By CHRIS TALBOTT (Associated Press) SEATTLE (AP) — Rookie starter Joey Estes struck out five in five solid innings after being called up earlier in the day for his first major league win, and the Oakland Athletics beat the Seattle Mariners 8-1 on Saturday night. Abraham Toro and Brent Rooker hit run-scoring singles in the two-run third inning to put Oakland up 2-1. Max Schuemann added a three-run double in the eighth and JJ Bleday had a two-run homer in the ninth as Oakland snapped a two-game losing streak. The A’s had lost five of six following a six-game winning streak. Estes took a liner off his right bicep from Julio Rodríguez in the first inning, but gathered the ball for the throw to first and waved off the trainer as he retook the mound. “You knew he was locked in when Julio’s line drive went off his biceps and I didn’t realize it,” A’s manager Mark Kotsay said. “That kid, I don’t know how to describe him really. You take a line drive like that off the biceps, and don’t have the trainers come

Leigh 3, Bellarmine 2 Leigh defeated Bellarmine 25-20, 21-25, 19-25, 25-16, 15-8 to take home the CCS Division I title.  After going down 2-1, coach Jeff Argabright said Cooper Smith , Liam Popejoy and Xace Leem “got going and put a lot of out of system balls away.” Leigh middles Jeremy Choi and Connor Chiu then got blocks late in the fourth and fifth sets to help secure the CCS title for the Longhorns. Setter Eric Wu also had a fantastic match.  “I could not be prouder of the guys,” Argabright said in an email to the Bay Area News Group.  Top-seeded Leigh defeated fellow Blossom Valley Athletic League teams Evergreen Valley and Branham in the previous two rounds to reach the final. No. 2 Bellarmine defeated Los Altos and Cupertino to set up the matchup of No. 1 vs. No. 2.  Leigh improved to 26-7, while Bellarmine dropped to 17-18.  Valley Christian 3, Santa Cruz 1 The Warriors took down Santa Cruz 21-25, 25-19, 26-24, 25-19 to capture the CCS Open Division championship. Tyler Alden led the way with 19 kills, three blocks and

Luka Mijatovic saved his best performance for last.  The Foothill freshman dominated the CIF swimming championships at Clovis West High School on Saturday, winning the 500-yard freestyle and placing second in the 200 free to cap off a stellar year for the young swimmer. Mijatovic blew away the competition in the 500 free, finishing in 4:16.57 — nearly seven seconds faster than the event’s second-place finisher. The freshman nearly broke the state-meet record set by Sonora alumni and Cal swimmer Matthew Chai, who finished in 4:15.09 in 2022.  Mijatovic touched the wall in 1.35.79 in the 200 free, just behind Nordhoff senior Quin Seider, who finished in 1:34.97. “I was very impressed with Luka’s performance at this meet, especially as a freshman,” Foothill coach Ali Smith said in an email to the Bay Area News Group. “He has been a huge inspiration for other Foothill swimmers, and excited to see where his swimming career will take him.” In the North Coast Section championships last weekend, Mijatovic won the same two events and was a favorite from the Bay Area to win at state.  Smith said

Firefighters on Saturday put out another fire at an Oakland home that had burned just days before, according to Oakland Fire Department spokesperson Michael Hunt. On Saturday afternoon around 1:30 p.m., about 20 Oakland firefighters responded to a small fire that had broken out at the same unoccupied and boarded-up home that triggered a three-alarm fire response earlier that week. The home at East 8th Street and 6th Avenue in Oakland’s Eastlake District has a history of occupancy by squatters and had previously been red-tagged, and there had been several fires there in previous years, according to Hunt. A blaze that broke out at the home Tuesday spread to a neighboring occupied home, which incurred extensive roof and side damage before a team of 60 firefighters got the fire under control, he said. While the cause is still under investigation, the fire appears to have been caused by people re-entering the property, he said. “It’s really frustrating for us to have a building have a major incident and have it burn again just days later,” he said.

Seven people were injured in a two-vehicle head-on crash that occurred in Brentwood on Friday, according to Joe Ottolini, spokesperson for the Contra Contra County Fire Protection District. The collision was reported about 7:40 p.m. on the 23000 block of Marsh Creek Road in Brentwood and left three people critically injured, two people moderately injured and two people with minor injuries. In response, five ambulances and two helicopters were ordered and one person was airlifted to a medical center, Ottolini said. Information about what caused the accident, the ages of the people involved or their current medical conditions was not available Saturday.

By Darlene Superville and Colleen Long | Associated Press SEATTLE — President Joe Biden is running for reelection on a record and an agenda — often Donald Trump’s. In a hotel ballroom in Seattle, at fancy homes in California and at stops in Illinois and Wisconsin over the past week, Biden has been betting that reminding voters about Trump’s presidency and highlighting his Republican opponent’s latest campaign statements will work to the Democrat’s advantage. At a Seattle fundraiser Friday night, Biden brought up Trump’s recent interview with Time magazine in which Trump said states should be left to determine whether to prosecute women for abortions or to monitor their pregnancies. “I really urge you to read it,” Biden said. Biden, who headlined another Seattle fundraiser Saturday before returning to the East Coast, has plenty of other Trump material to draw from, too. The president highlights how Trump has promised, if elected, to be “a dictator on Day 1”, how he has suggested the United States would not necessarily defend allies from aggression and how he has pledged to “totally obliterate the deep state” in the

By Josh Boak | Associated Press WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump may face an IRS bill in excess of $100 million after a government audit indicates he double-dipped on tax losses tied to a Chicago skyscraper, according to a report by The New York Times and ProPublica that drew on a yearslong audit and public filings. The report’s findings could put renewed focus on Trump’s business career as the presumptive Republican nominee tries to regain the White House after losing in 2020. Trump used his cachet as a real estate developer and TV star to build a political movement, yet he has refused to release his tax filings as past presidential candidates have. The tax filings that the public does know about have come from past reporting by the Times and a public release of records by Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee in 2022. Trump’s presidential campaign provided a statement in son Eric Trump’s name saying the IRS inquiry “was settled years ago, only to be brought back to life once my father ran for office. We are confident in our

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to impose a 40-year prison sentence for the man who broke into former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home seeking to hold her hostage and attacked her husband with a hammer. The San Francisco Chronicle reported late Friday that prosecutors made the request ahead of a sentencing hearing for David DePape, saying he has not shown remorse for the October 2022 attack. “There is nothing about the history and characteristics of the defendant that warrant leniency,” federal prosecutors wrote in court documents. “The defendant has admitted — indeed bragged — that he knew what he was doing.” DePape was convicted last year of attempted kidnapping of a federal official and assault on the immediate family member of a federal official. He is scheduled to be sentenced Friday. The attack on then-82-year-old Paul Pelosi, which was captured on police body camera video just days before the midterm elections, sent shockwaves through the political world. DePape admitted during trial testimony that he broke into the Pelosis’ home intending to hold the speaker hostage and “break

MEET THE TOP TEAM: GRANADA Granada capped off its dominant regular season by coming from behind to beat San Ramon Valley in the East Bay Athletic League tournament final on Friday. Saturday, the Matadors received the No. 1 seed in the North Coast Section Division I playoffs. The Livermore school, which finished the regular season 25-1 overall and 12-1 in the EBAL, has held the top spot in the Bay Area News Group rankings for the majority of the season. The Matadors have beaten the likes of James Logan, De La Salle, Cardinal Newman, College Park, Liberty and Pittsburg — all of which made the section playoffs. Granada boasts a strong pitching trio of Stanford commit Parker Warner , Mason Ravera and Jake Sekany . The staff has given up just over two runs a game this season. Power-hitters Riley Winchell and Mikey Boyd , junior Tyler Kardy and catcher Tommy Brown anchor Granada’s lineup, which scored 203 runs in the regular season. Granada’s Carlos Hernandez (19) douses his teammates after defeating San Ramon Valley during the East Bay Athletic League baseball tournament championship game

Who is the top team? Because the North Coast Section isn’t switching to a competitive-based format for its playoffs until next school year, its top teams are still sprinkled across numerous divisions. Livermore , the second-best NCS team in the latest Bay Area News Group rankings, is the No. 2 seed in Division II. Benicia , which is ranked two spots ahead of Livermore in the BANG rankings, is seeded third in Division II. … Livermore has Minnesota commit Jae Cosgriff leading a potent offense that has four regulars hitting over .400. Laine Macosky and Payten Williams each hit six home runs, too. … Benicia went 21-1 in the regular season and won its last 13 games. Junior pitcher Sinead Maas went 12-1 with a miniscule 1.13 ERA, and the Panthers offense also put up runs in wins against Division I top seed California, as well as victories over D-I squads Amador Valley, College Park and Clayton Valley Charter. … That isn’t to say reigning Division I champion California, the top seed in the highest division, is some slouch after going 16-8 through a gauntlet

A powerful solar storm put on an amazing skyward light show across the globe overnight but has caused what appeared to be only minor disruptions to the electric power grid, communications and satellite positioning systems. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said extreme geomagnetic storm conditions continued Saturday, and there were preliminary reports of power grid irregularities, degradation of high-frequency communications and global positioning systems. But the Federal Emergency Management Agency said that, so far, no FEMA region had reported any significant impact from the storms. The U.S. Department of Energy said Saturday it is not aware of any impact from the storms on electric customers. Text by TOM KRISHER, JOSH FUNK and MARCIA DUNN Associated Press WHITLEY BAY, ENGLAND – MAY 10: People visit St Mary’s lighthouse in Whitley Bay to see the aurora borealis, commonly known as the northern lights, on May 10, 2024 in Whitley Bay, England. The UK met office said a strong solar storm may allow northern parts of the UK the chance to see displays of aurora. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)  The aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, glow

A request from telecommunications giant AT&T to withdraw itself from an obligation to provide landline and other traditional telephone services to large swaths of California customers appears doomed after the state commission responsible for considering such applications signaled its opposition in a news release Friday. The California Public Utilities Commission released a proposal to reject AT&T’s application to remove itself as a carrier of last resort provider after the request sparked an overwhelming public outcry from customers across the state, including many in Santa Cruz County. The proposal is expected to appear on the commission’s June 20 voting meeting agenda. According to the release, the proposed rejection appears based in large part on AT&T’s failure to demonstrate sufficient alternatives to the landline option many residents still rely on for critical services. “The CPUC’s proposal underscores the critical importance of ensuring universal access to essential telecommunications services for all Californians,” reads the release. “Despite AT&T’s contention that providers of voice alternatives to landline service – such as VoIP or mobile wireless services – can fill the gap, the CPUC found AT&T did not meet the requirements

UC Berkeley’s graduation on Saturday was interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters’ chants, which began with a small group rising in the bleachers in the student section and ended with hundreds of students occupying an entire section of bleachers just behind the ceremonial stage. During Chancellor Carol Christ’s welcome address, a few protesters stood up in the student section, waving Palestinian flags and leading chants of “Hey Hey, ho ho, the occupation has got to go.” UC Berkeley officials on stage stopped the speeches, asking the students to stop or they would be asked to leave. Christ was able to continue with her comments but the student speaker who was next, Sydney Roberts, had to stop talking halfway through her speech. “It wouldn’t be a Berkeley graduation without a protest, I get it,” Roberts said, returning to the podium. As the program continued, nearly 50 students left the stands to walk to the top of Memorial Stadium. For a moment, it appeared as if they might leave — but then the group turned and started to file into a section of the bleachers just beside the stage.

By Bay City News Novato will appoint Amy Cunningham as its new city manager, according to city officials. Cunningham has been serving Novato as its interim city manager since December 2023. “On behalf of the City Council, we look forward to continuing to work with Amy on critical community initiatives,” Mayor Mark Milberg said in a statement. “Over the past 4 years, Amy has earned the trust of the public, staff and the City Council with her solutions-oriented approach to delivering services. She has brought transparency to the City’s finances, demonstrated a commitment to public service, and a sincere desire to engage the community on important issues.” “I am excited about the opportunity to serve as Novato’s next City Manager and am grateful for the City Council’s confidence in me to lead this organization and such a dedicated team of employees in delivering high-quality services to our community,” said Cunningham. “I look forward to continuing to work with the City Council to engage our residents and businesses in new ways, build on our fiscal sustainability efforts, and continue implementing the Council’s vision for the future.”