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Tarra Warnes and her husband once owned two Yugos. The sub-compact three-door hatchback and two-door convertible are often cited as the worst vehicles in history. The Yugo enthusiast family’s idea was to use one vehicle to provide parts for its counterpart’s restoration as a race car. The outcome isn’t as relevant as the irony of Warnes telling the tale. She’s vice president of creative strategy at Hagerty. It’s the insurance company, marketplace, magazine and website publisher and automotive event organizer focusing on classic cars and their owners. The company began in 1984. Husband and wife Frank and Louise Hagerty couldn’t find satisfactory insurance coverage for their wooden boats, so their new Michigan company did. Insurance for cars and other vehicles followed. The couple’s son McKeel Hagerty became CEO in 2000. “We started as a niche insurance company; it was built by people who love cars and it was built for people who love cars,” said Warnes, a 15-year employee. “We have grown now in 40 years to insure about 2.4 million vehicles and we are a community and hub for millions of classic car lovers.”

One dead in Sunday morning South Bay crash Car overturned on southbound Highway 101 Staff archives San Jose police are investigating a fatal traffic collision that happened Sunday morning. (File) SAN JOSE — One person is dead after a vehicle overturned on U.S. Highway 101 early Sunday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol. The vehicle overturned on southbound U.S. Highway 101 at the Oakland Road offramp in San Jose around 6:19 a.m., the CHP said. The vehicle was back on its wheels at 6:20, blocking two lanes, said CHP officer Efrain Jauregui. Police are investigating.

What is a Ranger? A Ranger is a midsize pickup truck built in the Wayne, Michigan Ford Truck assembly plant and sold by Ford Motor Company. As a truly global product, the Ford Ranger is manufactured in five production hubs around the world: at the Ford Thailand Manufacturing assembly plant, plus the Auto Alliance assembly plant in Thailand, the Silverton Assembly Plant in South Africa, the Wayne, Michigan Assembly Plant in the U.S., and the Pacheco Assembly Plant in Argentina. In truck sales outside the Americas, Ranger is typically the only Ford pickup truck offered for sale worldwide. In overall size, the Ford Ranger is smaller than the Ford F-150, and larger than the Ford Maverick. In North America, the Ford Ranger competes directly with the Jeep Gladiator, Chevy Colorado, GMC Canyon, Nissan Frontier, Honda Ridgeline, and the Toyota Tacoma.  Next year, RAM is bringing back the Dakota midsize pickup truck and that will make the midsize pickup class even more competitive. Today, the Ford Ranger is the number 2 best selling midsize pickup truck in the United States, and Ford wants to stay at

To say the Stanford women’s basketball team is going to have a new look next season is putting it mildly. The Cardinal had already lost star forward Cameron Brink to the WNBA and sharpshooter Hannah Jump to graduation, not to mention Hall of Fame coach Tara VanDerveer, who announced her retirement this month after nearly four decades on the bench. Saturday night, junior forward Kiki Iriafen, the team’s leading scorer from this past season, told ESPN that she is transferring to USC. Iriafen will join a roster that includes superstar Juju Watkins and a recruiting class that will feature two-time California Open Division state champion Kennedy Smith of Etiwanda. USC reached the Elite Eight last season. With the newcomers, the Trojans, led by former Cal coach Lindsay Gottlieb, will now be a major contender to win their first NCAA championship since they captured back-to-back crowns in 1983 and 1984. Iriafen, a former high school star from Harvard-Westlake in Southern California, averaged a team-best 19.4 points for Stanford last season, to go with 11.0 rebounds. She scored 41 points in a wild second-round NCAA Tournament victory over

Equitable plans The Los Gatos Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commission plans to maintain a physical presence at community events and compile a calendar of “diverse gatherings” in town. The commission, which the town council voted to establish in September, has been meeting monthly to discuss policies and measures that will make the town a more welcoming place. The commission is one of several such efforts in Los Gatos after a far-right group disrupted council meetings in 2021 and antisemitic graffiti was found in the town’s Jewish community center. The group plans to table at the Los Gatos Farmers’ Market and outside the Los Gatos Library and is working on a list of local organizations with which it could potentially partner. “The commission believes the roots of its success lie in creating a continuous network of input from the many sub-communities that are connected to Los Gatos,” a release states. The 11 commission members are Gordon Yamate, Folake Phillips, Varily Issacs, Dominic Broadhead, Carmen Lo, Diane Fisher, Michael Kane, Dornaz Memarzia, Pradeep Khanal, Pravin Balasingham and Ryan Idemoto. Members represent residents, nonprofit employees, business owners, faith

Local officials are working to assess the status of a landslide on Mountain Charlie Road in the Santa Cruz Mountains as residents continue to contend with limited access to main roads to get to work and school. Santa Cruz County’s Department of Public Works on April 12 secured $30,000 to conduct a geotechnical study and install equipment that will help them determine the rate of movement and characteristics of the slide from the inside. They said this effort will help county officials make the case that the slide is the result of heavy storms in the area last January, and as such should be eligible to receive the funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster declaration for those storms. Steve Wiesner, assistant director of public works for the county, said his department’s short-term priorities are to continue studying the movement of the slide for the next one to two months and to wait for the slide to dry out and movement to come to a stop. This will allow them to get a sense of what repairs are needed and what those repairs might

Classic car show The Metropolitan Education District’s Silicon Valley Career Technical Education (SVCTE) center is hosting the 18th annual Bob McTaggart Custom & Classic Car Show May 3, 5-8 p.m., at the MetroED campus, 760 Hillsdale Ave. in San Jose. Owners of custom and classic cars will showcase their rides at the free event, and attendees can vote for their favorites in nine categories: best car, best motorcycle, best bike, best car under construction, best truck, best club participation, ugliest car, best engine and best paint job. sThe event also features raffles, prizes, food and music. The show supports SVCTE’s  student competition group SkillsUSA. Past events have raised over $10,000. MetroED is governed by a joint powers agreement that includes the San Jose Unified School District. For more information, visit https://www.metroed.net. Agriculture walk Bay Area Older Adults is hosting a California Agriculture Walk around Martial Cottle Park in San Jose on May 8, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. The leisurely walk includes a stop for a presentation at Our City Forest and ends with an included picnic lunch. Registration for Hike 8 is required by visiting https://www.bayareaolderadults.org/may. Neighborhood Notes CAMBRIAN>>Rising young

Local filmmaker and Los Gatos native Chris McGilvray says viewers of “Eden,” his documentary about the transition of Mount Eden Winery in Saratoga to the next generation of the family that runs it, seem to identify with the people on screen. McGilvray, who runs Nomadic Bear Productions out of Santa Cruz, adds that the film sparks many conversations, especially those that people avoid but probably should have. The audience at the Cinequest Film and Creativity Festival in March, where more than 700 people attended a screening of the film at the California Theater in San Jose, apparently felt a connection to McGilvray’s seven-year exploration of the winery and the family that runs it. “Eden” earned a Cinequest Audience Award for Best Documentary, tied with “Of Color and Ink” by Weimin Zhang. The project began as an ode to the rugged beauty of the Saratoga hills on the eastern edge of the Santa Cruz Mountains winegrowing region. McGilvray and cinematographer Isiah Flores filmed at the beautiful mountaintop property that was once owned by Paul Masson and later sold to Martin Ray, founder of Martin Ray Vineyards

San Jose artists Deborah Ikeda and Eileen Wong Cervera both had tech careers before embarking on their “second lives” as artists. Now Ikeda uses a kiln to create fused glass pieces such as bowls, platters and “gems” that she sets in sterling silver jewelry, while Cervera creates oil paintings inspired from photographs that hold meaning for her. Ikeda and Cervera are two of the more than 375 visual artists from the Bay Area who will be participating in the 2024 Silicon Valley Open Studios (SVOS), the highest number of artists in the event’s 38-year history. SVOS gives art lovers and collectors behind-the-scenes access to established and emerging artists from South San Francisco to Gilroy and Pacifica to Half Moon Bay. One of the largest Bay Area fine arts shows open to the public, this free event features painting, sculpture, jewelry, photography, woodworking, mixed media, pastels, pottery, metalwork, textile art and more. “Artists are thriving here in the Bay Area, and Silicon Valley Open Studios is excited to support them,” said Stephen Toll, president of Silicon Valley Visual Arts, organizers of SVOS. “It’s a wonderful opportunity

TODAY’S WORD — GLYCERINE (GLYCERINE: GLIS-er-in: A sweet syrupy alcohol typically obtained in the process of making soap.) Average mark 50 words Time limit 60 minutes Can you find 61 or more words in GLYCERINE? TODAY’S WORD — GLYCERINE gene generic genic genie genre girl glee glen green grey grin gyre leer leering leery lice liege lien liger line liner ling linger lycee lying lyre lyric celery clergy cling clingy creel cringe cringle crying eely eerily eery elegy energy erne eyeing recline reel reeling regency reign rein relic reline rely relying rice rile ring ingle inly nice nicely nicer niece 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 nouns

A measure of success, I believe, is not how you look at a problem, but whether you look at the same kind of problem the same way as a year ago. My columns this week focused on resolving guesses — for instance, a two-way guess for a missing queen — by drawing inferences from the bidding or play. A beginning declarer is unable to organize his thought-processes well enough to draw inferences; he has other worries, such as whether to draw trumps. But most “card-reading” is simple in principle. It takes focus and practice, but anyone can do it. Today’s South plays at four spades after North has opened one club in fourth position. West leads the jack of hearts, and declarer takes the king and sees a possible loser in each suit. If West has both black kings, South may make an overtrick; but if East has both, the defense will have time to set up and cash a heart trick. At Trick Two, South correctly leads a diamond. He hopes to set up a diamond trick in dummy for a heart discard. West

Dear Amy: I’m writing to you to ask your opinion of a moral/ethical situation that I am experiencing. Many years ago, my mother died, leaving a will that stated that my brother and I were to share equally in the money that she had in bonds. She had discussed this bequest with me. Since she made my brother the executor of her estate, he was able to sell the bonds without my knowing. He kept all the money and told me that there was none for me. My brother died last year. I didn’t want to bring up the aforementioned situation at that time, due to my sister-in-law’s health and her intense grief. But now that it’s almost a full year since he passed, I’d like to know this: Would it be morally/ethically correct if I ask her for the money that my brother “stole” from me? I know that she most likely didn’t know anything about the fact that he did this. It upsets me to know that he didn’t honor our mother’s final wishes. I do need the money. So I’d like your

DEAR ABBY: I have been deceiving my husband for a couple of months and can’t figure out how to come clean. I feel like a terrible person. We have been married 17 years, and during the first four or five we were happy. We don’t have very many disagreements, but when we do, he always wins. This is because he’s intense, intelligent and very intimidating, so I always back down. I am so uncomfortable with him and careful about what I say that it has started to make me depressed and anxious. I’m in therapy and trying hard to speak up for myself. The deception I speak of is that I have rented an apartment in another town and have lied to him about trips to see my sister, my daughter and my mother just so I can feel some peace, read a book, knit, and just … be. He has no idea because our finances are separate (his choice). I’m afraid to tell my husband I want to leave him because a few years ago I expressed how unhappy I was and said I

Baseball No. 3 Serra 5, No. 11 St. Ignatius 1 The Padres bounced back after dropping the first of a two-game series against the Wildcats on Friday.  St. Ignatius took a 1-0 lead in the second inning when Patrick Ruane scored Makai Susor on a sacrifice bunt.  Serra responded in a big way in the fourth inning.  The San Mateo school scored four consecutive runs as St. Ignatius struggled to get outs. After Evan Bradshaw knocked in Ian Josephson to tie the game, the Wildcats walked three straight batters with the bases loaded and Serra took a 4-1 lead heading into the fifth.  Ian Armstrong’s RBI single in the seventh gave Serra a commanding 5-1 lead to seal the win for the Padres.  Serra, which improved to 18-5, 9-3, snapped its two-game losing streak. St. Ignatius dropped to 15-7, 6-6. No. 4 Valley Christian 11, Bellarmine 0  The Warriors blanked Bellarmine behind a superb pitching performance from Rohan Kasanagottu . Kasanagottu pitched 6 1/3 innings, striking out seven and allowing four hits.  Stanford commit Quinten Marsh went 3 for 3 with five RBIs and a

SAN JOSE – A woman was found shot to death Friday night in downtown San Jose, according to authorities. Officers responded to a report of an injury around 9:07 p.m. in the area of North 4th Street and East St. John Street, police said Saturday. The victim, who was not breathing when police arrived, was taken to a hospital but later pronounced dead. It was the city’s 12th homicide of the year. The suspect was gone by the time officers got to the scene. Police have not yet released the suspect’s description or a possible motive for the shooting. The victim’s name is being withheld pending notification to next of kin. The San Jose Police Department is investigating the fatality. Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Sgt. Van Den Broeck and Detective Estantino of the Homicide Unit at 3829@sanjoseca.gov and/or 4339@sanjoseca.gov or 408-277-5283.

The City of Berkeley presented the Berkeley Bay Festival at Shorebird Park in the Berkeley Marina on Saturday. The perfect sunny spring weather and the location attracted hundreds of visitors to the free family event as a celebration of the San Francisco Bay local wildlife. It featured dozens of exhibits and hands-on educational activities from environmental and wildlife conservation organizations from around the Bay, live music by Purple Fox and the Heebie Jeebies, West Grand Brass Band, Pan Extasy, and a performance by Prescott Circus Theatre as festival goers watch the colorful and lively shows from the lawn while picnicking or enjoying the food trucks. Visitors also took a close look at aquatic animals displayed in a 1500-gallon tank as part of the Mobile Fish exhibit brought by the East Bay Regional Parks District, which was one of the big attractions of the event. Also, the Cal Sailing Club, which held an open house, provided free 20-minute boat rides to visitors. Volunteers from Cal Sailing Club give 20-minute free rides to visitors during the Berkeley Bay Festival at Shorebird Park in Berkeley, Calif., on Saturday

The Pac-12 set a conference record with 43 selections in the 2024 NFL Draft and will carry loads of momentum into next — err, never mind. At least the conference went out on top, breaking its previous seven-round record of 39 selections set in 2015. That total was second among all conferences — the SEC led the way with 59 selections — and reflects the high quality of play in the Pac-12 last season. But the backdrop of realignment loomed over the three-day event in Detroit. Both Washington State and Oregon State produced three picks. The other 37 selections played for schools that are departing the Pac-12 this summer. Washington led the way with 10 picks, tying the school record since the draft was reduced to seven rounds in 1994. But if we expand our scope, the future of the sport becomes clear: Schools that will be members of the SEC and Big Ten next season accounted for 140 of the 257 selections (55.5 percent) — more evidence of their growing dominance. The first example came courtesy of the College Football Playoff: All four participants

A person was fatally shot Saturday afternoon in the Coliseum neighborhood of Oakland, according to Oakland police. Responding to an alert by the gunshot sensor ShotSpotter, officers arrived at the 6900 block of Hamilton Street just before 1:30 p.m. They found a struck vehicle but no victim. While on the scene of the crime, officers were notified that a person with a gunshot wound had arrived at a local hospital and was pronounced dead by medical personnel. The victim’s name is being withheld pending notification to next of kin. The Oakland Police Department is investigating the fatal shooting. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Homicide Section at 510-238-3821 or the tip line at 510-238-7950.

SAN JOSE — A year ago, San Jose State had a clear succession plan for when star quarterback Chevan Cordeiro eventually graduated. Former SJSU head coach Brent Brennan brought in University of Oregon and Liberty High School quarterback Jay Butterfield from the transfer portal and recruited highly-touted Sacramento area high school QB Anthony Garcia to be SJSU’s future playmakers once Cordeiro left the program after the 2023 season.  Since then, Brennan has left to be the head coach at the University of Arizona, Garcia has followed the long-time SJSU head coach, and Butterfield has fallen to fourth on the depth chart.  Enter Saturday, and new SJSU head coach Ken Niumatalolo has made it clear there will be a quarterback competition for who will be under center for the Spartans next season.  Two quarterbacks on the roster have caught his eye: Walker Eget and Emmett Brown.  “Right now it’s neck-and-neck between Walker and Emmett right now,” Niumatalolo said. “Right now I’m looking for the guy who’s going to take care of the ball for us and also be the leader that commands the respect from both

Cal Poly Humboldt officials are closing the campus for the remainder of the semester with classwork continuing remotely, as pro-Palestinian student activists refuse to end their occupation of two academic buildings. This closure means that anyone on campus without authorization by University Police is subject to citation or arrest, the university wrote in a statement Saturday. Students living on campus are being asked to limit their movement to between their residence hall and dorms, and they cannot be on other parts of campus “until further updates.” The far Northern California campus had already been shut down since Monday, when dozens of students set up an encampment inside Siemens Hall, an academic and administrative building, at the Arcata school in an act of “solidarity with those facing genocide in Gaza,” organizers said. They demanded that the university divest from Israeli companies and weapons manufacturers. University administrators called in riot police to clear the encampment, resulting in a clash with protesters and three arrests. “Those who are staying in there are not staying in there for noble causes. They’re criminals,” University President Tom Jackson told the Eureka

STANFORD – When Stanford opened last season at Hawai’i, traveling a day earlier than usual to adjust to the time change and the long flight, little did it know that it would be good preparation for the years to follow. Starting this season, Stanford will replace annual trips to the Pacific Northwest and Southern California with cross-country flights as it begins a new era in the ACC. The Cardinal will play four games in the Eastern time zone in 2024, including visits to Syracuse, Clemson and N.C. State and a previously scheduled game at Notre Dame. “It’s going to be fun,” junior cornerback Colin Wright said. “I know a lot of people have mentioned the travel implications, but I think all those things will work themselves out. Playing against schools that we’ve all admired growing up like the Clemsons and Miamis will be interesting. “A kid like me from Texas has never been to the East Coast, so it will be an interesting opportunity to see those places.” While almost everyone would prefer the old arrangement of the Pac-12 and its longstanding regional rivalries, the