Well-traveled East Bay quarterback Jaden Rashada has found another home — and this one’s a mansion by college football standards. The former Pittsburg High star has committed to the University of Georgia, On3’s Hayes Fawcett reported on Thursday morning. The decision returns the 6-foot-4, 190-pound Rashada to the SEC, the conference he was set to play in before he asked out of the National Letter of Intent he signed in December 2022 with Florida when a Name, Image and Likeness deal reportedly worth millions fell through. Rashada signed with his dad’s alma mater, Arizona State, in February 2023 ..read more

Nine more couples have filed lawsuits against a Newport Beach fertility clinic, claiming their embryos were destroyed when an employee used hydrogen peroxide in an incubator instead of a sterile solution. The couples join two others who filed lawsuits against Ovation Fertility last week, with one couple claiming they lost two embryos due to the company’s negligence while the second lost one, the lawsuits said. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court on behalf of the nine couples, alleges Oviation Fertility of negligence, medical battery, concealment, intentional misrepresent ..read more

PLEASANTON — Multiple people were killed Wednesday night in a solo-vehicle crash, police said Thursday. Related Articles Crashes and Disasters | Deadly Bay Area streets spark officials to make traffic safety improvements Crashes and Disasters | Pedestrian hit and killed by driver in San Martin Crashes and Disasters | DUI driver accused of two East Bay hit-and-run crashes, including one killing 6-year-old Little Leaguer Crashes and Disasters | Oakland police officer dies of injuries suffered in 2018 on-call crash Crashes and Disasters | 1 dead in single-occupancy car accident after drivin ..read more

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By Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune Dan Pashman not only invented a new pasta shape just a few years ago, now he’s coming for your pasta sauce. Best known as the creator and host of The Sporkful food podcast, Pashman may have sealed his culinary legacy as the inventor of cascatelli, the new pasta shape that went viral when it was released in 2021. He’s also the author of a new cookbook, “Anything’s Pastable: 81 Inventive Pasta Recipes for Saucy People” (William Morrow Cookbooks, $35), that came out in March. So what’s up with our pasta sauce? “When cascatelli first came out,” Pashman said ..read more

On Tuesday, President Biden signed a law that would require ByteDance, a Chinese company, to sell TikTok within the next year or face a ban in the U.S. TikTok has said that it will fight the law in court, likely with support from the ACLU and other American free speech and internet freedom organizations. Related Articles Business | Magid: Fixing a slow internet connection Business | Magid: Tech to help you find things Business | Larry Magid: Configuring your phone to enhance well-being Business | I bought another Tesla: a confession (and my review) Business | Magid: Doing your taxes does ..read more

California schools may soon need to provide halal and kosher meal options for students. Dubbed the Halal and Kosher School Meals Act, a proposed bill in the California Legislature would require schools to provide kosher or halal meals if more than 5% of their students request such. Both kosher and halal meals follow specific Jewish and Islamic dietary practices, respectively, for how food is prepared and served. For kosher meals, dairy and meat cannot be mixed, and only certain animals can be eaten. Halal requires animals to be slaughtered in a particular way and does not permit the consumptio ..read more

By Wyatte Grantham-Philps |  The Associated Press The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to consumers as part of a settlement with Amazon-owned Ring, which was charged with failing to protect private video footage from outside access. In a 2023 complaint, the FTC accused the doorbell camera and home security provider of allowing its employees and contractors to access customers’ private videos. Ring allegedly used such footage to train algorithms without consent, among other purposes. Ring was also charged with failing to implement key security protectio ..read more

OROVILLE — A former Sycamore Junior High School teacher pled no contest to unlawful sex with a minor, according to a media release by Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey. Michelle Christine Solis  The former school teacher — Michelle Christine Solis, 46, of Gridley — entered no-contest pleas Tuesday at Butte County Superior Court to sex charges that also included sending harmful photos to a minor. According to Ramsey, her charges stem from conduct with a 14-year-old boy in 2021 during his eighth-grade year at Sycamore. Evidence obtained by Gridley police alleged that Solis followed ..read more

A 19-year-old Fortuna boy is still missing after jumping into the Trinity River to rescue another swimmer Monday. The intensive search will likely wrap up Wednesday, explained Hoopa Tribal Chief of Police Rolando Ramos. He said typically, heavy search and rescue goes for three days where searchers try to pinpoint areas with clogs in the water the person might be. The search began after police were called around 3:30 p.m. Monday to the Tish Tang campground area by the creek. Three people were swept into the Trinity River in an area Ramos said is “probably the most hazardous area of the river ..read more