CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Christina Hendricks, 49; Kristin Lehman, 52; Amy Ryan, 56; Frankie Valli, 90. Happy Birthday: The green light means go; don’t waste time. Put your plans in motion and don’t look back. Concentrate on physical fitness, love and enjoying life to the fullest. Opportunities are apparent, but it’s up to you to set your sights on what you want and make it happen. Change begins with you, so don’t dawdle when you have plenty to gain. Trust your instincts. Your numbers are 4, 18, 24, 29, 31, 36, 44. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aggressive action will ward off conflicts. Say w ..read more

BRENTWOOD – Liberty coach Andrew Lonsdale seemed mildly annoyed by the commotion Oakland A’s pitcher Paul Blackburn caused at Thursday’s Bay Valley Athletic League game.  Yes, Liberty graciously switched up the home-and-away two-game series with crosstown rival Heritage to allow them to honor their famous alum on his day off. And Lonsdale and the Lions applauded as Blackburn posed for photos with family and friends.  Oakland A’s pitcher Paul Blackburn holds a sign commemorating his jersey number being retired during a pre-game ceremony at Heritage High School in Brentwood, Calif., on ..read more

A couple walks down a winding trail as they enjoy the nice weather at Lagoon Valley Park in Vacaville on Thursday. There is a 100% chance of rain forecasted for Saturday ..read more

By Ryan Pearson, Julie Watson, Christopher L. Keller and Carolyn Thompson | Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A police officer who was involved in clearing protesters from a Columbia University administration building earlier this week fired his gun inside the hall, a spokesperson for District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office confirmed Thursday. No one was injured, according to spokesperson Doug Cohen, who said there were other officers but no students in the immediate vicinity. He said Bragg’s office is conducting a review. He did not provide additional details on the incident, which was first ..read more

Dice will roll once again for the benefit of the Vacaville Museum. The Vacaville Museum Guild has set May 9 for its Bunco Bash No. 36 at the Saturday Club, 125 W. Kendal St., Vacaville. The event begins at 6 p.m., when refreshments, wine, and other drinks will be offered. Dinner — the menu includes lasagna, salad and dessert — follows at 7 p.m. Bunco, which will start at 7 p.m., is a dice game with 12 or more players, divided into groups of four, trying to score points while taking turns rolling three dice in a series of six rounds. A bunco occurs when someone rolls three-of-a-kind and all thr ..read more

ATLANTA — Making official what was previously reported, Onsi Saleh was officially hired Thursday by the Hawks as an assistant general manager, coming to Atlanta from Golden State. Saleh served last season as the Warriors’ vice president of basketball strategy and team counsel. He joins a front office that already includes assistant GM Kyle Korver, who is now working under general manager Landry Fields, a Stanford alum. Before joining Golden State in 2021, Saleh spent five years with the San Antonio Spurs, finishing as the team’s director of strategy and process, along with the role of chief of ..read more

A Fairfield man on Thursday pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, a U.S. Attorney said. Steven Daniel Miller, 48, entered his plea in a federal courtroom in Sacramento, said Phillip A. Talbert, who leads the U.S. Department of Justice’s Eastern District of California. According to court documents, in October 2018, Miller used another person’s Social Security number to complete a credit application with a bank in order to buy a 2018 Dodge Challenger Hellcat at a car dealership in Yuba City. Based on the false information on the credit application ..read more

By Brian Witte | Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland plans to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge in just over four years at an estimated cost between $1.7 billion and $1.9 billion, a state transportation official said Thursday. The state plans to build a new span by fall of 2028, said David Broughton, a spokesperson for the Maryland Department of Transportation. He said the cost estimate is preliminary, and detailed engineering specifics have not been confirmed. As salvage efforts continue, authorities also announced late Wednesday they had recovered the body of a fifth person who was ..read more

A sixth young girl has come forward to participate in a third lawsuit filed against former Benicia Unified School District teacher Matthew Joseph Shelton and the district, alleging that she was sexually abused by Shelton while attending school in Benicia in 2019. “It is unthinkable that the Benicia Unified School District would not only employ a teacher with multiple accusations of child molestation but allow that teacher to be around children completely unsupervised,” said attorney Spencer Lucas, of the Los Angeles-based law firm Panish, Shea & Pavipudi, LLP, the firm that has taken on th ..read more

President Biden has expanded two culturally significant California landscapes: The San Gabriel Mountains National Monument in Southern California and Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument in Northern California. The expansion will include approximately 13,696 additional acres of federally owned public land in Lake and Colusa counties, encompassing the entirety of the Molok Luyuk region within the monument. The move on Thursday follows calls from tribal nations, Indigenous community leaders and others for the permanent protection of nearly 120,000 acres of important cultural and environment ..read more