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By TALES AZZONI European qualifying for the 2026 World Cup finished Tuesday with Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Scotland and Austria securing the region’s remaining automatic spots. Spain was held to a 2-2 home draw at Turkey but guaranteed first place in …

A house in the 100 block of Verde Mesa Drive in Danville has new owners. The 1,345-square-foot unit, built in 1955, was sold on Oct. 1, 2025 for $1,375,000, or $1,022 per square foot. This single-story home has three bedrooms …

SAN JOSE – Two weeks after Sharks rookie center Michael Misa suffered a lower-body injury, it remains unclear whether the 18-year-old will be available to play in the IIHF World Junior Championship, which begins next month in Minnesota. Misa sustained …

San Francisco disability justice advocate Alice Wong, who died Nov. 14 at age 51, was a key figure linking the Bay Area’s influential ’60s disability rights movement to the current generation of activists, according to her peers. A longtime friend …

REDWOOD CITY — A Daly City woman has been sentenced to three years in prison as part of a plea in a case accusing her of helping her 22-year-old son escape after he allegedly shot and killed a man last …

DUBLIN — Police here have arrested a man for allegedly exposing himself to a janitor in his neighborhood, after the woman either rebuffed or ignored his repeated sexual advancements, authorities said. Mahesh Hingorani, 59, of Dublin, was charged with a …

The water filling the pools in Piedmont’s new community aquatic complex glistens alluringly in the mid-November sunshine. Related Articles Piedmont Center for the Arts hosting Festival Opera’s next show Sunday Piedmont High alum Ellis touring with Broadway musical ‘Shucked’ Oakland …

Peter Shaffer’s “Amadeus” could be titled “Salieri” as focused as it is on the rivalry between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — an all-powerful sun —and the composer Antonio Salieri, by comparison a flickering matchflame. In the court of Emperor Joseph in …

An aerospace firm that recently leased land east of Aurora is building a rocket that it hopes will be able to deliver goods to anywhere on the planet within 40 minutes. “Think of it as FedEx, but in space,” said …

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ, Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president on Tuesday ruled out allowing U.S. strikes against cartels on Mexican soil, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said he was willing to do whatever it takes to …

BOULDER — Deion Sanders cried tears of happiness as his son took the field over the weekend for the first time in a regular-season NFL game. There was admiration, too, over what it took for quarterback Shedeur Sanders to get …

The Westminster headquarters of space technology firm Vantor, the company formerly known as Maxar Technologies, has sold for just over a third of what it fetched a decade ago. An entity affiliated with Southern California’s AXS Opportunity Fund paid $32 …

The best fourth-quarter team in the NFL isn’t going to start thinking about the playoffs until the fourth quarter of the season. ‘‘Once we make it through the three-quarter mark, then we’ll start shifting our focus,’’ Bears head coach Ben …

Patrick Finley and Jason Lieser discuss whether the first-place Bears can reach the postseason. New episodes of “Halas Intrigue” will be published regularly with accompanying stories collected on the podcast’s hub page. You can also listen to “Halas Intrigue” wherever you …

In 2017, Stephanie O’Donnell, her husband, Terrence, and their young children Millie and Poppy left their beloved home in Oak Park and moved to Dublin, Ohio. In doing so, they left much of their collective hearts in the middle of …

Rocker Billy Corgan is anything but one note. For decades, he’s poured what he describes as a strong Midwest work ethic into seemingly endless ventures, from his 1990s rock group, the Smashing Pumpkins, to a professional wrestling league, an artisanal …

DEAR ABBY: I have a 54-year-old profoundly disabled, non-verbal child who is in a group home. I have been advocating for her since birth, when we learned she had suffered severe brain damage. The umbilical cord was wrapped around her …

The Bears are firmly in the playoff field after beating the Vikings to get to 7-3, and for a team that has been decisively out of the picture by mid-November each of the last four seasons, that’s a big step. …

A 9-year-old boy and a woman were seriously hurt by a group of attackers Monday afternoon in South Deering on the Far South Side. The group confronted the pair — who were walking — and hit them multiple times just …

Good morning, Chicago. ✶ 🔎 Below: Mayor Brandon Johnson experienced a significant defeat Monday as City Council’s Finance Committee rejected his $600 million tax package built on a corporate head tax. 🗞️ Plus: Local groups share lessons learned as feds …