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Dear Abby: Old flames rekindle spark – but 1 is married

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:26:19 GMT

Dear Abby: After being divorced for 18 years, I have reconnected with my high school sweetheart. She got in touch with me, and we started talking and seeing each other. She says she loves me, and to be honest, I love her, too. The problem is, she’s married. She has grown kids and is raising her 8-year-old granddaughter. She says she’s sorry about what happened to us years ago and that she and her husband have had nothing in common for the past 16 years. They sleep in separate rooms and don’t do anything as a family.I know it was wrong to get involved with her because she’s married. I asked her why now and why me. She said it’s because she never stopped loving me and had tried to find me in the past. (I work in construction and have been in different places over the years.) I told her I don’t want to break up her home, but she insisted that she’s not happy. She told me that a few years ago she moved out but returned because of the granddaught...

Sting to make San Diego stop on world tour

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:26:19 GMT

SAN DIEGO — Musical icon Sting is bringing his world tour to San Diego.The 17-time Grammy Award winner will head to San Diego on Oct. 4 as part of his My Songs World Tour.The show will take place at the Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre, located on the San Diego State University campus.The San Diego show is among 10 newly-announced shows that will make up the first North American leg of the world tour. More additional cities and dates are expected to be announced soon, according to Live Nation.General sale tickets for the San Diego show and other newly announced dates will go on sale Friday, April 14 at 10 a.m. and can be purchased here. Depeche Mode adds 2nd San Diego show Pre-sale tickets for members of Sting's Fan Club will be available starting on Wednesday, April 12. VIP packages will also be available for purchase here when ticket sales go live.Known for his music as both a solo artist and as lead singer of The Police, fans can expect to hear some of Sting's timeless ...

Who is in running to take Nathan Fletcher's District 4 seat?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:26:19 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- With Nathan Fletcher resigning from his San Diego County Board of Supervisor District Four seat and pulling his name out of the race for State Senate, the future of two political seats are in limbo. "Just a few weeks ago, when people looked at Nathan Fletcher and Lorena Gonzalez, they saw an untouchable power couple, they saw Nathan Fletcher as the heir apparent to the governorship and even the presidency," said Amy Reichert, who ran against Fletcher in November.However, Janessa Goldbeck already announced her candidacy for the District Four seat in February, with the assumption that Fletcher was a shoo-in for Toni Atkins' Senate seat. While her timeline was moved up from a 2026 race, to likely this year, she is remaining ready to take the position if elected, or appointed."I announced that I was running in February because I want to lead and be in this seat, whether or not it goes to an appointment process or an election, I'm ready, I'm ready to jump in, I'm ready to le...

Video: Fiesta Island covered in blooms

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:26:19 GMT

SAN DIEGO — Spring is in full swing at Fiesta Island.A historically wet winter in California has caused wildflowers to sprout all over San Diego and the rest of the state.The heavy rainfall has seen large stretches of wildflowers bloom all at once, offering the chance for breathtaking photo and video opportunities. The best places to see the superbloom in California FOX 5 videographer Aaron Eudaley took advantage of one of these opportunities at Fiesta Island in Mission Bay, capturing drone footage that showed the popular beach destination covered in gorgeous flowers.You can watch the beautiful drone footage in the video player above.The flowers at Fiesta Island are reminiscent of the superbloom phenomenon currently being experienced across the state of California.Visitors are flocking to various state parks up and down California to catch a glimpse of the superbloom, including at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in the northeastern corner of San Diego County. Coastal fog contribu...

Residents flee as cyclone approaches northwest Australia

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:26:19 GMT

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Miners, cattle ranchers, tourists and Indigenous locals were evacuating from Australia’s remote northwest coast on Wednesday as an intensifying tropical cyclone approached.Cyclone Ilsa is expected to peak as a Category 4 storm as it crosses the sparsely populated Pilbara coast of Western Australia state somewhere between the iron ore export town of Port Hedland in the west and the tourist town of Broome in the east late Thursday or early Friday, Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology said.“Any areas … where that system does cross the coast are going to experience some very destructive winds, winds in excess of 200 kph (124 mph). They’re going to cause a lot of damage,” bureau manager Todd Smith told reporters.Abnormally high tides, large waves and flooding were possible, and people should avoid coastal and low-lying areas, Smith warned.Ilsa could be the most powerful cyclone to cross the Pilbara coast since Cyclone Christine, a Category 4 storm that struck l...

In Kerala, an aging trend bucks India’s booming population

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:26:19 GMT

KOCHI, India (AP) — When 82-year-old Vasanthi Baby almost tripped while climbing down the stairs in her home in southern India’s Kerala state, she decided, along with her 84-year-old husband V. Baby, to move to an assisted living center. The couple are two of a growing number of people in India’s only aging state that are moving into assisted living centers. They’re happy with the care they receive: round-the-clock access to nurses, the reassuring company of their own generation and healthy, regular meals. “There is a feeling of safety we can only get here,” V. Baby said. “We cannot get this at home.”Like millions of others in the region, Baby, a retired math professor, spent his life savings building a two-floor multi-bedroom home. It was meant to last generations: their son Sony was supposed to have and grow his family here, but he emigrated to the United Arab Emirates for work and a better quality of life. In the past 60 years, the percentage of people age 60 an...

Jeremy Renner attends premiere, months after snowplow crush

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:26:19 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeremy Renner attended the premiere for his new series Tuesday, capping a remarkable recovery roughly four months after the “Avengers” star was nearly killed in a snowplow accident.Renner was surrounded by family and supporters at the “Rennervations” premiere in Los Angeles, where he posed for photos and did interviews, at times making use of a cane and a knee scooter. At one point he flashed photographers a thumbs up sign while moving down the carpet.Renner was crushed by his 7-ton snowplow on New Year’s Day while trying to help free a relative’s car at his Nevada home. The actor has said he broke numerous bones and suffered a pierced lung in the accident.“Rennervations,” which premieres on Disney+ on Wednesday, follows Renner as he transforms large vehicles into community spaces for young people in India, Mexico, Chicago and Nevada. The purposes range from serving as a mobile music venue to a water filtration truck for a community in India.Renn...

Biden to help mark decades of relative peace in N Ireland

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:26:19 GMT

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — President Joe Biden is in Northern Ireland to participate in marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to this part of the United Kingdom after the U.S. helped negotiate an end to decades of sectarian violence that killed thousands.On his first presidential visit to Northern Ireland, Biden was set to deliver congratulations and encourage the country’s leaders to work on universally beneficial trade and economic policies when he speaks Wednesday at a business development event at Ulster University’s campus in Belfast.But Biden was not expected to make any attempt to help resolve a new political crisis that has rattled the Good Friday peace deal and put Northern Ireland’s government on pause.Instead, the Democratic president will deliver at least two messages, said White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby, who is traveling with Biden. “Congratulations on 25 years of the Good Frid...

Trump and Iowa evangelicals: A bond that is hard to break

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:26:19 GMT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — When South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott returns to Iowa on Wednesday, he will meet privately with a group of pastors at a Cedar Rapids church. For someone considering a Republican presidential campaign, the visit is part of a decades-old courtship ritual in the state that kicks off the nomination process. Born-again Christians are the most influential group in Iowa’s GOP caucuses, giving faith leaders particular sway in helping organize voters and shape the results.But in the early phase of the next presidential campaign, Scott’s joyful proclamations of his Christian faith face an unlikely obstacle. Like other Republicans eyeing the White House, he is navigating an evangelical community that is faithful to former President Donald Trump, the thrice-married former reality television star who once supported abortion rights and spent decades boasting of his sexual prowess. That history repelled many Iowa evangelical leaders during the last competitive Repu...

Adrift in the Atlantic, a boat of death and lost dreams

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:26:19 GMT

BELLE GARDEN, Tobago (AP) — Around 6:30 a.m. on May 28, 2021, off the beach near the Caribbean island of Tobago, a narrow white-and-blue boat drifted onto the horizon. From a distance, it seemed no one was aboard. But as fishermen approached, they smelled death. Then they saw the decomposing bodies of more than a dozen Black men. What is clear now, but was not then, is this: 135 days earlier, 43 people were believed to have left a port city across the ocean in Mauritania. They were trying to reach Spain’s Canary Islands.Instead, they ended up here, on the other side of the Atlantic. At least seven boats carrying dead bodies appearing to be from Northwest Africa washed up in the Caribbean and in Brazil in 2021. These “ghost boats” — and likely many others that have vanished — are in part an unintended result of years of efforts and billions of dollars spent by Europe to stop crossings on the Mediterranean Sea. That crackdown helped push migrants to return to the far longer, more obsc...