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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook a large area of Northern California on Thursday, knocking items of grocery store shelves, sending children scrambling under desks and prompting a brief tsunami warning for 5.3 million people along the U.S. West Coast. The quake struck at 10:44 a.m. west of Ferndale, a small city in coastal Humboldt County, about 130 miles (209 km) from the Oregon border, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was felt as far south as San Francisco, some 270 miles (435 km) away, where residents felt a rolling motion for several seconds. It was followed by multiple smaller aftershocks. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injury. The tsunami warning was in effect for roughly an hour. It was issued shortly after the temblor struck and covered nearly 500 miles (805 km) of coastline, from the edge of California’s Monterey Bay north into Oregon. “It was a strong quake, our building shook, we’re fine but I have a mess to clean up right now,” said Julie Kreitzer, owner of Golden Gait Mercantile, a store packed with food, wares and souvenirs that is a main attraction in Ferndale. “We lost a lot of stuff. It’s probably worse than two years ago. I have to go, I have to try and salvage something for the holidays because it’s going to be a tough year,” Kreitzer said before hanging up. The region — known for its redwood forests, scenic mountains and the three-county Emerald Triangle’s legendary marijuana crop — was struck by a 6.4 magnitude quake in 2022 that left thousands of people without power and water. The northwest corner of California is the most seismically active part of the state since it’s where three tectonic plates meet, seismologist Lucy Jones said on the social media platform BlueSky. Shortly after the quake, phones in Northern California buzzed with the tsunami warning from the National Weather Service that said: “A series of powerful waves and strong currents may impact coasts near you. You are in danger. Get away from coastal waters. Move to high ground or inland now. Keep away from the coast until local officials say it is safe to return.” South of San Francisco in Santa Cruz, authorities cleared the main beach, taping off entrances with police tape. Numerous cities urged people to evacuate to higher ground as a precaution, including Eureka. “I thought my axles had fallen apart,” said Valerie Starkey, a Del Norte County supervisor representing Crescent City, a town of fewer than 6,000 about 66 miles (106 km) north of Eureka. “That’s what I was feeling ... ‘My axles are broken now.’ I did not realize it was an earthquake.” Gov. Gavin Newsom said he has signed off on a state of emergency declaration to quickly move state resources to impacted areas along the coast. State officials were concerned about damages in the northern part of the state, Newsom said. Crews in Eureka, the biggest city in the region, were assessing if there was any major damage from the quake, Eureka Mayor Kim Bergel said. Bergel, who works as a resource aid at a middle school, said lights were swaying and everyone got under desks. “The kids were so great and terrified. It seemed to go back and forth for quite a long time,” she said. Some children asked, “Can I call my mom?" The students were later sent home. In nearby Arcata, students and faculty were urged to shelter in place at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt. The campus in was not in the tsunami hazard zone and after inspections, “all utilities and building systems are normal and operational,” the university said in a statement. Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal said residents experienced some cracks in their homes’ foundations, as well as broken glass and windows, but nothing severe. There also have been no major infrastructure problems, building collapses or roadway issues, and no major injuries or deaths have been reported, he said. Honsal said he was in his office in the 75-year-old courthouse in downtown Eureka when he felt the quake. “We’re used to it. It is known as ‘earthquake country’ up here,” he said. “It wasn’t a sharp jolt. It was a slow roller, but significant.” Michael Luna, owner of a Grocery Outlet in Eureka, said that besides a few items falling off shelves, the store on Commercial Street was unscathed by the earthquake. “We didn’t have any issues but a couple of deodorants fall off.... I think the way the earthquake rumbled this time, it was a good thing for our store because the last earthquake was a huge mess," he said. They evacuated customers and closed their doors temporarily until officials lifted the tsunami warning, he said, rushing off the phone to attend to a growing line of customers at check-out. The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, known as BART, stopped traffic in all directions through the underwater tunnel between San Francisco and Oakland, and the San Francisco Zoo’s visitors were evacuated. Dave Snider, tsunami warning coordinator for the Tsunami Warning Center in Alaska, said the computer models indicated that this was the type of earthquake that was unlikely to cause a tsunami and gauges that monitor waves then confirmed it, so forecasters canceled the warning. This quake was a strike-slip type of temblor that shifts more horizontally and is less prone to cause tsunamis, unlike the more vertical types, said National Weather Service tsunami program manager Corina Allen in Washington state. The California Geological Survey says the state’s shores have been struck by more than 150 tsunamis since 1800, and while most were minor, some have been destructive and deadly. On March 28, 1964, a tsunami triggered by a powerful earthquake in Alaska smashed into Crescent City hours later. Much of the business district was leveled and a dozen people were killed. More recently, a tsunami from a 2011 earthquake in Japan caused about $100 million in damages along the California coast, much of it in Crescent City. Dazio reported from Los Angeles. AP writers Chris Weber and Dorany Pineda in Los Angeles; Martha Mendoza in Santa Cruz, California; Sophie Austin and Tran Nguyen in Sacramento, California and Seth Borenstein in Washington, D.C. contributed to this report.

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Bill Belichick spent time after his NFL exit talking with college coaches wanting his thoughts on managing new wrinkles at their level that looked a lot like the pros. The two-minute timeout. The transfer portal as de facto free agency. Collectives generating name, image and likeness (NIL) money for athletes becoming like a payroll. The impending arrival of revenue sharing. It didn't take long for Belichick to envision how a college program should look based on his own NFL experience. "I do think there are a lot of parallels," Belichick said. And that's at least partly why the six-time Super Bowl-winning head coach is now taking over at North Carolina. Years of rapid change at the have only increased the professionalization of college football across the country, with schools adjusting staffing to handle growing duties once seemingly more fitting for a pro team. UNC just happens to be making the most audacious of those bets, bringing in a 72-year-old who has never coached in college and asking him to build what amounts to a mini-NFL front office. But plenty could follow. "I really think there's going to be some of those guys that maybe don't have a job in the NFL anymore," Kansas State general manager Clint Brown said, "and now that this is going to be structured in a way where there is a cap that that's going to be something they're interested in." The rapid changes in college athletics have fueled that, notably with players able to transfer and play right away without sitting out a year and be paid through NIL endorsement opportunities in the past five years. Recruiting is now just as much about bringing in veteran talent through the portal as signing recruits out of high school, mirroring the NFL with free agency and the draft, respectively. And a bigger change looms with revenue sharing, the result of a $2.78 billion legal settlement to antitrust lawsuits. Specifically, that model will allow the biggest schools to establish a pool of about $21.5 million for athletes in the first year, with a final hearing in that case set for April 2025. It will be up to schools to determine how to distribute that money and in which sports, though football's role as the revenue driver in college sports likely means a prominent cut everywhere as a direct parallel to a professional team's salary cap. Throw all that together, and it's why coaches are adjusting their staffs like Florida's Billy Napier interviewing candidates to be the Gators' general manager. "We're built to do it now," Napier said. "The big thing here is that we're getting ready to be in a business model. We have a cap. We have contracts. We have negotiation. We have strategy about how we distribute those funds, and it's a major math puzzle. "We're going to build out a front office here in the next couple of months, and it's primarily to help us manage that huge math problem," Napier added. "There'll be a ton of strategy around that. I'm looking forward to it." Still, that also explains why Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule, the former head coach of the NFL's Carolina Panthers, said: "This job as a head coach is a juggernaut. There's way more to do here than I had to do in the NFL." And it explains why the Tar Heels are betting on Belichick to be the right fit for today's changing climate. "If I was 16 of 17 years old, a coach who came at you and won how many Super Bowls? And he said, 'Come play for me,'" said New York Giants offensive lineman Joshua Ezeudu, now in his third year out of UNC. "I mean, that's pretty hard to turn down now, especially in this day and age, he's telling you to come play for him and he's offering you some money, too. I mean, you can't go wrong with that choice." The timing worked for UNC with Belichick, who was bypassed for some NFL openings after leaving the New England Patriots last year and instead spent months taking a closer look at the college game. Those conversations with coaches — some in the Atlantic Coast, Big Ten and Southeastern conferences, he said Thursday — made him understand how the changes in college aligned with his pro experience. "College kind of came to me this year," Belichick said. "I didn't necessarily go and seek it out." And his mere presence in Chapel Hill makes a difference, with athletic director Bubba Cunningham saying his "visibility" would likely allow the team to raise prices for advertising such as sponsorships and signage. Belichick is also hiring Michael Lombardi, a former NFL general manager and executive, as the Tar Heels' general manager. Cunningham also said the plan is for Belichick to continue his appearances on former NFL quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning's "Manningcast" broadcasts during Monday Night Football as well as ESPN's "The Pat McAfee Show" — all giving the coach the chance to promote himself and the program. Yet these steps to reshape football at North Carolina comes with a rising price. Belichick will make $10 million per year in base and supplemental pay, with the first three years of the five-year deal guaranteed, according to a term sheet released by UNC on Thursday. That's roughly double of former coach Mack Brown, whose contract outlined about $4.2 million in base and supplemental salary before bonuses and other add-ons. Additionally, Belichick's deal includes $10 million for a salary pool for assistant coaches and $5.3 million for support staff. That's up from roughly $8.1 million for assistants and $4.8 million for support staff for the 2022 season, according to football financial data for UNC obtained by The Associated Press. And those figures from 2022 under Brown were already up significantly from Larry Fedora's tenure with the 2017 season ($4 million for assistant coaches, $2.3 million for support staff). There is at least one area where the Tar Heels are set for Belichick's arrival: facilities. UNC spent more than $40 million on its football practice complex with an indoor facility (2018) as the biggest project, while other projects include $3 million in upgrades to the locker room and weight room (2019), $14.5 million on renovations to the Kenan Football Center (2022), even $225,000 on Brown's former office (2021). Now it's up to Belichick to rethink the approach to football here for the changing times. "We're taking a risk," Cunningham said. "We're investing more in football with the hope and ambition that the return is going to significantly outweigh the investment." AP Sports Writers Tom Canavan in New Jersey; Mark Long in Florida; and Eric Olson in Nebraska; contributed to this report. Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox!Hawkins stock soars to all-time high of $135.7 amid robust growth

ON the youth club’s memorial wall, the names of 46 past members are immortalised on wooden plaques. They bear witness to the tragic loss of young people aged 12 to 35 — but this is no war commemoration or tribute to those killed in a terrible disaster. It is the true cost of living in Britain’s worst benefits blackspot. Among the names on the Shalom Youth Club memorial in Grimsby ’s East Marsh estate are victims of 16 drug overdoses, six murders and five suicides — a tally of misery brought on by a toxic mix of unemployment, drink, drugs and gambling problems. More than half the estate’s residents live on handouts, and life expectancy is 12 years below average. The area is awash with “county lines” gangs — criminals who force victims to transport drugs across police and local authority boundaries, and who often “cuckoo”, or take over, the home of a vulnerable person to use as a base for their operation. Police had to rescue an East Marsh family with three primary school-aged children from the clutches of dealers who moved into their home. Canon John Ellis, who has run a local youth project for 52 years, said: “I’ve never seen it so bad. “People are being preyed on by drug dealers and gangs and spend what little money they have on drink and gambling. “For the first time ever, we’re getting kids coming through the door who, when asked what school they attend, say, ‘I don’t go’. “The levels of poverty are Victorian. "We’ve all seen the statistics about the number of jobs available, but when a community sinks this low in its esteem, people go into a whole way of life. "Employment is a big step because, let’s face it, it’s quite enjoyable to sit and just chill. “This community needs to understand there’s no cavalry coming and they’ve got to try to help themselves.” Grimsby, in north-east Lincs, has become synonymous with poverty and crime over the years and East Marsh, the centre of a once proud fishing community, is in the bottom three per cent for deprivation in Britain. At The Rock food bank, a boozed-up regular downs his bottle of Carlsberg then picks up a bag of food, while outside, a drug user slumps on a wall, unable to stand. Also in the queue for food is former heroin user Paul McPhee, who gets £328 a fortnight in Employment and Support Allowance, a benefit for the sick and disabled. He has no rent or bills to pay because he lives in a supported housing complex. In East Marsh, 33 per cent of people get sickness payouts , while 11 per cent are on Jobseeker’s Allowance and nine per cent get other benefits. Paul, 54, told The Sun: “I used to work as a housing association support officer but I lost my job because they accused me of stealing from a client — even though no charges were ever brought and I would never do that. “That was 2014, and I’ve not been able to get work since. "I’m clean now but I used to take drugs because I had really bad mental health issues. “If I’d got the help I needed then, I might not be here now.” The Rock founder Pam Hodge said the charity, which feeds around 600 people a week, is stuck in a “merry-go-round” of feeding people, most of whom have grown up in the care system and are in and out of prison. At the nearby Salvation Army centre, the homeless Baccellini family — Amy and Dino, and their kids Kyle, 14, Kylie, 13, Lexie, 11, Carlo, ten, and seven-year-old Gino — sit waiting for their washing to dry. This community needs to understand there’s no cavalry coming and they’ve got to try to help themselves They are living in three bedrooms in a guest house in nearby Cleethorpes after being run out of Grims- by’s notorious Nunsthorpe estate, where drugs and crime are rife. The family have been shunted from pillar to post, living in temporary accommodation for three years — and none of the kids has been to school in that time. They previously fled Leicester in 2021 after death threats from their wider family and lived in a series of temporary caravan accommodation in Skegness before being told they might have a better chance of a permanent home in Grimsby. Amy said: “The local authority gave us a temporary house on the Nuns-thorpe estate and things were OK for a while. "But they said the kids would have to go to four different schools, all outside the area, and we didn’t have a car to get them there. “We’ve had to home-school. "We kept ourselves to ourselves on the estate and then a stupid rumour got around that we were in witness protection and people started calling us snitches, egging our house. “Then Kylie was badly attacked by a woman who lived nearby and the council moved us out for our protection. "We’ve spent the last two months living in a temporary B&B. “The council says it will pay £600 towards a private landlord but they all want guarantors, and we don’t have anyone. It’s hopeless.” Although Grimsby is surrounded by upmarket villages, the town itself is blighted by shuttered, graffiti-covered shops, in neighbourhoods strewn with rubbish and populated by street drinkers and aimless youngsters. It is the epitome of broken Britain, where 9.25million, or more than a fifth of the working-age population, have no job or are not actively seeking one. Last month the Government unveiled its Get Britain Working programme, aimed at getting two million jobless young people into work. But it will face an uphill battle in places such as East Marsh, where benefits have become almost a cultural norm. Rev Kay Jones, who runs a social lunch and playgroup at St John and St Stephen church in East Marsh, said: “When this was a fishing area, how much you earned depended on the size of your catch. "But when benefits were introduced, many people saw this as a constant source of income, some stability.” Most of those who work in the town depend on the dominant frozen seafood industry. Jobs at Young’s, which supplies around 40 per cent of the fish eaten in Britain, are currently being advertised for £12.21 an hour — above the National Living Wage of £11.44 — but one agency is offering below, at £11.41. It’s really draining to have to think about money constantly but I am not well enough to work Rev Jones said many people feel it is “too risky” to come off benefits and start a job in case they don’t get enough work hours to qualify for Working Tax Credit. In the church hall, Emily Gould, 31, is grateful just to have some company because her partner James, a 29-year-old electrician, works away during the week in Leeds, 62 miles away. She said: “I don’t think it’s that people don’t want to work necessarily, but that they sometimes get more in benefits.” Serena Donnelly, who is at the drop-in with her four-year-old son Alex, says she is unable to work because she has fibromyalgia , a condition that causes pain, fatigue and brain fog. Serena, 31, who also has an 11-year-old daughter, gets £1,900 a month in benefits and is left with about £250 for food and clothing after paying her £570 rent, £130 gas and electricity, £44 council tax, water and Sky TV bills. She said: “It’s really draining to have to think about money constantly but I am not well enough to work. “I’m struggling to get the kids stuff for Christmas, and buying from sites like Temu and getting toys from the NSPCC to help.” Close to tears, she added: “Sometimes things are so bad I just want to run away.” Grimsby is now betting its future on renewable energy, with some of Europe’s biggest wind farms generating power just off the coast. Danish giant Orsted has a base in the town and small supply boats run from the docks, carrying engineers and equipment to the huge turbines out at sea. But the work is highly specialised, and Canon Ellis said jobs are hardly ever advertised in the local Jobcentre. He said East Marsh suffers from a lack of good educational opportunities after two schools shut, and added: “It forced kids to go to suburban schools where the teachers don’t understand them and they feel they don’t fit in.” He continued: “Fishing was grim, grinding graft but it didn’t require the level of skill needed for these offshore wind jobs. “A few ex-fishermen have got jobs driving the safety boats but there are few people in the community who can work in the sector. “Many parents are on drink or drugs and we’ve got kids growing up here with no support other than the youth centre, and the only adults they see are police or social workers. “They are rampaging about the place and when county line gangs give them a little attention, they respond and get dragged into it. “Housing is poor and full of damp, and private landlords don’t care about their houses, leaving them to go to rack and ruin. “They prey on people, along with the drug dealers and county lines. “We’ve a regular who comes in, who is very vulnerable, and dealers keep moving into his place. “We have someone who goes and throws them out but they are back in the next week. “Gambling is a huge issue because people are just looking for something to give them a little bit of relief, or they hope they might win the lottery. “If you imagine a street with vultures sitting on every roof, that’s East Marsh. “It’s going to take much more than a politician vowing to get Britain back to work for things to change. “People here have heard it all before.”None

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