SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) – Some people say they have a place on the water, but one home on the San Francisco Bay is a little different.

On Monday, a two-story houseboat, complete with a white picket fence and sky lights, was captured on camera as it was towed through the San Francisco Bay.

According to the San Francisco Standard, the dwelling was one of several moved out of Redwood City due to a legal battle.

The owner of the houseboat wanted to stay unidentified but said he wasn’t on the boat during the two-day trek.

A U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said the houseboat is safely anchored on Richardson Bay near Sausalito.

(Gray News) – Costco has brought in as much as $200 million a month by selling gold bars, according to analysts at Wells Fargo CNBC reported.

The wholesale retailer began selling the 1-ounce, 24-karat gold bars for just under $2,000 each to members in 2023.

They’re available on Costco’s website and come individually stamped with a unique serial number.

A Costco top executive said the gold bars typically sell out within a couple of hours after landing on the website.

The bars come from the South African mining company Rand Refinery and Swiss precious metal supplier PAMP Suisse.

The gold is non-refundable and ships via UPS.

According to Forbes, gold prices are up 25% over last month, topping $2,300 per troy ounce for the first time ever.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson, the football star and Hollywood actor acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend in a trial that mesmerized the public and exposed divisions on race and policing in America, has died. He was 76.

The family announced on Simpson’s official X account that he died Wednesday of prostate cancer. He died in Las Vegas, officials there said Thursday.

Simpson earned fame, fortune and adulation through football and show business, but his legacy was forever changed by the June 1994 knife slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles. He was later found liable for the deaths in a separate civil case, and then served nine years in prison on unrelated charges.

Live TV coverage of his arrest after a famous slow-speed chase marked a stunning fall from grace.

He had seemed to transcend racial barriers as the star Trojans tailback for college football’s powerful University of Southern California in the late 1960s, as a rental-car ad pitchman rushing through airports in the late 1970s, and as the husband of a blond and blue-eyed high school homecoming queen in the 1980s.

“I’m not Black, I’m O.J.,” he liked to tell friends.

His trial captured America’s attention on live TV. The case sparked debates on race, gender, domestic abuse, celebrity justice and police misconduct.

Evidence found at the scene seemed overwhelmingly against Simpson. Blood drops, bloody footprints and a glove were there. Another glove, smeared with blood, was found at his home.

Simpson didn’t testify, but the prosecution asked him to try on the gloves in court. He struggled to squeeze them onto his hands and spoke his only three words of the trial: “They’re too small.”

His attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. told the jurors, “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”

The jury found him not guilty of murder in 1995, but a separate civil trial jury found him liable in 1997 for the deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5 million to relatives of Brown and Goldman.

A decade later, still shadowed by the California wrongful death judgment, Simpson led five men he barely knew into a confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers in a cramped Las Vegas hotel room. Two men with Simpson had guns. A jury convicted Simpson of armed robbery and other felonies.

Imprisoned at 61, he served nine years in a remote Nevada prison, including a stint as a gym janitor. He wasn’t contrite when he released on parole in October 2017. The parole board heard him insist yet again that he was only trying to retrieve memorabilia and heirlooms stolen from him after his Los Angeles criminal trial.

“I’ve basically spent a conflict-free life, you know,” said Simpson, whose parole ended in late 2021.

Public fascination with Simpson never faded. Many debated whether he had been punished in Las Vegas for his acquittal in Los Angeles. In 2016, he was the subject of an FX miniseries and a five-part ESPN documentary.

“I don’t think most of America believes I did it,” Simpson told The New York Times in 1995, a week after a jury determined he did not kill Brown and Goldman. “I’ve gotten thousands of letters and telegrams from people supporting me.”

Twelve years later, following an outpouring of public outrage, Rupert Murdoch canceled a planned book by the News Corp.-owned HarperCollins in which Simpson offered his hypothetical account of the killings. It was to be titled “If I Did It.”

Goldman’s family, still doggedly pursuing the multimillion-dollar wrongful death judgment, won control of the manuscript. They retitled the book “If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer.”

“It’s all blood money, and unfortunately I had to join the jackals,” Simpson told The Associated Press at the time. He collected $880,000 in advance money for the book, paid through a third party.

“It helped me get out of debt and secure my homestead,” he said.

Less than two months after losing rights to the book, Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas.

David Cook, an attorney who has been seeking since 2008 to collect the civil judgment in the Goldman case, said he’d spoken with Ron’s father, Fred, on Thursday about Simpson’s death. Cook declined to say what Fred Goldman said or where he was.

“He died without penance,” Cook said of Simpson. “We don’t know what he has, where it is or who is in control. We will pick up where we are and keep going with it.”

Simpson played 11 NFL seasons, nine of them with the Buffalo Bills, where he became known as “The Juice” and ran behind an offensive line known as “The Electric Company.” He won four NFL rushing titles, rushed for 11,236 yards in his career, scored 76 touchdowns and played in five Pro Bowls. His best season was 1973, when he ran for 2,003 yards — the first running back to break the 2,000-yard rushing mark.

“I was part of the history of the game,” he said years later. “If I did nothing else in my life, I’d made my mark.”

Simpson’s football rise happened simultaneously with a television career. He signed a contract with ABC Sports the night he won the Heisman Trophy in 1968. That same year, he appeared on the NBC series “Dragnet” and “Ironside.” During his pro career, Simpson was a color commentator for a decade on ABC followed by a stint on NBC. In 1983, he joined ABC’s “Monday Night Football.”

Simpson became a charismatic pitchman. In 1975, Hertz made him the first Black man hired for a corporate national ad campaign. The commercials, featuring Simpson running through airports toward the Hertz desk and young girls chanting “Go, O.J., go!” were ubiquitous.

Simpson made his big-screen debut in 1974′s “The Klansman,” an exploitation film in which he starred alongside Lee Marvin and Richard Burton. The film flopped, but Simpson would go on to appear in several dozen films and TV series, including 1974′s “The Towering Inferno,” 1976′s “The Cassandra Crossing,” 1977′s “Roots” and 1977′s “Capricorn One.”

Most notable, perhaps, was 1988′s “The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad” and two sequels. Simpson played Detective Nordberg in the slapstick films, opposite Leslie Nielsen.

Of course, Simpson went on to other fame.

One of the artifacts of his murder trial, the tailored tan suit he wore when acquitted, was donated and displayed at the Newseum in Washington. Simpson had been told the suit would be in the hotel room in Las Vegas, but it wasn’t there.

Orenthal James Simpson was born July 9, 1947, in San Francisco, where he grew up in government-subsidized housing.

After graduating from high school, he enrolled at City College of San Francisco for a year and a half before transferring to the University of Southern California for the spring 1967 semester.

He married his first wife, Marguerite Whitley, on June 24, 1967, moving her to Los Angeles the next day so he could begin preparing for his first season with USC — which, in large part because of Simpson, won that year’s national championship.

On the day he accepted the Heisman Trophy, his first child, Arnelle, was born.

He had two sons, Jason and Aaren, with his first wife; one of those boys, Aaren, drowned as a toddler in a swimming pool accident in 1979, the same year he and Whitley divorced.

Simpson and Brown were married in 1985. They had two children, Justin and Sydney, and divorced in 1992. Two years later, Nicole Brown Simpson was found dead.

“We don’t need to go back and relive the worst day of our lives,” he told the AP 25 years after the double slayings. “The subject of the moment is the subject I will never revisit again. My family and I have moved on to what we call the ‘no negative zone.’ We focus on the positives.”

MARBLE FALLS, TX (KXAN) - A serious storm system moved across parts of Texas Tuesday night.

The storm produced large amounts of hail in Marble Falls, Texas near Austin.

Some of the hailstones were the size of softballs and tennis balls.

Damage was reported across the area including smashed car windows, and broken property smashed by the large hail.

The Austin Fire Department also reported that power lines were knocked down in the storm.

KATY, Tx. (KGNS) - A tornado touched down outside of Houston as severe storms moved in Tuesday night.

According to the National Weather Service, an EF-1 tornado touched down in the early morning hours and brought severe damage to businesses and homes in Katy with max winds estimated at roughly 90 miles-per-hour.

On Wednesday morning crews were still out assessing all of the damage and working to clean up the mess, including downed trees and power lines.

Centerpoint Energy said during the storm’s peak, roughly 145,000 customers were without power at around 5:00 a.m.

LAREDO, Tx. (KGNS) - Authorities need your help identifying a man allegedly connected to an indecent assault case.

According to Laredo Police, the incident happened on Mar. 31, 2024, at a nightclub located at the 1000 block of Iturbide Street.

The man was seen wearing a cowboy hat, and a grey shirt.

If you have any information regarding the man’s identity or whereabouts call (956) 727-TIPS.

Police ask that you reference #24-0343 when submitting your tips.

LAREDO, Tx. (KGNS) - A Red Flag Warning is being issued for Laredo and surrounding areas, and the Laredo Fire Department is keeping a close eye on conditions at home.

Despite the recent rain, the strong winds and dry conditions could lead to brush fires in the area.

During this time, Hernan Martinez with the Laredo Fire Department asks the community to do their part by avoiding certain activities that could cause a fire.

“We just want to tell the public to be careful if they’re going to be starting a fire, lighting a fire at their homes or properties where there’s very low humidity and high winds and that can easily spark something and spread easy,” said Martinez.

Martinez adds that it’s important to dispose of any trash in front of their homes as this could also cause a fire to spread easily.