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Marin County sheriff warns of phone and internet scams preying on elderly...
The Marin County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents about a surge in internet and phone scams targeting elderly community members. According to officials, scammers are often posing as bank employees...
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Santa Rosa schools dealt heartbreaking loss after three students die from...
Therapists fanned out across Santa Rosa City Schools campuses Monday to comfort students affected by the overdose deaths of three district students over the weekend.A fourth person — a 19-year-old...
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Santa Clara County cuts legal aid outreach, leaving homeless residents...
Budget cuts are threatening vital county services — including an outreach program that brought legal aid to people living in homeless encampments.The Santa Clara County Public Defender’s Office started...
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San Jose touts digital billboards as revenue boost, but opponents fear visual...
DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE’S most recognizable landmarks could soon be home to an array of digital billboards for the next 20 years.The councilmembers are expected to approve new contracts with digital...
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Vallejo Police Department announces joint operation with ATF to stop gun...
Vallejo police have announced a partnership with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives to reduce gun violence in the city.“We are working side-by-side with our community...
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Oakland cuts to the meat of noise complaints as city sues food processor for...
A north Oakland meat wholesaler is being sued by the city for allegedly creating a neighborhood nuisance after years of code violations.Suprema Meats Inc. is allegedly driving its neighbors nuts by...
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San Francisco supervisors side with mayor to oust whistleblower from police...
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted to remove a whistleblower police commissioner before his term end date next year in a controversial move that drew dissent from dozens of people during...
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‘Engaged California’: New statewide initiative aims to give public a voice in...
A new program dubbed “Engaged California” aiming to give the public a greater voice in government is launching soon, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced.Described as an exercise in “deliberative democracy,”...
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‘Half-truths and outright lies’: Court upholds convictions of Theranos CEO...
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the convictions of former Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes, and her business partner and former lover Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, in their...
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San Francisco online retailer sues thousands of consumers trying to assert...
Janie and Jack LLC, a San Francisco online retailer of children’s clothing, earlier this week sued thousands of consumers who used its website, asking a federal judge to bar the consumers from...
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UC Berkeley’s famous falcons are missing — which has fans and experts fearing...
A FAMOUS FEMALE FALCON that has lived atop UC Berkeley’s Campanile bell tower for years has been missing in recent weeks along with her latest mate, and experts who monitor the birds worry that they...
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LGBTQ+ group backs San Jose candidate in race to rebuild trust after Torres...
The race to replace disgraced former San Jose Councilmember Omar Torres has become a fight for the future of downtown on issues like homelessness and crime. But one candidate sees it as something else:...
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‘Maximizing our efforts’: Santa Clara County supervisors create office to...
SANTA CLARA COUNTY wants to be proactive instead of reactive when it comes to addressing community violence. To accomplish this, county leaders plan to sink millions of dollars into a new...
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Best Bets: GG Park Bandshell concerts, Endgames Improv, Blues Harmonica...
Freebie of the week: The 122-year-old Golden Gate Park Bandshell, one of the oldest and largest of its kind in North America, is known for many things. With its Italian Renaissance architecture, it’s...
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Ex-Stanford employee found guilty of unlawful access, alteration of breast...
A former employee of Stanford University was found guilty of accessing a clinical research database for a multisite breast cancer study and altering patient records after her authorization was revoked...
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SF City Hall ‘DOGE raid’ was a YouTube prank; authorities weigh whether to...
The San Francisco Sheriff’s Office is investigating whether federal Department of Government Efficiency impersonators committed any criminal acts earlier this month when they entered City Hall and...
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Immigrant survivors of domestic violence face uphill journey with too few...
THE RECENT NEWS that the U.S. homeless population jumped 18% in the last year, with California having a quarter of all homeless in the country, was startling and stark. Overshadowed was the fact that...
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Bay Area reps fight effort to reuse shuttered Dublin prison as immigrant...
Two Bay Area members of Congress — U.S. Reps. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Walnut Creek, and Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose — have sent a letter to the Trump administration opposing possible efforts to reopen Federal...
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A ‘pedophile hellscape’: Suit claims Roblox, Discord enable exploitation of...
A lawsuit against Bay Area tech companies Roblox and Discord filed last week alleges that the apps are hunting grounds for child predators and they deceive parents into believing their platforms are...
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Hooked on Books: Forget about Adam—it was Eve who propelled humanity forward
For most of the recorded history of the development of humankind, the focus was centered on the male, and until quite recently, scientific research that supported the creation of new treatments and...
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