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70-year-old man incarcerated at San Quentin dies in likely homicide; cellmate...
An incarcerated person at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center died Tuesday in a case authorities are investigating as a homicide, according to the California Department of Corrections and...
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VTA copes with another fatal shooting: Driver suspected of killing coworker...
A shooting that claimed the life of a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority employee at a bus yard late Friday may have been the result of a dispute over money, Santa Clara County Sheriff’s...
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Martinez Refining Company faces another flaring incident; apologizes for...
Martinez Refining Company said it experienced unplanned flaring for about 30 minutes last weekend.The refinery said the flaring began at approximately 11 p.m on Saturday. “Our employees stabilized the...
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Measure T: Sonoma voters consider doubling local sales tax to help maintain...
City of Sonoma voters will decide on increasing the local sales tax on the November ballot.Measure T would increase the city’s current half-cent sales tax by another half-cent. Combined with a...
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Lawsuits accuse ExxonMobil of misleading public about recyclability of...
IN A FIRST of its kind lawsuit, California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Monday accused ExxonMobil of a decades-long greenwashing strategy that falsely promises recycling will address the global...
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Labor department recovers unpaid overtime wages from sushi restaurant in San...
The U.S. Department of Labor is fining San Leandro restaurant Angry Fish Sushi for more than $43,000 for unpaid wages and damages alongside $7,800 in civil penalties after an investigation into their...
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Antioch mayor won’t rule out National Guard or curfew to halt deadly outbreak...
Antioch Mayor Lamar Hernandez-Thorpe said the city needs law enforcement help, even suggesting the National Guard or a curfew as possible solutions to stop a recent spate of at least a dozen...
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Alexandre Tharaud premieres Nico Muhly’s Piano Concerto at SF Symphony...
American composer Nico Muhly was a big fan of French pianist Alexandre Tharaud when they met via social media through their mutual friend, choreographer-dancer Benjamin Millepied. Resulting from that...
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UC regents approve new less-lethal weapons, ammunition for its police force...
Minutes after a UC regents committee began debating the purchase of additional less-lethal weapons and ammunition last week, pro-Palestinian students in the UCLA meeting room drowned them out.“Why did...
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Review: Look into the trees for amazing performers in Mendocino’s ‘Dance the...
Walk through a redwood grove and stop to watch dancers perform on — and with — the trees. That’s what happens at the Mendocino Dance Project’s unique “Dance The Redwoods” show, along with live music at...
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‘Like being in a firefight’: Los Gatos property owners feel the heat of...
LOS GATOS RESIDENT Rob Stump never knows when he might get that dreaded insurance company call. Stump, who lives in a home nestled along one-way winding roads in the tree-covered Los Gatos hillside,...
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Santa Rosa woman named administrator of Veterans Home California in Yountville
Holly Holtzen of Santa Rosa has been appointed administrator of the Veterans Home of California, Yountville, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last week.The home, established in 1884, cares for 876 residents...
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San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office to open child care center for employees’...
San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office is planning to open a law enforcement child day care center exclusively for San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office employees.The agency said it has a lease for the child...
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Marin supes disagree with most findings in grand jury report on county jail,...
The Marin County Board of Supervisors has unanimously approved its response to a Civil Grand Jury Report on the county jail and juvenile hall, disagreeing with all but one of the findings. The six-page...
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Thao executive order targets swift removal of Oakland homeless camps from...
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao issued an executive order on Monday aimed at clearing the city’s homeless encampments more thoroughly and with more alacrity.In a news release and video statement, Thao said...
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Sheriff accuses San Mateo County executive of undermining her authority,...
The ongoing and very public feud involving the San Mateo County sheriff, rank-and-file deputies and the county’s Board of Supervisors continued to drag on this week with another flurry of dueling media...
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SF Public Defender’s Office demands DA Brooke Jenkins to stop working with ICE
Immigrant rights advocates and public defenders have picketed outside the San Francisco Hall of Justice to ask that District Attorney Brooke Jenkins cease working with federal agencies to prosecute...
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Wanderers on the wing: Mt. Diablo condors make further foray into Livermore,...
California condors are moving farther into the East Bay.Seven of the endangered birds flew north into Alameda and Contra Costa counties on a circuitous aerial tour on Aug. 18, the conservation group...
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Women are underrepresented in construction industry. Nonprofits seek to...
Jessica Alvarez Castañeda was sick of low-paying jobs. For years, the 39-year-old mother of four had been “breaking her back for almost nothing” as a cashier, nursing assistant, babysitter, house...
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Best Bets: Oakland Museum Free Friday, pianist Bill Charlap, Goose, Livermore...
Freebie of the week: Latin jazz lovers should head to the Oakland Museum of California on Friday. From 5-9 p.m., the museum hosts another free Friday Night event featuring live music, art activities...
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