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A family of four was killed in a solo-car crash in in the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday night, officials said. The driver may have hit a tree, the Pleasanton Police Department said in a news release. The mother, father and two children under age 15 were killed in the crash that occurred at about 9 p.m. on Foothill Road near Stoneridge Drive in the East Bay suburb, the police said. The cause of the crash remained under investigation on Thursday night, but police said it appears the driver “…
8 days ago
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Long-term weather models are hinting a wet storm could sweep California in early May, but forecasters warn that people shouldn’t arrange their plans around this potential system just yet. On Tuesday, the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center told SFGATE that some models show the storm could generally bring a chance of 0.5 to 1 inch of rain across the entire state. An inch of rain is not a big deal in the winter, but in May, it’s a little less typical. “You get into May and June…
10 days ago
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Weather in the San Francisco Bay Area turned from warm and sunny on Monday to cool, cloudy and drizzly on Tuesday. The cooler conditions, with clouds covering a large portion of the region in the mornings and evenings, are expected to last through the work week and likely into the weekend, the National Weather Service said. “This is a little taste of that early May gray,” said weather service forecaster Brayden Murdock, referring to the region’s tendency to see foggy weather in late spring and…
11 days ago
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A car belonging to a missing California man was found unoccupied last week in a river near the Humboldt-Mendocino county line, officials said. Terry McInnes, 65, was last seen by friends and neighbors on March 24, according to a news release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. McInnes lives in Piercy, a small Mendocino County community on the South Fork of the Eel River. The news release said the missing person report was filed on April 12 by an individual who said it was “out of charact…
10 days ago
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LATEST April 22, 2:15 p.m. A 25-year-old man accused of stabbing a person outside Saints Peter and Paul Church in North Beach on Sunday was arrested, the San Francisco Police Department said. He could face multiple charges, including “attempted murder and eight counts of assault with a deadly weapon,” police said Monday afternoon. The department responded to the stabbing just before 1 p.m. on the 600 block of Filbert Street; officers found a person with non-life-threatening stab wounds and trans…
12 days ago
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FasTrak is sounding the alarm bells yet again about a scam targeting Bay Area drivers. FasTrak, which collects tolls for all Bay Area toll bridges and express lanes, said in an email to customers last week that some people are receiving text messages notifying them of fees with a link that leads to a fraudulent website. “If you receive such a text, please do not click on the link,” the agency said in the email. “FasTrak does not request payment by text with a link to a website.” John Goodwin, s…
11 days ago
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KQED is initiating staff buyouts, an effort to reduce costs in the face of a budget deficit, SFGATE has learned. In an April 17 email to staff at the Bay Area’s best-known public broadcasting station, KQED President Michael Isip said the buyouts are a first step in reducing costs and that additional tactics might be necessary, including layoffs or a hiring freeze. “We’ve operated with a board approved budget deficit for the last two years and we’re now projecting a higher than expected budget d…
11 days ago
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San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins shared a message on social media Wednesday inviting anyone who was delayed on the Golden Gate Bridge during Monday’s four-hour protest to contact the California Highway Patrol with statements “detailing what happened” so they can “be alleged as a victim.” People who were inconvenienced by the closure “may be entitled to restitution + have other victim rights guaranteed under Marsy’s law,” which provides protections for crime victims, Jenkins’ post…
16 days ago
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Three people were arrested after Saturday night’s fatal shooting of two teen girls that shocked the city of Napa, officials said Tuesday. John Nicholson Jr., 22, of Vallejo was detained Monday evening and booked into Napa County jail; he faces two felony counts of murder, the Napa Police Department said in a news release. Jessica Whitten and Judith Adolph, both 19-year-olds from Santa Rosa, were arrested Tuesday at 3 a.m. on suspicion of aiding in a felony, the police said. Police received a re…
17 days ago
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Protesters stopped traffic for hours on major highways during rush hour in the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday morning, as part of a global campaign to obstruct key economic routes in cities and push world leaders for a ceasefire in Gaza. In peaceful but highly disruptive demonstrations, they blocked a section of northbound Interstate 880 in Oakland for seven hours and a portion of southbound 880 and the Golden Gate Bridge for about four hours, the California Highway Patrol said. Similar prot…
17 days ago
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LATEST April 15, 2:10 p.m. The three separate protests that blocked popular commuter routes in the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday morning were part of a multi-city effort called the A15 Economic Blockade to block major economic arteries across the United States and around the world, Hay Sha Wiÿa, a Bay Area-based Lakota activist and spokesperson for the event, told SFGATE. Wiÿa said that in the Bay Area, 600 to 700 protesters blocked traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge and along sections of sout…
19 days ago
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California’s past two wet winters have given the state’s water supply a remarkable boost and stamped out the drought. A snowpack that had been below normal for two years was epic last year and this year. Rivers that were running low are now rushing. Reservoirs that were depleted in dry years are at last brimming with water. Perhaps one of the best examples of this remarkable turn of events is Shasta Lake. Three years ago, the lake was almost 185 feet from being full, according to the U.S. Bureau…
22 days ago
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LATEST April 13, 10 a.m. A teenager who was reported missing in the waters of the Russian River Steelhead Beach Regional Park in Forestville was found dead on Friday, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office said. The Sheriff’s Office initially responded to a report of two teens who went missing in the water at 4:40 p.m. on April 11, according to a news release Friday. At the scene, officers learned one of the teens had already been taken to a local hospital, the Sheriff’s Office said. Multiple agenc…
21 days ago
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A Bay Area construction project to fix one of the region’s worst choke points on a major highway is expected to reach a big milestone this week, officials said. A new section of southbound Highway 101 between Novato and Petaluma is poised to open to traffic at 6 a.m., April 12, as part of the so-called “Narrows Project” designed to widen a 16-mile-long section of Highway 101 through Marin and Sonoma counties, Caltrans said. This adjustment of the highway is a part of the final phase of a constr…
24 days ago
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After 30 years of providing downtown San Francisco’s community with a place to work out, Crunch turned off the treadmills at its New Montgomery gym location March 31, the business confirmed Wednesday. The franchise company, which has gyms across the country including four in SF, first announced news of the closure on Instagram in February. The message said the location had “never been able to recover from the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.” During the pandemic, the city and state or…
23 days ago
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Many people who stepped outside in San Francisco and other parts of the Bay Area on Monday to take in the solar eclipse may have noticed a tower of smoke rising above Angel Island in the bay. In fact, San Francisco Fire Department spokesperson Cpt. Justin Schorr told SFGATE that the department received many calls reporting the smoke Monday morning. No, a wildfire isn’t burning on the island, and, perhaps more obviously, the smoke is entirely unrelated to the eclipse. Dozens of fires were intenti…
25 days ago
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Apple is giving pink slips to more than 600 employees working at offices in California’s Silicon Valley, according to filings with the state’s Employment Development Department. This is the company’s first big round of job cuts since tech companies started shedding huge numbers of workers after the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 614 employees working at eight different addresses in Santa Clara received notice that they were being let go on March 28, according to the filings under t…
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A cold front that formed in the Gulf of Alaska pushed into the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday morning and is expected to deliver a nasty mix of rain, hail, thunder, lightning and chilly air Thursday into Friday morning, according to the National Weather Service. There’s a 40% chance for thunderstorms in the region Thursday afternoon, and weather service forecaster Nicole Sarment said these could bring “large amounts of small hail.” The chance for hail is unusually high, especially for spring…
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A video of Taiwan commuters stopped on a bridge swaying after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 on Wednesday is going viral on social media — and it’s unsettling to watch. The quake, the largest to hit the country in 25 years, hit during rush hour. For anyone living in the bridge-filled San Francisco Bay Area, the footage prompts the question: What do you do if you’re driving on a bridge during a major earthquake? Both the California Highway Patrol and the U.S. Geological Survey…
about 1 month ago
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On Monday, the moon will pass between the Earth and the sun, and a total solar eclipse will trace a narrow path across the United States. California doesn’t fall within the area where day will turn to complete darkness, but the Golden State will still be treated to a partial solar eclipse. The moon will appear to block about 45% of the sun’s diameter in San Francisco, 58% in Los Angeles and 41% in Redding. For the Bay Area, the eclipse begins at about 10:14 a.m., when the moon first begins to…
about 1 month ago
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Three people were shot and injured Monday in broad daylight in the parking lot of a Safeway in American Canyon, a city located in southern Napa County, officials said. The American Canyon Police Department said in a news release posted on Facebook that it responded to a report of the shooting at 4:30 p.m. at 103 West American Canyon Road. Officers rushed to the scene and found three men with gunshot wounds and offered medical aid until an ambulance arrived. The men were taken to a local hospital…
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