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Day Around the Bay: Veteran Bay Area Reporter Pam Moore Honored With Hall of Fame Induction

Leanne Maxwell — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 02:16:34 GMT

Local:

Pam Moore, who anchored at KRON4 for more than 30 years, was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame on Friday. During the ceremony, she announced $50,000 in new college scholarships for students in Detroit and the Bay Area. [KRON4]
Lawyers in San Francisco are using habeas corpus petitions to quickly free asylum-seekers detained at immigration court. One 20-year-old Colombian man was released three days after his arrest. [Mission Local]
Oakland police arrested a man they suspect shot at officers on the 1000 block of West Grand Avenue around 1:30 a.m. Friday morning after they were called to a domestic dispute incident involving one adult and two children. [KPIX]
Eli's Mile High Club is raising funds to keep the bar open during their ongoing zoning dispute with the city of Oakland. [GoFundMe]

National:

Walmart has settled a lawsuit filed by district attorneys in Santa Clara, San Diego, Sonoma and San Bernardino counties alleging they violated the California’s False Advertising and Unfair Competition Laws. The company paid $5.6 million in a suit that claimed the company charged customers for baked goods and produce that weighed less than labeled. [Bay Area News Group]
Voters in Lincoln, Nebraska grilled Republican Rep. Mike Flood at a packed town hall this week, including one woman whose smackdown quickly went viral. Flood later dismissed the crowd as “unrepresentative” and defended the Medicaid cuts as necessary. [NPR]

The recent wave of dildo-throwing incidents at WNBA games may be linked to a stunt by promoters of a new memecoin, whose value has spiked since the incidents began. [New York Times]

Video of the Day:

A trio of young musicians from Marin — 18-year-old Gus Mehrkam and brothers Kai and Manoa Neukermans, 21 and 17 — take the stage at Outside Lands Friday night as shoegaze band, Midrift, before they embark on their tour across the US and the UK. Check out one of their videos featuring what appear to be some scenic North Bay views. [SFGate]

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Twitter Apologies For Hastily Suspending Guy Adams' Account

Brock Keeling — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:40:51 GMT

Twitter (sort of) apologized for suspending the account of Guy Adams, correspondent for the London-based daily The Independent, who echoed the sentiments of many Olympic viewers by going on a Twitter rant about NBC's time delay-saddled and arguably lackluster Olympics coverage. After tweeting the (public) work email address of NBC's Olympics President Gary Zenkel, Twitter temporarily yanked his account for allegedly violating its privacy policy. The San Francisco-based social media company has now publicly apologized for the apparent error in judgement.

In part of a written statement explaining trust and safety policies and procedure, Alex Macgillivray, Twitter's General Counsel for Product/IP, explains:

That said, we want to apologize for the part of this story that we did mess up. The team working closely with NBC around our Olympics partnership did proactively identify a Tweet that was in violation of the Twitter Rules and encouraged them to file a support ticket with our Trust and Safety team to report the violation, as has now been reported publicly. Our Trust and Safety team did not know that part of the story and acted on the report as they would any other.
As I stated earlier, we do not proactively report or remove content on behalf of other users no matter who they are. This behavior is not acceptable and undermines the trust our users have in us. We should not and cannot be in the business of proactively monitoring and flagging content, no matter who the user is — whether a business partner, celebrity or friend. As of earlier today, [Adams'] account has been unsuspended, and we will actively work to ensure this does not happen again.

For his part, Adams has wasted no time in making a name for himself using the minor kerfuffle. Behold:

Twitter's full email will be on The Indy's website shortly. Meanwhile I'll be discussing this jolly jape on CNN in about 30 mins
— Guy Adams (@guyadams) July 31, 2012

News Flash: Muni Not Without Some Problems

Matt Baume — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:44:41 GMT

The next installment of his long-running Muni investigation airs tonight at 6pm on ABC-7, and it sounds like it's going to be awesome: after spending months pouring through Muni's complaint records (while simultaneously fighting off the drivers' union), Dan's I-Team has the goods on Muni's most complained-about drivers.

We've known for some time now that there's just a small group of repeat-offender drivers who account for tons of complaints. So this brings up some pretty obvious questions -- like, why hasn't Muni fired them, what's WRONG with these people, does Muni even care about passenger complaints, why is Muni so fucking terrifying, and so forth. We can't wait to see it all hit the fan this evening.