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5 September 2016 / SF News / Jay Barmann

Labor Day Links: Freddie Mercury Gets An Asteroid Named For Him

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  • After a series of water rescues this weekend — including one involving 15 kids, all Sea Scouts, on a capsized catamaran in Aquatic Park, and one involving a 40-year-old man also in Aquatic Park — the Coast Guard issued some new water safety warnings. [CBS 5]
  • AT&T Park was teeming with former and current hippies on Sunday for San Francisco Fest, a daylong concert featuring Journey, Santana, Steve Miller Band, Doobie Brothers and Tower of Power. [SFGate]
  • A driver who fled the scene of a crash on I-880 Sunday evening was then involved in a shooting near the High Street off-ramp in Oakland, and the investigation thoroughly snarled traffic on the northbound side for hours. [CBS 5]
  • Another collision on I-880, early Sunday morning in Hayward, took the lives of two high school students from Union City. [ABC 7]
  • A 54-year-old Napa man has been arrested in connection with a fatal hit-and-run that killed another 54-year-old man early Friday. [Chronicle]
  • President Obama weighed in on the Colin Kaepernick/national anthem controversy, saying he's "exercising his constitutional right." [NYT]
  • California's native Chinook salmon population remains in danger in the fifth year of our drought, and after populations were decimated in the 2014 and 2015 spawning seasons. [East Bay Times]
  • An asteroid orbiting Jupiter, discovered in 1991 (the year of the death of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury), has been officially named “Asteroid 17473 Freddiemercury.” Queen guitarist Brian May who has a doctorate in astrophysics, said the asteroid is "just a dot of light, but it’s a very special dot of light." [CBS/AP]
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Jay Barmann

Jay C. Barmann is a fiction writer and web editor who's lived in San Francisco for 20+ years.

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