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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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