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Day Around the Bay: Trump Trying to Sell TikTok to His Buddies at Oracle and Andreessen Horowitz

Coachella has already announced its 2026 lineup; a survivor of the Napa crash is speaking out for the first time; and Trump is trying to engineer the sale of TikTok to basically some of his highest-rolling donors.

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Day Around the Bay: Uh-Oh, Brock Purdy Is Injured, Could Be Out for Up to Five Weeks

A dead body was found Thursday morning in the Berkeley Marina; an East Bay elementary school has a flea infestation; and Brock Purdy is out this Sunday and maybe longer with multiple injuries.

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Day Around the Bay: 49ers Finally Cut Kicker Who Almost Lost Them the Game Sunday

An Oakland police raid at a liquor store put an elementary school on lockdown; Sonoma County sheriff’s deputies seized 500 pounds of meth; and the 49ers cut Jake Moody after two very discouraging seasons.

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Day Around the Bay: Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema Is This Weekend, Kicks Off Tonight

Supervisor Joel Engardio has a new scandal bubbling up at a very bad time; rumors are swirling that Senator Alex Padilla is running for governor; and Bernal Heights Outdoor cinema returns Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights.

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Day Around the Bay: Two United Airlines Planes Collide at SFO, No Injuries

Former SF Symphony director Esa Pekka-Salonen has three new jobs; Aaron Peskin is threatening a ballot measure against Mayor Lurie’s rezoning plans; and two United Airlines planes clipped each others’ wings at SFO.

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Day Around the Bay: Children’s Fairyland Celebrates 75th Birthday This Weekend

Ariana Grande’s national tour will kick off in the Bay Area; college football is officially back underway; and Oakland’s Children’s Fairyland has its 75th birthday party and parade on Labor Day.

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Day Around the Bay: Potrero Dive Bar Thee Parkside May Be Forced to Close, as Building Changes Hands

Taylor Swift got engaged to her football man; Katie Porter is rising in the 2026 governor’s race polls, and a sale of the building has Thee Parkside worried that the bar will be kicked out soon.

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Day Around the Bay: 16th Avenue Tiled Steps Celebrate 20th Anniversary, Party Planned for Saturday

The California redistricting measure is officially coming to your November 4 ballot; Lil Nas X was arrested and may have overdosed; and the 16th Avenue Tiled Steps celebrate their 20th anniversary on Saturday.

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Day Around the Bay: ESPN Cancels Colin Kaepernick Documentary, Likely to Placate Trump

A missing week-old SF baby has been found safe; we’re getting video of Diana Ross complaining about the sound at Stern Grove; and ESPN just pulled the plug on a Spike Lee docuseries about Colin Kaepernick.

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Day Around the Bay: This Weekend is SF’s Last 8 pm Sunset of 2025

BART will stop charging you $6.40 for entering and leaving the same station; a South SF cop who shot a heavy metal guitarist will not face charges; and Saturday is the last time the sun will set at 8 pm for about the next seven months.

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Day Around the Bay: 78-Year-Old Pedestrian Hit and Killed by Driver in SoMa

A wrong-way and alleged DUI crash took one life near the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge; legendary SF sketch comedy group Killing My Lobster is suspending operations; and a two-block radius in SoMa is seeing a lot of pedestrian fatalities.

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Day Around the Bay: Yolo County Casino Suffers Tuberculosis Exposure

Jilted Philz Coffee employees will get some sort of bonus after all with the company’s sale; upzoning notices are set to rankle SF’s west side; and Cache Creek casino has had some tuberculosis exposure.

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Day Around the Bay: Grass Fire in Benicia Shuts Down Many Lanes of I-680

Francis Ford Coppola has been hospitalized with a heart issue; experts say AI has already eliminated 10,000 jobs in 2025; and a three-alarm grass fire managed to shut down both directions of traffic of I-680 in Benicia.

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Day Around the Bay: Throngs of Deadheads Descend on SF for This Weekend’s Dead & Company Shows

A firefighter was injured while battling a squatter blaze in West Oakland; someone threw a sex toy onto the court at a Valkyries game; and SF is bracing itself as legions of Deadheads get ready to run amok for the Dead & Company shows.

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Day Around the Bay: Some SF Residents Being Arrested By ICE Are Being Shipped to Hawaii

SF is currently under a Tsunami Watch; Trump made a pretty self-incriminating remark on the Epstein matter; and SF immigrants are being whisked off to an ICE detention center 3,000 miles away in Hawaii.

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Day Around the Bay: Big-Time BART Delays as There Was Another Fire Near the Tracks

ICE arrested an SF man suffering from mental illness Thursday; Elon Musk’s Starlink suffered a massive hours-long outage; and another fire near the tracks has peppered tonight’s BART commute with numerous delays.

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Day Around the Bay: Giants Pitcher Demoted to Minors After Nightmarish Monday Night Outing

Legal weed will be sold at the Dead and Company concerts; a sea lion ran wild in residential San Rafael; and the Giants have demoted Hayden Birdsong after he couldn’t even make it out of the first inning Monday night.

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Day Around the Bay: State Parole Officer Shot and Killed in Downtown Oakland

Scalpers are gaming the Stern Grove lottery ticket system; a wild and ‘bawdy’ Trump-Epstein scandal just broke at a very awkward time; and a state parole officer was shot and killed Thursday afternoon in Oakland.

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Day Around the Bay: SF Could Be Getting the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in 2028

Trump is pulling a bunch of the National Guard troops out of LA; one of this weekend’s Russian River drowning victims was an Oakland 17-year-old, and San Francisco might be getting the 2028 MLB All-Star Game.

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Day Around the Bay: Want to Design One of Those ‘Hearts in SF?’ Here’s Your Chance

That big NASCAR race at Sonoma Raceway is this weekend; an immigrant activist who Trump jailed for 104 days is suing for $20 million; and this is your chance to design one of those famed “Hearts in San Francisco.”

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Day Around the Bay: Two Killed in Yolo County Fireworks Explosion Were SF Locals

The latest corpse flower bloom is underway; Matt Haney’s ‘4 am Last Call’ bill might get killed by a committee chair; and two of the seven people killed in last week’s NorCal fireworks explosion had attended SF’s Buena Vista Horace Mann school.

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Day Around the Bay: SF Zoo Getting a New Male Gorilla From the Louisville Zoo

There will of course be SFPD DUI checkpoints this holiday weekend; yet another new SF block party debuts on July 4; and the SF Zoo is getting a new male gorilla to replace Oscar Jonesy who died in February.

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Day Around the Bay: Lafayette’s Long-Shuttered Park Theater to Reopen With a $12 Million Renovation

The lottery is open for the Pointer Sisters-Lyrics Born show at Stern Grove; a Cotati DUI suspect was pulled over with 70 empty beer cans in his vehicle; and Lafayette’s Park Theater that closed 20 years ago is set to reopen with a big renovation.

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Day Around the Bay: SF Recology Rates Going Up By Nearly 25%, Starting in October

Barry Bonds is getting a statue at Oracle Park; there’s an IMAX screening of the Grateful Dead concert movie coming to SF; and Recology will be jacking up your rates by almost 25% in a phased approach beginning October 1.

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Day Around the Bay: ‘Suspicious’ Package Shuts Down Customs Building Near Jackson Square

The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously, in an initial vote, to remove the sheriff; Trump’s airstrikes on Iran apparently weren’t all that successful; and a suspicious package forced the closure of an SF US Customs and Border Protection building.