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Pedestrian Killed In Mission Terrace Hit-and-Run Collision
Early Wednesday morning, a pedestrian was struck and killed in the Mission Terrace neighborhood of San Francisco, and the vehicle responsible fled the scene.
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Humpday Headlines: Napa Father Faces Murder Charge for DUI Crash That Killed Son
Two people were found dead of gunshot wounds in an East Oakland apartment; a Napa father has been charged with murder for a DUI-related crash that killed his son; and San Jose again ranks high on unaffordability list.
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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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IKEA-Anchored Shopping Center to Get New Event Space This Fall
Ingka Centres, the mall affiliate of IKEA, just announced the activation of one more of the upper floors of the still half-vacant, six-story shopping center at 945 Market Street.
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Report: Bissap Baobab Owner in Talks to Take Over the Storied Muddy Waters on Valencia Street
It’s been no secret that the owners of Valencia Street’s Muddy Waters cafe have been trying to sell the place, and they’ve apparently found an interested buyer in Bissap Baobab owner Marco Senghor.
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Muni Is Truckin’ Grateful Dead-Themed Buses for Next Weekend’s Big Dead & Co. Concerts
Your next Muni vessel might look like an LSD sunshine daydream, as the 7-Haight/Noriega, 5-Fulton, and N-Judah lines now have these psychedelic themed transit vehicles to whisk people to and from Golden Gate Park.
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Fight Over Compton's Cafeteria Site Escalates With Report of Halfway House Resident's Death, Call for Hearing
An appeal over the zoning compliance of a halfway house that occupies the building where a historic LGBTQ act of resistance against police brutality took place in 1966 may have failed last week. But there is a new wrinkle in the story about that halfway house.
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21-Year-Old Charged With Murder for Shooting Woman Walking Her Dogs In San Leandro
A 21-year-old man faces murder charges and possible life in prison for shooting a woman walking her dogs in San Leandro last Thursday night. It’s the second fatal shooting in the last month of someone walking their dog in San Leandro.
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Tourist In SF For Conference Ends Up Stuck In Weird Waymo Garage Limbo
"This was like, out of a science fiction movie," says attorney Darren Findling, describing a brief ordeal he had during his first-ever Waymo ride on Monday morning in San Francisco.
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Four of Five Suspects Have Reportedly Already Pleaded Guilty in Shooting of UC Berkeley Professor in Greece
The alleged "hired hit” murder of a UC Berkeley professor definitely looks to be a hired hit, with four of the five alleged collaborators having already reportedly pleaded guilty, but the man’s ex-wife insists she knew nothing of the scheme.
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In-N-Out's CEO Says She's Moving to Tennessee and Opening 'Eastern' Company HQ There, Uproar Ensues
There's always been a bit of an awkward mismatch between California's favorite fast-food chain and the born-again Christian family that owns and operates it, and that is being highlighted once again with a social media uproar over CEO Lynsi Snyder saying she's moving to Tennessee.
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[Update] Elderly Pedestrian Killed In Scooter Collision at 6th and Market Identified
A 77-year-old pedestrian was killed late last week in a collision with a person on a scooter near the intersection of Sixth and Market streets.
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Tuesday Morning Topline: Person Drowns at SF's Aquatic Park
A man's body was pulled from the water at SF's Aquatic Park Monday night; a San Jose man with Chinese dual citizenship has pleaded guilty to stealing sensitive defense secrets; and a hotel in the Delta says 37 of its peacocks were stolen.
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Day Around the Bay: SF Animal Care Seeks Suspect Seen Chasing Raccoon With Blowtorch
SF Mayor Daniel Lurie gets a high approval rating in a new poll; the FAA is investigating a near miss between a commercial jet and a military bomber; and SF Animal Care & Control is investigating a possible animal abuser who was seen chasing a raccoon with a blowtorch.
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This Year Has Seen the Largest Number of Dead Gray Whales In the San Francisco Bay In 25 Years
While the gray whale population may be rebounding, this is also having the side effect of more of them turning up dead in the waters of the San Francisco Bay, as the 21 dead whales found dead here this year are the most in 25 years.
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SF Giants’ Enormous, 28-Pound ‘Therapy Bunny’ Alex Has Died After Bout With Cancer
The delightful four-year-old and way-too-large rabbit Alex who served as the “therapy bunny” for the SF Giants and at SFO airport has reportedly died, after complications from having a cancerous tumor removed.
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Tesla Lawsuit Underway That Could Temporarily Yank Its License to Operate in California
State Attorney General Rob Bonta has Tesla in his crosshairs, and is aiming to temporarily suspend the company’s ability to do business in California, charging that Tesla’s “autopilot” and “full self-driving capability” claims are misleading bunk.
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New Details Emerge In Case of Oakland Parole Officer Shooting Death
The man facing a first-degree murder charge in the shooting death of a state parole officer last week in Oakland was a parolee who had appearently missed an appointment with his parole officer one day earlier.
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Alaska Airlines' Operations Halted For Three Hours Sunday Night Due to IT Problem, Impacts Continue
It clearly wasn't as bad as Delta Airlines' meltdown last summer, or the Southwest Airlines meltdown in December 2022, but Alaska Airlines had an IT "outage" Sunday evening that led to a three-hour ground stop for all its planes.
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Father-and-Son Team Successfully Rows 2,400 Miles From SF to Hawaii in Record-Setting Feat
53-year-old UK Special Forces veteran Tim Crockett and his 18-year-old son Harrison just spent the last 48 days on a 24-foot rowboat rowing all the way from SF to Hilo, Hawaii, and they’re the first father-and-son team to ever accomplish this.
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Queer SoMa Nightclub Oasis Set to Close After 10 Years, Citing Declining Attendance
In some very sad news for the queer nightlife scene in San Francisco, Oasis, the nightclub co-founded in 2015 by D'Arcy Drollinger and the late Heklina, is planning to shut its doors after New Year's Eve.
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Brother of the Late NFL Star Pat Tillman Reportedly Arrested In San Jose After Fiery Post Office Car Crash
The brother of celebrated NFL player and Afghanistan war veteran Pat Tillman was arrested on suspicion of arson in San Jose, in a bizarre car crash into a post office that authorities suspect was intentional, and apparently was livestreamed.
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102-Year-Old East Bay D-Day Veteran and TikTok Star 'Papa Jake' Larson Has Died
A late-in-life star of TikTok, a resident of Lafayette, and one of the country's last surviving veterans of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, "Papa Jake" Larson, died late last week at the age of 102.
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Monday Morning Headlines: The Bay Area Is Having Its Mildest Summer In Decades
This summer has been unusually cool for much of the Bay Area, so far; three people died on rivers in NorCal on Saturday; the Gilroy Garlic festival returns, in smaller form, on Friday.
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Novato Teen Dies, Three Injured in Petaluma Crash Following Suspected DUI Police Chase
A teenager is facing felony charges after a Saturday night police chase in Petaluma ended in a suspected DUI crash that killed a 14-year-old passenger and seriously injured three others.