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Fatal Shooting Leaves One Dead at Lake Merritt BART Station
There was a fatal shooting Tuesday afternoon outside the Lake Merritt BART station in Oakland, adding to an already violent summer in Oakland.
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Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Prevention Nets Already Reducing Deaths, Despite Not Being Complete
The number of deaths by suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge has decreased remarkably as work on the suicide prevention nets continues, and the barriers are expected to be fully installed by the end of the year.
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In the Wake of 'Party Mom' Case, Los Gatos Is Trying Multiple Things to Curb Teen Drinking
In Los Gatos, they're going to be holding workshops and conducting a survey of students, parents, and teachers about alcohol and drug use, and try to show kids that most of their peers aren't drinking or doing drugs as much as they may think.
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Cops, Firefighters, and of Course Taxi Drivers Tee Off on Self-Driving Robotaxis Before Key Regulatory Vote
Firefighters complain “it is not our job to babysit their vehicles” as Cruise and Waymo road glitches are on the uptick ahead of Thursday’s CPUC vote on whether to allow more robotaxis in SF. Oh, and Willie Brown is now a lobbyist for Cruise.
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Red Lanterns Return to SF Chinatown After Being Destroyed In Winter Storms
The iconic red lanterns that dangle over Grant Avenue in San Francisco's Chinatown needed replacing after getting battered and tattered in this past winter's severe storms. And now, after a fundraising campaign, they are back.
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Man Who Threatened to Blow Up SF Synagogue Convicted, Has History of Threatening Synagogues
A San Francisco man is finally facing jail time after his third arrest for threatening Bay Area synagogues, and he’s previously served time for stalking children at a Pac Heights elementary school.
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San Francisco IKEA Store Has An Opening Date, and It's Very Soon
After what seems like — and actually was — years of waiting, we have an opening date for the new downtown IKEA store in San Francisco.
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Video: Steph Curry Gets On Stage, Sings With Paramore at Chase Center
Is it weird or wonderful that Steph Curry loves this TikTok-popular, 90s-sounding pop-rock band Paramore so much that he got on stage to sing their biggest hit with them at the Chase Center Monday night?
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Broad Daylight Stabbing on SF's Market Street Leaves One Injured
A man was stabbed Monday afternoon in downtown San Francisco, and the victim reportedly suffered life-threatening injuries.
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Tuesday Morning Topline: Brazen Thieves With Trash Bags Hit Oakland 7-11 Stores
Groups of thieves have hit multiple Oakland 7-11 stores, sweeping merchandise into trash bags; CNN has a new piece about the crime surge in Oakland; and apparently Newsom and DeSantis will be debating each other.
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Day Around the Bay: CHP Nabs Marin Driver With Mannequin Carpool Pal
SF Sup. Matt Dorsey has irked progressive colleagues with a proposal about those 'wellness hubs'; there was an incident involving a stalled Waymo One taxi on Valencia on Sunday; and CHP officers caught a guy using the old mannequin trick to ride in the carpool lane on 101 in Marin.
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BART Awards Contract For 775 New Supposedly Evasion-Proof Replacement Fare Gates
The West Oakland BART station will get the first batch of futuristic and allegedly evasion-proof fare gates this December, and the whole system will have them by 2025, as the transit agency hopes to stop chronic fare evasion.
Arts & Entertainment
Video: Animatronic Muppet Singing Vanessa Carlton's 'A Thousand Miles' Rolls Down Valencia Street
A clever, hilarious project that manages to combine some San Francisco whimsy with very 2023 robotics and AI continues to bring delight to passersby after debuting earlier this year.
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Eight Must-Try Food and Drink Items to Track Down at Outside Lands
As you should know by now, 15 years in, Outside Lands is known as much for its food and beverage experiences as it is for the music. And this year's festival will be no exception, with delicious bites — some of them pretty high-end for the price — and tons of great beer, wine, and cocktails too.
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Hayes Valley Residents Pushing Back Against Affordable Housing Development at Site of PROXY
Proxy fight indeed, as between 50-75 units of affordable housing are slated to be built at Hayes Valley’s outdoor event and retail space PROXY, but now neighbors are fighting to retain the parcel as open space.
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Rogue Bike Brigade Once Again Commandeers Bay Bridge, on the Exact Same Day They Did It Last Year
There’s no bike lane on the western span of the Bay Bridge, so a few hundred bicyclists took that matter into their own hands and made the entire eastbound deck a bike lane Sunday, clogging traffic for about a half-hour.
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Police: Bay Area Thieves Using Bluetooth Technology to Locate Electronics In Trunks, and Unlock Cars
Car burglars these days are more tech-savvy than most of us realize, and with just a smartphone or an app downloaded from the dark web, they can quickly find cars to break into where expensive electronics may be stowed in the trunk.
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Antioch Sideshow Injures Three, Plows Over Fire Hydrant, Leaves Car In River
A very wet ending to a very wild sideshow early Sunday morning in Antioch, where a fire hydrant was knocked over and left gushing, a car flew into the San Joaquin River, and one bystander suffered major injuries.
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Civic Center Farmers' Market Vendors, Organizer Upset About City's Skate Park Plan
A major makeover of U.N. Plaza that was announced last month, which involves a skate park, teqball and ping-pong tables, and more, may significantly impact business for the longtime vendors at the Heart of the City Farmers' Market, and they're pushing back.
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San Francisco Saw Three Homicides In 24 Hours Last Week
Three men were killed in San Francisco in a span of just over 24 hours between Thursday night and Friday night, in separate incidents.
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Monday Morning Headlines: East Bay Church Group Safely Home From Niger
The Antioch church group that was trapped in Niger has safely landed back home; BART had another record ridership day for the post-pandemic on Saturday; and Zoom is asking employees to come back to the office in San Jose.
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2 Weekend Shootings in SF Bayview, 1 Deadly, Under Investigation
SFPD is investigating two weekend shootings in the San Francisco Bayview neighborhood, one of which resulted in the death of a man.
Bay Area Sports
End of an Era? Pac-12 Faces An Unprecedented Exodus As 5 Schools Leave in One Day
Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah announced they were leaving in 2024, following USC and UCLA — leaving the future of the PAC-4 in question.
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Sunday Links: East Bay Health Agencies Investigating Richmond Spa as Potential Link to Legionnaires' Disease Deaths
The Zen Day Spa in Richmond has been possibly linked to three cases of Legionnaires' Disease, two of them fatal; Two sinkholes in Alameda this week caused water shutoff for residents; and a chaotic sideshow in Antioch ended with a car in the Antioch Marina.
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Tahoe Bear Hank the Tank's Reign of Terror Ends In Capture — and a New Home
South Lake Tahoe's most wanted fugitive, the massive black bear nicknamed Hank the Tank behind 21 home break-ins, was apprehended Friday and will be relocated to a wildlife refuge in Colorado.