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Climate Activists Rally In Downtown SF, Block Montgomery Street
It's another day of climate protest in San Francisco with activists vowing to disrupt business as usual in the Financial District until 5 p.m.
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Humpday Headlines: Wildfire On Mare Island Likely Started By Copper Thieves
Speaker Pelosi reportedly told Trump he's come into her "wheelhouse," the Giants and the Rockies played to 16 innings, and around 50,000 PG&E customers are without power in NorCal right now.
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Day Around the Bay: PG&E Holds Off On North Bay Power Shutoffs
The SF Homeless Outreach Team got its budget extended despite reported lack of results, evidence revealed in murder trial of Tiffany Li and Kaveh Bayat is chilling, and cell providers say they can't guarantee service during wildfires.
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Pumpkin Patch Near Gilroy Wants Armed Sheriff's Deputies This Fall Season; Sheriff Says No
A popular pumpkin patch and fall festival locale outside of Morgan Hill is asking for off-duty, uniformed Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies to stand guard through the Halloween season. But the sheriff in those parts says they don't do that kind of thing.
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Definitely Haunted Sunnyvale Toys ‘R’ Us Now A Spirit Halloween Store, Supernatural Activity Sure To Resume
Suffering a gruesome demise in bankruptcy last year, an allegedly haunted South Bay Toys ‘R’ Us tempts fate by reopening as a Spirit store.
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Pelosi Finds Her Groundswell, Announces Impeachment Inquiry
Following a weekend of high drama in D.C. over revelations that President Trump may have improperly encouraged a foreign power to investigate his political rival, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set to announce a formal impeachment inquiry today at 5 p.m. Eastern, 2 p.m. Pacific.
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BART Board Considers New York City-Style Turnstiles To Combat Fare Evasion
The comedy of errors over at BART over how to update its 50-year-old fare gate designs continues, though it might come with a significant twist this week.
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Heatwave!: East Bay Hills Residents Are On Edge For Fire Danger, Wineries Brace for Power Outages
It's expected to be beach weather once again in San Francisco today, but it's going to be in the 100s out in the East Bay and up north, where Napa and Sonoma wineries are bracing for power outages tonight that could be disastrous for harvest time.
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Judge Lets Embarcadero Navigation Center Move Forward, Denying Homeowners' Restraining Order
So far the legal maneuvers of that group of Embarcadero residents who really don't want more homeless people in their midst have not gotten them anywhere.
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Tuesday Morning Updates: Police Activity Causes Morning BART Delay
A tanker with a highly explosive fuel load was in a collision that led to hours of traffic on I-80 this morning, a fatal shooting in San Jose, and Zendaya just returned home to Oakland to pass out some school supplies.
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Day Around the Bay: Arrest Made In Apparent Potrero Hill Homicide
Paul Blanco's Good Car Company is being sued by the state, the FTC is talking to Snapchat about Facebook's possible anti-competitive behavior, and a fatal beating in Potrero Hill on Saturday is being investigated as a homicide.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink
Redwood Room Closes For Remodel, Will Reopen With Clift Hotel In January
The iconic Redwood Room has closed for a three-month remodel, marking the first time that the space has gotten a refresh since its high-profile makeover by designer Philippe Starck in 2001.
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Murder Trial Involving Hillsborough Heiress Begins With Packed Courtroom
After two weeks of delays and the last-minute disqualification of a key witness, the hotly anticipated murder trial of 31-year-old Tiffany Li and her onetime boyfriend Kaveh Bayat got underway on Monday.
Arts & Entertainment
New, Swankier Presidio Theatre Reopens After $40 Million Facelift
There will surely be some confusion with the Chestnut Street movie house with the exact same name, but the curtain has come up on the revamped Presidio Theatre that’s been shuttered for 25 years on the Presidio grounds.
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Napa and Sonoma To Keep Power On Monday, Still May Lose Power Tuesday
PG&E just announced that it will be keeping power flowing to Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties today, though as the hot, dry weather is expected to continue tomorrow and Wednesday, they're not totally in the clear.
SF Politics
Former Governor Jerry Brown Announces California-China Climate Think Tank at UC Berkeley
Continuing in his mission to combat climate change after leaving political office, onetime presidential candidate and former California governor Jerry Brown is making good on a promise he made while he was still governor.
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Widow Of Man Killed In Tenderloin Tesla Crash Says 'It's Been Really Hard'
Kelly Dean is home in the Central Valley and recovering from her injuries after a July crash on Taylor Street in the Tenderloin that took the life of her husband of three years.
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Oakland-Based Snapchat Gun Dealer Gets Eight Years In Federal Prison
A man who was trafficking in weapons that he purchased in Nevada, where he lived part of the time, and sold via Snapchat in the East Bay, has received an eight-year prison term.
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Tesla Driver Arrested After Reportedly Driving to Oakland the Wrong Way on the Bay Bridge
A Tesla driver was taken into custody Monday morning after allegedly driving the entire way east across the Bay Bridge in the westbound lanes of the upper deck.
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Disturbed Man Detained By SFPD After Leaping Across Roofs In Four-Hour Standoff in the Mission
A shirtless, shoeless man with what appeared to be white hospital ID bands on his wrist and ankle spent about four hours Sunday morning jumping from roof to roof in the Mission District as police tried to get him to come down.
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Monday Morning Headlines: The Cable Cars Are Back Up and Running
Tens of thousands may be without power today and tomorrow in Napa and Sonoma, a 21-year-old has been charged with a shooting at San Jose State, and the Stanford assault survivor Chanel Miller went on '60 Minutes.'
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink
Wildseed, Adriano Paganini's New Vegan Spot In Cow Hollow, Opens Its Doors
The new plant-based restaurant concept from Adriano Paganini's Back of the House restaurant group opened on Friday evening in the former Belga space, on the prominent corner of Union and Buchanan Streets.
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Thousands Turn Out for the 35th Battle For The Bay, Filling Orange Trash Bags and Cleaning Up Parks
Armed with trash bags and trash-picking gadgets, over 7,000 volunteers combed coastlines and green spaces around the Bay Area Saturday to clean up any-and-all stray trash.
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Amazon, PG&E, and Others Singled-Out During Student-Led Climate Rally
Friday morning, Market Street was inundated by thousands of students marching as part of the globally-organized Climate Strikes, chanting for a cleaner, more environmentally sound future. And among the companies targeted to hear the message were Amazon, PG&E, Bank of America, and others.
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Sunday Links: Former Oakland Raider Antonio Brown Bows Out of the NFL
Former Oakland Raider Antonio Brown will officially leave the NFL, Oakland ushers in 23 new police officers, and the state legislature just passed a sweeping new rent-control bill.