The first two cases of a South African variant of COVID-19 were confirmed in California Wednesday — but not in the Southland — with Gov. Gavin Newsom saying one case each was detected in the Bay Area counties of Alameda and Santa Clara. “The issue of mutations is top of mind, not only here in […]
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PALM SPRINGS (CNS) – A half-dozen Palm Springs Fire Department firefighters left Tuesday to assist crews battling a series of lightening-caused fires in the Bay Area. The firefighters were sent to help battle the 25,000-acre SCU Lightning Complex, comprising an estimated 20 separate fires burning in several counties, which collectively sparked about 4 a.m. Sunday. […]
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(CNN) — Nearly seven million people living in a wide swath of Northern California, including Silicon Valley, are being ordered to shelter in place starting at midnight Monday night as authorities try to stop the novel coronavirus from spreading. Along with San Francisco, which previously announced its order, residents in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Marin, Alameda, and […]
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(CNN) — Confusion greeted the launch of a coronavirus testing website built by Verily, a subsidiary of Alphabet and sister company to Google. The site launched Sunday night and is initially intended for people in the San Francisco Bay Area. The website was supposed to direct Californians who live in the wider San Francisco area to […]
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(CNN) — Sabrina Ionescu delivered yet another masterful performance. This time, it was one for the NCAA record books — and coming on an emotional day. Just hours after the 22-year-old Oregon Ducks star spoke at Kobe and Gianna Bryant’s memorial in Los Angeles, Ionescu was back on the basketball court, having taken a charter flight to […]
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A California prison inmate confessed in a letter that he beat two child molesters to death with a cane while behind bars just hours after his urgent warning to a counselor that he might become violent was ignored, a newspaper chain reported Thursday. Jonathan Watson, 41, confessed in the letter to the Bay Area News Group in […]
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(KPIX) — The Foster City Police Department is the first in the Bay Area to start using new “bola wrap” technology to restrain criminals without using lethal force. It’s a high-tech version of an old-fashioned throwing weapon used to capture cattle. The device shoots out two metal pellets with hooks on the end connected by […]
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Tears flowed in an Oakland courtroom as Nia Wilson’s sisters took the stand to emotionally describe for jurors the struggle to save the dying 18-year-old’s life on the MacArthur BART station platform. Defendant John Lee Cowell, 29, is on trial, charged with murder and attempted murder for allegedly stabbing Nia Wilson and her sister, 26-year-old […]
