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Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024

OPB: New study shows surf break habitats also store a lot of carbon

OPB: Community solar project offers low-income Portland residents relief from high energy bills

The Oregonian: Pit bull attack instigated by dog owner lands man 6-year prison sentence

AP News: The world is pumping out 57 million tons of plastic pollution a year

AP News: Right-wing influencers were duped to work for covert Russian influence operation, US says

Courthouse News Service: Feds open investigation into sexual abuse at California women’s prisons

AP News: Teen charged with killing 4 at Georgia high school had been focus of earlier tips about threats

SF Chronicle: Chinese migrants flock to Mexico in search of jobs, a future and, for some, a taste of freedom

East Bay Times: Don’t know what to do with your old clothes? California may require the fashion industry to take them back from you — for free

LA Times: Wildfire damages Navy base on remote California island; live fire suspected

LA Times: ‘Pillowcase Rapist’ to be released, could be making his home in L.A. County again

Courthouse News Service: Internet Archive loses appeal against publishers in e-library lawsuit

Courthouse News Service: Kroger CEO insists proposed Albertsons merger will lower grocery prices

LA Times: Suspected migrant-smuggling boat lands at famous Laguna Beach locale

Courthouse News Service: Ninth Circuit panel gives X Corp. a win in First Amendment case

East Bay Times: Fisherman suspected of stabbing windsurfer who caused him to lose his pole in Berkeley

East Bay Times: An Oakland man was at the store when dogs killed his friend. Now he’s been criminally charged

SF Gate: Coastline near San Diego closed for more than 1,000 days due to sewage crisis

Courthouse News Service: Feds target Russian use of US right-wing commentators in $10 million disinformation campaign

Sacramento Bee: Four Sacramento men accused in Southern California violent kidnapping of businessman for ransom

CBS Sacramento: Dixon development project could bring 6,000 homes, expanded city limits if approved

CBS Sacramento: Roseville senior care home resident, 90, dies after assault allegedly involving other resident

KTLA: Barber charged in horrific, fatal beating of boy, 6, in Southern California

Press Democrat: California native bulbs to buy now and plant in the fall

KTLA: Suspect in fatal pursuit crash in Southern California escapes hospital

SF Chronicle: Another PG&E rate hike is in the works for Californians

SF Gate: Gusty winds push Sierra Valley's Bear Fire to 3,000 acres with no containment

KRON: Salinas man arrested for allegedly massacring 80 animals

KRON: ‘Do Not Pay’: Healdsburg police warn residents of scam

SF Chronicle: Northern California health care giant charged 30% more than other hospitals, study finds

SF Gate: 'She was down-to-earth': Kim Kardashian visits California inmates at firefighting camp

SF Gate: Food & Wine names Oakland restaurant the best in the country

AP News: Verizon buying Frontier in $20B deal to strengthen its fiber network

Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024

CNBC: House Democrats ask Trump for proof he did not take $10 million ‘cash bribe’ from Egypt

The Guardian: Private equity ownership of US hospice centers boomed in recent years – study

BBC: Pandemic babies starting school now: 'We need speech therapists five days a week'

NY Times : Trump Family’s Land Deals in Albania Stir Up Lingering Resentments

NY Times : Rethinking Addiction as a Chronic Brain Disease

Reuters: US will still pay at least twice as much as other countries after negotiating drug prices

Reuters: Linda Sun, ex-aide to NY Governor Hochul, charged with acting as Chinese agent

the Atlantic: How Colleges Should Address Anti-Semitism

Washington Post: What to do with your old jacket rather than throwing it out

NPR: A photographer captures life in America’s last remaining old-growth forests

The Guardian: ‘I want out’: how a natural gas project along the Gulf coast is upending residents’ lives

The Guardian: Mobile phones not linked to brain cancer, biggest study to date finds

The Guardian: Trump and allies plant seeds for ‘chaos and discord’ if he loses, experts warn

The Guardian: Antidepressant-linked overdose deaths in US have climbed for two decades

The Hill: Musk posts fake image of Harris in communist garb

Huffington Post: Donald Trump Stokes 'Inside Job' Conspiracy Theory Of Assassination Attempt

The Oregonian: How an Oregon creamery grew from a home business to the home of America’s best string cheese