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Thursday, July 11, 2024

LA Times: Yosemite visitors trash park with toilet paper. ‘Just wrong and shameful’

AP News: Gunman who was killed by Yellowstone rangers had planned a July 4 mass shooting, park reveals

AP News: IRS collects milestone $1 billion in back taxes from high-wealth taxpayers

LA Times: U.S. film and TV production down 40% from peak TV levels, report says

KTLA: California fast food franchisees are responding to $20 minimum wage by cutting hours

KTLA: 6 foreign nationals in Southern California charged in massive ATM ‘skimming’ scam

Courthouse News Service: California Supreme Court reverses Public Utilities Commission on water surcharges

Courthouse News Service: California settles price-fixing claims against fuel traders for $50 million

Courthouse News Service: California Coastal Commission approves zoning change for development near old landfill in Huntington Beach

SF Gate: Palm Springs breaks all-time record high temperature

KTVU: Teen girl saved after being kidnapped at BART station

East Bay Times: Smash-and-grab robbers take $500,000 in items from Berkeley jewelry store

East Bay Times: Bay Area beekeepers plead guilty to misdemeanor in employee death

KRON: Bomb planted behind San Jose business, suspect arrested

KRON: Three killed in shooting at Alameda home, other victims injured

SF Gate: 'Extreme' night conditions fueling 26,000-acre Lake Fire near Solvang

SF Gate: UCSF to take ownership of 2 historic SF hospitals in $100M acquisition

Cal Matters: California has just approved a new blueprint for offshore wind. The massive projects will cost billions

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

East Bay Times: Another arson blaze reported on UC Berkeley campus

Smithsonian Magazine: Meet Vivian Maier, the Reclusive Nanny Who Secretly Became One of the Best Street Photographers of the 20th Century

KTLA: Yosemite National Park says this gross behavior has become ‘too familiar’

ABC News: Man fatally shot by park rangers at Yellowstone National Park allegedly threatened mass shooting

ABC News: Marshal guarding Supreme Court justice's home shoots 18-year-old who tried to carjack him

BBC: US officials uncover alleged Russian ‘bot farm’

KQED: Incarcerated Women Plead for Help After Central Valley Prison Death Amid Extreme Heat

NPR: He created Oculus headsets as a teenager. Now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine

The Hill: Russia orders arrest of Navalny’s widow Yulia Navalnaya

The Guardian: The $150,000 dog: meet the Svalinn – the gentle beast who can rip out an attacker’s throat

The Guardian: More heat deaths reported in Oregon as US heatwave continues to roast region

BBC: A new chance to hike Europe's ancient salt route

BBC: New York bridge gets stuck open after getting too hot

BBC: Ticketmaster warns customers to take action after hack

BBC: How Canada became a car theft capital of the world

Reuters: Exclusive: Fed may tweak rule that could save biggest US banks billions

Washington Post: In a first, federal regulators ban messaging app from hosting minors

The Guardian: The debate about the degree to which forests and fungi communicate raises the painful question of confirmation bias

The Guardian: Devastation as world’s biggest wetland burns: ‘those that cannot run don’t stand a chance’

AP News: Arizona congressional delegation introduces $5 billion tribal water rights legislation

San Diego Union Tribune: San Diego’s proposed warehouse shelter would be one of the largest nationwide. How do the others work?

San Diego Union Tribune: San Diego to spend $100M to figure out how to fix its aging, vulnerable dams

Modesto Bee: Over 60 people treated for heat illness in Stanislaus County, as high temps continue

KOMO : High temps buckle section of Skagit County highway while crews track road conditions

KPTV: 4 deaths blamed on heat wave in Portland Metro

The Oregonian: 2 men, one from Portland, drown in Glacier National Park over holiday

OPB: ‘The Evergreen’: Is there a cult in Ashland?

OPB: BLM proposes protecting a quarter of public wild areas in southeastern Oregon

OPB: A measure to help Oregon cannabis workers unionize is headed to November ballot, labor group says

OPB: 5 suspected heat-related deaths reported across western Oregon

LA Times: A wildlife crossing is proposed for Highway 17 in the Santa Cruz Mountains

LA Times: L.A. robbery crew targeted tourists, ending in killing at Newport Beach mall, prosecutors say