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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

AP News: Cargo ship hits Baltimore’s Key Bridge, bringing it down. Rescuers are looking for people in water

Sunday, March 24, 2024

SF Chronicle: Bandages, balloons, bullet casings: Here’s how much trash is on the Pacific Crest Trail

KOMO : Beyond sticker shock: Exploring the factors behind soaring grocery prices

NY Times: The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies

Washington Post: Landlines are dying out. But to some, they’re a lifeline.

Cal Matters: California offers health insurance for as little as $10 a month. Some pay more in tax penalties

NBC News: The last time a Trump company went public it didn't go well for investors

Politico: Judge permits Gaetz, Greene to sue California cities that canceled their events

NPR: If you recently sold your home, you might get part of your realtor fee back

NPR: Israeli settlers step up attacks on Palestinian farms, expanding West Bank outposts

Oregon Public Broadcasting: New exhibit at Bend’s High Desert Museum highlights Indigenous perspectives on Sasquatch

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Tribes oppose federal offshore wind projects in Oregon and California

AP News: What is Palm Sunday and how is it celebrated worldwide?

Popular Mechanics: Can America’s Elite Smokejumping Forces Still Protect a World on Fire?

The Guardian: Kuru: unravelling the mystery disease that left entire Papua New Guinean villages without women

AP News: ‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ gifted home 85 years after racist mob drove family away

The Guardian: We think loneliness is in our heads, but its source lies in the ruin of civil society

Ars Technica: Users shocked to find Instagram limits political content by default

AP News: Memorial marks 210th anniversary of crucial battle between Native Americans and United States

The Oregonian: $700k embezzled from Oregon junior baseball groups, treasurer arrested, police say

The Oregonian: Portland firefighter who locked pot thief in cargo container guilty of kidnapping, jury rules

The Guardian: ‘At war with myself’: with gambling on the rise in the US, young addicts seek solace in an old program

The Guardian: New Islamic State videos back claim it carried out Moscow concert hall attack

The Guardian: Playground bullies do prosper – and go on to earn more in middle age

The Oregonian: How a landlocked Oregon county was named ‘most dangerous in U.S. for beachgoers’

Fresno Bee: Plea deal offered to Fresno ex-Congressman TJ Cox. Accused of fraud, money laundering

Orange Co. Register: Opinion: The Newsom-Panera Bread scandal is an admission that minimum wage laws are harmful

Orange Co. Register: Woman sleeping in bin in Buena Park survives being loaded into trash truck

Orange Co. Register: Transnational Crime: 3 men from Chile arrested in Irvine on suspicion of conspiracy to commit burglary

LA Times: Crackdown on Airbnb and other short-term rentals likely coming to unincorporated L.A. County

LA Times: The Klamath River’s dams are being removed. Inside the effort to restore a scarred watershed

LA Times: MLB investigating Shohei Ohtani and his former interpreter amid gambling allegations

Sacramento Bee: California high school tracks student bathroom visits with app. Not everyone likes it

Sacramento Bee: 1 killed, 1 hurt by mountain lion in first fatal attack in California in two decades

Courthouse News Service: Chicago chocolate factory to close after almost a century of operation

KTLA: Happy Camp named one of the most polluted places in the US, air quality study finds

Press Democrat: Teacher among 6 Bay Area men arrested in child exploitation sting

SFGate: San Jose Officials Say Large Homeless Shelters Are Obsolete

Yahoo News: Canada: Two daughters, two parents, and echoes of a murder that rocked Indigenous activism

Yahoo News: Your dog can understand what you say better than you think, new study shows

KRCR: Foot traffic reduction triggers Eureka store closures, challenging future expected

KRON: Religious leaders, protesters walk 22 miles for ceasefire pilgrimage in East Bay

Pro Publica: The U.S. Government Defended the Overseas Business Interests of Baby Formula Makers. Kids Paid the Price.

Pro Publica: A Marijuana Boom Led Her to Oklahoma. Then Anti-Drug Agents Seized Her Money and Raided Her Home.

Pro Publica: A Diplomat’s Visits to Oklahoma Highlight Contacts Between Chinese Officials and Community Leaders Accused of Crimes

Press Democrat: Volunteers rally to clear Sonoma Coast beach of debris from wrecked fishing vessel

KRON: Golden Gate Bridge toll increase approved, goes into effect this summer

SF Chronicle: California insurance crisis: Here are some of the worst stories we’ve heard from homeowners — and how they’ve coped

SF Chronicle: S.F. office vacancy rises to yet another record high — over nine times pre-pandemic level

SF Chronicle: Mountain lion kills man in California’s first fatal attack in 20 years