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Tuesday, July 11, 2023

KCRA: Northern California forecast: Here’s when temperatures will soar with triple-digit heat

LA Times: Escaped homicide suspect captured after man discovers inmate in underwear in backyard

LA Times: ‘All the neighbors know who she is’: How one woman built a flower farm across eight yards

LA Times: Rolling Hills Estates residents lose their homes and the ground they sat on

KTLA: ‘I will not stay quiet’: Israel evicts Palestinian family from home after 45-year legal battle

KTLA: Here’s what to do if no one will insure your home

KTLA: Friends mourn loss of pro surfer Mikala Jones

KTLA: Plane crashes into hangar at Long Beach Airport

KRCR: Massive multi-agency sting nets 23 arrests in Northern California

KTVU: Cal Fire tests AI program for fighting wildfires

KTVU: Hayward hacked: City suffers ransomware attack, turns off website

KTVU: ‘They melted the court’: Illegal fireworks display destroys Oakland basketball court

AP News: Inside the AP’s investigation into the ethics practices of the Supreme Court justices

AP News: At least 5 dead after helicopter carrying foreign tourists crashes near Mount Everest in Nepal

East Bay Times: Green energy company plans mega growth at historic Richmond site

East Bay Times: Four East Bay hotels will be given to lenders in brutal lodging market

East Bay Times: Gov. Newsom signs budget with bills to streamline environmental approval for clean energy

East Bay Times: After Southern California landslide, at least 10 homes will slip into canyon, officials say

KRON: FDA to import more Chinese cancer drugs amid shortage

SFGate: Endangered SF garter snake among species impacted by emerging disease in California

SFGate: Giant Calif. redwood tree consumes tourist car on the Avenue of the Giants

SFGate: Affluent SoCal city accused of tearing down public beach access signs

SF Chronicle: S.F. Mayor Breed defiant as city fights lawsuit over homeless encampments

SF Chronicle: This is the Honduran hometown of San Francisco’s drug dealers

SF Chronicle: Jack White slams ‘disgusting’ Guy Fieri for fraternizing with Trump

SF Chronicle: How San Francisco’s open-air drug dealers work

Marin Independent Journal: San Rafael plane crash kills 1 flyer, injures another

Marin Independent Journal: Marin files detail misconduct allegations against senior prosecutor

Press Democrat: Driver crashes into Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy who was pulling over car in Petaluma

Sunday, July 9, 2023

NY Times: Is Aretha Franklin’s True Will the One Found in the Couch or a Cabinet?

BBC: One dead in New York flood: Video shows submerged streets

AP News: The FDA is being asked to look into Logan Paul’s energy drink, which has the caffeine of 6 Coke cans

NY Times: Number of Migrants at the Border Plunges as Mexico Helps U.S. to Stem Flow

Washington Post: Some of the worst soot spewing from your car isn’t from the tailpipe

NY Times: Alone in an Empty House, Female Real Estate Agents Face Danger

NY Times: It’s Toxic Slime Time on Florida’s Lake Okeechobee

NY Times: Ketamine: This Drug Holds Promise for Cult Survivors

Washington Post: Amid a reckoning, some Native Americans call for reparations

Washington Post: Climate change could swamp this island. Home sales are surging.

The Atlantic: Hovering Parents: The Gravitational Pull of Supervising Kids All the Time

The Atlantic: Is There Such a Thing as an Eco-Friendly Hike?

Courthouse News Service: Seattle can pursue Monsanto on river contamination

Courthouse News Service: Rhode Island beach house owners challenge expansion of public land above ‘seaweed line’

Courthouse News Service: Judge rejects ACLU involvement in Phoenix homeless camp lawsuit

LA Times: The Californians whose scam PACs tricked Trump and Clinton supporters out of millions

The Guardian: ‘I’m not just faster, but taller’: how I learned to walk properly – and changed my pace, posture and perspective

The Guardian: Does the microbiome hold the key to chronic fatigue?

The Guardian: White nationalist publisher’s data exposed in Amazon cloud leak

AP News: Some cities are digging up water mains and leaving lead pipe in the ground

The Oregonian: Popular weight loss drugs get new warning from anesthesiologists