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Tuesday, July 25, 2023

KTVU: San Jose police confiscate nearly $1 million worth of street drugs in bust

KRON: Bay Area home prices soar due to low inventory

KRON: Man shot dead in Santa Rosa Jack in the Box drive-thru

East Bay Times: Police shortage in Vallejo may be declared ‘emergency’

East Bay Times: Fruit trees in Sunnyvale, Walnut Creek under siege by rats

East Bay Times: Woman robbed in Concord store parking lot while taking child out of car seat

East Bay Times: Built-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin

SF Chronicle: Its patients are ‘literally a captive market.’ Is this California health care giant failing them?

SF Chronicle: This winery’s commitment to California’s most maligned grape is finally paying off

SFGate: S.F. car that flipped in ‘insane’ crash likely carjacked a few blocks away

SF Chronicle: Ancient Petrified Forest in Sonoma County to go up for sale with $12 million asking price

SFGate: ‘S—t hit the fan’: Tahoe’s young people may not come back

SFGate: Bohemian Grove annual event is underway in the Bay Area, per the FAA

SFGate: 168-year-old California newspaper files for bankruptcy, lays off all staff

Sunday, July 23, 2023

Washington Post: 14,000 feet up, liability fears block access to iconic Colorado peaks

BBC: Mexico: Arson attack at bar on US border leaves 11 dead

Politico: The VA’s new medical records system has gone haywire. Congress is alarmed

Smithsonian Magazine: Empty Office Buildings Are Being Turned Into Vertical Farms

Smithsonian Magazine: Rare Pink Dolphins Spotted Swimming in Louisiana River

NPR: Hundreds of thousands march in Israel against Netanyahu's judicial overhaul

The Hill: Federal judge strikes down Arizona law limiting recording of police as unconstitutional

The Hill: US ambassador to China hacked in latest cyber operation: report

NPR: Amid a record heat wave, Texas construction workers lose their right to rest breaks

Fox News: Maryland suspect killed by police after allegedly stabbing 4 victims with butcher knife

WPBF: Three suitcases containing human remains found along the Intracoastal Waterway

GQ Magazine: What Really Happens to the Clothes You Donate

The Atlantic: What Really Changes in Older Age

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Washington scientist says climate change is creating ‘a world with fewer seabirds’

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Fire in southcentral Washington spurs evacuations

Oregon Public Broadcasting: These farmworkers in Washington thought a new overtime law would help them. Now, they want it gone

The Guardian: US atheist inmate can’t be forced into substance abuse program, judge rules

The Guardian: Canada’s heaviest rains in 40 years block roads and cut power for thousands

The Guardian: Seattle activists occupy old cedar tree to stop it being cut down for housing

The Guardian: Kentucky man finds ‘hoard’ of civil war gold coins worth millions in cornfield

The Guardian: ‘We’re going to see workers die’: extreme heat is key issue in UPS contract talks

The Guardian: Mexico steps up rain-making project amid intense heatwave and drought

AP News: Oregon hospital security guard dies after being shot in hospital; police later kill suspect

AP News: Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teen lynched in Mississippi

AP News: Deck collapse at Montana country club leaves multiple people injured, police say

San Diego Union Tribune: Is the Housing First model helping to end homelessness? Or does it enable drug users?

KCRA: California youth correctional facility closures cause challenges

KCRA: Marysville warehouse fire put out after 18 hours; crews taxed

LA Times: Mammoth Mountain extends ski season into August for third time ever

LA Times: Justice Department plans to sue Texas over floating barrier in Rio Grande

San Jose Mercury News: “You’re dead to me,” one of three former San Jose State athletes testifies after experience with sports trainer

KRCR: 4 missing after record-breaking rainfall along Canada's Atlantic coast

KRCR: BREAKING: Mobile home fire spreads to vegetation in Trinity County

SFGate: 'Hurting for water': Hawaii resorts worsen Maui’s water shortage

SFGate: 'He’s stubborn as a mule': 93-year-old summits Yosemite's Half Dome

SF Chronicle: How a Stanford freshman brought down the university president