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Tuesday, April 11, 2023

NBC Bay Area: Sonoma Woman Assaulted Employee While Robbing Petaluma Restaurant

SFGate: Cloverdale Pedestrian Critically Injured In Hit-And-Run Sunday

San Jose Mercury News: Video: See rare poppy super bloom in California

KPIX: Roseville shooting suspect arraigned on 4 counts, including murder

San Jose Mercury News: Project that gave $500 a month to some Stockton residents shows that such efforts could have a ‘profound’ impact on public health, researchers say

KRON: Video: San Francisco street turns into ‘Wild West’ at 2 a.m.

San Jose Mercury News: FBI warning: Don’t use free public phone charging stations

San Jose Mercury News: California woman who was cited for honking loses her First Amendment case

San Jose Mercury News: Hawaii surfer loses foot in shark attack

East Bay Times: Opinion: California’s salmon season shutdown was avoidable

East Bay Times: Oakland authorities begin clearing last vestiges of Wood Street homeless camp

SFGate: Oregon trooper finds driver held at gunpoint; suspect dead

SF Chronicle: ‘Totally unprecedented’: Why Lake Tahoe's water is clearer than it has been in 40 years

SF Chronicle: A ‘dry’ Pacific storm is on tap this week. Here’s what it means for the Bay Area

SFGate: This SF Starbucks' seating was removed. Employees think they know why.

SF Chronicle: A dozen buses light up in flames below elevated 280 freeway in San Francisco

SF Chronicle: Whole Foods closes San Francisco flagship store after one year, citing crime

SFGate: Suspect charged in attack on ex-fire commissioner

Sunday, April 9, 2023

Oregon Public Broadcasting: An Oregon nonprofit wants to save the Jantzen Beach carousel, but solutions have so far eluded its grasp

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Washington shutters cannabis businesses due to old pesticide

Yahoo Finance: A $1.5 Trillion Wall of Debt Is Looming for US Commercial Properties

SFGate: Historic Sierra winter will make for an epic but risky rafting season on California's American River

KTVU: Riley Gaines 'ambushed and physically hit' after Saving Women's Sports speech at San Francisco State

KTLA: LAPD says puppy OK after being tossed from moving car during hours-long pursuit, identifies 3 arrested at chase’s end

CNN: 13-year-old leads California police on chase in stolen car and crashes, leaving 1 person dead and nearly a dozen injured

The Hill: Barr says US potentially has ‘very good evidence’ Trump obstructed justice in classified documents case

The Atlantic: The Ruling That Threatens the Future of Libraries

Washington Post: Inside Colombia’s most powerful drug trafficking group and its case for peace

NY Times: In Pristine Alaska, an Oil Giant Prepares to Drill for Decades

NY Times: Two Federal Judges Issued Opposing Rulings on Abortion Pills. Here’s What’s Going On.

The Oregonian: Next total solar eclipse is coming right up; here’s the best U.S. viewing

NY Times: E.P.A. Is Said to Propose Rules Meant to Drive Up Electric Car Sales Tenfold

The Guardian: Democrats condemn judge’s ‘draconian’ decision threatening abortion drug

The Guardian: In SF: Powerful Ansel Adams show centers his love for nature – and the peril it’s in

The Hill: Why a bill that could ban TikTok is raising privacy concerns

The Hill: Leaked documents detail dire assessments of Ukrainian army: reports

The Hill: The myth of ‘woke’ indoctrination of students

The Hill: Opinion: How to avoid apocalypse fatigue

The Guardian: ‘Headed off the charts’: world’s ocean surface temperature hits record high

The Guardian: It sounds like science fiction but it’s not: AI can financially destroy your business

The Guardian: Snow, floods and wildlife in peril: grueling winter leaves Yosemite scarred

The Guardian: Justice Clarence Thomas’s megadonor friend collects Hitler memorabilia – report

The Guardian: ‘It’s called stealing’: new allegations of plagiarism against Roy Lichtenstein

LA Times: David Crosby died after contracting COVID-19, Graham Nash says

LA Times: Special delivery: Drones are smuggling contraband into California prisons, feds say

LA Times: ‘Against their will’: A proposed law would make it easier to detain people with mental illness

KCRA: Neighbor reflects on couple taken hostage during deadly Roseville gunbattle

KCRA: 'I thought it was an earthquake': Woman's refrigerator explodes less than year after purchase

KCRA: California seeks federal help for salmon fishers facing ban

LA Times: California’s snowpack is among the deepest ever. Now get ready for the perilous ‘big melt’