Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023
Press Democrat: Birthing center options are becoming even more limited in Sonoma County. Here’s why
The Guardian: ‘I’m just trying to go home’: Tyre Nichols heard pleading in released video
Sacramento Bee: 85-car pileup in Wisconsin leaves at least 21 injured
KTLA: Online system to seek asylum in US is quickly overwhelmed
SF Chronicle: Half Moon Bay mass shooting: Farms were not permitted to house workers, county investigating
Friday, Jan. 27, 2023
Washington Post: Biden protects vast wilderness area in Minnesota from mining
ABC News: Feds announce massive takedown of fraudulent nursing diploma scheme; 2 from South Jersey charged
The Oregonian: Marijuana giant Curaleaf will shut down Oregon operations
San Jose Mercury News: Felton residents plagued by power outages, rough roads long after storms
KTVU: Half Moon Bay farmworkers lived in 'deplorable' conditions, allegedly paid $9 an hour
NPR: He was picked last in the 2022 draft. Now he's key to the 49ers' Super Bowl hopes
NPR: Nearly all U.S. mass attackers were male and faced major life stressor, report finds
Washington Post: Medicaid will become available to some California inmates
The Hill: Colorado bear takes 400 ‘selfies’ on trail camera
The Hill: Memphis police chief: Tyre Nichols video ‘about the same, if not worse’ than Rodney King beating
The Guardian: Food, feed and fuel: global seaweed industry could reduce land needed for farming by 110m hectares, study finds
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023
Washington Post: They depend on Machu Picchu to survive. They shut it down anyway.
BBC: Haiti police riot after crime gangs kill 14 officers
AP News: US infiltrates big ransomware gang: ‘We hacked the hackers’
AP News: Farm where 4 were killed had separate shooting last summer
East Bay Times: Democrat Adam Schiff announces bid for Dianne Feinstein’s US Senate seat in California
East Bay Times: California Supreme Court ends legal limbo for over $545 million in bridge tolls, releasing funds for transportation projects
Press Democrat: Former Sebastopol mayor pleads no contest to six counts of child sex crimes, to be sentenced in March
LA Times: Civil rights groups file lawsuit to block Newsom’s plan for treating people with mental illness
LA Times: Accused Half Moon Bay gunman claims he suffered ‘years of bullying’ before killing 7
KTLA: Science building at USC evacuated after explosion; 1 person taken to hospital
The Oregonian: Search for missing activists intensifies in western Mexico
Seattle Times: AmazonSmile’s end is alarming, say nonprofits that benefited
Seattle Times: Ending homelessness in King County will cost billions, regional authority's draft plan says
Del Norte Triplicate: Yurok Tribal Court receives $350k from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians to hire MMIP investigator
KRCR: Seattle area morgue says it's 'regularly' running out of space due to deadly fentanyl overdoses
KRCR: Shasta County Supervisors vote to support new casino project south of Redding
KRCR: Felons caught with 170+ pounds of cannabis, meth during probation search in Anderson
LA Times: Rand survey finds homelessness up 18% in L.A. hot spots where the official count recorded decreases
KCRA: Caltrans requests increase of millions of dollars to clear homeless encampments
East Bay Times: CHP to fly in supplies for Big Sur residents, businesses facing long-term isolation
East Bay Times: California looks to Santa Clara County model to stop incarceration of girls
Press Democrat: Unity sculpture unveiled in Santa Rosa’s Old Courthouse Square
Press Democrat: California AG reaches settlement with developers of huge Guenoc Valley resort project in Lake County
East Bay Times: ‘Oh my God, he killed him!’ Farmworkers share firsthand account of start of Half Moon Bay rampage
East Bay Times: Concord: Eleven masked burglars made off with $200,000 of cannabis from THC oil processing center
SFGate: Road to Humboldt Redwoods State Park closed after landslide, earthquakes
SFGate: Shasta's 'MAGA-led' county bans Dominion voting machines in heated meeting
The Guardian: Bible study and work without pay: the shadowy world of sober living homes
The Guardian: New Yorker jailed during ‘war on drugs’ becomes cannabis pioneer
SF Chronicle: A $1.75 million S.F. home became one couple’s ‘House from Hell.’ Now they’re giving up on the city
SF Chronicle: I finally got COVID. Here’s why I threw my Paxlovid pills in the garbage
SF Chronicle: French bulldog missing from SoCal for over a year found in East Bay
The Guardian: Counterfeiting, contraband, cocaine: how Panama’s trade hub lost its lustre
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