#Lightning strikes the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco.
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Picture of Oakland A's owner John Fisher is pummeled by tomatoes thrown from disgruntled baseball fans @ Oakland Coliseum parking lot Friday night. organized.
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Welcome to modern AI-enhanced photography, the technology where everything's made up and reality doesn't matter.
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Now if your Golden State (Warriors) could somehow get back in the series......
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By baking the impacts of climate change into our understanding of what’s typical, we obscure its true impact. That’s the story of California’s “record” snowpack year, which was no record, per my analysis.
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Brandon Crawford goes deep, Logan Webb deals, Thairo Estrada steals, SF Giants beat Mets mercurynews.com/2023/04/22/bra
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📣 NEW EPISODE 📣
“A lot of these guys were acting like they were invincible.”
In text messages, Antioch police officers used racist and homophobic slurs, and openly bragged about targeting people of color with violence.
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For months, I’ve been receiving calls from retired teachers in Napa, LA, Salinas, Danville, Walnut Creek, & more. Many of those calls ended in tears — and all of them involved miscalculations they didn’t make, but had to pay for. Today, their story is out.
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Some jobs...
High wire ballet 230 feet above San Francisco Bay as Ferry Building scaffolding nears completion.
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This was first reported by Mission Local, but goes uncredited here. We are a small, non-profit newsroom, and we work hard to break news.
This is bad form.
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Breaking News: The police arrested a tech consultant in connection with the fatal stabbing of the Cash App creator Bob Lee in San Francisco earlier this month. nyti.ms/3o6fTtv
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Exclusive: Inside the Antioch police department's secret racist texting group
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Easter, Mount Davidson, San Francisco 2023.
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Easter, Mount Davidson San Francisco 1923
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The stunning brilliance of this headline is diminished only by its juxtaposition with the sad stock photo.
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Who Is Evan Gershkovich? WSJ Reporter Loved Russia, the Country That Detained Him - WSJ #IStandWithEvan
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First up THIS THURSDAY is "Vertigo" at !
Dress in 50s attire. There are prizes! (Or just dress 2023 & enjoy the show) Our judges are & !
SOCIAL EVENT OF THE SEASON!! hosted by me &
Tix! => voguemovies.com/calendar-of-ev
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Photos: Space shuttle toilet, UFO and Stealth fighter displays delight REACH Academy students
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If you love historic Bay Area news photographs, check out this classic from 146 years ago.
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On March 30, 1877, the Frank Jones was being towed out the Golden Gate when a tow line broke. Gale force winds pushed the Frank Jones ashore near Fort Point. Rescue attempts failed and it took on water and was finally abandoned. #sfhistory #OnThisDay
opensfhistory.org/Display/wnp26.
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San Jose POA office manager charged with trying to import fentanyl analog
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Stopped on Upper Market this afternoon, a cluster of people-less Jaguars. One had its windshield wiper going (on a beautiful sunny day). One stopped in the number 2 northbound lane.
A couple minutes later, apparently bored with blocking traffic, they drove off.
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Imagine my surprise, after an educated guess about the intensity of #NorthernLights, I was on time for peak color, late Wednesday, March 23, 2023 above Lakeport Ca. at 39.0430° N, 122.9158° W. Images made from the Hopland Grade. #AuroraBorealis
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Thanks to who wrote about supporting the and the Vogue with some events she's doing with Also come on out and see me there on Apr 12th and learn some cool #SanFranciscohistory!
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Judge sentences ex-Dublin federal prison warden in inmate sex abuse case
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This is what it looks like on the Bay Bridge right now.
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ALERTSF: ALERTSF: Big Rig Rollever on Bay Bridge EB before Treasure Island nixle.us/EBZB5 Reply with a friend's # to forward
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BREAKING: The Diocese of Oakland just announced it is strongly considering filing for bankruptcy in the face of more than 300 child sex abuse lawsuits.
The full announcement from Bishop Michael Barber is in the link below
oakdiocese.org/ab218-response
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Tribute to Harriet Tubman, leader of the Underground Railroad, is unveiled at Millbrae Station today by artist Cheryl Derricotte.
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Spent a couple days w/ @JakobRodgers on his story about this year's 52-feet of snow in the Sierra.
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Spent a couple days w/ on his story about this year's 52-feet of snow in the Sierra.
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Shout out to the hardcore @UCB_CSSL researchers getting 18-foot deep into their work at the Soda Springs snow pit. #CAwx
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The ’s Shmuel Thaler is in Pajaro documenting the flooding after the Pajaro River breached its levee at midnight. This is Porter Drive in the heart of Pajaro.
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STATE CHAMPS!
Oakland High — a school founded in 1869 — captures its first state boys basketball championship
STORY+PHOTOS: mercurynews.com/2023/03/10/his
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A scandal-riddled Santa Clara County government history book that cost taxpayers over $1 million was just canceled.
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RIP: David Lindley, whose wonderfully soulful touch on guitar and other string instruments on albums such as Jackson Browne's Late for the Sky, has died. He was 78.
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