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Now New Chapter Ahead: Bay Area City Set to Shift Focus After Ten Years of Oil Company Coverage
An oil firm has owned Richmond’s most prominent news outlet for the past 10 years. That, however, is about to alter. In June, the hyperlocal, independent news site Richmondside came online, focusing on the city’s predominantly working-class population. Cityside, a nonprofit newsgroup that already runs the Oakland side and Berkeleyside, has launched a third news site. The site has gained more than 100 members in the short time it has been live.
Vallejo wastewater maintenance causing rotten odor miles away
VALLEJO – Recent maintenance work by the Vallejo Flood and Wastewater District has caused an unpleasant smell wafting up from the waterfront sewage treatment plant into south and central Vallejo in recent months and led to a flurry of complaints to government officials. The district now expects that residents and visitors in Vallejo will have to endure the odors for months longer.
Masimo files lawsuit against activist investor Politan
(Reuters) -Medical device maker Masimo Corp said on Tuesday it has filed a lawsuit against Politan Capital in a California federal court, seeking to force the activist investor to correct "material misstatements and omissions" in its proxy materials.
California’s wildfires are burning far more land so far this year than in 2023
So far in this year’s California’s wildfire season, about 20 times more acres of land have burned than around this time last year. Since the beginning of the year, there were more than 3,500 wildfires across the state through early July, causing about 207,000 acres of land to burn. Around this time last year, about 10,000 acres had burned. The five-year average of acres burned through mid-July is about 39,000, Cal Fire said last week.
With an unexpected bundle of cash, father and son build a new music legacy
A manila envelope stuffed with $100 bills passed quietly in a Denny’s parking lot isn’t the usual way that new music commissions get funded. But Adam Tendler has never been particularly concerned with concert hall niceties. The Grammy-nominated pianist made his Bay Area debut at Oakland’s Piedmont Piano...
3 South Bay business owners to be sentenced in separate workers' comp fraud cases
Three people will be sentenced after pleading guilty in two separate workers compensation fraud cases, the Santa Clara District Attorney's Office announced Monday. Both cases involve business owners failing to properly maintain mandatory workers compensation insurance, which covers business should employees suffer an on-the-job injury. Mark Anthony Ramos, the owner of two companies providing pediatric therapy in the Bay Area, will receive three years in federal prison, the DA's office said. However, his sentence will be suspended to six months in county jail upon paying restitution. Edgar Cabrales Sr. and Edgar Cabrales Jr. will be sentenced to a decade of...
Dangerous Crime! Gavin Newsom Backed by Big-Spending Prison Union: Dominant Force or Under Threat?
WFCN – The president of one of the biggest and most influential unions in California declared in a newsletter one year after assuming the position that he aspired to be “the 800 pound gorilla” in Sacramento politics. Since then, in a manner it had never done before,...
Italian house arrest approved for Bay Area man convicted in Rome officer death
An Italian court has approved house arrest for a Marin County man convicted in the killing of an Italian police officer.The home detention was approved for 23-year-old Gabriel Natale-Hjorth. The court had reduced his crime to what amounts to negligence in the death of a police officer in Rome in July 2019. Then, his attorneys argued that he should be allowed to serve the rest of his 11-year sentence at his grandmother's home near Rome. On Monday, a judge agreed.WATCH: California college students accused of killing police officer - '32 Seconds: A Deadly Night in Rome'ABC7 I-Team's Dan Noyes reveals...
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