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Silver Alert issued for missing East Palo Alto woman
UPDATE: Bassett has been found. (KRON) — Authorities are searching for an East Palo Alto woman who was last seen Monday morning, California Highway Patrol said. Faye Bassett, 93, was last seen in her car at about 8:30 a.m. in East Palo Alto. She is believed to be driving a gold 2000 Ford Crown Victoria […]
Heat Wave Brings Extreme Temperatures to Bay Area, Northern California
The National Weather Service has issued an Excessive Heat Warning and Heat Advisory for the Bay Area, as hot and dry conditions prevail over the coming days. A building high-pressure system will lead to some of the highest temperatures of the year, affecting both coastal and inland areas.
‘Highly aggressive’ day-biting mosquitoes found in Santa Clara
(KRON) — A “highly aggressive” mosquito species that feeds “almost exclusively on humans” was detected in Santa Clara, county officials warned on Monday. The county’s Vector Control District found Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in a residential area of the City of Santa Clara. The district identified 58 mosquitoes surrounding Agate Drive and Moraine Drive. Aedes aegypti are […]
BART train kills person on tracks near Hayward station
A person died after being struck by a BART train near the Hayward station Monday night, a spokesperson for the transit agency said. The collision was reported shortly before 9 p.m. involving someone who "entered the trackway of their own volition," BART spokesperson Jim Allison said. The person was pronounced dead and their name has not been released. Foul play is not suspected in the case, Allison said. The collision prompted the closure of the station for about two hours but regular service resumed and the station reopened by about 11 p.m.
San Jose man Yongchang Chen still missing after 4 days
(KRON) — A San Jose man was reported missing last Thursday, Sept. 26 by California Highway Patrol. Days later, as of Monday, 66-year-old Yongchang Chen still has not been found. Now, the community in the Almaden Valley neighborhood is coming together to help the Chen family search for their missing loved one, an Almaden Valley […]
Feds order Cruise to pay $1.5M penalty for infamous SF crash
Federal regulators on Monday announced they had Cruise pay a $1.5 million penalty for withholding details in reports following an accident nearly a year ago in which one of the company’s self-driving cars pinned and dragged a woman nearly 20 feet at a San Francisco intersection. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration consent order dated to Sept. 26 requires the General Motors subsidiary to submit a corrective action plan, which must include summaries on any software update made to the company’s automatic driving system, as...
Possible PG&E power shutoffs cancelled for all Bay Area counties amid heat wave
Possible planned power outages due to the current heat wave roasting Northern California were called off for customers in Contra Costa, Alameda, Sonoma and Napa counties, PG&E officials confirmed late Tuesday morning.PG&E spokesperson Tamar Sarkissian told CBS News Bay Area that, while temperatures were still high across the region, winds have calmed enough to reduce the current fire risk and eliminate the need for any outages in the greater Bay Area. The update included the small area of Napa that might still have been impacted as of Monday night.The announcement comes after PG&E issued a Monday evening update that cancelled...
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