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Public Asked To Help Locate Missing 15-Year-Old
The Oakland Police Department is asking for the public's help in locating a 15-year-old who was last seen Aug. 13. Marsir Robinson is described as a Black male, 5 feet, 2 inches tall, weighing 130 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. Robinson was last seen in the area of...
San Jose bar owner speaks out after fourth robbery
A San Jose bar owner asks: what else can robbers steal from his establishment? That's what Mike Downing has been pondering after his establishment was broken into for the fourth time on Thursday. Downing, the owner of Mike's Place, said robbers had entered the business at various times and stole...
Saints March In With Two Wins In Iowa
OSKALOOSA, Iowa --- The University of St. Francis women's volleyball team won a pair of matches 3-2 and 3-0 to begin the William Penn University (Iowa) Labor Day Classic on Friday at the Penn Activity Center. With the two wins, the Fighting Saints move to 4-2 overall on the season.
Got cold symptoms? Here's when kids should take a sick day from school
School attendance tanked during the pandemic and has only started to recover. One reason? Parents are struggling to decide when it’s ok to send a child to school while sick. During the pandemic, schools had strict COVID-19 protocols. Many parents kept kids home for days after they had a cough or fever. Schools and health experts are now saying it is OK to send children to class with some symptoms of illness, including a runny nose or cough. If your child has a fever, keep them home from school until the fever is gone for 24 hours without medication.
Tech entrepreneur acquires Tahoe's oldest waterfront bar
A tech entrepreneur and investor from San Francisco has acquired Tahoe’s oldest waterfront bar, Chambers Landing, on the west shore. Chris Fanini, best known as a co-founder of Weebly, was an investor in a group that acquired Chambers Landing Bar and Grill in 2023 and took over the restaurant and bar from its previous management, Rick Brown. The property is still owned by an organization made up of Chambers Landing homeowners.
Racist graffiti found on building housing San Francisco youth program
SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco officials gathered at the Merced Heights Playground to condemn hate speech after a community leader discovered racial epithets painted on an enrichment program building at that location.Renard Monroe, executive director of Youth 1st, was shocked to find what he interpreted as a noose hanging from the doorway of the program building and the N-word spray-painted in black ink on the walls next to the playground Friday morning."Emotions are all over the place right now," Monroe told CBS Bay Area.Youth 1st is an enrichment program in a predominantly Black neighborhood meant to give children a space...
League of Women Voters Piedmont to host candidate forums on Oct. 1
Join the League of Women Voters of Piedmont (LWVP) on October 1, 2024, for two candidate forums. They will feature candidates who will be on the ballot for Piedmont residents in the November 5, 2024, General Election. The forum for City Council will be held on Zoom at 6:00 p.m.,...
Volleyball Sweeps Portland State in Season Opener
PORTLAND, Ore. - The University of San Francisco volleyball team (1-0) earned a win in the season opener, defeating Portland State (0-1) 3-0 Friday evening in the Rose City Showdown at Viking Pavilion. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT:. Starting strong, Aylen Ayub recorded the match's first point as the Dons...
North Bay high school remembers beloved former coach and teacher killed in Hwy 12 crash
In the North Bay, teachers and staff at Cardinal Newman High School in Santa Rosa are mourning the loss of a beloved former coach and teacher.Pat LaFortune, 78, was killed Thursday in a terrible multi-car pileup on Highway 12."I do know that he was a legend here at Cardinal Newman for sure," said Newman.Yearbooks are on display at Cardinal Newman High School in Santa Rosa, where former teacher and coach Pat LaFortune was a huge part of this school family for five decades. His picture now hangs in the main office.PREVIOUS STORY: Former teacher killed, 9 injured after truck causes...
2 arrested in Antioch killing of father found inside home
ANTIOCH, Calif. - Two men were arrested and charged in the shooting death of an Antioch father inside his home, police said. Elijah Birba, 21, and Christopher Paez Jr., 23, were arrested with the help of Stockton police on Tuesday, Antioch police said. Birba and Paez are accused in the...
State increases monitoring of Oakland failing 911 center
Oakland’s 911 emergency call center is facing more oversight from state regulators amid the city’s yearslong failure to bring answering times down to the mandated standard. In an August 27 letter addressed to Oakland Police Department’s new police chief, Floyd Mitchell, California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES)...
Bay Area dreaming: Teddye Buchanan’s timely Cal journey
Teddye Buchanan is living his dream. A local product, Buchanan will don the Berkeley blue and California gold for the first time Saturday after imagining playing for the nearby Bears all of his life. “It means a lot,” Buchanan said. “Growing up, obviously I knew a lot about the Cal...
Elections grab bag: Pamela Price recallers get hit with a fine
A roundup of this week’s goings-on in Oakland politics. One of the committees behind the campaign to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price was hit with a $3,700 fine by the California Fair Political Practices Commission, the state’s political watchdog. According to the FPPC, Supporters of Recall...
Pedestrian hit by car in North Beach has ‘life-threatening injuries’: SFPD
(KRON) — San Francisco Police officers responded Friday afternoon to the scene of a man struck by a car in the city’s North Beach neighborhood. Police arrived at Bay Street and Columbus Avenue at 4:12 p.m. for the report of a vehicle collision involving a pedestrian. SFPD said officers rendered aid to the victim at […]
Girls volleyball | Four seniors to lead mostly new Piedmont team
The Piedmont High School girls volleyball team is ready for the campaign with a bucketful of new players. Just four seniors fill the roster and most of the players are new to varsity. “We are very young and not super-experienced,” Highlanders coach Mariah Cardenas said. “It’s going to be a...
Men’s Cross Country Takes Team Title at USF Invitational
SAN FRANCISCO – Santa Clara men's cross country opened its season with a win at the USF Invitational. Full results can be found here . Hear from men's head coach Felipe Montoro after today's USF Invitational win#StampedeTogether pic.twitter.com/ZYSDpddJ8W — Santa Clara Cross Country/Track & Field (@SCUXCTF) August 31, 2024 Team Results 1. Santa Clara (22) 2. UC Davis (45) 3. Saint Mary's (100) 3. Cal (100) 5. Sacramento State (175) 6. San Francisco (180) 7. Stanford (202) 8. San Jose State (247) 9. UC Santa Cruz (255) 10. Fresno State (287) 11. Cal Poly DC (295) Individual Results 4. Ishaan...
Jen Malcom Starts Tenure With Win
PORTLAND – Head coach Jen Malcom wasted no time getting into the win column in her first season at the helm of the California women's volleyball program. The Golden Bears (1-0) swept Nevada (25-17, 25-16, 25-22) in their first game of the Rose City Showdown in Portland Friday afternoon. Xuemeng (Maggie) Li and Gianna Bartalo led all players with 10 kills and 22 digs respectively. Annalea Maeder recorded two service aces to put her just eight away from tying Teri Donahue for fifth place on Cal's all-time career list.
Yes, There’s an SF Burning Man at Ocean Beach Saturday, Co-Organized by… Former SF Supervisor Eric Mar?
There are actually several contingents of Burners heading to Ocean Beach Saturday to put on their own miniature versions of Burning Man, but one of them appears to be co-organized by former District 1 Supervisor Eric Mar. It is of course well-known that the first Burning Man in 1986 was...
Boys water polo ready to defend NCS championship
Piedmont High School’s boys water polo team climbed the mountain in 2024. The Highlanders became the first Alameda County team to win a North Coast Section title, defeating Alameda in the NCS Division 2 championship game, 10-8. The summer is over, the seniors are gone and Piedmont is now...
Oakland Eastmont Hills residents seek answers from city in wake of ongoing violence
Neighbors in Oakland's Eastmont Hills refuse to let gun violence be normalized in their community.They're angry, upset, and once again demanding city leaders for solutions after police said a shooting last week killed one man and injured two people at the corner of Ney Avenue and Ritchie Street.They sent their list of demands to city leaders as Mayor Sheng Thao and her team of department heads held the last of a series of town hall meetings on Friday to address crime and homelessness."We do not need a town hall to explain to us how a city department works. We've been...
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