SAN FRANCISCO — By age 46, Bob Williams had spent more than half his life in isolation, waiting to die on San Quentin’s death row. Williams was 18 when he raped and murdered 40-year-old Mary Breck at her Kern County home in […]
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OAKLAND — On a recent Saturday in March, several hundred people filled the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland for a quintessential party to honor longtime Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee. Oakland’s Youth Poet Laureate Ella Gordon recited a powerful poem about the magic
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The Tuolumne County Public Health Department on Wednesday confirmed two measles cases a day after it opened an investigation into the possible infections. The department said the cases involved an adult and a child under 18 who lived in the
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Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday plans to propose a new parole board process that could clear a path for more prisoners to have their sentences shortened. The new regulations would in effect codify a process Newsom started two weeks ago
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San José Mayor Matt Mahan unveiled an initiative Thursday that would ratchet up the pressure on homeless people to accept shelter or face jail time. “Homelessness can’t be a choice,” Mahan said during a news conference to announce his proposed
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SAN FRANCISCO — In the latest national battle over immigration, San Francisco on Friday announced it is filing a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s recent directives to prosecute local officials who impede deportation efforts and to withhold federal funding from so-called
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BODEGA BAY, Calif. — It was a calm January morning, the waters off Bodega Bay unusually smooth, but crab fisherman Dick Ogg couldn’t shake a grim feeling that the day wouldn’t go his way. The Dungeness crab season had opened just a
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SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie notched an early victory in his crusade against the city’s twin crises of homelessness and fentanyl addiction, getting sign-off from the Board of Supervisors to bypass bureaucratic hurdles that have slowed expansion of shelter
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SAN FRANCISCO — After surging during the COVID pandemic into a crushing public health emergency, drug overdose deaths in San Francisco plummeted in 2024, according to preliminary data compiled by city health officials. The chief medical examiner’s office recorded 586 fatal
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SAN FRANCISCO — On a recent Sunday on the far edge of the Outer Sunset, a cozy oceanfront neighborhood with rows of pastel bungalows, hundreds of people enjoyed a stretch of the iconic coastal road known as the Great Highway. A
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