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All westbound lanes opened on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge just before noon Thursday, California Highway Patrol said. Throughout the morning commute, protesters fully shut down westbound traffic as world leaders gathered in San Francisco for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Approximately 50 protesters were arrested and 15 cars were towed, CHP said. California Highway Patrol officer Art Montiel said 100 to 200 protesters associated with the activist group Arab Resource and Or…
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After all the hype about a big storm soaking California this week, some in the San Francisco Bay Area may be wondering: Where’s the rain? It’s on its way, forecasters said Wednesday morning. Two areas of low pressure off the coast of the Golden State are expected to send a heavy band of rain to the Bay Area Wednesday afternoon. “The boundary should arrive sometime this afternoon and continue until the early afternoon with post-frontal rain showers in wake of the system, off and on, into Thursday…
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San Francisco’s Union Square was pleasantly quiet late Tuesday afternoon. The 83-foot-tall tree twinkled above a plaza that felt vacant at a time when the sun was still shining and the air was balmy. About a dozen people whirled around the ice skating rink, but other than that there was very little movement. The stores and restaurants in the area were open, but most were quiet — except the Apple Store on Post Street that still had a big crowd. The only signs of the Asia-Pacific Economic Coopera…
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Kirby Lee, a longtime San Francisco surfer and father of two, died Nov. 6 from injuries sustained during a surfing accident four days before, according to his family. Lee was 54. What, exactly, happened in the water on Nov. 2 remains unknown. It was a relatively calm day for Ocean Beach; while waves there can easily reach 20 feet on the biggest days, Jose Lopez, another surfer who was present at the scene, described the waves that day as “tiny.” Lee was wearing a helmet, as many surfers do at O…
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Two Czech television journalists visiting San Francisco to cover the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit were robbed at gunpoint in North Beach, according to officials and multiple media reports. The San Francisco Police Department said it responded to a report of the robbery near Broadway and Columbus Avenue, in front of the famous City Lights Bookstore, just before 5 p.m. Sunday. The journalists told police that three individuals with firearms exited a car and approached them, SFPD spoke…
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A California mom accused of exposing her 23-month-old son to a fatal dose of fentanyl was arrested Tuesday, officials said. Sophia Gastelum-Vera was booked at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin and could face murder charges, the Fremont Police Department said in a news release. An investigation by the police department revealed that the child was found unresponsive in the bedroom that he shared with his mother in Fremont on the morning of Oct. 18. Gastelum-Vera and other family members took the child to…
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The northern lights, or aurora borealis, usually light up skies over the most remote parts of the world such as Iceland and Alaska, but on Sunday night during a geomagnetic storm they appeared farther south than usual, including northern latitudes of the United States and Europe. While there were no reports of the aurora borealis in California, another type of natural light display that can also occur during these storms was captured with a camera. A Stable Auroral Red, or SAR, arc appears as a…
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A moisture-rich atmospheric river is expected to soak California next week, and some parts of the state, including the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles areas, are likely to receive the heaviest rain they’ve seen since the start of the rainy season on Oct. 1. “This is really our first winter storm,” said Todd Hall, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Los Angeles office. “We’ve had rain but it hasn’t amounted to much. It has ingredients to be a very significant storm system for this e…
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LATEST, Nov. 6, 2:40 p.m. A pygmy sperm whale that washed up off Huntington Beach with a shark bite was euthanized at the scene, the Pacific Marine Mammal Center told SFGATE on Monday afternoon. “It became clear he was very unstable and [showed] symptoms of cardiac arrest,” said Dr. Alissa Deming, vice president of conservation, medicine and science at the center. “He was not a great candidate for rehabilitation. The best and most humane thing we could do was euthanize it.” Deming said a blood t…
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New maps from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show that a large part of California’s Sierra Nevada has, on average, seen above-normal snowfall during El Niño events. With a strong El Niño pattern predicted to occur this winter, you may jump to the conclusion that the Golden State could see a massive snow pile-up this year. But Michelle L’Heureux, a physical scientist at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, cautions against viewing the maps as a forecast for what is likely to hap…
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For about two years, San Francisco auto mechanic John Rodriguez saw at least one customer a day with a stolen catalytic converter. Some customers at his body shop, Precision Auto Repair, were replacing their fourth or fifth catalytic converter, as theft of the emissions device in California and across the country was rampant. “Now, I haven’t had to replace one in the last 30 days,” Rodriguez, a co-owner in the 61-year-old family business, told SFGATE in October. “It’s a good thing.” New data on…
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