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Gov. Newsom Vows Funding To Stop Recent High-End SF Robberies

November 23, 2021 2:25 amApril 3, 2022 8:26 am

During a speech at a San Francisco vaccine clinic on Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom denounced the high-profile high-end retail robberies that occurred in the Bay Area this weekend, vowing to increase state budgetary support to fight retail theft rings....

Boarded Up SF Bay Area Stores Following String of High-Profile Robberies

November 22, 2021 4:57 pmNovember 22, 2021 8:01 pm

Stores in San Francisco’s Union Square, as well as around the Bay Area, engaged in a mass boarding up of stores during the weekend to counter the mass number of store robberies that have occurred recently. While crime rates such...

DoorDash To Pay $5.325 Million Settlement for Not Paying San Francisco Workers Benefits

November 22, 2021 11:49 am

San Francisco officials, led by City Attorney David Chiu, announced that the city reached a $5.325 million lawsuit settlement with DoorDash on Monday over the company allegedly not paying workers certain benefits dating back to 2016. An investigation launched earlier...

Caltrans Evicts Transients from Illegal Sacramento Alley Campsite

November 22, 2021 9:47 amNovember 22, 2021 10:07 am

The recent Caltrans eviction notice at Democracy Alley and 30th Street in downtown Sacramento ordered transients to vacate the illegal campsite by 8:00 a.m. on Nov. 19. The dump trucks arrived early. The fog began to drizzle at 8:15. A...

Rep. Tom McClintock Calls on President Biden to Fulfill His Promise to Caldor Fire Victims

November 20, 2021 7:50 amNovember 20, 2021 8:02 am

Rep. Tom McClintock sent a letter to President Joe Biden calling upon him to fulfill the promise he made to assist the victims of the Caldor Fire when he visited the scene on September 13, 2021. The Federal Emergency Management...

California Receives Initial $58 Million from DOT for High Speed Rail Transit, Cycling ‘Infrastructure’ Projects

November 20, 2021 2:17 amApril 3, 2022 8:26 am

Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Alex Padilla (D-CA) announced on Friday that the Department of Transportation (DOT) has given it’s first grants from the recently passed $1 Trillion infrastructure bill to California, with $58 million going to transportation projects in...

Former Professor Indicted In District Court Over Starting 4 Wildfires This Summer

November 19, 2021 4:13 pm

Former Sonoma State University criminal justice Professor Gary Stephen Maynard was indicted on five counts of arson by a federal Grand Jury at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California in Sacramento on Thursday over allegedly...