Authorities used heavy equipment to free protesters who chained themselves to 55-gallon drums filled with cement.
New Haven, Conn. Anti-Israel protests escalated to violence at Yale
After the Chicago police shooting of Dexter Reed, the left seems to have found its next George Floyd. Reed, a 26-year-old black man, was pulled over by police officers for not wearing a seatbelt. After the stop escalated into an altercation where he pulled a weapon and fired on police officers, one cop was injured and Reed sustained fatal injuries. “I think that the mainstream media is trying to turn this into, like, the new George Floyd,” Sara Gonzales says before reviewing the body cam...
Climate protesters objecting to Lisa Murkowski's stance on the environment
The annual dog surfing championship in Pacifica is in danger of being euthanized. Every year, people flock to the beaches of the San Mateo County city to watch canines catch waves for charity. But eight years after founding the event, its organizers worry that the competition might not happen, as costs for permits, fees and other requirements have increased more than 100% in the last three years. The group is asking for donations from the public to keep the event afloat. A GoFundMe page set up...
On Monday, the international community will celebrate the 54th anniversary of Earth Day with events across the globe. The first Earth Day took place April 22, 1970. A U.S. Senator from Wisconsin named Gaylord Nelson prompted a massive demonstration.. when he called for students to and communities to fight for the environment and oppose environmental degradation using the same energy and fervor that was shown during the Vietnam War demonstrations. An estimated 30 million people showed up and...
While the Speaker visited Columbia, police confronted pro-Palestinian protesters at campuses in Texas and California.
In February 2001, someone walked into the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office in Santa Rosa holding a human skull. The person told deputies it was found on “Motorcycle Mountain” — a local nickname for a forested area off Duncan Road in Monte Rio, around 70 miles north of San Francisco. Sheriff’s deputies headed out to the woods, by the Russian River, but found no more remains. The skull had a gunshot wound to the forehead. Otherwise, it was in “good” condition, only missing a jawbone. Forensic...
More than 1,400 of the laid off Tesla employees work at the Fremont factory and several dozen work in Palo Alto.
Tesla’s massive, companywide layoff round is set to slam California, with 3,332 workers across four cities losing their jobs in June. The Elon Musk-led automaker revealed the timing and scope of the layoffs in WARN filings with California on Monday; such documentation is required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act in the event of mass layoffs. Tesla’s cuts are hitting its Fremont locations hardest, with 2,267 layoffs across a dozen job sites. More than 1,400 of them are...
Express, a modern casual clothing retailer once considered a staple in American malls, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company plans to close most of its stores, including two in the Bay Area. Founded in 1980 and headquartered in Ohio, Express announced Monday its intention to shut down 95 stores nationwide. The closures will include its outlets at Bay Street in Emeryville and Valley Fair Mall in Santa Clara. Sixteen Express stores are slated for closure across California....
Several schools in the Bay Area received an unnerving email early Wednesday morning, prompting administrators to scramble and check the veracity of the bizarre threats. After checking the campuses, school officials decided the threats were not real and kept schools open.Officials were responding to a 6:05 a.m. email, sent to multiple school districts, including Antioch, Berkeley, Brentwood, Hayward, Oakland, Piedmont, Pleasanton, Pittsburg, and San Ramon Valley public schools, which received...