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Mayor Breed's pick for the homeless oversight commission who's caught up in a scandal over improperly spending taxpayer dollars when he worked for the federal government apparently lacks the votes to be approved to the commission.Commission candidate Vikrum Aiyer needs Board of Supervisors approval, but in the wake of his improper accounting scandal, the Chronicle says six supervisors will not vote to approve him, which would guarantee he can't win majority approval to be seated.

A pair of juveniles, both female, have been arrested in connection with an unprovoked attack on Super Bowl Sunday in SF's Mission District that left one woman with eye injuries.SFist briefly noted the arrests Tuesday evening in the February 12 attack that took place in broad daylight on 18th Street between Dolores and Church streets.

Just days after a record-setting storm sent the Bay Area into a frenzy through massive urban flooding, more heavy rain is expected to sock the region this week.To help prepare its residents for more potential flooding, most Bay Area cities are offering sandbags, both unfilled and prefilled, free of charge throughout the week.

OAKLAND  A San Leandro man was sentenced to six years in state prison after accepting a plea deal in a case where prosecutors accused him of taking a woman from San Francisco to Oakland and sexually assaulting her, court records show.Zachery Rideaux Jr., 30, pleaded no contest to forcible rape and was sentenced in an October court hearing in Alameda County, records show.

One patient remains in critical condition following the mass shooting that took place in the Mission Friday night, according to San Francisco General Hospital.Nine people were struck by gunfire while attending an outdoor party on 24th Street.Five of the nine have been discharged from the hospital completely, and three others are in "fair condition," according to the hospital.

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In early April, students in Planada, Calif., finally returned to their classrooms.It had been three months since the early January flood that sent putrid brown water - filled with floating rodents and sewage - crashing into Planada Elementary School, destroying 27 classrooms, ruining thousands of books, and causing more than $12 million in damage.

Survey says looks at various rankings and scorecards judging geographic locations while noting these grades are best seen as a mix of artful interpretation and data.Buzz: California rents have increased three straight months after dropping in the previous five months.Source: My trusty spreadsheet looked at ApartmentList's April report on California rents.

When the Oakland Raiders decamped for Las Vegas in 2020, they left behind a state-of-the-art training facility.That complex, which is co-owned by the Oakland and Alameda County, has been used for the past two years by the Oakland Roots, the city's newest soccer team.But soon, that arrangement may be ending.

They succumbed to heart disease, hypothermia and COVID-19.They were hit by trains and cars.They overdosed aboard BART and in a storage unit.One man had been dead long enough that by the time he was found at a homeless encampment in Los Gatos, his body was so decomposed that no one could tell how he died.

After ascending to new heights during 2022, Marin County home prices have tumbled back to where they were a year ago.The median price for a detached home in the county fell to $1.535 million last month, according to the latest data from the assessor's office.The price was exactly even with the prior November and represented a 27% decline from the $2.12 million peak in April.

Regarding your May 19, 2023, column titled Homeowner ready to move and help the next generation on The Mercury News and East Bay Times websites: Question: We would like to move to Shasta County near our grandchildren.However, paying all that capital gains tax on our three-bedroom Silicon Valley home of 40 years is off-putting.

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A former correctional officer at a troubled federal women's prison in California was arrested Friday in Florida and charged with sexually abusing three inmates, according to federal prosecutors.Darrell Wayne Smith, who was employed at Federal Correctional Institution Dublin in the Bay Area, was charged with repeatedly abusing the women between 2019 and 2021 in their cells and in the prison laundry room, prosecutors said.

Hundreds of recently filed sexual abuse lawsuits could lead to the bankruptcy of the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, the diocese's bishop said this week in a letter to the congregation.The diocese's financial predicament stems from a law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2019 that temporarily lifted the statute of limitations regarding child sexual abuse lawsuits.

A youth-driven push for a ballot measure to lower the voting age will likely fall short in Culver City after months of advocacy on both sides.The ballot initiative, known as Measure VY, would allow Culver City residents as young as 16 to vote in city and school board elections.No other municipality in the country put such a proposition before voters this election cycle.

When the website AlamedaRentersRights.com launched recently, it seemed innocuous enough.It claimed to be aimed at informing renters in Alameda County about tenant protectionsan issue of increased interest since the county's eviction moratorium expired last week.It even features a video on its homepage featuring two Alameda County supervisors, David Haubert and Lena Tam, encouraging renters to know their rights.

Submit your letter to the editor via this form.Read more Letters to the Editor.Ample ways to makeelectric cars accessible Re: State hits ambitious goal for electric cars (Page B1, April 21).It's exciting to see that California now makes up 40% of all new electric vehicle sales nationwide and surpassed a bold electric vehicle goal two years sooner than expected.

The man accused in a series of killings in Northern California that spanned more than a year was charged with four additional murders and an attempted murder this week by the San Joaquin County district attorney.Wesley Brownlee, 43, had been charged in October with the murders of Jonathan Hernandez Rodriguez on Aug. 30, Juan Cruz on Sept. 21, and Lawrence Lopez Sr. on Sept. 27.

Wesley Brownlee stands with public defender Allison Nobert during his arraignment in San Joaquin County Superior Court on Oct. 18.Brownlee has been charged this week in four additional slayings.Hector Amezcua/The Sacramento Bee via AP, File STOCKTON, Calif.A man suspected in Northern California serial killings has been charged in four additional slayings this week, bringing the total to seven deaths since April 2021, authorities said.

Question: We are getting ready to sell our deceased uncle's Silicon Valley house.The sale of the home's contents and vehicles is complete.My cousin, a co-successor trustee, claims that presale seller inspections are a waste of money.He bluntly ended the group email to relatives, If homebuyers want realty inspectors, let them pay for them.

Downtown Oakland skyline.The Bay Area economy powered to robust job gains in January, an upswing led by the South Bay, the East Bay and the San Francisco-San Mateo metro region, newly released government figures show.In addition, the Bay Area and California have now both reached crucial milestones in what has literally been a years-long quest: to fully recover from the mammoth job losses that occurred during the first two months of the government-mandated business shutdowns to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox.Cesar Avila, 26, started selling clothes at Dolores Park in 2022.He'd break out a table with a stack of folded clothes and yell "$10 a bag of clothes!Fill your bag 'til it breaks!"

By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large-
As the City of Oakland Councilmember At-Large who also serves on the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Authority (OACCA) Board, I with pleasure share our interest to host cricket games at the Oakland Coliseum.The coliseum is a large and well-located venue, in the heart of a region with a strong and growing cricket fan base.

People wait in line for COVID-19 tests at the Curative testing site at the Berkeley Adult School on Dec. 21, 2021.Credit: Nico Savidge Credit: Nico Savidge Berkeley is closing its COVID-19 testing sites in February as California's State of Emergency is set to expire by the end of the month.The testing site at Harold Way closed Feb. 1 and the city's second site at San Pablo Park will close Feb.

The final layer of masking requirements established in Oakland during the COVID-19 pandemic, those for indoor gatherings of 2,500 or more people, will be lifted on Nov. 1, the city announced.That means large crowds that fill some of the city's most popular local venues  including Oakland Arena and the Fox Theater  will no longer be formally required to mask up, though California and Alameda County health officials still strongly recommend doing so.

Many of the Oakland schools that were ordered to close last year will now remain open, thanks to the new school board's reversal of that decision, though the few schools already closed will remain shuttered.There is still definitely unresolved drama with the Oakland school board, considering there's an election recount on that could unseat one board member who's already been sworn in.

All Alameda Unified School District campuses are on fall break this week, the first real break that students and staff have had since mid-August.We know everyone can use the rest and relaxation!In his Thanksgiving message to the AUSD community, Superintendent Scuderi made a point of expressing gratitude to staff and families and especially to students.

"This is one of the least smelly carcasses," said Todd Katzner, peering over his lab manager's shoulder as she sliced a bit of flesh from a dead pigeon lying on a steel lab table.The specimens that arrive at this facility in Boise, Idaho, are often long dead, and the bodies smell, he said, like "nothing that you can easily describe, other than yuck."

Q: We're trying to buy a single-family house, but our loan officer said our debt-to-income ratio was too high.So they suggested we buy a condo.However, we have three generations in our household, so what we really need is a house.My father-in-law, who is very active, lives with us.On top of that, our eldest child moved back home after college.

This time in eastern Contra Costa, with plans to build a new highway, State Route 239.Caltrans wants more more more
Induced demand.Sprawl.Global warming.State transportation officials come to meetings and talk about how they get it now; they can't just keep widening highways and laying more asphalt.

Pittsburg is the latest city to get on board with a plan to study the feasibility of expanding ferry service to parts of Contra Costa County's waterfront.The City Council unanimously agreed last week to share in the estimated $200,000 cost to complete the planning work for expanding such service.Pittsburg's $40,000 share will come from the city's waterfront fund.

Contra Costa will begin sharing its monkeypox case data with the California Public Health Department to improve the efficiency of surveillance and early detection of the infectious viral disease.The move highlights lessons learned from HIV and the COVID-19 pandemic and the advantage of gathering data quickly and accurately to support the epidemiological understanding of the origins and transmission dynamics of monkeypox.

OAKLAND  A housing development with hundreds of homes, many of them affordable, is being eyed in downtown Oakland next to a busy freeway, plans on file with city officials show.An estimated 272 homes  and as many as 300  would be built at 430 Broadway in Oakland, according to a proposal by a development alliance that was filed with city planners.

Perhaps it was inevitable  what goes up, up, up, must come down eventually.Homes in the Bay Area are now selling for less than they were a year ago, the only part of California where that is true, as rising interest rates continue to throw cold water on the region's once-scorching pandemic real estate market.