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SAN FRANCISCO—City College will offer free tuition to San Francisco residents next semester as SF Mayor Edwin Lee and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors have agreed on a budget. The city will allocate $5.4 million towards free tuition and books for low-income students for the next school year. The budget will cover tuition for current students and support a 20 percent...

SAN FRANCISCO—On Tuesday, August 25, a San Francisco court judge will hear evidence brought forth in the case regarding Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, 45, the man allegedly responsible in the shooting death of Kathryn Steinle, 32, on San Francisco's Pier 14. As part of the preliminary hearing, the judge will decide whether the evidence presented will be enough for the case against...

SAN FRANCISCO—On Tuesday, the Zoom Video Communications company canceled an online open classroom, Whose Narratives? Gender, Justice, & Resistance, presented by the San Francisco State University. The class was held by two professors, Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, of AMED Studies and Dr. Tomomi Kinukawa, of Women and Gender Studies. They invited students to join the class to have a conversation with...

CALIFORNIA—California Governor Jerry Brown announced Wednesday, April 18  that he will deploy as many as 400 National Guard troops to the California border, joining the rest of the border states at President Donald Trump’s request, who have already committed to sending more troops to the border. In a general order issued by Governor Brown, he explained the coordination between federal...

CALIFORNIA—Authorities indicated that an officer with the Benicia Police Department accidentally struck a pedestrian with the patrol car Wednesday, November 11 killing them. The officer was patrolling around 2 a.m. when he struck the pedestrian in the 1900 block of East 2nd Street near the off- and on-ramps to I-780, the Benicia Police Department reported. In a press release, Interim...

AMERICAN CANYON—On Sunday, August 16, a young man was shot and killed in a Safeway parking lot located on West American Canyon Road. The suspect is currently in custody at the Napa County Correction Department, the Napa County Sheriff's Office announced.   The Napa County Sheriff’s Office revealed on their social media platform that the shooting occurred at approximately 12:02...

CALIFORNIA—CBS Bay Area KPIX and The Weather channel reported on the afternoon news of August 21 of lightning-sparked wildfires in the North Bay in what is known as the LNU Lightning Complex in the east of Santa Rosa, killing five. NBC Bay Area reported that afternoon of 219,000 acres of land scorched by the wildfires, and 480 buildings having...

UNITED STATES—Both prescription and over the counter ranitidine drugs, known as Zantac have been recalled by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as of Wednesday, April 1. The FDA reported an ongoing investigation that determined there are levels of a contaminant in the medications that increase over time and can be a risk to public health. Specifically, when the...

SAN FRANCISCO—Taxi drivers protested at Uber Headquarters on June 22 amidst the 83rd Annual United States Conference of Mayors. With the conference being sponsored by Uber and Lyft this year, protesters congregated at the head office. The rise of start-ups like Uber and Lyft has left many taxi drivers struggling for work twice, and many complaining about Uber and Lyft...

SAN FRANCISCO—According to a police report released Monday, August 31, the San Francisco Police Department responded to a call on San Bruno Avenue and Silver Avenue for a report of hot prowl burglary on August 27 at 8:27 a.m. When authorities arrived on the scene they met with a 'juvenile' girl who said she walked out of her bedroom...