Juliet Williams
The Associated Press
Sacramento, CA, United States
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Judge: Walgreens contributed to San Francisco opioid crisis
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Walgreens can be held responsible for contributing to San Francisco’s opioid crisis for over-dispensing highly addictive drugs for ye… → Read More
Oakland mayor seeks to reverse police cuts amid crime spike
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In a reversal of plans to divert funding from police to social services, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said Monday that she’ll push to reverse planned cuts to the city’s police department and seek to quickly hire more officers amid a spike in violence and homicides that have left some residents afraid […] → Read More
Oakland mayor seeks to reverse police cuts amid crime spike
In a reversal of plans to divert funding from police to social services, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said Monday that she'll push to reverse planned cuts to the city's police department and seek to quickly hire more officers amid a spike in violence and homicides that has left some residents afraid to leave their homes. → Read More
'Do as I say': Anger as some politicians like Mayor Adler ignore virus rules
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Denver's mayor flies to Mississippi to spend Thanksgiving with his family — after urging others to stay home. He later says he was thinking with "my heart and not my head. " A Pennsylvania mayor bans indoor dining, then eats at a restaurant in Maryland. The governor of Rhode Island is photographed at an indoor wine event as her state faces the nation's second-highest virus… → Read More
'Do as I say': Anger as some politicians ignore virus rules
Several American political leaders have been caught preaching one thing on the coronavirus and doing another. → Read More
'Do as I say': Anger as some politicians ignore virus rules
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Denver's mayor flies to Mississippi to spend Thanksgiving with his family — after urging others to stay home. He later says he was thinking with “my heart and not my head. " A Pennsylvania mayor bans indoor dining, then eats at a restaurant in Maryland. The governor of Rhode Island is photographed at an indoor wine event as her state faces the nation's second-highest virus… → Read More
California on the brink: Virus rages and closures imminent
Much of California is on the brink of sweeping new restrictions on businesses and activities, a desperate attempt to slow the frighteningly rapid escalation of coronavirus cases that threatens to overwhelm hospitals. → Read More
Politicians eat own words after dining out, taking trips
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Their messaging has been clear: wear a mask, stay 6 feet apart, and most importantly: stay home! But their actions aren't living up to the rhetoric, creating a real political problem for some of the most vocal leaders in California's fight to contain the coronavirus. First came Gov. Gavin Newsom, who won plaudits for issuing the first statewide stay-at-home order in the U.… → Read More
Politicians eat own words after dining out, taking trips
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Their messaging has been clear: wear a mask, stay 6 feet apart, and most importantly: stay home! But their actions aren't living up to the rhetoric, creating a real political problem for some of the most vocal leaders in California's fight to contain the coronavirus. First came Gov. Gavin Newsom, who won plaudits for issuing the first statewide stay-at-home order in the U.… → Read More
Politicians eat own words after dining out, taking trips
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Their messaging has been clear: wear a mask, stay 6 feet apart, and most importantly: stay home! But their actions aren't living up to the rhetoric, creating a real political problem for some of the most vocal leaders in California's fight to contain the coronavirus. First came Gov. Gavin Newsom, who won plaudits for issuing the first statewide stay-at-home order in the U.… → Read More
Politicians eat own words after dining out, taking trips
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Their messaging has been clear: wear a mask, stay 6 feet apart, and most importantly: stay home! But their actions aren't living up to the rhetoric, creating a real political problem for some of the most vocal leaders in California's fight to contain the coronavirus. First came Gov. Gavin Newsom, who won plaudits for issuing the first statewide stay-at-home order in the U.… → Read More
Fires rage, evacuations underway in Vacaville, Calif.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Thousands of people were under orders to evacuate in regions surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area Wednesday as nearly 40 wildfires blazed across the state amid a blistering heat wave now in its second week. Smoke blanketed the city of San Francisco. Police and firefighters went door-to-door before dawn Wednesday in a frantic scramble to warn residents to evacuate as fire… → Read More
Rural California county hums back to life, defying order
ALTURAS, Calif. (AP) — At the Brass Rail, two neon signs were beaming “OPEN" Friday, as the town and county slowly hummed to life, the first to do so in California in defiance of Gov. Gavin Newsom's order to stay home. About a dozen customers were in the bar of the Basque restaurant — the only portion open so far — eager to be back among friends and neighbors after a six-week shutdown mandated… → Read More
California Cities Want Transparency Rules Waived in Pandemic
Citing unprecedented challenges created by the coronavirus pandemic, city officials across California are asking Gov. Gavin Newsom to suspend or delay numerous... → Read More
San Francisco official charged with corruption in FBI probe
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A top San Francisco public official and go-to bureaucrat to mayors over two decades was charged with public corruption Tuesday, upending City Hall as elected leaders scrambled... → Read More
Iconic cable cars to shut down for repairs in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco's iconic cable cars will stop running for 10 days starting Friday while they undergo the final repairs in a three-year restoration project of the gearboxes that propel the world-famous system up the city's notoriously steep hills. Shuttle buses will run along the three cable car routes where historic cars typically travel at a steady 9. 5 miles (15 kilometers)… → Read More
Court reverses sole conviction in San Francisco pier killing by illegal immigrant
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California state appeals court on Friday threw out the sole conviction against an immigrant who fatally shot a young woman on the San Francisco waterfront in 2015 in a case that sparked a national immigration debate. Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate was acquitted of murder in the killing of Kate Steinle, who was walking on a pier with her father when she was struck by a bullet in… → Read More
New Zealand bans ‘military-style’ guns after mosque attacks
The government of New Zealand announced a ban on “military-style” semi-automatic firearms and high-capacity magazines Thursday, just a week after such weapons were used in attacks on two mosques in… → Read More
New Zealand police: Mosque gunman was on his way to a 3rd attack when officers stopped him
Police said Wednesday they believe the gunman was on his way to a third attack when officers ran him off the road and arrested him. → Read More
New Zealand police: Mosque gunman had planned a 3rd attack
A father and son who fled the civil war in Syria for "the safest country in the world" were buried before hundreds of mourners Wednesday, the first funerals for victims of shootings at two mosques in New Zealand that horrified a nation known for being welcoming and diverse. → Read More