A Vacaville man charged with three 2020 murders — two of them related to a series of wildland fires that swept over parts of Solano County in August that year — entered a no-contest plea in exchange for a stipulated prison sentence of 73 years to life.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/12/triple-murder-plea-in-2020-norcal-wildfire-arson-case/

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Two people were wounded by gunfire while they dined at a restaurant in downtown Oakland.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/03/oakland-shoot-crime-gun-restaurant-office-police-hospital-downtown/

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In the months and years after 9/11, going to the U.S. was scary for many of us. Border security became harsh and unforgiving, and we could feel our rights drop away upon entering American airspace. Novels were written and movies were made about how an encounter with hostile, suspicious border officials could radicalize even those […]

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/07/sharma-why-im-thinking-twice-about-traveling-to-the-us/

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Why do Americans have such deep distrust of their government? It’s a simple question with a complex answer, but here’s part of the reason: All too often, the government wrongfully inflicts profound harm on American citizens and then leaves them with no recourse. It violates the law and leaves its victims with no way to […]

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/06/french-real-reasons-why-people-fear-their-government/

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Status is tarnished by a jaded reception from the average resident facing rising housing, health care and food costs.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/09/opinion-fourth-largest-economy-californians-cant-afford-housing-health-care/

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President Trump's head of Health and Human Services continues to peddle dangerous remedies and ignore proven solutions.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/08/jarvis-rfk-jr-s-measles-strategy-is-leading-the-u-s-down-a-dark-path/

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A driver who fled the scene after his vehicle struck and killed an electric scooter rider in Oakland Sunday morning is being sought.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/05/scooter-rider-killed-in-oakland-hit-and-run/

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No words can better capture the reality in Gaza today than this: We are dying. Every day, in every imaginable way, we die. Death comes by missile, by gunshot, by collapsed building, by lack of medicine and by fear. And now, once again, it will come by hunger as Israel has closed off humanitarian supplies— […]

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/02/opinion-out-of-food-and-under-constant-attack-we-gazans-are-dying-every-day/

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The president's concern for Jews is a sly, barely veiled pretext to attack liberal institutions.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/01/goldberg-i-cant-believe-anyone-thinks-trump-actually-cares-about-antisemitism/

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Trump not only blinked, but he so alienated our allies that many may never align with us against China in the same way.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/11/friedman-what-trump-just-cost-america/

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LAFAYETTE — County officials are finalizing accuracy tests on tabulation machines that will tally the Acalanes Union High School District’s special election on May 6 for a ballot measure that’s sparked indignation among some taxpayers and a Superior Court judge. The district is asking roughly 87,000 voters to approve Measure T, a parcel tax that […]

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/10/acalanes-school-district-vote-tax/

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Catch Hiromi's Sonicwonder in concert at SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco, Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/04/hiromi-concerts-sfjazz-san-francisco-kuumbwa-santa-cruz/

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San Jose has established a no encampment zone around a recently opened interim housing site at Branham Lane and Monterey Road.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/03/san-jose-enforcement-encampment-zone-interim-housing-site/

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"It's definitely a dream come true," Danielle Mendoza says of the chance to perform "Six" in front of family and friends in San Francisco and San Jose.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/01/broadway-tour-six-san-jose-san-francisco/

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Russia's defeats and Hegseth's group texts demonstrate the perils of a military organized around pleasing the boss.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/02/french-what-russian-tanks-can-teach-us-about-the-pete-hegseth-group-chat/

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Authorities had no update on another person who was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/17/two-of-three-san-leandro-residents-who-died-in-massive-east-bay-fire-identified/

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Bay Area is under an updated wind advisory which was released by the National Weather Service on Sunday at 1:11 p.m. The advisory is valid from 5 p.m. until Monday, Mar. 17 at 2 a.m.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/16/update-wind-advisory-issued-for-bay-area-until-2-a-m-monday/

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There is currently no Red Line service between Daly City and Millbrae and no Yellow Line service between Colma and Millbrae.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/16/bart-service-temporarily-suspended-on-sfo-millbrae-line/

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The raid was part of increased efforts by Oakland police to tackle illegal gambling in town.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/15/not-your-typical-rv-oakland-police-raid-illicit-casino-on-wheels/

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Yosemite is included in a winter weather advisory issued by the National Weather Service on Saturday at 10:08 a.m. The advisory is valid from Sunday 11 p.m. until Monday, Mar. 17 at 11 p.m.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/15/winter-weather-advisory-in-place-for-yosemite-for-sunday-and-monday-up-to-12-inches-of-snow/

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ESPN star shows how to blend charisma, passion, knowledge, controversy and humor to provoke conversation and debate.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/14/opinion-democrats-do-not-ignore-stephen-a-smith/

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Americans seem fine with a felon who attacks our rule of law and the global system. Just don't mess with egg prices.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/11/opinion-the-thing-that-could-be-donald-trumps-undoing/

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Delta is included in an updated wind advisory issued by the National Weather Service on Wednesday at 12:57 p.m. The advisory is in effect until 11 p.m.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/12/update-delta-under-a-wind-advisory-until-wednesday-night/

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Local cookbooks and rare titles from the 1940s feature in the March 15-16 sale at The Bookmark, which benefits the Oakland Public Library.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/10/the-oakland-library-is-selling-off-5000-cookbooks-including-historic-ones/

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(CNN) — From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, each taller than the Statue of Liberty.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/13/this-alien-like-field-of-mirrors-in-the-desert-was-once-the-future-of-solar-energy-its-closing-after-just-11-years/

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