Author: Haven Daley
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Suspect in shootings at N. Calif. farms was employee
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. • An agricultural worker killed seven people in back-to-back shooting sprees at two mushroom farms that had employed him in Northern California, and the massacre is believed to be a “workplace violence incident,” officials said Tuesday as the state mourned its third mass killing in eight days. Officers arrested a suspect…
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At San Francisco restaurant, pups chow on filet mignon
SAN FRANCISCO • San Francisco is a foodie heaven with plenty of Michelin-starred restaurants. And San Franciscans love dogs. So it might come as no surprise that an entrepreneur has decided to combine the two passions, creating what’s believed to be the first restaurant exclusively for man’s best friend. Dogue, which rhymes with vogue, opened…
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Firefighters make gains against deadly California fire
KLAMATH RIVER, Calif. • California firefighters made gains against the state’s deadliest and largest wildfire of the year just as an entire eastern Washington town was being evacuated Thursday because of a blaze that was burning homes. About 1:30 p.m. the Adams County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook that about 10 homes in Lind had…
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Pilot crashes, dies fighting California wildfires
VACAVILLE, Calif. • A pilot battling a fire in central California died after his helicopter crashed Wednesday morning. Cal Fire said in a statement that a Call When Needed helicopter crashed while fighting a wildfire in western Fresno County. The Bell UH-1H helicopter was on a water dropping mission on the Hills fire, about 9…
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Was engineer in fatal Amtrak wreck distracted?
DUPONT, Wash. — Federal investigators in the deadly Amtrak wreck want to know whether the engineer was distracted by a second person in his cab as his train hurtled into a curve at more than twice the speed limit. Three people were killed Monday when the train barreled into a 30 mph zone at 80…
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Official: Train brake automatically activated in fatal wreck
DUPONT, Wash. — Investigators are looking into whether the Amtrak engineer whose speeding train plunged off an overpass, killing at least three people, was distracted by the presence of an employee-in-training next to him in the locomotive, a federal official said Tuesday. The official, who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke…
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Toking up while working out: Pair plan gym allowing pot use
NOVATO, Calif. — A former pro football star and an advocate for athlete marijuana use have teamed up to open a gym in San Francisco that they say will be one of the first in the world to allow members to smoke pot while working out. Former running back Ricky Williams, who played for the…
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Robin Williams, boisterous comedy star, dead at 63
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Robin Williams, a brilliant shapeshifter who could channel his frenetic energy into delightful comic characters like “Mrs. Doubtfire” or harness it into richly nuanced work like his Oscar-winning turn in “Good Will Hunting,” died Monday in an apparent suicide. He was 63. Williams was pronounced dead at his San Francisco Bay…