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The Alameda County Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted a resolution Tuesday to oppose the reopening of a shuttered prison in Dublin for any correctional operations, including the detention of immigrants.
Supervisors David Haubert and Elisa Marquez introduced the resolution in response to reports that the federal government might repurpose the defunct federal correctional institution as an immigration detention facility.
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According to a letter submitted by Haubert and Marquez to the board on March 17, FCI Dublin was a low-security women’s prison that was closed in 2024 due to staff misconduct, inadequate oversight, and infrastructure issues.
One of the major reasons for the closure of the facility was the rampant sexual abuse of the incarcerated women at the hands of prison guards.
“Since the closure of FCI Dublin,” said the letter. “Credible reports and public speculation have suggested that the federal government or federal contractors may be considering reactivating the site for detention or correctional operations. These operations include, but are not limited to, the use as an immigration detention facility operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”
At Tuesday’s meeting, Haubert pointed to the systemic issues that led to the closure of FCI Dublin as potential safety risks for any individuals detained there. The board heard public comment on the resolution for over an hour, and all the speakers supported the resolution.
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When the motion was put to a vote, it passed unanimously.
A San Francisco man was convicted of animal cruelty for repeatedly kicking a dog, the District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday.
Aljerone Green, 33, was found guilty by a jury of kicking a small dog multiple times in the hallway of an SRO last September.
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According to prosecutors, on Sept. 18, Green opened the door of his apartment on Mason Street to look at his neighbor’s dog that was barking in the hallway. The interaction between Green and the dog, a Papillion mix about the size of a Pomeranian, was captured on surveillance footage. Green could be seen staring at the dog for over a minute, then he went and grabbed a cutting board, which he threw at it. Green then crouched over the dog and yelled at it while it cowered and tried to run away. Green chased it and began to kick it, chasing it up and down the hallway, kicking it a total of 11 times, several of which were against a wall.
Prosecutors did not provide sentencing dates or other information about the case. There is no record of Green being in custody currently.
Southwest Airlines launched new flights from Charles M. Schulz – Sonoma County airport on Tuesday, connecting California’s wine country with the airline’s sprawling network across the United States.
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Santa Rosa passengers, community leaders, and local businesspeople gathered to celebrate the arrival of a new airline at the airport alongside hometown mascot Snoopy and plenty of groundside festivities.
Airport Manager Jon Stout said he has been working to bring Southwest to Santa Rosa for over 15 years. He said the departure of Avelo Airlines last year created an opportunity for Southwest to begin operations from the airport.
“We’re looking at a 30% increase in seats for the next three quarters of this year,” said Stout.
The airport handled over 386,489 passengers in 2025 — a 61% increase from 2019 levels.
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Southwest is one of the largest airlines in the U.S. by passengers carried, with over 166 million people flying the airline in 2025. It operates a large hub from nearby Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport but primarily runs on a point-to-point model that directly connects cities without requiring layovers.
The airline will connect Sonoma County to San Diego, Las Vegas, Denver, and Burbank with nonstop service.
Southwest Chief Operating Officer Andrew Watterson said Santa Rosa will be the airline’s 14th destination in California. He said the new routes will expand their offerings and not interfere with their services from other Bay Area airports.
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In the span of one day, President Donald Trump threatened to enforce his Easter threat and wipe out the Iranian civilization by an 8 p.m. Tuesday deadline before pulling back after Pakistan intervened with a cease fire proposal.
On Tuesday morning, Trump continued to demand that Iran open the Strait of Hormuz to shipping traffic and threatened that if it did not, he would bomb bridges, power plants and other civilian infrastructure.
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” he said in a social media post.
Throughout Tuesday, Bay Area activists, elected officials and others pushed Congress to end the war, urged military leaders to refuse unlawful orders and demanded Trump’s removal from office.
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Several officials and advocacy groups criticized the president’s rhetoric throughout the day.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk issued a statement Tuesday calling for a stop to the incendiary rhetoric.
U.S. Rep. John Garamendi, D-Fairfield, a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, issued a statement calling the president “unhinged and completely out of control.”
“Donald Trump’s instability is clearer and more dangerous than ever,” Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said. “If the Cabinet is not willing to invoke the 25th Amendment and restore sanity, Republicans must reconvene Congress to end this war.”
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U.S. Rep. Jimmy Panetta, D-Santa Cruz, said the president’s threat “reeks of desperation and depravity.”
Multiple people were displaced Tuesday night after a fire broke out in a large Oakland apartment complex, the Fire Department said.
Just before 8 p.m., crews were called to 200 Fairmont Avenue on a report of a fire in a 66-unit building, according to Battalion Chief Anthony Sanders.
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When firefighters arrived, smoke and flames were visible from an upper unit where people were trapped inside, Sanders said.
A second alarm was called as crews attempted to move hoses to the upper areas of the complex. The fire originated in one unit and then spread to the one above it, affecting a total of four units. In all residents of up to 12 units in the building were displaced due to smoke and fire damage, Sanders said.
No one was injured but a cat died in the blaze.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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San Francisco Supervisor Bilal Mahmood introduced legislation Tuesday to prohibit the sale of uncertified lithium-ion batteries, which have been blamed for causing numerous fires in the city in recent years.
“This measure is intended to prevent dangerous and fast-moving fires before they start, particularly in dense residential buildings where a single battery failure can threaten dozens of residents,” Mahmood said at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting.
Lithium-ion batteries are used to power e-bikes and other electronically powered mobility devices. But people can purchase replacement batteries that do not meet the safety standards required for many electronic devices.
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These uncertified batteries have become a growing culprit of fires in the city, according to the San Francisco Fire Department. In the last five years, over 120 fires in San Francisco were started by uncertified lithium-ion batteries.
“Lithium-ion batteries are incredibly dangerous if improperly stored or improperly charged,” said Fire Chief Dean Crispen in a social media video with Mahmood.
The measure would make it illegal to buy uncertified lithium-ion batteries in stores and online in San Francisco. It would also give the fire department the authority to cite violators up to $1,000.
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Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI has offered plenty of twists and turns since its dramatic filing in San Francisco state court in February 2024.
On Tuesday, twenty days before trial begins in the Oakland federal courthouse where the case is now pending, Musk added another: he isn’t seeking anything for himself.
In the underlying case, Musk sued OpenAI, the artificial intelligence developer he cofounded with Altman and funded with charitable contributions, alleging that Altman perverted the original nonprofit mission to develop AI “for the benefit of humanity.”
In a surprise filing Tuesday that amended an earlier notice of the “remedies” he was seeking in the case, Musk said he will not seek “a remedy directed to benefiting himself personally.”
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In addition, he said that if he proves at trial that Altman and the other defendants are liable for breaching the charitable mission, he will ask the court to impose a suite of “equitable remedies.”
The remedies would remove Altman as CEO and director of OpenAI as well as require the enterprise to honor its original charitable undertaking and operate for the benefit of humanity and not for the financial benefit of any individual.
The proposed remedies would also require Altman and co-founder Gregory Brockman to give up their financial benefits from OpenAI and compel Microsoft – accused of aiding and abetting the breach of OpenAI’s charitable mission – to give up its allegedly ill-gotten gains.
Finally, in the most far reaching of the proposed remedies, Musk called for the restoration of the company’s original nonprofit structure and the complete unwinding of the for-profit enterprise that currently operates OpenAI’s commercial development of artificial intelligence. Such a structural change would likely undo the company’s Oct. 2025 restructuring previously greenlighted by the attorneys general of California and Delaware, the states with regulatory authority over OpenAI’s charitable mission.
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Hundreds of San Mateo County workers and elected officials rallied Tuesday in Redwood City to demand that the state of California pay the county millions of dollars in owed funding.
According to the county, it has so far been shorted about $157 million of legally owed funding from the state.
“We’re not going to take no for an answer when it comes to restoring the money that is owed to the cities and county of San Mateo,” said San Mateo County Supervisor Jackie Speier in a speech. “This is a simple question about fairness, and we are demanding fairness, Governor Newsom.”
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The money was supposed to go to the county and its cities as part of a 2004 budget agreement known as the Vehicle License Fee Swap, or VLF Swap, in which local governments and counties gave up their vehicle license fee revenues to help the state close its budget deficit.
In exchange, cities and counties agreed to receive annual property tax allocations known as the Vehicle License Fee Adjustment Amount, or VLFAA.
But due to an “outdated” and “broken” funding mechanism, the state has repeatedly singled out San Mateo County, neglecting to pay the money in full for several years, the county said.
With budget discussions and decisions soon approaching in the county and its cities, the need to secure the rest of the obligated funding from the state is immediate, local officials said.
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A large crowd — including local elected officials, service workers, county employees, and police and firefighters from across the county — gathered in front of a fire station in downtown Redwood City in a show of regional solidarity. Local leaders from throughout the county spoke about how communities could be impacted if they do not receive the funding.
“Sacramento promised replacement of the funds to the counties and cities whose funding was cut,” said San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President Noelia Corzo. “That promise has been honored in almost every other county in the state, all of which are being paid in full. But the residents in San Mateo County are no longer being paid.”
San Francisco police briefly shut down a section of Hyde Street near Eddy Street Tuesday morning after finding a suspected explosive device during a traffic stop.
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At about 7:15 a.m., officers saw a man commit some kind of traffic violation and pulled him over.
During the stop, officers learned that he had eight outstanding warrants for his arrest and was allegedly in possession of “a destructive or explosive device,” police said.
The San Francisco Police Department’s Explosive Ordinance Disposal team was called in and “rendered the device safe,” police said.
The driver was booked into San Francisco County Jail on suspicion of the traffic violation, resisting arrest, possession of a destructive device, possession of burglary tools and on the outstanding warrants.
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Hyde Street between Eddy and Ellis streets was reopen to traffic at about 8:40 a.m.
Marin County officials will host a job resources event this weekend in Point Reyes Station aimed at connecting West Marin residents with employment opportunities.
The West Marin Connect Partnership event is scheduled from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Dance Palace.
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Government agencies and private companies will provide information about job openings, internships and job retraining programs.
Attendees can speak directly with employers about available positions.
The program is organized by the County of Marin, the office of Supervisor Dennis Rodoni, the Small Business Development Center and the West Marin Fund. Organizers say the goal is to expand access to employment resources for residents in coastal communities.
The event is free and open to the public. Activities for children, live music, prizes and food will be provided.
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The Dance Palace is located at 503 B St. in downtown Point Reyes Station.
A 32-year-old man died after being shot early Tuesday morning in Stockton, police said.
Officers responded around 5:09 a.m. to reports of a shooting in the 7600 block of Pacific Avenue in the city’s Lakeview District. They found the victim suffering from gunshot wounds, the Stockton Police Department said in a statement on social media.
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He was taken to a hospital, where he later died.
No suspect information was immediately available. Police said they are investigating his death as homicide.
The National Weather Service forecast for the greater San Francisco Bay Area for Wednesday calls for mostly sunny skies during the day and mostly cloudy skies at night, with fog in some parts of the region.
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Daytime highs will be mostly in the high 60s to high 70s along the coast and around the bay, and in the high 70s to low 80s inland. Overnight lows will be in the low to mid 50s.
Warmer-than-normal temps and dry weather will continue across the Bay Area on Wednesday before a shift to wetter conditions later this week, forecasters say.
According to the NWS, a modest marine layer will bring a cloudy start along the coast and in some inland valleys on Wednesday morning, followed by afternoon highs about 5 to 10 degrees above normal across much of the region.
Unsettled weather is expected to return as early as Thursday and continue through the weekend, bringing light to moderate rainfall to the Bay Area and Central Coast, the weather service says.
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There is also a chance of thunderstorms from Friday through Sunday as the weather pattern becomes more active.
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