{"id":290930,"date":"2026-04-29T05:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/290930\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T05:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:14:11","slug":"crews-begin-disassembling-vaillancourt-fountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/290930\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews Begin Disassembling Vaillancourt Fountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    Local:A San Mateo County judge declined to review new evidence in the case against Scott Peterson in the 2004 murder of his pregnant wife and unborn child. Peterson also has a separate habeas petition, alleging he was denied the right to a fair trial due to juror misconduct, which is pending in the California Supreme Court. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/news\/california\/scott-peterson-trial\/judge-refuses-to-review-scott-petersons-claim-of-innocence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KRON4<\/a>]Several gubernatorial candidates \u2014 the largest number yet \u2014 will be discussing topics such as gas prices, housing, insurance, education Tuesday night in Southern California, ahead of the June 2 primary election. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/live-updates\/california-governor-primary-debate-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KPIX<\/a>]A suspect and his sister were arrested in connection to the 1991 murder of Cindy Wanner, a woman who disappeared from her home near Sacramento and was found dead in the Sierra Nevada foothills. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/04\/28\/cindy-wanner-murder-sierra\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area News Group<\/a>]National:The religious group Falun Gong is suing Cisco Systems Inc, which they say aided the Chinese government in creating a censorship program to spy on and harm its members, which has reached the Supreme Court. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/28\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-falun-gong-tech.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>]The Federal Communications Commission is putting extra pressure on ABC and Disney following ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s joke about Melanie Trump, as part of its yearlong investigation into Disney\u2019s DEI practices. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/fcc-direct-disney-owned-tv-stations-file-early-license-renewals-source-rcna342507\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News<\/a>]As part of the US\u2019s 250th anniversary, the State Department is releasing new design options for residents\u2019 passports, including one featuring President Donald Trump\u2019s face. [<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5853943-trump-face-passport-design\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill<\/a>]Video of the Day:<\/p>\n<p>As the Vaillancourt Fountain is currently being disassembled, many in the local skateboarding community have been reminiscing about the times spent doing tricks on the structure, like this 2023 photo shoot for Thrasher when Zach \u201cDucky\u201d Kovacs skated down the side and landed in the water. [<a href=\"https:\/\/sf.gazetteer.co\/the-skater-who-refused-to-bail-on-the-vaillancourt-fountain\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gazetteer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sanfrancisco\/comments\/1sy15br\/finally\/#lightbox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local:A San Mateo County judge declined to review new evidence in the case against Scott Peterson in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-290930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}