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Jan 7, 2025 | 
nbcsandiego.com | Bigad Shaban |Michael Bott |Jeremy Carroll
Blasting Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone for his steadfast refusal to release a list of suspected abusers within the ranks of San Francisco clergy, abuse survivors and their attorneys publicly named living priests who they say abused them for years. One of the priests, Reverend Lawrence Finegan, was named in a 2022 lawsuit filed by Sandra Oldfield, who alleges she was sexually abused as a teenager by Finegan.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
nbcbayarea.com | Candice Nguyen |Michael Bott |Jeremy Carroll |Michael Horn |Robbie Beasom |Michael Campbell
As Santa Clara County supervisors consider a proposed artificial turf ban on county-owned land, parents and activists are pointing to the disposal of a local high school’s old field to highlight emerging concerns that plastic fields can’t be meaningfully recycled and come with a host of potential environmental consequences.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Candice Nguyen |Michael Bott |Jeremy Carroll
California is in the midst of a massive overhaul of its aging, landline-based 911 emergency call system, with project leaders promising the ground-breaking “Next Generation 911” (NG911) network will suffer fewer outages, deliver improved location accuracy, and better connect more than 440 emergency call centers across the state.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
nbcsandiego.com | Candice Nguyen |Jeremy Carroll
If there is one person who understands the importance of a silent alarm button on a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority bus, it’s VTA operator Carlos Zarate. Recently, NBC Bay Area showed surveillance video of Zarate’s horrifying close call with a machete-wielding passenger in San Jose. “He told me to make this U-turn or else you're going to start bleeding. And that's when I decided to do what he said,” Zarate said.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
nbcsandiego.com | Bigad Shaban |Michael Bott |Jeremy Carroll
The company responsible for spilling raw meat across Interstate 880 in Oakland last month is a Texas-based animal rendering company with a long history of accidentally dumping animal carcasses, blood, and meat parts across U.S. roadways, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has confirmed through the California Highway Patrol.
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May 23, 2024 | 
movieguide.org | Jeremy Carroll
4000+ Faith Based Articles and Movie Reviews – Will you Support Us? Our small team works tirelessly to provide resources to protect families from harmful media, reviewing 415 movies/shows and writing 3,626 uplifting articles this year. We believe that the gospel can transform entertainment. That’s why we emphasize positive and faith-filled articles and entertainment news, and release hundreds of Christian movie reviews to the public, for free.
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May 22, 2024 | 
nbcbayarea.com | Bigad Shaban |Michael Bott |Jeremy Carroll |Michael Horn
In San Francisco, one of the nation’s largest testing grounds for driverless vehicles, school crossing guards say they have had to rush out of crosswalks to avoid being hit by self-driving cars. “I just don’t think it’s very safe,” said Theresa Dorn, a school crossing guard of 11 years. Dorn says driverless vehicles operated by Google’s sister company, Waymo, have nearly struck her on three separate occasions over the past year while she was guiding children and their families along crosswalks.
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May 16, 2024 | 
nbcbayarea.com | Sean Myers |Candice Nguyen |Jeremy Carroll
From homicides, to shootings and car break-ins, Oakland police say crime is trending down. Even amid signs of progress, people have still reported about 20 car break-ins on average every day this year, according to the Oakland Police Department’s (OPD) CrimeWatch database. But one might miss that detail when looking at the department’s weekly crime summary posted on its website. For instance, OPD’s crime reports show 10 car break-ins during the week of April 8, 2024.
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May 9, 2024 | 
nbcbayarea.com | Christine Ni |Janelle Wang |Jeremy Carroll
Celebrating AANHPI heritage also is understanding our history and where we come from. What’s in a name? That’s the question generations of “paper sons” and “paper daughters” have asked when discussing identity, an identity they had to fake because of exclusion. Many Chinese immigrants entered the United States with fake documents during the Chinese exclusion era. Two families share their stories about hiding their identity in search of a better life with Janelle Wang.
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May 7, 2024 | 
nbcbayarea.com | Bigad Shaban |Michael Horn |Jeremy Carroll
Lawmakers in San Francisco are scheduled to vote Tuesday on a first-in-the-nation type of ban, prohibiting the use of protective fire equipment containing chemicals believed to cause cancer. “We're not willing to negotiate how long we will continue poisoning people,” said Adam Wood, Vice President of the San Francisco Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation.
