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kqed.org | Katie DeBenedetti |Riley Cooke
Apr 18Failed to save articlePlease try againOakland City Hall in downtown Oakland on Aug. 2, 2023. The Oakland Public Ethics Commission’s executive director announced his resignation months after the agency’s chief investigator quit, citing a severe lack of resources.
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kqed.org | Katie DeBenedetti |Sara Hossaini
Mar 17Failed to save articlePlease try againThe Dublin Federal Correctional Institution on Sept. 13, 2019, in Dublin, California. Darrell Wayne Smith is the final former FCI Dublin official to face trial after a sprawling abuse investigation into the now-shuttered federal prison. His criminal trial began Monday.
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kqed.org | Alex Emslie |Katie DeBenedetti
Mar 14Failed to save articlePlease try againAn Antioch Police vehicle sits in the parking lot of the Antioch Police Department on March 3, 2025. Former APD officer Morteza Amiri was found guilty of violating a single person’s civil rights and falsifying a police report, but acquitted of engaging in a broader conspiracy to use excessive force. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)Amiri’s sentencing on the two guilty counts is set for June, according to his attorney, Paul Goyette.
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kqed.org | Katie DeBenedetti |Sara Hossaini
Mar 12Failed to save articlePlease try againThe Antioch Police Department in Antioch on March 3, 2025. The jury in the federal trial of former Antioch police officer Morteza Amiri will now decide whether the evidence is enough to find that Amiri conspired to violate civil rights, used unreasonable force on three specific occasions, and falsified records on one of those occasions.
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kqed.org | Katie DeBenedetti |Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí
Mar 6Failed to save articlePlease try againAn employee, who did not want to be named, hangs up bags for sale at Luz de Luna, a gift store on 24th Street, in San Francisco, on March 5, 2025. Owner Denise Gonzales says about 70% of the products sold in her store are imported from Mexico. Amid a back-and-forth over tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, many San Francisco small businesses that sell handmade goods, clothes, food and other items are rattled.
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kqed.org | Ericka Cruz Guevarra |Katie DeBenedetti |Alan Montecillo |Jessica Kariisa
Alexandria Poole, right, comforts Navie Davis, left, as she becomes emotional while making a public comment to the Oakland Unified School District Board about a proposed merger during a meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland, California, on Dec. 11, 2024. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)
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kqed.org | Ericka Cruz Guevarra |Katie DeBenedetti |Jessica Kariisa |Alexander Gonzalez
Ericka Cruz GuevarraKatie DeBenedettiJessica KariisaAlexander GonzalezFeb 21Failed to save articlePlease try againHundreds of students, alumni and faculty gather for a rally and virtual town hall, protesting against the school’s budget cuts, at Sonoma State’s Seawolf Plaza, in Rohnert Park, California, on Thursday, Jan 30, 2025.
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kqed.org | Katie DeBenedetti |Sara Hossaini
Feb 16Failed to save articlePlease try againSigns cover the fence in front of Spring Valley Science Elementary School in San Francisco on Oct. 10, 2024. San Francisco and Oakland school districts continue to face severe budget challenges, struggling with declining enrollment, rising costs and financial instability statewide. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)Oakland public school parents, teachers and students packed La Escuelita Elementary School’s gym in December, ready for a fight.
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kqed.org | Katie DeBenedetti |Riley Cooke
Feb 12Failed to save articlePlease try againA pedestrian carrying an umbrella on Mission Street on Feb. 4, 2025. San Francisco and the South Bay, which were spared by the worst of previous storms, are expected to be hit hard by rain this week. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)Showers are expected to start in the North Bay and San Francisco on Wednesday evening, growing more powerful around 7 p.m. before reaching the South Bay a few hours later.
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kqed.org | Katie DeBenedetti |Natalia V. Navarro
Feb 8Failed to save articlePlease try againElon Musk in March 22, 2022.
Staffers with Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) reportedly entered the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the Department of Commerce in Washington DC today, inciting concerns of downsizing at the agency.
