Madilynne Medina

San Francisco

News Reporter at SFGate

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Ro Khanna slams Bay Area school district in social media post

1 day ago | sfgate.com | Madilynne Medina

In a Monday post on X that went viral, Khanna said it “was absurd” that the Palo Alto Unified School District removed both the honors biology course and the honors English course. “They call it de-laning. I call it an assault on excellence,” the congressman wrote. “I took many honors classes at Council Rock High in [Pennsylvania].”Though his tweet came months after the school district made the decision, Khanna told SFGATE that he made the social media post after hearing concerns from parents.
3 shot over the weekend near Fox Theater in Oakland

2 days ago | fresnobee.com | Madilynne Medina

May 12-Three people were shot in Oakland's Uptown neighborhood near the the Fox Theater early Sunday morning, police said. The shooting happened just after 1:15 a.m. at 19th Street and Telegraph Avenue, the Oakland Police Department told SFGATE in an email. The gunshots set off multiple ShotSpotter activation alerts and prompted several 911 calls. Patrol officers who were nearby on the 1700 block of Broadway heard the shots and drove to area, OPD said.
‘Icon in the neighborhood’: Century-old SF hardware store to close

2 days ago | sanluisobispo.com | Madilynne Medina

May 12-A nearly 120-year-old San Francisco hardware store is set to close by the end of the month after struggling to generate enough revenue. Pacific Heights Hardware, at 2828 California St., across the road from buzzy bakery B. Patisserie, has been "consistently slow" over the past few years, Lisa Schmid, an employee at the hardware store, told SFGATE. "We just didn't have a lot of people coming by, and so it was just costing us more money than we were getting," Schmid said in a phone interview.
3 shot over the weekend near Fox Theater in Oakland

2 days ago | modbee.com | Madilynne Medina

May 12-Three people were shot in Oakland's Uptown neighborhood near the the Fox Theater early Sunday morning, police said. The shooting happened just after 1:15 a.m. at 19th Street and Telegraph Avenue, the Oakland Police Department told SFGATE in an email. The gunshots set off multiple ShotSpotter activation alerts and prompted several 911 calls. Patrol officers who were nearby on the 1700 block of Broadway heard the shots and drove to area, OPD said.
‘Icon in the neighborhood’: Century-old SF hardware store to close

2 days ago | modbee.com | Madilynne Medina

May 12-A nearly 120-year-old San Francisco hardware store is set to close by the end of the month after struggling to generate enough revenue. Pacific Heights Hardware, at 2828 California St., across the road from buzzy bakery B. Patisserie, has been "consistently slow" over the past few years, Lisa Schmid, an employee at the hardware store, told SFGATE. "We just didn't have a lot of people coming by, and so it was just costing us more money than we were getting," Schmid said in a phone interview.
'Icon in the neighborhood': Century-old SF hardware store to close

2 days ago | sfgate.com | Madilynne Medina

“We just didn’t have a lot of people coming by, and so it was just costing us more money than we were getting,” Schmid said in a phone interview. The store, which opened in 1907, was taken over by Ammar Swalim in 2022, Schmid said. SFGATE spoke with local customers who praised Swalim and the store, but still, Schmid said, business failed to pick up over the past two years.
3 shot over the weekend near Fox Theater in Oakland

2 days ago | sfgate.com | Madilynne Medina

Three people were shot in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood near the the Fox Theater early Sunday morning, police said. The shooting happened just after 1:15 a.m. at 19th Street and Telegraph Avenue, the Oakland Police Department told SFGATE in an email. The gunshots set off multiple ShotSpotter activation alerts and prompted several 911 calls. Patrol officers who were nearby on the 1700 block of Broadway heard the shots and drove to area, OPD said.
Reports: Man accused of Bay Area attempted kidnappings tells officials it was a prank

6 days ago | sanluisobispo.com | Madilynne Medina

May 8-A 19-year-old Bay Area man accused of attempting to kidnap multiple women pleaded no contest Tuesday, court documents show, after telling authorities he was just "pranking" them, the Sacramento Bee reported. The man was initially charged with five counts of attempted kidnapping, one count of assault and one count of cruelty to a child by inflicting injury, according to a complaint filed in January and obtained by SFGATE.
California gas prices soar after one of Bay Area's few refineries catches fire

6 days ago | sfgate.com | Madilynne Medina

Gas prices in California have already gone up several cents, according to data from AAA, since the fire at the Valero refinery in Benicia, which is one of the nine refineries left in California that produces gasoline. A week ago, the state average was $4.777 per gallon of regular gas and as of May 8, the average is $4.826, the data shows.
Man accused of Bay Area attempted kidnappings tells officials it was a prank

6 days ago | sfgate.com | Madilynne Medina

A 19-year-old Bay Area man accused of attempting to kidnap multiple women pleaded no contest Tuesday, court documents show, after telling authorities he was just “pranking” them, the Sacramento Bee reported. The man was initially charged with five counts of attempted kidnapping, one count of assault and one count of cruelty to a child by inflicting injury, according to a complaint filed in January and obtained by SFGATE.