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I cover East Bay courts for the East Bay Times. If you like bad news I’m your guy.
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NEW: A growing right-wing movement is trying to overturn Supreme Court precedents that protect the media’s ability to investigate politicians and other powerful people. It might succeed. An inside look, adapted from my forthcoming book MURDER THE TRUTH. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/m...

I wonder which paper is based in a state where logging is one of the top industries?

The FBI on Friday gave President Trump the boxes of materials the bureau had seized during a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in 2022, the White House announced.

DC U.S. Attorney Ed Martin personally asked a judge for authorization to seize funds related to a Biden administration green program. The judge said they failed to show a reasonable belief that a crime occurred. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

“all four men could be connected back to Tennessee Active Club leader Sean Kauffmann” www.alreporter.com/2025/02/25/a...

‘He’s destroying my brand’: SF’s Museum of Failure is a mess before it even opens

Since Prop. 36 took effect, some counties have been scrambling to implement the measure without new funding or sufficient resources. Meanwhile, hundreds have been charged and incarcerated. cal.news/4hT13gR 📝 Cayla Mihalovich

Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

New testimony and records in the Idaho murders case show how the FBI identified Bryan Kohberger as a potential suspect after tapping into consumer DNA databases that were supposed to be off limits. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

Antioch police is investigating a sergeant over a report the DA kept secret for more than a year. Totally bizarre story all around: www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/25/a...

NEW: DOGE quietly deletes the five largest spending cuts it had been celebrating last week. All of them contained errors that wildly over-inflated how much had been saved. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

Breaking News: The Supreme Court granted a new trial to a death row inmate in Oklahoma, ruling that prosecutors had failed to correct false testimony.

Helping out @mclaughlinnews.bsky.social this morning https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/25/danny-mullen-youtube-san-francisco-doge-fake-worker/ #SanFrancisco #sfnews

Las Vegas police have accused a man of kidnapping the owner of a company where his wife worked after an investigation found she had stole $20 million from the business.

#NEW: Judge takes shots at ex DA Price as he dismisses enhancements over allegations of political shakedown: www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/02/24/d...

Exclusive: ‘No one left’: HUD staff cuts could disrupt millions in homeless funding sfstandard.com/2025/02/21/h...

A former city of Vallejo spokesperson is suing the city alleging she was bullied out of her job for reporting potentially illegal conduct, including illegally deleting text messages and submitting falsified documentation to the federal government. www.vallejosun.com/former-valle...

Two shot and killed in a car in Garfield; toddler left unharmed

Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Why would Dr. Melfi write "T.S." in her book when she always calls him Anthony?

Argentina has its own “hawk tuah coin” scandal but it involves the president. What a great time to be alive 🤦‍♂️

SF’s top federal prosecutor fired by Trump

Henderson Police Chief Hollie Chadwick has been put on leave and told to take a buyout or be fired, a source said Thursday.

New - After the Supreme Court weakened a key piece of the Voting Rights Act, voting discrimination cases are not just harder to bring to court but dramatically so, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis. Check out our deeply reported piece this morning. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/v...

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, speaking at a Florida college on Tuesday, made pointed remarks about the limits of presidential power and her fear that government officials might flout court decisions.

American officials announced charges on Tuesday accusing a New York man of hiring a hit man to kill his husband, Brent Sikkema, a prominent art dealer, in Brazil amid their contentious divorce proceedings.

Breaking News: Three men were convicted of murder for luring men to their deaths as they left gay bars in Manhattan.

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

City settles restraining order case with political organizer Seneca Scott — Scott has agreed to stop posting false homophobic claims and personal information about a city staffer online. oaklandside.org/2025/02/07/c...

Exclusive: President Trump's nominee as Air Force Secretary, currently a top official at the national spy satellite agency, arranged a multibillion-dollar contract solicitation in a way that favored Elon Musk's SpaceX, according to seven people familiar with the contract reut.rs/4b7MUKt

The political fundraising group Supporters of Recall Pamela Price continued to owe money at the end of 2024 to a host of political consultants and a prominent petition-gathering firm. Many of the unpaid bills stretched back to late 2023 www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/02/06/r...

Sen Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) letter to chair of Senate Judiciary Cmte, which is poised to vote on confirmation of Kash Patel: “We regret that you have rejected our efforts to inquire into the first-ever invocation of Fifth Amendment protection by a nominee seeking to lead the FBI”

Her son died ‘surfing’ BART trains. Now she’s suing the agency

A Marion County jury found Lincoln Smith guilty for smashing his semitruck into a van parked on the side of Interstate 5, killing seven farmworkers two years ago

California Attorney General Rob Bonta will run for reelection, not for governor, in 2026

Leonard Hill had been charged with aggravated assault. The Philly DA’s Office is now asking for him to be accepted into a diversionary program.

Sorry judge I was gonna rob a liquor store tomorrow morning so I’d have a time conflict with the trial schedule apnews.com/article/new-...

A North Las Vegas police officer was shot and killed Tuesday. The person who shot the officer was also killed when the officer fired back despite being shot several times, police said.

A Chicago police officer was found dead in her home Wednesday morning.

Prosecutors have dropped a lewdness case against a Las Vegas attorney in exchange for him consenting to be disbarred.

A Solano County Superior Court judge has cleared the way for a state agency to seize over $50 million in cemetery trust fund assets from cemetery businesses controlled by prominent Vallejo businessman Buck Kamphausen and his partners. www.vallejosun.com/judge-rules-...

"Gorilla pimp": A veteran Las Vegas defense attorney was arrested after police accused him of sex trafficking, plotting to have a woman killed and attempting to intimidate a witness.

This is bullshit. It’s so easy. You throw a coup together and Google some stuff about chickens. I’ve even seen people build coups by ripping off a bunch of pallets stacking them. Costs are negligible if you’re smart

Brandon Russell, guilty as sin. Looking at 18 years at a minimum. Jury didn't deliberate for an hour www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/cr...

A sense of uneasiness and disarray hung over a Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood Sunday, two days after an airplane plummeted into a busy street, killing at least seven people, injuring 22 others, and spewing wreckage for blocks. (1/4)