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18 May 2021

DA Shows Body Camera Footage of Deputy Ambush, Calls Andrew Brown Jr. Death ‘Justified’

District Attorney Andrew Womble announced Tuesday that he will not seek charges against Pasquotank County deputies for fatally shooting Andrew Brown Jr. on April 21. Womble said the use of deadly force was justified because Brown drove his vehicle “recklessly” and threatened the deputies’ safety. Womble made the statement in

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18 May 2021

Update: A Second Victim Has Died After Oakland Bus Shooting

One person died at the scene and multiple others aboard a large passenger bus were injured in a shooting on Interstate Highway 580 in Oakland early Tuesday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol. A second victim was reported dead later in the afternoon. When officers arrived at the scene

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18 May 2021

The *NEW and IMPROVED* BAS Bay Area Events Newsletter is HERE!

Spring is here, the City is 61% vaxxed, and it’s finally time to crack open our doors, sniff the air, and see if it’s safe to come out of our hidey-holes. While the Bay Area navigates the gradual return to IRL, we figured there was no better time than the

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17 May 2021

Drug-Snorting Passenger With No Shoes Derails Sunday Flight To SFO

Sundays are generally relaxed, hangover days. But the party was apparently still going for one passenger on a JetBlue JFK-SFO flight this past Sunday, as KGO reports that flight was diverted because of a drug-snorting passenger without a mask or shoes, who was also verbally abusive to other passengers, groped

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17 May 2021

Bill Gates’ Affairs And Epstein Ties Starting To Hit The Fan

We already knew that tech executives loved to roll with Jeffrey Epstein, and that Bill Gates was one of them. And there’s been new intrigue around all of that since Melinda Gates announced she was divorcing Bill’s ass and his Epstein connections were a “sore spot” for her. But a

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17 May 2021

DNA Lounge Reopening June 19 With Hubba Hubba And Bootie

Bars all over the Bay Area are slowly reopening for in-person drinking and live events, but reopening nights for certain iconic bars like El Rio, Spec’s, and Bender’s were super special occasions that readers of this blog enjoyed showing up for and celebrating in person. Add to that list the

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16 May 2021

Three Old School Fisherman’s Wharf Restaurants Listed as Permanently Closed

Update: Good news! The Chronicle reported that Pompei’s Grotto will be reopening but the fate of the other two places is still unclear. A Facebook post came across my feed this morning saying that three old school San Francisco Fisherman’s Wharf restaurants were listed as permanently closed, so I decided to

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14 May 2021

CloseBuy: The Browser Extension that Helps You Shop Local & Skip Amazon

By Jazz Sahota If you’re like nearly half of Americans, you probably start your search for an item on Amazon. And maybe over the past year, you might have noticed you were spending a bit more on Amazon – since businesses were closed and we all had to shop online

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