The sixth month of the year closes with mixed emotions, between the celebration of a proud and strong LGBTIQ+ community and the sadness and grief of millions of women in the country who have seen their reproductive rights undermined. However, these are the local news from June 20 to 25 that you should know to stay up to date.
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Thousands of Golden State Warriors fans flocked to Market Street in San Francisco on Monday for the team's NBA championship parade.
The Warriors clinched their fourth title in eight years and first since 2018 on Thursday, defeating the Boston Celtics 103-90 in Game 6 of the best-of-seven NBA Finals.
Blue and gold confetti, along with a few other substances, floated in the air throughout the afternoon, which fans and players alike said felt more special than the previous three championships.
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A 28-year-old man was injured in a shooting in the Civic Center area of San Francisco early Monday, the city's Police Department reported. The shooting was reported around 4:30 a.m. in the 200 block of Larkin Street. The victim was taken to a hospital and is expected to survive.
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A wildfire in the Emerald Hills area of San Mateo County started Tuesday afternoon. Firefighters initially responded to the blaze shortly after 2:20 p.m. in the area of Edgewood Road and Crestview Drive, prompting evacuation alerts and power outages.
The blaze has been contained to 95 percent of the area, but more than 25 acres of grassland are believed to have been consumed, Cal Fire's San Mateo and Santa Cruz units said.
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A shooting occurred on a San Francisco MUNI train Wednesday morning, leaving one person dead and another in the hospital, SF Supervisor Myrna Meigar said on Twitter.
The shooting occurred between the Forest Hill and Castro stations and the suspect fled the train at the Castro station, he said.
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Lowell High School will return to academic-based admissions, the San Francisco Board of Education decided Wednesday night in a 4-3 vote.
The board’s decision reinstates merit-based admissions for the 2023-24 school year at Lowell, which had been suspended during the pandemic in favor of lottery-based admissions.
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A 32-year-old San Mateo man was arrested Wednesday morning after police responded to a report of a driver possibly passed out in his car.
Officers arrived at the intersection of Sycamore Avenue and Crescent Avenue around 10:20 a.m. and found a conscious man, identified as Hunter Parker, the San Mateo Police Department said.
Police said Parker was on probation with wanted terms and asked him to get out of the car, after which they found a small bag of methamphetamine and a glass pipe with burnt residue.
Officers also found a Sig Sauer handgun with no serial number, ammunition, fireworks, 19 pipes, a scale, bags of psilocybin mushrooms, suspected narcotics, marijuana edibles, lockpicks and shaved keys, police said. Parker was arrested and booked into the San Mateo County Jail.
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San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston is asking the board’s budget committee to put $50 million in police funding on hold until the department makes “measurable progress” in addressing racial disparities and a lack of transparency that he says has plagued the department.
Preston thus proposes that the board of supervisors withhold $50 million from any approved SFPD budget until police officials return to the budget committee with “significant progress toward decreasing racial disparities and addressing the projected five- to 10-year backlog in the production of police records required for disclosure under Senate Bill 1421 and, more recently, Senate Bill 16.”
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Three days after a power outage left nearly 9,000 PG&E customers without electricity in San Mateo County on Tuesday, an outage that also included the sprawling Stanford University, a spokesman for the utility said Friday night that all power has been restored in the affected areas.
Power was restored at 4 p.m. Friday for those affected by Tuesday's outage.
With information from Bay City News.
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