Day Around the Bay: SF’s US 101 Bayshore Freeway Southbound Lanes to Close This Weekend
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Leanne Maxwell (via SFist)
Local:
All southbound lanes and one northbound lane will be closed this weekend along Highway 101 between Cesar Chavez Street and 17th Street in San Francisco. The final weekend of the ongoing repaving and rehabilitation project will take place next month on the weekend of November 6–9. [NBC Bay Area]
Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, who represents the Tenderloin, called the newly released video game portraying Tenderloin residents as zombies “deeply disturbing and unacceptable." [Chronicle]
Josh Harris, owner of the Mission District’s Trick Dog bar, was taking part in an ultramarathon in the Utah desert for his 47th birthday when the event was canceled due to poor weather conditions. [SFGate]
National:
The Justice Department sued California, alleging more than 20,000 noncitizens are unlawfully registered to vote and accusing the state of refusing to help investigate. Secretary of State Shirley Weber disputed the administration’s claims, while the DOJ has lost 26 of 31 lawsuits seeking states’ unredacted voter rolls. [CBS News]
Three children and an adult were killed in a shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, Thursday, and a bystander fatally shot the 16-year-old shooter. [NBC News]
German police are investigating after a robot controlled by two young men allegedly touched a 16-year-old girl’s buttocks and made thrusting movements toward her in Cologne, while the men livestreamed the incident. [Associated Press]
Video:
A Democratic candidate for city council in Indiana has gone viral for boldly suggesting that she would “fire all of the Republicans” and tearfully explaining she had been threatened by many MAGA types before concluding, “We have guns, too.”
