Новости за 07.07.2016

The BART repair garage in Richmond. Photograph by Angela Johnston. In 2018, Bay Area commuters will be able to go a little bit farther on BART. The transit agency is building a 10-mile extension from the Pittsburgh station, to Antioch. It’ll be called E-BART — the E for East Contra Costa County. And when commuters get to Pittsburg, they’ll have to get out, and transfer to another BART train. That’s because the new extension is being build with standard gauge tracks. The rest of BART has wider tracks and cars that are made to fit them. Читать дальше...

Are these the last days for Mr. Bing’s? Rumors are swirling around San Francisco that the beloved dive bar, located on the cusp of North Beach and Chinatown, has been sold and may be closing soon. According to the pending liquor license, the new owners are Peter and Jacqueline Cooper, who also own Ireland’s 32, an Irish bar in the Richmond. At press time, Chronicle inquiries about the bar’s future have gone unanswered.

UNLV says a false alert for a reported gunman on campus was accidentally triggered Wednesday afternoon as a campus police officer was testing the emergency notification system. UNLV spokesman Tony Allen said texts and automated calls alerting 34,000 students and staff to a suspect with a firearm on campus was accidentally sent at 2:50 p.m. Allen said a campus police officer was showing another person the UNLV emergency notification system and conducting a periodic test when the gunman alert was accidentally triggered.

Pope Francis met on Wednesday with the parents of a U.S. college student whose body was found in Rome’s Tiber River this week, after apparently either being pushed or tumbling into the murky waters less than 24 hours after arriving in Italy for summer classes. A brief Holy See statement said Francis expressed to Beau Solomon’s parents “feelings of deepest sympathy and compassion, and his closeness in prayer to the Lord for the young man who died so tragically.” European Union lawmakers have endorsed... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday ordered the release of the founder of a Montana club for the ultra-rich, who has spent the last 14 months in jail for failing to account for the money from the sale of a resort in Mexico. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted Yellowstone Club founder Tim Blixseth's emergency motion for release pending his appeal. Blixseth's attorneys had tried and failed multiple times before Wednesday to free him from the Cascade County Detention Center, where... Читать дальше...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J — In a gesture to her former Democratic primary rival Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton is announcing new steps aimed at tackling the rising cost of college tuition and the burden of student loan debt, including a three-month moratorium on loan payments for all federal borrowers. Clinton is also calling for a plan that ensures families with annual incomes up to $125,000 pay no tuition at in-state public colleges and universities. Clinton cast her opponent’s proposals as unrealistic... Читать дальше...

WPRI-TV reports (http://bit.ly/29xDzAU) the Attorney General's office dropped the charges against 57-year-old Johnston High School science teacher Greg Russo, citing a lack of probable cause. Russo was placed on paid administrative leave in November for alleged misuse of school funds.

The Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation Wednesday into the fatal shooting of a black man by the Baton Rouge police that was captured on video, as city and state leaders appealed to a city roiled by the killing to remain calm. The shooting prompted protests, and relatives of Sterling, civic leaders and state lawmakers demanded an investigation independent of the Baton Rouge police. The decision to have the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, the FBI and the U.S. attorney’s... Читать дальше...

LONDON — Britain’s decision to go to war in Iraq was a failure born of flawed intelligence, lack of foresight and “wholly inadequate” planning, an official inquiry concluded Wednesday in a report seven years in the making. Retired civil servant John Chilcot, who oversaw the inquiry, said the United Kingdom chose to join the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted. The 2.6-million-word report is an exhaustive verdict on a divisive conflict that — by the time British combat forces left in 2009 ... Читать дальше...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — UNLV was under a brief alert for a reported gunman on campus Wednesday afternoon, though Las Vegas police say that there's no indication of a threat. Las Vegas police officer Larry Hadfield said officers responded at 2:53 p.m. Wednesday on reports of an active shooter but found no evidence or indication that there was one.

Veteran Bay Area restaurateur Sam DuVall and longtime executive chef Joe Kohn didn’t dwell long on the demise of their Cuban concept in Uptown Oakland. Just a month after shuttering Casa Cubana, which closed six months after replacing Vo’s on Grand Avenue and Webster Street, the duo have debuted Izzy’s Steak & Chop House in its place. Izzy’s, the same concept and name as DuVall’s flagship restaurant in San Francisco and another location in San Carlos, focuses on serving “quality steaks at competitive... Читать дальше...

But what happens when the super-grain becomes self-aware? Skynet jokes aside, high-tech, fast-food eatery Eatsa, which offers healthy quinoa bowls served via a completely automated (i.e. no humans) front-of-house experience, is opening a new location in downtown Berkeley. Co-founders Scott Drummond and Tim Young opened their flagship shop a year ago in San Francisco, drawing Terminator-level amounts of interest and skepticism over its service model in which customers use iPads or smart phones to order their meals... Читать дальше...

ALBUQUERQUE — It was called the “Mother Road,” a vital highway bridging Chicago and Los Angeles through the Southwest amid diners and neon-lit motels. Black travelers for decades, however, needed a guide known as the Green Book to help find the few motels and restaurants that would serve them along this quintessential American highway. [...] a writer is hoping to bring attention to the businesses along Route 66 that once provided safe havens for black travelers who braved the road for simple family vacations. Читать дальше...

The Oakland City Council has sealed the fate of a hotly contested piece of city-owned land near Lake Merritt that last year sparked a fierce battle over how public space should be used in a rapidly gentrifying area. Despite their protests, the council voted 6-1 to sell the parcel for $8 million to real estate firm UrbanCore and the East Bay Asian Local Development Corp., which plan to build a 27-story apartment tower and nine-story mid-rise with 361 apartments, 108 of which would be affordable.... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve may have confused investors in recent months with conflicting signals about how soon it planned to raise its benchmark interest rate, and an official account of the Fed’s most recent meeting in June explains why: Fed officials voted unanimously to do nothing at the June meeting because of the cloudy economic outlook. It was the Fed’s first unanimous vote of the year, but it was the result of confusion rather than consensus. [...] officials disagreed about how much longer to wait before raising interest rates... Читать дальше...

The measure creates grants and other programs aimed at addressing a soaring problem that caused more than 47,000 U.S. drug abuse fatalities in 2014, the most recent federal figures, and a death rate that has more than doubled since 2000. Recovery services for addicts would be expanded, states could get financial incentives for providing a full range of opioid abuse services, and more medical workers would be allowed to prescribe buprenorphine, which can wean people off opioids. According to the Addiction Policy Forum... Читать дальше...

SAN DIEGO — A Southern California medical examiner ruled the death of a Navy SEAL trainee a homicide, saying his instructor repeatedly dunked him during a pool exercise while the 21-year-old was struggling, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday. Lovelace of Crestview, Fla., who was in his first week of training, showed signs he was having difficulty treading water in fatigues, boots and a dive mask filled with water. The instructor accused of dunking Lovelace has been assigned to administrative... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Loretta Lynch: Clinton email investigation to be closed with no criminal charges.

There have been 99 reports to the Consumer Product Safety Commission of hoverboard battery packs that exploded or caught fire, the U.S. regulator said Wednesday. Hoverboards were a hot item during the holiday season, but videos and photos of the two-wheeled motorized scooters on fire or spewing smoke were soon showing up frequently on the internet. The CPSC warned hoverboard makers and retailers earlier this year that they had to follow newly-created safety requirements or face recalls.

Many of these messages — included among more than 10,000 pages released Wednesday by Haley's office — praise the Republican governor as courageous for calling to remove the Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse grounds. [...] many others, while criticizing the violence, urged her to leave the flag alone rather than make a "knee jerk" reaction to the shootings. To many, Haley sent a standard response, thanking the writer for his or her message and praising South Carolina for unifying in the face of tragedy. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — Fear and uncertainty about the global economy are leading investors to embrace the relative safety of U.S. government debt and slashing yields to record lows. Historically, when concerns have flared about a potential recession, investors have shifted money into havens such as U.S. Treasurys and sent yields falling. [...] Britain voted to abandon the European Union — a move that caught markets off guard and magnified concerns about the global economic order. What makes the record-low... Читать дальше...

The suit, filed on behalf of several women and a labor union in Los Angeles County Superior Court, argues that women’s equal opportunity rights are violated by a system where the medical examiners are overwhelmingly male and the guide used to determine the level of disability from a work injury is gender-biased. Janice Page, a sergeant for a California sheriff’s department and a plaintiff in the lawsuit, said a state medical evaluator determined she had no permanent disability from the loss of her breast... Читать дальше...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Standing on Atlantic City’s famed Boardwalk, Hillary Clinton ripped Donald Trump as a “shameful” businessman who contributed to the decline of the oceanfront resort town and would be just as disastrous for America’s workers as president. “What he did here in Atlantic City is exactly what he’ll do if he wins in November,” Clinton warned on Wednesday, the faded facade of Trump Plaza, a shuttered hotel formerly owned by the presumptive Republican nominee, just over her shoulder. Читать дальше...

San Francisco police asked that people avoid the area of Market and Jones streets as they responded to a call of an potentially armed man, according to a tweet from the department's Twitter account.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Donald Trump, who frequently criticizes U.S. foreign policy under President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is praising Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s ruthlessness. Some critics within the GOP have said his policies suggest an isolationist stance in an increasingly dangerous world. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, partners among Republican congressional critics of Obama administration foreign policy, carried out a fact-check on... Читать дальше...