This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateThe start of 2021 was grim for many patients and health care workers as the coronavirus continued to surge across California and the nation, leading to a record number of statewide deaths while straining some hospitals to the breaking point.California reported 585 COVID-19 deaths Friday afternoon, the most in a single day since the start of the pandemic. New confirmed cases in San Francisco rose to 447 — also a single-day high, according to a Chronicle analysis. The previous record, set Dec. 17, was 420 new cases.Nationally, the...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateThe start of 2021 was grim for many patients and health care workers as the coronavirus continued to surge across California and the nation, leading to a record number of statewide deaths while straining some hospitals to the breaking point.California reported 585 COVID-19 deaths Friday afternoon, the most in a single day since the start of the pandemic. New confirmed cases in San Francisco rose to 447 — also a single-day high, according to a Chronicle analysis. The previous record, set Dec. 17, was 420 new cases.Nationally, the...WW…

Prison officials are planning to bus as many as 150 incarcerated people out of coronavirus-ridden San Quentin State Prison to a Bakersfield-area institution as early as Monday, sources said, in a move critics and a lawmaker said is reminiscent of the .A spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation confirmed the planned transfer, but did not specify how many people would be included.“The department is very concerned with the increase in positive COVID-19 cases in San Quentin, and in order to create more space to facilitate physical distancing, quarantine, and...…Prison officials are planning to bus as many as 150 incarcerated people out of coronavirus-ridden San Quentin State Prison to a Bakersfield-area institution as early as Monday, sources said, in a move critics and a lawmaker said is reminiscent of the .A spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation confirmed the planned transfer, but did not specify how many people would be included.“The department is very concerned with the increase in positive COVID-19 cases in San Quentin, and in order to create more space to facilitate physical distancing, quarantine, and...WW…

Forrest Anderson was nervous. The Oakland weed activist was about to walk into the last place a weed activist ever wants to be. But something dark was bubbling in the local marijuana community, something that threatened not just his livelihood but the very future of the movement, and the only people who could stop it were the traditional enemies of marijuana lovers everywhere.He had to go to the FBI.He had to tell them about Superman.Superman wasn’t like anyone he had ever met, and Forrest, who was 32, had spent a decade in the cannabis industry. His family had long believed in the...…Forrest Anderson was nervous. The Oakland weed activist was about to walk into the last place a weed activist ever wants to be. But something dark was bubbling in the local marijuana community, something that threatened not just his livelihood but the very future of the movement, and the only people who could stop it were the traditional enemies of marijuana lovers everywhere.He had to go to the FBI.He had to tell them about Superman.Superman wasn’t like anyone he had ever met, and Forrest, who was 32, had spent a decade in the cannabis industry. His family had long believed in the...WW…

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateA federal judge has tentatively approved a $6.3 million settlement for current and former homeowners at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard who said they were misled about the extent of radioactive contamination at the site and problems with the cleanup.The March 17 court order paves the way for developers Lennar Corp. and FivePoint Holdings to resolve one thread of a tangled web of litigation around the former shipyard, which was polluted in parts with radioactive substances during the Cold War. The homes are built on a...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateA federal judge has tentatively approved a $6.3 million settlement for current and former homeowners at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard who said they were misled about the extent of radioactive contamination at the site and problems with the cleanup.The March 17 court order paves the way for developers Lennar Corp. and FivePoint Holdings to resolve one thread of a tangled web of litigation around the former shipyard, which was polluted in parts with radioactive substances during the Cold War. The homes are built on a...WW…

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateIn June, on Death Row at San Quentin State Prison, 58-year-old Jarvis Masters heard a rumor that the coronavirus was ripping through the aging structure. Condemned prisoners are confined to their cells for 23 hours a day, so Masters tracked the outbreak by watching news reports on his small personal TV.He watched as 100 cases swelled to 300 in two days, then 1,000. Then he started to cough. Masters soon felt like he couldn’t breathe.Over the next two weeks, as calls of “man down!” rang out every few hours, several of his neighbors...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateIn June, on Death Row at San Quentin State Prison, 58-year-old Jarvis Masters heard a rumor that the coronavirus was ripping through the aging structure. Condemned prisoners are confined to their cells for 23 hours a day, so Masters tracked the outbreak by watching news reports on his small personal TV.He watched as 100 cases swelled to 300 in two days, then 1,000. Then he started to cough. Masters soon felt like he couldn’t breathe.Over the next two weeks, as calls of “man down!” rang out every few hours, several of his neighbors...WW…

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateGov. Gavin Newsom will release approximately 8,000 people incarcerated inside California’s prison system by the end of August in an effort to save lives amid devastating coronavirus outbreaks at several facilities and pressure from lawmakers and advocates.The releases, which were announced Friday, will come on a rolling basis, and they will include both people who were scheduled to be freed soon and people at high risk of serious complications if they contract the virus.Across state prisons, 2,286 people in custody were confirmed...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateGov. Gavin Newsom will release approximately 8,000 people incarcerated inside California’s prison system by the end of August in an effort to save lives amid devastating coronavirus outbreaks at several facilities and pressure from lawmakers and advocates.The releases, which were announced Friday, will come on a rolling basis, and they will include both people who were scheduled to be freed soon and people at high risk of serious complications if they contract the virus.Across state prisons, 2,286 people in custody were confirmed...WW…

A week ago, Jessica Miller-Marez received a troubling phone call from her husband, 37-year-old Jesse Marez, who is incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County.Something strange was happening at San Quentin, Jesse told her. A large number of prisoners had recently arrived on buses from somewhere in Southern California and had been placed in cells on the upper tiers of Jesse’s housing area — a unit known as Badger.Soon afterward, Jesse told his wife, the prison started to perform coronavirus tests on the men in Badger.At first he didn’t know why, but then he overheard corrections...…A week ago, Jessica Miller-Marez received a troubling phone call from her husband, 37-year-old Jesse Marez, who is incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County.Something strange was happening at San Quentin, Jesse told her. A large number of prisoners had recently arrived on buses from somewhere in Southern California and had been placed in cells on the upper tiers of Jesse’s housing area — a unit known as Badger.Soon afterward, Jesse told his wife, the prison started to perform coronavirus tests on the men in Badger.At first he didn’t know why, but then he overheard corrections...WW…