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San Francisco Man Dies After Being Handcuffed, Held Down by Police and Fire Crews
Authorities are investigating the death of a 35-year-old man who twice told police and fire crews he couldn’t breathe as he was being held, face-down, after being handcuffed for several minutes, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has learned.
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SF's Millennium Tower Settles Another One-Tenth of an Inch During 1 Week of Digging
Recent monitoring data shows the already sinking and tilting Millennium Tower recently settled another tenth of an inch during one week of the excavation needed for the final phase of the planned retrofit of the troubled high-rise.
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Documents Show Charitable Donations Spent on Retreats for SF Parks Staff
Records reviewed by NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit show that thousands of dollars raised by the San Francisco Parks Alliance scholarship fund, ended up paying for the city’s Recreation and Parks staff retreats instead.
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San Francisco Skyscraper Tilting 3 Inches Per Year as Race to Fix Underway
The engineer responsible for the troubled fix of the Millennium Tower acknowledged Thursday that the building is continuing to tilt about 3 inches a year since work began.
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Deported Veterans Could Return to U.S. Under Proposed Law
A new push in U.S. Senate for legislation to stop deportation of immigrant veterans for minor crimes.
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Mismanagement and Misspending: CA Schools Risk Losing $160 Million in COVID-19 Stimulus
California school districts may have to return as much as $160 million in federal COVID-19 stimulus funds due to the slow rate of spending, a state audit found. The report released Tuesday morning, confirms an NBC Bay Area investigation earlier this month that found the majority of school COVID-19 money is still unspent.
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Tilting Millennium Tower in San Francisco Faces New Plumbing Problem
The designer of the troubled fix for the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower recently briefed city officials about an especially unpleasant potential byproduct of the building’s settlement – sewer backups, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has learned.
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California's 900,000-Acre Dixie Fire Start Tied to Rotted Tree
A PG&E arborist has acknowledged the tree that fell onto a powerline and is suspected of starting the Dixie Fire, showed signs of rot – a finding that came as no surprise to one expert tracking the worsening epidemic of fungal disease in the densely-forested, drought-ravaged Sierra.
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Medicare Agency Hits Good Samaritan Hospital With “Notice of Termination”
Federal regulators from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have issued a notice of “Immediate Jeopardy” to San Jose’s Good Samaritan Hospital, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has confirmed.
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What Will Offices, Homes Look Like Post-Pandemic?
Since the start of the pandemic, many architects have received a steady stream of requests from clients wanting to rebuild or renovate their current office spaces in order to safely lure back weary employees and customers.
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Renter Accused of Using Pandemic to Live Rent-Free Responds
A woman entangled in a messy homeowner-renter dispute with a San Mateo family agrees to an interview with The Investigative Unit after being accused of taking advantage of the pandemic and the legal system to live rent-free.
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Homeowner Rents Out Room During COVID. Now She Might Lose Her House
The Investigative Unit examines how a local pandemic shut-down order forced a San Mateo family out of their own home, they say.
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When Classrooms Reopen, Will the Air Inside Be Safe?
The Investigative Unit looks into poor ventilation in California classrooms and how the lack of outdoor airflow could impact COVID-19 risks for teachers and students.
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‘The House Has Already Burned Down': An Inside Look at San Quentin's Outbreak
NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit spoke to more than 15 people who were locked up or working at San Quentin during one of the state’s worse coronavirus outbreaks.
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COVID at Work – State Sees 30% Rise in Safety Complaints
State regulators say they’ve received a flood of safety complaints from workers claiming their employers are not doing enough to protect against COVID-19.
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Following the CARES ACT Money: Why Some Small Businesses See Little to No Relief
Since March, in four separate pieces of congressionally approved legislation including the CARES Act, the federal government has spent more than $810 billion backing small business loans, yet several local business owners tell the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit that those federal dollars have yet to find their way to those who need it the most. Stephen Stock reports.
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Endangered Pangolin a Possible Link in Spread of COVID-19
The pangolin – an unusual bug-hunting endangered mammal with a long tongue and scales all over its body – has now entered the COVID-19 scientific journals because it carries a coronavirus that looks strikingly similar to the virus that has swept the world.
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Lawmaker Wants Tubbs Fire Probe Reopened, Citing New Video Evidence
A state lawmaker is urging both Cal Fire and state regulators to take another look at their findings in the massive Tubbs fire based on new video evidence uncovered by NBC Bay Area’s investigative unit.
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San Francisco International Airport Runways Reopen After Repair of 12-Inch Pothole
Two of San Francisco International Airport’s four runways were closed for multiple hours Thursday after crews found a pothole in one of them, airport officials said.
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Another Apple Engineer Accused of Stealing Autonomous Vehicle Trade Secrets
For the second time in six months, the FBI is accusing a Chinese national working for Apple of attempting to steal trade secrets related to the company’s secret autonomous vehicle program, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit learned Tuesday.