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S.F. to L.A. sleeper train takes next step

A rendering of a Dreamstar Lines train car. Dreamstar hopes to launch new overnight passenger rail service between San Francisco and Los Angeles. (Dreamstar Lines Inc.)

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11 San Francisco Bay Area counties to lift indoor mask …

A busy Saturday morning at San Francisco’s Embarcadaro.(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Storm brings more high rainfall totals to Bay Area

A group of men walk through the rain near the north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge April 12, 2006 in Sausalito. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Series of robberies at high-end retail stores in Bay Area …

Police officers and emergency crews park outside the Louis Vuitton store in San Francisco's Union Square on Nov. 21, 2021, after looters ransacked businesses. (Danielle Echeverria/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

Newsom outlines state action to stop retail thefts after …

Retailers ask for more patrols after armed and organized …

Police officers and emergency crews park outside the Louis Vuitton store in San Francisco's Union Square on Nov. 21, 2021, after looters ransacked businesses. (Danielle Echeverria/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

Bay Area man gets 30 years in prison for $1B Ponzi scheme

In this Oct. 23, 2019, file photo, McGregor Scott, who was then the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California, looks over a 2007 Ford Shelby GT500 displayed in Sacramento, Calif., that was among the vehicles seized by the federal government to be auctioned off. The cars belonged to Jeff and Paulette Carpoff, owners of a San Francisco Bay Area solar energy company that pleaded guilty for participating in what federal prosecutors called a massive Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of $1 billion. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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Gas prices continue to rise, most expensive average …

High gas prices are posted at a full service gas station in Beverly Hills, Calif., Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Despite rains, fire season still a threat to Southern …

A pedestrian carries an umbrella as he walks on a flooded street on Oct. 24, 2021 in San Rafael. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Trucks blown over on Bay Area bridge amid powerful …

Extreme and potentially ‘historic’ rain wallops Northern …

A car drives on Highway 101, which is partially flooded in Corte Madera, Calif., Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

Bay Area counties to lift some indoor COVID-19 mask …

A woman in a face mask walks by a sign posted on a boarded up restaurant in San Francisco on April, 1, 2020, during the novel coronavirus outbreak. (Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty Images)

Alleged Bay Area serial killer is convicted in 1974 …

This undated booking file photo provided by the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office shows John Arthur Getreu. Getreu, an alleged San Francisco Bay Area serial killer, was convicted Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021, of the murder of the daughter of former Stanford University athletic director Chuck Taylor nearly 50 years ago. (Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

With COVID spike, Newsom faces delicate decision …

Gov. Gavin Newsom wears a mask in this undated file photo.(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)