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• LAT $: San Francisco mayor apologizes for saying ‘a lot of’ drug dealers are Honduran
• San Francisco's mayor apologizes for remarks made about Hondurans
• CG: SF Mayor London Breed Apologizes For Honduran Drug Dealer Remark
• LADN: Protesters vow to keep pressure on LA Councilman Kevin de León to resign
• LAT $: Angelenos call for resignations and reforms at town hall on racist audio leak
• Community calls for accountability, change amid City Council scandal
• OCReg: Ocasio-Cortez to rally young voters in Irvine this weekend
• FresBee: What will Valley high-speed rail stations look like? Designer gets $35M to figure it out
• AP: Candidate hopes to break GOP’s California losing streak
• CalM: This is California’s most fiercely contested political turf
• San Francisco building single public toilet that will cost $1.7 million and won't be completed until 2025
• SF neighborhoods using planters to ward off homeless encampments
• From S.F. to California governor, here are 5 of Gavin Newsom’s major homeless policies
• AP: NCAA on trial in concussion case of dead USC football player
• LAT $: An 81-year-old woman was killed and burned in her home. L.A. is offering $50,000 for information
• Two dead following reports of shooting in south Modesto
• SFC: Man shot, killed near S.F.’s Powell Street BART Station
• SacBee: Man killed outside East Sacramento tennis club, marking city’s 49th homicide victim
• SBSun: Man, teen arrested on suspicion of murder in San Bernardino hookah lounge shooting
• AP: Padilla faces a familiar foe in bid for full US Senate term
• A California Republican voted to impeach Trump. Now he’s in a tossup race with a Valley Democrat
• Lawmaker and farmer call each other extreme in Central Valley Congress race. They’re not
• VCStar $: Irwin, Mills to face off on Nov. 8 in 42nd Assembly race
• VCStar $: These two candidates will face off in the 38th Assembly District
• SFC: These cities have seen the biggest declines in home prices as mortgage rates rise
• AP: Study: Cancer-causing gas leaking from CA stoves, pipes
• AP: Ex-UCLA gynecologist found guilty in LA sex abuse case
• LAT $: Two UCLA students say they were sexually assaulted, hazed as summer camp counselors
• SDUT: A $68 parking ticket? San Diego wants to make street-sweeping tickets 30 percent more expensive
• County supervisor in scandal. Democrat trying to hold on. Who wins close California midterm?
• CG: Gov. Newsom Revises Political Stunt As Californians Are Left Paying The Bill
• LAT $: Skelton: De León embodied the American dream. After racist audio leak, he’s living a political nightmare
• CG: Algorithms Cure Gerrymanders, But Politics Remains
• SFC: ‘Like nothing we'd seen before’: What scuba divers found when cleaning Sierra Lake
• CG: Dead Heat In Oakland Mayoral Race According to Oakland Chamber Of Commerce Poll
• SFC: This popular Golden Gate Park spot honoring anti-Semitic politician could be renamed
• SJMN: Kaiser eyes new hospital in Bay Area
• ABC: Santa Clara Co. Sheriffs boyfriend testifies in her trial
• Modesto expects sales tax will end years of cuts to public safety, parks, other services
• FresBee: Corn Nuts workers in Fresno end strike over benefits, wage. Here’s what they won
• VCStar $: East Ventura council board resigns over video flap
• LADN: LA County seeing lower COVID-19 transmission levels, health officials say
• LAT $: L.A. hits $1-billion earthquake milestone: 8,000 buildings retrofitted
• Bass, Allred call on Caruso to 'stop the cover-up' of USC-Tyndall sex abuse scandal, release report
• CalM: Gimme Shelter: How L.A. became the nation’s most housing-overcrowded place
• VOC: Orange County and Los Angeles Democrat Parties Clash in Irvine City Council Race
• OCReg: F-16 fighter jet intercepted airplane in restricted airspace over OC during Biden speech
• VOC: Fullerton Rejects Joining OC Fire Authority Despite Staffing Concerns Over Existing Department
• OCReg: Coronavirus: Orange County reported 1,427 more cases and seven more deaths in the past week as of Oct. 20
• Moreno Valley Council Member David Márquez missed too many meetings, city says
• Moreno Valley Council Member Ulises Cabrera could be censured
• Attacking fentanyl on all fronts, Inland Empire launches public awareness, health campaigns
• SDUT: Approval of Oceanside’s wave resort project upheld by City Council
• SDUT: How should San Diego create more affordable homes? Two Democrats battling for council seat clash on solutions
• SDUT: San Diego faces Nov. 1 deadline for long-term management plan at Point La Jolla
• SDUT: San Diego bests Los Angeles, San Francisco in attracting leisure and business travelers since pandemic
• SDUT: Chula Vista city attorney candidate demands San Diego Democrats stop promoting dead candidate

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