Took a break from the news this weekend? Worry not: we’ve rounded up some of the stories you missed in NorCal on Saturday and Sunday.

Oct 15, 2023 8:14 pm PDT | Updated Oct 16, 2023 8:20 am PDT

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — As the weekend wraps up, we’ve rounded up the stories you may have missed Saturday and Sunday to prepare you for Monday.

But before we jump into Northern California’s top stories, residents should know that a brief cooling trend returns on Monday as a weak cold front approaches the North Bay, according to National Weather Service forecasters. Coastal areas can expect highs in the 60s, while the rest of the Bay Area can plan on temps in the 70s and 80s.

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A warming trend is expected for the latter half of the week.

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In other news, a TV actress beloved for decades for her work on the show “Three’s Company” has died. A freeway shooting damaged one vehicle. And the mother of an actor featured in “Sandlot” was found dead.

Suzanne Somers, ‘Three’s Company’ Star, Dies At 76

• Somers had breast cancer for over 23 years and died Sunday morning.

Teen Killed in Fiery Crash Into Creek

• Two other teens suffered life-threatening injuries. The 21-year-old driver, who sustained minor injuries, was arrested for suspected DUI.

CHP Helicopter Rescues Man Trapped Against Sheer Cliff By Rising Tide

• The man was knee-deep in water when he was pulled to safety.

Teen Fires Gun In Altercation With Woman In Supermarket Parking Lot

• The pair skirmished over the sale of a car.

Man Attacked With A Baseball Bat, Hospitalized In San Mateo

• The victim was a Redwood City man. Police arrested a suspect.

Vehicle Hit By Gunfire In I-80 Freeway Shooting

• The shooting happened between Ashby and University avenues in Berkeley.

Deadly Crash On I-680 On Saturday

• The early-morning crash involved multiple vehicles .

2 Arrests In SF Business Robberies: Police

• Victims were pistol-whipped in two of the three cases.

Mom Of ‘Sandlot’ Actor Found Dead In NorCal Home, Boyfriend In Custody

• Deanna Esmaeel, the mother of Marty York and a Del Norte County sheriff’s deputy, was found dead Thursday morning, authorities said.

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Both the Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Angels have been struggling with injuries lately, but otherwise the teams are trending in different directions ahead of the two-game Freeway Series that begins Tuesday.

For the first time since 2014, the Angels (41-33) have a better record than the Dodgers (39-33) at the start of their annual match.

From August 4 through August 7, 2014, the Freeway Series included four games played equally at Dodger Stadium and Anaheim. The Angels went into the game with a record of 66-44 while the Dodgers had a record of 63-49. LA was shut out in the Freeway Series opener but responded with three straight wins over the Angels.

This season it’s 11-3 Angels in June. Their hot streak dates back to avoiding a four-game series win over the Houston Astros with a win in the Finals at Minute Maid Park, despite the Angels recently putting Zach Neto, Gio Urshela and Anthony Rendon on the injury list.

Conversely, the Dodgers lost just 5-10 in June and are in a win over the San Francisco Giants that included a historic loss at Dodger Stadium.

The Dodgers’ troubles date back to the start of a series against the Minnesota Twins on May 15. Since then they are 13-18 and have lost six out of ten series.

The primary reason for the Dodgers’ unexpected slip was increasing injuries in the starting rotation and the inconsistent performance of the bullpen overall. The Dodgers’ pitching team has a 4.66 ERA, which ranks 25th in baseball and is the franchise’s lowest grade since 1944.

“I think looking back over that two-week period, there’s a lot of things that we just don’t do well and we don’t play clean baseball, we don’t play fundamental baseball,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “I think it’s about not just winning, but focusing on the little things.

“Catching the baseball, minimizing walks, throwing to the right base, not getting thrown on the bases, making a pickoff play, these are things that haunt us over and over again. And we’re usually a lot better at that, and we haven’t been good for the past few weeks. Those are things we need to clean up.”

Dodgers fall behind in NL West standings

By defeating the Giants, the Dodgers slipped to third place in the National League West standings. The Giants extended their best winning streak of the season to seven games.

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Both the Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Angels have been struggling with injuries lately, but otherwise the teams are trending in different directions ahead of the two-game Freeway Series that begins Tuesday.

For the first time since 2014, the Angels (41-33) have a better record than the Dodgers (39-33) at the start of their annual match.

From August 4 through August 7, 2014, the Freeway Series included four games played equally at Dodger Stadium and Anaheim. The Angels went into the game with a record of 66-44 while the Dodgers had a record of 63-49. LA was shut out in the Freeway Series opener but responded with three straight wins over the Angels.

This season it’s 11-3 Angels in June. Their hot streak dates back to avoiding a four-game series win over the Houston Astros with a win in the Finals at Minute Maid Park, despite the Angels recently putting Zach Neto, Gio Urshela and Anthony Rendon on the injury list.

Conversely, the Dodgers lost just 5-10 in June and are in a win over the San Francisco Giants that included a historic loss at Dodger Stadium.

The Dodgers’ troubles date back to the start of a series against the Minnesota Twins on May 15. Since then they are 13-18 and have lost six out of ten series.

The primary reason for the Dodgers’ unexpected slip was increasing injuries in the starting rotation and the inconsistent performance of the bullpen overall. The Dodgers’ pitching team has a 4.66 ERA, which ranks 25th in baseball and is the franchise’s lowest grade since 1944.

“I think looking back over that two-week period, there’s a lot of things that we just don’t do well and we don’t play clean baseball, we don’t play fundamental baseball,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “I think it’s about not just winning, but focusing on the little things.

“Catching the baseball, minimizing walks, throwing to the right base, not getting thrown on the bases, making a pickoff play, these are things that haunt us over and over again. And we’re usually a lot better at that, and we haven’t been good for the past few weeks. Those are things we need to clean up.”

Dodgers fall behind in NL West standings

By defeating the Giants, the Dodgers slipped to third place in the National League West standings. The Giants extended their best winning streak of the season to seven games.

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Feb 23, 2022

The San Francisco Fire Department responded to a fire at a homeless encampment early Feb. 23, 2022.

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One person died and three more people were injured during a fire at a San Francisco homeless encampment inside a freeway onramp early Wednesday morning, officials said.

The San Francisco Fire Department responded to the incident just after midnight at the Bosworth onramp on Interstate 280.

The department posted images on Twitter showing firefighters climbing into square holes in the underside of the overpass.

KTVU reported that the people were trapped inside the onramp’s “crawl space.”

Firefighters rescued four people from flames and performed life-saving measures. The department said three people are in critical condition and were transported to the hospital. One person died, officials said.

UPDATE— 4TH ADULT RESCUED PARAMEDICS PERFORMING LIFE SAVING TASKS—CRITICAL CONDITION—AVOID AREA https://t.co/fVmUzUUky1 pic.twitter.com/P4VOE1ODJP

— SAN FRANCISCO FIRE DEPARTMENT MEDIA (@SFFDPIO) February 23, 2022

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

The incident occurred during a spell of unusually cold weather with overnight temperatures in San Francisco dropping into the 40s in recent days. Downtown SF hit 42 degrees at 3 am Wednesday, the National Weather Service said.

San Francisco’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing is opening pop-up shelters during the cold snap for people without housing.

Amy Graff is the news editor for SFGATE. She was born and raised in the Bay Area and got her start in news at the Daily Californian newspaper at UC Berkeley where she majored in English literature. She has been with SFGATE for more than 10 years. You can email her at agraff@sfgate.com.

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OAKLAND — A man has been arrested in the fatal highway shooting of Gene Ransom, a basketball star at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1970s and a member of the Cal Athletics hall of fame.

A 25-year-old San Francisco resident, Juan Angel Garcia, was arrested Saturday and could face a murder charge in connection with the shooting Friday evening on Interstate 880 in Oakland, the California Highway Patrol said. It wasn’t known Sunday if Garcia had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.

The victim was driving near the Broadway exit when he was shot, causing him to veer his Honda sedan and crash into a guardrail, the highway patrol said in a statement. The man was struck at least once and died in his car, the highway patrol said.

Ransom, 65, was on his way to pick up his girlfriend at a West Oakland train station, said Doug Harris, a former teammate and longtime friend.

Harris told KPIX-TV in San Francisco that the woman waited for ransom for hours, “not knowing that he had been murdered.”

Highway patrol investigators said the victim was likely targeted and the motive appeared to be road rage. Northbound lanes of I-880 were shut for about five hours during the investigation.

Just 5-feet-9-inches (1.8 meters) tall, Ransom was a standout player at Berkeley High School and went on to be a star point guard at Cal in the late 1970s, where he averaged 14.8 points per game and had 356 assists during a three-year career, KPIX said.

“We are shocked to hear the reports that Cal Athletics Hall of Famer Gene Ransom has been identified as a victim in a deadly freeway shooting,” Cal Athletics assistant director of communications Gerrit Van Genderen said in a statement Saturday. “Gene was one of the greatest players in our men’s basketball program’s history and he will be greatly missed.”

Ransom was signed by the Golden State Warriors in 1979 but was cut in the preseason.

Harris said that over the past 20 years he and Ransom had been coaching basketball and working with kids to get them away from gun violence.

“The very thing that we worked so hard for is what took him away. It’s really tough for me as I reflect back,” Harris told KPIX. “Gene was a heroic figure that was loved by everyone.”

Several people have been killed in recent freeway shootings in Oakland. Last month, an Alameda County sheriff’s recruit was fatally shot on Interstate 580 on Jan. 4 as he drove home from the academy. Authorities said David V. Nguyen, 28, was set to graduate from the academy this month.

In November, a 23-month-old toddler from Fremont was killed by a stray bullet while his family traveled south on Interstate 880 in Oakland. Also in November, a passenger in an SUV that was traveling on Interstate 80 in Oakland was killed during a shooting on the freeway near the Bay Bridge toll plaza.

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A big turnout of family and friends – with special recognition for David Nguyen.

San Francisco Sheriff’s Deputies saluting pictures of David Nguyen, a 28-year-old Alameda County Sheriff’s recruit who was killed on Interstate 580 in Oakland as he drove home to San Francisco after a day of training.

“Just seeing the community get together for a cause, for my brother, that keeps me going,” said David’s sister Barbara. She was there to speak along with a number of others, including the San Francisco Sheriff, to honor Nguyen Wednesday night where he was so close to graduating at City College of San Francisco.

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Alan Wong is a trustee at City College of San Francisco who served alongside Nguyen in the National Guard.

“With the support of David’s teachers, I’m moving forward with a proposal to have City College confer him an honorary degree in liberal arts and sciences to help him and his family complete his academic degree at City College,” said Wong.
Nguyen was just one unit away from a degree. His girlfriend Shanice Vaughn read a journal of his where he vowed to do better in school.

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“My solution is to enter City College with a completely different mindset. The mindset to learn, progress, and most of all not cheat myself out of an education again,” said Vaughn.

David’s family and friends are still struggling with his loss but were happy to share David’s memories on cold city evening, with his mother, who has been hit particularly hard.

Barbara says she will remember the good times.

VIDEO: Alameda Co. Sheriff’s recruit fatally shot while driving home from work on I-580 in Oakland

“He took care of me at a very young age and he would force me to do everything with him either working out, Boy Scouts, all these things. I didn’t really appreciate it when I was younger but when I look back on it now, man he was a great big brother,” says Nguyen.

Deputies tell us there is still a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of David’s killer. As of right now, no arrests have been made.

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A recruit from the California Sheriff’s Department who was killed Tuesday in a freeway shootout in Oakland has been identified, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office confirmed.

David Nguyen, 28, was off duty when he was shot dead while driving home from the academy, authorities said. He was supposed to graduate in February.

Investigators have not yet determined if Nguyen was the target of the shooting.

“I don’t understand why anyone would choose to use their gun, probably for nothing,” the Alameda County Sheriff’s Sheriff said. JD Nelson told FOX 2 about the Bay Area. He called Nguyen “popular” and “highly motivated”.

Nguyen’s family and girlfriend were “dismayed” by his killing, FOX 2 reported.

After Nguyen was shot near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge toll booth, his vehicle crashed into a guardrail. According to FOX 2, he was taken to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

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“In loving memory of Recruit David V. Nguyen of the 172nd Academy of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office,” the sheriff’s office wrote in a Twitter post along with photos of Nguyen.

Later Tuesday, employees from the sheriff’s office and the California Highway Patrol lined up and saluted his flag-draped coffin as it was loaded into a coroner’s van at an Oakland hospital.

“Our deputies have just loaded the body of our young police academy recruit for a law enforcement procession from Highland Hospital to our Coroner’s Bureau,” the sheriff’s office wrote in a statement shared with video on Twitter on Tuesday. “We are heartbroken and disturbed by this senseless act of gun violence.”

Alameda County Sheriff’s Office recruit David Nguyen was shot dead Tuesday while driving home from the training center.
(Alameda County Sheriff’s Office)

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U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, representing the Bay Area, tweeted Wednesday, “God bless this @ACSOSheriffs recruit who was murdered near the Bay Bridge last night. Peace be with his family. And hopefully the thunder of justice will come to his killer soon.”

Fox News’ Dom Calicchio contributed to this report.

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A kitten recently rescued from a freeway overpass near San Francisco International Airport is now up for adoption.

Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA workers conducted a daring rescue of the kitten, who died on Dec.

Courtesy of the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA

The worker notified the Humane Society, which dispatched personnel to the crime scene. The kitten was trapped at least 15 meters above the ground, said Buffy Martin Tarbox, communications manager at the shelter.

“She wasn’t able to climb onto the freeway, but even if the kitten could have, she would have been right in dangerous, fast-paced traffic,” said Tarbox. “The person who called us said the kitten was crying for help.” Another shelter worker braced himself against the highway barrier and threw a net at the kitten.

The operator “was so concerned the kitten might get scared of the net and jump off the base and onto the street below,” said Tarbox. “If she had jumped, she would not have survived the impact because she was so high up. Our employee was able to catch the kitten safely with the net and barely avoid a tragic end. “

The kitten was taken to the shelter where it was found to be female and around 2 to 3 months old.

Since no one has come forward to claim the kitten – now called Gwyneth – the Calico is now available for adoption. Tarbox stated that the name means “happy and blessed”.

Gwyneth is neutered, vaccinated and chipped. The adoption fee is $ 120. Individuals interested in meeting Gwyneth can call the shelter at (650) 340-7022. The Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA is a private, nonprofit, nonprofit organization dedicated to animal welfare with offices in Burlingame and San Mateo.

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SAN FRANCISCO – A man who drove a car was killed in a shooting on Highway 101 Monday night and his passenger injured, authorities said.

The name of the man killed, who presumably lives in San Francisco, is not yet known.

The gender and age of the passenger were not disclosed.

The shooting occurred around 9:30 p.m. Monday in the southbound lanes of Highway 101 near the Cesar Chavez Street exit, the California Highway Patrol said. The car crashed into several impact barrels before stopping.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene.

Whether the shooting was the result of a traffic incident or something else is not yet known, nor is a description of the shooter or the vehicle he was in.

The traffic on the autobahn was impaired for hours by the CHP unit during the investigation.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the CHP at 707-917-4491.

Check back for updates.

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WALNUT CREEK (CBS SF) – East Bay CHP officials are investigating a freeway shootout on Highway 24 in Walnut Creek on Wednesday that authorities said injured a woman driver.

A Facebook post from the CHP Contra Costa County office stated that at around 3:35 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, a CHP engine unit at an enforcement stop on Pleasant Hill Road north of Highway 24 in Lafayette was contacted by a black driver on Chevy Malibu who stopped to report that she was the victim of a highway shooting.

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Walnut Creek Freeway Shooting Investigation (CBS)

The woman said she sustained a gunshot wound on her leg and asked for medical help. She informed the officer that the confrontation involved a woman driving a Chrysler 300 sedan and was on the transition ramp from I-680 south to Highway 24 west.

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The victim said the woman who drove the suspicious Chrysler vehicle had a male passenger who shot her vehicle before the suspicious vehicle escaped the area.

The victim was riding in her vehicle with two teenage passengers who were not injured. The woman was taken to John Muir Hospital in Walnut Creek with a non-life threatening injury to her leg.

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Authorities said this was an active investigation in collaboration with our CHP Golden Gate Division Investigative Services Unit, which will lead the investigation.

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