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FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2020, file photo, state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, speaks at a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. The California Senate approved a bill Thursday, April 22, 2021, that would allow opioid users a place to inject drugs in a supervised setting. &quot;Unlike the Trump administration, President Biden takes a science-based approach to addiction,&quot; said Wiener. &quot;We hope the administration will allow states to pilot evidence-based strategies like safe consumption sites.&quot; (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California Senate OKs supervised sites for drug users

By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

6-year-old Amanda Duran gets a hug from her mother, Lizette, on the first day of school at Heliotrope Elementary School in Maywood, Calif., Tuesday, April 13, 2021. More than a year after the pandemic forced all of California's schools to close classroom doors, some of the state's largest school districts are slowly beginning to reopen this week for in-person instruction.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

‘Zoom in a Room’? California’s schools lag in reopening push

By JOCELYN GECKER and JANIE HAR and AMY TAXIN - Associated Press

San Francisco Giants second baseman Tommy La Stella fields a grounder by Cincinnati Reds' Eugenio Suarez, who was out at first during the sixth inning of a baseball game in San Francisco, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Wilmer Flores’ sacrifice fly holds up, Giants beat Reds 7-6

By JANIE McCAULEY - Associated Press

FILE - Travelers, Kerri Ann Salomon, left, and a friend arriving from New York City, look for an Uber ride at Los Angeles InternationalAirport, in this Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, file photo. Uber is trying to lure drivers with sign-up bonuses and other incentives as it faces record demand for rides and meal delivery. The San Francisco-based ride-hailing company said Monday, April 12, 2021, that its bookings reached an all-time monthly high in March. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Drivers wanted: Record demand at Uber as vaccinations rise

By DEE-ANN DURBIN - Associated Press

San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Johnny Cueto works in the first inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Friday, April 9, 2021, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Johnny Cueto pitches Giants past Rockies 3-1 in home opener

By JANIE McCAULEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2019, file photo, flames from the Kincade Fire consume Soda Rock Winery in Healdsburg, Calif. A California prosecutor has charged troubled Pacific Gas &amp; Electric with starting a 2019 wildfire. The Sonoma County District Attorney on Tuesday April 6, 2021, charged the utility in the October 2019 Kincade Fire north of San Francisco. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

California’s Pacific Gas & Electric charged in 2019 wildfire

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

Abraham Lincoln High School is seen in San Francisco, on Jan. 27, 2021. The embattled San Francisco school board is poised to reverse a decision to rename 44 schools in an effort to avoid costly litigation and tone down national criticism. In a Tuesday, April 6, 2021, meeting, the board will vote on a resolution to rescind a controversial January decision to rename schools and revisit the matter after all students have returned full-time to in-person learning. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)

San Francisco school board suspends plan to rename schools

By JOCELYN GECKER - Associated Press

Customers shop at the newly reopened Amoeba Music, the World's largest independent record store, in Los Angeles Friday, April 2, 2021. Most of California's 58 counties are in the red tier, but big population centers like San Francisco, Santa Clara County and Los Angeles County are in the less restrictive orange tier. Just two counties are in the lowest yellow tier. California on Friday cleared the way for people to attend indoor concerts, theater performances and NBA games for the first time in more than a year as the rate of people testing positive for the coronavirus in the state nears a record low. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

California OKs indoor sports, concerts as COVID cases plunge

By ADAM BEAM and JANIE HAR - Associated Press

Seattle Mariners' Taylor Trammell, left, greets Dylan Moore (25) at the plate after they scored during the eighth inning of the team's baseball game against the San Francisco Giants, Thursday, April 1, 2021, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Mariners rally late to stun Giants 8-7 in 10 innings

By TIM BOOTH - Associated Press

Teresa Ting stands for a portrait, Wednesday, March 31, 2021, in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York. Ting, a 29-year-old Chinese American, started what has become the Main Street Patrol following an attack on another older Asian American woman in February. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Brutal NYC attack renews Asian American volunteers’ efforts

By Terry Tang and Deepti Hajela - Associated Press

Protestors march at a rally against Asian hate crimes past the Los Angeles Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles , Saturday, March 27, 2021. The gathered crowd demanded justice for the victims of the Atlanta spa shooting and for an end to racism, xenophobia and misogyny. The &quot;LA vs. Hate&quot; initiative encourages people to call 211 if they are victims or witness an incident of hate. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

2 in Seattle, San Francisco face anti-Asian hate charges

By DAISY NGUYEN - Associated Press

San Diego Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr., left, walks off the field following an injury in the third inning of a spring training baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds Tuesday, March 23, 2021, in Peoria, Ariz. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Padres star Tatis feels better, expected back in lineup soon

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Authorities arrest suspect in 1990 San Francisco homicide

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FILE - San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle Trent Williams (71) looks on prior to an NFL football game against the Arizona Cardinals, in Glendale, Ariz., in this Saturday, Dec. 26, 2020, file photo. The San Francisco 49ers locked up their biggest potential free agent for the long term by agreeing to give star left tackle Trent Williams the richest contract ever for an offensive lineman. Williams' agents at Elite Loyalty Sports say the deal agreed to early Wednesday morning, March 17, 2021, will pay Williams $138.1 million over the next six years, surpassing the $138 million deal David Bakhtiari got from during last season. (AP Photo/Jennifer Stewart, File)

49ers hand Trent Williams richest contract ever at OL

By JOSH DUBOW - Associated Press

Diners Evie Costello, left, and Mandissa Costello, right, are served by Isaac Villaneva at Agoura's Famous Deli Sunday, March 14, 2021, in the Agoura Hills section of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles County is reopening businesses to an extent not seen since last spring when a coronavirus surge led to closures of cinemas, gyms, museums and indoor dining. The nation's largest county has been the epicenter of California's deadly winter surge of cases that led to more than 10,500 deaths over two months. A recent plunge in infections, hospitalizations and deaths and a rise in vaccinations has cleared the way for partial reopening that can start as soon as Monday. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

San Francisco expands who can get vaccine under new rules

By Associated Press - Associated Press

In this March 2, 2021, file photo, socially distanced and with protective partitions students work on an art project during class at the Sinaloa Middle School in Novato, Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law Friday, March 5, with $6.6 billion in incentives to try to get more California schools to reopen. The response has been lukewarm support, as teachers resist and parents complain that it doesn't do enough to get kids in the classroom. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)

New California law aims to put kids in class. Will it work?

By ADAM BEAM and JOCELYN GECKER - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 18, 2020, file photo, people visit Pier 39 during the coronavirus outbreak in San Francisco. San Francisco is poised to allow indoor dining, movie theaters and gyms with reduced capacity as the rate of coronavirus cases and deaths improve, allowing more of California's economy throughout the state to open back up for business. It's unclear which activities might open when. Mayor London Breed is scheduled to provide an update at the tourist-friendly Pier 39 in Fisherman's Wharf Tuesday, March 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

San Francisco leaders cheer reopening as COVID-19 cases fall

By JANIE HAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2021, file photo, people wait in line to receive a COVID-19 vaccination at Methodist Hospital in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas. Texas on Tuesday, March 2, 2021, became the biggest state to lift its mask rule, joining a growing movement by governors and other leaders across the U.S. to loosen COVID-19 restrictions despite pleas from health officials not to let down their guard yet. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Texas and other states ease COVID-19 rules despite warnings

By PAUL J. WEBER and TAMMY WEBBER - Associated Press

FILE - Author Lawrence Ferlinghetti appears in Oct. 8, 1988. Ferlinghetti, a poet, publisher and bookseller has died in San Francisco at age 101. His son says Ferlinghetti died at home on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. Ferlinghetti helped launch and perpetuate the Beat movement. He was known for his City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, an essential meeting place for the Beats and other bohemians in the 1950s and beyond. (AP Photo/Frankie Ziths, File)

Beat poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies at 101

By JANIE HAR and HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press