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An air tanker drops retardant on a wildfire burning above the Spring Lakes community on Sunday, June 24, 2018, near Clearlake Oaks, Calif. Wind-driven wildfires destroyed buildings and threatened hundreds of others Sunday as they raced across dry brush in rural Northern California. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Drought-stricken West braces as wildfire season flares up

By PAUL ELIAS - Associated Press

San Francisco wraps up Gay Pride celebration with parade

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A girl holds up a sign next to California State Assembly Member David Chiu, bottom center, and Assessor Carmen Chu, bottom left, as incoming mayor London Breed speaks at Rosa Parks Elementary School in San Francisco, Thursday, June 14, 2018. It is now the job of Breed, the first black woman elected mayor of the city, to unite a wealthy but frustrated San Francisco, where the high-tech economy has sent the median price of a home soaring to $1.3 million and where homeless tents and human waste fester on sidewalks. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

The Latest: San Francisco mayor-elect visits her old school

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File - In this June 6, 2018 file photo, former state Sen. Mark Leno speaks to reporters in San Francisco. San Francisco mayoral candidate Leno is scheduled to make remarks about the election as the latest results show London Breed pulling ahead in a tight race. Leno's campaign declined to elaborate on the Wednesday, June 13, 2018, event.(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

The Latest: Latest tally seals Breed as San Francisco mayor

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FILE - In this June 6, 2018 file photo, mayoral candidate and Board of Supervisors President London Breed speaks to reporters in San Francisco. Breed was poised to become the first African-American woman to lead San Francisco following a hard-fought campaign when a former state senator conceded and congratulated her Wednesday, June 13, more than a week after the election. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

San Francisco elects first African-American woman as mayor

By JANIE HAR - Associated Press

Demonstrators opposing the repeal of a tax on large companies such as Amazon and Starbucks that was intended to combat a growing homelessness crisis hold a sign that reads &quot;Tax Amazon&quot; as they wait for the start of a Seattle City Council meeting, Tuesday, June 12, 2018, at City Hall in Seattle. Members of the Council were expected to vote Tuesday on whether or not to repeal the tax. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Will Amazon’s work to kill Seattle tax spook other cities?

By PHUONG LE - Associated Press

Washington Nationals catcher Spencer Kieboom (64) and relief pitcher Sean Doolittle (62) celebrate after a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants at Nationals Park, Saturday, June 9, 2018, in Washington. The Nationals won 7-5. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Bryce Harper hits 19th homer in Nationals’ win over Giants

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FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2017 file photo, flames from a wildfire consume a home, near Napa, Calif. Downed power lines caused a dozen Northern California wildfires last fall, including two that killed a total of 15 people, California's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said Friday, June 8, 2018. The wildfires were part of a series that were the deadliest in California history. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)

Report: Downed power lines sparked deadly California fires

By JULIET WILLIAMS and DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

Former state Sen. Mark Leno speaks to reporters in San Francisco, Wednesday, June 6, 2018. Leno pulled ahead in San Francisco's race for mayor by the slimmest of margins early Wednesday under the city's unusual voting system, although Board of Supervisors President London Breed maintained her lead in first-place votes. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

AP EXPLAINS: San Francisco race raises ranked-choice voting

By JANIE HAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, April 23, 2018, file photo, mayoral candidate Mark Leno poses in the Castro District of San Francisco. San Francisco voters are electing a new mayor in a contest hastily placed on the June 5 ballot after the unexpected death of Mayor Ed Lee in December. San Francisco could make history by electing its first African-American woman, Asian-American woman or openly gay man for mayor. The city has enormous wealth thanks to a flourishing economy led by the tech industry, but it's also plagued by rampant homelessness. This mayor's race is the city's first competitive mayoral race in 15 years. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Contenders await ballot counting in San Francisco mayor race

By JANIE HAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken Friday, April 13, 2018, San Francisco mayoral candidate and Board of Supervisors President London Breed poses for a photo at Alamo Square in San Francisco. San Francisco voters are electing a new mayor in a contest hastily placed on the June 5 ballot after the unexpected death of Mayor Ed Lee in December. San Francisco could make history by electing its first African-American woman, Asian-American woman or openly gay man for mayor. The city has enormous wealth thanks to a flourishing economy led by the tech industry, but it's also plagued by rampant homelessness. This mayor's race is the city's first competitive mayoral race in 15 years. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

San Francisco mayor’s race very tight under unusual system

By JANIE HAR - Associated Press

In this May 17, 2018 photo, Miriam Zouzounis looks through a selection of tobacco products while interviewed at Ted's Market, her family's store, in San Francisco. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. is pumping millions of dollars into a campaign to persuade San Francisco voters to reject a ban on selling flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes and vaping liquids with flavors like cotton candy, mango and cool cucumber. Zouzounis, a board member of the Arab American Grocers Association, which represents 400 small-business owners in the San Francisco Bay Area, said the ban would remove an anchor product that attracts customers, many of which are immigrant-owned. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

San Francisco to decide whether to ban flavored tobacco

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

San Francisco Giants' Brandon Crawford drives in two runs with a double during the third inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Saturday, May 19, 2018, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Crawford stays hot, homers in Giants’ 9-4 win over Rockies

By MICHAEL WAGAMAN - Associated Press

San Francisco says couple illegally turned home into a hotel

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

California military base psychologist accused of rape

By JULIE WATSON - Associated Press

Algorithm will help San Francisco DA wipe out pot cases

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FILE - This Tuesday, May 24, 2016 file photo shows the former Oakland Army Base pier with the Port of Oakland in the background in Oakland, Calif. A federal judge in California on Tuesday, May 15, 2018, struck down the city of Oakland's ban on coal shipments at a proposed cargo terminal, siding with a developer who wants to use the site to transport Utah coal to Asia. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

US judge scraps Oakland, California, ban on coal shipments

By JANIE HAR - Associated Press

This photo combo of booking mugs provided by the Solano County Sheriff's Office in Fairfield, Calif., shows Jonathan Allen and his wife, Ina Rogers. Police said Monday, May 14, 2018, they had removed 10 children from a squalid California home and charged their father, Allen, with torture and their mother, Rogers, with neglect after an investigation revealed a lengthy period of severe physical and emotional abuse. (Solano County Sheriff's Office via AP)

10 kids removed from California home; mom, dad deny torture

By Jonathan J. Cooper and Janie Har - Associated Press

San Francisco Giants' Andrew McCutchen, left, visits with former teammate Pittsburgh Pirates' Gregory Polanco (25) during warmups before a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Friday, May 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

‘A little weird’ for McCutchen in return to Pittsburgh

By WILL GRAVES - Associated Press

A used syringe is shown on a sidewalk in San Francisco, Thursday, May 10, 2018. The city of San Francisco hands out millions of syringes a year to drug users but has little control over how they are later discarded and that's contributing to dirty streets and hundreds of complaints. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

San Francisco’s many free syringes are littering its streets

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