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Saudi Arabia's boxing powerhouse Turki Alalshikh has grand plans to host a boxing card at the notorious former Alcatraz prison in San Francisco, California.

Brian Montana, a former guitarist for the Bay Area death metal band Possessed, was killed in a shootout with police in South San Francisco.

Four other cities in California, including San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland and Albany, already have a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages on the books, with Berkeley being the first city in the country to do so.

In the Bay Area, San Jose and San Francisco saw their populations contract slightly — each by less than half a percentage point.

Longfin smelt, which live in bays and estuaries along the Pacific Coast, are the sixth fish species in the San Francisco Bay estuary to be added to the federal endangered species list.