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In today's newsletter:

  • San Leandro man gets prison term over teen abuse in phone game case
  • How a wrong-way Mustang chase barreled through San Leandro streets
  • How a San Leandro Chili's meetup turned into a deadly shooting

Also on today's calendar: Free Fall Job Fair and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: Do you know what the two sides of a circle are? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Thursday: Mostly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 80 and low of 59 degrees.
  • Friday: Clouds yielding to sun, temps: high: 75, low: 55.
  • Saturday: Partly sunny and breezy, with a high of 75 and low of 56 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• San Leandro Man Sexually Abused Teen He Met Playing Phone Games: Report (patch.com) — San Leandro readers are learning that a 28-year-old local man has been sentenced to three years in prison for sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl he met through the online game Mobile Legends. The case, reported by the East Bay Times, includes a no-contest plea to sexual penetration with a foreign object and requires him to register as a sex offender for 20 years and stay away from the victim.
   

• Watch: Wild Calif. Chase Ends With SWAT Members Surrounding Heavily Damaged Mustang (officer.com) — A reckless driving suspect in a blue Mustang led deputies on a dangerous chase that passed through San Leandro before ending in a SWAT standoff on the freeway. Alameda County deputies used a drone launched from their Real Time Information Center to track the car as it sped the wrong way and crashed. Both occupants were eventually arrested and booked on felony charges.
   

• Repeat domestic abuser convicted of killing stepdaughter outside San Leandro Chili's (mercurynews.com) — A woman was fatally shot in the head outside the Chili's in San Leandro, and her stepfather has now been convicted of second-degree murder and related gun charges. Prosecutors detailed a years-long pattern of domestic violence across the Bay Area leading up to the 2023 killing. He faces a potential sentence of 40 years to life next month.
   

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What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • Today this colony of 10 to 15 will have 2 less breeding mothers.
    2 less producing kittens 2 to 3 litters per year for approximately 10 years. These 2 will find rest & comfort, good food & care from the colony… (Nextdoor Ashland)
  • Chicken Pot Pie, Tuesday Dinner Special.
    $15.84, Beef Barley Soup Tuesday SOD) $7.14, 9/22/26. This food review does not identify the local eatery because a few Nextdoor members complained… (Nextdoor Estudillo Estates)
  • Advantage Solutions posted a job opening for SAS in Walmart - Retail Merchandiser in San Leandro. Apply here.
  • FedEx posted a job opening for Sr Parts Clerk in San Leandro. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near San Leandro here.

🗞 Nearby News

Castro Valley

  • Pleasanton Preps: Amador football gets off the schneid with 32 points in win over Liberty (danvillesanramon.com)
  • How Spirit Halloween Opened More Pop-Ups Than Ever In A Tight Retail Market (bisnow.com)

Oakland

  • This week in Oakland: Berkeley painter John King's exhibit and Dolly Day at Heart and Dagger Saloon (oaklandside.org)
  • This Cal student stepped away from school to build his protein bar business (oaklandside.org)
  • Orville Peck Claims He Kissed a Raiders Player in New Song (metroweekly.com)

Alameda

  • 'Rio' The River Whale Makes Hopeful Turn Toward SF Bay, But No Further Sightings Yet Of Cherished Cetacean (patch.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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