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(OAKLAND, Calif.) An attempted robbery ended with a Richmond man being shot after he attempted to grab the suspect’s gun, East Bay Times reports. The 27-year-old man was shot at approximately 12:20 a.m. Thursday morning in the 7100 block of International Boulevard.

MORGAN HILL (CBS SF) — A 51-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of multiple acts of child molestation in Morgan Hill, authorities said Thursday. The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office said on July 7, deputies investigated a sexual assault in an unincorporated part of Morgan Hill. Investigators determined the suspect, Luis Alberto Lozano, was responsible for various acts of molestation on a number of victims. On Wednesday, detectives served a search warrant for his arrest at his workplace in San Jose, the sheriff’s office said. Luis Alberto Lozano (Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office) Lozano was later booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail on eight counts of felony child molestation. On Thursday Lozano made his initial court appearance and was ordered to be held without bail. He is currently being held at the Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas. The sheriff’s office was determining whether there are any other victims and encouraged anyone with additional information to contact the office at (408) 808-4500.  

SAN MATEO COUNTY (CBS SF) – Officials in San Mateo County said all visitors to county facilities will again be required to wear a face covering indoors regardless of vaccination status, amid rising COVID-19 cases due to the Delta variant. The requirement, which will go into effect on Monday, is similar to the masking rules that were in place at county facilities before the state’s full reopening on June 15. Since the reopening, the 7-day average of new cases per 100,000 people in San Mateo County has risen from 1.3 to 5.2. Meanwhile, the test positivity rate has also risen from 0.4%...

WALNUT CREEK (KPIX) — Three East Bay counties are currently seeing COVID case numbers that would put them back in the Purple Tier if California was still using that color-coded system. Based on case data analysis by the Bay Area News Group, Alameda, Contra Costa and Solano counties would all be in the most restrictive tier from the Blueprint for a Safer Economy framework that state health officials used until the June 15th full reopening of California. That tier heavily restricted indoor activities and had many businesses operating at only 25% capacity inside if at all. Bay Area doctors say case numbers...

Stanford University reported at least seven confirmed cases of COVID-19 among fully vaccinated students this week.

BUCKS LAKE, Plumas County (CBS SF) — Several new mandatory evacuation orders were issued in Plumas County Thursday as the Dixie Fire continued its explosive growth on the eastern side of the megafire. The Plumas County Sheriff’s issued the order at around 5:45 p.m. for a portion of Chandler Road from Hwy 70 at Chandler Road west to Oakland Camp. Residents were advised to leave the area immediately eastbound to 59 Bell Lane in Quincy. Earlier Thursday afternoon shortly before 4:30 p.m., a mandatory evacuation order was issued for Greenville, Crescent Mills and the area around the Round Valley Reservoir. That order also...