Sayonara, senator

"Scot Peterson, who was assigned to the school as a resource officer, did not enter Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the shooting, but instead decided to take position outside the school as the gunman walked the halls, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said at a news conference."

"He never went in," Israel said."

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CCSF yet to receive any money from city to pay for Free City program

The Chronicle's DOMINIC FRACASSA: "More than a year after San Francisco and City College rolled out a plan to provide free tuition to all city residents, CCSF has yet to receive a single dollar to pay for the program, leaving the college short $4.1 million."

"Despite reporting a much-needed enrollment boost, attributed largely to the free-tuition promise, city officials have yet to receive any suitable invoices from CCSF that clearly satisfy all the conditions it agreed to when the free-tuition program was announced last year."

"Maria Su, director of San Francisco’s Department of Children, Youth and Their Families, which is responsible for cutting reimbursement checks for the Free City program, said her office has so far sent back two invoices, one of which she characterized as an “estimate.” Both times, the city returned the invoices with requests for additional details about how CCSF is implementing the program. The DCYF received a third invoice on Feb. 15, and Su said her office is reviewing it."

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'Hundreds of thousands of pills.' Opioid prescriptions send Granite Bay cardiologist to prison

Sacramento Bee's SAM STANTON: "Nicholas J. Capos Jr. was a 1977 graduate of the Northwestern School of Medicine and a successful cardiologist with offices in Grass Valley and Yuba City."

"But he had a side business: prescribing thousands of narcotic pain pills to patients."

"In one case, Capos prescribed 2,640 hydrocodone pills to a patient over 28 days, meaning the patient would have taken 94 pills a day. In another, he prescribed 2,100 oxycodone pills to a patient over a 50-day period, which would have meant the patient was taking 42 pills a day."

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Tiny homes for Sacramento homeless could get $200M in subsidies and vacant city land

Sacramento Bee's RYAN LILLIS: "Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg took a big step Thursday toward his plan to tackle homelessness with tiny homes."

"The mayor and the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency (SHRA) announced Thursday they had released a request for information from local developers who could build 1,000 “efficiency homes” to help shelter the city’s growing homeless population."

"Steinberg and housing officials are offering more than $200 million in rental subsidies to developers. Those subsidies would be in the form of Section 8 housing vouchers that would provide guaranteed rental income for tiny home projects and help developers attain financing."

A's aren't giving up hope for a new Oakland ballpark

The Chronicle's MATIER & ROSS: "Despite repeated setbacks and one outright rejection, the A’s aren’t giving up on any of the three potential stadium sites they’ve been working on in Oakland."

"That’s the word from team President Dave Kaval, who tells us he’s still aiming for the A’s to have a deal for a new ballpark — somewhere — by year’s end."

"“That’s kind of our deadline,” Kaval said when we reached him at the A’s spring training camp in Arizona."

Accidental 911 calls traced to Apple's Elk Grove phone repair facility

Sacramento Bee's CATHY LOCKE: "Apple's iPhone repair and refurbishing center has been identified as the source of apparently inadvertent 911 calls received by Elk Grove police and Sacramento County sheriff's dispatch centers over the past five months."

"Since October, the Elk Grove Police Department's dispatch center has been receiving about 20 non-subscriber initialized 911 calls per day, said Officer Jason Jimenez, police spokesman. The calls show no service provider for the phone, but the dispatch center has traced them to a cell tower near the Apple campus and determined that they are coming from the phone repair facility, he said."

"When the line is open, there's no sound of a struggle or an emergency," he said."

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Survivor to recount WWII internment

Chico ER: "Jim Tanimoto, 94-years-old, will kick off Chico Museum’s spring lecture series with his stories and stories of other Japanese-American citizens’ internment during World War II starting at 10 am. Saturday at the museum, 141 Salem St."

"The stories will be centered around camps such as Tule Lake in California. A donation of $5 is requested."

"Following the presentation, Tanimoto will lead a walk to the Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology on the Chico State campus to view the exhibit, “Imprisoned at Home,” about Japanese internment during WWII."

Michelle Obama returns to Bay Area for Oracle Arena event in March

The Chronicle's ANNIE MA: "Michelle Obama returns to the Bay Area next month for an event expected to be a hot ticket."

"The former first lady will appear at Oracle Arena for a moderated conversation at 8 p.m. March 28, according to an announcement Thursday."

"Advance access to tickets sales begins at 10 a.m. Friday on Ticketmaster, and the general public will have a chance to snag seats starting 10 a.m. Monday. Prices range from $93.50 for general admission to $524 for a VIP package."

The rise and possible fall of Eric Greitens, the GOP star whose career is crumbling amid scandal

WaPo's ELI ROSENBERG: "The indictment of Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens on Thursday marked a stunning low point in a political career that had previously followed a sharply upward trajectory."

"The Republican governor was booked in a St. Louis jail on charges that he photographed his former hairstylist nude and attempted to blackmail the woman, with whom he was having an extramarital affair."

"Though Greitens has so far resisted resigning, the career of the man many considered to be a rising star in the GOP is on life support. His national ambitions are likely vanquished."

Mueller more than doubles criminal charges against Manafort and Gates

LA Times' CHRIS MEGERIAN/JOSEPH TANFANI: "For years, Ukraine was a lucrative source of income for Paul Manafort and Richard Gates, two high-powered American political consultants who made tens of millions of dollars wielding their talents on behalf of the pro-Moscow government in Kiev."