The latest in what appears to be an unending stream of storms thundered through the Bay Area on Tuesday, producing violent claps of thunder and lightning bright enough to light up momentarily the gray and sometimes dark sky.
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Rick Hurd,
Mercury News,
17 Feb. 2026
These were claps of relief and encouragement from a European audience bracing for a mauling like JD Vance’s onslaught last year.
After the 2014 wreck that killed Philip Lutzenkirchen, his family founded the Lutzie 43 Foundation to reduce the number of people killed in car crashes.
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Doug Turnbull for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
AJC.com,
22 Feb. 2026
Two pedestrians were killed in separate crashes in Long Beach late Wednesday night, police said.
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