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Actor Hayden Panettiere’s death has been ruled an accident, and the case is now closed, police in South Carolina announced Wednesday. “Based on the Medical Examiner’s determination and the findings of the investigation, Hayden Panettiere’s death has been ruled accidental,” Greenville police said, noting the investigation has concluded. Panettiere, 36, the actor who starred in the shows “Heroes” and “Nashville,” was found unresponsive Aug. 16 in a South Carolina apartment complex where she was staying. Last month, the Greenville County Coroner’s Office ruled her death an accident caused by the toxic effects of multiple drugs: fentanyl, 4-ANPP, alprazolam, methocarbamol and quetiapine. The coroner said there were no signs of trauma that would have contributed to her death. Police also have said no signs of foul play were found during the initial response and investigation. Panettiere, who had publicly discussed her struggle with addiction, had been in rehab just weeks before, according to the coroner’s report. Celebrity News Oct 8 Hayden Panettiere's ex Wladimir Klitschko gets legal status to protect their daughter's inheritance Celebrity News Sep 22 Hayden Panettiere's cause of death revealed In Memoriam Aug 17 Stars share emotional tributes after Hayden Panettiere's death: ‘Don't be gone. Please' Panettiere’s on-again, off-again boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, was at the apartment complex at the time of her death. He showed police a “bag of medication” he said she was taking at the time, according to the police report. After the coroner’s report was issued, Panettiere’s mother, Lesley Vogel, called her daughter a “fighter” who was “transparent with her addictions and her numerous rehab attempts show her resolve to live a healthy life.” Vogel also said at the time that she had “never heard Hayden speak of fentanyl.” The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was also investigating, a source familiar with the probe previously told NBC News. The agency typically looks into the narcotics involved in a case, how they were obtained and whether any laws were broken in procuring the drugs. Panettiere entered Hollywood as a child actor and later carved her own path, starring in the films “Remember the Titans,” “Ice Princess” and “Bring It On: All or Nothing.” In her memoir, she detailed how her life began to spiral after she had a daughter with Ukrainian heavyweight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko in 2014. She began drinking heavily to cope with postpartum depression and Klitschko’s distance, she wrote in the book. She checked into rehab and gave Klitschko custody of their child in 2018. In the book, she also discussed grappling with pain and grief after her brother, Jansen Panettiere, died in 2023 from an undiagnosed heart condition.

A Bay Area nonprofit is expanding its efforts to combat food insecurity among military families with the opening of a new food pantry near Mountain View. The Cost of Courage Foundation celebrated the grand opening of its newest pantry Tuesday, providing another resource for active-duty service members, veterans and military families facing financial hardship. The pantry will offer groceries, personal care products and other essential items to help ease the financial burden on families who may be struggling to make ends meet. The all-volunteer nonprofit works to support those who serve and have served our country through food assistance, financial support and other programs. The new location is part of the foundation’s broader effort to address food insecurity in the military community. The organization also operates food distribution programs serving veterans and military families throughout the Bay Area and beyond.

A pedestrian died and a motorcyclist was injured in a collision over the weekend in San Jose, police said Tuesday. On Saturday just before 1:30 a.m., a collision occurred between a male pedestrian and a man driving a motorcycle in the area of South Bascom Avenue and Fruitdale avenues. According to police, the motorcycle was going southbound on South Bascom Avenue, north of the intersection with Fruitdale Avenue, when it struck a man crossing South Bascom in an unknown direction. Both the pedestrian and the motorcyclist were taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. The motorcyclist was stabilized but the pedestrian died. Anyone with information on this investigation is urged to contact Detective Leslie at 4264@sanjoseca.gov or 408-277-4654.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta is sharing informational resources with voters, judges, local election officials, and law enforcement on rules and instructions to protect voting procedures ahead of Election Day amid heightened concerns over election interference. “I know some Californians may be wondering whether everything coming out of Washington[D.C.] has changed how they can vote,” Bonta said at a briefing Wednesday in San Francisco. “Let me be clear: California’s elections are moving forward as usual … Your fundamental voting rights remain protected under California law and the rules for casting your ballots have not changed.” With Election Day next week, concerns over possible election interference have risen, especially with recent actions from the federal government. For example, the U.S. Department of Justice recently attempted to get California to set aside 20,000 mail-in ballots of voters the DOJ claimed were noncitizens. Earlier this week, a federal appeals court rejected the attempt. “Over the past year, we’ve watched the federal administration try to take control of how Americans vote, threatened to send federal law enforcement to polling places, and spread misinformation meant to make people doubt our elections, meant to sow distrust in our elections,” Bonta said. Bonta’s office has posted four notices as a resource that contain guidance on legal protections against election interference and public warnings on possible misinformation on elections being spread through different platforms. The first “publication” is a legal alert providing guidance for judges and election officials on what to do in case law enforcement tries to seize election materials pursuant to criminal search warrants. In January, the FBI used a warrant to seize ballots from an election office in Fulton County, Georgia in connection to the 2020 election. Elections Sep 17 Bay Area voter guide: What to know about the November 2026 election Decision 2026 Oct 2 What to know about California propositions in the November election Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who also unsuccessfully ran for governor this year, seized hundreds of thousands of ballots after the state’s November 2025 special election to try to prove voter fraud. The state Supreme Court ruled that it was an illegal seizure and ordered Bianco to return the ballots. “If such a seizure occurs during the upcoming general election period, it will significantly affect the State’s ability and duty to administer the election, as well as impact Californians’ fundamental right to vote,” the alert reads. The alert seeks to provide guidance on ballot chain-of-custody requirements and recommendations for courts reviewing search warrant requests of election materials. The alert can be found at oag.ca.gov. Bonta also shared bulletins on state Senate Bill 73, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed earlier this year. The law strengthens protections against law enforcement interfering in election procedures through intimidation or taking election materials without a court order. A bulletin providing guidance for election workers and others on SB 73 can be found at oag.ca.gov. The third bulletin is directed to all law enforcement agencies and outlines various state and federal laws pertaining to law enforcement’s limitations in conducting operations in or around polling places. It can be found at oag.ca.gov. “It is a violation of the federal government’s own federal law to have armed individuals at or near polling stations, whether it be ICE, whether it be the National Guard, whether it be other members of the military,” Bonta said. The informational resources were crafted by Bonta partly in response to rising concerns over possible immigration enforcement at polling places. Recently, there were reports of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sightings near a polling center in…

Bay Area food banks and farmers are working together to better help cash-strapped families put food on the table, especially with the holiday season approaching and ongoing cuts to food programs. On the San Mateo County coast, the owners of Brisa Ranch are busy cultivating crops for a special kind of a market place. They lead a food hub that features a collaboration between local farms and food banks. “It’s given them a turnkey opportunity to be able to know exactly what to grow in advance with knowing, ‘Hey, I want this many pallets of poblano peppers and cilantro on this date,’ for example,” Brisa Ranch co-owner Cole Mazariegos-Anastassiou said. “In turn, they’ve really been able to build their ground up with that in mind.” That’s crucial for Second Harvest of Silicon Valley and other Bay Area food banks serving a diverse community. “In our community, bok choy and cilantro are two key items that we can’t source easily on our own,” Second Harvest of Silicon Valley CEO Leslie Bacho said. “So by making these commitments to have them grow those crops and by doing it collectively with all Bay Area food banks, we’re able to do that more economically and in a way that actually supports our local food system.” The idea of connecting farms to food banks is being followed by programs being created by the California Association of Food Banks, a network of 44 food banks that work with more than 6,000 community-based organizations. “This partnership, what it’s able to do is to bring together both an investment in the food banks and also an investment in local agriculture,” California Association of Food Banks CEO Stacia Levenfeld said. Groups have had to deal with numerous funding cuts, so biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences this year donated $2.5 million to keep it all afloat. “We focus a lot on health,” Gilead Foundation President Jane Stafford said. “Our vision is, in fact, making better health possible. We see food and food access and food insecurity as critical to long-term health in the communities where we live and work.”

Labor leader and feminist activist Dolores Huerta has passed away, her family announced Wednesday. She was 96. The Latina icon spent over seven decades at the forefront of the fight for equal rights. “We are deeply saddened to announce that our beloved mother, Dolores Huerta, has passed away today at the age of 96,” her family said in a statement. “As you can imagine, this is an incredibly difficult time for us, and we ask for privacy as we grieve this incredible loss to our family. We know that many of you around the world share in our mourning, and we will be following up on plans to recognize and celebrate her incredible life and legacy.” Huerta is also remembered as being a visionary, a pioneer, courageous and resilient. When she sat down with NBC Bay Area a few years ago for an introspective look at her life, Huerta said her most valued title has been “organizer.” “You think that you’re going to go in one direction and then all of a sudden you get the calling,” Huerta previously said. “I felt that I had to help people that need to be organized so they could help themselves.” Born Dolores Clara Fernandez in Dawson, New Mexico, in 1930, advocacy was in her blood. Her father was a farmworker and union activist, while her mother was a fiercely independent entrepreneur who moved Huerta and her brothers to the San Joaquin Valley after her divorce. It was in Stockton that Huerta flourished as a girl scout, pianist and writer. But it was the racism she suffered in school that took her from her dreams to demanding. That meant launching voter registration drives, taking on grape growers and with labor unionist Cesar Chavez staging a massive boycott that would bring the “patrones,” the corporate bosses, to the negotiating table. Huerta never failed to take a position. Whether it was as a teacher in Stockton where her students struggled with hunger or in the fields of Delano where she co-founded what would become the United Farmworkers, staging strikes that changed working conditions for farmworkers in the 1960s. Huerta advocated for immigrant rights, fought against gender discrimination and redefined the role of women, wives and mothers on the picket lines. “My youngest son, Ricky, says we had to share our mother with the world, but she shared the world with us,” Huerta recalled in a previous interview with NBC Bay Area. A world that embraced one of the most iconic calls for social justice as a battle cry. Huerta’s legacy took a hit in March of 2026 when the New York Times detailed allegations that Chavez had sexually abused girls and women associated with United Farmworkers. Not long after, Huerta came forward to back Chavez’s accusers, revealing she too had been raped twice decades earlier by the revered labor leader, bearing two children she sent to live with family and friends. The damning admission dismantled Chavez’s legacy and disclosed a secret Huerta had hoped to keep forever for the sake of the movement. After a brief stint out of the public eye, Huerta returned to her calling and organizing for a future she believed, until the very end, was worth fighting for. “I believe one thing we can do is just remember we are one human family,” Huerta said in a previous interview with NBC Bay Area. “I don’t think you should use the word race unless it’s attached to the word human. We cans say we have ethnic groups and nationalities, we have cultures, but we only have one human race.” Huerta is survived by her 13 children and by the foundation that bears her name in Bakersfield. news Mar 19 Dolores Huerta ends her silence, champions decades of advocacy for marginalized groups California Mar 18 Civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issues statement accusing César Chávez of sexual abuse San Mateo County Jun 11, 2023 Dolores Huerta honored at San Mateo County Fair

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