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A championship-winning, 2,346 pound pumpkin, grown by Santa Rosa’s Brandon Dawson, will take center stage at Saturday’s Great Pumpkin Parade in Half Moon Bay Saturday. Those interested in growing their own giant pumpkin — instructions included in the article — could win a hefty $21,000 grand prize. [The Press Democrat] During the Loma Prieta earthquake — thirty-six years ago today, the East Bay’s Cypress Street Viaduct collapsed, killing 42 people. West Oakland residents worked tirelessly to rescue an unknown number of people who were trapped on the two-deck, multi-lane structure, which was originally part of the Nimitz Freeway. [East Bay Yesterday] OpenAI announced on X Thursday that it's temporarily blocking Sora 2 users from using Martin Luther King Jr.'s likeness to make con