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Trial ready to start in Floyd death Tribune Content Agency MINNEAPOLIS — George Floyd pleading for his life under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer has become a defining moment of our time. What began 10 months ago at the corner of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue has transformed into nothing less than an American reckoning on justice, racial equity, the proper role of law enforcement and the historical wrongs society has perpetrated on Black people. Monday morning, that moment leads to the 18thfloor courtroom of the Hennepin County Government Center, where a jury will begin to hear a murder and man-

slaughter case against since-fired police officer Derek Chauvin. The trial itself is about what happened that May evening, but it will also be a vessel into which a splintered society places its rage, anxieties and hopes. Like the trial after Rodney King’s beating, like the trial after Emmett Till’s murder, like the Scottsboro Boys’ trial, this case will be viewed as another chapter – perhaps a turning point – in America’s racial history. “Everything is riding on the outcome of the trial,” said Keith Mayes, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota’s Department of See Trial, Page A8

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An Amtrak train pulls into the Suisun-Fairfield train station, Tuesday.

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Protesters took to the streets early as they marched during the first day of the Derek Chauvin trial in Minneapolis, March 8.

Bears in Tahoe not exhibiting fear of humans Tribune Content Agency SACRAMENTO — The video of a small bear, its head tilted at an inquisitive angle, caught ambling up to a Tahoe snowboarder was the sort of clueless cuteness guaranteed to go viral. But for scientists, it was just too cute to be true. The bear cub was exhibit ing behavior – fearlessness at being around humans – that’s been popping up in bears around the state, due to a mysterious lethal condition that causes their brains to become dangerously inflamed. Scientists have discovered five new viruses in

some of the bears with the symptoms, but they have no idea whether the viruses are to blame for the disease. Scientists’ suspicions were confirmed when veterinarians gave the Tahoe bear an exam after it was captured not long after the snowboarder filmed it at the Northstar resort in Truckee in 2019. It had encephalitis, which can also be caused by a body’s immune system attacking itself. State veterinarians say that in the past 12 months alone, officials have captured three other bears with the same condiSee Bears, Page A8

FAIRFIELD — A new Capitol Corridor schedule has started, what agency officials said is a step toward restoring service to prepandemic levels. “We cannot wait to welcome our passengers back,” Rob Padgette, managing director of the Capitol Corridor, said in a statement. “There are a lot of variables involved in planning our return to our full, pre-pandemic level of service, including public health conditions, train equipment availability and budget. But now is the time to start moving in that direction, and this schedule puts us in a position to achieve that goal.”

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View the new schedule at https:// images.capitolcorridor.org/ wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ Train_Schedules_3.29.2021-2.pdf.

The new schedule, which went into effect Monday, comes almost a year, to the day, after Covid-19 forced the train service to be cut back from as many as 30 trains a day to just 10 trains, seven days a week. A direct, round-trip weekday train between Auburn and San Jose is part of the new schedule, which riders can find at https://images. capitolcorridor.org/wp-content/ uploads/2021/03/Train_Sched-

ules_3.29.2021-2.pdf. “The new schedule features adjustments to departure times so they are more consistent and predictable, sometimes called a ‘pulse schedule,’ and it features a better distribution of trips throughout the day with smaller gaps between morning and midday trains,” the statement said. “The schedule better connects our riders to BART service at the Richmond BART station with enough time to easily transfer to and from BART at the station,” the statement said. “The schedule also includes the return of a sixth round-trip between San Jose and Oakland, which will give riders more travel options between the two cities.”

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Rachel Hawley holds her daughter Quinn, Tuesday. Hawley hopes her Covid-19 vaccination will benefit her daughter, who was born in February.

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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — When Rachel Hawley walked into the old Macy’s at Military Square mall to get her first Covid-19 vaccine shot, there were lots of wide eyes. She was 39 weeks pregnant. Hawley was eligible to get the shots, not only because she has an autoimmune disorder, but because she was expecting. So the 38-year-old Norfolk mother signed

up as soon as she could after discussing it with her doctor. Three days after her first shot, she gave birth to her second daughter, Quinn, and last week, got her second shot. Now, Quinn, nearly a month old, may be benefiting from the vaccine, too. Early results from studies around the world are showing that babies may receive Covid-19 antibodies in utero or through breast milk from

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