Sunday Links: Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy Suffers Stroke, Currently Hospitalized
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Zack Ruskin (via SFist)
A 31-year-old woman has been identified as the person killed on Friday evening in a mass shooting at a Spirit Halloween store in Fairfield that left six others injured. The family of victim Constance Hages told police that she was pregnant at the time of her death. [KTVU]
Sen. Chris Murphy is currently hospitalized after suffering a stroke. The office of the Connecticut Democrat stated that Murphy began experiencing symptoms while attending his son's hockey game on Saturday. [KRON4]
Michael Mann, director of Heat and Miami Vice, sustained a superficial injury after accidentally shooting himself in the leg on a gun range. [Deadline]
Election Day is still 48 hours away but San Francisco's Department of Elections says voters have already cast 130,000 ballots, marking a faster pace than the June primary, which saw 62% of SF's registered voters participate. [KPIX]
Top Democrats are denouncing Rep. Haley Stevens after she broke with her party to endorse Michigan GOP Senate nominee Mike Rogers to spite her former primary rival (and current Democratic Senate nominee) Abdul El-Sayed. [CNN]
Supermodel Heidi Klum has a reputation of going all-out for Halloween and this year was no exception as she hit her party's red carpet dressed as her own dismembered left hand. [New York Times]
The city of Santa Rosa and Lyft are partnering to establish four designated pickup and drop-off rideshare zones downtown in hopes of improving transportation access and enhancing rider safety. [KRON4]
In a scathing 20-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles dismissed President Trump's defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal for reporting his ties to a birthday book for Jeffrey Epstein — with prejudice. [KPIX]
Two people are dead with eleven more injured as a result of two unrelated shootings on Halloween night in Jacksonville, Florida. [KTVU]
