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Bay Bridge documents reveal decisions that led to broken bolts
OAKLAND -- Caltrans and private engineers deliberated three months in 2003 over the proper corrosion method to use on high-strength steel rods for the new Bay Bridge, a decision that led to the embarrassing failure of 32 rods a decade later.Documents reveal a series of back-and-forth letters and emails on the subject among more than two dozen engineers and designers from Caltrans and the hired ...
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Golden Gate Bridge jumper rescued by sailing crew
the Marin Independent Journal he was taking his 38-foot vessel to San Francisco around 2 p.m. Monday when his daughter saw the unidentified man jump. They heard a Coast Guard radio call for a jumper in the water moments later and sailed toward the man after spotting him underneath a California Highway Patrol helicopter. Walecka, of Santa Cruz, said the man grabbed a life sling they threw ...
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Father and daughter rescue man who jumped off Golden Gate Bridge
the Marin Independent Journal he was taking his 38-foot vessel to San Francisco around 2 p.m. Monday when his daughter saw the unidentified man jump. They heard a Coast Guard radio call for a jumper in the water moments later and sailed toward the man after spotting him underneath a California Highway Patrol helicopter. Walecka, of Santa Cruz, said the man grabbed a life sling they threw ...
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Pickup Crashes Into San Francisco’s Outer Mission Driver Flees
Authorities said a truck crashed into this home near Florentine and Morse in San Francisco’s Outer Mission neighborhood on May 22, 2013. ...
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Bill would prevent genetic-testing firms from using surreptitiously obtained DNA
If you want to keep your DNA to yourself, be sure not to leave any stray hairs, Q-tips or underwear lying around. There are genetic testing companies out there willing to reveal your most intimate biological secrets to anybody -- without your knowledge or permission. And under California law, such genetic snooping is perfectly legal.Now, legislators in Sacramento are considering a bill to change ...
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Premonition
There is potential emotional and spiritual intrigue buried somewhere deep in the metaphysical nonsense of Premonition, but what ultimately emerges is an ultimately tedious excursion into existential time-tripping that forces you to work overtime for minimal rew ... ...
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Oakland Unified announces candidates for District 4 seat
The meetings are long, the hours unpaid and the complaints loud, but a dozen candidates including Anne Campbell Washington, chief of staff to Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, are hoping to fill the Oakland Unified School's District 4 board seat left vacant when Gary Yee stepped down to become acting superintendent on July 1. The challengers come from a variety of professional and personal ...
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Driver dies after being impaled by metal rod on I-580 in Livermore
LIVERMORE -- A 33-year-old Lodi man died after he was impaled by a metal rod that burst through his windshield on westbound Interstate 580 early Wednesday morning, police said. A spokeswoman from the Alameda County Coroner's officer identified him as Michael Cox. Cox was alone in the car and no one else was injured, said a spokesman from the California Highway Patrol. CHP officers responded ...
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Oakland Police identify citys 40th homicide victim of 2013
OAKLAND -- A man who was shot and killed while working on a car Tuesday morning in East Oakland has been identified, but the shooter remains at large, police say. Jose Orellano-Cruz, 54, of Oakland, was visiting a relative in the 2600 block of Bartlett Street near Brookdale Avenue when shots rang out about 11:15 a.m. Tuesday. Police said Orellano-Cruz had been outside working on a car when a man ...
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Broadmoor Police Department holds out as other small departments close
In the past few years, police departments in smaller cities around San Mateo County have closed their doors, with police services contracted out to the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office. But bucking the trend is the unincorporated community of Broadmoor, which continues to fund and operate its own department as it has done for more than 60 years. In recent years, police departments in ...
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San Mateo schools expand gang-prevention program
The San Mateo Police Department and middle schools in the San Mateo-Foster City School District are providing kids with sessions that explore topics such as controlling anger in hopes of steering them from ...