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  • Play 60 Challenge at Claremont Middle School

    The Raiders hosted an NFL Play 60 football camp as part of the NFL Play 60 Challenge, in conjunction with the American Heart Association, at Claremont Middle School in Oakland, ...

  • Jennings Speaks at Alameda High

    Recently, RB Rashad Jennings spoke to students in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) meeting at Alameda High School. Jennings spent time telling his story and interacting with the ...

  • Bay To Breakers Runners Take To The Streets Of San Francisco

    SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Thousands of racers, runners and strolling, costumed scene-makers spread across San Francisco Sunday morning in the 102nd Bay to Breakers footrace. Elite runners led the pack and crossed the finish line on Ocean Beach long before many of the estimated 30,000 participants managed to get over the starting line on Howard ...

  • Nathan Sturgis scores as Rapids take draw from San Jose on the road

    SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Marvin Chavez scored his first goal of the season to help the San Jose Earthquakes pull out a 1-1 tie against the Colorado Rapids on Saturday night. Chavez drilled a knuckling free kick from 30 yards out in the 78th minute to beat Colorado goalkeeper Clint Irwin. The Honduran international was only available because MLS commissioner Don Garber upheld an appeal of his two-game ...

  • Oakland Effect Police say Melrose and 50th is latest crime hot spot

    Month on month, crime is up in our hot spot. With one murder, seven robberies, one shooting and seven residential burglaries, every category saw an increase since the last Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council for police District 27 met. And my particular block, it turns out, was the worst spot in the neighborhood."Melrose and 50th is one of the hot spots this month," said our local ...


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Movie Review

Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno)

Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno)

Pans Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno), a masterpiece of fantasia by Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, is at turns exquisitely beautiful, horrifying, and heart-wrenchingly sweet. Del Toros ability to balance all these conflicting tones in a film of such ambitious s ... ...

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  • Shirakawas decisive vote in ambulance deal prompts Santa Clara County scrutiny

    In December 2009, Santa Clara County Supervisor George Shirakawa Jr. flew into the San Diego airport, rented a Grand Marquis and headed to a marina Marriott for a five-day taxpayer-funded trip. With the county's vital ambulance contract soon up for bid, Shirakawa and his chief of staff, Eddie Garcia, asserted that they were conducting a tour of the "WestMed" ambulance service, ...

  • Super Bowl vote 49ers Bay Area prepare for NFLs decision Tuesday

    On Tuesday, 32 of the country's richest and most powerful people will file into a 15th-floor executive boardroom overlooking Boston Harbor. They'll lock the door behind them and take their seats in high-backed leather chairs around a large mahogany table for exactly one hour and 15 minutes.At 10:30 a.m. PDT, the NFL team owners each will write just two words -- "San ...

  • Neighbors complain of smell San Francisco bacon restaurant shut down

    A San Francisco restaurant owner says he's out of business after complaints about the smell of bacon led to a discovery the eatery lacked proper health permits. Jim Angelus, the owner of Bacon Bacon, said the restaurant will shut down at the close of business Friday. Neighbors complained last summer about the smell and alleged Bacon Bacon did not properly dispose of grease. The San ...

  • Sharks Top Kings 2-1 Logan Couture Overtime Goal Gives San Jose First Win In Series

    Dan Boyle #22, Patrick Marleau #12 and Logan Couture #39 of the San Jose Sharks celebrate with teammates after Boyle scored a goal against the Los Angeles Kings in the first period in Game Three of the Western Conference Semifinals during the 2013 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at HP Pavilion on May 18, 2013 in San Jose, ...

  • $590 million Powerball jackpot 1 winning ticket sold in Florida

    A Powerball Lottery ticket is dispensed from a machine in Oklahoma City, Friday, May 17, 2013. Powerball officials say the jackpot has climbed to an estimated $600 million, making it the largest prize in the game's history and the world's second largest lottery prize.(AP Photo/Sue ...

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