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House Fire Displaces 5 People In San Jose
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — Five people were displaced in a structure fire Saturday morning in San Jose, fire officials said. Crews responded to a report of a fire at a structure on Timberview Court at about 4:30 a.m., according to fire officials. The fire was deemed under control at about 5:40 a.m., officials said. The fire started in the garage where the family was storing items for their ...
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Bicyclist Injured In Crash With School Bus In San Jose
[…] first because it was the first link in the Feed, a cyclist was hit by a school bus in CA. Bicyclist Injured In Crash With School Bus In San Jose OK it was only technically a bus because it was being used to transport school children otherwise ...
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Walnut Creek Las Lomas High School wrestler dies suddenly of brain aneurysm
WALNUT CREEK -- With just two weeks left until school lets out for summer, the Las Lomas High School community has suffered a devastating blow with the loss of 18-year-old junior Amir Khakimov, a fierce competitor and athlete who died Tuesday from bleeding in the brain. A student known for his smile and called by his wrestling coach "the glue" that held the team together, Khakimov had ...
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A family remembers a fallen soldier
ALAMEDA -- A shadow of uneasiness fell upon Stephanie Fisher that night as she talked with her son while he prepared to leave for Afghanistan on his third combat tour."I felt the worst kind of dread," Fisher said. "It was deep and dark and all-consuming. I told him, 'Just say you can't go right now.' He said, 'Mom, I have the same feeling as you.'" ...
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49ers Harbaugh to drive Indy pace car
San Francisco 49ers football coach Jim Harbaugh has been selected to drive the Indianapolis 500's pace car Sunday, a 2014 Chevrolet Corvette ...
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Movie Review
Payback
About the only mean thing Mel Gibson doesn't do to prove his badness in "Payback" is steal candy from a baby. In the first five minutes alone, he brusquely pushes apart a loving couple holding hands, steals money from a homeless Vietnam veteran, stiffs a waitress on her tip, snatches a businessman's wallet, and proceeds to use the driver's license to take money from the man's bank account and the ... ...
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San Francisco Travel Association Announces New Marketing Representation In Japan
The San Francisco Travel Association, in partnership with San Francisco International Airport (SFO), has retained AVIAREPS Marketing Garden Ltd. (AMG) as their new marketing representation office in Japan. San Francisco Travel and SFO first retained representation services in Japan in 1987, making San Francisco one of the first cities in the U.S. to have an office in Tokyo. In 2000, a ...
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Environmental Defense Fund Co-sponsor of Global Warming Solutions Act to Provide Testimony at San Jose Public Workshop on Draft Scoping Plan to Implement Law
Media Advisory for Friday, August 8, 9:30am-4pm WASHINGTON - August 7 - WHAT: A co-sponsor of ...
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San Francisco State Basketball Player Accused Of Murder In Georgia
Decensae White, a basketball player at San Francisco State University, is accused in the 2012 Georgia murder of rapper Lil’ Phat, also known as Melvin Vernell III. (Fulton County Sheriff’s ...
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Washington bridge collapse spotlights Californias aging bridges
California in recent decades has spent billions retrofitting its bridges for earthquakes, but in the wake of Thursday's bridge collapse in Washington state, critics say the Golden State is still lagging behind most other states in the quality of its bridges.Thousands of bridges in California are classified as "structurally deficient" by federal transportation authorities, meaning ...
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Hundreds expected to search Saturday for missing Emeryville man who vanished after Bay to Breakers
SAN FRANCISCO -- More than 200 people will search Ocean Beach, Golden Gate Park and surrounding neighborhoods on Saturday looking for clues in the disappearance of an Emeryville man who vanished after running the Bay to Breakers race May 19.Beau Rasmussen, 27, has not been seen or heard from since noon that day, when he said goodbye to his friends in Golden Gate Park at 30th Avenue and John F. ...