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  • Oakland hills Crews watch for hot spots in Joaquin Miller Park

    A firefighter works on hotspots among the trees as crews finish off a brush fire near Skyline Blvd. in the hills above Oakland, Calif. on Monday, May 20, 2013. (Kristopher Skinner/Bay Area News ...

  • Veteran of Richmonds neighborhood wars changes life

    Eric Welch, a fellow with the City of Richmond's Office of Neighborhood Safety, visits one of the four locations where he was shot in Richmond on May 7, 2013. Welch is moving on from his rough background and has been chosen to serve as Summer Policy Fellow for the Campaign for Youth Justice in Washington, D.C., this ...

  • Green Beret from Hayward buried in Arlington National Cemetery

    A Green Beret from Hayward who died of injuries sustained in combat in Afghanistan was laid to rest Monday with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery.Sgt. 1st Class James Grissom's family, including his wife, parents and sister, attended the burial of his cremated remains.The family chose Arlington in Virginia over other military cemeteries, said his father, Jim Grissom, of ...

  • Fire danger again peaks as temperatures climb across Bay Area

    Forecasters say the high temperatures that moved in Monday should dissipate through the week's end, but state and city fire officials said they still plan to keep an eye on hills and other land covered with dry brush throughout the Bay Area.That danger was on display Monday, as several brush fires drew quick, strong responses from firefighters in Oakland, Orinda and San Jose. There were no ...

  • MLB San Francisco 8 Washington 0

    Ryan Vogelsong earned a win but was injured Monday in San Francisco's 8-0 rout of Washington. Belt scored four times and his blast in the fifth inning handed a 6-0 lead to San Francisco, which opened a homestand by snapping a three-game ...


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Movie Review

Jigoku [DVD]

Jigoku [DVD]

The afterworld is an ugly place in Nobuo Nakagawas morbid cult classic Jigoku, the literal translation of which is Hell. It is precisely in hell--or, more specifically, numerous hells--that the final third of the film takes place, and it is Nakagawas brutal, surreal imagining of the realms ... ...

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  • Transit agency board to vote on Central Subway contract

    An $840 million contract for Muni's Central Subway project -- a pact that accounts for more than half the total cost of the undertaking -- is up for approval Tuesday. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's board of directors is expected to vote on the contract, which includes the construction of three underground stations, an elevated platform and 1.5 miles of light-rail ...

  • Central Subway report details lack of time money contingencies

    A recent report by a federally placed overseer monitoring the $1.6 billion Central Subway project laments that the controversial line is at risk of falling significantly below Federal Transportation Administration minimums for both time and money contingencies. The subway's current project schedule "reflects 4.7 months of buffer float," according to the project oversight ...

  • Teacher accused of molesting students used recess activities as cover police say

    UNION CITY -- Police say third-grade teacher Michael Howey made sure he had extracurricular activities for girls -- specifically arts and crafts, during recess for a choice group of students who made his "cutiest (sic) girl list."Howey, 47, who now faces dozens of charges related to inappropriate behavior with his students, sent the other girls and the boys to the playground, court ...

  • Volunteers donations rescue the upcoming Carnaval festival

    Eighty-two days, more than $400,000 in donations and 500 volunteers have saved Carnaval. The Mission district's most important street festival -- and the highlight of the cultural calendar for many Latinos across the Bay Area -- will go on this weekend, less than three months after Carnaval's then-organizers said there was not enough time, money and energy to put on the 35th annual ...

  • Brown says safety fears could delay span opening

    Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday that he does not know if the Bay Bridge will open over Labor Day weekend because of safety concerns. It was the first time the governor acknowledged serious worries about the structural integrity of the $6.4 billion infrastructure project to build a new eastern span of the bridge. Brown had dismissed concerns about broken bolts earlier this month. Now the governor ...

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