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  • With No Legs or Arms Craig Dietz Completes Treacherous Alcatraz Swim

    SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 22. LAST Sunday, Craig Dietz swam the treacherous 1.5 miles from Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay to the mainland, placing 689th out of 817 competitors.Dietz is becoming a notable name in the open water swimming community, traversing some of the toughest waterways without arms or legs. Born limbless in Pennsylvania in 1974, Dietz has become an inspiration ...

  • Oakland man who posed as an FBI agent arrested for violating probation

    SAN FRANCISCO -- Federal authorities recently arrested a Hayward man for violating his probation after he impersonated an FBI officer and want to know if the public has ever come into contact with him while he pretended to be an agent.Max Joseph Plog-Horowitz, 21, who often goes by the alias "Max Heartmann" was convicted of charges including impersonating a federal officer on March 25 ...

  • Family friends search for Emeryville man who vanished after Bay to Breakers race

    SAN FRANCISCO -- The mystery surrounding an Emeryville man who vanished after running Bay to Breakers on Sunday only deepened Tuesday, as family and friends from as far away as Oregon and San Diego arrived to hunt for clues but found no sign of the 27-year-old.No John Does at hospitals matched Beau Rasmussen. A search of jails turned up nothing, as did an extensive search of the coastline from ...

  • Thieving U.S. postal worker delivered to drug rehab

    A former U.S. Postal worker in San Carlos who stole thousands of pieces of mail was sentenced Tuesday to a year in County Jail, three years probation and ordered to enter a drug rehabilitation program, according to prosecutors. Romeo Maniulit Natan, 39, of San Bruno, stole mail mostly from Devonshire Avenue in San Carlos and gave the credit cards he found inside them to accomplices who made ...

  • Shooting after Bayview park drug spat

    A 48-year-old man was shot at a Bayview park on Tuesday following an apparent argument over drugs, police said. The shooting was reported at about 7:15 p.m. in a small park at Palou Avenue and Phelps Street. The victim suffered gun shot wounds to the buttocks, leg and hand, police said. He was treated at San Francisco General Hospital and is expected to survive. The shooter, described only as ...


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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

The tag line for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is "Witness the birth of fear," which is technically what we do in the opening minutes when a woman gives birth to the mutant baby who will grow up to be Leatherface on the grungy flo ... ...

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  • San Francisco Bay Area awarded ’16 Super Bowl

    Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...

  • Parking complaint leads to drug bust

    Complaints from residents and merchants in the Outer Mission district about double parking on their street reportedly led to a meth bust Sunday. About 7:30 p.m., officers responding to the complaints in the 5200 block of Mission Street spotted an occupied vehicle blocking two driveways. A passenger in the car was on probation, allowing for a police search that allegedly uncovered ...

  • NetApp cutting 900 jobs

    NetApp Inc. said Tuesday it is eliminating 900 jobs as part of a business realignment, as well as increasing dividends and its stock-repurchase program. The data-storage provider said in a letter to Sunnyvale officials that 235 of the cuts will be at its headquarters in the ...

  • PayPal offering new mobile payments service

    the Mercury News reports . The new services from eBay's PayPal will also allow customers to order tickets for sporting events on StubHub, also an eBay company, and have them sent to the user's digital PayPal ...

  • Intel CEO begins shakeup

    Intel Corp. has announced a broad company reorganization and the creation of a new unit aimed at mobile technology. The shakeup comes just days after the company's new ...

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