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  • Aldon Smith Builds on Experience

    has been a disruptive pass-rushing force to start his career with the San Francisco 49ers, but he's still striving towards bigger goals as he enters his third year in the National Football League. It's an impressive frame of mind when you consider the starting outside linebacker's 33.5 sacks are the most by a player in his first two seasons in NFL history. The 6-foot-4, 258-pound ...

  • Peninsula-based fire team ready to help after Oklahoma tornado

    In this Tuesday, May 21, 2013 aerial photo, emergency responders make their way down a street of damaged homes following Monday's tornado in Moore, ...

  • 49ers A.J. Jenkins bulked up ready to rebound

    SANTA CLARA - Organized team activities started Tuesday for the 49ers, but wide receiver A.J. Jenkins already has been hard at work this offseason, determined to rebound from a "humbling" rookie season.Jenkins dismissed feeling any pressure as he enters his second season, noting simply: "Pressure for what? It's football."Last season's first-round draft pick, Jenkins ...

  • Eminem’s Publisher Sues Facebook Over Song Usage

    CBS NEWS/AP ) – Eminem’s song publisher is suing Facebook and an ad agency, saying they copied music from one of the rapper’s ...

  • Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland fined $142970 for safety violations

    State regulators have fined Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland $142,970 for not properly isolating nearly two dozen patients suspected of having tuberculosis.The hospital failed to put the patients in appropriately ventilated rooms to prevent the disease from spreading to other patients and hospital employees, Cal-OSHA said.As it turned out, none of these patients tested positive for ...


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Movie Review

Race to Witch Mountain

Race to Witch Mountain

Despite being a child of the 1970s, I never saw Disneys Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) and thus have no point of comparison with its new reimagining, which comes complete with action-comedy star Dwayne Johnson in the drivers seat and a slightly more dynamic nam ... ...

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  • NFL notebook San Francisco lands 50th Super Bowl

    San Francisco beat out South Florida, which was stymied in its bid to stage an 11th Super Bowl when the Florida Legislature did not support financing to renovate Sun Life ...

  • San Francisco’s Political Leaders Ecstatic About Hosting Super Bowl L

    SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)-- The rotunda at San Francisco's City Hall was packed full of Warriors fans on Tuesday when Mayor Ed Lee was passed a note and a big smile broke out on his face. The city's political and civic leaders were gathered for a Warrior's Day celebration, but it was the news about another sport that Lee was reacting to. You didn't have to be a mind reader to ...

  • Southern Cal San Jose State share 1st-round lead

    ATHENS, Ga. -; Southern California and San Jose State shared the lead at 4-under 284 after the first round of the NCAA Women's Golf Championships on ...

  • Golden Gate owners hit rock bottom — for heating and cooling systems

    Tuesday21 May 20133:29 p.m. Greg Stevens saw opportunity 475 feet below the Golden Gate Hotel & Casino. That's where the engineer and co-owner of the 107-year-old Fremont property decided to draw the heating and cooling power needed to keep beer and slush drinks cold ...

  • Fremont Officers fatally shoot dog after it attacks police say

    FREMONT -- Officers shot and killed a dog Monday after the animal attacked them at a Fremont home, police said.The officers were not injured and the breed of the dog was not known, police said.Officers were called at 8:10 p.m. to the 48200 block of Sawleaf Street for a report of a vicious dog, said police spokeswoman Geneva Bosques.A 911 caller told dispatchers that four dogs were loose and had ...

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