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  • 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 ...

  • Richmond sets deadline for Chevron compensation agreement

    Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX), the San Ramon, Calif.-based energy giant, is planning to invest part of $10 billion in a joint venture in West Africa, the San Francisco Business Times ...


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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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  • Blue Coat buys Solera Networks

    The Web security provider Blue Coat Systems Inc. has agreed to buy Solera Networks for an undisclosed sum. Sunnyvale-based Blue Coat said it expects the deal to close within 30 days. Solera Networks makes big data security analytics software. Solera is based in South Jordan, Utah, and has raised a total of $51 million in venture funding, ...

  • Jenny Lins death remembered with Castro Valley service candlelight walk

    CASTRO VALLEY -- A service to mark the 19th anniversary of teenager Jenny Lin is planned for Friday.The public service will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Castro Valley Library. A candlelight walk in downtown Castro Valley will take place afterward.No arrests have been made in the death of Jenny, 14, who was killed in her home on May 17, 1994.The Jenny Lin Foundation sponsored a contest to raise ...

  • Gov. Jerry Brown Bay Bridge not going to open unless its ready

    BERKELEY -- A little more than a week before engineers are expected to disclose whether the Bay Bridge's new span can open as planned Labor Day weekend, Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday that he's taking the situation "very seriously.""That thing is not going to open unless it's ready, and the engineers are telling me that they're doing the kind of work that will be ...

  • Oklahoma Search and rescue expert from Oakland to aid in relief efforts

    Dos residentes pasan caminando junto a un auto destruido mientras recorren el martes 21 de mayo de 2013 un vecindario de Moore, Oklahoma, devastado el lunes por un tornado. (Foto AP/Charlie ...

  • EV charging locator app maker Xatori acquired

    Xatori, makers of the electric vehicle station-finding app Plugshare, has been bought by rival Recargo, based in Venice, Calif. The half-dozen employees of Xatori were all hired in the acquisition and will remain in the Bay Area. The Plugshare app, which helps electric and plug-in hybrid drivers locate charging stations, will retain its name after it's integrated with Recargo's ...

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