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| May.1 |
SF Bayview |
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Shootings Leave 2 Teens Dead |
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East Oakland |
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Immigration Protesters March At least several thousand people marched seven7 to the federal building in a to support for immigration rights
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SF Downtown |
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Thousands turn out for immigrants rights
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San Jose Downtown |
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Thousands Of Immigrants Turn Out 50,000 legal and illegals marched peacefully under a blue sky protesting what they call unjust immigration legislation
| People called out battle cries such as 'Si, se puede,' meaning 'Yes, we can,' while waving U.S. and Mexican flags as they trotted down King Rd. Hundreds more stood along the sidelines as the march stretched across 5 lanes
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| May.2 |
West San Jose |
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Young Girl Drowns In Community Pool |
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Pac Bell Park |
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Bonds zeros in on Ruth with 712th homer |
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Treasure Island |
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K-9 Unit Officer Dies In Training Exercise
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| May.3 |
West Oakland |
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Girl, 6, Foils On-Campus Molestation A man snuck on to Lafayette Elementary School campus and fled after she began screaming
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Barry Bonds |
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Bonds hit in head by ball in BP
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San Francisco |
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USOC To Scout City For Possible 2016 Bid |
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| May.4 |
SF Bayview |
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Murder Case Witness Gunned Down Twenty-two-year-old Terrell Rollins was supposedly being protected by the D.A.'s Office
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Rollins had been in a witness protection program after he testified before a grand jury that indicted 2 men on murder charges
He came to the city despite warnings from investigators that he might be targeted for revenge.
Mayor Newsom now calling for an investigation into the witness protection program.
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San Quentin |
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Sex Offenders Moving To San Quentin 12 parolees will temporarily live at prison because the Solano County hotels no longer want them there
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| May.6 |
Richmond |
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Cinco de Mayo Events Relatively Quiet |
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Fishermans Wharf |
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Ferry Crashes Head On Into Pier 41 
9 were injured when a Baylink ferry boat traveling from Mare Island crashed head on near Fisherman's Wharf
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| May.7 |
Barry Bonds |
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Bonds one behind Ruth with 713th Bonds is moving for 2nd place on career list. The slugger hit a mammoth shot during the 9-5 loss to the Phillies
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SJ Arena |
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Sharks 2-1 over Oilers in Game 1 |
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| May.8 |
Apple |
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Beatles Lose Suit Against Apple Computer Apple Computer is entitled to use the apple logo on its iTunes Music Store. Apple Corps Ltd. lost suit
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Mountain View |
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SGI files for chapter 11 bankruptcy
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Concord |
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Soldier From Concord Killed in Iraq
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Alameda |
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Toddler Fired Gun, Killed Dad 3-year-old child in the apartment had found a gun and was playing with it when it fired killing the man, in his 20s
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SJ Arena |
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Sharks beat Oilers 2-1, grab 2-0 lead |
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| May.10 |
Martinez |
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Police Chase Ends In Deadly Shooting |
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Berkeley |
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Cody's Books To Close |
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Oakland |
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Teachers Ratify New 2-Year Contract |
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Pac Bell Park |
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Bonds hitless in Giants' loss |
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| May.11 |
Berkeley |
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Sea Lion Bites Woman At Berkeley Marina
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Pac Bell Park |
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Bonds stuck on 713 as Giants win |
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San Francisco |
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Inquire About Students' Immigration |
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| May.12 |
San Jose Downtown |
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2 shot dead in restaurant shooting |
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Stanford |
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Armed Robbers Strike Stanford, Palo Alto| 2 suspects are at large after robbing 2 men in Palo Alto, 40 minutes after a similar robbery on the University campus | |
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San Francisco |
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Questions Surround Concrete Supplier
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Pac Bell Park |
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Bonds hitless in 6-1 Giants' loss |
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| May.13 |
Pac Bell Park |
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Bonds moved to 3rd spot to wake up bat |
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San Francisco |
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Nearly 10% More Tourist Dollars Spent |
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| May.14 |
Pac Bell Park |
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Bonds hitless as Dodgers stop Giants |
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SJ Arena |
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Sharks fans boo O Canada prior Game 5 |
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| May.15 |
Ocean Beach |
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Man Drowns Trying To Save 2 Boys| 3 people who were caught in a riptide at Ocean Beach were rescued by lifeguards; 26-year-old good Samaritan died | |
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SF Bayview |
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PG&E Shuts Down Old Power Plant The natural gas-fired plant was shut down more than 25 years after neighbors began campaigning against
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Pittsburg |
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Teen Shot Outside Courthouse
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SF City Hall |
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Mayor Vetoes G.G. Park Road Closure |
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SFO |
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Plane Lands After Smoke Onboard |
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| May.16 |
Stanford |
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Student Robbed In String Of Crimes
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Half Moon Bay |
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Businesses suffer from highway 1 closure |
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Oakland |
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Mayoral candidates debated over housing |
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Antioch |
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County Oks Closure Of Crime-Plagued Rd. |
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| May.17 |
Mountain View |
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Fire at Strip Mall Destroys 4 Businesses
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West Oakland |
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Fire at Post Office |
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South of Market |
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Piece of Titanic Docks Atop Metreon 15 tons of the 94-year-old wreck, C-deck hull, were hoisted by crane to the roof
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San Jose |
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Sharks out of playoffs 8th-seeded Edmonton Oilers held off San Jose 2-0 in Game 6 of the quarterfinal series
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Lafayette |
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Bus Crash Injures 7 Lafayette Schoolkids |
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| May.18 |
Bay Area |
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Bay Area executives to add employees |
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San Jose |
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Grand jury: city police intimidating citizens
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San Francisco |
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Olympic Committee Visits To Hear 2016 Bid
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San Francisco |
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Wife Of Drowned Hero Facing Deportation |
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| May.19 |
Burlingame |
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Police Car, Bus Collide; 11 Hurt A SamTrans bus and a police car collided head-on, shutting down El Camino Real for several hours
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Coliseum |
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Bonds 0-3 In Giants' 1-0 Loss To A's |
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| May.20 |
Coliseum |
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Bonds launches No. 714, tying Ruth| Bonds tied Babe for 2nd place on the career home run during 4-2, 10-inning victory over the Oakland Athletics. The 7-time NL MVP is ending a 9-game homerless stretch with a shot into the first deck of the elevated stands in right-center.
Tne home runs appeared to travel about 400 feet.
The ... | |
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| May.21 |
San Francisco |
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VP Dick Cheney Quietly Arrives In SF
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Ocean Beach |
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Okari Wins Bay To Breakers Again
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Coliseum |
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Bonds homerless as Cains tosses 1-hitter |
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| May.22 |
SF Downtown |
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Second-Grader Swims Alcatraz to SF Braxton Bilbrey from Glendale, Ariz., made the 1.4-mile swim to Aquatic Park in 47 min.
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UC Berkeley |
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UC: Bad Design For N.O. Levees |
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| May.23 |
Richmond |
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5 Shootings, 2 Dead |
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Hercules |
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Town To Seize of Wal-Mart Land| The City Council voted unanimously to pursue using the power of eminent domain to seize 17 acres | |
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| May.25 |
Yahoo |
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Yahoo, eBay to join forces in partnership
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Antioch |
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Man, Woman Killed 'Execution Style' |
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| May.26 |
SJSU |
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Student Disappears During Finals Week Jason Shaughnessy, 23, is supposed to graduate and has not shown up for work or at home since May 17
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East Oakland |
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2 Teens Killed In Separate Shootings
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San Francisco |
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Rollover Accident Leaves 2 Dead |
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| May.28 |
SJSU |
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Missing Student Phones Home |
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Pac Bell Park |
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Bonds passes Ruth, trails only Aaron Barry Bonds hit his 715th home run to slip past Babe Ruth during Giants' 6-3 loss to the Colorado Rockies
| 'It's a great honor,' said Bonds. He homered off Byung-Hyun Kim in the 4th inning.
The ball glanced off a fan's hands, dropped onto an elevated platform beyond the fence,
sat for a few minutes before rolling off the roof and into the hands of 38-year-old Andrew Morbitzer,
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East Oakland |
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Two Dead After Hit By Suspect In Chase |
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| May.29 |
SF Presidio |
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Annual ceremony marking Memorial Day |
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| May.30 |
Richmond |
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Police Shoot Man Dead When Chase Ends
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SF City Hall |
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3 Suspicious Items Harmless
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San Jose |
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Candidates Face Off In Mayoral Debate |
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| May.31 |
Sun |
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Sun to Cut Up to 5,000 Jobs| Sun Microsystems planned to reduce 37,500-person work force by 11% to 13% to return to
consistent profitability. The cuts, over the next six months, will cost from $340 million to $500 million over the next
several quarters
The plan includes selling real estat... | |
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SF Downtown |
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120 Firefighters Battled Market St. Blaze |
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Oakland Downtown |
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Bomb Squad Blows Up Suspicious Device |
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| 2006 |
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| May.2 |
West San Jose |
Young Girl Drowns In Community Pool |
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| May.2 |
Treasure Island |
K-9 Unit Officer Dies In Training Exercise
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| May.6 |
Fishermans Wharf |
Ferry Crashes Head On Into Pier 41 9 were injured when a Baylink ferry boat traveling from Mare Island crashed head on near Fisherman's Wharf
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| May.8 |
Alameda |
Toddler Fired Gun, Killed Dad 3-year-old child in the apartment had found a gun and was playing with it when it fired killing the man, in his 20s
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| May.11 |
Berkeley |
Sea Lion Bites Woman At Berkeley Marina
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| May.15 |
Ocean Beach |
Man Drowns Trying To Save 2 Boys| 3 people who were caught in a riptide at Ocean Beach were rescued by lifeguards; 26-year-old good Samaritan died | |
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| May.15 |
SF Bayview |
PG&E Shuts Down Old Power Plant The natural gas-fired plant was shut down more than 25 years after neighbors began campaigning against
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| May.15 |
SFO |
Plane Lands After Smoke Onboard |
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| May.17 |
Mountain View |
Fire at Strip Mall Destroys 4 Businesses
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| May.17 |
West Oakland |
Fire at Post Office |
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| May.17 |
Lafayette |
Bus Crash Injures 7 Lafayette Schoolkids |
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| May.19 |
Burlingame |
Police Car, Bus Collide; 11 Hurt A SamTrans bus and a police car collided head-on, shutting down El Camino Real for several hours
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| May.26 |
SJSU |
Student Disappears During Finals Week Jason Shaughnessy, 23, is supposed to graduate and has not shown up for work or at home since May 17
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| May.26 |
San Francisco |
Rollover Accident Leaves 2 Dead |
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| May.28 |
SJSU |
Missing Student Phones Home |
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| May.28 |
East Oakland |
Two Dead After Hit By Suspect In Chase |
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| May.30 |
SF City Hall |
3 Suspicious Items Harmless
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| May.31 |
SF Downtown |
120 Firefighters Battled Market St. Blaze |
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| May.31 |
Oakland Downtown |
Bomb Squad Blows Up Suspicious Device |
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| 2006 |
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| May.3 |
West Oakland |
Girl, 6, Foils On-Campus Molestation A man snuck on to Lafayette Elementary School campus and fled after she began screaming
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| May.10 |
Oakland |
Teachers Ratify New 2-Year Contract |
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| May.11 |
San Francisco |
Inquire About Students' Immigration |
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| May.17 |
Lafayette |
Bus Crash Injures 7 Lafayette Schoolkids |
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| May.22 |
UC Berkeley |
UC: Bad Design For N.O. Levees |
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| May.26 |
SJSU |
Student Disappears During Finals Week Jason Shaughnessy, 23, is supposed to graduate and has not shown up for work or at home since May 17
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| 2006 |
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| May.8 |
Apple |
Beatles Lose Suit Against Apple Computer Apple Computer is entitled to use the apple logo on its iTunes Music Store. Apple Corps Ltd. lost suit
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| May.8 |
Mountain View |
SGI files for chapter 11 bankruptcy
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| May.10 |
Berkeley |
Cody's Books To Close |
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| May.10 |
Oakland |
Teachers Ratify New 2-Year Contract |
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| May.12 |
San Francisco |
Questions Surround Concrete Supplier
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| May.13 |
San Francisco |
Nearly 10% More Tourist Dollars Spent |
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| May.15 |
SF Bayview |
PG&E Shuts Down Old Power Plant The natural gas-fired plant was shut down more than 25 years after neighbors began campaigning against
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| May.16 |
Half Moon Bay |
Businesses suffer from highway 1 closure |
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| May.17 |
South of Market |
Piece of Titanic Docks Atop Metreon 15 tons of the 94-year-old wreck, C-deck hull, were hoisted by crane to the roof
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| May.18 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area executives to add employees |
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| May.23 |
Hercules |
Town To Seize of Wal-Mart Land| The City Council voted unanimously to pursue using the power of eminent domain to seize 17 acres | |
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| May.25 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo, eBay to join forces in partnership
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| May.31 |
Sun |
Sun to Cut Up to 5,000 Jobs| Sun Microsystems planned to reduce 37,500-person work force by 11% to 13% to return to
consistent profitability. The cuts, over the next six months, will cost from $340 million to $500 million over the next
several quarters
The plan includes selling real estat... | |
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| 2006 |
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| May.2 |
Pac Bell Park |
Bonds zeros in on Ruth with 712th homer |
|
| May.3 |
Barry Bonds |
Bonds hit in head by ball in BP
|
| May.3 |
San Francisco |
USOC To Scout City For Possible 2016 Bid |
|
| May.7 |
Barry Bonds |
Bonds one behind Ruth with 713th Bonds is moving for 2nd place on career list. The slugger hit a mammoth shot during the 9-5 loss to the Phillies
|
| May.7 |
SJ Arena |
Sharks 2-1 over Oilers in Game 1 |
|
| May.8 |
SJ Arena |
Sharks beat Oilers 2-1, grab 2-0 lead |
|
| May.10 |
Pac Bell Park |
Bonds hitless in Giants' loss |
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| May.11 |
Pac Bell Park |
Bonds stuck on 713 as Giants win |
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| May.12 |
Pac Bell Park |
Bonds hitless in 6-1 Giants' loss |
|
| May.13 |
Pac Bell Park |
Bonds moved to 3rd spot to wake up bat |
|
| May.14 |
Pac Bell Park |
Bonds hitless as Dodgers stop Giants |
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| May.14 |
SJ Arena |
Sharks fans boo O Canada prior Game 5 |
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| May.17 |
San Jose |
Sharks out of playoffs 8th-seeded Edmonton Oilers held off San Jose 2-0 in Game 6 of the quarterfinal series
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| May.18 |
San Francisco |
Olympic Committee Visits To Hear 2016 Bid
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| May.19 |
Coliseum |
Bonds 0-3 In Giants' 1-0 Loss To A's |
|
| May.20 |
Coliseum |
Bonds launches No. 714, tying Ruth| Bonds tied Babe for 2nd place on the career home run during 4-2, 10-inning victory over the Oakland Athletics. The 7-time NL MVP is ending a 9-game homerless stretch with a shot into the first deck of the elevated stands in right-center.
Tne home runs appeared to travel about 400 feet.
The ... | |
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| May.21 |
Ocean Beach |
Okari Wins Bay To Breakers Again
|
| May.21 |
Coliseum |
Bonds homerless as Cains tosses 1-hitter |
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| May.22 |
SF Downtown |
Second-Grader Swims Alcatraz to SF Braxton Bilbrey from Glendale, Ariz., made the 1.4-mile swim to Aquatic Park in 47 min.
|
| May.28 |
Pac Bell Park |
Bonds passes Ruth, trails only Aaron Barry Bonds hit his 715th home run to slip past Babe Ruth during Giants' 6-3 loss to the Colorado Rockies
| 'It's a great honor,' said Bonds. He homered off Byung-Hyun Kim in the 4th inning.
The ball glanced off a fan's hands, dropped onto an elevated platform beyond the fence,
sat for a few minutes before rolling off the roof and into the hands of 38-year-old Andrew Morbitzer,
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| 2006 |
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| May.1 |
SF Bayview |
Shootings Leave 2 Teens Dead |
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| May.3 |
West Oakland |
Girl, 6, Foils On-Campus Molestation A man snuck on to Lafayette Elementary School campus and fled after she began screaming
|
| May.4 |
SF Bayview |
Murder Case Witness Gunned Down Twenty-two-year-old Terrell Rollins was supposedly being protected by the D.A.'s Office
|
Rollins had been in a witness protection program after he testified before a grand jury that indicted 2 men on murder charges
He came to the city despite warnings from investigators that he might be targeted for revenge.
Mayor Newsom now calling for an investigation into the witness protection program.
|
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|
| May.4 |
San Quentin |
Sex Offenders Moving To San Quentin 12 parolees will temporarily live at prison because the Solano County hotels no longer want them there
|
| May.8 |
Alameda |
Toddler Fired Gun, Killed Dad 3-year-old child in the apartment had found a gun and was playing with it when it fired killing the man, in his 20s
|
| May.10 |
Martinez |
Police Chase Ends In Deadly Shooting |
|
| May.12 |
San Jose Downtown |
2 shot dead in restaurant shooting |
|
| May.12 |
Stanford |
Armed Robbers Strike Stanford, Palo Alto| 2 suspects are at large after robbing 2 men in Palo Alto, 40 minutes after a similar robbery on the University campus | |
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| May.15 |
Pittsburg |
Teen Shot Outside Courthouse
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| May.16 |
Stanford |
Student Robbed In String Of Crimes
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| May.16 |
Antioch |
County Oks Closure Of Crime-Plagued Rd. |
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| May.18 |
San Jose |
Grand jury: city police intimidating citizens
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| May.23 |
Richmond |
5 Shootings, 2 Dead |
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| May.25 |
Antioch |
Man, Woman Killed 'Execution Style' |
|
| May.26 |
East Oakland |
2 Teens Killed In Separate Shootings
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| May.28 |
East Oakland |
Two Dead After Hit By Suspect In Chase |
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| May.30 |
Richmond |
Police Shoot Man Dead When Chase Ends
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|
| 2006 |
|
| May.1 |
East Oakland |
Immigration Protesters March At least several thousand people marched seven7 to the federal building in a to support for immigration rights
|
| May.1 |
SF Downtown |
Thousands turn out for immigrants rights
|
| May.1 |
San Jose Downtown |
Thousands Of Immigrants Turn Out 50,000 legal and illegals marched peacefully under a blue sky protesting what they call unjust immigration legislation
| People called out battle cries such as 'Si, se puede,' meaning 'Yes, we can,' while waving U.S. and Mexican flags as they trotted down King Rd. Hundreds more stood along the sidelines as the march stretched across 5 lanes
|
| |
|
| May.2 |
Treasure Island |
K-9 Unit Officer Dies In Training Exercise
|
| May.6 |
Richmond |
Cinco de Mayo Events Relatively Quiet |
|
| May.8 |
Concord |
Soldier From Concord Killed in Iraq
|
| May.11 |
San Francisco |
Inquire About Students' Immigration |
|
| May.15 |
SF City Hall |
Mayor Vetoes G.G. Park Road Closure |
|
| May.16 |
Oakland |
Mayoral candidates debated over housing |
|
| May.16 |
Antioch |
County Oks Closure Of Crime-Plagued Rd. |
|
| May.18 |
San Jose |
Grand jury: city police intimidating citizens
|
| May.18 |
San Francisco |
Wife Of Drowned Hero Facing Deportation |
|
| May.21 |
San Francisco |
VP Dick Cheney Quietly Arrives In SF
|
| May.23 |
Hercules |
Town To Seize of Wal-Mart Land| The City Council voted unanimously to pursue using the power of eminent domain to seize 17 acres | |
|
| May.29 |
SF Presidio |
Annual ceremony marking Memorial Day |
|
| May.30 |
San Jose |
Candidates Face Off In Mayoral Debate |
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