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| Oct.1 |
Cisco |
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Cisco Agrees To Buy Tandberg For $3B Cisco Systems Inc. to buy Norway's Tandberg ASA in a bid to dominate the global market for videoconferencing equipment
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BART |
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BART Promising Changes In Police Dept.
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| Oct.2 |
San Francisco |
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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. goes public |
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Oakley |
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Judge Blocks Development Of Homes
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| Oct.3 |
San Francisco |
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Taker found for Mission Bay office space |
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| Oct.4 |
Martinez |
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County Considers Additional Budget Cuts |
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Vallejo |
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Fire killed two people and destroyed home
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Pleasant Hill |
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Suspect shot dead after standoff
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| Oct.5 |
UCSF |
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Researcher Wins Nobel Prize For Medicine| Molecular biologist Elizabeth H. Blackburn, 60, was awarded for the discovery of an enzyme that is essential to normal cell function | |
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San Jose |
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2 Runners Die In San Jose Half Marathon Medical personnel were unsuccessful in trying revive 35-year-old Brandon Whitehurst of Antioch and 34-year-old Rose Lo of South San Francisc...
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| Oct.6 |
49ers |
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Niners meet Crabtree in person |
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Martinez |
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Contra Costa County Slashes Budget
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South SF |
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Bill Clinton Endorsing Garamendi |
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| Oct.7 |
49ers |
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49ers agree to 6-year deal with Crabtree 49ers and wide receiver Michael Crabtree agreed to a six-year contract in the wee hours after several months of difficult negotiations
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Oakland City Hall |
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City To Pay $1.2 Million To Settle Lawsuit |
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| Oct.8 |
Mountain View |
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Scientist Shares Nobel In Physics| Charles K. Kao, a Shanghai-born Mountain View resident helped link the world through fiber-optic networks. He suffers from Alzheimer's disease | |
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Oakland |
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2 men convicted of murdering Brinks guard |
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East Oakland |
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2 people dead in shooting
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San Francisco |
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Habitat buying empty homes |
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| Oct.9 |
Oakland |
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Change Of Venue Hearing In BART Case |
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San Jose |
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Bomb Suspect's Brother Guilty |
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San Francisco |
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Ammiano Won't Apologize For Heckling| Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's office is speaking out about insults he faced at a San Francisco Democratic fundraiser | |
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Oakland Downtown |
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Two Teenage Girls Arrested After Attack |
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| Oct.10 |
SF Downtown |
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Blue Angels Cancel Show Due To Fog |
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Berkeley |
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Independent Books Inc. opens |
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| Oct.11 |
San Francisco |
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Woods routs Yang to clinch Presidents Cup
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| Oct.12 |
San Francisco |
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Governor Establishing Harvey Milk Day
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UC Berkeley |
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Professor Wins Nobel Economics Prize| Oliver Williamson won the prize for analyses of economic governance - the way authority is exercised in companies and economic systems | |
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Half Moon Bay |
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Iowa Pumpkin Sets Weigh-Off Record
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Google |
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Levinson exits Google's board |
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San Francisco |
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Man fatally stabbed |
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| Oct.13 |
Cisco |
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Cisco To Buy Starent Networks For $2.9B Betting on the growing popularity of data-hungry phones like the iPhone, Cisco Systems is to buy a maker of equipment for wireless carriers
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Bay Area |
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Floods, Outages As Storm Pounds Sandbagging were being made in neighborhoods under threat, while heavy rains caused tens of thousands of power outages
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South of Market |
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Twitter moving to larger office space |
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San Jose |
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24,000 customers remain without power
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Sunol |
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3.8 Earthquake Strikes Near Sunol
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| Oct.14 |
Oakland |
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Woman Charged With Animal Cruelty |
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Antioch |
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J. Dugard Speaks Out With New Photos| Jaycee Lee Dugard is finally speaking out in a People Magazine article - which includes the first photos of her since being rescued | |
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Bay Bridge |
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Big-Rig Blocks WB Bay Bridge For Hours
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SF Downtown |
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No Serious Damage After Fire In High-rise |
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| Oct.15 |
San Francisco |
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Ellison touts new products at OpenWorld |
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Google |
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Growth Accelerates As 3Q Profit Rises |
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Raiders |
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Raiders, 49ers Targeted For SoCal Stadium |
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Bay Area |
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Bay Area home sales up modestly |
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San Francisco |
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Pres. Obama Makes 1st SF Visit President Barack Obama is asking his supporters for patience at a pair of fundraisers for the Democratic Party and Organizing for America
| By the time the motorcade reached Union Square, hundreds of protesters and onlookers had gathered. Obama was met with both support and criticism in the first hours of his brief stay
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| Oct.16 |
Oakland |
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Change Of Venue Granted In BART Case
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East Oakland |
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Hit & Run Driver Kills Schoolgirl
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Milpitas |
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Man Shot Dead In Mall Parking Garage
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| Oct.17 |
East Oakland |
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3 people dead, 3 injured after crash 
A vehicle had hit several parked cars and a pedestrian before overturning. 3 of its occupants, including the driver, had died at the scene
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| Oct.19 |
Apple |
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Investors Lap Up 47 Percent Profit Jump
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| Oct.20 |
Sun |
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Sun Micro Slashing Up To 3,000 Jobs| Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to eliminate up to 10% of its worldwide work force, as it awaits a takeover by Oracle, a deal being held up by Europe | |
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Palo Alto |
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Lounge owner arrested in girlfriend death 36-year-old Bulos 'Paul' Zumot, the owner of a smoking lounge, is behind bars after being arrested in the death of his girlfriend
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Martinez |
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Ex-Sex Crime Prosecutor Indicted |
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Yahoo |
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3Q profit soars |
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East Oakland |
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Pot Plants Founded After Warehouse Fire |
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| Oct.21 |
Tiburon |
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4-alarm house fire The fire, burning at a home, was reported at about 9:30 a.m
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Twitter |
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Twitter Is Friend Of Google, Microsoft |
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eBay |
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Earnings drop nearly 30 percent |
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San Francisco |
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Lowe's readies S.F. store |
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Oakland City Hall |
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City Hiring Practices Criticized In Report |
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| Oct.22 |
Apple |
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Nokia suing Apple over the iPhone |
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Napa |
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DA to announce decision on Raiders coach |
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SF Downtown |
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Hotel workers OK strike
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SF Downtown |
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Protests Greet Ex-Israeli Prime Minister |
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| Oct.23 |
Napa |
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Coach Cable Thankful For DA's Decision| Raiders coach Tom Cable says he is thankful the County DA decided not to file charges in an alleged assault against a former assistant | |
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| Oct.26 |
SF Chronicle |
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Chronicle saw worst circulation decline |
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Iron Triangle |
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15-year-old girl gang-raped on campus Map of 1250 23rd St Richmond Police are looking for between four and seven males who allegedly beat, robbed and gang-raped a girl on the Richmond High School campus
| Police believe as many as a dozen people watched the girl get beaten and gang-raped outside her high school homecoming dance without reporting it
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Netflix |
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Netflix streaming coming to PlayStation 3 |
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49ers |
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49ers name Smith starting QB |
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| Oct.27 |
Google |
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Google expands voice mail offer |
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SF City Hall |
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Board Changes Tack On Immigrant Minors The Sups approved to a measure that would keep from turning over minors to immigration authorities unless they guilty of a felony
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Richmond |
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Town Rattled By Alleged Rape Of Girl, 15 |
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SF Downtown |
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Schwab office opens in style |
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Bay Bridge |
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Bridge closes after rod snaps Authorities indefinitely closed the Bay Bridge after a rod and a metal brace erected during an emergency repair job fell onto the westbound lanes
| The brace was startling a pair of drivers who collided with the debris and leaving hundreds of others stranded in their cars during the evening commute
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| Oct.28 |
Sunnyvale |
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Fire Burns Apartment Near City Hall |
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SF City Hall |
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Newsom Vetoes New City Sanctuary Law
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Iron Triangle |
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4 Charged In Richmond Gang Rape |
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| Oct.29 |
Bay Bridge |
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Traffic Lighter As Closure Enters 2nd Day |
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Iron Triangle |
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6th Suspect Arrested In Gang Rape |
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| Oct.30 |
Bay |
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Tanker Spills Oil Into San Francisco Bay| U.S. Coast Guard crews were responding to an oil spill from the Dubai Star tanker anchored in the San Francisco Bay | |
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Chevron |
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3Q profit slumps 51% |
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SF City Hall |
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Mayor Newsom Ends Run For Governor San Francisco Mayor propelled the debate over gay marriage but struggled to find a popular message outside the Bay Area
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Bay Bridge |
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Bridge Fix To Continue Into Weekend
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San Francisco |
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Fed Regulators Close Pacific National Bank |
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| Oct.31 |
Facebook |
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Spammer ordered to pay Facebook $711M |
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Bay |
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Coast Guard Scoops Up Oil In SF Bay |
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BART |
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BART To Run 24-hours For Bridge Closure |
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South San Jose |
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Woman Dead After Fight At Country Club |
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| 2009 |
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| Oct.4 |
Vallejo |
Fire killed two people and destroyed home
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| Oct.5 |
San Jose |
2 Runners Die In San Jose Half Marathon Medical personnel were unsuccessful in trying revive 35-year-old Brandon Whitehurst of Antioch and 34-year-old Rose Lo of South San Francisc...
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| Oct.8 |
East Oakland |
2 people dead in shooting
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| Oct.10 |
SF Downtown |
Blue Angels Cancel Show Due To Fog |
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| Oct.13 |
Bay Area |
Floods, Outages As Storm Pounds Sandbagging were being made in neighborhoods under threat, while heavy rains caused tens of thousands of power outages
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| Oct.13 |
San Jose |
24,000 customers remain without power
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| Oct.13 |
Sunol |
3.8 Earthquake Strikes Near Sunol
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| Oct.14 |
Oakland |
Woman Charged With Animal Cruelty |
|
| Oct.14 |
Bay Bridge |
Big-Rig Blocks WB Bay Bridge For Hours
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| Oct.14 |
SF Downtown |
No Serious Damage After Fire In High-rise |
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| Oct.16 |
East Oakland |
Hit & Run Driver Kills Schoolgirl
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| Oct.17 |
East Oakland |
3 people dead, 3 injured after crash A vehicle had hit several parked cars and a pedestrian before overturning. 3 of its occupants, including the driver, had died at the scene
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| Oct.20 |
East Oakland |
Pot Plants Founded After Warehouse Fire |
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| Oct.21 |
Tiburon |
4-alarm house fire The fire, burning at a home, was reported at about 9:30 a.m
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| Oct.27 |
Bay Bridge |
Bridge closes after rod snaps Authorities indefinitely closed the Bay Bridge after a rod and a metal brace erected during an emergency repair job fell onto the westbound lanes
| The brace was startling a pair of drivers who collided with the debris and leaving hundreds of others stranded in their cars during the evening commute
|
| |
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| Oct.28 |
Sunnyvale |
Fire Burns Apartment Near City Hall |
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| Oct.29 |
Bay Bridge |
Traffic Lighter As Closure Enters 2nd Day |
|
| Oct.30 |
Bay |
Tanker Spills Oil Into San Francisco Bay| U.S. Coast Guard crews were responding to an oil spill from the Dubai Star tanker anchored in the San Francisco Bay | |
|
| Oct.30 |
Bay Bridge |
Bridge Fix To Continue Into Weekend
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| Oct.31 |
Bay |
Coast Guard Scoops Up Oil In SF Bay |
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Oct.5 |
UCSF |
Researcher Wins Nobel Prize For Medicine| Molecular biologist Elizabeth H. Blackburn, 60, was awarded for the discovery of an enzyme that is essential to normal cell function | |
|
| Oct.8 |
Mountain View |
Scientist Shares Nobel In Physics| Charles K. Kao, a Shanghai-born Mountain View resident helped link the world through fiber-optic networks. He suffers from Alzheimer's disease | |
|
| Oct.12 |
UC Berkeley |
Professor Wins Nobel Economics Prize| Oliver Williamson won the prize for analyses of economic governance - the way authority is exercised in companies and economic systems | |
|
| Oct.26 |
Iron Triangle |
15-year-old girl gang-raped on campus Map of 1250 23rd St Richmond Police are looking for between four and seven males who allegedly beat, robbed and gang-raped a girl on the Richmond High School campus
| Police believe as many as a dozen people watched the girl get beaten and gang-raped outside her high school homecoming dance without reporting it
|
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|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Oct.5 |
San Jose |
2 Runners Die In San Jose Half Marathon Medical personnel were unsuccessful in trying revive 35-year-old Brandon Whitehurst of Antioch and 34-year-old Rose Lo of South San Francisc...
|
| Oct.6 |
49ers |
Niners meet Crabtree in person |
|
| Oct.7 |
49ers |
49ers agree to 6-year deal with Crabtree 49ers and wide receiver Michael Crabtree agreed to a six-year contract in the wee hours after several months of difficult negotiations
|
| Oct.11 |
San Francisco |
Woods routs Yang to clinch Presidents Cup
|
| Oct.15 |
Raiders |
Raiders, 49ers Targeted For SoCal Stadium |
|
| Oct.22 |
Napa |
DA to announce decision on Raiders coach |
|
| Oct.23 |
Napa |
Coach Cable Thankful For DA's Decision| Raiders coach Tom Cable says he is thankful the County DA decided not to file charges in an alleged assault against a former assistant | |
|
| Oct.26 |
49ers |
49ers name Smith starting QB |
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Oct.1 |
Cisco |
Cisco Agrees To Buy Tandberg For $3B Cisco Systems Inc. to buy Norway's Tandberg ASA in a bid to dominate the global market for videoconferencing equipment
|
| Oct.2 |
San Francisco |
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. goes public |
|
| Oct.2 |
Oakley |
Judge Blocks Development Of Homes
|
| Oct.3 |
San Francisco |
Taker found for Mission Bay office space |
|
| Oct.7 |
Oakland City Hall |
City To Pay $1.2 Million To Settle Lawsuit |
|
| Oct.8 |
San Francisco |
Habitat buying empty homes |
|
| Oct.10 |
SF Downtown |
Blue Angels Cancel Show Due To Fog |
|
| Oct.10 |
Berkeley |
Independent Books Inc. opens |
|
| Oct.12 |
Half Moon Bay |
Iowa Pumpkin Sets Weigh-Off Record
|
| Oct.12 |
Google |
Levinson exits Google's board |
|
| Oct.13 |
Cisco |
Cisco To Buy Starent Networks For $2.9B Betting on the growing popularity of data-hungry phones like the iPhone, Cisco Systems is to buy a maker of equipment for wireless carriers
|
| Oct.13 |
South of Market |
Twitter moving to larger office space |
|
| Oct.15 |
San Francisco |
Ellison touts new products at OpenWorld |
|
| Oct.15 |
Google |
Growth Accelerates As 3Q Profit Rises |
|
| Oct.15 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area home sales up modestly |
|
| Oct.19 |
Apple |
Investors Lap Up 47 Percent Profit Jump
|
| Oct.20 |
Sun |
Sun Micro Slashing Up To 3,000 Jobs| Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to eliminate up to 10% of its worldwide work force, as it awaits a takeover by Oracle, a deal being held up by Europe | |
|
| Oct.20 |
Yahoo |
3Q profit soars |
|
| Oct.21 |
Twitter |
Twitter Is Friend Of Google, Microsoft |
|
| Oct.21 |
eBay |
Earnings drop nearly 30 percent |
|
| Oct.21 |
San Francisco |
Lowe's readies S.F. store |
|
| Oct.22 |
Apple |
Nokia suing Apple over the iPhone |
|
| Oct.22 |
SF Downtown |
Hotel workers OK strike
|
| Oct.26 |
SF Chronicle |
Chronicle saw worst circulation decline |
|
| Oct.26 |
Netflix |
Netflix streaming coming to PlayStation 3 |
|
| Oct.27 |
Google |
Google expands voice mail offer |
|
| Oct.27 |
SF Downtown |
Schwab office opens in style |
|
| Oct.30 |
Chevron |
3Q profit slumps 51% |
|
| Oct.30 |
Bay Bridge |
Bridge Fix To Continue Into Weekend
|
| Oct.30 |
San Francisco |
Fed Regulators Close Pacific National Bank |
|
| Oct.31 |
Facebook |
Spammer ordered to pay Facebook $711M |
|
| Oct.31 |
BART |
BART To Run 24-hours For Bridge Closure |
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Oct.4 |
Pleasant Hill |
Suspect shot dead after standoff
|
| Oct.7 |
Oakland City Hall |
City To Pay $1.2 Million To Settle Lawsuit |
|
| Oct.8 |
Oakland |
2 men convicted of murdering Brinks guard |
|
| Oct.8 |
East Oakland |
2 people dead in shooting
|
| Oct.9 |
Oakland |
Change Of Venue Hearing In BART Case |
|
| Oct.9 |
San Jose |
Bomb Suspect's Brother Guilty |
|
| Oct.9 |
Oakland Downtown |
Two Teenage Girls Arrested After Attack |
|
| Oct.12 |
San Francisco |
Man fatally stabbed |
|
| Oct.14 |
Oakland |
Woman Charged With Animal Cruelty |
|
| Oct.14 |
Antioch |
J. Dugard Speaks Out With New Photos| Jaycee Lee Dugard is finally speaking out in a People Magazine article - which includes the first photos of her since being rescued | |
|
| Oct.16 |
Oakland |
Change Of Venue Granted In BART Case
|
| Oct.16 |
East Oakland |
Hit & Run Driver Kills Schoolgirl
|
| Oct.16 |
Milpitas |
Man Shot Dead In Mall Parking Garage
|
| Oct.20 |
Palo Alto |
Lounge owner arrested in girlfriend death 36-year-old Bulos 'Paul' Zumot, the owner of a smoking lounge, is behind bars after being arrested in the death of his girlfriend
|
| Oct.20 |
Martinez |
Ex-Sex Crime Prosecutor Indicted |
|
| Oct.20 |
East Oakland |
Pot Plants Founded After Warehouse Fire |
|
| Oct.22 |
Napa |
DA to announce decision on Raiders coach |
|
| Oct.23 |
Napa |
Coach Cable Thankful For DA's Decision| Raiders coach Tom Cable says he is thankful the County DA decided not to file charges in an alleged assault against a former assistant | |
|
| Oct.26 |
Iron Triangle |
15-year-old girl gang-raped on campus Map of 1250 23rd St Richmond Police are looking for between four and seven males who allegedly beat, robbed and gang-raped a girl on the Richmond High School campus
| Police believe as many as a dozen people watched the girl get beaten and gang-raped outside her high school homecoming dance without reporting it
|
| |
|
| Oct.27 |
SF City Hall |
Board Changes Tack On Immigrant Minors The Sups approved to a measure that would keep from turning over minors to immigration authorities unless they guilty of a felony
|
| Oct.27 |
Richmond |
Town Rattled By Alleged Rape Of Girl, 15 |
|
| Oct.28 |
Iron Triangle |
4 Charged In Richmond Gang Rape |
|
| Oct.29 |
Iron Triangle |
6th Suspect Arrested In Gang Rape |
|
| Oct.31 |
South San Jose |
Woman Dead After Fight At Country Club |
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Oct.1 |
BART |
BART Promising Changes In Police Dept.
|
| Oct.4 |
Martinez |
County Considers Additional Budget Cuts |
|
| Oct.6 |
Martinez |
Contra Costa County Slashes Budget
|
| Oct.6 |
South SF |
Bill Clinton Endorsing Garamendi |
|
| Oct.9 |
San Francisco |
Ammiano Won't Apologize For Heckling| Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's office is speaking out about insults he faced at a San Francisco Democratic fundraiser | |
|
| Oct.10 |
SF Downtown |
Blue Angels Cancel Show Due To Fog |
|
| Oct.12 |
San Francisco |
Governor Establishing Harvey Milk Day
|
| Oct.15 |
San Francisco |
Pres. Obama Makes 1st SF Visit President Barack Obama is asking his supporters for patience at a pair of fundraisers for the Democratic Party and Organizing for America
| By the time the motorcade reached Union Square, hundreds of protesters and onlookers had gathered. Obama was met with both support and criticism in the first hours of his brief stay
|
| |
|
| Oct.21 |
Oakland City Hall |
City Hiring Practices Criticized In Report |
|
| Oct.22 |
SF Downtown |
Protests Greet Ex-Israeli Prime Minister |
|
| Oct.27 |
SF City Hall |
Board Changes Tack On Immigrant Minors The Sups approved to a measure that would keep from turning over minors to immigration authorities unless they guilty of a felony
|
| Oct.28 |
SF City Hall |
Newsom Vetoes New City Sanctuary Law
|
| Oct.30 |
SF City Hall |
Mayor Newsom Ends Run For Governor San Francisco Mayor propelled the debate over gay marriage but struggled to find a popular message outside the Bay Area
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