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  • San Joses Lawsuit Against Major League Baseball Is Weak

    The A's and Giants battle at San Francisco's AT&T Park. Oakland is still looking for a new home of its own. (Getty Images via @daylife) The Oakland Athletics have been trying to move to San Jose, Calif. for a few years. Major League Baseball has been sitting on its hands the entire time, failing to issue a ruling on the club's battle with the San Francisco Giants, who ...

  • Angels startups visit San Jose

    /enpproperty--> A 30-member delegation of startup leaders, angel investors and venture capitalists from Hong Kong arrived in San Jose on Monday to have broad-ranging discussions on information and communications technology. The delegation, led by Herman Lam, CEO of Cyberport Management Company Ltd, was hosted by its Silicon Valley partner Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association (HYSTA), ...

  • BARTs Labor Contract Deadline Nears

    Union members on Thursday will hand out information to BART riders to let them know the current labor contract expires June 30, and no deal has yet to be made. Jean Elle ...

  • Saratoga Residents Riled Up Over Future Bar

    Residents fear the downtown bar will change the character and quietness of the neighborhood. Supporters, however, say the new business will breathe life into a downtown that needs ...

  • Movie Opens Up Old Wounds for Oscar Grants Mother

    At Thursday night's private screening of "Fruitvale Station" at Oakland's Grand Lake Theater , Wanda Johnson, the mother of Oscar Grant, will be watching it for the third time. She expects it once again to be ...


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Movie Review

Zatoichi 2: The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (Zoku Zatoichi Monogatari) [DVD]

In Zatoichi 2: The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (Zoku Zatoichi Monogatari), the titular blind masseur/swordsman, one of the most famous recurring characters in all of Japanese cinema, once again finds himself caught in a series of battles not of his own making. Although essentially peaceful, Zatoichi tends to find himself constantly enmeshed in violence--trouble follows him everywhere ... ...

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  • Special Graduation Held for African American Men

    The foundation donated more than $1 million this year to make sure some 500 African American men from nearly every high school in the Bay Area make it to ...

  • Resurgent roller derby scene less like a show than before

    During the workday, Tina Gerlach, of Dublin, spends her time focusing on new construction projects for the Dublin Unified School District. Oakland's Jen Atherley works as a marketing professional. And Nelia Gonzalez of Tracy is a busy property manager and loving grandmother.Several days a week, however, when the workday ends, these three women strap on helmets, protective padding and quad ...

  • Ex-Fremont Teacher Charged With Molesting Student

    FREMONT (CBS SF) — A former Fremont schoolteacher who was convicted more than 10 years ago of possessing child pornography faces new charges that he sodomized a boy in his classroom in the late 1990s. Michael Schoop, 63, of Pleasanton, was arrested on the new charges last week and is being held in the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin in lieu of $410,000 in bail. The Alameda County District ...

  • ConsumerWatch New Bay Area Energy Firm Draws Complaints

    SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Deregulation of the energy industry allows California consumers a chance to shop around for gas and electricity providers. But consumers should watch out for pressure tactics to switch. Karla Gallardo said she was duped, by a salesman who recently came knocking at her door. "They wanted to know if we qualified for one of the PG&E discount programs," ...

  • Oakland Non Profit Praised By White House

    Michele Clark says she was flattered to be singled out by the White House for being innovative and cutting edge. Still, she feels the real success of her organization, Youth Employment Partnership, is something old-fashioned: getting young people ...

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