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  • Bay Area Residents Forced To Wait For Bridge Repairs

    One of the largest public works project in California history is struggling to re-gain public confidence amid construction delays and questions about whether the new bridge will be safe. A scheduled opening for Labor Day is in doubt as officials race to fix a series of bad bolts that were meant to keep the bridge secure in a catastrophic ...

  • San Francisco Supe Working On Solution For Tamale Lady

    SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A week after a San Francisco bar said it would no longer be able to allow the ';Tamale Lady'; to serve her famous food at its establishment, a city supervisor said Tuesday he is working on a solution. The popular Valencia Street establishment Zeitgeist announced on Facebook last week that city codes were preventing Virginia Ramos from serving her famous ...

  • HP Launches Moonshot Servers

    POSTED April 9, 2013 PALO ALTO -- HP has unveiled the world s first commercially available HP Moonshot system, energy-saving servers for data centers that use up to 89 percent less energy, 80 percent less space and costing 77 percent less, compared to traditional servers. "With nearly 10 billion devices connected to the internet and predictions for exponential growth, we've reached ...

  • BART to Assess Police Reforms Since Oscar Grant Shooting

    Retired BART police chief will return to begin an assessment of the department's reforms since the shooting death of Oscar Grant. Terry McSweeney ...

  • City of Calistoga Removes Gay Pride Flag

    Mayor Chris Canning says the complaints were about the process, or the lack of public process, of why the flag was raised and not about the ...


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Captain America: The First Avenger [Blu-Ray]

Captain America: The First Avenger [Blu-Ray]

Following Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger was the summer of 2011s second big-budget action juggernaut based on a second-tier Marvel superhero, with both playing as necessary precursors to next summers superhero mash-up The Avengers ... ...

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  • Boy 6 dies after being attacked by family dog in Union City

    UNION CITY -- What may have begun as typical child's play ended in a "tragic accident" Monday morning, police said, as a 6-year-old boy died after being bitten by the family dog at a Union City home.The boy, identified as Nephi Selu, was playing in the backyard of his grandparents' home in the 32400 block of Elizabeth Way just after 11:30 a.m. when the dog -- a young pit bull ...

  • Urban harvesting takes root in Bay Area

    For years, Barbara Stackhouse would go out every spring with her husband, Richard, to pick oranges from three big trees in her backyard in San Jose's Willow Glen neighborhood. The couple would give the juicy navels and Valencias to friends, family members and neighbors.But as they got older, climbing ladders and hauling down all those oranges wasn't possible any more. "They fall. ...

  • Giants Score Twice In 8th Defeat Padres

    SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / AP) — Juan Perez hit a tiebreaking single with two outs in the eighth inning and the San Francisco Giants beat San Diego 5-4 on Tuesday night, snapping the Padres’ seven-game winning ...

  • South San Francisco Husband Wife Charged With Operating Brothels

    SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / AP) — Authorities say a South San Francisco man and his wife have been charged with bringing women from the East Coast to ...

  • SF Mayor Celebrates Pride Month Weighs In On Prop. 8 Case

    SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee raised the LGBT rainbow flag at City Hall late Tuesday morning, ushering in Pride Month and optimism about an upcoming decision on marriage equality from the U.S. Supreme Court. Standing on the mayor’s balcony at 11 a.m., Lee unfurled the multi-colored flag, about two weeks before the annual Pride parade and accompanying ...

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