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Mystery Mass Caused Oakland Coliseum Sewage Flood

The much-maligned O.co Coliseum received even more negative press this week when the aging stadium's plumbing flooded over the weekend, sending raw sewage into locker rooms at the Oakland Athletics' ...
San Jose As Fans Business Owners Cautiously Optimistic

After Tuesday's bombshell announcement that the City of San Jose is suing Major League Baseball to move the A's, business owners and baseball fans in the South Bay are cautiously ...
Proposed Bill Would Eliminate Californias Public Records Act

California Gov. Jerry Brown appears ready to sign a bill that would effectively eliminate the state's Public Records Act. Damian Trujillo ...
Bay Area Firefighters Prepare for Fire Dangers Season

Firefighters in Contra Costa County spent the day preparing for fire dangers and removed dangerous brush from several hundred acres of undeveloped property in Antioch. Jodi Hernandez ...
Woman dumped in Pleasanton trash can was not killers first victim prosecutors say

PLEASANTON -- A Stockton man convicted of killing his 25-year-old girlfriend and stuffing her in a Pleasanton trash can was described Wednesday by one prosecutors as "the closest thing to a serial killer" he's seen in his career.Javier Sandoval, 35, pleaded guilty June 12 to the murder of 25-year-old Ana Flores-Pineda, who remained unidentified for close to five months after her ...

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Time Bandits [Blu-Ray]

In making Time Bandits, co-writer/director Terry Gilliam said that he wanted to make a film that was intelligent enough for children and exciting enough for adults, a clever reversal of standard Hollywood intent that is precisely what makes it one of the greatest of childrens fan ... ...

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ConsumerWatch Car Owner Irked By ‘New Red’ Paint Job

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – Choosing a paint color based on a small swatch can lead to an unhappy surprise after the paint dries on a larger surface. Just ask car owner, Susie Quaglia. Back in April, the South Bay resident brought her 2010 Ford Focus to a local Maaco shop, to get it painted her favorite color, red. But not just any red. Quaglia said she wanted a bright shade, "like a ...
Warriors Preparing For Draft As If Team Has Picks

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Golden State Warriors general manager Bob Myers has been busy taking flights across the country and overseas, meeting with players and agents and talking to other NBA executives ahead of next week's ...
Planned SF Pride Week Concert By Michelle Shocked Canceled

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – A planned free concert during San Francisco Pride Week by singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked – who stunned a San Francisco nightclub audience with a homophobic rant in March – has been ...
Richmond Bans Plastic Bags

Under the new law, which goes into effect on January 1, 2014, Richmond shoppers will also pay 5 cents for paper bags -- a fee that will double to 10 cents in two years, the newspaper ...
Report Most SF Bike Routes For Experts Only

Routes are rated on a scale of 1 to 4, with 4 being the hardest, "experts-only" routes, the newspaper reported. That means only "strong and fearless riders" should attempt to pedal on places like Market ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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Hotel Galvez, Galveston, Texas

Coming off Highway 45, about an hour's drive and 50 miles south of Houston, and as we approached Galveston my ...

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$ 82 mln Google airport terminal scheduled to break ground soon

A new 82 million dollar facility at San Jose International Airport that will support the personal aircraft of Google executives and other Silicon Valley executive fliers is scheduled to break ground soon.

In April, the San Jose City Council voted to grant delegated authority to the airport staff to finalize negotiations and execute a 50-year lease to Signature Flight Support. The company, which operates more than 100 locations in the U.S., Europe, South America, Africa and Asia, is a subsidiary of BBA Aviation, reports ABC News.

Signature Flight Support's development is in partnership with Blue City Holdings, a company representing the personal aircraft of the principals at Google. Google's headquarters in Mountain View is about 12 miles northwest of the airport.

The 270,000 square feet of LEED Gold-certified facilities will include an executive terminal, office space, hangars and aircraft servicing facilities.

Rosemary Barnes, a spokeswoman for the airport, said that Google aircraft will occupy five of the seven hangars. The new development will also have ramp space to accommodate large business jets, such as the Boeing Business Jet 737 and Boeing B767.

Barnes said the lease agreement is expected to be finalized this month and Signature intends to break ground on the project in the fall of 2013. ...