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  • Ohio Builder Says Caltrans Ordered Faulty Bridge Parts

    The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, pictured last year. Dyson Corp., the Ohio-based manufacturer of the 32 anchor rods which snapped when tightened, says the faulty parts were built to Caltrans' ...

  • Grandmother Who Kidnapped Contra Costa County Baby Gets 8-Year Sentence

    kidnapped her infant granddaughter from the child's Knightsen home in 2011 and tried to pass the child off as her own was sentenced to eight years in prison Friday. A Contra Costa County Superior Court judge handed the sentence to 60-year-old Ericka Gallego, who took her 4-month-old granddaughter Ramy Gallego from the child's bassinet as her son and daughter-in-law slept just feet ...

  • No Charges For Woman In San Jose Starbucks Alleged Poisoning Case

    SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office will not be filing charges against a woman who was accused of placing rubbing alcohol in two bottles of orange juice at a Starbucks in San Jose last month, a prosecutor said Friday. Ramineh ';Romi'; Behbehanian, 50, was arrested following ...

  • Termites season swarms Tampa Bay area

    TAMPA, Fla. - It started with wings, lots of broken off wings. After awhile, Michael Haddock broke down and called an exterminator. That's when he learned, inside the floor of his newly-rented south Tampa home, there are termites. "It was a nice little Saturday morning surprise that we had," Haddock said. Haddock will soon have to get his home tented, which is a sight pest control ...

  • In tonights skies Supermoon rare planetary lineup

    The holiday weekend and unofficial start of summer will kick off Friday night with some good skywatching: a closer-than-usual full moon, and rare a planetary cluster. Because it's within a day of lunar perigee - the moon's closest point to Earth for the month - the moon will be about 17,000 miles closer than average. That qualifies it as a "supermoon." Rising at 8:09 p.m. ...


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The Deep [Blu-Ray]

The Deep [Blu-Ray]

There is no doubt that the producers of The Deep, an underwater adventure yarn about a middle-class class couple who discover sunken treasure during their Bermuda vacation, thought of their film as a sequel to Jaws (1975), the summer-movie phenomenon that had taken the world by storm ... ...

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  • Silicon Valley Scoops 49ers COO three big deals exclusive video Video

    Big week for scoops and exclusives. Super Bowl L is coming to town! We measure our newsroom by how many exclusive stories we deliver. Thats a high bar that gets higher when a huge event like the Super Bowl lands in a newsrooms backyard. This week we told our readers what landing the Super Bowl in 2016 means to Silicon Valley faster and with greater breadth and depth than the competition. Our ...

  • Busted Bay Bridge Bolts Manufacturer Denies Blame

    bolts that cracked on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge said the parts supplied to Caltrans met industry specifications when they were delivered. An analysis by some of the industry's leading experts has concluded the anchor rodslater found to be too brittle to provide support during an earthquake were not defective when manufactured, Dyson Corporation CEO Brian Rawson said in ...

  • Driver Injured After Truck Careens Into Livermore Yard

    LIVERMORE (KPIX 5) – A truck slammed into a Livermore backyard Friday, sending one woman to the hospital. Officers said a woman traveling eastbound on Concannon Boulevard when she pulled over. Witnesses said she suddenly shot of rapidly, crossing all of the lanes of Concannon before going over several embankments and up a canal before coming to rest in a backyard, where the car god lodged ...

  • 19115 anime fanatics descend on San Jose for FanimeCon Video

    Notice more people in costumes milling around downtown San Jose? FanimeCon is in town, the annual convention celebrating all Japanese animated characters. Here two attendees waiting in a really long registration line tell Managing Editor Shana Lynch what they're looking forward to this weekend. Crowds lined up outside the Fairmont San Jose to register for this year's FanimeCon. If you ...

  • Valley vintner gets weird on Tim Cooks tax problems

    A toast to Tim Cook. Gilroy winery owner Thomas Kruse raises a glass in a photo for the winery's newsletter. Talk about seizing on current events for a little off-color company marketing. The Internet was consumed earlier this week with Apple CEO Tim Cook's appearance before a Senate committee to talk U.S. tax-dodging with overseas subsidiaries, particularly in Ireland (read more about ...

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