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  • Seven Arrested in Bay Area Security Officers’ Protest over Income Inequality www.privateofficer.com

    –In the heart of San Francisco’s wealthy financial district, seven people were arrested yesterday while blocking traffic at the intersection of Pine and Montgomery Streets in a security officers protest over Bay Area income inequality. ';I’m a fourth-generation San Franciscan,'; says security officer Matt Roberts. ';The middle class built this city and made it ...

  • Smith Colon Lead A’s Past Rangers

    Bartolo Colon #40 of the Oakland Athletics throws in the first inning against the Texas Rangers at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington on May 20, 2013 in Arlington, Texas. (Rick Yeatts/Getty ...

  • San Mateo Ice Rink Fights Forced Closure

    The owner of the space that houses a San Mateo ice rink has chosen not to renew its lease. The rink operators are fighting to stay open. Cherly Hurd ...

  • San Jose Abandons Century-Old Trestle

    Canneries used the trestle to transport the canned good from the Del Monte and other factories, to the train stations for shipment across the ...

  • Teacher accused of molesting students used recess activities as cover police say

    UNION CITY -- Police say third-grade teacher Michael Howey made sure he had extracurricular activities for girls -- specifically arts and crafts, during recess for a choice group of students who made his "cutiest (sic) girl list."Howey, 47, who now faces dozens of charges related to inappropriate behavior with his students, sent the other girls and the boys to the playground, court ...


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Movie Review

The Postman (Il Postino)

Michael Radford's "The Postman (Il Postino)" is the beautiful and moving story of an unlikely friendship between a simple man and a profound poet. The man, Mario Ruppolo (brought to life with wonderful charm and feeling by the late Massimo Troisi) is a postman on a small Italian island in the early 1950s. The island is so small and backward that everyone seems to be either an illiterate fisherman ... ...

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  • Frustrated by Fake Service Dogs

    People are posing their pets as service animals to give them an all access pass to grocery stores, restaurants, and other places where pets are not allowed. Disabled people with real service dogs say this fraud adds to the discrimination they already ...

  • Brown Bay Bridge not going to open unless its ready

    An acoustic sensor is attached to an anchor rod securing a critical shear key on the new Bay Bridge Friday afternoon May 3, 2013. Caltrans is using acoustic and hardness monitors to determine if the remaining anchor rods that did not snap are viable. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News ...

  • Tumblr CEO’s Mom Gushes Over Son’s $1B Deal With Yahoo

    NEW YORK (CBS / AP) –As a teenager, Tumblr CEO David Karp would canvass the streets of New York City’s Upper West Side, offering to build websites for local businesses. After his freshman year of high school, the precocious, computer-savvy kid decided to drop out altogether to devote more time to his passion for technology. A few years later, Karp built Tumblr — the wildly ...

  • Racially-Fueled Fight Leads to Arrest of San Jose SaberCats Coach

    Alleged racial epithets led to some punches landed on a 68-year old football coach -- which landed a San Jose Sabercats assistant coach in jail in Florida, according to ...

  • SF Dog Walker Law Dragging Into Court

    But before that time, a dog-walker named Phoenix Asher Featherstone -- who in 2007 "helped sink a similar proposal" -- is trying to undo the law, the newspaper ...

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