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  • VA Excludes Some Benefits From Promise to Fix Backlog by 2015

    Wallace Watson, 60, of Fremont, Calif., shows a photo of himself during Navy "A" School. He served for four years, from 1973 to 1977. Watson, who injured his knee during his service, applied for veteran disability benefits in September 2010 and says he recently got an ...

  • San Francisco 49ers Stadium Under Construction

    The $1.2 billion San Francisco 49ers stadium is under construction in Santa Clara. It's expected to be open in 2014. Here's what it looked like on May 21, 2013, the day the NFL chose this spot to host Super Bowl ...

  • Oakland man who posed as an FBI agent arrested for violating probation

    SAN FRANCISCO -- Federal authorities recently arrested a Hayward man for violating his probation after he impersonated an FBI officer and want to know if the public has ever come into contact with him while he pretended to be an agent.Max Joseph Plog-Horowitz, 21, who often goes by the alias "Max Heartmann" was convicted of charges including impersonating a federal officer on March 25 ...

  • Family friends search for Emeryville man who vanished after Bay to Breakers race

    SAN FRANCISCO -- The mystery surrounding an Emeryville man who vanished after running Bay to Breakers on Sunday only deepened Tuesday, as family and friends from as far away as Oregon and San Diego arrived to hunt for clues but found no sign of the 27-year-old.No John Does at hospitals matched Beau Rasmussen. A search of jails turned up nothing, as did an extensive search of the coastline from ...

  • San Francisco Bay Area awarded ’16 Super Bowl

    Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...


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Strange Days

What would it be like if you could record your experiences? What if you could literally replay segments of your life over and over again, never letting them fade away? Or, what would it be like if you could live other people's experiences? To maintain status as a decent citizen, but know what it feels like to rob a bank or engage in an orgy without having to actually do it, and risk paying ... ...

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  • San Francisco Supervisor Exploring Ticket Surcharge On Events To Help Muni

    SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener is looking at the possibility of placing a small surcharge on tickets for festivals and sporting events to raise revenue for the San Francisco Municipal Railway system. The city's transit system already has over $2 billion in deferred maintenance costs. So Supervisor Wiener is asking the city controller's office to study ...

  • Orange accelerator startup AlephCloud raises $7.5M

    AlephCloud, led by CEO Jieming Zhu, raised $7.5 million in funding. AlephCloud Systems Inc., a startup that offers technology to manage content privacy and keep track of where it came from in public clouds, said it raised $7.5 million on Wednesday. The Sunnyvale startup founded by Jieming Zhu and Roy DSouza said the funding was led by Handbag LLC, a new venture firm created by former Crosspoint ...

  • Sheriff Seek Suspicious Man Near PGE Substation

    About 10,000 gallons of oil leaked Tuesday morning from a transformer at a San Jose PG&E substation, which authorities said was vandalized, most likely damaged by gunfire. At about the same time, and not too far away, Gilroy and Morgan Hill police departments reported that 911 calls from land lines were not working early Tuesday morning because of cut lines. Arturo Santiago reports on how ...

  • Oklahoma Residents Head Home From SFO

    Chaffee Nguyen knows it will never be the "home" he left last week. He has seen pictures of Moore, where the tornado struck Monday just two miles from where he lives ...

  • Juniper Seagate join Trinity in $10M Cloudscaling round

    Cloudscaling, led by CEO Michael Grant, raised $10 million in a round that included Juniper Networks and Seagate Technology as new investors. "Elastic cloud" startup Cloudscaling said on Wednesday that it raised $10 million in a round that included Juniper Networks and Seagate Technology as new investors. They joined existing investor Trinity Ventures in funding the San Francisco-based ...

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