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Candidate search hits a standstill: San Mateo County Community College District to hold special meetings this week for previously excused applicants   

A split vote kept leaders of the San Mateo County Community College District from filling a vacant seat on the board Monday night, instead instructing staff to ask applicants previously excused to do ...

San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury says keep waste board as is   

Switching the county's solid waste board from senior city staff members to elected officials has no demonstrable advantage, according to the civil grand jury which also concluded in the same report th...

Caltrain tracks reopen after police talk man off ledge   

Caltrain service was shut down Monday evening as police talked a man with a knife down from a ledge near Caltrain's 22nd Street station in San Francisco, police and Caltrain officials said. Police re...

Hillsborough police investigate weekend home burglary   

Hillsborough police are investigating a home burglary that took place in the city over the weekend. The burglary occurred in the 2400 block of Butternut Drive sometime late Friday night or early Satu...

Redwood City man dies diving for abalone   

A Redwood City man drowned Saturday while diving for abalone off the Sonoma County coast, a coroner's deputy said Monday. Gerard Accristo, 61, was pulled from the water near Salt Point State Park at ...

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Obama: NSA secret data gathering ‘transparent’   

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview Monday, and called them transparent — even though they are authoriz...

Investigators ‘zero in’ on Colorado wildfire start   

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Rain helped firefighters douse Colorado's most destructive wildfire in state history, while a new wind-whipped blaze in California forced evacuations and threatened homes M...

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NEW YORK — By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last week, she'd been waiting for months, and her parents had sued to give her a better shot at surgery. Her cystic...

In 1778, American forces entered Philadelphia as the British withdrew during the Revolutionary War. In 1812, the War of 1812 began as the United States Congress approved, and President James Madison ...

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The pause is what did it. The pause often is the giveaway, the awkward sign of a potentially awkward situation. An interviewee had mentioned early in the conversation about being openly gay, slightly...

Imagine for a moment a gaggle of high-powered Washington elites gathered at a White House podium. This bipartisan assembly includes the current president of the United States and top members of his ad...

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Eleven-year-old Piper, a fifth grade student at McKinley Elementary School in Burlingame, reads a story to her classmates on one of the final days of school. She’s part of the 21-member class to be the first to complete the dual immersion program started at the school in 2007.

Eleven-year-old Piper took a seat in a chair a bit taller than she in front of classmates Thursday morning and cracked open a book she had penned, "Pingo and Jingo and Anna la Astronauta." She dedic...

 

SAN FRANCISCO — Will Venable made an incredible catch to save San Diego, pinch-hitting pitcher Andrew Cashner drove in the go-ahead run with a perfectly executed safety squeeze in the 13th inning, a...

Aragon boy’ tennis coach Dave Owdom will get a kick out of this: Saturday afternoon, my family went to watch … wait for it … roller derby in Richmond. After watching a half a mat...

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NEW YORK — Investors on Wall Street are playing a guessing game with the Federal Reserve. On Monday, they guessed that the central bank will continue trying to prop up the economy and sent stocks h...

WASHINGTON — Is the era of ultra-low interest rates nearing an end? When he takes questions this week after a Federal Reserve meeting, Chairman Ben Bernanke will confront investors' fears that rate...

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LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors won't be filing charges of vandalism against "Curb Your Enthusiasm" actor Jeff Garlin after he was accused of smashing a car window in a dispute over a parking space. Ins...

LOS ANGELES — The promoter of Michael Jackson's ill-fated series of comeback shows created a conflict of interest with the singer's physician when it negotiated terms of his deal, an expert testifyi...

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San Mateo woman reported missing out of Montara
Police are on the lookout for a San Mateo woman who went missing from Montara State Beach in uninco..
San Jose sues MLB over A's proposed move
SAN FRANCISCO — Major League Baseball is dragging its feet on having team owners vote on the Oakla..
NSA director says plot against Wall Street foiled
WASHINGTON — The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping su..
U.S., Taliban to start talks on ending Afghan war
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban and the U.S. said Tuesday they will hold talks on finding a polit..
G-8 advances on Syrian peace talks, tax evasion
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland — President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other..
 
 
  
 
  
 
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