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Woodside graduate dies at AT&T ballpark

What should have been a fun night out at Friday’s Giants game turned into a nightmare after a Redwood City teenager died following a punch to the head. Anthony Giraudo, 18, was attending th...

Mortgage crisis tops Speier’s concerns

Newly elected U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo, marked her first 30 days in Congress with a town hall meeting and residents expressed their concerns about the mortgage crisis, health care and ...

Parks campaign needs voters

The proposal for a one-eighth cent sales tax to fund county parks has no organized opposition, no huge funding shortage and no lack of endorsements by individuals and jurisdictions. What proponen...

Alert issued for possible mountain lion sighting

The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office has issued an alert for the unincorporated Highlands area after receiving a report of a possible mountain lion sighting. A person called the sheriff&rsqu...

BART officials work to get trains back on track

Bay Area Rapid Transit service between the Hayward and Fremont stations was halted again at about 2 p.m. this afternoon due to Saturday morning’s electrical explosions, but was expected to ret...

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Lebanese violence spreads

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon hung between fears of all-out war and hopes of political compromise Sunday as government supporters and opponents battled with rockets and machine guns in the mount...

Sudan cuts ties with Chad

KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan severed ties with Chad Sunday, accusing its neighbor of backing a rebel assault on the capital and raising the possibility of new border clashes that could worsen Dar...

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Adopt an animal and save gas! It’s that easy. In a study with five shelter workers and some other guy I found in our lobby and polled, I’ve determined that people who adopt an animal will ...

In 1870, an act creating the Canadian province of Manitoba was given royal assent, to take effect in July. In 1907, actress Katharine Hepburn was born in Hartford, Conn. In 1932, the body of Charles...

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Laurie Crist, left, hands Marge Haake money for a last minute bet, on the last race, at Bay Meadows during the track’s last day of regular season racing. Bay Meadows is set to close for good later this year and developers are planning to replace it with housing, retail and commercial buildings.

In the long list of horse racing clichés there are none to express the mood at Bay Meadows as it marked its final day of its final regular season Sunday. It is not nosing toward a photo fi...

To figure out why the Menlo-Atherton High swimming team is successful on a yearly basis, one only has to look at Kei Masuda. The freshman sensation is the latest wunderkind to make an impact for ...

The three junior college baseball teams from the Coast Conference North Division opened the Northern California playoffs against squads from the Big 8. The results were similar — they all l...

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BISMARCK, N.D. — Four-dollar-a-gallon gas is good for business — if you run a bike shop. Commuters around the country are dusting off their old two-wheelers — or buying new ones...

NEW YORK — Cablevision Systems Corp. is close to buying the Long Island newspaper Newsday from Tribune Co. for $650 million, a person with knowledge of the situation said Sunday. The deal, ...

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Daily Journal Quick Poll
 
Should San Mateo County government officials encourage the use of food stamps if residents don't know about it?

Yes, people may not know how to get assistance they need.
No, shouldn't the government try to find ways in which to save money?
 
 
  
Congress eyes dramatic expansion of GI bill
WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats are pushing what could become the most dramatic expansion of co..
Death toll in China earthquake rises to 7,600
BEIJING — A massive earthquake struck central China on Monday, killing more than 7,600 people and tr..
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 
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