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Smart meters under fire

It was a hot summer in Bakersfield and Pacific Gas and Electric has raised rates twice in the past 13 months. It is the simple explanation PG&E has for why customers in the Central Valley have...

Accused lip-biting husband back from hospital

The 56-year-old South San Francisco man prosecutors say bit off his wife’s bottom lip after she called him a short man and shoved aside the teenage daughter who tried intervening has been foun...

Local food banks echo national need

The need at the Second Harvest food banks of San Mateo and Santa Clara counties echo the alarming picture of food insecurity painted by a national report released this week, according to food bank...

DA declines to charge rape

Citing insufficient evidence, the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office declined yesterday to file sexual assault charges against an 18-year-old man arrested Sunday on suspicion of attac...

BART shooting trial to be held Los Angeles County

OAKLAND— The trial of a white former San Francisco Bay Area transit officer charged in the killing of an unarmed black man will be moved to Los Angeles County because of extensive media covera...

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‘Autopilot spending’

SACRAMENTO — With California facing another mammoth budget deficit, the state’s nonpartisan legislative analyst says voters should reconsider some of the billions of dollars tied up in b...

University of California approves big fee hikes

LOS ANGELES — The governing board of the University of California approved a $2,500 student fee increase Thursday after two days of tense campus protests across the state. The vote by the Boa...

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The model year on the BMW 650i is 2010, but this lengthy, smooth-riding, luxury coupe and convertible feel a bit like yesteryear. Theres the old BMW styling, with a back end that looks subtly &ldqu...

Amish quilts The Amish have been referred to as plain people, but there is nothing plain about their quilts. The artistry of the Amish is currently on full display at San Francisco’s de Young M...

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Cesar Aguirre, 3, watches his sister Camila Aguirre, 4, try on jackets during the 13th annual Coats for Kids event at the fireman’s hall in San Bruno Thursday afternoon.

Four-year-old Camila Aurirra walked into the room with her mom, Erika, and went straight for the first stack of coats. A lush, soft looking baby pink jacket was the first one her mother picked u...

On paper, Saturday’s Northern California Community College football championship game between host College of San Mateo and Reedley is a mismatch. But the top-ranked Bulldogs (9-1) didn’t get this fa...

Friday Open Division No. 8 Serra (5-5) at No. 1 Pioneer (10-0), 7 p.m. CCS titles Serra: 1990 Pioneer: None The Padres lost to Valley Christian, 34-21 last week. The Mustangs squeezed past Lelan...

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NEW YORK — Signs of a subdued economic recovery sent investors out of stocks Thursday and in search of safer assets like the dollar. Major indexes tumbled about 1 percent, including the Dow...

WASHINGTON — The government watchdog overseeing economic stimulus spending said Thursday that, in its rush to take credit for saving hundreds of thousands of jobs, the Obama administration was...

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What is the best new phrase of the year now recognized by the New Oxford American Dictionary?

Unfriend: To remove someone as a friend (on a social networking site)
Intexticated: Distracted while texting and driving
Tramp stamp: A tattoo on the lower back, usually on a woman
Funemployed: People taking advantage of newly unemployed status to have fun
Sexting: Sending of sexually explicit messages and pictures by cellphone
 
 
  
High wind advisories in effect for bridges
High wind advisories are in effect for Bay Area bridges, including the Golden Gate Bridge, San Franc..
UC Berkeley students protest student fee hike
BERKELEY — University of California Berkeley students protesting a 32 percent increase in student fe..
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 
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