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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 seen exorbitant rate increases in recent months. It is not, the company contends, due to smart mete...
By Bill Silverfarb FULL STORY
Warming childrens’ holidays
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 up. Camila’s 3-year-old brother Cesar watched as she placed the jacket on. It was a fit. She co...
By Heather Murtagh FULL STORY
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 found competent to stand trial by doctors at the state mental hospital where he’s been committed t...
By Michelle Durand FULL STORY
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 officials. The U.S. Department of Agriculture report showed that 49 million Americans lack consist...
Daily Journal Staff Report FULL STORY
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 attacking a woman in a South San Francisco motel bathroom. Prosecutors carefully reviewed the case agai...
Daily Journal Staff Report FULL STORY
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 coverage and other possible distractions to trial participants, a judge ruled Thursday. The decision by A...
The Associated Press FULL STORY
Government watch
State government • State Assemblyman Ira Ruskin, D-Redwood City, received a 100 percent rating on the 2009 Scorecard for State Lawmakers released by the Consumer Federation of California. The rating was based on what the federation called “consumer protection bills that affect our pock...
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Police reports
Screwy withdrawal A man was seen tampering with an ATM with screwdrivers on Foster City Boulevard in Foster City before 4:37 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18. Burlingame Burglary. The window of a vehicle was smashed on the 100 block of Anza Boulevard before 7:16 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18. Physical fight. S...
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Unfriend: To remove someone as a friend (on a social networking site)
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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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