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UC sex assault cases mishandled federal complaint alleges
Attorney Gloria Allred said that some of the complaints allege a hostile environment for women and others charge colleges with violating the federal Clery Act, which requires accurate reporting of campus crimes. Women "will no longer accept the status quo where rapes and sexual assaults are swept under the rug and condoned by college administrators," Allred said in a statement released ...
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Oakland City Council New budget rules approved amid tensions
OAKLAND -- With just over a month to adopt a budget, Oakland council members approved rules aimed at preventing a repeat of last year when the final budget plan was introduced at the last minute with no chance for public vetting.The new law, passed 6-2 after a testy debate, forbids council members from submitting major budget amendments within three days of the final meeting when the budget is ...
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California jobless claims shoot up by 15000
California reported the largest jump in new jobless claims of 15,060. It attributed the change to layoffs in the service industry. The number of people making new jobless claims across the country dropped by 23,000 to 340,000, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. California saw a huge increase in new claims. The four-week moving average was 339,500, or a drop of 500 from the previous ...
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Northern California landslide stabilizes
LAKEPORT, Calif. -; Officials say a Northern California subdivision that partly sank into a hilltop has stabilized after several homes, roads and sections of a sewer system were ...
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Joaquin Miller Elementary celebrates African American Living History Day
Fourth-graders at Joaquin Miller Elementary School celebrate, learn and relive the history of the migration of African-Americans to California from the south in the 1940s with music, dance, costumes, food and ...
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Bay Bridge documents reveal decisions that led to broken bolts
OAKLAND -- Caltrans and private engineers deliberated three months in 2003 over the proper corrosion method to use on high-strength steel rods for the new Bay Bridge, a decision that led to the embarrassing failure of 32 rods a decade later.Documents reveal a series of back-and-forth letters and emails on the subject among more than two dozen engineers and designers from Caltrans and the hired ...
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Golden Gate Bridge jumper rescued by sailing crew
the Marin Independent Journal he was taking his 38-foot vessel to San Francisco around 2 p.m. Monday when his daughter saw the unidentified man jump. They heard a Coast Guard radio call for a jumper in the water moments later and sailed toward the man after spotting him underneath a California Highway Patrol helicopter. Walecka, of Santa Cruz, said the man grabbed a life sling they threw ...
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Father and daughter rescue man who jumped off Golden Gate Bridge
the Marin Independent Journal he was taking his 38-foot vessel to San Francisco around 2 p.m. Monday when his daughter saw the unidentified man jump. They heard a Coast Guard radio call for a jumper in the water moments later and sailed toward the man after spotting him underneath a California Highway Patrol helicopter. Walecka, of Santa Cruz, said the man grabbed a life sling they threw ...
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Pickup Crashes Into San Francisco’s Outer Mission Driver Flees
Authorities said a truck crashed into this home near Florentine and Morse in San Francisco’s Outer Mission neighborhood on May 22, 2013. ...
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Bill would prevent genetic-testing firms from using surreptitiously obtained DNA
If you want to keep your DNA to yourself, be sure not to leave any stray hairs, Q-tips or underwear lying around. There are genetic testing companies out there willing to reveal your most intimate biological secrets to anybody -- without your knowledge or permission. And under California law, such genetic snooping is perfectly legal.Now, legislators in Sacramento are considering a bill to change ...
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Oakland Unified announces candidates for District 4 seat
The meetings are long, the hours unpaid and the complaints loud, but a dozen candidates including Anne Campbell Washington, chief of staff to Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, are hoping to fill the Oakland Unified School's District 4 board seat left vacant when Gary Yee stepped down to become acting superintendent on July 1. The challengers come from a variety of professional and personal ...
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Driver dies after being impaled by metal rod on I-580 in Livermore
LIVERMORE -- A 33-year-old Lodi man died after he was impaled by a metal rod that burst through his windshield on westbound Interstate 580 early Wednesday morning, police said. A spokeswoman from the Alameda County Coroner's officer identified him as Michael Cox. Cox was alone in the car and no one else was injured, said a spokesman from the California Highway Patrol. CHP officers responded ...
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Oakland Police identify citys 40th homicide victim of 2013
OAKLAND -- A man who was shot and killed while working on a car Tuesday morning in East Oakland has been identified, but the shooter remains at large, police say. Jose Orellano-Cruz, 54, of Oakland, was visiting a relative in the 2600 block of Bartlett Street near Brookdale Avenue when shots rang out about 11:15 a.m. Tuesday. Police said Orellano-Cruz had been outside working on a car when a man ...
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Broadmoor Police Department holds out as other small departments close
In the past few years, police departments in smaller cities around San Mateo County have closed their doors, with police services contracted out to the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office. But bucking the trend is the unincorporated community of Broadmoor, which continues to fund and operate its own department as it has done for more than 60 years. In recent years, police departments in ...
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San Mateo schools expand gang-prevention program
The San Mateo Police Department and middle schools in the San Mateo-Foster City School District are providing kids with sessions that explore topics such as controlling anger in hopes of steering them from ...
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Square dance group gathers in S.F. from all four corners
Square is a growing San Francisco titan and disrupter in the world of electronic payments. But the city can look forward to another square-themed organization doing its own seven-figure moving and shaking this summer. This moving and shaking will be literal, as we are referring to the impending annual convention of the International Association of Gay Square Dancers Clubs. Hands up if you even ...
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Mexican Museum site caught in shadow fight
A proposed 47-story condominium tower -- which also would be the long-awaited permanent home of the Mexican Museum -- faces the prospect of a lawsuit from residents of the Four Seasons on Market Street who want to stop it from casting a pall on sunny Union Square. The 510-foot tower would be built at 706 Mission St. by developer Millennium Partners. At that height, it would drop shadows on the ...
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Parking scofflaws gaming DMV
Faced with the prospect of a four-figure fine, motorists will probably think twice about illegally using a disabled parking placard in San Francisco -- unless they know how to game the system. But to the chagrin of city officials, drivers can actually clear that $1,000-plus citation by ponying up just enough cash to buy a large pizza, due to a processing glitch at the Department of Motor ...
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Brick and Mortar given heavy restrictions timeline for needed fixes
The music venue Brick and Mortar Music Hall will operate under heavy restrictions as it works toward needed upgrades, the Entertainment Commission ruled this week. The restrictions stem from nearly two years of complaints by neighbors of the venue on Mission Street near Duboce Avenue who say they have heard noise from the concert hall since it opened. Following an hourlong discussion, the ...
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$4M settlement approved for victims of burst pipe
San Francisco is poised to pay up to $4 million in damage claims related to the Feb. 27 water main rupture that damaged 25 homes and several cars in the West Portal neighborhood. Meanwhile, city repairs to the neighborhood's infrastructure remain ongoing following the break at 15th Avenue and Wawona Street. Anticipating a number of costly damage claims -- 27 have been filed to date with ...
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BART unions tussling over missed work
With employees logging an average of 40 unscheduled absences annually, reforming work rules will be a key focus for BART during ongoing labor negotiations. BART management and its five unions, which collectively represent 3,200 workers, are engaged in contentious contract talks, with the current pact expiring June 30. However, talks so far have yielded little progress, and union groups say they ...
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Colt McCoy Shines at 49ers OTAs
preseason contest between the two teams, with Denver holding an 18-16 edge over San Francisco. During last year's preseason matchup in Denver, the 49ers defeated the Broncos 29-24.-This will mark Denver's first preseason trip to Candlestick Park since 2009 when the 49ers edged the Broncos ...
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Grilling goes sustainable -- and delicious
We may fire up the barbecue year-round, but even we weather-blessed Californians view Memorial Day weekend as the true start of grilling season. Whether we're lighting the hibachi or revving up the gas grill, what lies ahead is an endless, sunlit series of backyard feasts with friends and family.It's also the raison d'être for a dozen new cookbooks, from Michael ...
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Details emerge on who picked steel for Bay Bridge that later broke
OAKLAND -- Caltrans' use of large galvanized steel fasteners on the Richmond-San Rafael bridge in 2001 led to engineers' choice to deploy the same specifications for the bolts that later snapped on the new Bay Bridge.High-strength steel coated with zinc is susceptible to a well-known phenomenon where hydrogen atoms invade the metal's molecular structure and it becomes brittle and ...
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49ers Anticipate Michael Crabtree to Return
preseason contest between the two teams, with Denver holding an 18-16 edge over San Francisco. During last year's preseason matchup in Denver, the 49ers defeated the Broncos 29-24.-This will mark Denver's first preseason trip to Candlestick Park since 2009 when the 49ers edged the Broncos ...
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Hunter's Point redevelopment going forward
Hunter’s Point and the redevelopment project for the idle shipyard may or may not see a neglected part of the city transformed into a upward moving residential and commercial suburb, but the effort will be a long and costly process.
The Hunter’s Point project is an ambitious plan to redevelop a former naval shipyard and make it one of the premier residential and commercial areas of the city of San Francisco, it will cost a fortune at a time when housing prices are down and will throw up many hurdles for the company, Lennar Corporation, undertaking the project. Read more
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