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Rodney Alcala is escorted into a Santa Ana courtroom, where he was convicted Tuesday of killing a girl and four women.
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Authorities wonder if thousands of photographs found in a Seattle storage locker more than 30 years ago could point to more victims of a [...]
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Oakland in November will switch to a new election method in which voters rank their top three candidates for mayor and City Council races – a system that could produce a winner who may have been the second or third choice for many.
Many city leaders and activists worry that the [...]
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The number of mortgages with permanently lowered monthly payments under the Obama administration’s foreclosure prevention program increased dramatically in January.
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Two suspected gang members have been arrested and a third is being sought in connection with a fight at a Daly City pizzeria that turned deadly when a man was deliberately run over, police said Thursday.
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California’s budget crisis could cost nearly 22,000 teachers their jobs this year.
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The price tag for BART’s stalled West Dublin/Pleasanton Station has jumped to $106 million – a whopping $26 million more than the cash-strapped transit system had planned.
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A Palm Springs man who tried to impress former classmates at his high school reunion in Martinez by showing up in a Marine Corps uniform was sentenced Monday to a year of probation for wearing military medals that he never earned.
Steven Douglas Burton, 39, was also [...]
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Mayor Gavin Newsom, who usually gets around San Francisco in a chauffeured hybrid sport utility vehicle, thinks a veteran Muni rider might be the perfect person to deliver fresh ideas to the Municipal Transportation Agency’s Board of Directors.
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