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East Bay School Districts Get Millions for Schools
Bay Area Proud is NBC Bay Area's community outreach and volunteering initiative. We hope you'll join us at our events, where our on-air talent often roll up their sleeves and help out on ...
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Bay Bucks Bonanza Why Local Economy Can Survive
While the economy continues to sputter along, producing mediocre growth prospects for scores of aspiring entrepreneurs and developing businesses, a potential solution ...
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DA Wont File Changes in Starbucks OJ Case
The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office has decided not to file charges against a 50-year-old woman who was accused of placing rubbing alcohol in two bottles of orange juice at a Starbucks in San Jose last month, a prosecutor said ...
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Marijuana May Cure PTSD
A researcher at Yale University is conducting a long-term study with 120 people -- veterans with "intractable cases of PTSD" -- who he thinks can be cured of their dehabilitating condition with ...
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Taco Festival Graduation To Cause Traffic Jams in San Jose
A view of the San Jose State University campus. Graduates from the university Saturday may find themselves in a traffic jam, with a taco festival scheduled for nearby, at around the same ...
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San Jose Student Nets $2.3 Million Powerball Prize
A humble and down-to-earth "family man" in San Jose -- who is also a hardworking 22-year old college student -- has won $2.3 million in ...
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Nearly two dozen East Bay schools get top marks
SACRAMENTO -- Nearly two dozen public schools in the East Bay ranked high compared with similar schools statewide, according to data released Friday by the state Department of Education, while 52 schools were ranked at the bottom of the list. The latest round of public school rankings are based on how well students performed on standardized tests they took more than a year ago. Schools are ...
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Some Bay Area Bridges Considered ‘Obsolete’ By Federal Standards
collapsed Thursday in Washington State was considered functionally obsolete by the federal government, a designation also carried by several Bay Area spans. Among the functionally obsolete spans is the Western Span of the Bay Bridge, which has earned the label due to its outdated design – which does not include shoulders for emergency parking. It does not necessarily mean the bridge is a ...
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Sharks Try To Shrug Off Game 5 Defeat
Sharks coach Todd McLellan anticipates a few minor adjustments and no big personnel changes as San Jose looks to rebound from Thursday night's 3-0 loss at the Los Angeles Kings in their Western Conference semifinal ...
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California Bill To Reduce Plastic Junk Dies In Committee
SACRAMENTO (CBS / AP) — A California bill that would have required manufacturers to figure out how to keep the most common plastic junk out of state waterways died in the state Assembly without a vote Friday. Assembly Bill 521 was before the chamber’s Appropriations Committee, and the panel failed to act on it, effectively killing the legislation for the session. It had previously ...
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Kings’ Fundamentals Seem To Be Working Vs. Sharks
There's nothing fancy about the way Greene plays hockey, and that's why the veteran defenseman fits perfectly with the no-nonsense Stanley Cup champions. In a series increasingly pitting the Sharks' flash against the Kings' smash, Greene and fellow hard-hitting defensemen Robyn Regehr and Rob Scuderi are hanging in with San Jose's formidable offensive talent - and ...
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Ohio Builder Says Caltrans Ordered Faulty Bridge Parts
The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, pictured last year. Dyson Corp., the Ohio-based manufacturer of the 32 anchor rods which snapped when tightened, says the faulty parts were built to Caltrans' ...
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Grandmother Who Kidnapped Contra Costa County Baby Gets 8-Year Sentence
kidnapped her infant granddaughter from the child's Knightsen home in 2011 and tried to pass the child off as her own was sentenced to eight years in prison Friday. A Contra Costa County Superior Court judge handed the sentence to 60-year-old Ericka Gallego, who took her 4-month-old granddaughter Ramy Gallego from the child's bassinet as her son and daughter-in-law slept just feet ...
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No Charges For Woman In San Jose Starbucks Alleged Poisoning Case
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office will not be filing charges against a woman who was accused of placing rubbing alcohol in two bottles of orange juice at a Starbucks in San Jose last month, a prosecutor said Friday. Ramineh ';Romi'; Behbehanian, 50, was arrested following ...
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Termites season swarms Tampa Bay area
TAMPA, Fla. - It started with wings, lots of broken off wings. After awhile, Michael Haddock broke down and called an exterminator. That's when he learned, inside the floor of his newly-rented south Tampa home, there are termites. "It was a nice little Saturday morning surprise that we had," Haddock said. Haddock will soon have to get his home tented, which is a sight pest control ...
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In tonights skies Supermoon rare planetary lineup
The holiday weekend and unofficial start of summer will kick off Friday night with some good skywatching: a closer-than-usual full moon, and rare a planetary cluster. Because it's within a day of lunar perigee - the moon's closest point to Earth for the month - the moon will be about 17,000 miles closer than average. That qualifies it as a "supermoon." Rising at 8:09 p.m. ...
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Silicon Valley Scoops 49ers COO three big deals exclusive video Video
Big week for scoops and exclusives. Super Bowl L is coming to town! We measure our newsroom by how many exclusive stories we deliver. Thats a high bar that gets higher when a huge event like the Super Bowl lands in a newsrooms backyard. This week we told our readers what landing the Super Bowl in 2016 means to Silicon Valley faster and with greater breadth and depth than the competition. Our ...
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Busted Bay Bridge Bolts Manufacturer Denies Blame
bolts that cracked on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge said the parts supplied to Caltrans met industry specifications when they were delivered. An analysis by some of the industry's leading experts has concluded the anchor rodslater found to be too brittle to provide support during an earthquake were not defective when manufactured, Dyson Corporation CEO Brian Rawson said in ...
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Driver Injured After Truck Careens Into Livermore Yard
LIVERMORE (KPIX 5) – A truck slammed into a Livermore backyard Friday, sending one woman to the hospital. Officers said a woman traveling eastbound on Concannon Boulevard when she pulled over. Witnesses said she suddenly shot of rapidly, crossing all of the lanes of Concannon before going over several embankments and up a canal before coming to rest in a backyard, where the car god lodged ...
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19115 anime fanatics descend on San Jose for FanimeCon Video
Notice more people in costumes milling around downtown San Jose? FanimeCon is in town, the annual convention celebrating all Japanese animated characters. Here two attendees waiting in a really long registration line tell Managing Editor Shana Lynch what they're looking forward to this weekend. Crowds lined up outside the Fairmont San Jose to register for this year's FanimeCon. If you ...
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Valley vintner gets weird on Tim Cooks tax problems
A toast to Tim Cook. Gilroy winery owner Thomas Kruse raises a glass in a photo for the winery's newsletter. Talk about seizing on current events for a little off-color company marketing. The Internet was consumed earlier this week with Apple CEO Tim Cook's appearance before a Senate committee to talk U.S. tax-dodging with overseas subsidiaries, particularly in Ireland (read more about ...
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1st Place On The Line As Giants Rockies Clash At ATT
Brandon Crawford #35 of the San Francisco Giants is greated at home plate by Gregor Blanco (R) and Hector Sanchez (L), both who scored on Crawfords three-run home run against the Colorado Rockies in the six inning at AT&T Park on April 9, 2013 in San Francisco. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty ...
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A’s Look To Continue Dominance Of Young Astros Team
Oakland is 6-0 against Houston so far this season, outscoring the Astros 45 to 19. All-time the A's are 11-1 versus Houston, including winning the last eight meetings. The lone Astros' victory in this series came on June 12, ...
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Phil Matier Santa Clara In Shadow Of San Francisco’s Super Bowl Spotlight
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- This week’s vote by the NFL to play Super Bowl L at the new Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara in 2016 – and name San Francisco as official host city – will create an interesting dynamic between SF and the South Bay. Former Mayor Willie Brown thinks that the symbol of the Super Bowl really is San Francisco--not necessarily the stadium where the game is ...
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Jan Wahl Movie Review ‘The Hangover Part III’
(KCBS) - KCBS Entertainment Editor Jan Wahl reviews "The Hangover Part III", the final chapter of the raunchy trilogy starring Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, and Ken ...
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Silicon Valley's Expo ambitions
Moffet Field, a fairly unknown former military airbase in Silicon Valley near Mountain View and Sunnyvale, may become the centerpiece of the 2020 World Expo if Governor Schwarzenegger and other advocated of a California bid get their way.
California wants one of its cities to host the 2020 World Expo, the event is a seminal one on the world calendar and is expected to draw in over 70 million visitors to Shanghai, the city currently hosting the exhibition, which last six months. Read more
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