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State to post raw campaign filings online daily
California Secretary of State Debra Bowen has agreed to expand the way her office presents campaign finance data online after initially rejecting the request from a coalition of good-government groups, research organizations and newspapers, her spokeswoman said Tuesday. The Secretary of State's Office will make California's entire campaign finance and ...
Friends, family searching for man who went missing after B2B
Friends, family and co-workers were searching again Tuesday for an Emeryville man who went missing near San Francisco's Ocean Beach following the Bay to Breakers race two days before. Beau Rasmussen, 27, became separated from his friends around noon, and about eight hours later, his belongings were found by a ...
Senate panel grills Apple's Cook over taxes
The Senate dragged massively profitable Apple Inc. into the debate over the U.S. tax code Tuesday, grilling CEO Tim Cook over allegations that its Irish subsidiaries help the company avoid billions in U.S. taxes. Cook said the subsidiaries have nothing to do with reducing its U.S. taxes, a message he ...
Niners win right to host Super Bowl 50
It was an “L” the San Francisco 49ers didn’t mind getting as the NFL owners Tuesday awarded the team the rights to Super Bowl 50. "After losing a Super Bowl (to Baltimore), it feels really good to win a Super Bowl," 49ers CEO Jed York said. "We are so excited ...
Union employees walk off the job at UC hospitals
Thousands of workers at University of California medical centers began a two-day strike on Tuesday that prompted the postponement of dozens of surgeries amid reassurances that patients were safe. A union representing some 13,000 hospital pharmacists, nursing assistants, operating room scrubs and other health care workers began the walkout at ...
SF authorities investigating spike in animal cruelty cases
Animal control officers in San Francisco are seeing an increase in animal cruelty cases and on Monday night asked for the public's help solving a particularly disturbing and extreme recent incident involving a ten-month-old puppy. The female puppy was brought to the San Francisco animal shelter Monday morning. Animal Care ...
EPA police chief declares 'crime emergency' in wake of shooting
Following the recent violence in East Palo Alto, culminating in Sunday's killing of a teenager, police Chief Ronald Davis is calling a "crime emergency" for the department, which will take effect on Tuesday. Declaring a "crime emergency" allows the department to cancel days off and make assignment changes as needed. ...
Report: NPS hantavirus response followed policy
Federal investigators probing the hantavirus outbreak blamed for three deaths at Yosemite National Park recommended on Monday that design changes to tent cabins and other privately run lodging first be reviewed by National Park Service officials. The report released by the Interior Department's Office of Inspector General found that park ...
Authorities investigating chase and crash in Oakland
Alameda County sheriff's deputies on Monday night were investigating a police chase that ended in a crash at 55th Street and Camden, according to authorities. Deputies originally tried to pull over the car on Fruitvale Avenue because they thought was stolen. The suspect vehicle with four people inside sped off, leading ...
Montana man dies in Yosemite climbing accident
A Montana man died in a rock climbing accident as he tried to climb to the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, authorities said. Mason Robison, 38, was killed after a rock dislodged and severed his rope as he and a partner were about 2,300 feet above the ...
Jury deliberating sanity of first-degree murder defendant Herczog
A Sonoma County jury that convicted a Santa Rosa man of the brutal first-degree murder of his father is now deciding whether he was insane at the time. Jurors heard closing arguments Monday from Deputy Public Defender Karen Silver, who said three psychiatrists agreed 22-year-old Houston Herczog was suffering from ...
State senate approves regulations for medicinal marijuana
California would take steps to regulate the sale of medical marijuana under a bill approved Monday by the state Senate, restricting cannabis dispensaries that federal prosecutors say have grown out of control. California voters first supported legalizing marijuana to treat illness in 1996, but federal prosecutors recently cracked down. They ...
Four-alarm vegetation fire contained after burning eight acres
Firefighters have contained a four-alarm vegetation fire in Orinda Monday afternoon, a fire chief said. The Moraga-Orinda Fire District received a report of a fire on Descanso Drive near Ivy Drive at 1:23 p.m., fire chief Randy Bradley said. The fire burned eight acres before being contained at 3:15 p.m., ...
Wrong-way driver killed in Highway 680 crash identified
The Solano County coroner's office identified the driver who died when he drove the wrong way on Interstate Highways 80 and 680 Sunday night as 53-year-old Jeffrey Woodhouse of Fairfield. Woodhouse was driving a 2009 Toyota Camry south on northbound Highway 680 when he collided head-on with a 2005 Hummer ...
Ray Manzarek, founding member of The Doors, dies at 74
Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented Jim Morrison's gloomy baritone and helped set the mood for some of rock's most enduring songs, has died. He was 74. Manzarek died Monday in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family, said ...
Senate investigation slams Apple for avoiding taxes
Apple Inc. employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found. The world's most valuable company is holding overseas some $102 billion of its $145 billion in cash, and an Irish subsidiary that ...
Judge rules workers at UC hospitals can strike
A judge has ruled that some workers at the five largest University of California medical centers can go on strike for two days starting Tuesday. Sacramento County Superior Court Judge David Brown denied the system's request Monday for a complete injunction against a strike by the union which represents 13,000 ...
Firefighters contain four-alarm vegetation fire in Orinda
Firefighters have contained a four-alarm vegetation fire in Orinda Monday afternoon, a fire dispatcher said. The Contra Costa County Fire Protection District received a report of a fire near Ivy Drive at 1:23 p.m. Moraga-Orinda Fire District personnel are also on scene, according to ConFire's Twitter account. The dispatcher said ...
Gov. Brown cites safety in possible bridge delay
Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday that he does not know if the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will open over Labor Day weekend because of safety concerns. It's the first time the governor acknowledged serious worries about the structural integrity of the $6.4 billion infrastructure project to build a new eastern ...
Police emergency in wake of deadly teen shooting
East Palo Alto Police Chief Ronald Davis declared a crime emergency Monday to battle a spike in street violence that was capped by the deadly overnight gang-related shooting of three teens. Davis’ action, which goes into effect on Tuesday, will allow police commanders to cancel days off and make swift ...
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