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Mayor Newsom engaged to actress Siebel| San Francisco Mayor proposed to actress Jennifer Siebel in Hawaii and the couple are now engaged to be married | |
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San Francisco |
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Man Killed In Drive-By; 3 Others Hurt
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City's health care for uninsured grows |
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SF Zoo |
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Attorney: Zoo took 30 minutes to call 911 |
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| Jan.2 |
SF Chronicle |
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Stock tables moving to Web site |
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Rep. Lantos retires due to cancer| Tom Lantos, a California Democrat will not seek re-election this year because he has cancer of the esophagus | |
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SF Zoo |
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Vodka Bottle Found In Mauling Victims Car
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| Jan.3 |
SF Zoo |
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Visitors Show Support For Reopened Zoo
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Court arguments in health insurance case |
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Mountain View |
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Startup Revives SF Free Wi-Fi Project Meraki Networks is reviving a crusade that crumbled last year after EarthLink Inc. and Google scrapped their plans
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| Jan.4 |
SF City Hall |
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Mayor plans low-key sworn-in affair |
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49ers |
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Willis named AP's top defensive rookie |
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San Rafael |
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Fiercest Storm In Over 5 Years An arctic storm system is pummeling Bay Area with heavy rain and hurricane-force wind that toppled trees onto houses, flipped big rigs
| The storm knocked out power to hundreds of thousands. Winds up to 84 mph were recorded on Angel Island, 80 mph in the hills near Lucas Valley Road in Marin County. Numerous highways were closed because of debris or toppled big rigs blocking lanes
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| Jan.5 |
SF Zoo |
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Attendance up following fatal tiger attack There were twice as many visitors when the zoo reopened
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| Jan.6 |
San Francisco |
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Man Killed In 1 Of 4 Weekend Shootings
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| Jan.7 |
SF Zoo |
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Geragos Accuses Zoo Of Defamation An attorney for the brothers who survived a tiger accused officials who'd suggested the young men provoked the incident of character assassination
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SF Downtown |
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Crews working to contain spill
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San Francisco |
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Hit-and-run spree suspect to stand trial |
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South of Market |
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Cal Pacific Med Center signs lease |
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| Jan.8 |
PG&E |
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PG&E's blacked-out is 10-year record An estimated 1.9 million to 2.1 million customers lost electricity after the storm's howling winds and driving rain
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49ers |
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Niners hire Martz as coordinator |
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Marin County |
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Milder, But Wet & Windy Storm
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SF Zoo |
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Tiger attack draws scrutiny to zoo director |
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| Jan.9 |
Wells Fargo |
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Wells Accused On Lending |
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San Francisco |
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Free Bike Parking Offered At Caltrain |
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San Francisco |
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Man suspected of at least 20 robberies |
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San Francisco |
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Employers To Subsidize Health Care Plan
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SF Zoo |
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Complaints ignored after 1st tiger attack
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SF Mission |
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Man Who Left Witness Protection Killed 40-year-old Justin Lee , a victim and key witness in a 2005 attempted murder case was shot the very day he returned to San Francisco
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| Jan.10 |
SF City Hall |
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Embattled Supervisor Ed Jew Resigns Post In exchange for the resignation, city officials dropped their ethics investigation and a lawsuit that sought to remove Jew from the Board of...
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San Francisco |
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Young Broadcasting to sell KRON-TV
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| Jan.11 |
SF Zoo |
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Leopard Nearly Escapes From Enclosure 90-pound snow leopard somehow forced an opening in a steel mesh wall separating its feeding cage from a secure zookeeper service area
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| Jan.13 |
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Father Killed In Sacred Heart Shooting Terrell Rogers, 39, a High School girl's basketball star's father, was shot to death in the parking lot at half time of her game
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San Francisco |
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High School Issues Statement On Shooting
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| Jan.15 |
Ocean Beach |
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Body Found On Ocean Beach
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SF Downtown |
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Apple introduces slim notebook CEO Steve Jobs introduced the world's thinnest notebook computer MacBook Air that measures between 0.16 inch and 0.76 inch thick
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SF Zoo |
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Tiger attack tapes released A zoo employee is on the phone with a dispatcher relaying information he is getting from co-workers over a walky-talky
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| Jan.16 |
San Francisco |
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SFPD search tiger attack victims' car, cells Police searched the cell phones and car of 2 men mauled by a zoo tiger, looking for evidence that they may have provoked the attacks
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Ex-Brocade CEO Gets Prison Gregory Reyes, 45, was sentenced to a year and 9 months in prison and fined $15 million for misleading stockholders and federal regulators
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San Francisco |
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SF Schools: Financial State Of Emergency
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| Jan.17 |
SF Zoo |
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New Evidence Suggests Tiger Provoked
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SF Richmond |
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1 Dead, Several Injured in Muni Accidents |
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SF Zoo |
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Tiger victim admitted drinking, taunting One of the 3 victims of the Zoo attack was intoxicated and admitted standing atop a railing of the big cat enclosure and yelling
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SF Mission |
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Obama Touts Economic Plan In SF Stop
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| Jan.18 |
SF Zoo |
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Experts: taunting wasn't only factor
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San Francisco |
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City lawyers can inspect phones, not car
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San Francisco |
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Ex-49er, Raider Stubblefield Guilty |
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| Jan.19 |
SF City Hall |
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Investigators ordered to patrol streets
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SF Tenderloin |
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2 Men Hospitalized After Shooting
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| Jan.21 |
San Francisco |
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Wintery Blast Of Cold, Snow
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| Jan.23 |
San Francisco |
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Rescued bird is magnificent frigatebird
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SF Chronicle |
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New job for editor Bronstein| Chronicle Editor is leaving his post to assume a broader role in the newspaper division of the Hearst Corp., which owns The Chronicle | |
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San Francisco |
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Bonds Asks Judge To Toss Out Case
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| Jan.24 |
San Francisco |
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Auction of Alcatraz flag stirs debate
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| Jan.25 |
SF Chronicle |
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Bushee New Chronicle Editor| Ward H. Bushee has been named executive vice president and editor of The SF Chronicle, the Hearst Corp. said. Bushee, 58, a second-generation journalist, is editor and v... | |
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| Jan.26 |
South of Market |
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Dead, Wounded In Gas Station Shooting 
One person was killed and another seriously injured after shots were fired in the parking lot of a gas station in South of Market neighborho...
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| Jan.27 |
PG&E |
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Rain Keeps Coming; Power Outages
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Police Shoot Knife-Wielding Panhandler
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| Jan.28 |
SF Bayview |
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1 killed, 2 hurt in demolition of old building A large industrial boiler at an abandoned power substation collapsed during demolition, killing a worker. 2 seriously injuried had to be freed...
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SF Zoo |
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Tiger Experts Reviewing Zoo Safety A 3-person team of experts is examining the big cat grotto, where a teenager was killed in a Christmas Day attack
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San Francisco |
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S.F. green firm president killed skiing
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San Francisco |
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Crew member may have misled on spill size
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| Jan.29 |
Potrero Hill |
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UPS Driver Dead After Crash
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| Jan.30 |
SF City Hall |
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Restaurants asked to ban trans fats The city Board of Supervisors is asking all restaurants to take artery-clogging trans fats off their menus
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| Jan.31 |
San Francisco |
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Huckabee Heckled, Won't Drop Out Republican presidential candidate was heckled by protestors during a speech before the nonpartisan Commonwealth Club
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