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400,000 Young Salmon Released Into Bay| The California Department of Fish and Game released Chinook salmon, called smolts. 17 million salmon smolts will be released over a 2 months | |
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Hayward |
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CSU East Bay Professor Fired Over Oath
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HP |
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HP Labs' find could revolutionize computing
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El Sobrante |
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School fire burns several classrooms
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Scandal-hit governor resigns
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| Feb.22 |
Google |
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10 teams in $30 million race to moon
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| Jan.30 |
SFO |
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Bush Visits To Honor Student, Raise Cash
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| Jun. 15 |
Stanford |
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Oprah To Deliver Commencement Address |
Stories |
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Bay |
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400,000 Young Salmon Released Into Bay| The California Department of Fish and Game released Chinook salmon, called smolts. 17 million salmon smolts will be released over a 2 months | |
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El Sobrante |
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Whooping Cough Outbreak At School
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| May. 6 |
UC Berkeley |
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Rumors of immigration agents at schools
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| May. 2 |
Hayward |
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CSU East Bay Professor Fired Over Oath Marianne Kearney-Brown signed the oath but placing an asterisk next to the word defend and writing 'as long as it doesn't require violence'
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| May. 1 |
HP |
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HP Labs' find could revolutionize computing HP Labs has proved the existence of a new element in electrical engineering that was first described in a scientific paper 37 years ago
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| Apr. 16 |
San Francisco |
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Bay Area tops in broadband use
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| Apr.15 |
Livermore Lab |
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Lab To Layoff 500 More Workers
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| Apr.5 |
El Sobrante |
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School fire burns several classrooms A fire that charred Juan Crespi Middle School causing millions of dollars in damage has left school wondering how to accommodate students
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| Mar.31 |
Hayward |
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Teen Shot At School; 2 Suspects Detained
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| Mar.30 |
San Francisco |
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Help for threatened for downloading |
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| Mar.28 |
Stanford |
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Fall acceptance rate is a record low
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| Mar.27 |
Oakland |
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UC names Texas educator as president
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| Mar.18 |
Richmond |
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Vandals damage synthetic field at school |
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| Mar.14 |
San Francisco |
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1,600 Bay Area teachers losing their jobs |
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Scandal-hit governor resigns
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UC Berkeley |
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UC, Stanford to team up on stem cell |
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San Rafael |
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Former superintendent pleads no contest |
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| Mar.11 |
San Jose Downtown |
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Excavation Begins On Old Chinatown Site |
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Oakland |
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Staff Teachers, Counselors Spared Layoffs |
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| Mar.10 |
Stanford |
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Computer w/sense of smell to be created |
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| Mar.8 |
SF Bayview |
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School Gets City's First Bee Garden |
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| Mar.7 |
SF Zoo |
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Tiger gives birth to cub |
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| Mar.6 |
UC Berkeley |
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UC to help with start of Saudi university |
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| Mar.5 |
Alameda |
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Dropping After-School Sports Considered |
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| Feb.28 |
eBay |
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eBay Will Pay For Patents |
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| Feb.22 |
Google |
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10 teams in $30 million race to moon 10 teams of scientists and dreamers from around the world have joined a $30 million-plus race to the moon co-sponsored by Google
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| Feb.18 |
Vallejo |
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City Schools Had 20 Recalled Beef |
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Spielberg boycotts Olympic role
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| Feb.6 |
Oakland |
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Schools Win, Children's Hospital Loses |
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| Jan.30 |
SFO |
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Bush Visits To Honor Student, Raise Cash Bush shook hands and posed with 18-year old Richard Berwick, who was presented with the President's Volunteer Service Award
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14-Year-Old Shot To Death At School
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| Nov.30 |
Fremont |
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Mission San Jose school is best in Bay Area |
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500,000 flee wildfires
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| Oct.15 |
Stanford |
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Test developed to identify Alzheimer's |
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| Oct.7 |
Sonoma County |
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3-alarm fire ripped elementary school
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| Oct.4 |
UC Berkeley |
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Lectures Made Available On YouTube
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| Oct.1 |
Pacifica |
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Dead Whale Washes Up On Beach
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| Sep.30 |
Visitacion Valley |
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Principal named National Principal of Year |
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| Sep.24 |
Stanford |
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Stanford Gets Tapes Of Intellectuals |
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| Sep.15 |
UC Berkeley |
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21 Arrested After Aiding Tree Sitters |
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| Sep.8 |
San Francisco |
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Singularity Summit: AI, Future of Humans |
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| Sep.7 |
Stanford |
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Rumsfeld heading to Hoover Institution |
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Bin Laden says US should convert
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| Jul.24 |
Pleasant Hill |
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34 Charged In DVC Grade Scam Students and former students at Diablo Valley College face felony charges in an alleged 'grades-for-cash scam'
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| Jul.18 |
Santa Clara |
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No Bomb Found At Mission College |
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| Jun.7 |
Richmond |
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Dead Whale To Be Hauled To Sea |
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| May.31 |
Danville |
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13-Year-Old Wins National Spelling Bee |
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| May.30 |
San Francisco |
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Unpredictable Whales Slip Out To Sea More than 2 weeks after they were first spotted far up the Sacramento River, two lost humpbacks finally found their way home to the ocean
| Officials assumed the pair returned to the open sea. To make sure the whales did not take wrong turn, 2 boats were launched to look for them in the Pacific
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| May.29 |
Tiburon |
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Lost Whales About 5 Miles From Bridge |
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Martinez |
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Whales On The Move Past Benicia Bridge |
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| May.28 |
Benicia |
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Delta whales make progress toward ocean
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| May.24 |
Stanford |
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Student Impostor Unmasked| A young woman passed herself off as a student, talked her way into dormitories and lived on campus in the dorms for 8 months | |
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Maze Reopens Despite Expert's Doubts
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| Apr.25 |
Hayward |
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Teacher Strike Over
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| Apr.20 |
UC Berkeley |
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BP Deal Questioned By Some Faculty |
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| Apr.17 |
Stanford |
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'Ex-Terrorists' Hold Lecture |
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| Apr.11 |
Marin County |
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School superintendent held for child porn |
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| Apr.5 |
Hayward |
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Teachers Go On Strike Teachers in Hayward Unified School District set up picket lines at several schools while the district brought in substitutes
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Pelosi pushes Syria on militant links
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| Mar.29 |
Bay Bridge |
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Biologists To Rescue Falcon Eggs
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Fire At Elementary School May Be Arson
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| Mar.7 |
UC Berkeley |
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Student Charged In Nobel Prize Theft
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| Feb.1 |
UC Berkeley |
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$500 million grant to develop new biofuels Cleaner energy is the goal of a BP grant that's been awarded to a consortium led by the University of California
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| Jan.26 |
Intel |
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Chips push through nano-barrier |
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Bush boosts troop numbers in Iraq
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| Nov.20 |
Redwood City |
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Teacher Fired After Science Experiment
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| Oct.24 |
Pleasant Hill |
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Bomb Threats Shut Down Diablo V. College Bomb squad officers blew up a student locker after multiple bomb threats forced school officials to cancel classes
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| Oct.4 |
UC Berkeley |
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Prof. & Grad Share Nobel Physics Prize George F. Smoot and NASA's John C. Mather won the prize for work that helped cement the big-bang theory
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Stanford |
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Professor Wins Nobel Prize In Chemistry
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| Oct.2 |
Stanford |
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Scientist Shares Nobel Prize In Medicine
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| Sep.6 |
Alameda |
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Firm's Stem Cell Work Under Senate Fire |
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| Aug.23 |
Alameda |
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'Ethical' stem cell lines created Advanced Cell Technology has developed a new way of creating stem cells without destroying human embryos
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Labor Protesters Greet Students
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| Aug.15 |
Google |
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Google Gives Free Wi-Fi To Mt. View
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| Jul.4 |
Moffett Field |
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NASA Ames Celebrates Launch of Shuttle |
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| Jun.24 |
SF Downtown |
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Santa Cruz Chancellor jumps to her death| Denice Dee Denton, 46, the controversial chancellor of the UC Santa Cruz, jumped from the 44th floor. Her body was found outside the Paramount apartments on Mission Street at Third, tallest apartment for rent in San Francisco, where he partner lives
The outspoken lesbian had the university foot $600,000 in ren... | |
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U.S. airstrike kills al-Zarqawi
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| Apr.21 |
Cisco |
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Bush, Schwarzenegger Talk Education President touted 'American Competitiveness Initiative' as the solution to the nation's economic woes
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| Apr.10 |
West Contra Costa |
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Proposal To Ignore Exit Exam Rule Fails The School District board voted 4-1 against granting diplomas to students who have not passed CAHSEE
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| Apr.5 |
SF City Hall |
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SF Picks Google, EarthLink For Wi-Fi| A city panel identified Google and EarthLink as the best candidates to complete the ambitious project. The recommendation was completing a 6-week reviewc The companies decided to team togethe... | |
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| Mar.28 |
San Francisco |
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1906 Quake Simulation Unveiled |
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Bomb Threats At Three High Schools
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| Mar.6 |
Sunnyvale |
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Chlorine Leak At School Sickens Children |
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| Feb.25 |
San Francisco |
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New Maps Pinpoint Quake Risks |
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| Feb.2 |
Livermore Lab |
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Lab Deploys High-Powered Weapon
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Hacker Suspected In Cal State Break-In
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| Jan.20 |
San Francisco |
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Board Approves School Closures, Mergers The board of education decided to close Cabrillo Elementary, Enola Maxwell and Luther Burbank schools
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| Dec.24 |
SF City Hall |
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City Seeks Wi-Fi Proposals For City |
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| Dec.3 |
SF City Hall |
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Mayor Recruits Students For Anti-Graffiti |
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| Nov.16 |
San Francisco |
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School strike averted |
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| Nov.1 |
SF Mission |
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Controversial Stem Cell Center Opens |
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| Oct.10 |
Stanford |
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University Wins Robot Car Challenge |
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| Sep.29 |
Moffett Field |
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Google plans offices, NASA partnership |
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Discovery returns safely to Earth
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| Jul.12 |
San Jose |
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Bones Found In River Prehistoric A set of fossilized bones found in the mud in the Guadalupe River could be thousands of years old
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London bombs kill 52
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| May.29 |
Golden Gate Park |
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World's Largest, Stinkiest Plant Enthralls |
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| May.23 |
Berkeley |
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Explosion at Junior High No Accident |
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| May.12 |
Hercules |
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Student Beating Posted On Internet A video showing the beating of an teen at Hercules High School was removed, but not before thousands viewed it
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| May.9 |
UC Berkeley |
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Alcohol Banned At Fraternities, Sororities |
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| May.8 |
Mill Valley |
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Alleged gay-bashing at high school a hoax |
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| May.6 |
San Francisco |
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SF Gets Stem Cell Headquarters The 29-member committee made the decision over San Diego, Sacramento and Emeryville
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| May.2 |
San Francisco |
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Panel Endorses SF for Stem Cell Center |
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| Apr.30 |
Emeryville |
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Stem cell selection committee toured town |
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| Apr.28 |
Alameda |
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Laura Bush Promotes Literacy at school |
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| Apr.26 |
SF City Hall |
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4 schools to close |
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| Apr.16 |
SF Zoo |
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Zoo Sells Naming Rights To Grizzlies |
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| Apr.15 |
UC Berkeley |
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Student Shot 30 Times With BB Gun |
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| Apr.11 |
SJSU |
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University Suspends Dance Team |
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| Apr.4 |
Cupertino |
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Students Sent Home to Prove Residency |
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| Mar.28 |
UC Berkeley |
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Info Stolen from Thousands of Students |
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| Mar.25 |
SFSU |
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RoboGames start |
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Jackson's accuser in witness box
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| Mar.3 |
Mill Valley |
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Hate Graffiti at High School |
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| Feb.28 |
Berkeley |
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Teachers Slash Homework in Labor Dispute |
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| Feb.24 |
Stanford |
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Girl Tastes Food For First Time In 8 Years |
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| Jan.26 |
Hayward |
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CSU-Hayward drops the Hayward |
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Fire gutting school computer lab probed
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| Dec.24 |
Concord |
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Abused by teachers settled lawsuits |
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| Nov.7 |
Vallejo |
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School player dies after being tackled |
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| Oct.7 |
Livermore |
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$40,000 ceramic mural with misspellings |
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High school football star killed
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| Jun.10 |
Oakland |
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Researchers exposed to deadly anthrax |
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Ronald Reagan dead at 93
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| Mar.9 |
Richmond |
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Students Protest After Sports Eliminated
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| Mar.7 |
SF Zoo |
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37-year-old elephant euthanized
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Jackson arrested
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| Sep.9 |
Stanford |
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Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb, dies
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| Sep.5 |
San Francisco |
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Dalai Lama visits Jesuit-run university |
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Schwarzenegger to run for governor
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| Jul.21 |
SF Sunset |
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Dead whale attracted large crowds |
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| Jun.4 |
East San Jose |
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Several schools locked down during search |
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| Jun.2 |
Oakland City Hall |
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State takes over Oakland schools
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| May.5 |
UC Berkeley |
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Students barred from SARS areas The University will turn away new students from China, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong this summer
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Bush calls end to 'major combat'
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| Mar.10 |
Oakland |
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District to layoff hundreds of teachers
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| Jan.22 |
SJSU |
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Frat brawl: One dead on his birthday |
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| Jan.14 |
Oakland |
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Schools hold teach-in against war in Iraq
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| Dec.10 |
Stanford |
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Human embryonic stem cell project
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George Harrison dies
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| Oct.10 |
Stanford |
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2 Bay Areans win Nobel prizes
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US begins military strike
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Terror attacks hit U.S.
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| Aug.30 |
Oakland |
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African elephant born at Zoo |
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Closest Presidential election
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