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Morning News


Dec.12   SF City Hall   Herrera wins city attorney race
  Dennis Herrera, a former police commissioner and private attorney, beat Jim Lazarus 52% to 47%


  Foster City Ruptured gas main shuts Visa building  Visa employees were evacuated from the company's 3 buildings

  Union City School sued for Cutting Son from Varsity  Lynn Rubin is asking for $1.5 million from the School District for bumping his son off the varsity squad

  Corte Madera Home fire kills elderly man  Laurel Peters, 57, died and his wife was badly burned when a two-alarm fire swept through their stately home

  Petaluma New charges for cat lady  4 cats, 3 alive and one dead, were found in the past few days at the fetid home. 196 cats were discovered on May 22

Day News


  Santa Clara   Applied Materials to cut 1,700 jobs  Chip equipment maker will cut 10% of its work force, in response to the semiconductor industry slump

  Berkeley   Berkeley Wants To Flag Pedestrians  The city has spent about $30,000 to make it safer to cross the street

  Yahoo   $436 million offer for HotJobs  Bid is challenging an earlier offer from the parent company of Monster

  Mount Diablo Park Plans to buy 76 acres Wright Ranch  Save Mount Diablo used $590,000 to purchase eastern gateway

  Santa Clara Transmeta offers gloomy guidance  4rth-quarter revenue will be only about $1 million because of manufacturing delays

  San Jose SONICblue sues TiVo for patents  Both companies won patents for various digital video recorder technologies

  HP $1.9M grant for Healthy Kids  The David and Lucile Packard Foundation will be used to subsidize 1,840 children

Evening News


  San Rafael   Convicted rapist to remain locked  Patrick Ghilotti will remain in a state mental hospital. The State Supreme Court has decided to consider the case

  Golden Gate Park Birth of white-tipped shark  3-pound female baby was born at the California Academy of Sciences

  SF Mission 20 laptop computers stolen  Total loss at Pacific Bell building estimated at more than $160,000
World , December 12, 2001 Timeline