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Morning News


Oct.17   Martinez   Cloud over refinery
  A yellowish cloud of dust billowing from Equilon Martinez Refining forced residents to seek shelter


  Berkeley     City call to halt Afghan bombs
  On a 5-to-4 vote City Council became the first city in the nation to call for a halt to the bombing of Afghanistan


  SFO     False bomb alarm  A bag left unattended and thought contained explosives forced the evacuation of thousands of passengers

  Hayward     Afghan-Americans gathering  600 attended the meeting in banquet hall, including representatives of former king and the anti-Taliban northern alliance

  Apple   Profits drop 61%  Company beat expectations and warned of a shortfall in profits and revenues in fiscal first quarter

  Sunnyvale   Ariba names interim CFO as CEO  Robert Calderoni replaces co-founder Keith Krach

  Siebel   48% drop in profit  Company to miss earnings target for the first time since stock went public

  San Ramon Affordable housing units Okd  County approved a plan to create 1,700 moderate-income rental housing units in the Dougherty Valley

  Pleasant Hill City manager placed on paid leave  Joe Tanner allegedly approved a development deal without the full authorization of the City Council

  Hercules Mad cow test contract  Bio-Rad Laboratories lands hefty contract to supply test needed for each slaughtered cow

  Pleasant Hill 100 students vandalized school  A fight broke out before the homecoming football game. Students overturned trash cans and sprayed windows

  OAK Facial recognition technology  The airport to become one of the first in the nation to deploy such technology in interrogation rooms

  AMD $186.9 million loss  Company suffered the effects of a price war with Intel

Evening News


  San Francisco   Bock to challenge Barbara Lee  Former state Rep. Audie Bock hopes to unseat the only member of Congress to oppose President Bush

  San Francisco Propane Tank Fire Guts Home  Man is lucky to have escaped with only minor injuries
World , October 17, 2001 Timeline