Queen of the Road: Don't merge on the freeway at 35 mph

07/20/11 San Francisco Bay Area readers can learn about issues affecting Concord, Walnut Creek, Lafayette, Danville, Richmond, Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Lafayette, Moraga, Danville, San Mateo and other Bay Area cities here; in this column, a Prius driver asks why other motorists try to merge onto the freeway at 35 mph while he's driving in the far right lane; the need to register one's vehicle ...

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Jeanne Ames dies: Mediator headed S.F. Family Court

07/19/11 Jeanne T. Ames, a professional mediator in child care disputes for many years, died July 8 of multiple illnesses at a rehabilitation hospital in Kentfield. She was 85. Ms. Ames was the director of the San Francisco...

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Associates of USF player gunned down outside IKEA plead no contest to robbery charges

07/18/11 Two men who had been charged with murder for the shooting death of a former University of San Francisco basketball player in the parking lot of an East Bay Ikea store last year pleaded no contest to lesser charges Monday. Hyman Taylor Jr., a 23-year-old Oakland man who grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was shot at about 7:35 p.m. on June 8, 2010, outside the Ikea store on the Oakland-Emeryville ...

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