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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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Bay Area Food Banks Help Families Via Food Drive

07/19/11 Editor's Note:   Families all over the San Francisco Bay Area who are in critical need will be getting aid through a summer food drive organized by Safeway Northern California stores and six members of the Bay Area Food Banks including...

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'Ghost' captures George Moscone's progressive role

07/19/11 Most of us who lived in San Francisco on Nov. 27, 1978, can still vividly recall the shock and grief we felt after the fatal City Hall shootings of popular Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk - both slain by...

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Simple lifestyle changes could prevent half of all Alzheimer's disease cases

07/19/11 Over half of all Alzheimer's disease cases could potentially be prevented through lifestyle changes and treatment or prevention of chronic medical conditions, according to a study led by Deborah Barnes, PhD, a mental health researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.

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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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Interview: Greg Messel, Author of Expiation

07/18/11 share: digg facebook twitter Greg Messel grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he graduated from high school, as well as attended a year of junior college. Mr. Messel then went to Brigham Young University with Carol, his high school sweetheart, after which time, he began a newspaper career in the rough and tumble Wyoming town of Rock Springs. Greg Messel has always had a love for writing ...

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More Protests, More Evidence In Bayview Shooting

07/18/11 New details emerged at a press conference Monday about a San Francisco police officer-involved shooting, as Bayview residents protested what they saw as police brutality.

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Elisabeth Au-Yeung Joins Sensiba San Filippo LLP Vice President of Marketing

07/18/11 PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sensiba San Filippo LLP, a leading San Francisco Bay Area regional public accounting, tax and consulting firm, announced the appointment of Elisabeth Fraser Au-Yeung as Vice President of Marketing.

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SF Officer-Involved Shooting Victim Tied To Seattle Murder

07/18/11 A 19-year-old man fatally shot by San Francisco police is considered a person of interest in a South Seattle shooting last Wednesday that killed 19-year-old Tanaya Gilbert and wounded three others, according to authorities.

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Sacramento Kings promote long-time executives

07/18/11 Maloof Sports & Entertainment (MS&E) and the Sacramento Kings today announced that it has promoted John Rinehart to Executive Vice President of Business Operations. Rinehart, who joined MS&E 11 years ago after serving in finance roles for the Anaheim Angels and Mighty Ducks as well as the San Francisco Giants, will now oversee all financial, [...]

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Bay Area transit agencies look to trade leaders

07/18/11 There may be a Ford in BART's future. Word is, Nathaniel Ford , the recently departed head of San Francisco's Muni system, is in the mix to be BART's general manager. According to those in the know, Ford was approached...

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Queen of the Road: Flooring it in a Prius, and getting your driver's license renewed

07/17/11 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; this column addresses the issue of whether a person who floors it when driving a Prius, Nissan Leaf, Chevy Volt or other alternative fuel vehicle is going to feel the hurt of ...

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Celebrations, July 17, 2011: Lang-Smith, Hoover-Hackett, Murphy-Keithly, Fuchser-Esteban, Walsh-Evans

07/17/11 Lang-Smith Meghan Lang and Tim Smith were married June 11 at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix. Meghan Lang is a resident of San Francisco.

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Real-life toy story: the 54-year-old boy behind Pixar

07/17/11 In a state-of-the-art building across the bay from San Francisco, engineers are putting the finishing touches to a custom-built desk which will soon grace the office of John Lasseter. Long, wide, and overlaid with thick glass, it contains hundreds of small compartments designed to house its owner's extensive collection of metal toy cars.

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Weekend wrap: Tillman, Gore, camps, more

07/17/11 Wrapping up what reports suggest will be the final locked out weekend in the NFL this summer: Current NFC West franchises can claim ties to seven of the 16 players enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame this weekend. The seven: Pat Tillman and Jerry Stovall from the Arizona Cardinals ; Charles Haley, Randy Cross and Alfred Williams from the San Francisco 49ers ; and Dexter Coakley and ...

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Valley Stars

07/17/11 AcademicsMichael Kuba, of Danville, has been named to the Dean's Honor Roll at the University of San Francisco, College of Arts and Sciences for the spring semester.

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South San Francisco wants PG&E to reroute gas line

07/17/11 One effect of the San Bruno explosion is that people are much less amenable to having a massive gas transmission line running through their backyards. Ever since gas transmission pipeline 132 exploded in San Bruno on Sept. 9, destroying dozens of homes and killing eight people, South San Francisco officials have advocated that PG&E move the pipeline that runs through backyards of dozens of homes ...

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3-pool design selected for S.F. Veterans Memorial

07/17/11 A city monument honoring those who served in the armed forces will take the shape of three reflection pools, as outlined in a winning proposal by two California artists. The winning design for the San Francisco Veterans...

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Trip to Alcatraz Island takes on eerie feeling after dark

07/17/11 Alcatraz Island, Calif. - When night fell on The Rock in San Francisco Bay, visitors moved shadow-like through the former prison's lantern-lit hospital rooms, a gloaming against dingy walls with peeling blue paint.

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Man gets 5 years for movie theater shooting

07/16/11 (07-15) 21:55 PDT San Francisco, CA (AP) -- A former San Francisco man has been sentenced to five years in prison for the shooting of a pregnant woman and two others outside a Daly City movie theater last fall....

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