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| Updated | Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:13:21 PDT | |
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| Description: | Monday Federal, state courts and offices ClosedCity and county offices ClosedBanks, savings institutions ClosedPost offices ClosedSchools ClosedPublic transit-- BART, MuniSunday schedule-- Golden Gate TransitWeekend/holiday service for buses and Larkspur... Labor Day - Holiday - United States - Travel and Tourism - Iowa City Public Library more... |
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| Plane's engines found to be intact before crash | ||
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| Description: | A preliminary investigation into the crash of a small plane Thursday in Redwood City showed that the plane's engines and instruments were intact before the craft plunged into the water, killing all three passengers on board, federal authorities said Saturday.... Light aircraft - Water - San Carlos Airport - Transportation - Aviation more... |
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| Police search landfill for missing Hercules man | ||
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| Description: | Searchers this morning resumed the grim task of combing through a Pittsburg landfill searching for the body of a missing Hercules man. Frederick Sales, 35, a nursing aide at Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo, has not been seen since Aug. 26. That was one... Police - Hercules - Arts - San Pablo - Doctors Medical Center more... |
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| Labor Day | ||
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| Description: | Monday, Sept. 6 Federal, state courts and offices ClosedCity and county offices ClosedBanks, savings institutions ClosedPost offices ClosedSchools ClosedPublic transit-- BART, MuniSunday schedule-- Golden Gate TransitWeekend/holiday service for buses and... Labor Day - Bay Area Rapid Transit - San Francisco Bay Area - BART - United States more... |
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| Pacheco Pass high-speed rail route wins again | ||
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| Description: | For the third time in as many years, the High-Speed Rail Authority on Thursday chose the Pacheco Pass to speed trains between the Bay Area and Central Valley. Despite pleas from those who favor an alignment over the Altamont Pass, and Peninsula critics of... High-speed rail - Altamont Pass - Pacheco Pass - California - United States more... |
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| Court won't force state to defend Prop. 8 | ||
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| Description: | The outlook for the legal defense of Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage, grew cloudier Thursday as a state appellate court refused to order Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown to appeal a federal judge's ruling... Jerry Brown - California Proposition 8 - California - Attorney general - Appellate court more... |
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| Plane crash kills steel exec Borrmann, 2 others | ||
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| Description: | The 91-year-old founder of an East Palo Alto steel company was among three people killed when their small plane plunged before horrified onlookers into a lagoon in the Redwood Shores area of Redwood City just before noon Thursday, authorities and the company... Redwood City California - East Palo Alto California - Aviation accidents and incidents - Business - Redwood City more... |
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| Leaving water in desert not litter, court says | ||
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| Description: | A federal appeals court overturned the conviction Thursday of a volunteer who left water bottles in the Arizona desert for parched border-crossers and was arrested violating a law that forbids "littering of garbage" in a national wildlife refuge. The law... Arizona - United States - Law - National Wildlife Refuge - Litter more... |
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| Alameda fire chief put on administrative leave | ||
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| Description: | David Kapler, Alameda's $195,702-a-year fire chief who had been filling up his BMW convertible on the city's dime, was placed on paid administrative leave Thursday. Kapler, who has a $250-a-month car allowance in addition to his salary, said the free gas was... BMW - Alameda - Fire chief - Administrative leave - Recreation more... |
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| Oakland: Jackson Street gets patched up a bit | ||
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| Description: | What's working better: Four months ago, Chronicle Watch reported on Oakland's Jackson Street between Seventh and 10th streets. It was a stretch of pavement so strewn with crevices that Chronicle Watch reader Roger Hiscox said, "You almost need a four-wheel... more... |
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