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submitted by Grace 111 weeks 3 days 18 hours 41 minutes ago
Haight-Ashbury may be its own worst enemy. The neighborhood that hosted the Summer of Love 40 years ago has developed a nasty edge. Sleepy stoner panhandlers have given way to aggressive street punks who stand in the path of pedestrians and demand payment. Park Station police...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh 232 weeks 4 hours 59 minutes ago
The blind, haggard harbor seal washed up on Cape May's shore in March.
Sent to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine, it has spent the past few months in its own tank, getting healthy and putting on weight.
The center, which doesn't have the space or money...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh 178 weeks 3 hours 43 minutes ago
Far more California high school students failed the state Exit Exam and did not graduate this year than last year, a decline that state educators blamed largely on the fact that test results of disabled students were counted for the first time.
Nearly 10 percent of the...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright for team Bicyclism 203 weeks 2 days 4 hours 37 minutes ago
They are the deadliest stretches for Bay Area bicyclists - the chaotic city thoroughfares, the narrow, winding roads and the speed-demon highways.
A Chronicle analysis of accident reports has identified the most perilous roads and highways for Bay Area cyclists, including San Francisco's Market Street and Sonoma...(more)
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submitted by Lisa 79 weeks 5 hours 23 minutes ago
Four Union Pacific freight train cars derailed in Oakland Tuesday afternoon, closing the tracks in both directions and cutting off Amtrak service between Oakland and Emeryville well into the evening.
The cars skipped off the tracks just under the MacArthur Maze at about 4 p.m. sending...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Batboy's revenge! 178 weeks 3 hours 41 minutes ago
The San Francisco network engineer who is facing four felony charges of computer tampering could end up costing the city $1 million, according to the city's Department of Technology.
Terry Childs is accused locking his bosses at the technology department out of the system and refusing to...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Bicyclism 180 weeks 6 days 5 hours 41 minutes ago
Whether motivated by high gas prices, global warming or physical fitness, thousands of Caltrain's regular passengers are lugging their bicycles aboard. But the same incentives are also driving more commuters out of their cars and into the trains, causing a logjam inside to rival the gridlock...(more)
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submitted by Oscar Contreras 232 weeks 20 hours 36 minutes ago
Houses abandoned to foreclosure are beginning to breed trouble, adding neighbors to the growing ranks of victims.
Stagnant swimming pools spawn mosquitoes, which can carry the potentially deadly West Nile virus. Empty rooms lure squatters and vandals. And brown lawns and dead vegetation are creating eyesores in...(more)
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submitted by M Walker 90 weeks 1 day 16 hours 26 minutes ago
For Kathy Mata, a ballet dancer who lives in the Stonestown Apartments, the latest Muni service cuts just cost her $15. Mata enjoyed an evening performance of "Romeo and Juliet" downtown last weekend, then waited for a 17-Parkmerced bus that would never come....
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submitted by M Walker 90 weeks 1 day 16 hours 22 minutes ago
Opponents of the sit/lie ordinance say it will make people who camp on sidewalks into innocent victims. Activists have been holding endearing little sidewalk protests featuring bean bag tosses and hopscotch and asking, "Is this the kind of activity you want...
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 186 weeks 2 days 11 hours ago
Something was amiss last fall at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank.
On Nov. 27, one patient had a wound infection in her groin after an operation. Another patient, who was in the hospital because of a blocked bowel, had a drug-resistant form of staphylococcus bacteria...(more)
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submitted by Augie Brown 176 weeks 3 days 16 hours 15 minutes ago
Consultants have put a $30 million price tag on projects needed just to repair and upgrade existing St. John the Baptist Parish schools.
That doesn't include capital improvements to provide better educational services, consultants said at a meeting of the board Thursday.
The cost estimates were very preliminary...(more)
