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BART board votes to relax rush hour bike ban for 5-month trial
BART's board of directors voted to lift a ban on bikes aboard rush hour trains for five months Thursday night and may make the policy change permanent, according to the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. "Today's BART decision is a momentous occasion. For years people on both sides of the Bay ...
5.7-magnitude earthquake shakes Greenville
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit a small Sierra Nevada town Thursday night that was widely felt across the region, but there were no reports of serious damage. The temblor struck at 8:47 p.m. and was centered near Greenville, about 25 miles southwest of Susanville in far northeastern California, said Rafael ...
Sedan crashes into power pole, ignites grass fire
Napa Road near Sonoma has reopened Thursday afternoon after a car struck a power pole there and caught fire, starting a small grass fire, according to the California Highway Patrol. The crash was reported at 3:12 p.m. near the corner of Napa Road and Eighth Street in an unincorporated area ...
Caltrans engineers offer close-up look at Bay Bridge bolt fix
Caltrans invited the media Thursday to see the first steps of the retrofit workaround that will alleviate the stress on the giant broken seismic bolts and keep the new Bay Bridge span together in a massive earthquake. The bolts were the first problem that surfaced. Normally, the bolts would be ...
Port Oakland selects new executive director
The Port of Oakland Board of Commissioners announced Thursday that its appointed a new executive director. After a four month search by the port, commissioners chose maritime industry shipping veteran Chris Lytle to serve as executive director. “The Port Commission set a high standard for its next leader and has ...
Appeals court Oks Marin desal study
A state appeals court has okayed an environmental study of a Marin County water district's proposed desalination project. The Marin Independent Journal reported on Wednesday that the 1st District Court of Appeal in San Francisco reversed a lower court decision that invalidated the study. Marin County Judge Lynn Duryee said ...
Workers strike at UC hospitals comes to an end
A two-day strike by hospital workers ended on Thursday, with both sides claiming victory even though there was no resolution to a contract dispute involving staffing and pensions. The University of California said the vast majority of union workers had crossed picket lines to work at hospitals in several areas ...
Report: Nation's kids need to get more physical
Reading, writing, arithmetic — and PE? The prestigious Institute of Medicine is recommending that schools provide opportunities for at least 60 minutes of physical activity each day for students and that PE become a core subject. The report, released Thursday, says only about half of the nation's youngsters are getting ...
NASA head views progress on asteroid lasso mission
Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore. Bolden checked on the progress Thursday a month after the Obama administration unveiled its 2014 budget that proposes ...
Distraught mom becomes face of Oklahoma storm
A massive tornado was carving its way through town. There was no time to hesitate. LaTisha Garcia had to get to her children. And so she raced against the storm. She had 30 miles to cover from her job in Edmond to Plaza Towers Elementary School, where her 8-year-old daughter ...
Gap's 1st-quarter profits rises 43 percent
After years of struggling, Gap is back in style. Gap Inc., which owns the Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic clothing chains, reported on Thursday a 43 percent increase in its fiscal first-quarter net income, as the company continues to reap benefits from the turnaround plan that it began early ...
Oklahoma U. offers space for donations to tornado victims
It's a problem one would imagine is a good one to have -- so many donated items coming in to help tornado ravaged Moore and Oklahoma City they don't have any place to put it all. But actually, it's been a logistical nightmare, according to officials with the Red Cross ...
Man sentenced to 20 years in Palo Alto Walgreen arson
A man was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in federal prison for lighting a dramatic four-alarm fire that gutted a Walgreens store and other businesses in downtown Palo Alto nearly six years ago. Donald Ray Williams, 51, of East Palo Alto, was convicted of arson for the fire at 310 ...
SFSU prof's assignment raises ethics questions
A San Francisco State University professor considering a run for Oakland mayor is drawing scrutiny for a class assignment that asked students to create a political campaign ad and gave them the option of developing it for him. Joe Tuman said he would use the ad if it were good, ...
Cell phone pocket dial leads to murder arrest
Scott Simon will have a long time to think about his gaffe. Simon was furious over a disagreement he had at a Waffle House restaurant when he jostled the phone in his pocket and called 911 without knowing. A recording was made as Simon went on an anger fueled rant ...
Officials: Destructive Lake County landslide stablizes
Officials say a Northern California subdivision that partly sank into a hilltop has stabilized after several homes, roads and sections of a sewer system were damaged. Lake County's Deputy Administrator Chris Shaver says the landslide has shown no significant movement since May 14. Prior to that, Shaver said, it had ...
Cyclist killed in crash with garbage truck not wearing helmet
A bicyclist who was fatally struck by a garbage truck in San Francisco's Mission District Thursday morning was not wearing a helmet, police said. The collision was reported shortly before 6:45 a.m. at 16th Street and South Van Ness Avenue. The 21-year-old male bicyclist and the garbage truck were both ...
Federal complaint filed against UC Berkeley over rape cases
Women's rights attorney Gloria Allred joined students from four U.S. colleges and universities on Wednesday to announce the filing of federal complaints over how the higher-education institutions including UC Berkeley handle rape allegations. Students who attended the New York news conference said the colleges and universities had not taken their ...
Homeowner safely flees Pinole house fire
A Pinole man managed to safely escape a fire in his residence early Thursday morning, according to fire officials. At About 12:31 a.m., fire officials received a 911 call from a neighbor reporting a fire at a residence located at 1491 Wallace Court, near Pinole Middle School. A 40-year-old Pinole ...
Dolphins, acrobats, aerialists at six flags Cirque show
Dolphins and acrobats putting on a show, who could ask for more? Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo just previewed their newest event titled ‘Cirque Dreams - Splashtastic’. The event will go on all summer at the park. It features Cirque Dreams uniquely skilled artists, acrobats and aerialists and the ...
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