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SF Supervisor proposes transit surcharge to sports and concert tickets
A San Francisco supervisor has asked for a study of a proposal that would add a small surcharge to tickets for large-scale sports and entertainment events to help fund the city's public transit system. Supervisor Scott Wiener asked for the city controller's office to assess the economic impact of a ...
Man killed by FBI was being questioned about Boston bombings
A friend of a man shot and killed by an FBI agent overnight said the victim was being questioned in connection to the Boston Marathon bombings. Khusen Taramov told WFTV the man's name was Ibragim Todashev, 26, and the FBI confirmed that Wednesday morning. Taramov said Todashev wanted to fly ...
Maurice Sendak and 'Where the Wild Things Are' honored in San Francisco
Maurice Sendak, the author that brought us the imaginative book ‘Where The Wild Things Are’, is being exhibited with numerous pieces of his work at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco’s Presidio. The exhibition is titled ‘Maurice Sendak: 50 Years, 50 Works, 50 Reasons’, featuring 50 works by ...
UC medical workers strike enters second day
Workers at University of California hospitals around the state picketed for a second day Wednesday over staffing and pension issues. Thousands of hospital pharmacists, nursing assistants, operating room scrubs and other health care workers observed the 48-hour walkout as green-shirted picketers marched outside medical centers. It prompted the postponement of ...
Foster Farms recalls grilled chicken breast strips
Federal agriculture officials say chicken producer Foster Farms is recalling about 6,165 pounds of its ready-to-eat grilled chicken breast strips because the strips contain wheat and soy — known allergens — which are not listed on the labels of its packages. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service ...
San Jose crews kept busy by multiple fires
A fire started in some trees spread to two San Jose homes before firefighters put it out Tuesday evening, a fire captain said. The fire was first reported at 4:01 p.m. in the 3600 block of Warner Drive, fire Capt. Cleo Doss said. When firefighters arrived there were wires down, ...
Straily, Cespedes push A's past Rangers 1-0
Rookie right-hander Dan Straily pitched seven scoreless innings and Yoenis Cespedes homered as the Oakland Athletics won their fifth straight game, 1-0 over the Texas Rangers and Yu Darvish on Tuesday night. Straily (2-2) gave up only two singles while facing 22 batters, just one over the minimum for his ...
Veteran DB Charles Woodson returns to Raiders
Charles Woodson is coming back home to Oakland. Woodson signed a one-year contract with the Raiders on Tuesday to return to his original team after leaving seven years ago for Green Bay as a free agent. The move will be widely popular with Raiders fans, many of who staked out ...
Senate panel approves immigration bill
Far-reaching legislation that grants a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a solid bipartisan vote Tuesday night after supporters somberly sidestepped a controversy over the rights of gay spouses. The 13-5 vote cleared the way for an ...
Oklahoma disaster relief organizations
The images of the devastation from the massive tornado that roared through an Oklahoma suburb Monday have resulted in an outpour of donations and support for those still suffering in the disaster's aftermath. Notable donations include a $1 million-pledge to Red Cross from OKC Thunder star Kevin Durant, and $500,000 ...
Police: Antioch man found dead was killed in self-defense
A man whose body was discovered near an Antioch apartment complex last week was killed in an act of self-defense, according to prosecutors and police. Police said officers responded to a report of a possible dead body near the entrance to an apartment complex in the 3400 block of Hudson ...
5-year-old girl killed in crash in Richmond identified
A young girl killed in a rollover crash in Richmond on Monday morning has been identified by the Contra Costa County coroner's office as 5-year-old Xaniah Jackson, of San Pablo. Xaniah was ejected from an SUV that flipped in a crash at the intersection of Richmond Parkway and Hilltop Drive ...
Sonoma Co. jury finds Herczog was insane when he killed his father
A Sonoma County jury Tuesday found a man convicted of murdering his father at their Rincon Valley home in November 2011 was insane at the time of the crime. The defense attorney for Houston Herczog, 22, had argued that he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and was not sane when he ...
State to post raw campaign filings online daily
California Secretary of State Debra Bowen has agreed to expand the way her office presents campaign finance data online after initially rejecting the request from a coalition of good-government groups, research organizations and newspapers, her spokeswoman said Tuesday. The Secretary of State's Office will make California's entire campaign finance and ...
Power of Moore tornado dwarfs Hiroshima bomb
Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create the massive killer tornado in Moore, Okla. And when they did, the awesome amount of energy released over that city dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima. On Tuesday afternoon, the National Weather Service gave it the top-of-the-scale rating ...
Arias asks jury to spare her life
Jodi Arias begged jurors Tuesday to give her life in prison, saying she "lacked perspective" when she told a local reporter in an interview that she preferred execution to spending the rest of her days in jail. Standing confidently but at times her voice breaking, Arias told the same eight ...
Los Angeles picking mayor after low-drama campaign
Voters were choosing the next mayor of Los Angeles on Tuesday, but most residents probably haven't noticed. The turnout tally was expected to be low when polls close at 8 p.m. Voters were choosing between two City Hall regulars who failed to bring much sparkle to the contest to succeed ...
Former IRS chief: Can't say how targeting happened
The man who led the Internal Revenue Service when it was giving extra scrutiny to tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status told Congress on Tuesday that he knew little about what was happening while he was still commissioner. Douglas Shulman, who vacated his position last November when ...
FBI ID's Benghazi suspects -- but no arrests yet
The U.S. has identified five men who might be responsible for the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and has enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists, officials say. But there isn't enough proof to try them in a U.S. civilian ...
Union City teacher arraigned on molestation charges
An elementary school teacher in Union City has been formally charged with dozens of counts of inappropriately touching several of his students. Michael William Howey, 47, of Alameda, did not enter a plea during his arraignment Monday in an Alameda County courtroom on 17 counts of lewd and lascivious acts ...
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