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43 min ago | SFBG Politics Blog

The sex worker struggle

Google has come under fire in the past year for everything from privacy policies to censorship.

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4 hrs ago | SFGate

Newark shooting leads to Piedmont man's arrest

A Piedmont man who is a trained optician was arrested Tuesday for allegedly wounding an off-duty federal officer assigned to San Francisco International Airport in a shooting outside the officer's home in Newark.

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9 hrs ago | CBS Local

Suspect Sought In San Francisco Mission District Bank Robbery

San Francisco police are looking for a suspect in a Tuesday afternoon bank robbery in the city's Mission District.

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Tue Feb 07, 2012

Inside Bay Area

San Mateo, Santa Cruz county murder cases bring key issues to California Supreme Court

The California Supreme Court this week considered crucial legal issues that are likely to shape two violent Bay Area criminal cases, one a pending San Mateo County murder trial in the slaying of a 15-year-old student.

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The Fresno Bee

Story: Reaction to the ruling on Calif's gay marriage ban

A look at reaction to the ruling by a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel declaring California's same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional: - "When Proposition 8 doesn't allow parents like mine to marry, it isn't just defining their love as taboo or wrong.

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CBS Local

Man Arrested In Fatal Stabbing At San Francisco Homeless Shelter

A 63-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing another man at a homeless shelter in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood on Monday evening, police said Tuesday.

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KRON 4

SF Sheriff Charges Prompt Billboard Campaign by Domestic Violence Group

Domestic violence charges against San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi have prompted an advocacy group for domestic violence victims to raise money for a billboard that would highlight the issue.

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SFGate

Why S.F. still counts on street fire alarm boxes

Every year, San Francisco firefighters respond to emergency calls from a street alarm box system that was in use when horses still pulled the engines.

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TheDenverChannel

Appeals Court To Rule On CA Proposition 8

A three-judge panel with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to rule Tuesday on whether California's same-sex marriage ban violates the Constitution.

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NBC Bay Area

Woman Donates Home to Homeless

Lelia Boroughs, 84, wasn't known to many. At least not outside her apartment building in San Francisco's lower Pacific Heights.

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Mon Feb 06, 2012

SFBG Politics Blog

Conflicted Chron buries the lead in city corruption case

Mayor Ed Lee and former Mayor Willie Brown are accused of corruption in a case that Matt Gonzalez is working on.

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7x7

The Top Seven Bowls of Ramen in San Francisco

Although Bay Area Japanese noodle connoisseurs have long insisted you need to go to the South Bay for great ramen, the popular comfort food is beginning to develop a legion of followers here in San Francisco.

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NBC Bay Area

Urban Outfitters Sends Its Models to SF

The Philadelphia-based purveyor of skinny jeans has several models posing in the company's new line of clothing across San Francisco.

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Inside Bay Area

Political Blotter: Stark jabs at Gingrich with 'NEWT Act'

This is a sampling from Bay Area News Group's Political Blotter blog. Read more and post comments at IBAbuzz.com/politics . Rep.

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SFGate

Quakes pose severe threat to S.F. housing stock

The public-policy group SPUR has issued an eye-opening report about the vulnerability of San Francisco's housing stock to a major earthquake.

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Sun Feb 05, 2012

MDJonline.com

San Francisco airport opens first yoga room

Travelers Maria Poole, right, and Lindsey Shepard, practice yoga at San Francisco International Airport's new Yoga Room.

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SFGate

Pacific Heights living room by Suzanne Tucker

Tucker and Marks Design, tuckerandmarks.com Suzanne Tucker designed the capacious living room of the 2007 Decorator Showcase House - an Italian Renaissance-style manse in Pacific Heights - with fictitious clients in mind: a successful couple with a stockpile of furnishings both inherited and collected .

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SFGate

Dufty has Hope, a twist on czar of homeless

It takes gumption to give yourself the new title Director of Hope. What do you do, call San Franciscans all day long telling them their kid just might win the school lottery, they might one day win the condo conversion lottery and that - if those longshots fail - they could always win the actual lottery? Well, no.

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York Dispatch

SF's Dogpatch pier district braces for renewal

There's a hidden corner of the City by the Bay where rusted cranes used to build WWII battleships loom over dilapidated artist studios, where working-class fishermen bob up against first-class ocean liners docked for repair.

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SFGate

Exploring Bay Area's hidden country music scene

People in the Bay Area tend to think country music sucks. And the truth is, a lot of it does - especially the kind that the major labels in Nashville have been sending our way for years, all big hair and slick chords, easy cliches and smug flag-waving. The only thing that makes it different from any of the other dross on the pop charts is the ... (more)

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