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Bay Area News Briefs

Bay Area News Briefs

April 17, 2008 | No Comments

By Ananda Shorey April 17, 2008 Friend confesses on tape to shooting Willis-Starbuck Christopher Hollis confessed in a videotaped statement played in court today to firing the shot that killed his close friend Meleia Willis-Starbuck,…

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Overheard in Fog City

Overheard in Fog City

April 17, 2008 | 3 Comments

By Luke Thomas April 17, 2008 h. brown turns 64 h. “Court Jester” brown. San Francisco’s Court Jester h. brown today turned the ripe young age of 64. The prolific, colorful, and sometimes insufferable self-proclaimed…

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Judge invalidates study finding no harm to salmon

Judge invalidates study finding no harm to salmon

April 17, 2008 | No Comments

By Julia Cheever April 17, 2008 A federal judge in Fresno Wednesday invalidated a biological study that concluded a plan to pump more water out of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta wouldn’t hurt Chinook salmon…

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Defense lawyer says Hans Reiser didn’t kill Nina

Defense lawyer says Hans Reiser didn’t kill Nina

April 17, 2008 | No Comments

By Jeff Shuttleworth April 17, 2008 Hans Reiser’s defense attorney compared the computer engineer to a duckbill platypus Wednesday and said Reiser is obnoxious and self-centered but insisted that he didn’t kill his estranged wife…

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Newsom joins officialsat emergency operations center opening

Newsom joins officials
at emergency operations center opening

April 17, 2008 | No Comments

By Jesse Dungan April 17, 2008 San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom joined public safety officials Wednesday to mark the opening of the city’s newly remodeled Emergency Operations Center. The first floor of the facility, located…

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No on Prop 98

No on Prop 98

April 17, 2008 | 2 Comments

By Tommi Avicolli Mecca April 17, 2008 By now you know that Prop 98 is on the ballot on June 3. It will wipe out all rent control in California. It will probably destroy all…

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