Author Chronicles Enron Scandal
The Enron scandal sent a jolt through the business community and now a new book chronicles how the multi-billion dollar company fell apart practically overnight.
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No Green Cards for Gay Immigrants
Every year, an untold number of gay and lesbian couples are forced to either break up their relationships or move out of the US. When one of them is a non-citizen there is no chance for permanent residency because of immigration law.
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Arrest Made in Stabbing of Officers
Daly City police have arrested a man holed up in his family home for several hours after he allegedly stabbed two veteran female San Francisco police inspectors.
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Peterson Defense Examines Bodies
Scott Peterson's attorneys and forensic experts are examined the remains of Laci Peterson and the couple's unborn son in Martinez on Monday.
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Arnold's Vote Offers Glimpse of Agenda
Arnold Schwarzenegger has offered a first glimpse at one of his stances on a major policy issue. The actor's campaign announced today that in 1994 Schwarzenegger voted FOR Proposition 187 -- the divisive ballot measure to deny social services to illegal immigrants.
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Number of Candidates Complicates Recall
With so many names on the ballot, the potential for a meltdown on election night has registrars rushing to meet deadlines.
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Ballot Name Order Chosen in Lottery
It looked like a game of bingo, but numbers were not drawn, instead, letters of the alphabet were picked. The random drawing was the way to determine the order candidates will appear on the recall ballot.
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Wheatley May be New SJ Police Chief The first thing that you notic about interim San Jose police chief Tom Wheatley is that he's a nice guy. Tom says that it's" . . . just a great job and a great city."
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SFPD Chief Sanders Retires
San Francisco Chief of Police Earl Sanders has officially retired today after 39 years of service, effective on Sept. 13.
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Locals Demand Justice for Hate Crimes San Francisco officials and leaders from the Chinese American community came together to publicly call for bringing to justice those who participated in an alleged hate crime on Taraval Street this summer.
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US Fines Human Shield $10K A retired schoolteacher who went to Iraq to serve as a "human shield" against the U.S. invasion is facing thousands of dollars in U.S. government fines, which she is refusing to pay.
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Berkeley Standoff Ends Peacefully A 24-hour standoff in Berkeley has come to an end with the safe apprehension of the individual that was holed up inside an apartment in the 1900 block of 10th Street, Officer Kevin Schofield said.
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Anti-Davis Voters Unsure Who to Elect Polls and interviews across the state indicate many voters believe Davis needs to go but are unsure who, if anyone, should replace him.
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Charles Taylor Resigns in Liberia
President Charles Taylor, the former warlord blamed for 14 years of bloodshed in Liberia and indicted for war crimes in Sierra Leone, resigned Monday and surrendered power to his vice president.
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Gregory Hines Dies at 57 Tony Award winner Gregory Hines, the tap-dancing actor who starred on Broadway and in movies including "White Nights" and "The Cotton Club," has died, his publicist said. He was 57.
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Bush Lawyer: No Medical Pot A senior Bush administration lawyer says California and other states that want to make marijuana available to the sick are flouting federal drug laws.
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1,000 Protest Livermore Labs' Nukes About 1,000 people rallied outside a federal weapons laboratory Sunday to protest the Bush administration's plan to design so-called nuclear "bunker buster" bombs that could burrow into the ground and destroy buried targets.
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Davis Calls Recall Insult;Simon Cites Plan Gov. Gray Davis called the effort to recall him an insult to those who voted for him last year, and Bill Simon, one of the Republicans challenging him, cited his vision for the future Monday and promised to be "the candidate of ideas."
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Willie Brown Suggests Recall Debate San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown says Governor Davis and Republican challenger Arnold Schwarzenegger should debate.
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Woman Dies in Head-On Collision A Brentwood woman has been killed and her husband and son injured in a wreck on Vasco Road near Brentwood.
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Wave of Gunfire Hits Fairfield A wave of gunfire has hit the residential neighborhoods of Fairfield recently.
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Breast Cancer Fund Founder Dies at 57
One of the primary driving forces behind the fight against breast cancer has died. Andrea Martin, founder of the Breast Cancer Fund, died in her Corte Madera home Wednesday at the age of 57.
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Winemaker Turns to Solar Power
Being a good environmentalist seems to make good business sense for wine makers. The biggest solar-powered wine making facility is now up and running in Napa.
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Sec of State Answers Recall Questions
California's Secretary of State, Kevin Shelley, answered questions surrounding the upcoming recall election.
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DNA Technology Changes Criminal Cases
The arrest of a suspect in a 20-year-old murder case is the latest in a long string of local breakthroughs in which suspects have been arrested in old cases or convicted felons were freed due to DNA technology.
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Cause of SJ Explosion Still Unknown
Investigators are trying to determine the cause of an explosion that disintegrated a San Jose laboratory and office building yesterday.
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Will City Regulate 'Oaksterdam' Pot Clubs?
Leaders of a group that provides services to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth called on Oakland city leaders to do something about the proliferation of pot clubs in a district known as "Oaksterdam."
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Bar Assoc. Names 1st Black President Not long out of law school, Dennis Archer went to his first meeting of the American Bar Association in San Francisco in 1972. He was one of just two black lawyers there, and among only a small number who were members of the lawyers' group that once excluded blacks.
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