11 States Approve Gay Marriage Ban
 In a resounding, coast-to-coast rejection of gay marriage, voters in 11 states approved constitutional amendments Tuesday limiting marriage to one man and one woman.
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Peterson Jury Deliberating
Jurors have begun deliberating the fate of Scott Peterson, more than five months after testimony began in his double murder trial.
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Officials: Arafat's Health Worsening
Yasser Arafat's condition has deteriorated significantly over the past day, and doctors treating him at a Paris hospital remain unsure what has caused the 75-year-old Palestinian leader's illness.
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Kerry Concedes Presidency
After a long, tense night of vote counting, John Kerry called Bush to concede Ohio and the presidency.
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Arnold Gets His Way on Most Propositions
Billions were approved for stem cell research, children's hospitals and the mentally ill, but efforts to expand casino gambling, rewrite the three-strikes law and require employers to offer insurance were rejected.
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Student's Costume Wins Prize, Suspension
A high school student's costume garnered a top prize -- and a five-day suspension -- at the school's Halloween masquerade party.
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Small Turnout for SF Anti-War Protest
A few dozen demonstrators carrying anti-war signs gathered at the foot of Market Street this morning. Organizers said earlier they expected at least a couple of hundred of participants.
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Kerry Makes Concession Speech in Boston
Sen. John Kerry brought his long White House campaign to an end Wednesday, conceding the presidential election to George W. Bush and saying the time had come to "begin the healing."
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Republicans Retain Control of Senate
Republicans renewed their grip on the Senate Tuesday night and reached out for more, capturing Democratic seats across the south.
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Boxer Sweeps Jones in CA Senate Race
Democrat Barbara Boxer easily held onto her U.S. Senate seat Tuesday in a sweeping victory over Republican challenger Bill Jones.
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CA Stem Cell Proposition Approved
Californians voted to spend $3 billion on stem cell research Tuesday, as voters picked through 16 ballot measures that could rewrite the state's tough three-strikes sentencing law, expand casino gambling, and change the way elections are held.
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2004 Presidential Race Longest, Costliest
The presidential race of 2004 lumbered into history as the longest and the costliest, a wartime election promising a nail-biter of a finish and a bitter residue of political division and polarization.
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2004 Not Breakout Year for Youth Vote
This was not the breakout year for young voters that some had anticipated. Fewer than one in 10 voters Tuesday were 18 to 24, about the same proportion of the electorate as in 2000, exit polls indicated.
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Californians Turn Out to Vote in Droves
California voters streamed to the polls in large numbers Tuesday to elect a president and a U.S. senator and to puzzle over a long list of state and local ballot initiatives.
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Oakland Boy Helps Mom Deliver Baby
A 5-year-old boy who aspires to be a doctor received some unexpected training as an obstetrician when he helped his mother deliver his baby sister.
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Peterson Defense: Don't Convict for Hate
Hatred for Scott Peterson is not enough to convict the man for the murders of his pregnant wife and the fetus she carried, Peterson's defense attorney told jurors during his closing arguments Tuesday.
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Judge Denies Mistrial in 'Riders' Case
Attorneys for three former Oakland police officers accused of beating and framing suspected drug dealers in West Oakland four years ago moved for a mistrial, only 90 minutes into their second trial.
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Poll Worker Shortage: Problems Likely
A shortage of at least 500,000 poll workers nationwide has voters bracing for long lines, cranky volunteers, problems opening and closing polling places, and the chance that results won't be known until long after the polls are closed.
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Prosecution Delivers Closing Arguments
Prosecutors began closing arguments Monday in the double-murder case against Scott Peterson, telling jurors why they should convict him in the deaths of his pregnant wife and the fetus she carried.
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Man Arrested for Photographing Voters
Police in Palm Beach County, Florida, say they arrested a freelance journalist for taking pictures of voters waiting to cast their ballots after he ignored an order to stop.
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Bush, Kerry in Tight Race Toward Finish
President Bush and Sen. John Kerry reached for the finish line Tuesday in a campaign for the ages, each claiming to be the strong, steady leader needed in a time of terrorism.
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Bin Laden's New Strategy: Bleed US Dry
Osama bin Laden's vow to bleed America to bankruptcy shows he's a close student of the United States, as well as a strategist bent on getting the most impact from his words as well as his attacks.
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CA Ballot Cluttered With Propositions
It's the stem-cell, three-strikes, closed-primary, DNA-arrest, Indian-gambling and lawsuit-limiting election. Confused? So are a lot of California voters.
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Brazil May Ban Human Names for Pets
Federal congressman Reinaldo Santos e Silva proposed the law after psychologists suggested that some children may get depressed when they learn they share their first name with someone's pet.
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Man Breaks Into Home, Eats, Takes Nap
A man who broke into a woman's house helped himself to some food and wine, then settled in for a nap -- until police arrested him.
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FasTrak Discounts End on Most Bridges
FasTrak customers had enjoyed a one-dollar discount since the bridge tolls went up to three dollars in July.
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Californians: US Election Problems Likely
Two-thirds of Californians believe it's likely that problems at the polls nationwide on Tuesday could call into question the results of the presidential election, according to a new statewide poll.
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SFPD: Assault Near SF Halloween Parade
A man was assaulted near the Castro Street Halloween Parade Sunday night, the San Francisco Police Department reports.
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New Poll Finds Bush Gaining Popularity
A Newsweek poll showed the president moving ahead of Kerry in the popular vote, 50 percent to 44 percent, after being tied in the same survey a week ago.
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Bin Laden Offers Warning On New Tape
Osama bin Laden, in a new videotape, directly admitted for the first time that he ordered the Sept. 11 attacks and said "the best way to avoid another Manhattan" was to stop threatening Muslims' security.
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Peterson Jury Gets New Verdict Option
Jurors hearing Scott Peterson's double murder case will have two choices should they decide to convict the former fertilizer salesman, one of which would spare him a possible death sentence.
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Mark Hacking Pleads Not Guilty to Murder
Mark Hacking plead not guilty Friday to first-degree murder in the death of his wife, whose remains were found in a landfill weeks after her disappearance.
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Toddler Survives 4 Days with Dead Mom
A 2-year-old girl survived four days in a parked sport utility vehicle with the body of her slain mother, police say.
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Suspect Arraigned in Pizza Delivery Killing
The lone adult suspect in the murder of a pizza deliveryman is scheduled to be arraigned Friday afternoon in Solano County Superior Court.
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Union: SBC to Move 1,000 Jobs Out of SF
SBC Communications plans to move at least 1,000 jobs out of the city during the next two years, according to a union representative.
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5 CA Govs Oppose 3-Strikes Law Change
In a striking show of political unity, Gov. Schwarzenegger and four of his predecessors are urging voters to reject Proposition 66, a proposal on that would roll back aspects of the state's three-strikes sentencing law.
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Fitness Center Accused of Discrimination
The state has filed a lawsuit accusing a women's fitness center in Petaluma of sex discrimination.
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63,332 Inmates Released Due to Budget
Budget problems have forced a county in California to release 63,332 jail inmates, many of whom have served less than a tenth of their sentence, Sheriff Lee Baca said.
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Internet Kidney Donor Jailed
A man who donated a kidney to someone he met over the Internet was jailed Thursday for failing to pay child support.
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