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- Broadcom buying NetLogic; more
- Prosecutor says Silicon Valley inside trader deserves up to 10 years in prison
- Bay Area weather: Partly cloudy skies expected today
- Giant yacht with nine bedrooms being built in Marin
- Prosperous cities help corruption-plagued Bell
- Fan uses taser during fight at Dallas Cowboys game
- Police investigating report of another sexual assault near SJSU
- Missing 8-year-old autistic boy found in California wilderness
- Man injured in Oakland apartment fire
- Police not ruling out foul play in former Cal golfer’s death
- Three of four Byron boys ranch escapees caught in Antioch
- 4 face hate-crime trial for cross burning on California coast
- Young people hit hard as U.S. poverty rate increases to 15.1 percent
- Winners at the Belmont on 9/11 anniversary: 9, 1, 1
- AMD processor sets Guinness World Record
- Man shot during attempted robbery in East Oakland
- Best reader photos: Our beautiful coast, kicks at St. Mary’s College, hats off on the gridiron and more
- Meet the new neighbors: Coyotes take over L.A.-area home
- Three 911 callers arrested on drug charges in Monterey County
- UC seeks outside students to pay for cyber courses
- Maui police book suspect in Santa Cruz attorney’s homicide
- Man shoots himself at Capitola City Hall, leaves a note
- California Legislature drops surcharge for energy research
- Young people hit hard as U.S. poverty rate increases to 15.1 percent
- Opinion: David Brooks: Adults fail to give children a clear sense of morality
- Review: ‘Autumn Spring’ an irresistible story
- Test restaurant reviews #2: Do the stars work???
- ‘Madoff of campaign finance’ accused of embezzling millions
- Quiet as a silver ghost: Rolls-Royce tests electric vehicle
- Opinion: Richard Cohen: Arab turmoil leaves Israel in a precarious spot
- Roadshow: Hundreds of drivers illegally cross double white lines on I-680 toll lane
- Missoni for Target crashes retailer’s website
- New York Times bestsellers
- San Leandro patrol car crashes into liquor store
- Twister, Rubik’s Cube among toy finalists for Hall of Fame
- Paramedic to receive medal for 2010 Walnut Creek rescue
- Word Game: September 14, 2011
- Word Game: September 15, 2011
- Facebook’s answer to Google+ ‘Circles’ arrives
- Four charged in Oakland gardener’s killing
- Diaper parties: Dad-to-be’s answer to baby showers
- Feds suggest total ban on truckers texting, talking on cellphones
- Fall TV schedule
- Word Game: September 16, 2011
- ‘H8R’: On CW, celebrities confront their detractors
- Word Game: September 17, 2011
- Word Game: September 18, 2011
- Word Game: September 19, 2011
- Parcel tax for fire services in East Contra Costa headed to voters
- San Pablo police say man set fire to occupied mobile home
- Word Game: September 20, 2011
- San Jose motorcyclist, bicyclist hurt in Highway 1 crash
- Gary Bogue: Coyotes are not always the bad guys you think they are
- SJSU QB Matt Faulkner back at practice, unsure of status for Saturday
- Tuned In: Renee Fleming revs up her ravishing act for S.F. Opera’s ‘Lucrezia’
- What’s new with cars for the 2012 model year
- Social Studies: Live streaming brings Fashion Week to the masses
- Best Buy suddenly struggling
- Bowling Results
- Foothill High’s Jake Jefferies carves own path
- Tri-Valley Youth Results
- New era for Mustangs
- Tri-Valley sports Around the horn for Thursday, Sept. 15
- Step back in time, and do your math!
- Police report
- Valley Stars
- Berkeley: Police seek suspect in violent rape attempt
- Pets
- Around Danville:
- Around San Ramon: Champs of several kinds
- GOOD STUFF
- We remember the heroes of Sept. 11
- Pakistani group will commemorate 9/11 with walk
- Review: ‘Gears of War 3’ all heart
- Ex-Etiquette: What to do when kids don’t want to stay with other parent
- San Jose cheerleaders now ‘OK’ with miniskirt ban, principal says
- San Francisco court upholds removal of ‘In God We Trust’ banner from classroom
- Contra Costa workers take pay, benefit cuts
- Ask Amy: Extramarital Affair Is So High School
- Raiders’ Sebastian Janikowski ties NFL field goal record
- Marin man who helped save thousands of Jews during World War II dies at 96
- Oakland trumpeter Sarah Wilson finds success focusing on her own songs
- Mountain lion spotted in Portola Valley
- Pets of the Week
- Pleasant Hill police report
- Library Corner
- Concord takes its second Mayors’ Healthy Cook-off title
- Celebrate Pleasant Hill’s 50th anniversary at Community Service Day
- PLEASANT HILL/MARTINEZ PUBLIC MEETING
- Martinez police report
- School notes
- Seniority: Discover new social world with dancing
- $7,500 for a picture, $35,800 for dinner: Obama set for two Bay Area fundraisers in September
- Datebook for Sept. 15-16
- Record on the Road
- Pleasant Hill City Council considers cutting elected officials’ benefits
- Pleasant Hill/Martinez Digest
- Safe in his arms
- Community Service Day helps prepare for Pleasant Hill’s 50th
- Dessert Recipe: Beet Cake
- Reflections of the Past
- GOOD NEIGHBOR: JACQUIE OLIVERIUS Fundraising for Special Olympics goes up and over the edge
- College on a budget? Living at home still endorsed
- Google: Home wireless networks’ owners must opt out of database
- Biz Break: Microsoft’s mobile vision and Facebook’s answer to Google+
- Close-to-home camping
- Pleasant Hill fencer works toward Olympic goal
- Local sports digest: Stanford soccer team rises to No. 1 in nation
- Santa Clara Art & Wine Festival on Saturday
- Three reasons you should have a property inspection before listing a home
- Your luxury car will make you happier…sometimes
- Marin: Boy arrested after police discover grenade launcher in car
- Cease activities, California orders firm implicated in looting of politicians’ funds
- Celeb Pix: Does Kirstie Alley look thinner on the runway?
- Google’s airfare search function takes off
- With strict curbs on youngest drivers, more 18-year-olds are killed
- Up and down Falcons
- Bulldogs focus on turnaround
- Bowling results
- Youth results
- Around the horn
- Armrest wars: Flights are fuller than ever
- Recent Restaurant Reviews
- Nonprofit brings tutors to East County low-income housing
- Three great passions of philanthropist David Packard come together in the ‘Idomeneo’ production he has bankrolled – massively
- Taliban attack US Embassy, other Kabul buildings
- Miss Manners: Fork’s History Is Not A Big Mystery
- Airlines collect $783M in bag fees in 1st quarter
- ‘Hoodslam’ wrestling show on Oakland’s First Fridays is for the wicked
- Berkeley High to report student robberies to police
- Two Oakland men, including employee, charged in botched Office Depot robbery
- People in the News
- Diverse Web series grows through social media
- New Nintendo offerings make up for lost time
- DNA evidence, surveillance footage led to arrest in Michelle Le case
- Casino project dead, Richmond weighs options for Pt. Molate
- Bay Area military families reflect on the reason so many enlisted: 9/11
- Sheriff: El Sobrante standoff suspect shot by cop, but died from self-inflicted gunshot
- Homes and businesses swamped in Pa., NY
- ‘Frost/Nixon’ gets clever, compelling adaptation at Douglas Morrisson Theatre
- Action Line: Once again: if a retailer advertises an item, it needs to actually have it
- Pets
- Correction: Antioch Coastal Cleanup Day event
- Cop logs
- Around Livermore: Fifty years of keeping you well
- Nissan develops cheaper, smaller charger for EVs
- Cal football notebook: Cal freshman running back Brendan Bigelow finding his stride
- Ask Amy: Husband Prefers Divorce to Life with Father-in-Law
- Fired Fry’s exec plea agreement unsealed, faces up to six years in prison
- Livermore’s Day in the Park event raises $1.3 million
- Remembering the heroes of Sept. 11
- Guitars will be the focus of 3rd annual Livermore festival
- When using less water costs you more
- Services planned for Richmond activist
- 15-year loans becoming popular refinancing option
- GOOD STUFF
- Fall TV: Questions surround Ashton Kutcher, ‘Glee,’ ‘X Factor’ and more
- Entertainment: A literary giant amongst us
- Fall TV: The top five shows we want to see
- Dr. Donohue: Adult Water On The Brain Can Lead To Dementia
- Letters to the Editor
- Intel, Google announce smartphone partnership
- Young San Jose State players capitalize on 2010 experience
- Reunions
- San Jose: Firefighters responding to 2-alarm blaze
- East County Religious Happenings
- Tips on vetting a neighborhood before you buy a home
- Slideshow: Oakland Raiders open season by beating Denver Broncos
- Community Calendar
- O’Brien: Valley wrestles with future of cleantech investing
- Cisco lowers forecast
- ‘Remember Our Heroes’ wall honors Livermore military members
- Pakistani group will commemorate 9/11 with walk
- Solyndra’s bankruptcy puts Department of Energy in the hot seat
- Opinion: Seeking ‘game changers’ that will create jobs
- Bay Area home, garden events: Sept. 17-Oct. 2
- The Outlaws come calling at Antioch Speedway
- Old-fashioned fun to be featured at Newark Days
- New on DVD: Chris Hemsworth proves his mettle in ‘Thor’
- Two arson attempts at nearby San Leandro homes
- Grit Lit: In Parker’s wake, Brandman keeps Stone rolling along
- It’s official: Livermore wants Doolan Canyon
- Correction: San Jose State football notebook
- Bay Biz Buzz: Bay Area gas prices jump 12 cents a gallon, return to $4 mark
- Ex-Etiquette: Parents don’t want daughter’s ex edged out
- Danville police open house, new citizen’s police academy coming
- People: Paul McCartney getting hitched this weekend, says Us Weekly
- NFL legend Len Dawson keynotes Good Samaritan Hospital’s ‘Men’s Health Game Night’
- Alameda: School district wins victory in tax lawsuit
- August auto sales numbers up with American models on top
- What you love and hate
- Mercury News editorial: Failure of Brown’s jobs plan shows damage anti-tax ideology is causing California
- ‘Hoodslam’ wrestling show on Oakland’s First Fridays is for the wicked
- Sept. 14 Readers’ letters
- Tigers – Lightning Good!
- Dan Ernst Memorial Golf Tournament another success
- Volunteer to be a part of history
- Serramonte Ford celebrates 40 years in business
- Ortega School earns API of 838;vsuccess due to making sure every student succeeds
- Suzanne Lamar’s compelling film reintroduces the Pacifica Resource Center
- Principal at Ingrid B. Lacy Middle School begins her third year at the helm
- Private services held for Catherine A. Clark
- Lawyer: Iran sets bail for two jailed Americans
- Fog City cage playoffs set
- La Playa celebrates 20 years in business
- Second Harvest Food Bank Produce Mobile in Pacifica second Monday of every month
- Fury places third in Coastal Cup soccer tourney
- Pet of the Week: Meet Sponday
- Tiger sophs struggle in first game
- Tiger netters win season opener
- Letters to the Editor
- Tigers frosh too strong for Harbor
- Services planned for Donald H. Malsack Sr.
- Celebration of Life planned for Carol Jeane Brown
- School bell tolls 50th year
- Pedro Point Headlands work day this Saturday
- What’s Happening at the Library
- On the air
- Water Works
- Car Column: Life is good in Monterey
- Still time to enter the 2011 Fog Fest Photo Contest
- Pacifica Resource Center gets Website makeover
- City Council denies appeal of medicinal marijuana dispensary owners
- Sign up by today for discounted fees on Fog Jog/Stride
- San Francisco supervisor seeks to transfer Sharp Park Golf Course to the National Park Service
- Opinion: The new normal for government: Parents struggle to save San Jose park
- TDs aplenty for Tigersharks
- Wandering and Wondering
- With castanets, dance and guitar – Yaelisa and Caminos Flamencos return to Pacifica
- Measure L topic of Saturday’s Pacifica Democrats’ meeting
- California Coastal Cleanup Day this Saturday needs volunteers
- Brockmeyer returns to Terra Nova soccer
- Fragrant toxins from the dryer
- A walk on the Daly City side with historian Bunny Gillespie
- East Bay home, garden calendar, Sept. 17-24
- Intel, Google announce smart phone partnership
- Oakland Raiders notebook: Hue Jackson and the Raiders put focus on Buffalo Bills, fixing mistakes
- Tammerlin Drummond: Shame on MOCHA for censoring Gaza exhibit
- Court cuts result in long commutes, less service
- British hacking inquiry to recall James Murdoch
- Cohen out as head of Oakland economic development agency
- Elderly driver crashes on San Jose freeway, dies
- East Bay weekly high school football poll
- New airport security policy for kids under 13
- Jazz trombonist goes airborne to add music to Project Bandaloop’s ‘Bound(less)’
- Denim building insulation is becoming a popular alternative to fiberglass
- Carmakers look past economy woes at Frankfurt show
- San Leandro superintendent addresses concerns
- Chuck Barney: Emmy predictions — who will be TV royalty?
- San Jose council spurns marijuana activists, votes to limit pot clubs to 10
- School Scene or Honors:
- Home and garden television, Sept. 17-24
- Police detonate cache of explosives in San Jose’s Japantown
- Police Blotter
- Aragon High product Justin Christian takes long road to Giants’ outfield
- This week’s local high school/junior college football games
- District drops plan to dig huge flood-control basin in Mountain View’s Cuesta Annex
- Serra High football off to a record-setting scoring start
- Community Digest: Antioch plans Cleanup Day events
- Motorcyclist: Life saved by group who lifted car
- Small college notebook: Finns are a fine fit with Chabot College football team
- Please Adopt Me
- How to keep a cat from clawing furniture to shreds
- How to help a toy poodle with a weak bladder
- Los Medanos Community Healthcare looks to escape deal with state
- Largest Silicon Valley real estate markets during July
- Levee breach bringing new life to Hayward shoreline
- U.S. Embassy hit by rocket attack in Afghanistan
- Valley leaders praise cleantech, worry about about unemployment
- Richardson to leave Cuba bitter, with no prisoner
- Supervisors vote to move more than 9,000 San Mateo County residents into different districts
- Stanford football notebook: Team prepares for Arizona’s heat
- P.M. Bay Area Buzz: Marin teen arrested with grenade launcher; East Bay gardener’s slaying suspects charged
- In Republican race, Perry under fire for his HPV vaccination order
- Obama’s plan for entitlement savings worries Democrats
- Forecasters see bigger economic role for Washington
- Independence High lineman Fernando Villanueva verbally commits to Washington State
- San Jose cheerleaders now ‘OK’ with miniskirt ban, principal says
- Pizarro: Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley to honor San Jose’s Zazueta family
- Movin’ On Up
- Highlight Reel
- Majority of San Mateo County supervisors say they intend to vote for big new jail
- NFL: San Francisco 49ers add former Dublin High star Justin Peelle as third tight end
- Mark Purdy: Hue Jackson jazzed over Oakland Raiders’ win, but should fans be?
- Oakland Raiders grades during win over Denver Broncos
- Athlete of the Week: Leland’s Chris Santini
- Peninsula, South Bay salon chain sued by immigrant workers
- Athlete of the Week: Archbishop Mitty’s Lauren Salazar
- DOJ investigating alleged criminal actions by eBay
- Mercury News volleyball rankings
- Airlines plan to reduce flying next year
- Mercury News high school football rankings
- Wirefeed: Google and Washington Mutual
- Tech Ticker: Google and Motorola; AMD sets record; Target’s website
- Document: California’s National Merit semifinalists
- Garret Zeiter and Shane Smith aim to change Los Gatos’ fortunes on the football field
- In brief
- In brief
- High school football notebook: Teams forced to scramble after lightning strikes Friday
- Local digest: Stanford Cardinal women’s soccer team voted No. 1 in rankings
- GOP wins in NY House race, seen as Obama rebuke
- Herhold: No place in politics for Constant crying
- Baseball: Red Sox Tim Wakefield gets his 200th win on his eighth try
- High school roundup: Miramonte High wins its boys water polo opener against De La Salle
- Document: U.S. Department of Energy statement about Solyndra
- Document: The Committee on Energy and Commerce memo about Solyndra
- Roundup
- Slide show: San Jose police detonate explosives
- Alameda County supervisors deny appeal to shutdown liquor store
- Peninsula, South Bay salon chain sued by immigrant workers
- Oakland A’s update: Recent call-up Jai Miller savoring major league experience
- San Jose public works director named
- Sports digest: NBA talks suffer major hit, as both sides are at odds over salary cap
- San Francisco Giants update: Top 2011 draft picks take tour of AT&T Park
- Pacifica City Council keeps pot club closed
- In brief
- East Bay high school and JC scoreboard for Wednesday, Sept. 14
- Suspect in Arkansas courthouse shooting dies
- Airline passenger says she was cuffed, searched over ‘appearance’
- Police: Revenge may be motive in San Bernardino toddler shooting
- Goo achieves goal in winning girls race at PAL meet
- Firefighters gain ground on Central California fires
- San Mateo County Tuesday high school results
- Mt. Diablo board conditionally approves high school charter
- San Mateo blames country club for firework flap
- Bay Area ‘trash hot spots’ list is out
- San Jose Giants eliminated from California League playoffs
- Apple’s infinite loop: Impressive but enigmatic
- San Jose settles libel suit stemming from 2002 email
- No. 1 Cal turns back No. 2 Stanford in Big Spike
- Tuesday’s High School sports scores
- ‘America’s Got Talent’: Oakland band PopLyfe performs in finals
- Developer, Foster City officials hail planned luxury complex
- Hercules taps Richmond development director for city manager post
- Oakland A’s, O.co Coliseum crowd produce little noise in loss to Los Angeles Angels
- Richmond council wants sewage plant operator to clean up its act
- Explosion rocks Palo Alto apartment complex
- CHP: Man walking on roadway before fatal I-680 crash
- San Francisco Giants beat San Diego Padres in 12th inning on Mark DeRosa’s RBI single
- ‘There’s someone in there’
- Palo Alto prepares to ax ‘historic’ oak
- Hundreds of South Bay students named National Merit semifinalists
- San Carlos council candidates focus on eastside in forum
- Peninsula readers’ letters: September 14
- Genetic discrimination law puts California in front of nation again
- Piling on the points is OK
- Jockularity for Wednesday, Sept. 14
- Cherokees QB Beekley out for year
- Argos break into national top 20
- Shorthanded St. Francis blanks SHC
- Moors lands at Missouri Valley College
- Stanford announces 2011 Hall of Fame class
- Stanford QB Luck responded like a Heisman winner
- A's go down quietly, but did anyone notice?
- Giants need 11 innings to top Padres
- Stanford can't topple No. 1 Cal
- Local prep results for Wednesday, Sept. 14
- 49ers add TE Peelle to primarily block
- St. Francis put safety first in lightning scare