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Sunday, May 18, 2008, 8:46 AM PST
Local Headlines
Safeway boosts quarterly dividend 20%; ups buyback plan by $1B
Safeway (nyse: SWY - news - people ) has repurchased about $3.55 billion of stock since the inception of the program. Shares of the Pleasanton, Calif.-based operator of food and drug stores closed Tuesday at $31.17.
By Casey Logan from Forbes
East Bay JCPenney store involved in gold theft ring
The Orange County Sheriff's Department said this week about $2.5 million worth of gold jewelry has been stolen from JCPenney stores throughout California since September 2006, including at Stoneridge Shopping Center in Pleasanton.
By Staff Reports from Bizjournals.com
East Bay begins water rationing
Tuesday's action by the East Bay Municipal Utility District set out reduction goals, prohibited water uses and declared a water-shortage emergency across the district's system, which serves 1.3 million residents between Oakland and Danville and ...
By Kelly Zito from San Francisco Chronicle
Bay Area heat wave adds to fire danger
A second fire flared up Wednesday evening, along I-580 and Eden Canyon Road, near Castro Valley. Another moonscaped hillside was left behind from a wildfire that burned right up to a Pleasanton neighborhood on Tuesday.
By Staff Reports from abc7news.com
Sanctuary cities protest ICE actions
Paulson pledged the continuing support of labor in San Francisco and the East Bay “to fight this injustice in our community.
By Marilyn Bechtel from People's Weekly World
Break out the sunblock, a heat wave's coming
Expect highs today around 70 in the East Bay, in the mid-70s inland and mid-60s along the coast. It will still be somewhat windy today.
By Staff Reports from San Jose Mercury News
BART train yard fire will delay Fremont line
BART officials closed three East Bay stations on Sunday afternoon and told riders who take the Fremont lines to expect 15-minute delays during this morning's commute, and probably for the rest of the week.
By Erin Allday from San Francisco Chronicle
Ex-San Leandro cop accused of groping in rights suit
A former San Leandro police officer groped a woman during a traffic stop after she repeatedly rebuffed his romantic overtures over a period of months, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit.
By Henry K. Lee from San Francisco Chronicle
The Girl Next Door
(CBS) On the night of May 1, 2003, a teenage girl's body was found in a trash bag left behind a restaurant in peaceful Castro Valley, Calif. The gruesome discovery became one detective's obsession and touched the entire community, which came to call ...
By Clare Friedland from CBS News
World Headlines
China's government gives rare transparent look at disaster
Graphic footage of death and destruction has been shown on China's state-run news networks in the days following the massive earthquake that hit southwest Sichuan province earlier this week.
By Jaime FlorCruz from CNNMoney.com
Welcome to the social mess?
Google Friend Connect, Facebook Connect, MySpace Data Availability, OpenID, DataPortability: Managing a bunch of different logins and passwords suddenly seems easy and straightforward.
By Caroline McCarthy from CNET News.com
China Hit by 7.9-Magnitude Quake; More Than 8700 Die (Update3)
China was hit by a magnitude-7.9 earthquake, the nation's strongest in 58 years, killing more than 8700 people.
By Aaron Sheldrick and Eugene Tan from Bloomberg


National Headlines
Gay Couples Celebrate California Court Ruling
Gay and lesbian couples in San Francisco rejoiced Thursday over a California Supreme Court decision affirming their right to marry even as political leaders on both sides of the issue girded for an extended fight in ...
By JESSE McKINLEY from New York Times
Tornado deaths underscore risks of taking shelter in cars
Nearly half of the 21 people killed by a tornado that smashed parts of Oklahoma and Missouri over the weekend died in cars, troubling experts who say vehicles are among the worst places to be during a twister.
By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER from The Associated Press

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