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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 |
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