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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page San Jose News.Net http://www.sanjosenews.net/ en-us Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:09:51 -0400 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:09:51 -0400 30 Years after voters approved it, ranked-choice voting has come to Alameda County.Voters in three cities -- Berkeley, Oakland and San Leandro -- will use the new voting method in electing local official... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38435538&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:04:28 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38435538&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff < 200){ requestedWidth = 200; } East Bay taxpayers in November are being asked to foot the bill for California's economic crisis, with dozens of school districts, cities and special districts floa... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38435539&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:04:26 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38435539&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff As school district and other bond measures have become more popular in California, competition for school business among underwriters who help districts finance bonds has heated up.While some district... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38433978&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:04:23 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38433978&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff View RSS feed Join Jerry McDonald for a Raiders live chat on Tuesday, Sept. 7 at noon PDT as he discusses and analyzes the Raiders' recent roster moves and their upcoming game at Tennessee on Su... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38432919&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:54:30 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38432919&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff ANTIOCH -- A 19-year-old man was shot in the leg this evening as he walked along a street, police said.The shooting took place about 7:50 p.m. in the 2300 block of Lemontree Way. The victim said he wa... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38430590&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:52:08 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38430590&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Seattle Mariners Ichiro Suzuki, #51, fails to catch a triple by Oakland Athletics Daric Barton, #10, in the first inning of their game on Monday, Sept. 6, 2010, at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum ... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38430589&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:52:06 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38430589&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff You've read about problems with PG&E's SmartMeter, especially the folks who claim it's causing huge increases in their electrical bills. But that's not the only issue with the vaunted high-tech de... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38430591&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:52:04 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38430591&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Jessica Vaillancourt , left, as Princess Carly, Elaine Burn, as Queen Meg, and James Moy as Goldman Sachs entertain workers and family members at the annual Alameda County Labor Day BBQ at Martin Luth... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38430592&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:51:58 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38430592&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff The daredevil known as Skyscraper Man man who has left his mark on towering buildings around the world made an appearance -- and caused quite a scene -- in http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38428588&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:44:11 -0400 NBC 11 http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38428588&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Hewlett Packard , Hurd has signed on, as President of Silicon Valley software giant Oracle. The company says he'll report directly to Oracle Chief Executive http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38428589&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:44:01 -0400 NBC 11 http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38428589&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff BAY POINT -- Investigators Tuesday are expected to resume searching a dump for the body of a 35-year-old Hercules man missing since Aug. 27 and presumed dead.Hercules police and volunteers concluded t... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38427326&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:41:40 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38427326&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff OAKLAND -- A man and a woman were shot in East Oakland just south of Interstate 580 Monday afternoon, police said.Officers got a call about a shooting in the 4000 block of Altamont Avenue shortly afte... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38428578&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:41:38 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38428578&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Three employees were robbed at gunpoint when two armed men broke into Six Flags Discovery Kingdom after the park closed Sunday night, Vallejo police and a park spokeswoman said.The employees were atta... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38428579&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:41:37 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38428579&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff One of Northern California's largest polluters may be trying to orchestrate a last-minute deal with Sacramento lawmakers to evade state environmental laws, potentially increasing its toxic emissions a... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38427278&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:41:35 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38427278&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff When 10-year-old Taylor Tagle almost choked to death this summer, her parents' co-workers didn't just send cards of sympathy.Colleagues at her mom's Milpitas company donated about a year and a half of... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38428580&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:41:33 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38428580&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff More than 900 members of Beta Alpha Psi (BAP), the professional honors organization for financial information students and professionals, supported by 50 employees from KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and ad... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38427225&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:34:37 -0400 Accounting Web http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38427225&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff San Francisco police have shut down Mission Street because of a man scaling a South of Market skyscraper without ropes or permission, a police spokesman said. The man, who appears to be in his 50s, ha... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38424798&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:19:55 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38424798&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff MARTINEZ -- Police officers and their families gathered Monday to remember Sgt. Paul Starzyk on the second anniversary of his death. Starzyk and Catalina Torres were shot to death Sept. 6, 2008, by a ... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38425029&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:19:53 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38425029&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff SACRAMENTO -- Jerry Brown employed a populist appeal for his Labor Day campaign kickoff Monday, excoriating his Republican gubernatorial rival Meg Whitman for campaigning in a "bubble" and for promisi... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38426331&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:19:51 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38426331&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Since she was 14, chronic pain in Lisa Collins' life had become the norm. So much so, the Sunnyvale woman started to believe that the sudden stabs of pain that would leave her collapsed on the bathroo... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38426332&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:19:49 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38426332&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff OAKLAND -- A dying boy, saved when a grieving family donated their son's liver to him for a vital surgery, decided to pay back his benefactor with a campaign of good deeds and one result was a bunch o... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38426333&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:19:47 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38426333&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff An old tug boat being dismantled for salvage leaked oil and fuel into the Petaluma River this morning, creating a sheen that stretches for about two miles, a state Department of Fish and Game spokeswo... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38424145&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:10:13 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38424145&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff CONCORD -- A Concord man was arrested early Sunday on suspicion of stabbing his wife, police said. At 1:30 a.m., Concord police responded to a report of a stabbing at a residence in the 1800 block of ... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38424146&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:10:11 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38424146&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff NEWARK -- A young man was found dead Monday morning following a pool party at a nearby hotel that was broken up by police the night before, police said.The body of a man in his mid-20s, who has not ye... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38423062&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:10:09 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38423062&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Islamic scholar Akbar Ahmed asking Iran to release the hikers as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan comes to a close. He is one of many world leaders who has urged Iranian government officials to releas... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38422363&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:11:08 -0400 NBC 11 http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38422363&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Adobe circles turning at night - that's from Zero One. This year, images will be thrown up onto the front of San Jose's City Hall, and you'll again be asked to decipher them. There's a created-from-sc... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38422364&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:10:59 -0400 NBC 11 http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38422364&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Democrat Jerry Brown has ended his silence on the airwaves.Kicking off its long-awaited TV ad campaign on Labor Day, Brown's gubernatorial campaign unleashed a 30-second spot depicting the former gove... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38421160&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:09:33 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38421160&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Hillbarn Theatre in Foster City used the solid brass bell to send audiences back to their seats for five decades before it diesappeared in September 2004. The theater distributed "lost bell" poster... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38422356&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:57:34 -0400 5PIX http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38422356&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff The Santa Clara County Sheriff's office says an inmate at a minimum-security jail in Milpitas died after he suffered an apparent heart attack. http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38422357&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:57:30 -0400 5PIX http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38422357&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Police found no major clues Sunday in their search of a Pittsburg landfill for the body of a missing man linked to a multiple murder investigation, a Hercules police spokeswoman said. And, while it's... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38420350&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:13:15 -0400 NBC 11 http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38420350&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff There have been at least two recent sightings of great white sharks in the Bay Area. Last week, surfers claim they saw a great white shark attacking a sea lion about 200 yards from Linda Mar Beach in http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38420351&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:13:06 -0400 NBC 11 http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38420351&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff SALINAS -- A man was arrested near Salinas on Sunday afternoon after police discovered he had allegedly been secretly videotaping a woman and sending lewd images of her over the Internet, police said.... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38420327&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:11:38 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38420327&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is asking Congress to approve at least $50 billion in long-term spending in the nation's roads, railways and runways in a pre-election effort to show he's trying t... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38419537&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:11:36 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38419537&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff RYE BROOK, N.Y. (AP) -- A teen and a toddler have come face-to-face with a coyote in two separate incidents within about an hour in a New York City suburb. The toddler's father took her to get medical... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38420329&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:11:33 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38420329&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Santa Clara County law enforcement authorities have arrested 377 people on suspicion of drunken driving during an end of summer crackdown, a number that is slightly down from last year, according to s... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38420328&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:11:31 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38420328&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) -- A judge in the Bahamas dismissed charges Monday against two people accused of trying to extort money from John Travolta after the prosecutor said the actor no longer wanted to ... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38417266&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:09:32 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38417266&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Police are investigating the murder of a well known Afghan journalist who was found outside his Kabul home this weekend covered in stab wounds. Afghan President Hamid Karzai... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38417518&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:09:31 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38417518&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Workers use a jackhammer to remove dangerous brick parts from a damaged building in Christchurch, New Zealand, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010 after the city was hit by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake Saturday. The ... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38417799&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:09:29 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38417799&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff MIAMI (AP) -- A hurricane watch has been issued for the coasts of Texas and Mexico in the Gulf as Tropical Storm Hermine approaches. The hurricane watch issued Monday covers the area from Rio San Fern... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38417392&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:09:26 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38417392&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Labor Day typically marks the unofficial kickoff of the general election season in politics, though it might not seem that way to voters after the steady stream of attack ads in the governor's race du... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38414074&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:05:52 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38414074&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff You've reserved your electric vehicle and can't wait to zip around town in an all-electric Nissan Leaf, plug-in Chevrolet Volt or one of the models soon to hit the road.But choosing the EV that's righ... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38413000&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:05:50 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38413000&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff He spoke for Hewlett-Packard's board when it showed ex-CEO Mark Hurd the door -- and is now part of the team searching for Hurd's successor. He played a role in eBay's spinoff of Skype -- buying a $50... http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38414075&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:05:47 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanjosenews.net/?rid=38414075&cat=2d152a2dc9f192ff