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President Obama's Speech Sets New Twitter Record
President Barack Obama's speech last night at the Democratic National Convention set a new record for political moments on Twitter, according to the company. Right after the speech, 52,756 tweets per...
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San Bruno Blast: Two Years Later, Stories of Lawsuits and Forgiveness
September 9 marks the two-year anniversary of the San Bruno natural gas pipeline explosion and fire that killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. Last year, we talked to five different families...
View ArticleA.M. Splash: Jump-starting California Executions; Mirkarimi Fights to Keep...
Two prosecutors try to jump-start California executions (San Jose Mercury News) With California voters readying to consider whether to retain the death penalty, two prominent district attorneys,...
View ArticleSen. Dianne Feinstein on Assault Rifles, Mitt Romney, and the Republican Agenda
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein is up for reelection this year, facing Republican challenger Elizabeth Emken. Belva Davis, host of KQED's This Week in Northern California, sat down with Feinstein during...
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Go Daddy Goes Down, Anonymous Claims Responsibility
Source: Cbsnews GoDaddy, the domain registrar and Web hosting company, is down, perhaps taking millions of websites down as a result. "Status Alert: Hey, all. We're aware of the trouble people are...
View ArticleA.M. Splash: Regatta Traffic; Endeavour Flight; Shiny New iPhones
Regatta to square off against big events (Sf Chronicle) Last month's America's Cup World Series races may have been a rousing success, but the real test for the city will come the weekend of Oct. 6 and...
View ArticleSpace Shuttle Endeavour Flies by KQED
We here at KQED ran to the roof this morning to watch the space shuttle Endeavour fly around San Francisco. It looped around the building twice at 10:30 a.m. before heading down along the coast to...
View ArticleDistrict 3 Debate: Garamendi vs. Vann
The race for California's newly redrawn 3rd Congressional District is heating up. So KQED's Forum invited Democratic Congressman John Garamendi and Republican challenger Kim Vann to debate the issues...
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Oakland's Other Crime Problem: Unsolved Homicides
An Oakland police officer walks by patrol cars at Oakland police headquarters. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) On a recent morning, an ex-convict named Debonaire Dobbz sat shackled to a chair in an...
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Oakland Students March to Protest Gun Violence
Elementary school students and teachers from New Highland Academy in Oakland marched to the local library Thursday ... with a police escort. They used to take the six-block walk every third Thursday,...
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In Oakland, Trying to Stop Violence Before It Starts
Tange Harris found herself in the middle of a bad situation a few months ago. When she stopped by her mother’s house in East Oakland, her nephew was out front with two of his kids. Then a group of...
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'Men of Influence' Bring Parenting to Oakland's Toughest Streets
Arnoldo Garay is coming off a bad year. Last year, when he was 16, Arnoldo said he was drinking, selling drugs and hanging out with a dangerous crowd. Then he fell into a dark depression. "It was...
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Meet the Ex-Cons Who Are Now Stopping Violence on Oakland's Streets
Every week, between 10 and 30 men meet for hours at the Rainbow Recreation Center in East Oakland. These are the Men of Influence -- mostly ex-convicts who have transformed themselves into respected...
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African Americans in SF Arrested at High Rates, Analysis Finds
by Shoshana Walter, The Bay Citizen Although African Americans constitute 6 percent of San Francisco’s population, they are about seven times more likely to be arrested than whites, who represent 41.8...
View ArticleA.M. Splash: Insufficient Oil Refinery Checks; Hantavirus Deaths; Firm Not...
Too few state oil refinery safety checks (SF Chronicle) California regulators have not been conducting the intensive workplace-safety inspections of Chevron’s Richmond plant and the state’s 14 other...
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President Obama’s Speech Sets New Twitter Record
President Barack Obama’s speech last night at the Democratic National Convention set a new record for political moments on Twitter, according to the company. Right after the speech, 52,756 tweets per...
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San Bruno Blast: Two Years Later, Stories of Lawsuits and Forgiveness
September 9 marks the two-year anniversary of the San Bruno natural gas pipeline explosion and fire that killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. Last year, we talked to five different families...
View ArticleA.M. Splash: Jump-starting California Executions; Mirkarimi Fights to Keep...
Two prosecutors try to jump-start California executions (San Jose Mercury News) With California voters readying to consider whether to retain the death penalty, two prominent district attorneys,...
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Oakland Tackles Violent Crime, Up 20% This Year
Oakland police chief Howard Jordan at a press conference earlier this year (KIMIHIRO HOSHINO/Getty Images) Crime is falling nationwide, but not so in Oakland. Violent crime in the city is up about 20...
View ArticleA.M. Splash: Mirkarimi Hearing Continues; Mayor’s Alleged Perjury Ruled...
Eliana Lopez testifies at ethics hearing (SF Chronicle) One second, Eliana Lopez said, sent her life spiraling into “disaster.” The Dec. 31 incident in which her husband, suspended San Francisco...
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