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Sonoma County home building on hold

Permits for new single-family homes in Sonoma County are down 40% from last year, and a ‘long, slow, tortuous path to recovery is foreseen.

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Second murder trial begins for Nicole Bradley

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Horizons Santa Rosa passengers up 3% in Aug.

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Companies add 67K workers, but jobless rate rises

Private employers hired more workers over the past three months than first thought, a glimmer of hope for the weak economy ahead of the Labor Day weekend.

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Davis keeps job as 3rd-string quarterback

Building language skills through science

El Verano Elementary in Boyes Hot Springs is in the third year of an experimental program that combines hands-on, inquiry-based science with English language development.

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Planned Parenthood to open new Santa Rosa clinic

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Chains try to score with fantasy football players

Fantasy football means real business for restaurants, and some big chains have launched promotional drives to score with dedicated players of the growing pastime.

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Study says health-care costs shift to workers

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Oakland snaps 4-game losing streak

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Jerry Brown says hed be a frugal governor

Jerry Brown said Friday that if elected governor he would have to do things that labor doesnt like, including cutting pension benefits for public employees and asking labor leaders to put everything on the table to get Californias bloated budget under...

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Wounded cops wife: Life turned upside down

Nicole Young was at home when she got a call from her husband, Fremont police Officer Todd Young, who told her that he had been shot in the leg in East Oakland. He said he was OK. Thinking it was simply a minor injury, she loaded the couples children into...

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Deputies ask for help in East Bay pot killing

Alameda County sheriffs investigators are asking for the publics help in locating two men charged with murdering a man they apparently suspected of plotting to steal their marijuana. Mohammed Kahn, 47, and Manuel Trujillo, 62, know they are being sought in...

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Skull, other remains found near Golden Gate

A human skull and other bones have been found in a cove in the Marin Headlands, authorities said Friday. The skull was first spotted by a kayaker at 7:30 p.m. Monday in a rocky area by the water below Battery Spencer, near the Golden Gate Bridge, said George...

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Worker killed in chaotic gun battle at pharmacy

A shootout in the Sacramento suburbs has left a pharmacy worker dead and police hunting for two drugstore robbers. Sacramento County Sheriffs Department spokesman Sgt. Tim Curran says two men walked into a Rexall pharmacy Thursday afternoon and demanded...

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Watch those gas pumps; prices expected to fall

Gasoline prices have been falling for weeks, and they could go even lower as autumns leaves begin to drop. The national average for a gallon of unleaded regular was $2.681 on Friday, according to AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service. Thats...