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|  | State agency clears Alameda paramedics of wrongdoingA state agency that regulates paramedics has dismissed complaints that some members of the public filed over the Memorial Day death of Raymond Zack, who committed suicide off Crown Beach while emergency workers remained onshore, city officials announced. | |
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|  | Database shows $12.2 billion in Bay Area public employee salariesA hospital administrator in Alameda County, a deputy police chief in San Francisco and a physician in Santa Clara County grossed more than $500,000 each in pay last year - the top three 2009 salaries in a database containing 200,000 public employees now available online. | |
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|  | Gay marriage foes weigh their next moveWith Proposition 8 scrapped for now, lawyers must decide whether to take fight over same-sex marriage ban to Supreme Court or try again in federal appeals court | |
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|  | Caution: Crisis aheadFrom BART to Caltrain to the Valley Transportation Authority, every Bay Area transit agency has hiked fares and reduced train and bus service to plug deep budget holes. But the changes have produced fewer riders and even less revenue '” leading some to worry that the transit system has entered a death spiral. | |
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|  | Three East Bay ZIP codes, life-and-death disparitiesRichard Angelis lives in Walnut Creek on a tree-lined street in ZIP code 94597, where life expectancy is 87.4 years. But 12 miles southwest of Angelis' home, in the Oakland neighborhood of Sobrante Park, there are nights when Calixto Orantes, 53, hits the ground in a cold sweat inside his small rented home as gunfire erupts nearby. He lives in ZIP code 94603, where life expectancy plunges to 71.2 years. | |
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|  | Road to college just got bumpierCalifornia high school students with their sights set on a public university better step up their game, admissions officers and guidance counselors say. An unprecedented time of upheaval and funding cuts in the state university systems will leave less room for narrowly missed deadlines, poor senior-year grades and incomplete course work | |
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|  | Oakland's fallen officers remembered during annual ceremonyA name is read aloud. A date. Then silence, broken only by the sound of heels clicking against the white, shiny floor of the Oakland Police Department lobby. A wife, a mother, a son or a sister — stoic and composed, or blinking back tears — walks past fellow mourners to add a white rose to a badge-shaped display of red carnations | |
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|  | Federal jury rejects brutality claim against former BART officerA federal San Francisco jury found that former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle and the other officers did nothing wrong when they arrested Kenneth Carrethers two years ago after the Oakland resident criticized the officers for being lazy and then, according to the officers, walked behind a cop with his fist clenched. | |
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