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It's a familiar story this time of year in the Bay Area. The combination of hot winds blowing out of the Central Valley, rising temperatures and bone dry conditions.  
 
 
 
Investigators searched for the source of threatening e-mails  
 
 
 
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Del Martin, a pioneering lesbian rights activist who married her lifelong partner on the first day same-sex couples could legally wed in California, has died. She was 87.

Sign guestbook for Martin
Photos: First gay marriage More on same-sex marriage  

 
 
Chrysler's `Project Driveway' allows customers to provide feedback for hydrogen vehicles  
 
 
Foster City company is offering solar systems to homeowners, no money down.  
 
 
 
Oakland is teeming with guns. They're easy to buy, easy to steal and seen by some young men as a necessary possession in certain Oakland neighborhoods where to be unarmed means to be vulnerable.
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    First in series. Reporters used church documents, obituaries and various public records to identify clergy members accused of sexual abuse of children.

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    POLL: Should diocese have released the names of accused priests, with or without their permission?

     
     
     
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