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  • The Artemis Racing AC72 catamaran, an Americas Cup entry from Sweden, lies capsized after turning over during training in San Francisco Bay on Thursday, May 9, 2013, in San Francisco, Calif. Artemis Racing said Andrew Bart Simpson, an Olympic gold medalist from Great Britain, died after the capsized boats platform trapped him underwater for about 10 minutes. The Golden Gate Bridge is in the background. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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  • A 72-foot-long catamaran sailboat capsized while practicing for the America's Cup races this summer, killing an Olympic gold medalist.
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  • Fatal California limo fire
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  • Fatal California limo fire
  • Families and friends Tuesday struggled with the heartbreak of losing five loved ones, all nurses, who died Saturday in a burning limousine.
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  • Fatal California limo fire
  • A limousine that burst into flames on a bridge, killing five women inside, was carrying one too many passengers.
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  • Fatal California limo fire
  • A new bride was among those killed in a limo fire on a San Francisco Bay bridge.
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  • Tiny apartment
  • Could YOU live in a 200 square foot apartment? It may soon be an option in one city.
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  • The Coast Guard was searching Monday for a husband and wife and two young children who sent a series of distress calls the day before, saying their sailboat was sinking far off the Central California coast and they were fashioning a raft from a cooler and life ring.
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  • San Francisco's animal control agency is proving that the print editions of newspapers remain just as vital in the digital age.
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  • A California fisherman had to be fished out of the mud.
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  • Coast Guard investigators on Tuesday plan to interview the pilot of an empty tanker that struck a tower in the middle of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge while navigating beneath the hulking span.
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  • San Francisco shed a vestige of its free-spirited past as local lawmakers narrowly approved a citywide ban on public nudity.
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  • A San Francisco activist had something to get off her chest -- and the rest of her, too.
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  • In this image made from video, a police officer uses pepper spray as he walks down a line of Occupy demonstrators sitting on the ground at the University of California, Davis on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011.
  • The University of California has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit filed by demonstrators who were pepper-sprayed during an Occupy protest at UC Davis last fall, according to a preliminary settlement filed Wednesday.
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  • Tiny apartment
  • San Francisco lawmakers have postponed voting on a proposal that would make the city home to some of the smallest apartments in the country.
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  • Thomas Kinkade's girlfriend is agreeing to pay $11,000 a month to rent the San Francisco Bay area mansion where she had lived with the late artist.
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  • Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hasn't enjoyed seeing his company's stock get pummeled on Wall Street this summer, but he is relishing the opportunity to prove his critics wrong.
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  • The Roman Catholic archbishop-elect of San Francisco has been arrested for investigation of driving under the influence in San Diego.
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  • A 12-year-old boy is hospitalized in critical condition after a tree fell on him at a California campground, crushing his pelvis.
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  • Microsoft is pulling out of the joint venture that owned MSNBC.com, freeing the world's largest software maker to build its own online news service.
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  • An elderly woman is hospitalized with what's being described as life-threatening injuries, and police are looking for a suspect after a bizarre incident involving the woman and a young boy teasing a goose at a San Francisco park.
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  • Authorities say a fire that tore through an area of San Francisco's waterfront that will host the America's Cup yacht race next year has caused more than $2 million in damage.
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  • San Francisco firefighters battled a four-alarm fire Wednesday in a building along the city's waterfront that's part of an area planned to host next year's America's Cup yacht race.
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  • The top of the U.S. Open leaderboard is getting awfully crowded.
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  • A private salvage crew has located the wreckage of a chartered fishing boat that sank in Mexico's Sea of Cortez last year, leaving one Northern California man dead and seven still classified as missing.
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  • Matt Cain pitched the 22nd perfect game in major league history and first for the Giants, striking out a career-high 14 and getting help from two spectacular catches to beat the Houston Astros 10-0 on Wednesday night.
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  • Crowds gathered along San Francisco's waterfront Sunday, while San Francisco Bay was crowded with pleasure boats, tug boats and other vessels as the city celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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  • A San Francisco supervisor who said he consulted a Ouija board before a vote now says he was joking - and the only spirit he was summoning was the spirit of humor.
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  • Golden Gate Bridge
  • The Golden Gate Bridge was heralded as an engineering marvel when it opened in 1937. It was the world's longest suspension span and had been built across a strait that critics said was too treacherous to be bridged.
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  • Authorities say Oakland Raiders wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey has been charged with misdemeanor drunken driving following his arrest last month after a traffic stop on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
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  • A United Airlines flight from Toronto to San Francisco has made an emergency landing at Denver International Airport.
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  • The owner of an oil tanker that spilled 400 gallons of fuel into San Francisco Bay has agreed to pay nearly $2 million as part of a settlement with state and local authorities.
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  • Philadelphia boy struck by truck after Phillies game in San Francisco
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  • A century-old tradition, the Full Crew Farallones Race has never been for the faint of heart: Winds averaging 10 to 20 knots and churning 14-foot Pacific Ocean swells are among the rough conditions typically braved by yachts and their crews during the daylong regatta, a spring favorite of skilled sailors.
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  • An official at San Francisco International Airport says lightning hit a United Airlines flight, forcing the plane to return to the airport.
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  • Well known and loved artist Thomas Kinkade died Friday in his California home, a family spokesperson confirmed. He was 54.
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  • The U.S. Coast Guard has launched a helicopter to see if it can rescue three injured sailors on a damaged yacht about 270 miles west of San Francisco.
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  • Police investigators probing the slaying of five people in a San Francisco home were still trying to determine if the suspect is at large, or whether the killer's body may lie among the victims' remains.
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  • Investigators probing the slaying of five people in a San Francisco home may take days before they can determine whether the suspect is at large or lying among the victims' remains, a police official said Saturday.
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  • Embattled San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi faces sentenced for false imprisonment in a closely watched domestic violence case involving his Venezuelan actress wife, in a dramatic saga that has gripped his city for nearly three months.
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  • The California man who hit young Phillies fan, Ryan White, last year in San Francisco, has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.
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  • Google's digital marketplace for mobile applications, music, movies and books is unifying under a new name in an effort to spruce up the shopping experience.
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  • Two small, back-to-back earthquakes shook San Francisco Bay area residents awake Monday morning.
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  • Months after moving to the United States, Latin America telenovela star Eliana Lopez blogged about her hopes and aspirations for her new, simpler life as a wife and mother, far from the bright lights of TV and movies.
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  • Student protesters at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shut down most of the campus Thursday as part of statewide demonstrations against budget cuts to higher education.
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  • California Attorney General Kamala Harris said Thursday that her office was reviewing a new report that found most residential mortgages in foreclosure in San Francisco are missing documents or signatures or otherwise violate the law.
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  • San Francisco is honoring legendary crooner Tony Bennett, whose famous song, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," was recorded 50 years ago.
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  • A lone gray wolf has wandered across the Oregon border into California in what wildlife officials are calling a historic event.
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  • San Francisco firefighters have controlled a five-alarm apartment building blaze that left up to 60 residents homeless.
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