http://en.redtram.com/ sfgate.com Copyright (c) 2009 RedTram. All rights reserved. webmaster@redtram.com (RedTram) en Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:13:32 GMT 300 100 50 http://en.redtram.com/ http://img.en.redtram.com/rsslogo.gif 133377 | Veto's legality is crux of budget arguments http://en.redtram.com/go/236300696/top100/ 236300696 A state appeals court heard oral arguments Thursday in a lawsuit challenging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's line-item veto cuts to health and welfare programs and expressed skepticism over the contention that the governor exceeded his authority in making the... Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:22:31 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236300696/top100/ 133377 | Hearst Foundations award nearly $1.3 million http://en.redtram.com/go/236300683/top100/ 236300683 The Hearst Foundations have awarded nearly $1.3 million in grants to 16 California nonprofit organizations, including six from the Bay Area. The San Francisco recipients are Zeum, to support educational programs; San Francisco Performances Inc., for community... Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:22:20 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236300683/top100/ 133377 | Doctors studying hard on the beaches http://en.redtram.com/go/236300672/top100/ 236300672 Doctors at Santa Clara County's Valley Medical Center are working hard to stay up to date in their fields - spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year at taxpayers' expense to attend conferences at five-star beach resorts from Maui Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:22:01 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236300672/top100/ 133377 | Palace Hotel's birthday key ticket to free stay http://en.redtram.com/go/236300665/top100/ 236300665 A helium-filled yellow balloon carrying a golden key flew up into the gray December sky Tuesday to celebrate the anniversary of the rebirth of San Francisco's Palace Hotel. The balloon - accompanied by an escort of a dozen other festive Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:21:48 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236300665/top100/ 133377 | Va. man gets 3 years for threatening Mehserle http://en.redtram.com/go/236280826/top100/ 236280826 A Virginia man has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for making online death threats against the former BART police officer charged with murdering an unarmed passenger on New Year's Day in Oakland, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Jeffrey Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:36:21 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236280826/top100/ 133377 | Court: Nancy Garrido's lawyer wrongly bounced http://en.redtram.com/go/236280818/top100/ 236280818 A state appeals court on Tuesday rejected a judge's decision to remove the lawyer Nancy Garrido wants to defend her against charges of helping her husband kidnap and rape Jaycee Dugard. The El Dorado County judge wrongly concluded that attorney Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:35:55 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236280818/top100/ 133377 | Alameda woman strangled in her home http://en.redtram.com/go/236280810/top100/ 236280810 A woman in an Alameda housing development for low-income residents and people who struggled to escape street life has been found strangled in her home, the city's second homicide in less than two weeks, police said Tuesday. A neighbor found Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:35:30 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236280810/top100/ 133377 | Torture suit too hot to be heard, U.S. says http://en.redtram.com/go/236280803/top100/ 236280803 A lawsuit accusing a Bay Area flight-planning company of aiding an alleged CIA program of kidnapping and torturing terror suspects threatens national security and is too sensitive to discuss fully in a public courtroom, an Obama administration attorney argued... Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:35:17 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236280803/top100/ 133377 | Small quake shakes Central Calif. near Keeler http://en.redtram.com/go/236280793/top100/ 236280793 A small earthquake has shaken a section of Central California's Inyo County. The U.S. Geological Survey says the 3.1-magnitude temblor struck at about 1:52 a.m. Tuesday, and its epicenter was about 6 miles southeast of Keeler. Keeler is about 200 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:35:04 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236280793/top100/ 133377 | Post office gets what it wants on busiest day http://en.redtram.com/go/236280784/top100/ 236280784 Carrying two Christmas packages bound for her nephews in Texas and Switzerland, Carolyn Tsai took her place at the end of a line that spilled outside the post office in San Francisco's Noe Valley onto the sidewalk Monday afternoon. Tsai Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:34:51 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236280784/top100/ 133377 | Public asked to help collect quake data http://en.redtram.com/go/236280777/top100/ 236280777 Scientists in Earthquake Country are seeking volunteers in Northern California to join a groundbreaking seismic detection network with automated instruments to record and transmit earthquake information as the temblors strike. They are also asking thousands... Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:34:37 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236280777/top100/ 133377 | A's ballpark could be game changer for Dellums http://en.redtram.com/go/236280768/top100/ 236280768 If you build it, they will come. That's the latest pitch from Oakland city officials who last week identified three new sites - and one old one - in a bid to keep the Oakland Athletics from leaving town. The Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:34:15 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236280768/top100/ 133377 | Charter amendment would revamp S.F. pensions http://en.redtram.com/go/236280763/top100/ 236280763 San Francisco voters may soon have the opportunity to decide major changes to the city's pension and retiree health care systems - both of which have seen their costs skyrocket as the city grapples with consecutive years of major budget Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:33:44 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236280763/top100/ 133377 | Newsom backs radiation labels on cell phones http://en.redtram.com/go/236280754/top100/ 236280754 San Francisco would become the first city in the country to require that cell phone retailers label the devices with the level of radiation they emit under a controversial proposal being discussed at the Department of the Environment and endorsed Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:33:02 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236280754/top100/ 133377 | Pumping depletes Central Valley water, data show http://en.redtram.com/go/236280747/top100/ 236280747 Drought, curtailed water exports from the delta and overzealous well pumping during the past six years have depleted Central Valley aquifers by enough to fill Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the nation, according to new satellite data from NASA. Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:32:04 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236280747/top100/ 133377 | Berkeley council wants Maybeck review http://en.redtram.com/go/236249840/top100/ 236249840 Berkeley's city council sent a landmark decision back to the drawing board last week after the building's owner said the structure was designed by a friend of Bernard Maybeck's, not Maybeck himself. The council voted 6-2 to return the issue Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:10:24 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236249840/top100/ 133377 | Girl, 12, allegedly raped at El Cerrito school http://en.redtram.com/go/236249835/top100/ 236249835 A 14-year-old boy was charged Monday with raping a 12-year-old girl in the stairwell of an El Cerrito middle school, and the principal and vice principal have been placed on administrative leave while police and school officials investigate the alleged Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:10:15 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236249835/top100/ 133377 | Trial opens in S.F. tech's computer lockout http://en.redtram.com/go/236249826/top100/ 236249826 A former San Francisco city engineer accused of hijacking the computer network he built went on trial Monday, with prosecutors portraying Terry Childs as a power-mad techie and the defense calling him a misunderstood workaholic obsessed with system security.... 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