 Concord: Massive blaze leaves strong-smelling smoke A massive four-alarm blaze that started early Wednesday at a warehouse building close to Buchanan Field Airport is not yet completely extinguished, authorities said. |
 Witness to Richmond gang rape 'couldn't believe this was happening' A Richmond gang member testified Tuesday that he was shocked when a senior gang member directed him and two teenagers to sexually assault a woman he kidnapped off the street in 2008. |
 (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) San Ramon Valley schools get more federal scrutiny after discrimination complaints The district will be monitored by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights for up to two years as part of a resolution to a special education discrimination complaint. |
 One year later, has Sandy Hook changed America's gun debate? What little progress gun control advocates made was hard fought and hard to come by. |
BUSINESS  (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo) Quinn: With the NSA looking for terrorists on video games, it's now time to be afraid Reports this week that U.S. national surveillance agencies have been playing games like 'World of Warcraft' and 'Second Life' has our spies looking silly. But their random digital exploits are frightening, too. |
LOCAL NEWS  (Laura A. Oda/Staff) East Oakland: Crews cap gas line leak that sparked fire  Crews have capped a 4-inch gas line that ruptured Tuesday morning in East Oakland and sparked an underground fire that burned for nearly four hours and prompted the evacuation of nearby homes. |
 (Courtesy photo) Teen slams into pet-grooming business on way to driver's exam A Massachusetts teen's trip to take her driver's exam ended when she slammed into a neighboring business. Full Story |
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) Tonight's TV picks: Kelly Clarkson gets into holiday spirit; 'Rodeo Girls' saddle up WATCH THIS:n "Kelly Clarkson's Cautionary Christmas Music Tale" (10 p.m., NBC): The pop star headlines an offbeat special that has her learning some lessons about the meaning of the holiday. |
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) 'Fruitvale Station' shut out of Screen Actors Guild Award nominations '12 Years a Slave,' 'Captain Phillips,' 'August: Osage County' and 'Lee Daniels' The Butler' dominate nominations. Usual suspects, including 'Breaking Bad' and 'Modern Family,' grab nods in the television acting categories. |
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) Bay Area residents live longer; here's why Bay Area residents are among the nation's longest-lived people, surviving on average more than a decade longer than residents of rural Kentucky, West Virginia or Mississippi. |
 (HERALD FILE) Mi Pueblo files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Mi Pueblo, the festive Bay Area supermarket chain and icon of family-grown Hispanic businesses, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday, citing a dispute with its primary lender, Wells Fargo. |
