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 (Kristopher Skinner/Staff) San Pablo hospital backers appeal to billionaires to keep it open The National Union of Healthcare Workers, in a letter to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and 69 other Bay Area billionaires, says that if they chip in a tenth of a percent of their combined net worth, they could keep Doctors Medical Center running for 20 years. |
 (Erin Baldassari) CHP: Officer justified in drawing gun at protesters The California Highway Patrol has concluded the officer acted within department policy during a melee at a December anti-police brutality protest in Oakland. |
 (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Bay Area housing lags booming economy A new report offers a snapshot of the nine-county region: Accelerating population and job growth in San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland as the Bay Area grows more urban and less suburban; the squeezing of the middle class; and not enough housing across-the-board, especially for low- and moderate-income households. |
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) Coliseum board OKs Raiders lease extension The authority that operates O.Co Coliseum approved a lease extension for the Oakland Raiders that will keep the team in town for at least one more season while team officials and local leaders discuss options for a new football stadium at the Coliseum complex. |
BAY AREA NEWS  (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group) Hayward man gets life sentence in murder of Castro Valley woman during a burglary Cody Nicosia's best friend, Christian Birdsall, is scheduled to go to trial in April in the killing of 58-year-old Barbara Latiolais in 2012. |
Celebrities  (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) Katie Couric returning to NBC? New network news chief Andy Lack reportedly has good relationship with former 'Today’ co-host. |
SPORTS  The TK Show: Carmen Policy on past, present 49ers issues Former 49ers executive Carmen Policy, often the conduit between coach Bill Walsh and owner Eddie DeBartolo, chats with Tim Kawakami. |
Spotlight  (Michelle Hazelwood) Having the nerve to age and show it Society sends mixed messages, punishing people for daring to look their age, then mocking them for trying to hold onto their youth. |
BUSINESS  (Patrick Tehan/Staff) California's job boom stronger than first thought California's employment picture was far more robust during 2014 than initially estimated, according to a report released Friday, a surge of strength that bodes well for the job market in the Bay Area and the statewide jobless rate fell to its lowest level in nearly six years. |
(Michelle Hazelwood) Having the nerve to age and show it Society sends mixed messages, punishing people for daring to look their age, then mocking them for trying to hold onto their youth. |
(Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) Katie Couric returning to NBC? New network news chief Andy Lack reportedly has good relationship with former 'Today’ co-host. |
