 (Livermore Police Department) Parents, golf community express shock at child-molestation charges Before his arrest on 65 counts of child molestation, Andrew Nisbet, 31, was a highly respected youth golfing coach who guided hundreds of junior golfers to college scholarships. |
 (Laura A. Oda/Staff) Beastie Boys sue Oakland toy company GoldieBlox The legal battle GoldieBlox thought it had laid to rest escalated on Tuesday when the Beastie Boys sued the Oakland toy company over a copyright dispute after it used the group's song in a video advertisement. |
 Mystery letter from Navy secretary surfaces at Bay Area address 67 years too late A letter from former Navy Secretary James Forrestal apparently arrived at a home in Point Richmond in October. The letter came 67 years late. |
 ( Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group Archives) BART and its unions go back to the table in family leave dispute BART, Amalgamated Transit and Service Employees International unions will sit down Thursday morning in attempt to settle the dispute over family leave provision in their recently negotiated contract. |
BUSINESS  (
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) Google and fellow tech giants move into shopping malls  From Google to Intel and HP, tech giants are descending on malls and shopping outlets to convert less tech-savvy consumers into gadget buyers by allowing them to swipe, type and tinker with the new technology. |
SPORTS  (Associated Press) San Francisco Giants agree to sign slugger Michael Morse On the way out of the Winter Meetings, the Giants finally found their left fielder. The club agreed to a one-year deal with slugger Michael Morse on Thursday morning, pending a physical |
LOCAL NEWS  Asiana Flight 214 pilot turned off plane's autopilot despite concerns landing at SFO  The National Transportation Safety Board began its investigative hearing into the crash landing of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 on Wednesday morning to learn the cause of the crash and ensure 'the circumstances are not repeated,' the head of the NTSB said at the opening of a nearly 12-hour hearing. |
 Sign language guy at Mandela's memorial said he was hallucinating A day after experts called the sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela's funeral a fake, the man accused of signing gibberish says he was hallucinating and suffers from schizophrenia. Full Story |
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) Tonight's TV picks: 'Scandal' amps up the crazy; 'X Factor' nears finale Sting makes a guest appearance on 'Michael J. Fox Show |
 (Vince Bucci/Invision for The Hollywood Reporter/AP Images) Oprah Winfrey says her kids would hate her 'Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ actress also says she’d like to work on Broadway. |
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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. |
