 ( ) Richmond: Police investigate housing authority manager for alleged misuse of public funds Police detectives are investigating allegations that a maintenance manager for the city's Public Housing Authority steered $340,000 in work contracts to a company linked to her husband. |
 ( ) Pinole Valley High temporary campus will be ready in time, board told Delays in preparing the site could mean increased overtime costs to finish work by Aug. 12. |
 (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) Heald, other Corinthian-owned colleges continue to recruit students as company closes Heald, WyoTech and other Corinthian-owned colleges have continued to recruit students as the company prepares to sell and close its campuses. |
 ( ) Tri-Valley could become hub for medical technology, forum panelists say Lawrence Livermore and Sandia/California lab officials, medical professionals, investors and entrepreneurs met in Pleasanton at the Sixth Annual Innovation Tri-Valley Forum to discuss partnering on health care startups. |
LOCAL NEWS  BART board votes to retain lifetime free-travel perk, but with limitation BART directors vote 5-3 to continue program that allows them free travel for life on the transit system, but now they must serve eight years in office to qualify for it. |
Celebrities  (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP) Surprise! Justin Bieber in news for his music The troubled singer releases clips of 11 new tracks on Instagram, hinting at prospect of new album. |
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) 49ers notebook: Aldon Smith 'feeling great' at start of camp San Francisco 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith, who might face NFL discipline after off-field incidents, looked in his natural element Thursday, suiting up in a No. 99 jersey and menacing quarterbacks on the practice field.
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) Bay Area s snobbiest small cities? (Cast your vote) Palo Alto and Walnut Creek make the list compiled by real estate blog Movoto based on home prices, household income, cultural amenities, educational achievement and more. |
BUSINESS  (Jeff Chiu/AP Photo) Facebook stock soars, as company briefly passes IBM in market value Facebook's one-day stock surge also added about $1.6 billion to the personal wealth of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose company holdings are now worth more than $33 billion. |
 This barren, desert prison is where O.J. Simpson lives  Some here call it the 'O.J. House,' the only gated community in a vast stretch of desert rich in gold and silver, pioneer trails and proud, isolated towns north of Reno. |
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) Bay Area s snobbiest small cities? (Cast your vote) Palo Alto and Walnut Creek make the list compiled by real estate blog Movoto based on home prices, household income, cultural amenities, educational achievement and more. |
(Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP) Surprise! Justin Bieber in news for his music The troubled singer releases clips of 11 new tracks on Instagram, hinting at prospect of new album. |
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) Kawakami: Kaepernick shoulders blame for loss  Colin Kaepernick's late-game interception allows the Seattle Seahawks to hold off the San Francisco 49ers and advance to the Super Bowl against the Denver Broncos |
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) Purdy: Brutal heavyweight fight went way of Seahawks This was a wicked, awful, exhausting game for both the 49ers and the Seattle Seahawks. |
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) Thompson: 49ers defense shows fight even after Bowman injury The San Francisco 49ers defense was not as dominant as it needed to be Sunday. But when things looked most bleak against the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC Championship game, the defense got the ball back to the offense with a chance to win. Twice. Even without the unit's best player. |
