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Justin Sullivan
) Safeway sold, merges with Albertsons Safeway and Albertsons will be merged to create a massive nationwide grocery network that both companies hope will help them compete in a market they have been steadily losing to big-box retailers, convenience stores and niche grocers. Safeway and Albertsons will merge to create a massive nationwide grocery network that both companies hope will help them compete in a market they have been steadily losing to big-box retailers, convenience stores and niche grocers.
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 ( ) Food trucks returning to Martinez marina March 15 MARTINEZ -- After a successful one-day run last fall, food trucks return to the Martinez marina next weekend. Beginning March 15, Food Truck Mafia -- one of the biggest players on the Bay Area's thriving food truck scene -- is bringing a weekly event to the marina from 11 a. |
 (Jim Stevens/Staff) Startup incubator i-GATE engineers move to downtown Livermore I-GATE, a Livermore-based incubator for up-and-coming entrepreneurs, hopes moving to a new downtown headquarters in Livermore will lure more startup companies. |
 (Robert Rogers/Staff) Richmond city leaders criticized for housing complex living conditions Residents of Hacienda tell City Council members that the city's housing authority has failed to provide decent living conditions |
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Doug Duran
) Google's mysterious tech barge greeted by Stockton residents weary of hard times  Stockton officials gathered on a quiet pier Thursday morning to welcome Google's mysterious 250-foot tech barge and its two escorting tugboats, which took nearly eight hours to travel roughly 70 miles from Treasure Island to their city on the San Joaquin River. |
SPORTS  ( ) Sharks rally to beat Penguins 5-3 Joe Thornton launched a shot from just inside the blue line with 5:39 left in the third period Thursday night that held up as the game-winning goal to give the San Jose Sharks a wild come-from-behind 5-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins.
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LOCAL NEWS  (Courtesy Richmond Police Departm) Richmond: Teacher's arrest on sex abuse charges raises concerns about hiring practices As shock spread Thursday about the arrest of Ronald Guinto, who was fired from Richmond's Making Waves Academy after several students accused him of sexual abuse, questions followed about how he was hired at Mira Vista Elementary School even as police were investigating him. |
 (MLive.com, Emily Rose Bennet/AP) More than 1,600 wore their sunglasses at night, for a possible record There appears to be another arcane world record in Grand Rapids, this time for the most people wearing sunglasses at night. Full Story |
 (AP Photo/Eric Gay) SXSW Music Picks: Chain Gang of 1974 buzzes into Texas Also meet Adrian Marcel, one of Oakland's most promising R&B talents. |
 (Photo by Isaac Brekken/Invision/AP, File) Look who's sleeping in Justin Bieber's bed Qianying Zhao was arrested after breaking into the home Bieber is renting and falling asleep in a bedroom. |
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Nhat V. Meyer
) 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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JOSE CARLOS FAJARDO
) 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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JOSE CARLOS FAJARDO
) 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. |
