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Michael Garcia, 22, purchased his $2.3 million Powerball prize-winning ticket at a 7-Eleven store at 2440 Almaden Expressway in San Jose, having matched all of the numbers except the Powerball number.  
 
As Bay Bridge contractor begins erecting worker platforms around the seismic stabilizers on the pier east of the main span, Ohio steel manufacturer Dyson breaks its silence and says it produced the bolts bridge engineers asked it to make.  
 
JOHN GREEN
Stanford University personalized genomics course contributes to the growing movement to advance a new era in modern medicine, where genetic information allows us to not only look into our medical futures but take action, similar to actress Angelina Jolie, who underwent a double mastectomy to prevent hereditary breast cancer.  
 
 

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Blindsided by the death of her 21-year-old son, Joey, from a combination of prescription drugs and alcohol in 2009, April Rovero has since made it her mission to help other parents avoid the nightmare she endured.  
 
 
Bay Area man arrested in connection with killing family in Czech Republic
Kevin Dahlgren, who lists Palo Alto as his home on Facebook, was arrested at an airport in the Washington, D.C. area late Thursday after the Czechs issued an international warrant.  

 

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