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Homeowners describe the process of recovering from last June’s devastating Trabing Fire.
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The Foundation for Excellence, a Silicon Valley non-profit, provides scholarships to brilliant students who are among India’s vast poor. (more…)

Geneva Rucker-Kenerson never thought that in her lifetime she would see an African Amercian elected the nation’s president. (more…)

Trained at the Shenyang Peking Opera School, Madame Lifang Wang and her family continue the tradition in Silicon Valley. [VIDEO] (more…)

Doris Willette of San Francisco ready to represent the U.S. in fencing at Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
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Santa Cruz diver Ariel Rittenhouse hopes to make a splash at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
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Isolated deep within the Ventana Wilderness Area, Jack English, 89, returned to his life in Pine Valley. His Cabin was spared damage, but his land was devastated by the Big Sur-based Basin Complex Fire, Thursday July 24, 2008.. (more…)

Filipino WWII veterans are near the end of their 62-year-old fight for veterans benefits and military recognition that was promised to them during the war, but later denied by President Truman. [VIDEO]
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How to cross the street in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. [VIDEO] (more…)

Watch a live performance and interview with the San Francisco indie pop-surf band the Botticellis.
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Workers and residents of Bay Meadows in San Mateo, prepare for the its closing. [VIDEO]
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Heat from deep within the earth powers California steam turbines once again.
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The loss of Carlos Sousa Jr. was mourned by hundreds of friends and family.
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Four Bay Area military families tell their Christmas stories. [VIDEO]
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[VIDEO] Follow the saga of Sunnyvale Mobile Home dwellers as they fight for their homes, then relocate after developers take over the property.
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[VIDEO] 66th Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez: The public and private life of an Assembly Speaker as he faces his term limit.
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