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Silicon Valley Roller Girls – Women’s flat track roller derby. (more…)

After 63 years, Filipino war veterans celebrate passage of legislation that recognizes their contribution during WWII. (more…)

Joey Chestnut eats 5.44 pounds of funnel cake in 10 minutes to win Great America eating contest. [VIDEO]
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Controversy clouds the San Jose police department’s use of public drunkenness laws and its racial impact on Latinos. [VIDEO] (more…)

Residents of Sacramento’s homeless encampment talk about life there. (more…)

The Central Valley town of Firebaugh has a 35% unemployment rate.
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New programs help veterans caught in the criminal justice system. (more…)

San Jose Police Department’s Violent Crime Enforcement Team anti-gang policing in a city plagued by gang crime.
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Supporters of Palestine gather in a busy San Jose intersection to protest Israel’s ground war in the Gaza Strip on January 4, 2009. [VIDEO] (more…)

Homeowners describe the process of recovering from last June’s devastating Trabing Fire.
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Helen and Ted Johnson talk about their son Peter who died from complications due to the AIDS virus. (more…)

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

Stanford medical students use horses to learn techniques of non-verbal communication. [VIDEO] (more…)

The All Amigos Alano Club has been a safe haven for recovering alcoholics for over two decades. Now they have been asked to vacate their clubhouse to make way for new downtown development. [VIDEO] (more…)

Rocked by the area’s first housing auction last year, Manteca residents in the Paseo West Development tell their stories of lost homes and tough times.
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Trained at the Shenyang Peking Opera School, Madame Lifang Wang and her family continue the tradition in Silicon Valley. [VIDEO] (more…)