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         <title><![CDATA[Suspect in SJSU dorm gropings arrested]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The suspect is also a San Jose State student, but does not live in one of the campus residence halls. ]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Mark Gomez and Lisa Fernandez Mercury News</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:38:40 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Rodeo parents face criminal charges over their kids' truancy]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Two parents of students attending Rodeo Hills Elementary School must appear in criminal court next month because their children were absent from too many classes this year. The Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office made a public statement announcing the case, the first time in county history parents are facing such charges.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Karl Fischer&lt;br&gt;Contra Costa Times</dc:creator>
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         <title><![CDATA[U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Jeremy Abbott wins men's short program]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[With pre-skate tip from his coach, Abbott holds a 7.29-point lead in the competition over training partner Adam Rippon]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Elliott Almond ealmond@mercurynews.com</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:57:54 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Golden State Warriors lose to Oklahoma City Thunder 120-109]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Warriors' subpar effort not nearly enough vs. Durant, Westbrook  ]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Marcus Thompson II mthomps2@bayareanewsgroup.com</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:57:53 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Fatal shooting in West Oakland]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Police are investigating a fatal shooting that happened in West Oakland late Friday. Officers responded to the 800 block of Center Street around 9:20 p.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>Bay City News Service</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:24:54 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Sentencing of Paul Garcia postponed again in Los Gatos murder-for-hire]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Defense lawyer Ed Sousa says he needs more time to review security tapes from Mountain Charley's Saloon and the 180 Restaurant & Lounge that he hopes will show that drugs were responsible for Mark Achilli's 2008 killing, not Garcia's jealousy over a beautiful bartender. ]]></description>
         <dc:creator>Julia Prodis Sulek jsulek@mercurynews.com</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:37:39 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Get crime alerts from the Oakland Police Department on your phone]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Summary for story goes here andj here's more summary to go with this story if you want to use this  much summary with the stoyr]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Kristin J. Bender&lt;br&gt;Oakland Tribune</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:34:15 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[California passes landmark rules to curb auto emissions]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Air Resources Board rules will require 15 percent of new vehicles sold statewide by 2025 to be electric, plug-in-hybrid or hydrogen-fuel-cell and are expected to dramatically cut tailpipe pollution from gasoline engines]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Paul Rogers&lt;br&gt;progers@mercurynews.com</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:25:03 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Alameda County weathers storm of cuts and realignment]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Even in these tough times the county avoided layoffs and dipping into the $172 million reserve fund, District 1 Supervisor Scott Haggerty said during a State of the County address sponsored by the Fremont Chamber of Commerce at the Marriott Hotel. ]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Angela Woodall&lt;br&gt;Oakland Tribune</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:17:56 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Night Owl: What to do in Oakland? An idiosyncratic list]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[There's more to Oakland than the Fox, although the theater's pretty grand]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Angela Woodall&lt;br&gt;Oakland Tribune</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:17:31 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[California passes landmark rules to curb auto emissions]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Air Resources Board rules will require 15 percent of new vehicles sold statewide by 2025 to be electric, plug-in-hybrid or hydrogen-fuel-cell and are expected to dramatically cut tailpipe pollution from gasoline engines]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Paul Rogers&lt;br&gt;progers@mercurynews.com</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:07:07 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Raiders make it official, hire Dennis Allen as head coach]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Common knowledge became official Friday when Dennis Allen was named head coach of the Raiders.The Raiders issued a release announcing a news conference to introduce Allen on Monday at noon at the club facility in Alameda.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Jerry McDonald jmcdonald@bayareanewsgroup.com</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:02:47 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Fans can meet with Oakland A's co-owner Lew Wolff during the team's FanFest]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wolff to meet individually with fans at A's FanFest]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Joe Stiglich jstiglich@bayareanewsgroup.com</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:00:07 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[San Jose Sharks' Logan Couture: On a star-studded roster, the youngster stood out]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Only 22, San Jose's lone all-star sets pace with his heart, head]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By David Pollak dpollak@mercurynews.com</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:59:55 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[San Francisco Giants sign veteran infielder Ryan Theriot]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[S.F. signs veteran to one-year contract]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Andrew Baggarly abaggarly@mercurynews.com</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:54:51 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Cal women's basketball team seeks huge breakthrough against Stanford]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Bears handed Cardinal its last conference loss at Maples Pavilion]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Stephanie Hammon shammon@bayareanewsgroup.com</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:49:15 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[College football: Cal anxiously awaits national football signing day]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Everything changed for Cal on Jan. 16, when assistant coach and recruiter extraordinaire Tosh Lupoi was lured away by Washington.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Jon Wilner Mercury News</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:49:07 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[President Obama to raise funds in SF on Feb. 16]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama will be in San Francisco to raise campaign funds on Thursday, Feb. 16.
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         <dc:creator>By Josh Richman&lt;br&gt;Mercury News</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:44:55 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Anguished 4-year-old 49ers fan's video goes viral, gets team owner's attention]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Video on YouTube shows child bawling over the 49ers' loss]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Matthias Gafni&lt;br&gt;Contra Costa Times</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:38:10 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[California's Catholic hierarchy takes stand against illegal-immigration dragnet]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The Bay Area's biggest religious institution, the Catholic Church, is throwing its weight against a federal immigration dragnet that in the past two years deported more than 6,500 people from the region.
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         <dc:creator>By Matt O'Brien&lt;br&gt;Bay Area News Group</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:37:59 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hercules father of five killed near Berkeley workplace]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The man had just left his uncle's barbershop when he was gunned down.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Doug Oakley&lt;br&gt;Berkeley Voice</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:30:07 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Citywise: Lease approved for historic Hayward airport site]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Plans to renovate the Air National Guard site at the Hayward Executive Airport took wing this week, when the city approved a lease agreement that will include an upgrade of a historic hangar as well as a museum dedicated to the Tuskegee Airmen.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>Bay Area News Group</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:27:39 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[San Rafael librarian lands coveted spot in State of the Union events]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Woman one of few dozen Twitter users picked to send updates from White House]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Jessica Bernstein-Wax&lt;br&gt;Marin Independent Journal</dc:creator>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hercules man and father of five killed Thursday in Berkeley]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Hercules man was father of five and had just left his uncle's barbershop when he was gunned down.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Doug Oakley&lt;br&gt;Berkeley Voice</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:02:55 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Project at Walnut Creek's Las Lomas High to memorialize classmates who died]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Students need donation for project to honor two who lost lives in rafting accident]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Elisabeth Nardi&lt;br&gt;Contra Costa Times</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:02:27 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Man being sought for brazen daytime sexual assault in Oakland]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[OAKLAND -- A man is being sought for the attempted rape of a 36-year-old woman that occurred on a busy East Oakland street Thursday morning, police said Friday.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Harry Harris Oakland Tribune</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:02:00 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[State's newest park near Brentwood is named Marsh Creek State Park]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[State commission approves general plan of historic site where California's first doctor had ranch]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Paula King&lt;br&gt;For the Contra Costa Times</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:00:39 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Richmond woman stabbed during altercation outside liquor store]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[RICHMOND -- A woman was stabbed three times in the shoulder during an altercation outside a liquor store Friday morning, police said.Police were contacted around 9:58 a.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Paul Burgarino&lt;br&gt;Contra Costa Times</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:58:46 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Martinez man receives probation for fatally stabbing man in self-defense in 2008 bar fight]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[MARTINEZ -- Murder charges were dropped in Contra Costa County Superior Court on Friday against a Martinez man who fatally stabbed a man during a September 2008 bar fight in an apparent act of self-defense.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>Bay City News Service</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:06:06 PST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Chris Treadway: Another milestone planned for World War II park]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Milestones for the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond have included its creation in 2000 and its dedication at a ceremonial launching re-enactment in 2007.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Chris Treadway&lt;br&gt;Contra Costa Times</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:41:02 PST]]></pubDate>
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