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Commuters ready to launch
Plans are afloat to construct two new ferry launches on San Francisco’s waterfront, part of a plan to spin a web of ferry routes throughout the Bay.  At Home: Trevor HubbardNot many people can boast that they live in a cabin with a bird’s-eye view of The City, but Trevor Hubbard, the marketing director of the ski and snowboard big-air spectacular ICER Air and co-founder of creative firm Griffix Thunkit, can see to The Embarcadero from the windows of his Telegraph Hill bungalow, perched just off the Greenwich Street steps.
Sales, median prices in June for California homes
The number of new and resale homes sold during June and median prices, with annual percentage changes, in selected California counties:  Cosco Busan's impact still not entirely clearNine months after an oil slick spread across the Bay from the Cosco Busan, the ship’s tarnished name has been scrubbed off its hull, but exhaustive cleanup efforts have failed to remove all of the spilled toxic fuel from area shorelines.  At Home: Todd Lappin and Nicole AvrilFor Todd Lappin, editor of the new travel magazine Everywhere, and his wife Nicole Avril, a director at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design and a trustee at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the inspiration for the Bernal Heights home they spent two years renovating didn’t come from the latest decorator showcase.
Police: Alameda driver meant to run over stranger
Alameda police say a driver who ran over a 78-year-old man walking on the street did so intentionally because he was upset about his own family problems.
Driver allegedly strikes, kills man on walkway
A 78-year-old Alameda man is dead after police say he was struck by a sport utility vehicle that forced another woman to jump to safety as it careened down a pedestrian walkway.
Kelly-Moore pays for overcharges
National paint chain store Kelly-Moore, based in San Carlos, agreed to pay $568,000 in civil penalties after the company was found to have charged customers more than the posted price for items at its stores. |
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