Thousands crowd onto Grant Ave to score lucky flowers, play slots at Flower Fair. Photos.
Michelle Obama's fight against child obesity enlists an old law to improve school meals like this one.

Willis on shoving a hand down a wolf's throat; Tayor wants a tall guy. Dish!

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Last Friday, Kelley Blue Book decreased value on recalled Toyotas by 1 to 3 percent. This week, it will cut them even more.
A man and a 17-year-old Concord boy were shot and killed in separate incidents less than two hours apart.
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HHS Sec'y Sebelius asks state's biggest for-profit insurer to justify plans to hike premiums by as much as 39%.

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Predictably, they're trying to get rate increases in ahead of anticipated federal legislation. Same
thing happened with credit card companies - slashing credit, changing
terms, jacking up rates in advance of law implementing that would
restrict this flexibility. ”

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Whitman says pols need to reel it in, but when it comes to her own campaign, well that's a different story.

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From Venice south through the boot Italy is celebrating Carnival in a variety of parades and masked outings.
As the year of the tiger looms celebrations and decorations kick into gear.

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Paul Linde's book, "Danger to Self: On the Front Line With an ER Psychiatrist," is an attempt to make sense of a world that few people see, or want to.
Scott Ostler on the game, the Who (or was that the Budweiser frogs?), his prediction (he was right) and the Big Easy.
Michael Bauer shares the mastery behind special restaurant dishes in the Chefs' Secrets column, starting with the Tipsy Pig's mac and cheese recipe, which includes four cheeses as well as bacon.
Concern about mounting debt in Europe has pushed the index below the psychological barrier for the first time in three months.



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Fed workers and school children get a day off as the Mid-Atlantic digs out from as much as 3 feet of snow.
How an unlikely Haight-Ashbury fling between a long-haired hippie and the police chief's daughter grew into 41 years together.

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Break out of the Valentine's Day rut with a guided Big Basin hike that explores the mating rituals of banana slugs, newts, ladybugs and the redwoods themselves.

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The wonderfully lousy life of Jeremy.

Despite the fact that Valentines Day is named after Saint Valentine, a Christian saint who was martyred...



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San Francisco Giants Hall of Fame pitcher Juan Marichal owned this two-story Outer Mission home...

The 2011 Buick Regal, "the next chapter in Buick's transformation," will start arriving on dealers' lots...

Many jobless people have reached a conclusion that captures the depth of the unemployment crisis...