Goodbye sunshine, hello rain.The recent spell of dry weather came to an end Sunday night, and the National Weather Service predicts a slight chance of precipitation today and Wednesday.For the start of the workweek, a 20 percent chance of rain will greet commuters in San Francisco, but the small storm will likely be mild. Winds are only expected to reach 10 mph.
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Investigators have identified an 18-year-old man as the third suspect allegedly involved in a shooting outside a San Leandro Walmart store on Black Friday, police said today.Queron Foreman, an Oakland resident, has been identified as the driver of the suspect vehicle during the shooting, which occurred at about 1:50 a.m. on Nov. 25 in the parking lot of the store at 15555 Hesperian Blvd.
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Another episode in the long legal saga of California's same-sex marriage ban is scheduled to unfold in a San Francisco courtroom.A federal appeals court plans to hear oral arguments Thursday on whether a lower court judge who ultimately struck down voter-approved Proposition 8 should have recused himself because he was in a same-sex relationship.
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Police have surrounded a home in East Oakland where they believe a suspect in a shooting outside a San Leandro Walmart store on Black Friday has barricaded himself. San Leandro police Sgt. Ted Henderson said a SWAT team has been summoned to a home near 106th Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard, where Detwone Watson, 29, is believed to be hiding and refusing to come out.
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Signature-gathering on a petition to recall Oakland Mayor Jean Quan is set to get under way.The city clerk certified the petition on Wednesday. Backers now have until May 14 to collect roughly 20,000 valid signatures of registered Oakland voters to qualify a recall measure for a future ballot.
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Firefighters are at the scene of a two-alarm house fire in Oakland this morning, an Oakland fire dispatcher said.The blaze was reported at 7:01 a.m. in the 2400 block of Renwick Street, the dispatcher said.
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A stunt for the TV show "MythBusters" sent an errant cannonball through a California family's house and into a parked minivan a few hundred feet away.Producers for the Discovery Channel show fired the cannonball Tuesday at the Alameda County Sheriff's Department bomb range behind the Santa Rita Jail when it misfired.
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The National Weather Service has issued a freeze warning for interior valleys in the North Bay and a frost advisory for low-lying spots in the East Bay. Both will be in effect from 1 a.m. to 9 a.m. Tuesday.Temperatures of between 25 and 30 degrees are forecast late tonight through Tuesday in the North Bay, and lows in the East Bay are expected to be in the 30s.
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Tens of thousands of Bay Area residents were without power overnight and thousands remain affected, PG&E officials said.In the immediate Bay Area 2,100 customers are waking up without power, spokeswoman Katie Romans said.As of 6 a.m., 300 North Bay residents are without power, along with 700 East Bay customers. In the Peninsula 200 have their power knocked down. The South Bay has 900 customers still affected.In San Francisco no outages have been reported.
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A fine-tuned policy to guide BART on when it should shut down cell phone service in its transit stations will be up for approval on Thursday.
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