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Corrosion plagues new Bay Bridge span

By Charles Piller - Updated: 10:35 pm

Doug Coe, a normally confident engineering manager for the new east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, walked into the nearby Oakland project office looking as if he were fighting back tears. Joel Sayre, then a bridge spokesman who worked there, remembers tensing in alarm.

New Kings boss Ranadive is all about winning

By Ryan Lillis, Dale Kasler and Tony Bizjak - Updated: 12:13 am

Two young employees at Tibco Software Inc. recently challenged the head of the company to a pull-up contest, and Vivek Ranadive didn't hesitate to accept.

Gov. Brown's school funding plan runs into lawmakers' concerns

By David Siders and Phillip Reese - Updated: 12:22 am

Gov. Jerry Brown had hardly finished presenting his annual budget revision last week before state Sen. Ted Lieu lit up on Twitter with a burst of criticism of a major part of the plan, a bid to shift more state aid to poor and English-learning students.

Program at Mather aids former Sacramento County foster kids

By Brad Branan - Published: 12:00 am

By the time he left foster care, Willis Mucelroy estimates, he had lived in 30 foster homes across the Central Valley.

Preparing for post foster-care life at Laverne Adolfo

Pay dirt for job seekers in weeding, mowing

By Jan Ferris Heenan - Published: 12:00 am

Learning the landscape maintenance trade is not just a way out of homelessness for Michelle Van Dyke. "Working in soil is like cleaning up the wreck of my past," she said. "When I'm weeding, I go down to the root. All the way down to the root."

Bay Area firm's idea to lift underwater homeowners to positive equity loses steam

By Hudson Sangree - Published: 12:00 am

A year ago, with the real estate market still in a deep slump, a San Francisco firm caught the attention of officials in California and elsewhere with its novel idea of using eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages in order to reduce the amount that borrowers owe.

The Public Eye: Expert notes CPS missteps before Sacramento child hatchet murder

By Brad Branan - Published: 12:00 am

Three weeks before he allegedly murdered his 9-year-old son with a hatchet, Phillip Raymond Hernandez was the subject of a complaint to Sacramento County Child Protective Services alleging that he neglected his two boys.

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Davis School for Independent Study students Gabriel Dionisi 10, center, and Julia Rea 10 react after giving a correct answer in a "Jeopardy"-style quiz game during the Nature Bowl at Sacramento State University in Sacramento on Saturday. The annual Nature Bowl is a test of student knowledge of all things ecological. Activities included a "Jeopardy"-styled knowledge game, and presentations on local issues: Students identify an environmental issue in their region and present it in one minute, including causes, effects and solutions. Their research may lead to actions in their school, neighborhood or community. View a photo gallery.
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Franklin girls celebrate after their 4-3 win in the D1 Girls Soccer match against Davis High School, played at Cosumnes Oaks High School, Saturday May 18, 2013. Franklin won the game 4-3 on penalty kicks after two over time quarters failed to produce a score. Brian Baer/ Special to the Bee
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Atletico de Madrid's Gabi Fernandez holds the trophy in Neptuno Square in Madrid, Spain, Saturday. Atletico de Madrid defeated Real Madrid in the Copa del Rey final soccer match on Friday.
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Pope Francis arrives for a meeting with faithful on the occasion of a Pentecostal vigil St. Peter Square at the Vatican, Saturday.
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Sri Lankan government soldiers march in a war victory parade in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday. The military parade is being held to commemorate the 4th year anniversary of the government's victory over Tamil Tiger rebels. In 2009, the Tamil Tigers admitted defeat in their 25-year war with the Sri Lankan government that left more than 70,000 people dead.