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Yahoo Discloses Number Of U.S. Government Data Requests

SUNNYVALE (CBS/AP) — Yahoo is the latest company to disclose how many requests for user data it has received from U.S. government agencies, putting the number between 12,000 and 13,000 in the six months that ended on May 31. Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer and General Counsel Ron Bell said in a blog ...

Phil Matier: Brown Demonstrates Political Savvy With Unions Over Pay Raise

SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)— The union representing 95,000 state employees have reached a tentative contract agreement that includes a 4.5 percent pay raise over a two-year period. But there’s an interesting catch with how Governor Jerry Brown gets to decide (or at least his De...

Colma BART Station Reopens After Death On Tracks

COLMA (CBS SF) – The Colma Bay Area Rapid Transit station was shut down for more than two hours after a body was found on the tracks Tuesday Morning. The incident was reported at about 9:10 a.m., BART spokesman Jim Allison said. The victim was under a train, he said. The Colma Fire Protection Dist ...

James Franco Turns to Fans to Crowd-Fund His New Film, But There's a Twist!

Try to get through James Franco's Indiegogo video without feeling Hulk levels of anger, because there's a charitable slant to the project that could change your mind about top-billing stars mining their admirers for cash. Yes, the actor has hopped on the celebrity crowd-funding wagon, joining Zach B ...

Katy Perry Plays The Busty Farm Girl For Vogue Magazine

Here’s Katy Perry lying on a haystack and busting out her ginormous cleavage for Vogue magazine, and making me weak at the knees doing so. Hot damn, does she look like a drop dead sexy farm girl, or what!? And she totally looks like she’s waiting for a stable boy (played by me) to walk in and h ...

Cain, Giants Looking To Move Back Ahead Of Padres

Matt Cain will try to bring that run to an end, however, as he gets the nod for the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday night against the Padres at AT&T Park. ...

Netflix Cuts Original TV Deal With DreamWorks

(CBS SF/AP) – Los Gatos-based Netflix said Monday that it would offer new TV shows from DreamWorks Animation starting in 2014 in what the company described as its biggest transaction ever for original first-run content. Though financial details were not disclosed, Netflix Inc. said the agreement i ...

Richmond Considers Eminent Domain As A Path To Home Loan Restructuring

RICHMOND (KPIX 5) – Despite rising home prices in much of the Bay Area, many home buyers are struggling to wade out from their underwater mortgage – prompting some Richmond city leaders to attempt a unique tactic to provide mortgage relief. More than 100 people, concerned about the sta ...

San Jose Files Suit Against MLB For Stalling Oakland A’s Move

SAN JOSE (CBS SF) – The San Jose city council has voted to file suit against Major League Baseball over the delay in allowing the Oakland A’s to move to a new ballpark San Jose. The lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in federal court, also challenges the territorial claims by the San Francisco Gi ...

Heat Have No Room For Error Versus Spurs In Game 6

BRIAN MAHONEY,AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — They lost three times in three months in one of the most overpowering stretches the NBA has ever seen. Now the Miami Heat have lost three times in five games. So superb during the regular season, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and the Heat have to be some ...

Heat Need Big Game From James Again

Odds Stacked Against Heat In Game 6

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The Miami Heat dug themselves a hole when they allowed the San Antonio Spurs to go up 3-2 in the 2013 NBA Finals. Heading into Game 6, the Heat face long odds of just getting to Game 7, much less winning the NBA championship. Three teams have gone into Game 6 of the NBA Finals o ...

9 Ways to Dance About Architecture

Martin Mull famously said, "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." But what if you actually did dance about architecture? SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable In this comic, Grant Snider of Incidental Comics illustrates a variety of architectural forms and their corresponding dances. ...