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  • PREVIEW: 49ERS VS. TITANS
    49ERS AT TITANS
    WHERE:
    Candlestick Park
    WHEN: 1:15 p.m.
    TV: Ch. 5
    RADIO: KNBR 680-AM, KSAN 107.7-FM
    THE LINE: 49ers by 4 (41 total)
    THE SERIES: The 49ers lead series 7-4.
    Published November 7, 2009
  • NCS Soccer Playoffs Score Updates
    The Press Democrat will post scores throughout the day from NCS soccer playoff games involving Empire teams.
    Published November 7, 2009
  • Tolerating Yankees' win for old friend
    I’m glad the Yankees won the World Series even though I’m not a Yankees fan.
    Published November 7, 2009
  • Pakistan defies Taliban with 1st fashion week
    As surging militant violence grabs headlines around the world, Pakistan's top designers and models are taking part in the country's first-ever fashion week in Karachi.
    Published November 7, 2009
  • Police relieve 2 gang members of firearms
    Within an hour's time, two guns were taken out of the hands of alleged Norteño gang members by Santa Rosa police officers patrolling the streets of northwest Santa Rosa Friday night, officials said.
    Published November 7, 2009
  • Female officer hailed as hero in Ft. Hood rampage
    Kimberly Munley was a worried mother who fretted over swine flu, and a polite neighbor who waved to fellow residents in a development of tidy lawns. But today she's hailed as a hero.
    Published November 7, 2009
  • 19-year-old girl named as celebrity burglary ringleader
    LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 19-year-old woman was the driving force behind a youthful burglary ring that preyed on Hollywood's rich and famous, often brazenly walking into unlocked homes to make off with cash, jewels and family heirlooms, authorities said.
    Published November 7, 2009
  • House opens debate on health care overhaul bill
    The bill would provide health coverage to tens of millions of Americans who don't have it now, require most employers to offer it to their workers and prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage based on a person's medical history.
    Published November 7, 2009
  • eBay reaches deal with founders of Skype
    SAN FRANCISCO -- EBay has settled a legal skirmish with the founders of Skype that threatened to complicate eBay's plans to sell most of the Internet phone service to a group of investors for $2 billion.
    Published November 7, 2009
  • Price war switches to DVDs
    NEW YORK -- First it was books. Now it's DVDs.
    Wal-Mart started another price war Thursday, trimming the online preorder prices of some upcoming DVDs following its price cut on books last month. And, once again, competitors Amazon.com and Target scrambled to match the prices.
    Published November 7, 2009
  • DIONNE: When voters disrupt the tea party
    Here’s a story you may have missed because it flies in the face of the dreary conventional wisdom: When advocates of public programs take on the right-wing anti-government crowd directly, the government-haters lose.
    Published November 6, 2009
  • OPINION: Betraying the California dream
    For nearly six years, I have served on the Board of Trustees of the California State University system — the last two as its chairman.
    Published November 6, 2009
  • Saturday's Letters to the Editor
    EDITOR: The proposed closing of school libraries and elimination of librarian positions is a mistake that will work to the detriment of our students and our community (“SR school libraries face ax,” Oct. 27).
    Published November 6, 2009
  • DALLAS MORNING NEWS: Massacre at Fort Hood
    This editorial is from >the Dallas Morning News:
    Published November 6, 2009
  • COLLINS: Hark! The voters speak
    CINCINNATI
    In Ohio, citizens marched to the polls on Tuesday and voted to allow gambling casinos in the state. This was a obviously a message to President Barack Obama that independent voters are not happy with the way the health care bill is going.
    Published November 6, 2009
  • Flash of fancy in Forestville
    Brilliant fare at Mosaic Restaurant and Wine Lounge gives Forestville options aside from burgers, pizza, shots-and-beers ambience
    Published November 5, 2009
  • Forever Bonnie Blue
    Fort Bragg's Cammie King Conlon is one of the last surviving cast members from the 1939 classic film 'Gone With the Wind.'
    Published November 5, 2009