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Zuckerberg updates status to 'Married'

zuckerberg-married-timeline.jpg Instead of the Saturday graduation party they thought they were attending, invited guests at Mark Zuckerberg's home in Palo Alto saw the Facebook founder and his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, get married.

Rex Babin, Bee editorial cartoonist was 49

rex+babin+at+desk.jpg The Sacramento Bee announced the death of the paper's editorial cartoonist on Friday of cancer.

Parents of Bay Citizen and California Watch officially merge

The boards of the Berkeley-based Center for Investigative Reporting and the Bay Area News Project voted today to merge their organizations.

Sacramento reporter John Myers signs off public radio

JMyersgoodbye.jpg The state capital reporter and blogger for KQED in San Francisco (and by extension for other public radio stations around California) is going to be the political editor for Sacramento's ABC-TV affiliate.

Bestsellers of the week: SoCal vs. Northern California

We're not that different — or are we?

California's lone wolf returns to Oregon

Thumbnail image for or7-medford.jpg OR7's quest has taken him back across the state line, the California Department of Fish and Game announced.

Now for something completely different: Obama in SF Chinatown **

President Obama stopped into San Francisco's Chinatown for some dim sum dumplings today. Unlike here, there didn't sound like much fuming in traffic.

OR7 crosses highway 395, takes a break

or7-medford.jpg California's first wild wolf since the 1920s roamed east across U.S. highway 395 on the Madeline Plains north of Susanville in Lassen County sometime in the past ten days, then seemed to slow the "dispersal" quest that began last September in northern Oregon.

Wolf OR7 still in California and moving fast

wolf+map+jan11+12.jpg The Oregon gray wolf that entered California on Dec. 28 has been tracked moving through Lassen County and crossing several roads and highways.

A gray wolf could be approaching California - first since 1924

orgeon-wolf-map.jpg Wildlife trackers in Oregon have followed a lone male gray wolf on a 730-mile trek across the state, south toward the border with California. "He could be in Yreka in two days if he wanted to be," a California fish and game official says.

Davis photog on how she got the pepper spray picture

pepper-spray-davis-hodzic.jpg Jim Romenesko contacted Jasna Hodzic after her photo of campus police Lt. John Pike using pepper spray on passive students hit the web.

Bratton called into UC Davis situation

pepper-spray-cave.jpg Former LAPD chief William Bratton has been tapped by the University of California to lead the official examination of the UC Davis pepper spraying of passive student protesters.

Videos of the events at UC Davis

The national focus of the Occupy activities has suddenly become the University of California at Davis, showing the massive power (once again) of YouTube to capture relatively unfiltered events and disseminate them widely to great effect.

Student gunman shot at UC Berkeley dies

A 32-year-old student shot Tuesday by UC Berkeley police after he brandished a handgun in a computer lab has died at a hospital.

Police raid, dismantle Occupy Oakland camp

occupyoakland-police-kgo.jpg Hundreds of law enforcement officers from across the Bay Area encircled the Occupy Oakland camp at about 5 a.m.

Bay Area lawmaker charged with shoplifting at Neiman Marcus

Democratic Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi of Castro Valley was charged with felony grand theft after being caught on video surveillance allegedly shoplifting more than $2,000 worth of merchandise.

Police use tear gas on Occupy Oakland protesters

oaklandprotestgas.jpg Mayhem in downtown Oakland at this hour after police fired gas cannisters into a crowd that refused to disperse near 14th and Broadway.

Lessons on sustainability for news startups

bay-citizen-logo.png A new Knight Foundation report makes a case study of eight of the biggest local news startups across the U.S., including Voice of San Diego and The Bay Citizen in San Francisco

Singleton's Bay Area papers 'rebrand'

The Oakland Tribune, a fixture for decades, will now be grouped in with four other papers under one masthead: the new East Bay Tribune.

California Watch wants your story

calif-watch-icon.jpg California Watch, the Northern California-based non-profit investigative newsroom, will have a staffer on the Eastside Monday morning to chat about potential stories.

Yosemite reopens under blanket of new snow

Yosemite National Park was cut off to road traffic by snow and downed trees on Monday, but highways 120 and 140 reopened into the park this morning.

Big-wave surfer dies in the water at Maverick's

Sion Milosky, a surfer in Hawaii of growing repute, became only the second surfer known to die at the famed surfing spot off Half Moon Bay.

Rare color photos of San Francisco's '06 quake carnage

sf-quake-color2.jpg A volunteer at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History has made a fantastic discovery: perhaps the only color photographs of the devastation in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire.

Duke Snider, Boy of Summer was 84

duke-snider-lad.jpg The Dodgers' all-time leader in home runs and runs batted in and a Hall of Fame icon of the 1950s died this morning in Escondido. Snider grew up in the Los Angeles area and starred at Compton High School.

At least 3 dead, 53 homes gone in Bay Area blast & fire

san-bruno-fire.jpg An underground natural gas pipeline blew up in a San Bruno neighborhood south of San Francisco this evening, engulfing whole blocks in a fireball.

Newsom social without being popular

A New York Times blog story tonight on Gavin Newsom "the Twitter prince" feels so 2009 — gushing about his Twitter followers but failing to say they don't matter.
LA Observed on Twitter
venice-lemonade-slush.jpgBlogger Diana Chang photographed every shop that faces the ocean — and set her gallery to music by The Red Hot Chili Peppers and others. Go there


I understand the emotion of LA Kings nation, and get the passion of hockey fans generally. Still, I'm surprised by this turnout to greet the Kings players at LAX Wednesday morning. Watch larger

mosquito-air-patrol.jpgPasadena police and the San Gabriel Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District flew over El Monte and Duarte and identified 21 dirty, abandoned or improperly drained swimming pools that could provide breeding environments for Asian tiger mosquitoes. San Gabriel Valley Tribune photographer Walt Mancini rode along. Links

falcon9-rocket-launch1.JPGSpaceX successfully launched its Dragon orbiter Tuesday morning at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Space.com

party aftermath.jpgThe aftermath of a teenage party over the weekend in the Silver Lake hills. The latest in the Night Vision series by Iris Schneider. Native Intelliigence
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