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Earthquake Shakes Bay Area

A moderate earthquake and at least one aftershock rattled the San Francisco Bay Area this afternoon and was felt from San Jose to Berkeley to San Francisco. Here at Surge Desk's West Coast bureau in the East Bay, the quake caused computer monitors to sway and floorboards to creak. The U.S. Geological Survey put the...

Los Angeles Bans Plastic Bags, Mandates Charge for Paper Ones

(Nov. 16) -- Finally, an answer to the question, "Paper or plastic?" On Tuesday, Los Angeles County supervisors voted to ban stores there from offering customers single-use plastic bags in the unincorporated parts of LA County. The move comes in an attempt to curb the amount of trash in the area, and the supervisors say...

Parents: Cop Went Too Far Pretending to Arrest Son

(Sept. 27) -- The parents of a 15-year-old boy say a California police officer crossed the line by pretending to arrest their son for having sex with his 14-year-old stepdaughter. "He came up on him furious," the boy's father, Paul Villarruel, told "Good Morning America" Monday. "I felt kind of helpless to stand there and...

Eating Champ Joey Chestnut Feeds on Competition

(July 21) -- Joey Chestnut is at the top of the competitive eating food chain, but it isn't as much because of a love for eating as it is a hunger to compete. "It's not about the food for me as much as the competition," he told AOL News. Chestnut holds six world records for competitive eating, including most hot dogs...

Do the A's Know the Way to San Jose?

After spending the last couple of years working on plans to move the team to nearby Fremont, Calif., the Oakland Athletics announced on Tuesday that, due to complications, they were no longer considering the migration. Of course, just because the team has to stay in Oakland for now, that doesn't mean it is going to be...

Background on San Jose

San Jose (; Spanish: St. Joseph) is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay.

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