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Kevin Rand and Lindsay Bryant
Issue date: 1/23/08 Section: News
'ROID RAID
Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens headlined the names of the Major League Baseball players implicated in Sen. George Mitchell's steroid investigation.
The Mitchell Report listed more than 90 current and former professional baseball players alleged to have taken illegal, performance-enhancing drugs over the past two decades.
--The New York Times
STORM HITS NOR CAL
The biggest storm in two years drenched Northern California earlier this month, causing floods and power outages for more than one million Bay Area residents.
Winds reportedly reached hurricane-force speeds.
--San Jose Mercury News
WHAT'S IN A NAME
Hundreds of Vietnamese-Americans protested in front of San Jose's City Hall, calling for councilwoman Madison Nguyen's resignation.
Nguyen voted to name a strip of mostly Vietnamese-owned businesses "Saigon Business District" despite the demand from many of her constituents to call the area "Little Saigon."
--San Jose Mercury News
SANTA CLARA OKS 49ERS STADIUM TALKS
The Santa Clara City Council voted 6-1 in favor of beginning negotiations with the San Francisco 49ers about building a stadium near Great America.
Officials are scheduled to begin talks on a "term sheet" that would set out terms for a binding agreement that most likely would be put to a vote of city residents.
--San Jose Mercury News
FIRE HITS DOWNTOWN
A fire fueled by a natural gas leak ripped through a historic building and city landmark under renovation in downtown San Jose early in the early morning of Jan. 18.
No one was inside the building at First and San Fernando streets when the fire began, and no injuries were reported.
Power to the Valley Transit Authority light rail system was shut down at 2 a.m. that Thursday.
Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens headlined the names of the Major League Baseball players implicated in Sen. George Mitchell's steroid investigation.
The Mitchell Report listed more than 90 current and former professional baseball players alleged to have taken illegal, performance-enhancing drugs over the past two decades.
--The New York Times
STORM HITS NOR CAL
The biggest storm in two years drenched Northern California earlier this month, causing floods and power outages for more than one million Bay Area residents.
Winds reportedly reached hurricane-force speeds.
--San Jose Mercury News
WHAT'S IN A NAME
Hundreds of Vietnamese-Americans protested in front of San Jose's City Hall, calling for councilwoman Madison Nguyen's resignation.
Nguyen voted to name a strip of mostly Vietnamese-owned businesses "Saigon Business District" despite the demand from many of her constituents to call the area "Little Saigon."
--San Jose Mercury News
SANTA CLARA OKS 49ERS STADIUM TALKS
The Santa Clara City Council voted 6-1 in favor of beginning negotiations with the San Francisco 49ers about building a stadium near Great America.
Officials are scheduled to begin talks on a "term sheet" that would set out terms for a binding agreement that most likely would be put to a vote of city residents.
--San Jose Mercury News
FIRE HITS DOWNTOWN
A fire fueled by a natural gas leak ripped through a historic building and city landmark under renovation in downtown San Jose early in the early morning of Jan. 18.
No one was inside the building at First and San Fernando streets when the fire began, and no injuries were reported.
Power to the Valley Transit Authority light rail system was shut down at 2 a.m. that Thursday.
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Barry Bonds Case
posted 1/23/08 @ 5:44 PM PST
I find it interesting that Bonds is getting questioned so much about lying in the BALCO scandal. I believe that if they had evidence enough to convict him it would have surfaced years ago. (Continued…)
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