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The Mercury News - Top Stories

Fact check: Trump makes false claims about the economy, elections and crime in State of the Union

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Report: Three of six Tahoe avalanche survivors buried in snow before rescue

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Before-and-after: See how huge snow storms transformed the Sierra Nevada in just a few days

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End of storm series may be last Bay Area rain for a while

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Police: Two killed in shooting at West San Jose shopping center

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Valley Water CEO Rick Callender sexually harassed employees, investigation finds

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Hundreds of residences poised to replace Sunnyvale tech buildings

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GoFundMe for Eric Dane's kids stirs debate about celebrity privilege

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De La Salle cancels first five baseball games for conduct violations

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Co-defendant pleads guilty in San Jose daycare drownings

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Horoscopes Feb. 25, 2026: Rashida Jones, make this a year to reflect

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Californians finally get a guide to deciphering state's school data dashboard

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Asking Eric: We gave a homeless man $200, and I didn't foresee how he'd spend it

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Harriette Cole: Should it worry me that he's old enough to be my dad?

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Crime and Public Safety

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Newark records its first traffic fatality of the year

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Man takes plea deal, sentenced in 2024 Juneteenth mass shootout near Lake Merritt

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Man unloading truck killed when hit by vehicle in San Leandro

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El Cerrito: Teen rape suspect agrees to six-year prison term

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Hat trick! Los Gatos' Abby Nelson nets three goals as Wildcats romp past Mitty to reach CCS title game

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CCS basketball playoffs: Best of Tuesday's quarterfinals

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'They counted us out': Granada uses late run to beat Amador Valley, advances to NCS D1 title game

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NCS soccer playoffs 2026: Tuesday's scores, upcoming schedule

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Homes might sprout on South Bay site of closed Fry's Electronics store

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East Bay tech and industrial buildings land buyer

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San Jose office building becomes Silicon Valley success story

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A proposal to exempt homeowners ages 60 and older from property taxes could cost local governments billions

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How the Golden State Warriors' senior dancers became fan favorites

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Photos: San Jose's Vietnamese community celebrates Tet

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Bodies of all nine skiers killed in Tahoe-area avalanche retrieved

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Hip to be square dancing: A once-flourishing scene rises again in the Bay Area

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Officials mark completion of $20 million salt pond restoration in Mountain View

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The women the mountain took: Mothers, mentors remembered after Castle Peak avalanche

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Avalanche near Castle Peak: What we know so far about the deadliest slide in California history

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After decades under private ownership, Safari West to become nonprofit

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As 'Dances With Wolves' actor Nathan Chasing Horse faced justice, these two Bay Area women built a network of survivors

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Bay Area's own Alysa Liu wins gold at Milan Cortina Olympics with remarkable free skate

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Son of Bay Area sports broadcasting icon finds hoop dreams at his dad's South Bay alma mater

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Redwood forest once owned by the 'King Tut of Hoarders' is added to famed Santa Cruz Mountains state park

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Miss Manners: Do I have to tell angry customers my last name?

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Dear Abby: She crosses the line with my boyfriend, and I get called clingy

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Today in History: February 25, Dictator flees the Philippines after 20 years of rule

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Smits, De Jesús bring more than star power to stage classic in Berkeley

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Lotus and Lime brings Thai, Vietnamese flavors to Bay Area hubs

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Marin's infamous Silver Peso begins new chapter

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Here's the best place in California to see whales

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This lamb stew will transport you to a warm, far-flung destination

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Barabak: Eight candidates, four minutes to run for California governor. Ready, go!

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Opinion: In all the uproar over Epstein, remember the victims

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Letters: Time to give keys to governor's mansion to another party

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Letters: All should do their parts to save Bay Area transit

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Facebook researchers previously proposed studying whether features were 'addictive,' documents show

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Supreme Court ruling against Trump's tariffs is unlikely to mean an end to trade policy chaos

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Waymo to debut in biggest Texas cities after New York setback

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Meta to spend billions of dollars on AMD gear, buy stock

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Robert Carradine dies at 71; 'Revenge of the Nerds' and 'Lizzie McGuire' star was member of notable Hollywood family

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A visual guide to the evidence in the Nancy Guthrie investigation

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Black BAFTA juror quits after on-air racial slur incident

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Hilary Duff mourns TV dad Robert Carradine, who died by suicide

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Sale closed in San Jose: $2.4 million for a single-family home

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Four-bedroom home in Milpitas goes for $1.3 million

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Single-family home in Milpitas goes for $1.2 million

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Single-family home in Alameda goes for $840,000

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