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‘[I]f Hollywood may host a studio audience or film a singing competition while not a single soul may enter California’s churches, synagogues, and mosques, something has gone seriously awry.’In a Friday night 6-3 injunction responding to emergency petitions from two California churches, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion that California’s restrictions against worship services have gone too far. The court gave a short, unsigned opinion demanding California lift its restrictions on in-person, indoor church services while allowing California to keep banning singing and limiting attendance to 25 percent of church buildings’ capacity. The decision allows churches to present evidence...

So, at least the drag queen story tellers are being honest about who they answer to! A pentagram and Satan’s signature – yeah, we get it. I am so glad that this church leadership had the courage to speak out against the satanic Drag Queen Story Hour. It’s sick and foul, and many of these drag queens have pedophilia listed on their very long rap sheets. “…but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.” Luke 22:53 (KJV) But when I look at photos of these drag queens, the people I am most angry about are the parents of...

Rising water filling up Santa Clara County's Anderson Reservoir, which was 99.3 percent full as of Wednesday, is expected to flow over the dam's spillway as a result of this week's impending storms. Unlike the potentially catastrophic situation with Lake Oroville's emergency spillway, the Anderson Reservoir's operational spillway is not at risk of failure, according to Santa Clara Valley Water District officials. Despite that good news, officials in Santa Clara County are warning residents living along Coyote Creek and near Kelley Park to be on the lookout for potential flooding. Water officials for the past month have been releasing water...

Four McDonald's restaurants in the South Bay are testing out a new sandwich on their menu. It's called the McDonald’s Crab Sandwich. McDonald’s wanted to continue experimenting with local Bay Area flavors just like the garlic fries they introduced back in May. The Crab Sandwich will have snow crab meat on a sliced sourdough bun. When asked why McDonald's is using snow crab and not local Dungeness, McDonald's said: "The McDonald’s sourcing team had to weigh a variety of different factors when they approached how and where they were sourcing crab." The sandwich also comes with celery and seasoned mayo...

McDonald’s is planning to launch a crab sandwich in the San Francisco Bay area. The fast good giant says the sandwich consists of snow crab meat mixed with mayonnaise and served with tomato and lettuce on a sourdough bun. …

MOUNTAIN VIEW (KPIX 5) — A Mountain View high school teacher was kicked out of his classroom and is now getting threats for comparing President-elect Donald Trump to Hitler. Frank Novarro doesn’t know when he’ll be in front of the classroom again after a history lesson he believes was misunderstood. While some are accusing the history teacher of calling Trump a racist by drawing the comparison, he says that didn’t happen. “Because I think that it is historically factual,” says Novarro.

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- South Bay authorities have announced that a coordinated act of vandalism that took down electricity and phone service on Tuesday.

SAN JOSE (KCBS) — Rising gas prices are worrying charities, particularly those that feed people. With gas hitting $4.50 a gallon, it’s a huge additional expense for Bay Area food banks, said Tami Cardenas with the Second Harvest Food Bank in San Jose. “Gas prices directly relate to the Food Bank’s core business because we have a fleet of 28 trucks that acquire and distribute food to the hungry all year long,”she said. “We have seen a 29 percent increase in the cost of diesel since December.” Cardinas said high gas prices have impacted their ability to acquire fruits and...

It was springtime, when ducks usually are headed north. But suddenly Saturday, the ducks ran amok. In two separate incidents, an intrepid California Highway Patrol officer came to the rescue of ducks attempting to waddle across freeways in the South Bay, in defiance of the laws of nature and the California Vehicle Code. Nine fuzzy yellow ducklings were spotted heading southbound down the center divide of Interstate 880 near Milpitas Saturday morning, when Officer Ryan Nelson — something of a fledgling himself, in his first full year with the CHP — rolled onto the scene in his patrol car. When...

About $90 million in stimulus funds will be headed to Santa Clara County, with most of the cash going toward repairing pavement, buying hybrid buses and installing metering lights along Interstate 280 through San Jose. The money was part of the $490 million approved by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission on Wednesday, the first local allocation following the signing of the historic $787 billion stimulus bill last week by President Barack Obama. While there were no high-profile South Bay projects approved for this first infusion of federal money, officials came away feeling they had positioned themselves to capture more money down...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents sent illegal immigrants packing last week when they arrested 107 adults living in the South Bay without proper permits, 87 of whom were immediately deported, according to ICE. The crackdown targeted immigrants living in Watsonville, Santa Cruz and Hollister, 19 of whom remain in the United States pending a hearing before an immigration judge. According to ICE, some of the arrested had received, but ignored, final deportation orders issued by immigration judges whereas others had violated U.S. criminal law. One arrestee was turned over to Fresno police on a recent arrest warrant for allegedly...

SAN JOSE – Five Chinese nationals from the South Bay are in custody this afternoon facing federal charges following the execution of search warrants yesterday targeting 10 unlicensed massage parlors that were allegedly being operated as brothels in San Jose, San Mateo, and Santa Clara. The suspects, who are expected to make their initial appearance in federal court here this afternoon, are charged in a criminal complaint with conspiring to conceal and harbor illegal aliens for financial gain. The arrests and searches are the result of a year-long undercover investigation called “Operation Bad Neighbor” that involved U.S. Immigration and Customs...

In the aftermath of Katrina, officials and residents take a hard look at how prepared we are. Officials drill, coordinate, plan and try to anticipate scenarios. The suffering and devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans is a sobering reminder that the destruction that swept through the Gulf Coast is not so different from what could happen here. Not with floods or hurricanes, but with terrorism or, most likely, earthquakes. In the case of earthquakes, it's not a question of if, but when, where and how bad. In early 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency ranked the top three...

Can it possibly be true? Is Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., really under consideration by the White House as the first director of national intelligence? That's one of the ideas being floated by the administration right now. This would be the most powerful intelligence position ever created in the United States – more powerful that the director of the National Security Agency, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. And who is Jane Harman? She votes with the American Civil Liberties Union 73 percent of the time. She is in favor of federal...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Proclaiming his pride in ``the great partnership I've won with the people,'' Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger celebrated the first anniversary of his election today vowing to defeat two gambling initiatives he warned would be ``disastrous'' for the state if passed. Schwarzenegger pushed for the defeat of Propositions 68 and 70 at a ``town hall'' campaign stop that was actually a carefully screened gathering of Silicon Valley business people and local government officials who have already come out against both measures. Proposition 70 would allow Indian gaming tribes to expand the number of slot machines they can...

<p>President Bush charged Thursday that Democratic rival John Kerry's approach to recent tax cuts would be to "take them away" and use the money to expand the federal government.</p> <p>"I have a better idea: To keep this economy growing and to create jobs, the tax cuts must be permanent," Bush said at a fund-raiser where he banked more than $700,000 for a re-election war chest that already dwarfs Kerry's.</p>

Fractional-American 03/28/2003 5:46 PM PST Update on South Bay rally: http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/profiles?location=53 Unfortunately the Torrance rally is getting too big for its city. The cities in the South Bay that are actual cities and not parts of Hell are really too small and convoluted to handle huge rallies. But we all ought to donate to the guy because he's a vet and he took it on himself to organize this. He says he's looking at parks for future rallies. I donated a bunch of shirts with supportamericamore.com to him to give out (he said they wouldn't be able to sell them,...

<p>A group of South Bay residents who oppose war with Iraq is hopeful that the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors will pass a resolution today declaring its opposition to a unilateral or first strike war.</p> <p>In recent weeks, a group called Cities For Peace has urged local municipalities to pass anti-war resolutions. Nearly 60 cities, from Santa Cruz to Chicago to Baltimore, have done so, and campaigns in other cities are under way.</p>

<p>Mission specialist Kalpana Chawla is shown during a training session in December at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.</p> <p>Flight Engineer, Mission Specialist and former South Bay resident Kalpana Chawla was a gutsy woman with a penchant for exploring, whether it was the remote corners of Earth or outerspace, said high school classmate and Santa Clara University Professor Atulya Sarin.</p>