The high-rise boom has gone quiet, and a new challenge faces San Francisco: deciding what to do with land cleared for towers that may not rise for another decade -- if at all. John King

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Employees and patrons were evacuated today from a clothing store on Market Street in downtown San Francisco after smoke poured from a manhole cover. Erin Allday

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Curtis Dean Anderson, who died in prison after kidnapping two young girls and murdering one of them a decade ago, also kidnapped and killed a 7-year-old girl who disappeared from in front of her Pinole home in 1988, authorities said. Henry K. Lee

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• S.F. homicides fall as police flood tough areas
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• Santa Clara shootout claims life of armed suspect | Crime

President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev struck a preliminary deal to reduce their nations' stockpiles of nuclear warheads to as few as 1,500 each.

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• Honduras slides toward greater instability | World

Robert S. McNamara, the cerebral secretary of defense vilified for his role in escalating the Vietnam War, a disastrous conflict he later denounced as "terribly wrong," died at age 93.

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Charles Reed has retained high-priced lobbyists without competitive bidding -- even though CSU has an office where it runs an in-house lobbying unit. Jim Doyle

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• Governor, lawmakers still negotiating on budget
• Joe Montana scores $47 million in state bonds | Politics