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CHP Responds To Claim By Dublin Officer That Nude Photos Often Taken From...
MARTINEZ (CBS SF) — A California Highway Patrol chief spoke out Saturday about the investigation into a Dublin area CHP officer who is accused of sending nude photos of a DUI suspect from her cellphone...
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California Prison K-9 Sniffs Out Cellphones Smuggled To Convicts
VACAVILLE (KPIX 5) — Calfornia prisons are getting help from a four-legged deputy in stopping the constant smuggling of cellphones to convicts. The California Department of Corrections and...
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14 Top Videos Of 2014: Amazing Pit Bull, Bizarre Light, Robots, Racial...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — From racial tensions to robots, heinous crimes to acts of courage, the top 14 videos of 2014 show a powerful snapshot of video news in the San Francisco Bay Area. #14 TOP VIDEO...
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Dublin CHP Officer Avoids Jail Time In Suspects’ Nude Photo Sharing ‘Game’
MARTINEZ (CBS SF) — A former California Highway Patrol officer has avoided jail time for forwarding himself sexually explicit photos from phones owned by female DUI suspects. Prosecutor Barry Grove...
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Santa Clara Supes Approve Controversial Cellphone Tracking Device Known As...
SANTA CLARA (CBS S) — The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s department is getting a controversial cell phone tracking device. It’s called the “International Mobile Subscriber Identity Catcher,” and more...
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SF Woman’s Stolen Smartphone Leads Police To Robbery Suspects
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A woman who was mugged by three suspects in San Francisco’s Portola neighborhood on Tuesday evening was reunited with her cellphone and wallet after the phone was tracked to...
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1,000 Criminal Cases To Be Reviewed In Wake Of Racist, Homophobic Texts Sent...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi estimates as many as 1,000 criminal cases will be reviewed following the racist and homophobic text messages allegedly sent by four...
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Man Posed As Cop Before Stealing Cellphone At Knifepoint In San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Francisco police are seeking a man who pretended to be a police officer and then stole a cellphone at knifepoint in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood on Tuesday. The...
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Santa Clara County Officials Pull The Plug On Stingray Cellphone Tracking...
SAN JOSE (KCBS) – The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department won’t be getting a controversial cellphone tracking system after all. Santa Clara County officials couldn’t reach a contract agreement with...
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Rescuers Use Cellphone Signal To Locate Teen Brother, Sister Clinging To...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A teen brother and sister were rescued when they called for help while clinging to a cliff after tumbling from a scenic lookout in San Francisco’s Lands End park Thursday...
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Your Cellphone May Be Hazardous To Your Child’s Mental Health
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — It seems we’re never without them these days. Cellphones call us, text us, email and entertain us. Now psychologists are telling parents and caregivers to put them down because...
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Lawsuit Puts Berkeley Law Requiring Cellphone Warnings On Hold Saying...
BERKELEY (CBS SF) — A group representing the wireless industry has filed a lawsuit to put Berkeley’s cellphone ordinance on hold, saying it violates the First Amendment. The ordinance, or so-called...
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Judge Upholds Berkeley Cellphone Ordinance To Warn Customers About Radiation
BERKELEY (CBS/AP) — A federal judge has mostly upheld a new Berkeley ordinance that requires cellphone sellers to warn customers about keeping their cellphones too close to their bodies. U.S. District...
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Woman Followed, Chased Down In San Francisco Cell Phone Robbery
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Police are seeking four suspects who allegedly robbed a woman of her cellphone as she walked down a street late Thursday night in San Francisco’s Bayview District. Around 11:40...
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Man Stabbed In Union Square After Refusing To Let Suspect Use His Phone
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – A 49-year-old man was stabbed after he allegedly refused to let another man use his cellphone early Saturday morning near San Francisco’s Union Square. Around 1:10 a.m.,...
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Berkeley’s Cellphone Radiation Warning Law Disputed Before Appeals Court
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Judges on a federal appeals court panel in San Francisco Tuesday questioned two prominent lawyers about whether a Berkeley cellphone warning law is unfairly alarming. The 2015...
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Comcast Launching Cellphone Service In 2017
NEW YORK (AP) — Comcast plans to launch a cellphone service roughly in the middle of next year and appears to be aiming it at areas of the country where it’s the cable provider. That could potentially...
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Amtrak Bans Galaxy Note 7 Phone From Trains And Stations
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – A week after airlines banned the use of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 on flight, Amtrak has followed suit issuing a warning over social media that use of the devices is not permitted...
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New California Law Bans Drivers Handholding Cellphones
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Come Sunday, California drivers will be prohibited from checking maps, adjusting playlists, taking selfies or live-streaming with their phones unless the device is mounted on...
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San Francisco Cellphone Service Shockingly Bad For A Global Tech Capitol
PALO ALTO (KPIX 5) — Dropped calls, slow data and spotty service, all right in the middle of the tech capitol of the world — Silicon Valley. As far as reliability goes for Bay Area cell phone users,...
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Apple Sues Major Supplier Of iPhone Chips
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — Apple is suing mobile chip maker Qualcomm for $1 billion in a patent fight pitting the iPhone maker against one of its major suppliers. The complaint filed Friday in a San...
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Half Moon Bay Employee Allegedly Used Cellphone To Record Women, Kids In...
HALF MOON BAY (BCN) — A man was arrested Saturday following a discovery of a cellphone that was allegedly recording women and children inside a restroom at Jersey Joe’s Coastside in Half Moon Bay, San...
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App Aims To Curb Cellphone Addiction
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — It’s no secret that most of us spend a lot of time glued to our smartphones. Now a new app, Onward, is aiming to curb that addiction. Here’s how it works. Onward monitors how...
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Man Accused Of Stealing Phones From BART Riders In Oakland
OAKLAND (CBS SF) – Police arrested a male suspect Sunday evening after he allegedly stole cellphones from two victims at a BART station in Oakland, police said. At 6:02 p.m., two victims reported that...
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Cellphone, Internet Customers Experience Outages Across U.S.
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Cellphone and Internet customers experienced widespread outages across the U.S. on Monday. according to Downdetector.com, AT&T, Verizon,and Sprint customers were affected....
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Appeals Court Won’t Reconsider Challenge To Berkeley Cellphone Warnings Law
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A federal appeals court in San Francisco Wednesday turned down an industry group’s bid for reconsideration of the group’s challenge to a Berkeley cellphone warning law. The 9th...
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Cellphone EMF-Blocking Products Put In A Real World Test
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Whether or not you’re concerned about the “potential” health effects of the radio frequencies emitted by your mobile devices, the sale of RF-blocking products is quickly...
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Man Shot, Killed In San Leandro Selling Used Cell Phone On ‘Let Go’ App
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — A man using a popular app to sell his cell phone was gunned down in broad daylight in San Leandro Saturday. It happened around 1 p.m. at a gas station just south of the city limits...
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Google’s Phones and Other Gadgets Have Had a Bumpy Ride
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google, which prides itself on developing simple, intuitive software that seems to know what you want almost before you do, is finding itself in a very different world when it...
View ArticleCellphone Radiation Linked To Tumors In Male Rats, Government Study Says
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — High exposure to radiofrequency radiation — the radiation known as RFR and emitted from your cell phone — causes a rare cancer in male rats, according to draft conclusions...
View ArticleNew Samsung Phone: Nicer Camera, Static Design, Higher Price
NEW YORK (AP) — Samsung unveiled new smartphones with largely unchanged designs and incremental improvements such as a better camera — accompanied by a second annual price increase for many customers....
View Article2 Girls Grab Woman’s Cellphone At Lake Merritt BART Station
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Two youths robbed a BART passenger of her cellphone at the Lake Merritt station in Oakland Friday, but officers swiftly nabbed the two, police said. A young woman grabbed a cellphone...
View ArticleJury Says Samsung Must Pay $539 Million for Copying iPhone
SAN JOSE (AP) — A jury has decided Samsung must pay Apple $539 million in damages for illegally copying some of the iPhone’s features to lure people into buying its competing products. The verdict...
View Article‘I Wish My Mom’s Phone Wasn’t Invented’: Child’s Complaint Goes Viral
LOUISIANA (CBS Local) – Second graders at a Louisiana school had some eye-opening critiques of their own parents, according to their teacher’s Facebook post. Elementary school teacher Jen Beason...
View ArticleMayoral Candidate Takes Phone Call From God During Live Debate
KEY WEST, Fla. (CBS Local) – Political debates are known for their heated conversations, but a Florida man had a “conversation” with God while on stage during a Florida mayoral debate. Sloan Bashinsky,...
View ArticleCalifornia Approves Free Cellphones, Internet for Foster Youth
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Young people in California’s foster system will get free cellphones and internet access under a unique program approved Thursday that supporters say will bridge a digital divide. The...
View ArticleNew Evidence In Case Of SFPD Raid On Journalist Questions Search Warrant
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Newly unsealed documents reveal that in seeking court approval to search a man’s cellphone records to uncover who leaked a confidential police report to him, investigators at the...
View ArticleWoman Attacked In Fremont Fast Food Parking Lot; Suspect Arrested
FREMONT (CBS SF) – A man allegedly attacked a woman in a fast food parking lot in Warm Springs and tried to steal her phone, according to Fremont police. It happened on Friday, around 5:42 p.m.,...
View ArticleThousands Of T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint, AT&T Customers Experience Cellphone...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – For more than 10 hours, thousands of T-Mobile cellphone customers in cities across the country were experiencing cellphone outages on Monday. The carrier posted a message on...
View ArticleSF Lawmaker Proposes ‘CAREN’ Act To Outlaw Racially Motivated 911 Calls
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton on Tuesday introduced an ordinance to outlaw racially motivated 911 calls. The Caution Against Racially Exploitative Non-Emergencies, or...
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