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Bay Area Restaurants Skirt Inspection Posting Laws
The Investigative Unit uncovers rules requiring restaurants to post inspections not being enforced up the Peninsula and in San Francisco. Read More
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Inspector General to Audit NASA Agreement
NASA’S Inspector General announced it is initiating an audit to evaluate NASA’s management of its Space Act Agreements with private companies, including, apparently its agreement with a company associated with Google’s principals t... Read More
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State Senator Proposes California Ski Safety Bill
New legislation is being proposed in the wake of an NBC Bay Area investigation. Read More
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Concern For Mountain View Toxic Plume Expanded
High levels of toxic TCE in the air has some residents raising questions Read More
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Moffett Field Toxic Plume Concerns
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) now says the area affected by toxic TCE is larger than initially thought and that the Agency may have missed higher than acceptable levels of TCE in some homes outside the original... Read More
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CA Guard Leader Denies Accusations by Members
Adjutant General David Baldwin finally speaks to the Investigative Unit after declining multiple interview requests from NBC Bay Area and KNBC before and after a series of investigations into the culture of the California National... Read More
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Insiders Say CA Toxic Regulation is Weak
California has some of the strictest anti-pollution laws in the nation but sources in the DTSC say those laws are being ignored. Vicky Nguyen investigates claims of major problems in the Read More
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Alameda County Workers Abusing Disabled Placards
The Investigative Unit spent weeks of surveillance in Oakland and discovered Alameda County workers abusing disabled parking placards to park for free while they work. Read More
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Investigating Animal Deaths on Airplanes
Should you rethink bringing your pet on your next vacation? Read More
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The True Costs of Big Time College Sports at Cal
NBC Bay Area teamed up with the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley to take a close look at the numbers. We discovered that in the last decade, while state funding for UC Berkeley has steadily declined, the... Read More
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“He looked at me and touched me and said, ‘How do you want to better your grade?’” the student said while fighting back tears. “He kept coming closer to me and my body completely shut down. He continued to touch me and try to talk about the ways that I could better my grade.”
—Anonymous San Jose State University Student
—Anonymous San Jose State University Student
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