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The jury deadlocked on three perjury charges, and Judge Susan Illston declared a mistrial on those counts.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/14/MN491IVQ4R.DTL\">BART's Dugger quits with $1 million severance\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Embattled BART General Manager Dorothy Dugger, whose job has been endangered since a vote to fire her in February, resigned on Wednesday after reaching a severance deal worth nearly $1 million. The BART Board of Directors will consider today whether to accept her resignation and ratify the $958,000 settlement, which was negotiated by a committee of directors. 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The crowd, estimated at more than 1,000 people, reflected the lives touched by the 58-year-old restaurateur whose business acumen and dedication to community affairs made him a well-liked figure in the Fruitvale district and beyond.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland/ci_17838828\">Hundreds of Oakland teachers to keep jobs, district announces\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Hundreds of Oakland teachers who received pink slips last month will keep their jobs next year, school district officials announced Wednesday evening. Deputy Superintendent Maria Santos said the administration will not issue any final layoff notices to elementary school teachers or to 17 music teachers as a result of budget cutbacks. 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The installation is expected to generate, at peak production, enough electricity to power 194 average California homes and offset the equivalent emission of 24,278 tons of pollutants over the next 25 years. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_17842481\">Water rates set to increase 9.4 percent in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> (Palo Alto Daily News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Santa Clara Valley Water District's proposal to raise groundwater rates by nearly 60 percent over the next five years are drawing questions from a concerned Los Altos City Council. Council members this week said they wanted to know in particular why customers in the district's north county zone, which encompasses San Jose and cities north of it, are paying drastically more than rural south county users. 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Blocking the entrance to the office of SJSU provost Gerry Selter, the university's top academic official, two dozen students demanded a meeting to ask for his endorsement of Reed's resignation.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_17839084\">PG&E warns more gas pressure reductions could hurt customers\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>PG&E warned state regulators Wednesday that vast numbers of its customers could be harmed if it is forced to reduce the pressure in more of its natural gas pipes. Such reductions could \"result in immediate adverse public health and safety impacts far exceeding any perceived public safety benefit,\" the company cautioned in a report filed with the California Public Utilities Commission. 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