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Saturday Nov 21, 2009

• Mt. Diablo district hires new schools chief
• Defending NCS Division III football champ Encinal avances in playoffs
• County sheds $3.3 million in library spending
• Garage fire contained in Pittsburg
• Last of Wheeler Hall protesters cited and released at UC Berkeley  

• Gary Peterson: Tim Lincecum's win shows that the Old Cy Young Award standards are taking a WHIP-ping  
• Candid Cam: Lincecum wins Cy again  
• Giants' Tim Lincecum wins second straight NL Cy Young Award  
• Poole: Benching JaMarcus Russell a call for Raiders' quarterback to shape up  
• Inman: Jackson is sent packin'  

• Defending NCS Division III football champ Encinal avances in playoffs
• Mt. Diablo district hires new schools chief
• County sheds $3.3 million in library spending
• Motorist seriously injured in crash into tree
• Garage fire contained in Pittsburg

• Slide show: Week 12 NCS round 1 football playoffs  
• East Bay prep sports scoreboard for Friday, Nov. 20
• Terra Nova rallies
• Serra High's Bravo leads Padres to 38-21 win over Pioneer
• College Park dominant in Valley sweep

• People: Emotional Oprah Winfrey tells fans ending show 'feels right in my bones'
• Review: 'House of the Devil' delivers old-school jitters
• Good tidings: Critics reveal picks for best shows of season
• Renee Fleming: a diva for the masses
• Barney: Oprah's departure -- what does it mean?

• For novices, carving the Thanksgiving turkey easier said than done
• Jaime Richards: More than anything, boys need sense of direction
• Carolyn Hax: I have cancer, he has foot-in-mouth disease
• Bring the touchstones of your heritage into your home, without turning it into a theme park  
• Spin Cycle: Ninja mishap, name research, new words

• More states add jobs, but many temps
• Bay Biz Buzz: Taleo raising $132 million from public stock sale
• Weak demand shutting down refineries
• Study finds few women executives in state
• State unemployment hits record high 12.5%

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: Terror trials will restore Americans' faith in rule of law
• George Skelton: Water still divides California
• Readers' Forum: An evaluation of President Barack Obama's foreign policy
• Readers' Forum: Another battle down in California's water wars
• Your Turn: BART is shortchanging East Contra Costa County

• Teen shot to death through his front door
• See if the IRS has a check waiting for you or your neighbors
• Missing girl's mother looks back on 'remarkable year'  
• After 34 years, death of Oakland woman found in Pleasanton solved
• 19-year-old suspect in Danville killing has criminal past