There was a time when there was competition among multiple news services. Now there’s mostly AP. We don’t really have multiple papers — we have multiple papers who copy/paste stories from AP.
In San Francisco, there's the SF Chronicle. Nothing else other than neighborhood fluff. At one time we had the Call, Bulletin, Examiner, and a few other papers that competed in San Francisco with world news stories. The Chron just copies and pastes as you say. Their articles trail the Internet by several days time.