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A marine salvage company has recovered the fuselage of a plane and the body of its pilot, who crashed into San Francisco Bay over the weekend after a midair collision. The body of the pilot could be seen in the wreckage of the Cessna 210, which plunged into the water on Sunday. Contra Costa County Sheriff’s spokesman Jimmy Lee confirmed that the body was “clearly visible,” and he asked members of the media not to show images of the victim, whose name has not been released.

Recently laid off? Don't despair. The job of a lifetime awaits you on a windswept island lost in time. Or at least lost in the fog. A Richmond nonprofit is looking for a couple to serve as lighthouse keepers on East Brother Island, a 1-acre rock in San Pablo Bay. The winning applicants will keep tabs on the flashing Fresnel light and a pair of foghorns, and will run the inn housed in the 1874 lighthouse, which still has a functioning Coast Guard light. "We've loved it out here," said outgoing lighthouse keeper Elan Stewart, 30, who's held the job...