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Fugitive in LA attempted-murder case held in Colo.
LOS ANGELES -; A man who has been wanted in Los Angeles on attempted-murder charges for 13 years has been taken into custody in Colorado after being arrested for urinating in ...
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Hirshhorn director to resign over split with board
WASHINGTON -; The director of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum has announced his resignation after the museum's board declined to move forward with plans to create an inflatable pavilion at the ...
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Appeals court Oks Marin desal study
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -; A state appeals court has okayed an environmental study of a Marin County water district's proposed desalination ...
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Manson disciples tapes being analyzed by LAPD
LOS ANGELES -; Los Angeles police have obtained the decades-old taped conversations between a Manson family disciple and his attorney, officials confirmed ...
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Bill would protect Calif. reporters phone records
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -; State agencies would be required to give journalists five days' notice before they issue subpoenas to a third-party company for telephone records under legislation announced Thursday by a state ...
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Rags to pitching riches Righettis skill sparked debate
Dave Righetti won AL Rookie of the Year and threw a no-hitter as a starter before emerging as a standout closer. (AP) SAN FRANCISCO -- In the evolving history of relief pitching, Dave Righetti spanned eras. By the time Righetti's active Major League playing career ended in 1995, closers usually pitched only a ballgame's final inning. But Righetti routinely was asked to do much more ...
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For Dodgers in-season managerial change is rare
Don Mattingly has a 187-181 career record as Dodgers manager, including 19-26 this season. (AP) LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers have changed managers in midseason because of poor team play just once in the past 111 years. That was 1998, when the News Corp. ownership group that had traded Mike Piazza a month earlier swept out manager Bill Russell and general manager Fred Claire. Russell, who had ...
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Ex-PSU player takes battle vs. bullying to book
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- A former Penn State women's basketball player has taken to writing to resume the anti-bullying efforts she championed off the ...
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California reveals prices for health insurance under Obamacare
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California unveiled prices on Thursday that consumers will pay for a selection of health plans offered through the state under the Affordable Care Act, providing a glimpse into how health care reform may look as it is rolled out across the ...
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Highway 163 Shooter Convicted
Stephen Dragasits, 58, faced his accusers Monday in a preliminary hearing. He allegedly fired -- at random -- a gun at state Route 163 morning traffic on April 25, injuring Ashley Simmons, a University of San Diego student, and striking Jeffrey Lloyd-Jones' ...
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Controlled SR-78 Burn Leads to Spreading Fire
A controlled burn near Highway 78 and the S2 marker spread beyond the prescribed plan Thursday, leading to a large fire, Cal Fire officials ...
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California health exchange includes 13 insurers
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Policyholders will pay anywhere from nothing to $687 a month in insurance premiums under California's health exchange, a program that will involve the participation of 13 carriers who will compete to offer coverage for the nation's most populous ...
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Boy Scouts vote to accept openly gay boys but retain ban on gay adults
GRAPEVINE, Texas -- The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts. Of the local Scout leaders voting at their annual meeting in Texas, more than 60 percent supported the proposal. Under the proposal drafted by the Scouts' governing board, gay adults will remain barred from serving as Scout leaders. ...
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Climate change Do governors actions match his rhetoric
MOUNTAIN VIEW -- The global threat of climate change must be addressed without delay lest we pass a tipping point after which the damage can't be undone, Gov. Jerry Brown told a sustainability technology summit Thursday."What's coming at us is what we ourselves are creating," he said, adding that if action against climate change "is just about like this five years from ...
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Berkeley names new schools chief after difficult search
BERKELEY -- The school board Wednesday night named Donald Evans as the new superintendent to oversee the district after a tumultuous search that took over a year.Evans was not at Wednesday night's meeting where board members unanimously approved his $229,500 salary because he was attending his last school board meeting as superintendent of the Hayward school district which he has overseen ...
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2-day worker walkout ends at UC hospitals
The strike formally ended at 4 a.m. after thousands of hospital pharmacists, nursing assistants, operating room assistants and other health care workers joined the walkout organized by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal ...
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View from the sidelines Why Aetna aint in Covered California exchange
Covered California health benefit exchange, and that met the requirements of the exchange, were "selected" to be in Covered California, according to its statement today and the ones they provided afterward. But what about the health plans that chose not to participate? It's not that they weren't "selected," at least in some notable cases, it's that they ...
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Campbell gobbles up Plum Organics
Campbell Soup Co. is acquiring Emeryville's Plum Organics, a maker of organic baby foods. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, the company said that with the addition of Plum Organics' products, Campbell's portfolio of kid-focused soups, beverages and snacks will have annual sales of more than $1 billion. Baby food is currently a $2 billion category in the United ...
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California awards $36 million for stem cell research leaders
California's stem cell agency has awarded $36 million from the Research Leadership Awards to attract six top stem cell scientists. The stem cell agency, called ...
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Why $1 billion doesnt mean what it used to in Hollywood
Four films from last year joined the billion-dollar club, including "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey." What does that really mean in today's Hollywood? Hint: A lot less than it used ...
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Calif. Bill Would Prohibit Ticket-Buying Software
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Music and sports fans would have one less obstacle in buying tickets to popular events under a bill advancing through the California Legislature. Legislation by Democratic Assemblyman Richard Pan of Sacramento would prohibit the use of robotic ticket-buying software. Supporters of AB329 say scalpers use the software to bombard online box offices and then resell ...
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Homegrown talent An answer to Silicon Valleys STEM shortage Video
If youve heard it once, youve heard it a million times: Silicon Valley has a serious tech talent problem. Microsoft Corp,s can attest to that first hand. We have 6,000 job openings more than half of which are for high tech jobs that we cannot fill, said Sid Espinosa, Microsofts director of corporate citizenship at an event at the tech giants Mountain View campus on Thursday. We have to go ...
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St. Regis San Francisco on market for $140 million
Hoping to ride the profitable wave of recent hotel sales, the San Franciscos St. Regis just landed on the market for a whopping $140 million asking price. With 260 rooms, 46 suites and 15,000 square feet of meeting space, thats in the range of more than $530,000 per key. If the hotel snags a buyer at the suggested price which has been the trend lately it would be the biggest deal in recent ...
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Hungry Burger King now delivers in parts of Sacramento
Forget about going to the drive through lane, now some Sacramentans can get a Whopper delivered. Forget about going to the drive through lane, now Sacramentans can get a Whopper delivered. Sacramento was added today as a new market for Burger Kings BKDelivers program. As many as six Burger Kings in Sacramento are participating delivering food from the fast food giant to residents front ...
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The unanswered question after earnings Will HPs bets pay off
Hewlett-Packard is way up. Is its salvation at hand? Hewlett-Packard Co.'s earnings yesterday weren't great, but the stock price closed up more than 17 percent at $24.86 today. A deeper dive into the financials reveals the reason why: While revenue is slipping in basically every category besides printers, HP has slashed its expenditures, increased its cash flow, paid down debt, and has ...
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San Jose council approves potentially flawed housing development
A housing development in San Jose is becoming increasingly controversial as members of the public have accused the San Jose City Council of violating its own environmental policies with regards to residential developments in the city.
The contention revolved around a 15 acre housing project that will see 89 homes built at the edge of Guadalupe Creek in the south of the city. The site on which the development will take place is a largely underdeveloped area containing, among other things, an unsightly asphalt car park. Read more
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