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Bear strolls through California neighborhood
A bear wandered through a community outside of Los Angeles this morning for more than an hour before being tranquilized by officers. TODAY.com's Dara Brown ...
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Republican wins Central Valley state Senate race
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A Republican has won a hotly contested state Senate contest in the southern San Joaquin Valley, with his top Democratic rival conceding Wednesday that the race will not go to a ...
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5 dead in Ill. van crash part of Christian group
VANDALIA, Ill. (AP) -- Five Baltimore men killed when their van careened off of a southern Illinois freeway and overturned several times were members of a Christian ministry returning from a weeklong international conference in ...
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Sutter Health gives $150000 to Oklahoma tornado relief
Sutter Health CEO Pat Fry. Sutter Health, which runs many of the Bay Area's biggest hospitals and medical groups and is under fire in the East Bay from a California Nurses Association strike said Wednesday it has donated $150,000 to Oklahoma tornado relief. The donation was made "this morning" to the American Red Cross's Capital Region Chapter in Sacramento, Sutter said in a ...
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US Air Force test-launches Minuteman 3 missile in California delayed by North Korea tensions
An image provided by Vandenberg Air Force Base shows an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile being launched during an operational test Wednesday May 22, 2013, from Launch Facility-4 on Vandenberg AFB, Calif. The U.S. Air Force launched this unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from a California base, a month after the test flight was postponed because of tensions with ...
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Los Angeles voters limit number of medical marijuana clinics
In this photo taken Tuesday, May 14, 2013, Medical marijuana vials are displayed at the Venice Beach Care Center medical marijuana dispensary in Venice, Calif. Los Angeles politicians have tried and failed for so long to regulate medical marijuana that it was only a matter of time before voters got a chance to control shops that have ...
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Economic impact from Super Bowl 50 will be
Super Bowl 50 organizers are not tossing around any precise economic impact figures for the 2016 event -- and that is probably a smart PR tactic. As the Bay Area saw with the America's Cup, when precise figures are bandied about, it can be a recipe for disappointment. When San Francisco was trying to attract the America's Cup, a widely-touted study estimated that the region could see ...
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UC San Franciscos Joseph Castro tapped as Fresno State president
John Welty , who has been Fresno State's president since 1991, in August. He has been vice chancellor at UCSF since 2010, and was vice provost before that from 2008 to 2010. From 2006 to 2008, Castro was associate vice chancellor for student academic affairs. Before coming to UCSF, Castro worked all over the University of California system at campuses in Berkeley, Davis, Merced and Santa ...
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15 arrested in connection with marijuana smuggling ring tied to California
Harford County Task Force into a marijuana smuggling ring based in Harford with ties to California. The investigation, which began in 2010 and ended in October 2012, resulted in the seizure of 140 pounds of marijuana, 20 guns, 14 vehicles and more than $140,000 in cash, according to a press release from the Harford County Sheriff's Office. "Drug operations know no boundaries," ...
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Atmel Corp. makes interim CFO Skaggs permanent
Atmel Corp. made its interim Chief Financial Officer, Steve Skaggs, permanent CFO. Skaggs has had the interim job since April 2, when he replaced Stephen Cumming, who told Atmel March 27 he was leaving. The San Jose company (NASDAQ: ATML) lost its controller a week before that, when Jamie Samath, who was Atmel's principal accounting officer, said March 20 that his last day would be April ...
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Zoosk tops $40 million in first quarter
Zoosk co-founders and co-CEOs Shayan Zadeh and Alex Mehr. Zoosk, the Internet dating service, boasted Wednesday that revenue had topped $40 million in the first quarter, a record set just as the company is celebrating five years in business. Founded in 2007 by Alex Mehr and Shayan Zadeh, the San Francisco company, saw a 116 percent increase in monthly total unique visitors compared to the same ...
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Legacy Partners buys big RREEF offering in Santa Clara for rumored $100M
Marriott Business Park just sold to Legacy Partners from Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management. In the latest sign of red-hot investor interest here, an affiliate of Legacy Partners has picked up Marriott Business Park, a 12-building office park in Santa Clara just a skip away from the new Levi's Stadium. Foster City-based Legacy closed on the 427,500-square-foot campus that sprawls along ...
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Los Angeles calls upon star French designers for Figaro opera
By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES | Wed May 22, 2013 1:01pm EDT LOS ANGELES May 22 (Reuters) - Count Almaviva, muscles bulging and resplendent in white, struts like a peacock across the stage belting his baritone at his countess, who sits in a flowing red gown against a sparse backdrop of sleek, modernist lines. It is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro." But unlike ...
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Police Pastor arrested on sex-assault charges
FORT WORTH, Texas -; A pastor in Virginia has been arrested in the wake of claims by two women that he sexually assaulted them as juveniles in North ...
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6 plead not guilty in SF school embezzlement case
SAN FRANCISCO -; Six current and former San Francisco school district employees have pleaded not guilty to charges that they embezzled $15 million in grant money from the school ...
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Calif. postal worker sentenced in mail theft
SAN CARLOS, Calif. -; A San Francisco Bay area postal worker accused of stealing thousands of pieces of mail to obtain credit cards has been sentenced to 18 months in ...
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TiVo loses only $10 million in first quarter
Thomas Rogers, TiVo TiVo Inc. saw its stock price jump this week even after it reported a loss of $10.3 million in the first quarter. How is that possible? It's because the television recording technology company didn't lose the $16 million to $19 million it had expected to lose. TiVo also added some 277,000 subscribers in the quarter, the most in any quarter for seven years. The San ...
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Oakland man who posed as an FBI agent arrested for violating probation
SAN FRANCISCO -- Federal authorities recently arrested a Hayward man for violating his probation after he impersonated an FBI officer and want to know if the public has ever come into contact with him while he pretended to be an agent.Max Joseph Plog-Horowitz, 21, who often goes by the alias "Max Heartmann" was convicted of charges including impersonating a federal officer on March 25 ...
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Family friends search for Emeryville man who vanished after Bay to Breakers race
SAN FRANCISCO -- The mystery surrounding an Emeryville man who vanished after running Bay to Breakers on Sunday only deepened Tuesday, as family and friends from as far away as Oregon and San Diego arrived to hunt for clues but found no sign of the 27-year-old.No John Does at hospitals matched Beau Rasmussen. A search of jails turned up nothing, as did an extensive search of the coastline from ...
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Netflixs Ted Sarandos Reveals His Phase 2 for Hollywood
Algorithms, deep pockets and a disdain for the existing TV model as the chief content officer reveals why the agent who talked about their budgets was "remarkably ill-informed," and countering "the managed dissatisfaction of the entire entertainment ...
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San Francisco Bay Area awarded ’16 Super Bowl
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
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Edison CPUC Reach $37M Settlement on Southern California Fire
The California Public Utilities Commission has reached a proposed $37 million settlement with Southern California Edison over fallen power lines blamed for starting the October 2007 Malibu Canyon Fire. Santa Ana winds knocked three jointly owned utility poles to the ground, sparking the fire that burned 6 square miles, destroyed dozens of structures and burned 36 vehicles. The agreement deals ...
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Intercontinental missile test-launched in Calif.
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -; The U.S. Air Force launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from a California base on Wednesday, a month after the test flight was postponed because of tensions with North ...
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Orange accelerator startup AlephCloud raises $7.5M
AlephCloud, led by CEO Jieming Zhu, raised $7.5 million in funding. AlephCloud Systems Inc., a startup that offers technology to manage content privacy and keep track of where it came from in public clouds, said it raised $7.5 million on Wednesday. The Sunnyvale startup founded by Jieming Zhu and Roy DSouza said the funding was led by Handbag LLC, a new venture firm created by former Crosspoint ...
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ScaleMatrix Joins Dell for Cloud Computing Services
Cloud computing is software and computer storage marketed as a utility. Software and storage are located off a client’s premises and accessed via the ...
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California prison labor?
California has a famously large budget deficit, budget cuts are being made to a number of state programs and services, but what hasn’t been considered is the cost avoidance potential of the state’s over 40,000 minimum-security prisoner’s, many of whom are already saving the state money by providing labor in return for shorter sentences.
With California budget deficit expected to be somewhere between $12 billion or as high as $25 billion for 2010 alone, state legislators have been anxiously looking for ways to reduce state expenses, cutting budgets wherever possible, but already existing programs operated by the state may present an opportunity for cost-savings in the areas of construction, services and maintenance of buildings and amenities. Read more
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