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Piedmont Burglar confronts residents confines them to bedrooms
PIEDMONT -- Police are searching for a burglar who confronted two residents inside their home on St. James Drive, telling them to remain in bed and under the covers while he searched for valuables.The man, who pried a basement window to get inside the residence on May 16, made off with electronic items and a wallet containing credit cards and identification, police said. No one was hurt.The ...
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Video Calif. teen wins Intel Science Research competition
18 year old Eesha Kha-RAY from Saratoga, Calif., is one of the best young scientists in the world. She received the Young Scientist Award for her research in chemistry. Eesha: "My project, I developed a new supercapacitor, which is basically an energy storage device which can hold a lot of energy in a small amount of volume." Sharon Chin ...
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What produces a bigger economic boost America’s Cup or Super Bowl
What produces a bigger economic boost: sailing or football? The question takes on relevance in the Bay Area because San Francisco will host the America's Cup this July-September. And it appears likely that the NFL on Tuesday will pick Santa Clara to host Super Bowl L in 2016. It turns out that yacht racing may give the region more of an economic lift than football. The America's Cup ...
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40-year-old San Francisco Network Ministries put to rest
A Christmas memorial for the poor and homeless. After more than 40 years, the San Francisco Network Ministries in the Tenderloin is disbanding. However, its many programs which include a number of services for the poor such as computer training, affordable housing and a safe house for women who have worked as prostitutes will live on. Some programs have already been spun off to other ...
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No. Calif. girl 5 dies in fatal rollover crash
Detective Nicole Abetkov says the single-vehicle crash occurred shortly after 8 a.m. Monday when the driver apparently lost control of the SUV as it overturned and came to rest past an ...
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Obama Chinas Xi to meet in June in California
China's newly appointed leader Xi Jinping attends a meeting with a panel of foreign experts'at the Great Hall of the People on December 5, 2012 in Beijing, China. (Ed Jones - Pool, Getty ...
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Senate OKs regulations for medicinal marijuana
Federal prosecutors recently cracked down. They said the industry had become enormously profitable and made marijuana essentially available for recreational ...
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Doors Ray Manzarek dies at 74
FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2012 file photo, Ray Manzarek of The Doors performs at the Sunset Strip Music Festival launch party celebrating The Doors at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, Calif. Manzarek, the keyboardist who was a founding member of The Doors, has died at 74. Publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says in a news release that Manzarek died Monday, May 20, 2013, at the RoMed Clinic in ...
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SD caregivers sentenced in abuse of autistic man
VISTA, Calif. -; Two caregivers convicted of abusing a severely autistic man in San Diego County have been each sentenced to one year in jail, but will get credit for time already ...
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Curiosity rover drills into second Martian rock
The space agency said Monday that Curiosity has bored a hole in a second rock and will transfer a pinch of powder to its onboard laboratories later this week for ...
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5 killed in crash in Ill. van coming from Calif.
This photo from video provided by KMOV-TV in St. Louis shows emergency personnel at the scene near Vandalia, Ill., Monday, May 20, 2013, where a van veered off a southern Illinois highway and overturned several times, killing five people and sending six others to hospitals, authorities said. Details about what caused the crash or who owned the white 2002 Dodge van, which had no decals or ...
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Judge rules workers at UC hospitals can strike
LOS ANGELES -- A judge has ruled that some workers at the five largest University of California medical centers can go on strike for two days starting Tuesday.Sacramento County Superior Court Judge David Brown denied the system's request Monday for a complete injunction against a strike by the union which represents 13,000 nursing assistants, scanning technicians, operating room assistants, ...
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Three Charged with Bank Robbery in Connection with 2012 Hoax Bomb Scenario in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES-Three Los Angeles men have been charged federally for their roles in a bank robbery that occurred in Los Angeles, California, on September 5, 2012, in which a bank employee was outfitted with a hoax explosive device, announced United States Attorney in Los Angeles, Andre Birotte, Jr.; FBI Assistant Director in Charge Bill Lewis; and Huntington Park Police Chief Jorge Cisneros. On ...
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Publicist Founding member of The Doors dies at 74
Publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says Manzarek died Monday at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family. Robinson-Fitzgerald says his manager, Tom Vitorino, confirmed Manzarek died around 3:30 p.m. EDT. He had bile duct ...
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Firefighters Rescue Trapped Window Washers
Aerial views show the workers were closer to the top of the building. Firefighters were able to rescue them using a hoist and both men have made it to the ground ...
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WordPress claims bump up from Tumblr deal
Rival blogging service WordPress claimed late Sunday that its imports from Tumblr shot from roughly 600 posts per hour to 72,000 as news of Tumblr's pending acquisition became known. All Things D cited ...
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Second union to strike UC med centers in sympathy with AFSCME on Tuesday unions face limits
UC Davis Medical Center . The University Professional & Technical Employees/Communications Workers of America Local 9119 represents roughly 3,400 workers at UC medical centers in San Francisco, Davis, Los Angeles, Irvine and San Diego. AFSCME -- the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 -- represents nearly 13,000 patient care workers at the academic ...
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Fremont Bank expands wealth management to compete with Wells Fargo others
Fremont Bank is boosting its wealth management offerings as the Bay Area's largest community banks go up against the region's big banks for affluent clients. Fremont Bank ...
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Yahoos Mayer unveils new Flickr offers more details on Tumblr
Yahoo's new Flickr focuses on big, high-resolution images. Yahoo unveiled a new look to Flickr, and offered up more details on the companys Tumblr acquisition at its press conference today in New York City. The new Flickr, which launched today, is an image-dominant site (think more Pinterest than the blue links and text-heavy pages you're used to), with a new Android interface and 1 ...
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Newsle Inc. raises $1.65 million
Newsle Inc., a San Francisco startup, raised $1.65 million in its first round of venture funding. The company makes software that mines online news for reports about friends or colleagues for users of social networks such as LinkedIn Corp. (NASDAQ: LNKD) or Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB). Two Harvard University computer science students Axel Hansen and Jonah Varon quit school in 2011 to start ...
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Rare island fox rebounds on California island
FILE - This March 4, 2004 file photo shows a Santa Cruz Island fox bred in captivity being held by a wildlife biologist for the National Park Service, on Santa Cruz Island in Channel Islands National Park, Calif. More than a thousand tiny island foxes live free on the largest of the Channel Islands off the Southern California coastline where less than a decade ago only a few dozen remained. The ...
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Calif. bill would strip secrecy from health agency
LOS ANGELES -; Two lawmakers are seeking to strip broad secrecy provisions from the California agency overseeing implementation of President Barack Obama's health care ...
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Impax board steps in to oversee Hayward manufacturing issues
Larry Hsu is president and CEO of generic drug maker Impax Laboratories Inc. Stung by problems at its Hayward manufacturing plant that led federal regulators not to approve a treatment for Parkinson's disease symptoms, Impax Laboratories Inc. established a compliance committee on its board of directors. The FDA's citation of problems at the Hayward plant are important from the standpoint ...
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California robbery case leads Supreme Court to reconsider police search laws
WASHINGTON - A tattooed inmate in one of California’s most remote prisons will now get his moment in the Supreme Court sun, along with a shot at clarifying the rules governing certain law enforcement searches. Beating the legal odds, Los Angeles gang veteran Walter Fernandez succeeded Monday in convincing the court to hear his challenge to an apartment search. Fernandez had objected to ...
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Can Microsofts Xbox Get Hollywood To Help Reinvent Gaming
Xbox will be a technological wonder. The game console will likely connect to other devices. It'll feature that utterly cool hands-free Kinect controller, which may let users wave in the air to communicate online with friends, change TV stations, write texts, or do other marvelous cross-platform things. But I worry it won't matter, because the gaming world doesn't have a hardware ...
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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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