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Sacramento gas prices creep near $4
The average price of a gallon of regular gas in Sacramento is $3.998, compared to $3.982 last week. Gas prices continued to rise in the Sacramento region, hovering close to the $4 mark. The average price of a gallon of regular gas is $3.998, compared to $3.982 a week ago, according to the AAA Fuel Gauge Report. Thats an increase of 1.6 cents, and still 16.4 cents more than last month. A year ...
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Gunfire hits California home killing 10-year-old girl watching TV
A 10-year-old girl watching television was killed in a burst of gunshots fired at her family's North Highlands, Calif., home, police said. Elvira Campos died and her parents, Ernesto Campos and Imelda Tinoco, were injured and expected to recover, The Sacramento (Calif.) Bee reported Monday. "All the people injured were innocent victims," said Scott Swisher, a Sacramento County ...
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Target goes tech-hunting in San Francisco
Target Corp. has opened an office in San Francisco, where it plans to scout for tech talent to build its e-commerce and mobile technology efforts. Reuters reports that Target had hired David Newman to run its Technology Innovation Center, which will seek out other tech companies that can help Targets tech ventures, like speeding up its website or improve the shopping experience for ...
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Oscars Very Mexican Food getting ready to re-open Sacramento location
Oscar's Very Mexican Food at 3061 Freeport Blvd. will re-open its fully remodeled Sacramento location in June. Oscars Very Mexican Food at 3061 Freeport Blvd. will re-open its fully remodeled Sacramento location in June. The restaurant closed its Sacramento location in November as it did a complete renovation of the small stand into a restaurant. During the renovation, the kitchen crew has ...
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Bay to Breakers Just a thin shadow of Boston attack
SAN FRANCISCO -- Beefed-up security in response to last month's Boston Marathon bombings didn't deter tens of thousands from reveling in San Francisco's most spirited footrace Sunday.Berkeley resident Kenneth Prochnow, 62, ran his 28th Bay to Breakers wearing a "Boston Strong" T-shirt, one of many that could be spotted in the sea of colorful costumes and birthday ...
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BP cleared to sell California oil refinery
BP has take "a significant step" toward selling a California oil refinery and regional retail networks to Tesoro Corp. after getting U.S. federal approval. BP said ...
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10-year-old killed after gunmen shoot into Calif. home
Authorities were searching for at least two gunmen who walked up to the door of a Northern California home and opened fire, killing a 10-year-old girl and injuring her parents. "Whoever these gunmen were, they were directly outside the front door," Sacramento County sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Jason Ramos said Sunday. "This was not a drive-by. These gunmen approached the house ...
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San Francisco Travel Association Announces New Marketing Representation In Japan
The San Francisco Travel Association, in partnership with San Francisco International Airport (SFO), has retained AVIAREPS Marketing Garden Ltd. (AMG) as their new marketing representation office in Japan. San Francisco Travel and SFO first retained representation services in Japan in 1987, making San Francisco one of the first cities in the U.S. to have an office in Tokyo. In 2000, a ...
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Effective Immediately All Semi-Automatic Pistols Sold In California to Require “Micro Stamp” Ballistic Identification
Shftplan May 20, 2013 In a controversial move that some believe will essentially lead to a de facto ban on semi-automatic handguns, Attorney General Kamala Harris announced that, effectiveimmediately,all new semi-automatic firearms sold in the State of California will require a unique microstamp on every shell ejected when a gun is fired. Microstamping, or ballistic imprinting, is a ...
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Calif. Law To Require Ships To Cut Pollution
California is about to become the first state to require shore power at its ports. A new law mandates at least half of a shipping line's fleet to shut down their diesel engines and plug into shore-side electric power when they unload their cargo. It's part of a larger effort to cut pollution at the state's busiest ports, but costs have been a sticking ...
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Cartel towns pose challenge for immigration reform
The political debate over immigration focuses on jobs and border security, but the wounds of broken bonds are inescapable in cities like El Paso, ...
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American Friends Service Committee California Becomes First State to Condemn Use of Torture in War on Terror
California Becomes First State to Condemn Use of Torture in 'War on Terror' SACRAMENTO, CA - August 14 - The California Legislature today adopted a resolution aimed at preventing California health professionals from engaging in coercive interrogations of detainees at ...
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Center for Biological Diversity California Court Rules Land-use Decisions Must Address Global Warming Plans for Palmwood Mega-Resort Thrown Out
California Court Rules Land-use Decisions Must Address Global Warming: Plans for Palmwood Mega-Resort Thrown Out INDIO, California - August 8 - In response to a lawsuit from the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club, a California court has rejected a proposal to build a controversial luxury resort and golf course because the ...
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Equality California Legislature Approves Harvey Milk Day
Bill Authored by Assemblymember Leno, Sponsored by EQCA, Honors One of ...
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See The San Francisco Symphony Perform Outdoors
Catch the San Francisco Symphony performing at the new America's Cup Pavilion on July 20th. It's the Best of Tchaikovsky performance with violinist Nicola ...
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Foodie Chap With Chef Renee Cade of The Palace Hotel San Francisco
Chef Renee Cade’s diverse background has inspired her innovative pastry style. The daughter of a diplomat, she was born in Japan and moved to Hawaii at a young age. As a child she used to cook with her mother in their family kitchen. Renee’s mother was an excellent cook who loved to try new recipes. Renee was a finicky eater as a child, but her mother always encouraged her to taste ...
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Silicon Valley-areas Fremont becomes booming factory town
FREMONT, California -- In a busy factory, machinists move sheets of aluminum roll in the back door to be molded, stamped, twisted and notched into high-tech electric cars that sell for more than US$60,000 ...
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Freight train derailed in Southern California with no injury
A freight train derailed on Wednesday afternoon near Palmdale in Southern California, with nearby residents evacuated, local authorities said.Although nobody had been injured, authorities were "initiating evacuations" as the wreckage raised concerns about a possible chlorine leak from one or more of the overturned carriages, Inspector Matt Levesque of the Los Angeles County Fire ...
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Driver ditches car on LA freeway as passenger dies
LOS ANGELES -; Police say two women were driving on one of Southern California's busiest freeways when one of them died and the other abandoned the car with her body still in ...
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Bacon Bacon On SNL Weekend Update Parodies San Francisco Controversy
forced to shut down Friday after complaints about its potent smell. Turns out it isn't just fanatic locals who care. The news made it all the way to SNL, with Amy Poehler making a crack about pork and police during ...
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12 songs San Diegos mayor played on the radio Sunday night
Filner squeezed a dozen songs in between as many anecdotes, including one story about how Carole King sang one of her standards in his presence for Cuban President Fidel Castro. He also revealed that he and his fiancee Bronwyn Ingram have a song, and joked that Ringo Starr is a "little better" at ...
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Grabavoy powers RSL to 4-1 win over Chivas
CARSON, Calif. -; Ned Grabavoy scored in the fourth and 91st minutes and Real Salt Lake beat Chivas USA 4-1 on Sunday night to win for the third time in four ...
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N. Calif. woman suspected of sparking wildfire
MARTINEZ, Calif. -; Police say they have arrested a woman they say took a lighter to a hillside in the San Francisco Bay Area and sparked a brush ...
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Wildfire near Yosemite destroys home buildings
State fire officials in Madera County say the fire at Yosemite Lakes Park broke out shortly after 3 p.m. Sunday and quickly grew to 91 acres, burning one home and threatening 40 other homes and ...
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Levi Leipheimer announces retirement from cycling
SANTA ROSA, Calif. -; American Levi Leipheimer says he retired from professional cycling when his six-month ban for doping violations ended March 1 and he was unable to sign with a new ...
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Hunter's Point redevelopment going forward
Hunter’s Point and the redevelopment project for the idle shipyard may or may not see a neglected part of the city transformed into a upward moving residential and commercial suburb, but the effort will be a long and costly process.
The Hunter’s Point project is an ambitious plan to redevelop a former naval shipyard and make it one of the premier residential and commercial areas of the city of San Francisco, it will cost a fortune at a time when housing prices are down and will throw up many hurdles for the company, Lennar Corporation, undertaking the project. Read more
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