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This undated publicity photo released by Netflix shows Will Arnett, left, and Jason Bateman in a scene from "Arrested Development," premiering May 26, 2013 on Netflix. (AP Photo/Netflix, Michael ...
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Silicon Valley Scoops 49ers COO three big deals exclusive video Video
Big week for scoops and exclusives. Super Bowl L is coming to town! We measure our newsroom by how many exclusive stories we deliver. Thats a high bar that gets higher when a huge event like the Super Bowl lands in a newsrooms backyard. This week we told our readers what landing the Super Bowl in 2016 means to Silicon Valley faster and with greater breadth and depth than the competition. Our ...
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Mexican Mafia Member Sentenced in Racketeering Conspiracy
United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced that Mexican Mafia member Salvador Nicola Colabella was sentenced today by United States District Judge Anthony J. Battaglia to serve 262 months in federal prison based on his August 9, 2012 plea to RICO conspiracy charges, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1962(d). Colabella has been in custody since his arrest on January 25, ...
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Sacramento Woman Indicted for Sex Trafficking a Minor
SACRAMENTO, CA-A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment on Thursday charging Shanntaye Ebony Hicks, 23, of Sacramento, with one count of sex trafficking of a minor and two counts of transportation of a minor, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. According to the indictment, between March 4, 2013 and March 23, 2013, Hicks maintained a minor female victim by means of ...
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Suspect Fatally Shot in SWAT Search
Officials said a search for a robbery suspect began around noon at multiple places throughout the neighborhood, including 7415 Gatewood Ln., 495 Meadowbrook, Woodbridge Way and Hightree Street. Officers looked for a car robbery suspect who they said was armed and ...
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America’s Cup wanted to be like NASCAR — too much
America's Cup officials likened their upcoming San Francisco races to NASCAR on the water. And as it turned out, it is more like NASCAR than they might like. Just as the 2001 race-related death ...
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19115 anime fanatics descend on San Jose for FanimeCon Video
Notice more people in costumes milling around downtown San Jose? FanimeCon is in town, the annual convention celebrating all Japanese animated characters. Here two attendees waiting in a really long registration line tell Managing Editor Shana Lynch what they're looking forward to this weekend. Crowds lined up outside the Fairmont San Jose to register for this year's FanimeCon. If you ...
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Pharmaceutical co. ISTA pleads in NY federal case
BUFFALO, N.Y. -; Drug-maker ISTA (IS'-tah) Pharmaceuticals has pleaded guilty in New York in a federal case involving its eye drug Xibrom (ZY'-brum) and has agreed to pay more than $30 ...
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Bill would require correct ID in debt-collections
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -; Debt collectors would have to make sure they are going after the right person under a bill working its way through the ...
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Company Bay Bridge bolts made to exact specs
OAKLAND, Calif. -; An executive with an Ohio manufacturer has said steel bolts used on a troubled new span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge were made exactly to ...
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Funeral planned for slain Calif. girl shot in home
NORTH HIGHLANDS, Calif. -; Funeral services are being planned for a 10-year-old Northern California girl who was killed when gunmen fired a barrage of bullets into her family's home while she was drawing and watching ...
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LA sanitation ends plans for dump near Joshua Tree
LOS ANGELES -; Los Angeles County's sanitation districts are no longer pursuing plans to build a 4,000-acre landfill near Joshua Tree National Park on former mine ...
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NHP seizes 159 lbs. pot from I-80 moving truck
WINNEMUCCA, Nev. -; The Nevada Highway Patrol has seized more than 150 pounds of marijuana from the driver of a moving truck stopped on Interstate 80 near ...
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Arellano Felix drug cartel leader pleads guilty
FILE - This image provided by Mexico's Federal Public Safety Department, SSP, shows wanted drug-kingpin Eduardo Arellano Felix, leader of the Tijuana-based Arellano Felix cartel, who is expected to plead guilty to federal charges Friday, May 24, 2013. Felix was extradited from Mexico to the United States last September on drug trafficking, money laundering and racketeering charges. He ...
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Smoke from California wildfire could drift to Las Vegas
Friday, May 24, 2013 | 12:36 p.m. An air quality advisory has been issued for this weekend because of concerns about smoke from a Southern California wildfire making its way into the Las Vegas Valley. The fire started after what was supposed to be a controlled burn got out of control and has impacted about 800 acres in San Diego County. The Clark County Department of Air Quality issued the ...
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Unexpected Health Insurance Rate Shock-California Obamacare Insurance Exchange Announces Premium Rates
English: Barack Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at the White House (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Every now and again, a political pundit is required to stand up and admit to the world that he or she got it wrong. For me, this would be one of those moments. For quite some time, I have been predicting that Obamacare would likely mean higher insurance rates in the ...
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77 Percent of Los Angeles Voters Call For Overturning Citizens United
endorse state and federal amendments overturning the decision , with an overwhelming 76.6 percent in favor of the resolution. The nation’s second-largest city now ...
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Valley vintner gets weird on Tim Cooks tax problems
A toast to Tim Cook. Gilroy winery owner Thomas Kruse raises a glass in a photo for the winery's newsletter. Talk about seizing on current events for a little off-color company marketing. The Internet was consumed earlier this week with Apple CEO Tim Cook's appearance before a Senate committee to talk U.S. tax-dodging with overseas subsidiaries, particularly in Ireland (read more about ...
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Gordon Rees Oakland lease First sign of S.F. flight
Gordon & Rees LLP is expanding with a new Oakland office at 1111 Broadway in City Center -- a sign that a spillover from San Francisco is coming east. The firm leased the entire 17th floor, about 24,000 square feet, to house 120 employees who will move from its headquarters at 275 Battery St. in San Francisco's Financial District. The workers moving to Oakland include its ...
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Once controversial Cathedral Hill hospital gets quiet OK from planners
St. Luke's Hospital rebuild, now that city officials and California Pacific Medical Center have settled on a compromise and buried the hatchet. The Planning Commission ...
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Googles next moonshot High-altitude wind startup Makani
super fantastic story , Bloomberg Businessweek today reported that Google X, Google's lab for wild and crazy inventions such as Google Glass (wearable computer glasses) and Google's self-driving car, is also buying Makani Power. Makani makes high-altitude wind power generating devices that use unmanned, ultralight planes tethered much like a kite to a tall base to capture wind energy ...
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Restaurant roundup creole creations grass-fed butter more ramen
This week's Bay Area restaurant scene saw more action in Berkeley, where a creole joint leaves little to be desired and a new coffee joint shows how local is really done. In the South Bay, Patxi's Pizza goes above and beyond its service requirements with a three-wheeled pick-up service for patrons. Here's this week's restaurant ...
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Bay Areas best-selling food and drinks
Hungry? Thirsty? Check out some of the top-selling products of local Bay Area food producers. Check out this week's top 25 list of the Largest Food and Beverage Manufacturers in the Bay Area, which can be found in this week's print edition of the San Francisco Business Times. Companies revealed some of their bestselling products. Our slideshow at right shows a few of the ...
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Phil Matier Santa Clara In Shadow Of San Francisco’s Super Bowl Spotlight
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- This week’s vote by the NFL to play Super Bowl L at the new Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara in 2016 – and name San Francisco as official host city – will create an interesting dynamic between SF and the South Bay. Former Mayor Willie Brown thinks that the symbol of the Super Bowl really is San Francisco--not necessarily the stadium where the game is ...
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Calif. officials Health insurance cheaper than expected
California officials say the rates offered by insurers for their state-operated health insurance market are lower than they expected. But many people will still be paying higher premiums next year as Covered California kicks in than they are now, the Los Angeles Times reported. The benefits insurers will be required to supply are also going up. "These rates are way below the worst-case ...
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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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