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Los Angeles voters OK move to curtail medical marijuana outlets
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Voters strongly supported a ballot measure to sharply curtail the number of medical marijuana dispensaries permitted to operate in Los Angeles while boosting taxes on the sale of pot for health reasons, election returns early on Wednesday ...
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Race to be Los Angeles next mayor too close to call
Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel were locked in a race too close to call as the longtime city officials battled to become the next mayor of Los Angeles. About 20 percent of ballots -- mail-in votes that arrived late or were delivered to the polls -- won't be counted for some time, the Los Angeles Times reported. More than half the vote was uncounted late Tuesday. Greuel, the city ...
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Leech Tishman adds California office
Pittsburgh law firm Leech Tishman has opened an office in Pasadena, Calif., led by Alan Kindred and Ivan Posey, veteran intellectual property lawyers who previously operated a namesake practice. It is the firms fourth office. This transaction enabled Leech Tishman to create an intellectual property practice group to its list of services. Leech Tishman Managing Partner Pete Fuscaldo said in a ...
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Sacramento home-price gain is No. 1 nationally
Home prices rose more quickly in the Sacramento region than any other major market in April, the data service Zillow.com reported. Home prices rose faster in Sacramento than anywhere else in the nation between March and April, according to a report issued Tuesday by the real estate data service Zillow.com. Across the capital region, home prices rose 3.4 percent in April. The figure was 4.1 ...
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District attorney will retry Calif. officials charged with corruption
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County district attorney's office plans to retry the case against Bell council members accused of misappropriating public funds by overpaying themselves for sitting on city boards and authorities that rarely met, according to defense attorneys connected with the ...
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California-based Foster Farms recalls grilled chicken breast strips
California-based chicken producer Foster Farms is recalling about 6,165 pounds of its ready-to-eat grilled chicken breast strips because the strips contain wheat and soy — known allergens — which are not listed on the labels of its packages, federal agriculture officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said on Tuesday. There have been ...
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Hollywood director to film The Colour in NZ
Source: Thinkstock Hollywood director Peter Webber will film in New Zealand the adaptation of Rose Tremain's highly acclaimed novel The Colour. Set in the New Zealand gold rush in the 1860s, The Colour charts the fortunes of newly-married immigrants Joseph and Harriet Blackstone, who have travelled to New Zealand with Joseph's widowed mother. Finding life as a small farmer more ...
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UC hospitals face second day of worker walkout
LOS ANGELES -; Workers at University of California hospitals around the state were expected to picket for a second day before an intentionally brief strike ends early ...
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How Infrastructure Investment Brought America’s Game To Santa Clara California
John Maynard Keynes has been validated once again. Through a wise investment in infrastructure, and in forward growth, the city of Santa Clara, California has turned what once was a center for dried fruit into the high tech heart of the United States. And through this investment in the infrastructure needed for growth, the city has not only gained a status once considered only for major cities, ...
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Garcetti builds growing lead as LA picks new mayor
(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes). Los Angeles Mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti gets a kiss from his wife Amy Wakeland, as they vote early Tuesday morning, May 21, 2013, in Los ...
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San Diego looks to spoil MLB debut for Cards Lyons
Tyler Lyons says he didn't set any sort of timetable for when he wanted to make his first Major League start. And he knows he can't control the length of his initial stint in The Show, temporary though it may be with Jake Westbrook on his way back. But that won't take away from his Major League debut Wednesday night, when the left-hander faces fellow rookie Burch Smith and the ...
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Bumgarner looks to shake off rocky start
Giants left-hander Madison Bumgarner experienced a few firsts in his last start against the Rockies. However, they were ones he'd rather forget. Bumgarner surrendered nine runs to Colorado, exceeding his previous career high of eight on June 21, 2011, against the Twins. He also allowed his first Major League grand slam. That major mistake with two outs in the fifth inning chased Bumgarner ...
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LA voters back measure to cap number of pot shops
Medical marijuana has been legal in California since voters approved it in 1996. However, regulation of so-called pot shops has been haphazard in many communities, none more so than LA. The number of dispensaries in the city surged since 2007, reaching an estimated 1,000 and prompting a series of unsuccessful efforts by city lawmakers to bring order to the ...
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10 geography experts to compete in national finals
WASHINGTON -; Ten young geography experts will field questions about history, cultures, landmarks and climates from "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek as they vie for the title of National Geographic Bee ...
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GOP has lead in Central Valley state Senate race
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -; A Republican is leading a field of five candidates in a hotly contested Central Valley state Senate contest, while Democrats hope to force a runoff election in which they would have a better chance at ...
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Bay Bowl San Francisco to Host 50th Super Bowl
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Ryu leads Dodgers into rubber match with Brewers
The Brewers have hit left-handed pitching well this season, but they don't have the record to show for it. Milwaukee leads the National League with a .436 slugging percentage against lefties, with 16 homers and a .754 OPS. But the Brewers are just 4-14 against southpaws, and will face another in Dodgers starter Hyun-Jin Ryu on Wednesday in the finale of a three-game series at Miller Park. ...
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Lets Just Forget This And Move On
The one bright spot for the Padres was second baseman Jedd Gyorko. The rookie had three of the Padres' seven hits. Gyorko leads all major league rookies in hits, multi-hit games, runs, total bases, and walks. If he keeps it up he has a chance to finish in the top 10 in NL Rookie of the Year voting, and playing in San Diego, a place national media outlets forget exists until Norv Turner goes ...
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BART to decide on relaxed rules for bikes on trains
The BART board appears ready to drop its ban on bringing bicycles on trains during rush hour after a survey found few rider complaints during a one-week test of relaxed rules in March.The board is expected to vote on the issue Thursday. However, two BART directors said they want to lift the ban only conditionally and decide in five months whether to make the change permanent.The concern is ...
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Inside the secret Symantec building that keeps websites safe
Paul Meijer, senior director of operations for Symantec's identity and authentication business, stands next to rows of locked servers in the highly secure data center at Symantec's secretive facility in Mountain View, Calif. on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012. Symantec provides security, storage and systems management solutions for small businesses to global organizations. (Gary Reyes/ ...
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81-year-old man hit killed on San Jose street
SAN JOSE, Calif. -; San Jose police say an 81-year-old man was hit and killed as he crossed a street Monday night - the second traffic fatality of the day on the city's ...
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Volquez derailed in fifth as Cardinals cruise
STL@SD: Padres jump on top as Gyorko scores in second SAN DIEGO -- After he tossed four quick, efficient and effective innings Tuesday night against St. Louis, Edinson Volquez was hardly recognizable in the fifth inning . Everything the Cardinals' bats touched in the frame was hit hard, as St. Louis busted the game open with four runs on six hits against the Padres' right-hander. ...
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Parker As looking to cap sweep of Rangers
Ross Wolf will not have an easy task in his first Major League start. The 30-year-old, who has 25 big league appearances but none in a starting role, will face the Athletics, who have won five straight games and are going for a series sweep of the Rangers on Wednesday afternoon. Wolf will be starting in place of Nick Tepesch, who was scratched from the start with a blister on his right middle ...
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Lowrie day to day after foot X-rays negative
Email ARLINGTON -- A's shortstop Jed Lowrie, acting as designated hitter on Tuesday night in Texas, took a pitch off his right foot in the fifth inning and was out of the game by the seventh to go for an X-ray. Tests showed no break in Lowrie's foot, leaving the infielder day to day with a right foot contusion. Manager Bob Melvin said after the game that Lowrie, who went 1-for-2 ...
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San Diego Schools Trustee Barrera To Lead Labor Council
Four of five San Diego Unified School District candidates at this year's Politifest debate. From left to right, John Lee Evans, Richard Barrera, Bill Ponder and Mark Powell. Marne Foster did not ...
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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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