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Loews Hollywood Hotel honors NFL draft picks in gala fete
The hotel buzzed as the new stars of the fall TV football season posed for photographs, signed autographs for throngs of attending fans, and sat for interviews ...
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Mild dry weather bolsters California rice planting
TIM HEARDEN Capital PressWILLOWS, Calif. -- Rice planting in California's Sacramento Valley is mostly complete, and the dry spring has enabled growers to plant at a pace that should facilitate a smooth harvest.While rain and wind in previous years have narrowed the window for planting, farmers this year were able to work at a normal pace, said Charley Mathews, a Marysville, Calif., grower ...
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QA Menlo Ventures Avery More on ed revolution startup flood
Retail and tech pioneer Avery More has joined Menlo Ventures as a venture partner, focusing on sourcing deals for the firm and advising its startup founders. Avery More made a mark more than 20 years ago running 1980s computer retail pioneers CompuCom and Computer City, which he sold to CompUSA in 1998. But he says he has always been more of a tech entrepreneur than a retail guy and that is ...
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Temecula couple dead in apparent murder-suicide
Authorities say Temecula police officers responding to reports of gunfire found Houston severely wounded inside his home on Thursday. He was hospitalized in critical ...
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Gas Leak Prompts Road Closure in Escondido
The leak was discovered around 10 a.m. at 1600 E Valley Parkway at a business. Police then closed the road between Rose Street and Midway Drive in both directions for drivers and ...
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Gunmen shoot into California home kill 10-year-old girl
SAN FRANCISCO - 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 ...
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Democrats strike back at GOP voting measures
DENVER (AP) - In a bitter fight, Colorado Democrats recently muscled through the Statehouse a massive elections reform bill that allows voters to register up until Election Day and still cast their ...
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Rimini Street borrows $15 million from Bridge Bank
Rimini Street Inc . borrowed $15 million from Bridge Bank, and plans to spend the money on expanding its business around the world. Redwood City-based Rimini Street does maintenance and support work for business software sold by giants ...
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Bechtel Corp. revenue rises to $37.9 billion in 2012
Bechtel Corp.'s revenue rose 15 percent in 2012 to hit $37.9 billion. A year earlier, San Francisco-based Bechtel reported revenue of $32.9 billion. Bechtel got contracts for $23.9 billion in work in 2012, down from a whopping $53 billion in contracts in 2011. That $53 billion would have been hard to equal -- the company called it an "unprecedented performance." Led by CEO and ...
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Turkish dailies covered on Monday the celebrations of May 19 the Commemoration of Ataturk Youth and Sports Day Turkish PM`s visit to Silicon Valley and the death of an air cameraman Ozturk during an airshow
Turkish dailies covered on Monday the celebrations of May 19, the Commemoration of Ataturk Youth and Sports Day, Turkish PM`s visit to Silicon Valley and the death of an air cameraman Ozturk during an airshow ANKARA - The Anadolu Agency does not verify these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.All Turkish dailies covered the celebrations of May 19, the beginning of Turkish War of ...
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Report says poor are moving to nations suburbs
LOS ANGELES -; More poor people live in the nation's suburbs than in urban cities because of affordable housing, service-sector jobs and the increased use of housing vouchers, according to a study released ...
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NRC again delays San Onofre nuke restart decision
LOS ANGELES -; Federal regulators have pushed back indefinitely a decision on the proposed restart of the troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant in ...
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California Considers Oil Tax to Fund Schools
education funding flows out of the ground. The idea of an oil severance tax has been bubbling for years, but proponents have been unable to surmount intense lobbying from the energy industry. That hasn't deterred a state senator from coming up with a bill and a University of California, Berkeley, undergraduate from circulating a ballot initiative, both of which would impose a tax on ...
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Dude California Beach Parking Plan Making Waves
Sunbathers flocking to Southern California beaches are used to feeding the meter or paying a parking attendant. Not so along the less-developed north coast where it's customary to ditch cars on the shoulder of Highway 1 to surf, swim or picnic. That sandy line that long defined the state's disparate beach culture may soon fade. In search of new revenue, the state parks system ...
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Proposed Calif. measure requires random doctor drug tests
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A proposed state ballot measure in California would require doctors to be randomly subjected to drug and alcohol testing. The San Francisco Chronicle reports the "Pee in the Cup" initiative is being pushed by Bob Pack, a technology mogul and former executive at AOL Inc. and NetZero Inc. His young son and daughter were killed a decade ago by a driver under the ...
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Autodesk rescues Tinkercad users with buyout
Tinkercad, the Web-based 3D modeling startup led by Kai Backman, has been acquired by Autodesk. There was some actual business news amid the fun and gadgets at Maker Faire over the weekend with the announcement that Autodesk Inc. bought Tinkercad, the Web-based 3-D modeling company. Tinkercad, founded by Kai Backman, is a low-cost alternative to computer-aided design programs, requiring less ...
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Calif. suspects accidentally call 911 during break-in
FRESNO, Calif. – Two suspects arrested for breaking into a car in Central California accidentally called 911 on a cellphone, which led police to them. KXTV in Sacramento reports a dispatcher was able to hear a rambling 35-minute conversation between the men as they discussed buying drugs and what implements to use to break into vehicles in Fresno. The dispatcher listened in as the ...
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A taxing summer for residents of Berkeley Calif.
How about a tat tax? The City Council in Berkeley, Calif., is expected to raise fees Tuesday on tattoos and homemade cupcakes, among other fun stuff, in an attempt to offset the city's $5.1 million deficit over the next two years. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the taxes, if approved, would go into effect July 1, making the summer a bit more ...
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Gardena Make It Quick bandit strikes for the 10th time
The so-called "Make it Quick" bandit, who hadn't been heard from in nearly nine months, struck again last week in Gardena. The bandit believed responsible for nine previous South Bay and Harbor Area bank robberies since 2009 hit a U.S. Bank branch on Friday. All of the robbers 10 crimes have occurred at U.S. Bank branches, the FBI said. Friday's crime was the fourth at the ...
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Communication Intelligence Corp. raises $1.15 million
Communication Intelligence Corp . raised $1.15 million by selling preferred stock to the Phoenix Group and some other investors. Redwood City-based CIC (OTCQB: CICI) makes technology used in electronic signatures and document verification. Philip Sassower --age 72 -- is its CEO and chairman. In the past, he was CEO of Phoenix Enterprises LLC, a part of the Phoenix Group. In this deal, which ...
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Vista Equity Partners to pay $1B for Calif. tech company
Vista Equity Partners has agreed to buy out the shareholders of a California software company for about $1 billion. The Austin-based firm would pay $24.75 per share for Websense Inc. (Nasdaq: WBSN), the developer of software and provider of services designed to protect companies from cyber attacks and data theft, according to a Websense news release. The Websense board of directors have approved ...
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East Africa Two California Men Sentenced for Rhino Horn Trafficking
Washington - The sentencing May 15 of two California businessmen in Los Angeles for trafficking in rhino horn will send both to prison and ensure that $800,000 of their illegally acquired "profits" end up helping protect rhinos in Africa. Vinh Chung "Jimmy" Kha and Felix Kha pleaded guilty in September 2012 to federal felony charges brought as a result of Operation Crash, an ...
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Injured Workers Opioid Use on Rise in California Washington
Opioid Epidemic Plagues Workers' Comp Washington and California are among states in the U.S. Western Region that have publicly struggled with opioid abuse in workers' compensation. In California, home to one-in-eight Americans, just 3 percent of the state's doctors prescribe 55 percent of the opioids, according to findings from the California Workers' Compensation ...
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California Health Exchange Also Will Offer Voter Registration
California will become the first state to offer voter registration through its health insurance marketplace later this year. Millions of Californians will get the chance to register at the same time they are buying insurance under the federal Affordable Care Act. Open enrollment begins in October. The Secretary of State formally designated Covered California as a voter registration agency this ...
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Top 5 More details on Bloom Energys big $130M funding
Bloom Energy's $130 million funding was last week's biggest venture investment in Silicon Valley and a little more detail about it was reported on Monday. Fortune reported that while it still isn't known who the investor was, an unnamed source provided it with some of the Sunnyvale fuel cell maker's financials. The report said that Bloom posted $42 million of pro forma revenue ...
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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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