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Debbie Reynolds We all knew Liberace was gay
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -; In the new film "Behind the Candelabra," veteran entertainer Debbie Reynolds has just three major scenes to flesh out one of the most complicated figures in piano-playing showman Liberace's life: his loving but sometimes manipulative mother ...
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Solar plane completes 2nd leg of trip in Texas
The plane flew its first leg from California in early May. From Dallas, it will fly to Lambert-St. Louis airport, Dulles airport near Washington and New York's John F. Kennedy ...
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Distressed home sales decline in California
Distressed home sales in California in April declined to their lowest level since February 2008, according to the California Association of Realtors.Distressed sales fell to 24.4 percent, down from 27.9 percent in March and 45.8 percent in April last year.CAR also said the share of lender-owned sales fell to single digit percentages for the first time since late 2007 9.2 percent in April, ...
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Nixon library hosts 40th reunion for Vietnam POWs
In 2007, I had the privilege of becoming the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. My job was to move Nixon’s presidential materials from the Washington, D.C. area, where they had been kept as federal property because of the Watergate investigation, to California, where Nixon’s friends and supporters had built a private library in 1990. My job involved ...
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Hollywood in Haverhill Denzel to film in empty Lowes building
May 23--HAVERHILL -- Denzel Washington is coming to Haverhill. Columbia Pictures is leasing the former Lowe's building off Route 97 to film the "The Equalizer," a big-screen adaption of the popular 1980s television series that starred Edward Woodward as a private detective with a mysterious past who doled out vigilante justice. Mayor James Fiorentini said production crews are ...
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Hope Hype And Health In Silicon Valley
hype cycle " - a jolt of excitement when I arrived, thrilled to be immersed in the scene, taking me to the "peak of inflated expectations," followed by the "trough of disillusionment" as I became better at separating out mythology from achievement. Now, I've reached what I can only hope is the "plateau of productivity." I've an even deeper belief ...
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Pesticides May Be To Blame For Bee Die-Off In California Nation
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Padres are looking to gain ground on D-backs
The Padres are ready to pounce in the National League West, sitting in fourth place but just 4 1/2 games back of the D-backs, Rockies and Giants. San Diego can gain ground directly on one of those clubs when it opens a three-game series in Phoenix on Friday night. The D-backs know full well just how pesky the Padres can be. Arizona has won three of its last four games against the the Padres but ...
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Bay Bridge documents reveal decisions that led to broken bolts
OAKLAND -- Caltrans and private engineers deliberated three months in 2003 over the proper corrosion method to use on high-strength steel rods for the new Bay Bridge, a decision that led to the embarrassing failure of 32 rods a decade later.Documents reveal a series of back-and-forth letters and emails on the subject among more than two dozen engineers and designers from Caltrans and the hired ...
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Pickup Crashes Into San Francisco’s Outer Mission Driver Flees
Authorities said a truck crashed into this home near Florentine and Morse in San Francisco’s Outer Mission neighborhood on May 22, 2013. ...
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Fishing boat sinks in freak storm off coast of Baja California
The U.S. Coast Guard said last month that the owner and crew of a chartered fishing boat involved in an accident in the Sea of Cortez two years ago were negligent. The accident, which took place in 2011, involved a group of 27 U.S. fishermen and 16 Mexican crew members who were on an annual boating excursion during the July ...
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LA County woman finds bear on kitchen counter
A Los Angeles county sheriff's statement says the department received a 911 call Wednesday from the woman, who said the bear had climbed through her window and she had locked herself in an upstairs ...
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Home search in case of woman missing for 35 years
GLENDORA, Calif. -; Police and sheriff's detectives are searching at a home in a Los Angeles suburb in the case of a woman who disappeared in ...
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Man on probation found with police badge gear
SAN FRANCISCO -; A 21-year-old Oakland man convicted of impersonating a federal police officer earlier this year is behind bars after FBI agents say they found him with a badge, forged law enforcement documents and police ...
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Smith drops rookie battle to Cards Lyons
Padres strike-'em-out, throw-'em-out SAN DIEGO -- In a battle of rookies, the Padres' Burch Smith -- making his third career start -- was actually the more experienced pitcher compared to Cardinals starter Tyler Lyons, who was making his Major League debut. But Smith labored from the start of the game, and the Cardinals defeated the Padres, 5-3, in front of 18,683 at Petco ...
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Bill would prevent genetic-testing firms from using surreptitiously obtained DNA
If you want to keep your DNA to yourself, be sure not to leave any stray hairs, Q-tips or underwear lying around. There are genetic testing companies out there willing to reveal your most intimate biological secrets to anybody -- without your knowledge or permission. And under California law, such genetic snooping is perfectly legal.Now, legislators in Sacramento are considering a bill to change ...
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Oakland Unified announces candidates for District 4 seat
The meetings are long, the hours unpaid and the complaints loud, but a dozen candidates including Anne Campbell Washington, chief of staff to Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, are hoping to fill the Oakland Unified School's District 4 board seat left vacant when Gary Yee stepped down to become acting superintendent on July 1. The challengers come from a variety of professional and personal ...
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Driver dies after being impaled by metal rod on I-580 in Livermore
LIVERMORE -- A 33-year-old Lodi man died after he was impaled by a metal rod that burst through his windshield on westbound Interstate 580 early Wednesday morning, police said. A spokeswoman from the Alameda County Coroner's officer identified him as Michael Cox. Cox was alone in the car and no one else was injured, said a spokesman from the California Highway Patrol. CHP officers responded ...
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MLB St. Louis 5 San Diego 3
Tyler Lyons allowed a lone run over seven innings in his big league debut Wednesday to bring St. Louis a 5-3 triumph over San Diego. Lyons (1-0) was called up from Class AAA Memphis to make the start and he took advantage of the opportunity, giving up four hits while striking out four and walking one. Prior to Wednesday no team in the majors had reached 30 victories for the season, but two of ...
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California nurses go on weeklong strike
On May 17, over 3,100 nurses and technicians in the California Nurse's Association (CNA) began a strike scheduled to last seven days at five out of eleven Northern California Sutter Health hospitals. Some 1,400 nurses at two Hospital Corporation of America-affiliated San Jose hospitals will join the strike May 23 and 24. A sixth hospital in San Leandro called off the strike after Alameda ...
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Deputies arrest man they say posed as a Disney
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. -; Authorities say a 51-year-old man has been arrested after claiming to be a member of the Walt Disney family and giving away invalid Disneyland ...
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Fresno police arrest 4 after exchange of gunfire
FRESNO, Calif. -; Fresno police have arrested four suspected gang members after an exchange of gunfire when officers tried to question ...
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OC reserve sergeant found shot in head beaten
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. -; Authorities have taken a 17-year-old into custody after a reserve sergeant in the Orange County Sheriff's Department was found shot in the head and beaten in a Rancho Santa Margarita ...
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Review Google music plan solid serendipitous
LOS ANGELES -- Google Inc.'s new music service offers a lot of eye candy to go with the tunes. The song selection of around 18 million tracks is comparable to popular services such as Spotify and Rhapsody, and a myriad of playlists curated along different genres provides a big playground for music lovers.The All Access service represents Google's attempt to grab a bigger piece of the ...
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Koalas Settle Into New Home at Zoo
Female koala, Tonahleah, and her 10-month-old male joey, Gummy, settle into their new digs at the all-new Conrad Prebys Australian Outback exhibit at the San Diego ...
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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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