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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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Hollywood talent agencies selling to create capital
Studios often mimic each other's projects in development, releasing similar concepts within the same year. The top talent agencies imitate each other as well by emulating the business strategies of their competitors. United Talent Agency has cozied up to top Wall Street banker Ken Moelis to judge investment offers for a minority stake in the company, according to the Hollywood ...
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Correction Western Water Grants story
SALT LAKE CITY -; In a story May 22 about the U.S. Interior Department awarding more than $20 million in grants for water conservation projects, The Associated Press, relying on information provided by the federal agency, reported erroneously that the North Yuba Water District in California had received one of the ...
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Fernley man to prison for seeking sex with kids
RENO, Nev. -; A 44-year-old Fernley man has been sentenced to more than 22 years in federal prison for soliciting children for sex over the ...
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US Park Police to end furloughs next week
National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis says the furloughs will end on June 3, after just three days off, because the agency has found other ways to offset automatic budget cuts imposed by ...
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Shuttle is major draw at California Science Center
The Los Angeles museum, where the retired shuttle is on permanent display, had 180,769 visitors in July 2012, before the shuttle arrived. This July, museum officials expect 230,916 ...
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Mountain vinters hit downtown Santa Cruz June 9 to lure beach visitors
The Roots That Rock Santa Cruz Mountains Vinters' Festival will feature on-site wine tastings June 1-2 and June 8-9, as well as a downtown Santa Cruz festival on June 9. The Santa Cruz Mountains Vinters' Festival has been around for more than two decades, but this spring the event will have a new centerpiece: a downtown street festival featuring food trucks, art and, of course, lots of ...
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Summer getaway specials in Paso Robles California
Paso Robles , centrally located midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, is an idyllic retreat with countless activities ideal for families, a romantic escape or a fun getaway with good friends. Sip on Rhne varietals, amazing Cabernets and spicy Zinfandels in California's fastest growing wine region, tee off at one of the state's finest golf courses, dine on farm fresh cuisine and ...
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Jeff Hannemans memorial celebration at the Hollywood Palladium
Yesterday afternoon on May 23, 2013, family, friends and fans gathered inside the Hollywood Palladium to pay their respects and celebrate the life of one of the worlds greatest riff artists, the guitarist ...
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UFO Over Historic Barn Photo Captures Mysterious Object in California Skies
A woman has claimed to have seen a UFO over a historic barn in Santee, Calif., on May 7. A woman has claimed to have seen a UFO over a historic barn in Santee, Calif., on May 7, according to reports.Ellen Henry, a member of the Santee Historical Society (SHS) located in San Diego County, has photographed what appears to be an object in the sky above Santee earlier this month. According to ABC ...
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LAX gets a facelift
Los Angeles International Airport has decided to go under the knife again; the sixth busiest airport in the world is in the final stages of a multi-million dollar face lift of its international terminal, aimed at bringing the airport back up to world class standards in design and service and now there is talk of even further redevelopment for the domestic terminals as well.
LAX was once considered a pioneering facility in the early days of the jet age, the famous Theme Building, built to resemble a flying saucer that has just landed is testament to this period of advancement and modernism. The building features a circular restaurant below four concentric spider-like legs, in-keeping with the space-age theme of the building, this restaurant is called Encounters. Read more
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