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UnitedHealth Aetna and Cigna opt out of California insurance exchange
Kaiser Permanente, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California are all expected to participate in the state-run market for individual health ...
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Distraction burglars who hit Torrance victims arrested in Orange case
Erika Ephraim, 19 Two suspected gang members have been charged with committing a distraction burglary in the city of Orange just months after they were convicted of victimizing elderly victims in Torrance, police said Wednesday. Mickey Christian Mitchell and Erika Ephraim, both 19-year-old Anaheim residents, were arrested by Torrance police officers earlier this month in connection with the ...
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Paper Battery Co. of Troy wins Silicon Valley hot 50 tech startup honor
The Paper Battery Co., a Troy, NY startup developing a paper-thin energy technology, has been named to a Silicon Valley list for the 50 hottest early-stage tech companies. ...
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Calif. to announce health insurance plans prices
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -; Californians will get their first look at the health plans to be offered through the state's new insurance exchange and how much that coverage will cost ...
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Google expanding Fiber to Raytown Mo.
Raytown, Missouri, is the latest Kansas City suburb to get approval for a Google Fiber expansion. Raytown, Missouri, is the latest Kansas City suburb to get approval for a Google Fiber expansion. The city approved Google Fiber on Tuesday night, according to the Google Fiber blog, and it becomes the tenth Kansas City-area expansion. Google didn't disclose when the network would go live, ...
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LinkedIn acqui-hires polling startup Maybe
LinkedIn Corp. has acqui-hired social polling startup Maybe, whose engineers are now working in LinkedIn's mobile divison. LinkedIn Corp. has acqui-hired social polling startup Maybe, whose engineers are now working in LinkedIn's mobile divison. Maybe was shut down, according to TechCrunch, and all five of its employees, other than founder Omar Hamoui, are working at LinkedIn. Terms of ...
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The Funded YesGraph
YesGraph raised $1.2 million. Here are the latest fundings from Silicon Valley companies, announced or filed recently with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Funded is a recurring feature where we post new fundings that cross our desks, as well as an archive of past fundings. Click here to search the database. Palo Alto-based YesGraph Inc. raised $1,201,979 in equity and series ...
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The Funded YesGraph
YesGraph raised $1.2 million. Here are the latest fundings from Silicon Valley companies, announced or filed recently with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Funded is a recurring feature where we post new fundings that cross our desks, as well as an archive of past fundings. Click here to search the database. Palo Alto-based YesGraph Inc. raised $1,201,979 in equity and series ...
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The Funded YesGraph
YesGraph raised $1.2 million. Here are the latest fundings from Silicon Valley companies, announced or filed recently with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Funded is a recurring feature where we post new fundings that cross our desks, as well as an archive of past fundings. Click here to search the database. Palo Alto-based YesGraph Inc. raised $1,201,979 in equity and series ...
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Google Oracle among companies dropping subsidiaries from disclosures
Google's disclosures of overseas subsidiaries have dropped from 100 in 2009 to 2, and both of those are in Ireland, according to the Wall Street Journal. Google Inc. and Oracle Corp. are among companies taking advantage of a Securities and Exchange Commission rule that allows companies to not disclose overseas subsidiaries unless their operations are "significant." For a ...
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Czech police seek man from California suspected of murdering 4 in city of Brno
PRAGUE - Czech police are searching for an American man suspected of killing four people and say they believe he is on the run and armed. Brno Police spokeswoman Petra Vedrova identified him as Kevin Dahlgren, born in 1992, and released his photograph. A Facebook page containing the same photograph says that Dahlgren is from Palo Alto, California, and lives in the Czech Republic's ...
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Joaquin Miller Elementary celebrates African American Living History Day
Fourth-graders at Joaquin Miller Elementary School celebrate, learn and relive the history of the migration of African-Americans to California from the south in the 1940s with music, dance, costumes, food and ...
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Southern California Marijuana Dispensary Workers Join Labor Union
Marijuana dispensary workers in Los Angeles have joined a labor union to fight for their jobs in an industry that the federal government considers illegal. Workers at 14 pot shops have formed the "medical cannabis and hemp division'; of the United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 770. The 35,000-member union also represents grocery clerks, pharmacists and health care workers. ...
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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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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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