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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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Daft Punk goes outside comfort zone for new album
The influential French electronic duo crafted its first film score, for "Tron: Legacy," three years ago and are now releasing a well-financed, smartly hyped pop album featuring what they call an ensemble cast of contemporary singers and veteran ...
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Wildfire near Yosemite is 80 percent contained
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -; Fire crews are building containment lines around a wildfire south of Yosemite National Park that destroyed a home and several other ...
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CA man pleads guilty to 2 Tahoe pedestrian deaths
INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. -; A Northern California man faces up to six years in prison after pleading guilty to reckless driving causing the death of an Incline Village couple who was hit in a pedestrian crosswalk at Lake Tahoe in December ...
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San Diego Music Thing to move
Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and MxPx's Mike Herrera are first confirmed speakers for annual September music and media conference, which is moving its daytime events from North Park to Mission ...
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California Farmers Explore Water-Conserving Agriculture For A Drought-Filled Future
serious water shortage for huge swaths of California’s farmland, some farmers are investigating an ancient technique called ';dry farming.'; As ...
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Missy Franklin graduating from high school
Franklin isn't ready to become a professional athlete yet. She'll swim in the world championships in Barcelona this summer before heading to the University of California at Berkeley in the ...
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Developers Debut Plans for Makers Quarter
Developers have unveiled plans for an urban mixed-use neighborhood within East Village, called Makers Quarter, which would be part of a larger planned "I.D.E.A District" geared to attracting design and technology-related companies and ...
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Man Shot 7 Times in National City
National City police said an unidentified man was dropped off at Paradise Valley Hospital with seven gunshot wounds. He was transported to a nearby trauma center and officials said he is expected to ...
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Oakland Couple in car shot this morning two Sunday homicides investigated
OAKLAND -- A man and a woman were hospitalized Monday morning after they were shot while sitting in a car in East Oakland, police said.Their names, ages, relationship and places of residence were not immediately available.The shooting happened about 12:03 a.m. in the 9100 block of Olive Street.The two were sitting in a car when someone from outside the vehicle started shooting at them, police ...
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Microsofts new Xbox to challenge Apple to Facebook in games
Amazon.com Inc. , which are introducing new software and devices for gaming. Microsoft's updated Xbox will use its Kinect sensor that can recognize faces and movements. The deice will also recommend content based on users' interests. The new Xbox will be in stores by the year's ...
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Target opens San Francisco tech center
Target on Friday unveiled its new technology office in San Francisco that will be its West Coast hub for development of mobile and online services, the Mercury News reports. The office will give the retailer a foothold in the Bay Area, where other companies including Walmart have set up tech centers to take advantage of local talent in developing online technology. Target has hired nearly 20 ...
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San Francisco on track to host Super Bowl
San Francisco is in position to be chosen as the host city for Super Bowl L, with NFL owners set Tuesday to vote on the game's location, NFL.com reports. The game would be hosted at the 49ers' new Levi's Stadium being built in Santa Clara, where it would offer a look at the new technology that can be put into stadiums and the future of technology in the game. San Francisco got a ...
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Skydiver Injured Near Chula Vista
A deputy fire chief with Chula Vista Fire Department told NBC 7 San Diego the skydiver may have been injured in a mid-air collision however, the victim has said he has no recollection of what ...
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San Francisco unions protest Kaiser premium hike
San Francisco's Health Service System has teamed up with labor unions to protest Kaiser Permanente's latest rate hike, the LA Times reports. The system and the unions are demanding that Kaiser provide an alternate proposal and better explain the need for rate increases. Kaiser insures 45,000 public workers in the area. Read more at the LA ...
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Yahoo to update Flickr as it announces Tumblr purchase
Yahoo! Inc. signage is displayed at the company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. Yahoo! Inc., the biggest U.S. Web portal, forecast sales that fell short of analysts' estimates as it continued to lose advertisers to Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. Photographer: David Paul ...
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Bacchus increases wine holdings with DeLille Panther Creek investment
Bacchus Capital Management LLC has boosted its wine holdings with capital investments in DeLille Cellars of Washington and the Oregon winery Panther Creek ...
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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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