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NHL San Jose 2 Los Angeles 1
Antti Niemi was solid in goal for the San Jose Sharks, who evened their Western Conference semifinals series with Los Angeles with a 2-1 win in Game 4 Tuesday. Niemi had 22 saves in the win, ...
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Lakeland Man Arrested After Pot Intercepted from California
A Lakeland man was arrested after detectives intercepted three packages addressed to his home containing 75 pounds of marijuana from California, an arrest report ...
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Phoenix apartment complex goes for $16M to San Diego firm
Copper Creek Apartments in Tempe Pathfinder Partners LLC of San Diego shelled out $16.4 million for the Copper Creek Apartments in Tempe. Phoenix Business Journal reporter Kristena Hansen wrote the 144-unit complex was sold by Equity Residential. This marks the third complex Pathfinder has either bought or partnered on for a purchase in the Phoenix ...
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Early vote points to close race as LA picks mayor
The lawyer for the family of missing Utah woman Susan Powell said Tuesday that even as local police close the active part of their investigation into her disappearance, federal authorities continue to review the case - ...
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Greinke unable to find form bested by former mates
LAD@MIL: Greinke helps his cause with an RBI single MILWAUKEE -- Zack Greinke might be back, but he's not back to being Zack Greinke. Greinke brought a 15-0 record at Miller Park into Tuesday night's game, but he couldn't get an out in the fifth inning as the Brewers beat the Dodgers, 5-2. In his second start after returning from a broken collarbone, Greinke never looked ...
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San Francisco Houston to host Super Bowls in 2016 17
(45 mins ago) San Francisco and Houston got the nod as Super Bowl hosts on Tuesday in a decision announced at the NFL Spring Meeting. San Francisco will host Super Bowl 50 in February of 2016 and Houston will host Super Bowl 51 in February of 2017, the league announced, AFP reports. The Super Bowl will return to the Bay Area thanks to the 49ers' future Santa Clara home, recently named ...
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Aretha Franklin taking June off postponing shows
Franklin announced earlier this month that she would cancel scheduled performances in Chicago and Connecticut this week to undergo medical treatment. She did not specify what type of treatment she was ...
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‘Little things’ beat California
California pitcher Brian Fisher reacts to losing against Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Tuesday's semifinals of the WPIAL Class A playoffs at Burkett Recreation and Sports Complex in Robinson Township. On Tuesday, May, ...
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Prosecutors seek retrial in Bell Calif. corruption case
In this Jan. 24, 2013 file photo, former Bell, Calif., city officials, from left, Luis Artiga, Teresa Jacobo, George Cole, Oscar Hernandez and Victor Bello appear for a city corruption trial in a downtown Los Angeles ...
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Warriors Honored By San Francisco Mayor Curry Given Key To City
Klay Thompson #11 of the Golden State Warriors celebrates a three-point shot with Stephen Curry #30 and Jarrett Jack #2 against the San Antonio Spurs during Game Two of the Western Conference Semifinals of the 2013 NBA Playoffs at AT&T Center on May 8, 2013 in San Antonio. (Ronald Martinez/Getty ...
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Apple case seen as possible spur to tax action
WASHINGTON -; Now that tech darling Apple Inc. has been dragged front and center into the debate over the U.S. tax code, lawmakers are hoping that the spotlight on such a high-profile company could be the catalyst for Congress to take action to close loopholes or reform the ...
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Stanford takes NCAA womens tennis title
Stanford's Kristie Ahn reacts after beating Texas A&M's Cristina Stancu during their match to win the women's NCAA college tennis team championship at the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex Tuesday, May 21, 2013 on the University of Illinois campus in Urbana, Ill. (AP Photo/Stephen ...
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Lighthouse story heads to Hollywood
A NOVEL inspired by Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse may become a Hollywood film, after Stephen Spielberg's movie company DreamWorks snapped up the rights to The Light Between Oceans by M L ...
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Giants mulling replacement for Vogelsong
Email SAN FRANCISCO -- Giants manager Bruce Bochy said that he and the club's braintrust are "weighing all the options" regarding who will replace the injured Ryan Vogelsong in the starting rotation. Currently, there's no urgency to name a fill-in for Vogelsong, who sustained two fractures and a dislocated joint in his right pinkie when Washington's Craig Stammen hit ...
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Former Giants star Clark to rep team at Draft
Email SAN FRANCISCO -- Fittingly, one of the top Draft picks in Giants history will help represent the club at next month's Major League Baseball 2013 First-Year Player Draft. Former first baseman Will Clark will be the Giants' standard-bearer at MLB Network's Studio 42 in Secaucus, N.J., where the Draft will be conducted June 6. Clark, who currently serves as a Giants community ...
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Dealing Straily pitches As to fifth straight win
OAK@TEX: Cespedes hits a solo home run to center ARLINGTON -- Dan Straily picked a pretty good night to pitch seven scoreless innings. The A's right-hander, who hadn't completed seven innings in his 12 previous career starts, did so on Tuesday with just two hits allowed to baseball's best team, with Yu Darvish also on the mound and with his club in dire need of securing a ...
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Chargers Add Beef To The Line
According to the website ProFootballFocus.com, which measures NFL players using advanced statistics, Starks was worse than King Dunlap, the other player the Chargers signed to play left tackle and the man who's worked with the first team offense during organized team ...
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Torrance drug and alcohol counselor to stand trial for 2012 hit-and-run murder
because Wilkins "has no prior DUI conviction." She also scoffed at the prosecution theory that Wilkins was driving home and planned to "dump" Moreno's body. Deputy District Attorney John Harlan said a prior conviction for DUI was not necessary to prosecute Wilkins for murder, and that Wilkins - as a drug and alcohol counselor at the Twin Town Treatment Center in ...
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Giants’ Affeldt Grows To Love Open-Minded Bay Area
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) When Jeremy Affeldt came to the Bay Area as an opposing player, he refused to leave his hotel room aside from going to and from the ballpark. He was admittedly ...
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Super Bowls return to California renews Chargers stadium talk
San Francisco 49ers football team CEO Jed York reacts during a news conference at the NFL spring meeting in Boston, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, discussing their successful bid to host Super Bowl 2016. (AP Photo/Elise ...
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Xi Obama to meet in California
Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet US President Barack Obama in California next month on his way back from a trip to Latin America and the Caribbean. Analysts said the arrangements for their meeting, which is informal but will be held over two days, show that relations between the two countries are mature. The China-US summit, the first since Xi took office in March, will be held at ...
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Chargers CEO Team wont move to Los Angeles
San Diego Chargers president and CEO Dean Spanos said Tuesday that his team won’t move to Los Angeles and expressed a firm commitment to the ...
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Venable finding power stroke at Petco Park
Email SAN DIEGO -- What's impressed manager Bud Black the most about Will Venable's recent power surge has been the pitches that the Padres' outfielder is hitting for home runs. Some have been high fastballs -- like the one to lead off the seventh inning on Monday -- others on breaking balls or changeups. "That's what I like," Black said. "The ability to hit ...
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Quentin rests sore knee after awkward slide
Email SAN DIEGO -- Carlos Quentin is not in the lineup for Tuesday night's game against the Cardinals. He has a sore knee after sliding awkwardly into home plate Monday, scoring the tying run on a sixth-inning single by Chris Denorfia. Quentin missed time earlier this season with a knee injury and has played in 30 of the team's 44 games. He's off to a slow start this season, ...
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Melvin gives Crisp breather vs. Rangers
Email ARLINGTON -- There's no denying the impact of Coco Crisp on the A's lineup when healthy. That's why manager Bob Melvin wants to keep him that way. Melvin rested Crisp on Tuesday -- despite the outfielder entering the day 3-for-6 against Rangers starter Yu Darvish -- in an effort to keep the injury-plagued veteran off the disabled list. That's where Crisp was with a ...
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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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