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California jobless claims shoot up by 15000
California reported the largest jump in new jobless claims of 15,060. It attributed the change to layoffs in the service industry. The number of people making new jobless claims across the country dropped by 23,000 to 340,000, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. California saw a huge increase in new claims. The four-week moving average was 339,500, or a drop of 500 from the previous ...
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Roadshow Drivers with their own Breathalyzers say .08 is pretty darn drunk
Los Altos A I like it and here's why: Although any change is a long shot and at best many years away, it raises awareness that you don't need to be legally drunk to be an impaired driver. State officials say there has been no push to lower the blood alcohol level either in the Legislature or Congress. Maybe that will change over time, but there seems to be no urgency to tackle this ...
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Sheriff Coroner To Resume Digging In Glendora Yard In 1978 Cold Case Disappearance
GLENDORA (CBSLA.com) -- Los Angeles County Sheriff's detectives and the Coroner will resume digging in the backyard of a Glendora home Thursday in connection to a 35-year-old cold case disappearance. Authorities began searching the yard in the 500 block of Essex Street Wednesday afternoon for any evidence related to the disappearance of 24-year-old Wendy Byron. Byron was living at the ...
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Heal The Bay To Release Annual Beach Report Card
HERMOSA BEACH (CBSLA.com) -- Heal the Bay will release its annual Beach Report Card Thursday morning. The report card, scheduled to be publicized at 11 a.m., grades 445 beaches on an A through F scale throughout California based on water pollution levels. The better the grade a beach receives, the lower the risk of illness to ocean ...
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First-time jobless claims drop by 23000
The U.S. Labor Department said first-time jobless benefits claims dropped by 23,000 to 340,000 in the week that ended Saturday. The department revised last week's estimate from 360,000 to 363,000, meaning the prior week's gain in initial claims filed came to 35,000, not 32,000. The four-week rolling average for the week fell by 500 to 339,500. The largest increases in initial claims ...
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Gamers get opportunity to become master at University of California
Video game masters will soon have the chance to be validated as the University of California rolls out a new one-year program, the Silicon Valley Business Journal reports. A new master's of science degree program in games and playable media will be offered in the fall, the university announced Wednesday. "They will learn to be independent game makers, and they can go on to work in the ...
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Northern California landslide stabilizes
LAKEPORT, Calif. -; Officials say a Northern California subdivision that partly sank into a hilltop has stabilized after several homes, roads and sections of a sewer system were ...
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Hi Its Ari $ing Emanuel and I plan to shake up Hollywood
Sean Parker, the billionaire technology investor and onetime president of Facebook, will never forget being on the receiving end of an Ari Emanuel onslaught. It was 2009. Emanuel, the famous Hollywood agent, had been e-mailing Parker because a friend had suggested they connect. "I knew who he was," says Parker, who, like so many others, conflated Emanuel with Ari Gold, his alter ego on ...
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When Hollywood Wants Good Clean Fun It Goes to Mormon Country
The film's premise sounded fun and wry and a little hokey. It was aiming for that Pixar-ish sweet spot, which is typical of the animated shorts that B.Y.U. students have made every year since the program started in 2000. (See, for example, ...
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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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Report Knicks’ Carmelo Anthony Has Partial Tear In Shoulder
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – New York Knicks star Carmelo Anthony has a partially torn labrum in his left shoulder that may require surgery if it doesn’t heal on its own, according to the New York Daily News. An MRI revealed the tear, the Daily News reported. The team previously announced ...
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In 0-3 Hole Rangers Focusing On First Step Against Bruins
Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers makes a save against the Boston Bruins in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty ...
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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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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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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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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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Possible Space Shuttle Successor is Readied for Testing
The "Dream Chaser" spacecraft is designed to take astronauts to and from the International Space Station in NASA's post-shuttle era. The "next generation" spacecraft is smaller, less complex and easier to operate. Patrick Healy reports from Edwards Air Force Base for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on May 22, ...
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Backyard Dig Reopens 35-Year-Old Cold Case
Agents dig through a backyard in the 500 block of Essex Street in Glendora on May 22, 2013, as part of an investigation into the 1978 disappearance of a then-24-year-old woman who used to live at the ...
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Pesticides May Be To Blame For Bee Die-Off In California Nation
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Sister Of Murdered Fullerton Student Reacts To Suspect’s Interview From Jail
SANTA ANA (CBSLA.com) -- The sister of murdered Fullerton student and Iraq War veteran Maribel Ramos listened Wednesday to an interview that the accused killer gave from jail. On Tuesday, KC ...
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Taxpayers Foot The Bill For Top LA County Chief’s Commute To And From NorCal
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) -- Taxpayers are footing the bill for a top Los Angeles County official's more than 600-mile round-trip commute to and from his Northern California home, according to CBS2 investigative reporter David Goldstein. LA County Chief Probation Officer Jerry Powers, who makes $255,000 a year, has headed the largest probation department in the nation for the past 17 ...
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Camarillo Mailers Warn Residents Of Health Risks After Toxic Springs Fire
CAMARILLO (CBSLA.com) -- Camarillo residents are questioning the authenticity of a mailer warning of serious health risks posed to people living near the site of the Springs Fire wherehazardous materials burned earlier this month. Residents were told to stay away from billowing smoke when the blaze at Laguna Farms became a HazMat situation before it was contained nearly three weeks ago. Highly ...
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Four of Top 10 Beach Bummers Are in LA County
Swimmers and surfers in Southern California enjoyed cleaner beach water this year, likely due to one of the driest winters on record in the region, according to Santa Monica-based Heal the Bay’s 2012-13 study released ...
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Powerball Jackpot Grows To $50 Million
A customer holds $140 worth of Powerball tickets that he just purchased on May 17, 2013 in San Francisco, California. People are lining up to purchase $2 Powerball tickets as the multi-state jackpot hits $600 million. (credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty ...
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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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