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Oaklands 39th homicide second of the day
OAKLAND -- Police are investigating the city's second deadly shooting in less than 14 hours after a man was killed in West Oakland Sunday night. Officers were called at 6:30 p.m. to the 2900 block of West Street for a report of shots fired in the area, police said. When officers arrived they found a man suffering from gunshot wounds.The man was transported to a local hospital where he was ...
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Dont buy that MacBook Air Product refresh apparently coming in June
Supplies of Apple's MacBook Air are dwindling at retailers, which means a product refresh could be imminent. Apples Worldwide Developers Conference is coming next month, and the product rumor mill is in full swing. One of the top rumors today is that the Cupertino-based company will reveal a new MacBook Air, running Intels forthcoming Haswell chip. Apple Insider reports the available ...
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YouTube It would take 16 years to watch a single days worth of video uploads
YouTube celebrated its 8th birthday this weekend. More than 1 billion people visit the site on a regular basis. By the time you finish reading this article, YouTubers will have uploaded anywhere from 100 to 200 hours of video to the site. Thats an awful lot of funny cats. The Google-owned video juggernaut celebrated its eighth birthday over the weekend, and revealed its users are now uploading ...
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Coming up Instagram founders without filters
Kevin Systrom, right, and Mike Krieger, founders of Instagram, will be interviewed by Digg founder and Google Ventures Partner Kevin Rose in a Commonwealth Club event on May 30. Now that Yahoo has agreed to pay $1.1 billion in cash for the Tumblr blogging site, it's timely to have last year's billion-dollar buyout babies coming up on a Commonwealth Club talk. Instagram founders Kevin ...
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Yahoo Japan Hackers stole 22 million user IDs
Yahoo Japan reports hackers hit their site for the second time in less than a month, this time stealing 22 million user IDs. Yahoo Japan is telling its 200 million users to change their passwords, after hackers apparently stole 22 million user IDs in an online raid last week. It doesnt appear the hackers were able to steal passwords or password information, nor that the raid affected users ...
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Covered California to release list of health plans rates
Covered California, the new state health benefit exchange, will release a tentative list of health plans and rates for the program at a board meeting in Sacramento Thursday. Covered California, the new state health benefit exchange, will release a tentative list of health plans and rates for the program at a board meeting in Sacramento Thursday. The meeting will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in ...
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Yahoo makes Tumblr deal official vows not to screw it up
This is a screenshot of on an animation that ran on Marissa Mayer's Tumblr about buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion, which included a promise to run the blogging service as a separate business and "not to screw it up." Click the next panel to see the rejoinder to this acknowledgment about Tumblr users' unease over the deal. Yahoo confirmed that it will pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr on ...
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History of the City of Santa Barbara Part VII
ne of the most significant catalysts for the architectural development of Santa Barbara was a massive earthquake which struck at 6:42 a.m. on June 29, 1925. The earthquake destroyed or damaged many commercial buildings in Santa Barbara's business district, most of which were built of un-reinforced masonry. Unlike the commercial buildings, the vast majority of the residential structures in ...
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Yahoo takes big leap with $1.1B deal for Tumblr
Commuters who manage to make it from southwest Connecticut to New York City for work should consider staying in the Big Apple all week as crews begin rebuilding 2,000 feet of track following a commuter ...
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NBC 7 News in the Morning
Watch NBC 7 San Diego News in the Morning live weekdays 4:30 a.m. - 7 a.m. If you're seeing black, chances are the broadcast is in commercial. Stay ...
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Toll road between Highway101 and Monterey Peninsula Highway 156 stretch a candidate
It's just a 4-mile stretch of country road, but Highway 156 is a vital link between the Monterey Peninsula and the Bay Area -- and now it could become the first toll road north of Los Angeles. In a report released Thursday, the Transportation Agency for Monterey County says converting the outdated two-lane Highway 156 into a nearby four-lane toll road between Highways 1 and 101 could be ...
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Sacramento gas prices creep near $4
The average price of a gallon of regular gas in Sacramento is $3.998, compared to $3.982 last week. Gas prices continued to rise in the Sacramento region, hovering close to the $4 mark. The average price of a gallon of regular gas is $3.998, compared to $3.982 a week ago, according to the AAA Fuel Gauge Report. Thats an increase of 1.6 cents, and still 16.4 cents more than last month. A year ...
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Gunfire hits California home killing 10-year-old girl watching TV
A 10-year-old girl watching television was killed in a burst of gunshots fired at her family's North Highlands, Calif., home, police said. Elvira Campos died and her parents, Ernesto Campos and Imelda Tinoco, were injured and expected to recover, The Sacramento (Calif.) Bee reported Monday. "All the people injured were innocent victims," said Scott Swisher, a Sacramento County ...
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Target goes tech-hunting in San Francisco
Target Corp. has opened an office in San Francisco, where it plans to scout for tech talent to build its e-commerce and mobile technology efforts. Reuters reports that Target had hired David Newman to run its Technology Innovation Center, which will seek out other tech companies that can help Targets tech ventures, like speeding up its website or improve the shopping experience for ...
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Oscars Very Mexican Food getting ready to re-open Sacramento location
Oscar's Very Mexican Food at 3061 Freeport Blvd. will re-open its fully remodeled Sacramento location in June. Oscars Very Mexican Food at 3061 Freeport Blvd. will re-open its fully remodeled Sacramento location in June. The restaurant closed its Sacramento location in November as it did a complete renovation of the small stand into a restaurant. During the renovation, the kitchen crew has ...
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Bay to Breakers Just a thin shadow of Boston attack
SAN FRANCISCO -- Beefed-up security in response to last month's Boston Marathon bombings didn't deter tens of thousands from reveling in San Francisco's most spirited footrace Sunday.Berkeley resident Kenneth Prochnow, 62, ran his 28th Bay to Breakers wearing a "Boston Strong" T-shirt, one of many that could be spotted in the sea of colorful costumes and birthday ...
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BP cleared to sell California oil refinery
BP has take "a significant step" toward selling a California oil refinery and regional retail networks to Tesoro Corp. after getting U.S. federal approval. BP said ...
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10-year-old killed after gunmen shoot into Calif. home
Authorities were searching for at least two gunmen who walked up to the door of a Northern California home and opened fire, killing a 10-year-old girl and injuring her parents. "Whoever these gunmen were, they were directly outside the front door," Sacramento County sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Jason Ramos said Sunday. "This was not a drive-by. These gunmen approached the house ...
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San Francisco Travel Association Announces New Marketing Representation In Japan
The San Francisco Travel Association, in partnership with San Francisco International Airport (SFO), has retained AVIAREPS Marketing Garden Ltd. (AMG) as their new marketing representation office in Japan. San Francisco Travel and SFO first retained representation services in Japan in 1987, making San Francisco one of the first cities in the U.S. to have an office in Tokyo. In 2000, a ...
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Effective Immediately All Semi-Automatic Pistols Sold In California to Require “Micro Stamp” Ballistic Identification
Shftplan May 20, 2013 In a controversial move that some believe will essentially lead to a de facto ban on semi-automatic handguns, Attorney General Kamala Harris announced that, effectiveimmediately,all new semi-automatic firearms sold in the State of California will require a unique microstamp on every shell ejected when a gun is fired. Microstamping, or ballistic imprinting, is a ...
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Calif. Law To Require Ships To Cut Pollution
California is about to become the first state to require shore power at its ports. A new law mandates at least half of a shipping line's fleet to shut down their diesel engines and plug into shore-side electric power when they unload their cargo. It's part of a larger effort to cut pollution at the state's busiest ports, but costs have been a sticking ...
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Cartel towns pose challenge for immigration reform
The political debate over immigration focuses on jobs and border security, but the wounds of broken bonds are inescapable in cities like El Paso, ...
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American Friends Service Committee California Becomes First State to Condemn Use of Torture in War on Terror
California Becomes First State to Condemn Use of Torture in 'War on Terror' SACRAMENTO, CA - August 14 - The California Legislature today adopted a resolution aimed at preventing California health professionals from engaging in coercive interrogations of detainees at ...
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Center for Biological Diversity California Court Rules Land-use Decisions Must Address Global Warming Plans for Palmwood Mega-Resort Thrown Out
California Court Rules Land-use Decisions Must Address Global Warming: Plans for Palmwood Mega-Resort Thrown Out INDIO, California - August 8 - In response to a lawsuit from the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club, a California court has rejected a proposal to build a controversial luxury resort and golf course because the ...
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Equality California Legislature Approves Harvey Milk Day
Bill Authored by Assemblymember Leno, Sponsored by EQCA, Honors One of ...
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Sacramento vulnerable to massive disaster
If a major earthquake were to occur tomorrow, Sacramento could potentially be devastated by massive flooding on-par with that seen in New Orleans during Katrina. The state’s major fresh water systems would be destroyed and 25 million would be without fresh water, while millions would lose their homes, but for all this, funding to upgrade the city’s levees is hard to come by.
When Hurricane Katrina barreled into US states along the Gulf Coast in 2005 it caused chaos and devastation in a part of the world considered among the most developed and stable. Read more
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