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Port of Oakland names new executive director
Chris Lytle, Port of Oakland executive director The Port of Oakland has hired a new executive director, tapping Long Beachs executive port director. Chris Lytle will assume his position in Oakland in July. The Port which operates Oaklands airport, maritime port and real estate division had been without a permanent executive director since last November when Omar Benjamin retired amid a probe ...
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Jurors deadlock on Jodi Arias penalty retrial set
Jodi Arias stands as the jury enters the courtroom on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Jodi Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, ...
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Health reform plans pricing released in Calif.
President Barack Obama's health care overhaul made a big leap Thursday when California's health insurance exchange announced the plans and the prices that will be offered to those buying individual ...
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Art Laffers tax fix for California
Economist Arthur Laffer, known for advocating supply-side economics while advising former President Ronald Reagan, discusses Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's income tax plan with reporters, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Laffer, of Nashville, Tenn., also advised the Brownback administration and calls its tax plan "beautiful." (AP Photo/John ...
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Veterans for Peace of Santa Barbara Press Release
On Sunday , May 26th of Memorial Day weekend, Veterans for Peace of Santa Barbara will be setting up Arlington West at the foot of Stearns Wharf ...
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Silicon Valley Food Boomlet Gets Its First Big Acquisition
around $200,000 in 2008 , the first year of operation, but rose to $39 million in 2011. In 2012, gross sales rose to $93 million, although it is uncertain if Plum is profitable. It wasn't in 2011. Plum is currently the number 4 baby food brand in the U.S. The picture shows one of Plum's products. Campbell needs little introduction. The purveyor of fine alphabet soups pulled in $2.2 ...
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MOCA is free thursday nights downtown los angeles
-118.29011008143 The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA also has free admission from 5 - 8 p.m. on Thursdays, also courtesy of Wells Fargo. If two free museums in one night isn't enough, directly next to the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA is ...
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Tesoro expected to take over BP Los Angeles refinery June 1 - sources
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Independent refiner Tesoro Corp (TSO.N) is expected to take control of BP Plc's (BP.L) 240,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Los Angeles-area refinery in Carson, California, on June 1 as part of a $2.5-million purchase of the ...
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Torrance police seek men who shoplifted whisky
Surveillance photo of the suspects. (Submitted) Two men entered Albertsons at Torrance and Hawthorne boulevards in Torrance, took $414 worth of Johnnie Walker and Crown Royal whisky and left without paying. Anyone who can identify them should call ...
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Sobriety checkpoints in El Segundo Hermosa Beach
Police will conduct sobriety and driver's license checkpoints tonight at an undisclosed location in El Segundo, and from 9 p.m. Saturday to 3 a.m. Sunday in the eastbound lanes of Artesia Boulevard at Prospect Avenue in Hermosa ...
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Bill Would Protect California Reporters’ Phone Records
SACRAMENTO (CBS / AP) — State agencies would be required to give journalists five days’ notice before they issue subpoenas to a third-party company for telephone records under legislation announced Thursday by a state senator. Democratic state Sen. Ted Lieu, of Torrance, said he would seek the measure to give greater protection for newsgathering operations. He acted after it was ...
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Obama Repeatedly Heckled By Bay Area Activist During Security Speech
Medea Benjamin, an activist from the organization called Code Pink, shouts at U.S. President Barack Obama while he speaks at the National Defense University May 23, 2013 in Washington, DC. Obama used the speech to outline and justify his administration’s counterterrorism policy, including increased cooperation with Congress on matters of national security, added transparency regarding the ...
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Sacramento doctor convicted of sexually abuse
http://bit.ly/189wOMK ) that a jury on Thursday convicted Dr. Scott Dodd Anderson of six counts of sexual abuse and acquitted him of two ...
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250-acre blaze burns in San Diego County
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection says the blaze began at 12:20 p.m. Thursday north of State Route 79, east of the town of ...
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Assembly passes several election-related bills
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -; Immigrants who are not U.S. citizens could serve as poll workers in California under one of several election-related bills that have passed the state ...
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Fugitive in LA attempted-murder case held in Colo.
LOS ANGELES -; A man who has been wanted in Los Angeles on attempted-murder charges for 13 years has been taken into custody in Colorado after being arrested for urinating in ...
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Hirshhorn director to resign over split with board
WASHINGTON -; The director of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum has announced his resignation after the museum's board declined to move forward with plans to create an inflatable pavilion at the ...
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Appeals court Oks Marin desal study
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -; A state appeals court has okayed an environmental study of a Marin County water district's proposed desalination ...
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Manson disciples tapes being analyzed by LAPD
LOS ANGELES -; Los Angeles police have obtained the decades-old taped conversations between a Manson family disciple and his attorney, officials confirmed ...
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Bill would protect Calif. reporters phone records
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -; State agencies would be required to give journalists five days' notice before they issue subpoenas to a third-party company for telephone records under legislation announced Thursday by a state ...
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Rags to pitching riches Righettis skill sparked debate
Dave Righetti won AL Rookie of the Year and threw a no-hitter as a starter before emerging as a standout closer. (AP) SAN FRANCISCO -- In the evolving history of relief pitching, Dave Righetti spanned eras. By the time Righetti's active Major League playing career ended in 1995, closers usually pitched only a ballgame's final inning. But Righetti routinely was asked to do much more ...
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For Dodgers in-season managerial change is rare
Don Mattingly has a 187-181 career record as Dodgers manager, including 19-26 this season. (AP) LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers have changed managers in midseason because of poor team play just once in the past 111 years. That was 1998, when the News Corp. ownership group that had traded Mike Piazza a month earlier swept out manager Bill Russell and general manager Fred Claire. Russell, who had ...
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Ex-PSU player takes battle vs. bullying to book
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- A former Penn State women's basketball player has taken to writing to resume the anti-bullying efforts she championed off the ...
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Highway 163 Shooter Convicted
Stephen Dragasits, 58, faced his accusers Monday in a preliminary hearing. He allegedly fired -- at random -- a gun at state Route 163 morning traffic on April 25, injuring Ashley Simmons, a University of San Diego student, and striking Jeffrey Lloyd-Jones' ...
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California health exchange includes 13 insurers
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Policyholders will pay anywhere from nothing to $687 a month in insurance premiums under California's health exchange, a program that will involve the participation of 13 carriers who will compete to offer coverage for the nation's most populous ...
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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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