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Cage-fight Rep scrambles to stop California from imposing its egg laws on other states
Should California tell farmers throughout the country how to run their farms? Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, says no. "It's exactly what our founding fathers wanted to avoid," King said. But the rural-state lawmaker is concerned over California's strict laws on egg producers and other farmers as a result of Proposition 2, a ballot initiative passed by voters in 2008. The law ...
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Los Angeles school system to purchase iPad for each student
Los Angeles' school system, the second largest in the United States, is ordering iPads for all its students, handing Apple a major success in its quest to make the tablet computer a replacement for textbooks. The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday approved the purchase of $30 million worth of iPads as the first part of a multi-year commitment. It found that the iPad was the least ...
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Lost Hollywood Rare Pictures of Jane Fonda Marilyn Monroe Set for Auction
agreed. After their first session together in 1953, she sent Greene two dozen roses and a note saying his pictures were the most beautiful of her she had ever seen. Over the next four years she would pose for him more than 50 times. Greene's skill lay in his unfussy approach (he used to say, "If you can't light it with one light, then you can't light it") and ability to ...
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Judge may expand Calif. prison mental health case
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -; Attorneys who represent California inmates are asking a federal judge to expand the court's oversight of prison mental health care to include the Department of State ...
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Santa Barbara Business Beat
Westmont College received the excellence in service award at the annual South Coast Business and Technology Awards June 13 at Fess Parker's Doubletree Resort & Hotel. Sonos was named company of the year, Joanne Funari was executive of the year while Barbara Rosenbaum was given the entrepreneur of the year award and Larry Barels received the Pioneer Award. More than 700 people honored ...
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As wildfires rage feds cut funding on prevention
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- As the West battles one catastrophic wildfire after another, the federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place.A combination of government austerity and the ballooning cost of battling the ruinous fires has taken a bite out of federal efforts to remove the dead trees and flammable underbrush that clog Western ...
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Gyorko continues making progress toward return
Email SAN FRANCISCO -- Rookie second baseman Jedd Gyorko has spent the last two days here walking around the clubhouse, conducting an audible countdown as to when he can come off the disabled list. "Six days," Gyorko muttered several times on Tuesday. Gyorko, on the disabled list with a right groin strain, is eligible to come off the disabled list on June 25. Gyorko has been with the ...
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New Colo. wildfire prompts evacuations of homes
Bob and Barbara Schmidt dashed to their home on a dirt road in a heavily wooded area northeast of Colorado Springs as smoke from what would become the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history filled the ...
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Gun Owner Arrested in Boys Death
A man whose gun was used in the fatal shooting of a 10-year-old boy is speaking out about the tragic accident that happened while the boy and a friend were playing with the weapon. NBC 7's Danya Bacchus ...
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Pitbull Sizzles Ke$ha Fizzles at Hollywood Bowl Concert Review
embarking on a summer tour together may seem like a strange pairing until you remember that the pop artists share a record label – and thus marketing dollars. Another potential benefit of sharing a bill in giant outdoor amphitheaters like the Hollywood Bowl is the cross-pollination of fans, ensuring that each section of the Ke$ha-Pitbull Venn diagram is holding a ticket. But Tuesday ...
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Hollywood poised to approve fire contract
HOLLYWOOD— Firefighters and city leaders have reached a middle ground in negotiating a $4.6 million contract expected to be approved on July 3. "It does make us more competitive, but we have a little ways to go," Assistant City Manager Frank Fernandez said Wednesday before a crowd that included more than 50 of the city's 200 ...
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Thursdays police log The Harbor Area
Robbery: 7:10 p.m. June 16, 1300 block of West 227th Street. One person grabbed a cellphone from one of the victims. An unspecified number of people punched the victims. A second person hit one of the victims in the head with a chain. Residential burglary: 8:30 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. June 13, 1500 block of West 187th Place. Entry through a window. The residence was ransacked. Unspecified property ...
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Skillz gets $5.5 million for web wagers
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Bay Area County Fair Guide
A familyadventure tothe County Fair is one of our favorite summer pastimes. Corn dogs and carnival rides, fireworks and farm animals; there is something fun forevery ranch-hand on your farm at any one of these Bay Area's County ...
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Feds in Calif. bust international gambling ring
SAN DIEGO -; Federal authorities have charged 18 people with involvement in an illegal gambling ring they say spanned from California to Peru and used violence against customers with outstanding ...
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BART police chief asks auditor to review reforms
OAKLAND, Calif. -; The chief of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit police is asking an auditor to review the department's progress in meeting reforms instituted following the shooting of an unarmed man on a train station ...
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Panel restores some pay for lawmakers governor
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -; The commission that sets the pay for California lawmakers and statewide elected officials such as the governor and attorney general voted Wednesday to restore a 5 percent pay cut it made to salaries last year as state employees faced ...
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Comerica Bank report shows rosy outlook for California economy
California's current economic expansion is sizable and likely to continue, according to Dallas-based Comerica Bank's California Economic Activity Index.Comerica said today that the state index climbed 2.2 points in April to 106.6. For comparison, the index averaged 101 for all of 2012, and 98 for all of 2011.April's reading is 34 points, or 47 percent, above the index cyclical low ...
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Mattingly fiddles with lineup for opener
Email NEW YORK -- Manager Don Mattingly juggled the lineup for Game 1 of Wednesday's doubleheader from the one he presented Tuesday night after the Yankees started former Dodgers right-hander Hiroki Kuroda in the opener and held Phil Hughes for the nightcap. For the opener, Mattingly switched Hanley Ramirez from shortstop to designated hitter, moved Nick Punto from third base to short, ...
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Dodgers unsure who will start Sunday
Matt Palmer is a candidate to start Sunday's game vs. the Padres. NEW YORK -- Manager Don Mattingly said on Wednesday that he doesn't know who will start for the Dodgers against the Padres at Petco Park on Sunday. Journeyman Matt Palmer seems to be the mild favorite to start, because he pitched well for Triple-A Albuquerque on Tuesday night, allowing one run over seven innings. The ...
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Dodgers expect Lilly to return soon
Email NEW YORK -- The Dodgers are looking at Ted Lilly's most recent injury as one that he should be able to return from relatively soon, manager Don Mattingly said. Lilly was placed on the 15-day disabled list on June 9, retroactive to June 5, with a neck sprain, and he received an epidural injection June 11. Mattingly said Lilly is rehabbing in Los Angeles and has resumed throwing, but ...
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Man convicted of fraud wins appeal in 9th circuit
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- The conviction of a former Alaska prosecutor on wire fraud charges is no longer valid, a federal appeals court has ...
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Sports Gambling Ring Busted by FBI
FBI agents in Southern California served search and arrest warrants Wednesday morning as part of an ongoing investigation involving an international sports gambling ring, according to ...
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Union City Family dog euthanized after fatal attack on 6-year-old boy
UNION CITY -- A family's pit bull mix dog was euthanized one day after it bit a 6-year-old boy who later died at the hospital, police said Wednesday.The dog, a 2-year-old male named Gava, had been quarantined at the Tri-City Animal Shelter in Fremont before it was put down Tuesday -- just one day after it attacked Nephi Selu at a home on Elizabeth Way where the boy lived with his extended ...
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Wildfires burn in Arizona California
A wildfire in Arizona grew unchecked Wednesday while officials said the area blackened by a fire in California could be closed for weeks. The Doce fire outside Prescott, Ariz., had expanded to 7,000 acres, The Arizona Republic reported. High winds and arid conditions fanned the flames with the smoke blowing toward Prescott, the state's third-largest city. A number of homes in the area 100 ...
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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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