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Fitch Rates $1.2B California GO Bonds AAApre Negative Outlook
U.S. Money Funds Return to Eurozone Banks U.S. prime money market funds (MMFs) increased their exposure to eurozone banks in April, although asset allocations to these institutions remain well below 2011 levels, according to Fitch Ratings. As of end-April 2013, MMF allocations to eurozone banks represented 15.1% of assets under management within Fitch Ratings'sample of the 10 largest U.S. ...
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Homeowners Is your house epic
Anthony is holding a contest to draw in prospective "epic" homes. Winners will score a meeting with Anthony, a design consultation, a professional photo shoot, and a shot at appearing in the book. So what makes a home epic? "Epic to me is something special, unique, something different, something you don't always see," Anthony said. The home doesn't have to be ...
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BART board set to vote on lifting rush hour bike ban
Bicycles may be allowed on all BART trains at all times if the transit system's board approves changes at its next meeting. Here a cyclist waits for a train towards San Francisco at the West Oakland ...
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Santa Clara set to score with Super Bowl 50
San Francisco will do just fine during Super Bowl 50. The City is where people will party, eat, drink, repeat. But let's not forget that this is really Santa Clara's moment to shine, too. The game might become known as the San Francisco Super Bowl, but it will be played in Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. While San Francisco is known for many things, Santa Clara can now become ...
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Oakland Sacramento Sending Rescue Workers To Oklahoma Tornado Area
In this handout provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Soldiers and Airmen with the Oklahoma Army National Guard and the Oklahoma Air National Guard along with firefighters participate in recovery efforts after a tornado moved through on May 20, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. (Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Kendall James/U.S. Department of Defense via Getty ...
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Shooting death of California girl 10 not an accident police say
The weekend death of a 10-year-old California girl, shot as she sat in her living room, was not an accident, police investigators say. Elvira Campos was killed Saturday night as she watched television at her home in the community of North Highlands near Sacramento. Four holes, made by bullets shot from outside the home, pierced the living room window barely a foot from the girl's head, The ...
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More restaurants getting a kick start from crowdfunding
Sarah and Evan Rich of Rich Table. Using Kickstarter to crowdfund new San Francisco restaurant and food projects is officially a thing. Just this week, Linea Caffe launched a project seeking $10,000 to open a new coffee and waffles joint in the Mission, while Caf St. Jorge, another caf-bakery, hopes to raise $30,000 by the middle of next month. Sandbox Bakery in Bernal Heights also has taken to ...
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NFL awards San Francisco Bay Area Houston future Super Bowls
Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco celebrates with the Vince Lombardi trophy after the Ravens defeated the San Francisco 49ers to win the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game in New Orleans, Louisiana, February 3, 2013. ...
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SF officials upset over anti-Israel bus ads
SAN FRANCISCO -; Several San Francisco supervisors want the city transit agency to donate revenue from an anti-Israel bus ad campaign to the city's Human Rights Commission after the agency did the same for an ad campaign that targeted ...
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Calif. sends rescue workers to Okla. tornado site
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -; California is sending six specially trained urban search-and-rescue workers to Oklahoma to assist recovery efforts after Monday's ...
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Sparks hire Bridget Pettis as assistant coach
Pettis spent 12 years in the league as a player, assistant coach and director of basketball operations for the Phoenix Mercury and Indiana Fever. She retired from her front-office job with the Mercury in ...
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Lawyer No background check done on Jackson doctor
LOS ANGELES -; AEG Live LLC did not conduct any background checks or supervise the doctor who was later convicted of killing Michael Jackson, a corporate attorney testified Tuesday in a lawsuit claiming the concert promoter was negligent in hiring the ...
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Judge promises more openness in Chandra Levy case
FILE - This 2001 file photo provided by the Washington Police Department shows the missing poster of Chandra Ann Levy, of Modesto, Calif. A judge promised more openness Tuesday after months of closed post-trial proceedings in the case of murdered Washington intern Chandra Levy, disclosing for the first time the reason a key prosecution witness could be discredited (AP Photo/Washington Police ...
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5000 Friends of Santa Barbara View on Facebook
The Facebook page is incredibly active with additional comments, likes and custom content; so, if you’re not, be sure to follow the County’s fastest-growing social media page by clicking the like button below. And, to the person who ...
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Californias third carbon auction raises $280 million
California's third carbon-allowance auction raised more than $280 million as polluters bid for the right to emit greenhouse gases, state officials said today.The California Air Resources Board released results of its third carbon auction, which was held last Thursday.Carbon credits that let polluters emit greenhouse gases this year sold for $14 a ton. Allowances for 2016 sold for the ...
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Utah Gov. Herbert rails against federal land management
HELENA -- About a half-dozen tea party activists have gathered outside the federal building in Helena to protest IRS scrutiny of conservative ...
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Chargers Release Kevin Haslam
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Closing arguments begin in Arias penalty phase
When Jodi Arias addresses the jury in her murder trial, the big question will be whether she pleads for mercy or repeats what she told a TV reporter minutes after her conviction: She would rather be executed ...
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Boy Injured by Trash Truck to Get Millions Attorney
The leg of Luke Acuna was amputated after a trash truck struck him in November. Now, he hopes to return home, and with the help of doctors, a mentor, friends and family, Luke hopes to play sports once again. NBC 7 reporter Steven Luke interviewed Luke, his father Anthony, his mentor Travis Ricks and his doctor Andrew ...
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Oakland Thieves break into television news van near Jack London Square
OAKLAND -- A television news van was broken into Tuesday afternoon near Jack London Square, according to police.It was not known what was taken in the theft, which occurred about 12:30 p.m. and targeted a KGO-TV van parked near Second and Clay streets. Four suspects were seen fleeing the area in a green Jaguar, according to police.Check back for more ...
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Bay Area hosting 50th Super Bowl
BOSTON The 50th Super Bowl will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area. NFL owners voted Tuesday for the 49ers' new stadium as host of the 2016 game. That facility in Santa Clara, Calif., is due to open for the 2014 season. San Francisco beat out South Florida, which was stymied in its bid to stage an 11th Super Bowl when the Florida Legislature did not support financing to renovate Sun Life ...
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California couple get prison for keeping niece as sex slave
A Southern California couple are headed to prison after pleading guilty to keeping a young niece in the United States illegally as a sex slave. Inez Martinez Garcia, 44, was sentenced Monday to a 20-year prison term. Her husband, Marcial Garcia Hernandez, 45, was given a 23-years-to-life sentence. Both pleaded guilty to multiple counts of abuse. Prosecutors said the couple coerced a relative ...
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Study Californias credit rating improves
The Golden State's credit rating improved this year, according to the 2013 State Credit Quality Report. California moved from 44 to 41 in Conning's annual credit rankings, which evaluated states on employment growth, home price appreciation and number of foreclosures. A new private study is giving California some credit. The Golden States credit rating improved this year, according to ...
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California Strawberry Commission awards scholarhip money to 46 Oxnard students
Fatima Lopez (left) leans in as her mother Graciela Reyna gives her older sister, Noemi Lopez, a student at Oxnard High School, a kiss for the $400 she has been given on Monday night for her education at California Strawberry Scholarship Program’s awards ...
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California winery says it makes wine containing no sulphites. Really
Let me break it to you bluntly. You cannot have wine without sulphites. Widely maligned as a source of headaches and respiratory ailments, the sulphur compounds are, it's true, intentionally added by most producers at various stages of the wine-making process to keep spoilage micro-organisms in check and help shield wine against the ravages 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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