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Injured volunteer seeks payment from rescued California hiker
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A volunteer searcher who broke his back while looking for a teenager who was lost in Orange County wilderness says he deserves restitution if the teen is convicted on drug charges. Nick Papageorge, 20, said after Nic Cendoya's arraignment was postponed Wednesday that his medical bills could total $350,000, City News Service reported. Papageorge searched Trabuco ...
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Square dance group gathers in S.F. from all four corners
Square is a growing San Francisco titan and disrupter in the world of electronic payments. But the city can look forward to another square-themed organization doing its own seven-figure moving and shaking this summer. This moving and shaking will be literal, as we are referring to the impending annual convention of the International Association of Gay Square Dancers Clubs. Hands up if you even ...
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Scutaro looks to start new streak against former club
The Rockies know full well what kind of roll Marco Scutaro can get on. And though the Giants second baseman's hitting streak ended at 19 on Wednesday, there's a strong chance he'll start a new one Friday at AT&T Park, where the Giants and Rockies begin a weekend series. Scutaro, dealt from Colorado to San Francisco at last year's non-waiver Trade Deadline, went 0-for-3 ...
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Safety recommendations released for Americas Cup
SAN FRANCISCO -; A group of sailing experts has released 37 recommendations they say will increase safety in the America's Cup, which is set to take place on the wind-raked San Francisco Bay this ...
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Emails show AEG lawyer called Jackson a freak
FILE - In this March 5, 2009 file photo, Michael Jackson announces several concerts at the London O2 Arena in July, at a press conference at the London O2 Arena. Emails displayed in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, show that a lawyer for AEG Live LLC's parent company described Jackson as a "freak" in an email message on the same day the singer signed a ...
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Driver impaled by metal pipe in Northern Calif.
LIVERMORE, Calif. -; California Highway Patrol investigators are hoping witnesses will come forward after a Sacramento-area an was impaled by a metal pipe that came crashing through his car windshield as he drove on Interstate 580 Wednesday ...
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Richard makes promising second rehab start
Email SAN DIEGO -- Padres pitcher Clayton Richard made his second Minor League rehabilitation start on Tuesday for Triple-A Tucson in Omaha, allowing two runs in six innings. Richard, on the disabled list since May 5 with an intestinal virus, has worked on using a higher arm slot during his stint with Tucson and during a simulated game on May 11. The results, manager Bud Black said Wednesday, ...
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Baker is nailing runners with greater success
Email SAN DIEGO -- While playing catch earlier this season, Padres pitcher Jason Marquis offered some advice to catcher John Baker. Marquis saw that Baker's throws were carrying well, and told Baker to slow down and stop rushing to get the ball out of his hand. He made the adjustment and has thrown out four consecutive would-be basestealers, including Daniel Descalso of the Cardinals in ...
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Forsythe Maybin are ready for game action
Email SAN DIEGO -- A pair of not-so injured Padres are heading to Arizona to play in games Friday, as infielder Logan Forsythe and outfielder Cameron Maybin work their way back from the disabled list. Forsythe, out since March 31, retroactive to March 22, because of plantar fasciitis in his right foot, will head to the team's temporary workout facility in Surprise and will serve as the ...
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Arts and Entertainment District Bid Draws Critics Concerns
arts and entertainment district are seeking a relaxation of restrictions in the city's sign ordinance to allow big-screen, LED displays and other commercial presentations along 65 blocks in downtown’s so-called "Core Area", north of ...
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Grilling goes sustainable -- and delicious
We may fire up the barbecue year-round, but even we weather-blessed Californians view Memorial Day weekend as the true start of grilling season. Whether we're lighting the hibachi or revving up the gas grill, what lies ahead is an endless, sunlit series of backyard feasts with friends and family.It's also the raison d'être for a dozen new cookbooks, from Michael ...
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Details emerge on who picked steel for Bay Bridge that later broke
OAKLAND -- Caltrans' use of large galvanized steel fasteners on the Richmond-San Rafael bridge in 2001 led to engineers' choice to deploy the same specifications for the bolts that later snapped on the new Bay Bridge.High-strength steel coated with zinc is susceptible to a well-known phenomenon where hydrogen atoms invade the metal's molecular structure and it becomes brittle and ...
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Three men sought in failed Yu-Gi-Oh robbery in Torrance
FACEBOOK A 20-year-old man was hit in the head with a crowbar as three young men tried to rob him of $1,000 worth of Yu-Gi-Oh! merchandise inside his backpack in Torrance, police said Tuesday. The robbers, who were unable to steal the loot, were captured on surveillance video, which police hope will lead to their identification and arrests. The crime occurred at 3 p.m. May 7 as the victim ...
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Azusa rock-mining company to begin disputed dig
AZUSA, Calif. -; Azusa city officials say a rock-mining company will begin its dig in the foothills above the San Gabriel Valley after controversy delayed the project for three ...
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UK Ambassador Britain and San Diego benefit from special partnership
It is a real privilege to be visiting San Diego for the first time since I became the United Kingdom's ambassador to the United States last year. And it's appropriate to be here in the week leading up to Memorial Day, when attention is duly given to the sacrifices made in battle by military men and ...
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LAUSD to pay $1.4M for sex abuse between students
LOS ANGELES -; Los Angeles Unified School District officials were ordered Wednesday to pay a special needs fourth-grader $1.4 million after she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by a male classmate in ...
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Environmentalists sue over OC toll road extension
SAN DIEGO -; Environmentalists filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block the extension of a toll road in southern Orange County, five years after widespread public opposition stopped a similar ...
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Man facing up to life over mistaken affair killing
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -; San Mateo County prosecutors say a 23-year-old man is expected to be sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the fatal stabbing of an acquaintance on the campus of a Milbrae high school because he thought the man was having an affair with his ...
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Hollywood meeting will focus on changes to Margaritaville lease
Hollywood residents and business owners will get their first glimpse of the proposed changes to Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort’s lease with the city at a community meeting Thursday.The meeting, which will begin at 6 p.m., will be held at City Hall, 2600 Hollywood Blvd.The 350-room hotel and restaurant project has hit several snags since the developers first signed an agreement with ...
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Todays MLB starting lineups May 22
Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Arizona Diamondbacks: 1. ...
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Capuano Dodgers looking to clip Cardinals
The Dodgers will welcome the National League's top team on Friday, as manager Don Mattingly's club tries to continue to right the ship after a series win in Milwaukee. Amid high expectations, the Dodgers enter the opener against the Cardinals sporting a 19-26 record and in last place in the NL West. "The biggest frustration as a manager is that you don't have a chance to go ...
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Photographer and forester Wayne Miller dies at 94
ORINDA, Calif. (AP) -- Photographer Wayne F. Miller, who created a ground-breaking series of portraits chronicling the lives of black Americans in Chicago after serving with an elite Navy unit that produced some of the most indelible combat images of World War II, died Wednesday at his home of six decades in Orinda, Calif. He was ...
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Accused Road Rage Driver Appears in Court
NBC 7 has learned the driver accused in Saturday's road rage incident on the Coronado Bay Bridge has a prior criminal record and history of mental health ...
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Local Marine Helps Oklahoma Tornado Victims
In an effort to help tornado victims, he and his family are collecting donations, money and clothing to send to those in need back in his ...
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50-Acre Fire Burns Along Border Fence
The fire sparked around 4 p.m. at Alta Road and Tin Can Hill. Cal Fire officials said the blaze was burning near the U.S. side of the border fence, but originated in ...
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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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