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Foster Farms recalls grilled chicken breast strips
SAN FRANCISCO -; California-based chicken producer Foster Farms is recalling about 6,165 pounds of its ready-to-eat grilled chicken breast strips because the strips contain wheat and soy - known allergens - which are not listed on the labels of its packages, federal agriculture officials ...
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Lighthouse story heads to Hollywood
A NOVEL inspired by Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse may become a Hollywood film, after Stephen Spielberg's movie company DreamWorks snapped up the rights to The Light Between Oceans by M L ...
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Giants mulling replacement for Vogelsong
Email SAN FRANCISCO -- Giants manager Bruce Bochy said that he and the club's braintrust are "weighing all the options" regarding who will replace the injured Ryan Vogelsong in the starting rotation. Currently, there's no urgency to name a fill-in for Vogelsong, who sustained two fractures and a dislocated joint in his right pinkie when Washington's Craig Stammen hit ...
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Former Giants star Clark to rep team at Draft
Email SAN FRANCISCO -- Fittingly, one of the top Draft picks in Giants history will help represent the club at next month's Major League Baseball 2013 First-Year Player Draft. Former first baseman Will Clark will be the Giants' standard-bearer at MLB Network's Studio 42 in Secaucus, N.J., where the Draft will be conducted June 6. Clark, who currently serves as a Giants community ...
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Dealing Straily pitches As to fifth straight win
OAK@TEX: Cespedes hits a solo home run to center ARLINGTON -- Dan Straily picked a pretty good night to pitch seven scoreless innings. The A's right-hander, who hadn't completed seven innings in his 12 previous career starts, did so on Tuesday with just two hits allowed to baseball's best team, with Yu Darvish also on the mound and with his club in dire need of securing a ...
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Chargers Add Beef To The Line
According to the website ProFootballFocus.com, which measures NFL players using advanced statistics, Starks was worse than King Dunlap, the other player the Chargers signed to play left tackle and the man who's worked with the first team offense during organized team ...
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Torrance drug and alcohol counselor to stand trial for 2012 hit-and-run murder
because Wilkins "has no prior DUI conviction." She also scoffed at the prosecution theory that Wilkins was driving home and planned to "dump" Moreno's body. Deputy District Attorney John Harlan said a prior conviction for DUI was not necessary to prosecute Wilkins for murder, and that Wilkins - as a drug and alcohol counselor at the Twin Town Treatment Center in ...
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Giants’ Affeldt Grows To Love Open-Minded Bay Area
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) When Jeremy Affeldt came to the Bay Area as an opposing player, he refused to leave his hotel room aside from going to and from the ballpark. He was admittedly ...
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Super Bowls return to California renews Chargers stadium talk
San Francisco 49ers football team CEO Jed York reacts during a news conference at the NFL spring meeting in Boston, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, discussing their successful bid to host Super Bowl 2016. (AP Photo/Elise ...
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Xi Obama to meet in California
Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet US President Barack Obama in California next month on his way back from a trip to Latin America and the Caribbean. Analysts said the arrangements for their meeting, which is informal but will be held over two days, show that relations between the two countries are mature. The China-US summit, the first since Xi took office in March, will be held at ...
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Chargers CEO Team wont move to Los Angeles
San Diego Chargers president and CEO Dean Spanos said Tuesday that his team won’t move to Los Angeles and expressed a firm commitment to the ...
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Venable finding power stroke at Petco Park
Email SAN DIEGO -- What's impressed manager Bud Black the most about Will Venable's recent power surge has been the pitches that the Padres' outfielder is hitting for home runs. Some have been high fastballs -- like the one to lead off the seventh inning on Monday -- others on breaking balls or changeups. "That's what I like," Black said. "The ability to hit ...
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Quentin rests sore knee after awkward slide
Email SAN DIEGO -- Carlos Quentin is not in the lineup for Tuesday night's game against the Cardinals. He has a sore knee after sliding awkwardly into home plate Monday, scoring the tying run on a sixth-inning single by Chris Denorfia. Quentin missed time earlier this season with a knee injury and has played in 30 of the team's 44 games. He's off to a slow start this season, ...
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Melvin gives Crisp breather vs. Rangers
Email ARLINGTON -- There's no denying the impact of Coco Crisp on the A's lineup when healthy. That's why manager Bob Melvin wants to keep him that way. Melvin rested Crisp on Tuesday -- despite the outfielder entering the day 3-for-6 against Rangers starter Yu Darvish -- in an effort to keep the injury-plagued veteran off the disabled list. That's where Crisp was with a ...
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Padres displaying dazzling infield defense
Email SAN DIEGO -- Every club in the big leagues emphasizes having solid infield defense, so the Padres being pleased with their glovework shouldn't come as much of a surprise. But in San Diego, the sparkling play around the diamond takes on a bit more significance. The Friars play their home games in Petco Park, where runs are scarce, and they do so with a pitching staff that tends to ...
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Weeks Nakajima showing versatility in Minors
ARLINGTON -- Nearly every position player on the A's roster can handle more than one spot on the field, a trend that extends to the organization's Minor League affiliates. Notably, the A's are diversifying the skill sets of infielders Jemile Weeks and Hiro Nakajima at Triple-A Sacramento. Weeks, a natural second baseman whose status in the organization has quickly soured since ...
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Former reliever Mecir to represent As at Draft
ARLINGTON -- Jim Mecir, a prominent member of the A's bullpen during the club's playoff run at the start of the decade, will represent the A's when they make the 24th overall pick at the First-Year Player Draft next month. Traded by Tampa Bay with Todd Belitz to the A's for Jesus Colome right before the Trade Deadline in 2000, the right-hander pitched in Oakland through the ...
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Hanley among Dodgers progressing toward return
Email MILWAUKEE -- Manager Don Mattingly had generally positive news on most of the rehabbing Dodgers on Tuesday. Hanley Ramirez tested his hamstring running in the outfield, and Mattingly said the shortstop continues to make progress, although he is still probably two weeks away from playing. Josh Beckett was able to throw on flat ground without discomfort from a strained groin muscle, ...
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Lasorda Hough to rep Dodgers at Draft
MILWAUKEE -- Hall of Famer Tom Lasorda and current senior advisor Charlie Hough will represent the Dodgers at MLB's 2013 Draft next month. It will be a comeback of sorts for the 85-year-old Lasorda, who was a late scratch last year when he suffered a mild heart attack at a pre-Draft function and was ordered by Commissioner Bud Selig to go to the hospital. He had a stent inserted into a ...
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Superstar win a welcome sight for Mattingly
Email MILWAUKEE -- A.J. Ellis called Monday night a "superstar" win, Clayton Kershaw's three-hitter backed up by homers from Andre Ethier and Matt Kemp. Manager Don Mattingly called those home runs "nice to see for sure." Also, it was pretty rare for both sluggers in the same game. The previous time it happened was over a year ago -- April 14, 2012. It was ...
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Mattingly unwilling to name permanent closer
Email MILWAUKEE -- Before Tuesday night's game, Don Mattingly was asked who his closer was. "I don't know," the Dodgers manager said. "We'll see." So, there you have it. The bullpen-wide slump that cost the Dodgers a sweep in Atlanta has the manager as uncertain about the late innings as the fans. "I know who I want to use. But I don't know if I ...
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Details emerge in slaying of two teenage Oakland girls last year
OAKLAND -- The slaughter of two teenage girls near Brookdale Park last November was sparked by an adolescent relationship squabble, a witness testified in court Tuesday.Raquel Gerstel, 15, and Bobbie Sartain, 16, were gunned down in the early morning hours of Nov. 25 after a teenager they were hanging out with announced that he had another woman coming to meet them, a 16-year-old witness ...
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Family of California woman killed by U.S. Border Patrol files suit
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - The family of a San Diego woman killed in an encounter with the U.S. Border Patrol filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit on Tuesday alleging a plainclothes agent used excessive force when he opened fire on the woman as she tried to flee in a ...
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Biden says Jewish leaders in Hollywood social media drove changing attitudes on gay marriage
WASHINGTON - Vice President Joe Biden is praising Jewish leaders for helping change American attitudes about gay marriage and other issues. Biden says culture and arts change people's attitudes. He cites social media and the old NBC TV series "Will and Grace" as examples of what helped changed attitudes on gay marriage. Biden says, quote, "Think - behind of all that, I bet ...
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San Diego Jazz Fest conundrum
But this event has no relation to the sadly long-defunct San Diego Jazz Festival, which -- between 1979 and 1987 -- brought such uncompromising American music giants as Art Blakey, Betty Carter, Lionel Hampton, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and dozens more to ...
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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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