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Raiders Wrap Up OTAs Week 1
The 32nd Annual Walnut Creek Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau Art & Wine Festival, will be held June 1 and June 2 at Heather Farm Park and Raider Nation On Location will be on ...
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Eric Reid Recaps First Week of OTAs
preseason contest between the two teams, with Denver holding an 18-16 edge over San Francisco. During last year's preseason matchup in Denver, the 49ers defeated the Broncos 29-24.-This will mark Denver's first preseason trip to Candlestick Park since 2009 when the 49ers edged the Broncos ...
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49ers Sign Carradine and McDonald
preseason contest between the two teams, with Denver holding an 18-16 edge over San Francisco. During last year's preseason matchup in Denver, the 49ers defeated the Broncos 29-24.-This will mark Denver's first preseason trip to Candlestick Park since 2009 when the 49ers edged the Broncos ...
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Boy Scouts vote to accept openly gay boys but retain ban on gay adults
GRAPEVINE, Texas -- The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts. Of the local Scout leaders voting at their annual meeting in Texas, more than 60 percent supported the proposal. Under the proposal drafted by the Scouts' governing board, gay adults will remain barred from serving as Scout leaders. ...
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Climate change Do governors actions match his rhetoric
MOUNTAIN VIEW -- The global threat of climate change must be addressed without delay lest we pass a tipping point after which the damage can't be undone, Gov. Jerry Brown told a sustainability technology summit Thursday."What's coming at us is what we ourselves are creating," he said, adding that if action against climate change "is just about like this five years from ...
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Le Samouraï [DVD]
Le Samoura was the second of Jean-Pierre Melvilles color films, but it very well could have been shot in black and white. The desaturated colors of the Parisian streets and the grayish walls of the interiors suggests a moral gray zone, a place in which the characters drift and occas ... ...
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Berkeley names new schools chief after difficult search
BERKELEY -- The school board Wednesday night named Donald Evans as the new superintendent to oversee the district after a tumultuous search that took over a year.Evans was not at Wednesday night's meeting where board members unanimously approved his $229,500 salary because he was attending his last school board meeting as superintendent of the Hayward school district which he has overseen ...
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View from the sidelines Why Aetna aint in Covered California exchange
Covered California health benefit exchange, and that met the requirements of the exchange, were "selected" to be in Covered California, according to its statement today and the ones they provided afterward. But what about the health plans that chose not to participate? It's not that they weren't "selected," at least in some notable cases, it's that they ...
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Campbell gobbles up Plum Organics
Campbell Soup Co. is acquiring Emeryville's Plum Organics, a maker of organic baby foods. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, the company said that with the addition of Plum Organics' products, Campbell's portfolio of kid-focused soups, beverages and snacks will have annual sales of more than $1 billion. Baby food is currently a $2 billion category in the United ...
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California awards $36 million for stem cell research leaders
California's stem cell agency has awarded $36 million from the Research Leadership Awards to attract six top stem cell scientists. The stem cell agency, called ...
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St. Regis San Francisco on market for $140 million
Hoping to ride the profitable wave of recent hotel sales, the San Franciscos St. Regis just landed on the market for a whopping $140 million asking price. With 260 rooms, 46 suites and 15,000 square feet of meeting space, thats in the range of more than $530,000 per key. If the hotel snags a buyer at the suggested price which has been the trend lately it would be the biggest deal in recent ...