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  • $590 million Powerball jackpot 1 winning ticket sold in Florida

    A Powerball Lottery ticket is dispensed from a machine in Oklahoma City, Friday, May 17, 2013. Powerball officials say the jackpot has climbed to an estimated $600 million, making it the largest prize in the game's history and the world's second largest lottery prize.(AP Photo/Sue ...

  • MLS Colorado 1 San Jose 1

    Marvin Chavez popped in a goal in the 78th minute Saturday, drawing the San Jose Earthquake into a 1-1 draw with Colorado. Chavez, who was playing after the MLS upheld his appeal of a two-game suspension, scored the equalizer on a free kick that cleanly beat Colorado goalkeeper Clint Irwin. San Jose (3-4-6) extended its home unbeaten streak to seven games with the result. Nathan Sturgis ...

  • MLB Colorado 10 San Francisco 2

    Troy Tulowitzki went 4-for-5 with two RBI Saturday, sparking a 14-hit attack in Colorado's 10-2 win over San Francisco. Rosario cracked a two-run homer and added a run-scoring single ...

  • San Jose police arrest teacher for meeting minor for lewd behavior www.priateofficer.com

    San Jose police on Friday announced the arrest of an elementary school teacher who works in Campbell this week for illegally meeting a minor to engage in lewd or lascivious behavior, according to authorities. The department’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force arrested 41-year-old Cupertino resident Grant Blair on Wednesday. The suspect, who teaches 4th and 5th grade at ...

  • 6 Arrested-officer injured at San Francisco State University www.privateofficer.com

    – Six people were arrested and one police officer was taken to the hospital Thursday after San Francisco State police tried to clear out a ...


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The Night Heaven Fell (Les Bijoutiers du clair de lune) [DVD]

The Night Heaven Fell (Les Bijoutiers du clair de lune) [DVD]

Director Roger Vadim and his wife-star Brigitte Bardot first collaborated in 1956 on ... And God Created Woman, which was also Vadim's directorial debut after years of cowriting scripts for lesser Bardot films. Although not a great hit in its native France, the film had an enormous impact on how "foreign films" and "art films" were perceived in the United States. The film's exhilarating mi ... ...

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  • Police San Jose man arrested for stabbing Fremont motorist in chest with screwdriver

    FREMONT -- A San Jose man was arrested Friday afternoon for allegedly stabbing a fellow motorist in the chest with a screwdriver at a Fremont gas station earlier this week following a road-rage incident.Fremont police arrested Bryant Salazar, 30, on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the stabbing at the 76 Gas station at 46840 Warm Springs Blvd. Tuesday at 5:55 p.m., ...

  • UC Berkeley commencement Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak gives graduates a happiness equation

    BERKELEY -- Apple-co-founder Steve Wozniak sent UC Berkeley graduates into the world Saturday with a freewheeling and informal commencement speech -- and two mathematical formulas a fifth-grader could understand:1) Happiness equals S minus F (smiles minus frowns).2) Happiness equals F cubed -- food, fun and friends."I said this once at my high school, and the kids started laughing," he ...

  • Two small quakes rumble off California coast

    Two shallow earthquakes -- one a magnitude 4.0 and the other a magnitude 3.3 -- struck early Saturday off the California coast, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The magnitude 4.0 temblor occurred at 6:46 a.m. PDT, 17 miles off the coast of Rio Dell in northern California at a depth of 11.8 miles. The magnitude 3.3 temblor was recorded 12 miles from ...

  • Raiders Visit Facebook HQ

    spoke with a Facebook team about how they utilize social media, learned about the post-football career opportunities at Facebook and toured the large, open campus. "We had eight players come down from the Raiders to hang out," said Brandon Gayle, Strategic Partnership Development, Athletes and Sports, at Facebook. "What we really wanted to do was spend time getting feedback from ...

  • San Francisco bacon restaurant forced to close over smell

    Who complains about the smell of bacon? People in San Francisco, apparently. The owner of Bacon Bacon, an eatery that specialized in all things porcine, was forced ...

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