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Alleged Gang Members Arrested After Richmond Shooting
RICHMOND (CBS SF) – Two alleged gang members were arrested Wednesday afternoon after two plainclothes Richmond detectives witnessed one of them firing a gun, a police spokeswoman said Thursday. The detectives were patrolling the streets looking for known gang members as part of the city's Ceasefire program when the shooting occurred at about 3:50 p.m., Detective Nicole Abetkov said. ...
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Tesla Reports First Profit
POSTED May 9, 2013 PALO ALTO -- Tesla Motors announced the first profitable quarter in its 10 year history with a profit of $11.2 million. Tesla revenues were $561.7 million for the first quarter up over 18 times from a year ago. During Q1, Tesla consistently produced 400 or more Model S vehicles per week, for a total of over 5,000 during the quarter. The company recognized 4,900 vehicles as ...
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Thousands of Women Pack Moscone Center
The Professional Business Women of California's 24th Annual conference got underway Thursday in San Francisco. Christie Smith reports on the message Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg ...
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Feds May Clear-Cut 82000 Trees Near UC Berkeley
The federal government may chop down some 82,000 trees near Berkeley's Strawberry Canyon and in Claremont Canyon in the hills near North Oakland, according to ...
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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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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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Caltrans Prepares For Massive Repair Job On Cracked Seismic Bolts
OAKLAND (KCBS) – Caltrans is preparing to test the integrity of seismic sheer bolts on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge as crews prepare for a massive repair job ...
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Homegrown talent An answer to Silicon Valleys STEM shortage Video
If youve heard it once, youve heard it a million times: Silicon Valley has a serious tech talent problem. Microsoft Corp,s can attest to that first hand. We have 6,000 job openings more than half of which are for high tech jobs that we cannot fill, said Sid Espinosa, Microsofts director of corporate citizenship at an event at the tech giants Mountain View campus on Thursday. We have to go ...
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The unanswered question after earnings Will HPs bets pay off
Hewlett-Packard is way up. Is its salvation at hand? Hewlett-Packard Co.'s earnings yesterday weren't great, but the stock price closed up more than 17 percent at $24.86 today. A deeper dive into the financials reveals the reason why: While revenue is slipping in basically every category besides printers, HP has slashed its expenditures, increased its cash flow, paid down debt, and has ...
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Extreme Housing Market Makes Low-Income Communities Desirable
Homes in Antioch as well as other Bay Area communities hit hard by the foreclosure crisis and longstanding poverty are now selling for as much as 50 percent more than they did last ...
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Oakland a Hot Tech Startup Hub
San Francisco is the nation's hottest city for tech startups, according to a survey conducted by the National Venture Capital Association. San Jose is No. ...
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DA Calls Santa Cruz Officers Heroic After Fatal Shooting
New details were released today concerning a sad chapter of Santa Cruz history that ended in the deaths of two beloved police officers. Bob Redell ...
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Yahoos design chief Parsey to depart
Tim Parsey, Yahoo Inc.'s SVP of user experience design, will be leaving his position, according to AllThingsD. Parsey's work as Yahoo's design chief can be seen in the major redesigns of several of the company's products, including the homepage, Flickr, and email, among others. There's no telling what his next stop will be, but it may be seen as a significant loss to Yahoo. ...
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Santa Cruz Police Release Detailed Timeline Of Rampage That Killed 2 Officers
SANTA CRUZ (KCBS) – The Santa Cruz Police Department has concluded its investigation into the fatal shootings earlier this year of detectives Butch Baker and Elizabeth Butler. Baker and Butler went to the home ...
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Hundreds Of Nurses Walk Out At Two San Jose Hospitals
SAN JOSE (KCBS) - A large group of registered nurses walked off the job Thursday morning at two hospitals in San Jose. Instead of changing IVs and administering medication, nurses at Good Samaritan Hospital and Regional Medical Center were walking the picket line in a dispute over wages, benefits, pension and staffing levels. The union represents 1,400 members of the California Nurses ...
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Giants’ Bumgarner Rebounds From Tough Outing
"We know what everybody can do," Bumgarner said. "We're going to have some struggles here and there. I don't think anybody is too worried about ...
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13 Insurers To Compete For California’s New Health Exchange
SACRAMENTO (AP) -- The state’s largest health insurers, including Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield and Kaiser Permanente, will be among 13 plans competing to provide coverage to millions of Californians through the state’s new health exchange, officials announced Thursday. Covered California, the state agency running the health insurance marketplace, detailed plans and prices to be ...
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China Silicon Valley nonprofit boosts ties Video
Why Silicon Valley is important to China and what San Jose and the region is doing about it, according to Victor Wang of Hanhai Investments and zPark Venture, and Kim Walesh, San Jose's Economic Development. Interviewed by Senior Technology Reporter Cromwell Schubarth after they spoke at the Silicon Valley Business Journal's International Business Forum on May 23. Victor Wang of Hanhai ...
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Google Takes You to the Galapagos Islands
Karin Tuxen-Bettman collects photos of a Galapagos giant tortoise crawling along the path in Galapaguera, a tortoise breeding center managed by the Galapagos National Park ...
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Chez Panisses grand reopening
Robin MacSwain, left, and June Johnson, background, work on a new frame installed on the fire damaged Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley on Tuesday April 30, 2013. The restaurant has been closed since the March 8 fire. (Doug Oakley/Bay Area News Group) (Doug Oakley) its reservation phone line May 27 at 9 a.m., and online reservations can be made ...
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Brown Presses Climate Change Crusade At NASA Ames In Mountain View
MOUNTAIN VIEW (CBS SF) – Gov. Jerry Brown Thusday urged scientists to dedicate themselves to convincing a distracted public and news media about the dangers of climate change and other potential disruptions to human life. Brown, speaking to about 100 people at the Water, Energy and Smart Technology Summit at the NASA Ames Research Park at Moffett Field, said, "We are really in a war ...
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SFSU Professor Draws Scrutiny Over Political Ad Campaign Class Assignment
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — A San Francisco State University professor is drawing scrutiny for a class assignment that asked students to create a political campaign ad. The San Francisco Chronicle reports Joe Tuman gave the students the option to create the ad for a real person, including him, and said he would use it if it were good. Tuman, who contributes political analysis for KPIX 5 and ...
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Phil Matier Repair Work Begins On Bay Bridge Bolts
earlier this month outlined a plan for the broken bolts - installing steel saddles, which would be placed over the base of the seismic shock absorber that was initially intended to attach to the bridge by the rods. About 430 steel cables covered in concrete will tie down the ...
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Stanford’s Appel Prepares For 2nd Draft As Elite Prospect
STANFORD (CBS/AP) – As Mark Appel sat in the Stanford dugout and glanced out at sun-kissed Sunken Diamond this week, the star pitcher reminded himself just how much it meant to return for his final college season. An unpopular choice for some, the right one for a projected high first-round draft pick once again--a year after he turned down the Pittsburgh Pirates as the eighth overall ...
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Silicon Valley's Expo ambitions
Moffet Field, a fairly unknown former military airbase in Silicon Valley near Mountain View and Sunnyvale, may become the centerpiece of the 2020 World Expo if Governor Schwarzenegger and other advocated of a California bid get their way.
California wants one of its cities to host the 2020 World Expo, the event is a seminal one on the world calendar and is expected to draw in over 70 million visitors to Shanghai, the city currently hosting the exhibition, which last six months. Read more
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