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$600M Winning Powerball Numbers Announced
DES MOINES, Iowa (CBS/AP) — Lottery officials: Winning numbers in $600M drawing are 22, 10, 13, 14, 52 and Powerball 11. The $600 million jackpot was the largest prize in the game's history and the world's second largest lottery ...
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Fremont Silicon Valley-Area Hub Becomes Factory Town
FREMONT (CBS/AP) — In a busy factory, machinists move sheets of aluminum roll in the back door to be molded, stamped, twisted and notched into high-tech electric cars that sell for more than $60,000 each. Down the road in another plant, crews slice solar cells, place them under glass sheets and create panels that ship by the boxful to Europe. Elsewhere in this town, industrial workshops ...
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Homeless in Silicon Valley
Investigative journalist Bill Moyers takes a look at poverty and the homeless in Silicon Valley despite the area's tremendous wealth creation over the past decade from Google, Facebook, Oracle and ...
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Pilot Killed When Plane Departing From Santa Clara Crashes In Truckee
TRUCKEE (CBS/AP) — Federal investigators are trying to determine the cause of a small plane crash that killed a pilot near the Sierra town of Truckee. The Federal Aviation Administration says the pilot was flying alone when the twin-engine Cessna 421 crashed Thursday afternoon in the Tahoe National Forest about 15 miles northeast of Truckee. The pilot’s name wasn’t ...
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Bomb Scare Prompts Evacuation After Amgen Tour Bike Race In Livermore
LIVERMORE (CBS SF) — Festivities surrounding the Amgen Tour of California Race were brought to a temporary halt by a bomb scare in downtown Livermore Saturday afternoon, according to a police spokeswoman. The multi-city bicycle race had already passed through town around 2:30 p.m. but many people remained on the scene when a suspicious cardboard box with a postmark from Southern ...
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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., ...
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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 ...
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Netflix Soars on Earnings Report
POSTED April 23, 2013 LOS GATOS -- Netflix reported stellar earnings for the first quarter sending its shares rocketing 25% to over $210. The company reported $1.02 billion in revenues and net income of $2.6 million. Revenues were up nearly 20% from a year ...
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Plea For Help For Families Devastated By Fire In Redwood City
REDWOOD CITY (CBS SF) — Redwood City officials were asking for the public’s help for families who lost everything in an apartment building fire in the unincorporated North Fair Oaks neighborhood last week. The fire at the five-unit apartment building early Wednesday morning left two residents with minor injuries and displaced 26 people, according to fire and city officials. The ...
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Oxbow Upsets Orb In Preakness
Gary Stevens celebrates atop of Oxbow #6 as he crosses the finish line to win the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on May 18, 2013 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Justin Heiman/Getty ...
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CHP Officer Working on Amgen Hit by Car
The officer was providing forward traffic control for the race. The CHP said he collided with a car on Marsh Creek Road, just east of Deer Valley ...
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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 Turn Out for Free Trip to the Dentist
The lines outside the San Jose Convention Center started forming Friday morning as the first people began to wait their turn to get free dental ...
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Newark Homeowner Reports Suspicious Woman Posing As PGE Worker
NEWARK (CBS SF) — A Newark resident reported a suspicious person posing as a PG&E employee knocked on her door Thursday, according to police. A resident on Marguerite Drive reported that around 3:30 p.m. a woman knocked on her door, claiming to be a PG&E employee, according to Newark police. The person, who had a PG&E logo card hanging from a lanyard but no uniform or company ...
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17 Bodies Removed From Modesto Funeral Home After Complaints
MODESTO (CBS/AP) — Officials say 17 bodies have been removed from a Modesto funeral home after complaints the home was taking too long to cremate the bodies. Stanislaus County sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Anthony Bejaran says the removal of the bodies on Friday from McGuire Cremation & Funeral Service comes as the department investigates what he termed ';potential criminal and ...
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Man Arrested For ‘Sexting’ Scotts Valley High School Girl
SCOTTS VALLEY (CBS SF) — A man was arrested in Scotts Valley Friday after allegedly sending sexually explicit text messages to a high school student, according to police. Officers learned Wednesday that a suspicious man had been spotted at Scotts Valley High, police said. When confronted by a school employee, the man said he was hoping to hand a bag of baked goods to two students he ...
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Child 3 Reported Missing in Hayward
Police said it appeared Sonny either walked out or was taken out of the house. The child may be with his father, John Lee, who may have taken the child without the family's knowledge, police ...
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2 Men Hurt In Separate Shootings In Oakland
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Two men were hospitalized in separate shootings in Oakland Friday, a police officer said. The first shooting was reported at about 3:55 p.m. in the area of Dowling Street and 83rd Avenue, Officer R. Bowden said. Responding officers found a man suffering from at least one gunshot wound, Bowden said. He was transported to a hospital and is in stable condition, she ...
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Antioch Police Investigating Apartment Complex Death As Homicide
ANTIOCH (CBS SF) — Police in Antioch were investigating the death of a man found near the entrance to an apartment complex Friday morning as a homicide, according to police. Officers responded to a report of a possible dead body near the complex located in the 3400 block of Hudson Court at about 8 a.m., police said. A man, 22, of Antioch, whose name has not yet been released, was found ...
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Police Shoot Man After Hour-Long Standoff In Newark
NEWARK (CBS SF) — A man was clinging to life Saturday morning after being shot during an exchange of gunfire with Newark officers at the end of an hour-long standoff Friday evening, police said. Officers responded to the 5500 block of McDonald Avenue at about 5:40 p.m. after receiving a call from a concerned person about a mentally depressed relative in possession of several firearms, ...
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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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