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Award-winning journalist Michael Hastings dies
Michael Hastings, the war correspondent whose unflinching reporting from Afghanistan led to the resignation of a top U.S. army general, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, according to his employer and family.
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One of US FBI's most wanted nabbed in Mexico
Mexican authorities have arrested a former university professor who was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in the resort city of Playa del Carmen.
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Calif. city sues MLB over A's proposed move
Major League Baseball is dragging its feet on having team owners vote on the Oakland Athletics' proposed move to a new ballpark 40 miles south in San Jose, San Jose city officials said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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Authorities name casualties in Colorado fire
Bob and Barbara Schmidt dashed to their home on a dirt road in a heavily wooded area northeast of Colorado Springs as smoke from what would become the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history filled the air.
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N. Calif. campfire-turned-wildfire partly tamed
Hundreds of people were allowed to return home but hundreds more evacuees remained from a Northern California wildfire that began as a campfire before burning nearly 3 square miles.
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Flood plan would pile tons of rocks at Brannon Island park
California water officials are moving to store large piles of rock and sand in key locations throughout the Delta, including Brannan Island state park, as part of a broader effort to improve flood response.
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Budget bill would make it optional for California local governments to comply with public records laws
A budget bill awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown's signature would make it optional for local governments to comply with several key provisions of the California Public Records Act.
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CalPERS panel backs insurance rate hike
A CalPERS committee Tuesday recommended 2014 health insurance rates that will collectively raise premiums by 3.03 percent, the smallest increase since 1998.
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Panel to consider restoring pay cuts for state's top elected officials
After passage of a budget with a $12 million windfall for the Legislature and a likely pay increase for state workers, a commission today will consider whether to restore salary cuts for California's top elected officials.
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Steinberg to endorse Dickinson's Senate run
State Senate Democratic leader Darrell Steinberg will be at Assemblyman Roger Dickinson's side today when he announces his candidacy for Steinberg's Sacramento-area Senate seat.
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The Buzz: Former senator's wife sets novel under Capitol dome
California's Capitol is full of hard-drinking, skirt-chasing, and corrupt hypocrites - or so Dianne Harman, the wife of a former state senator, would have readers of her new novel, Tea Party Teddy, believe.




