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Panel restores some pay for lawmakers, governor
The commission that sets the pay of California lawmakers and statewide elected officials such as the governor and attorney general has voted to restore a 5 percent pay cut it made to salaries last year as state employees faced furloughs.
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One of US FBI's most wanted nabbed in Mexico
Mexican authorities have arrested a former University of Southern California professor who was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in the resort city of Playa del Carmen.
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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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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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Pay commission grants five percent raise for California lawmakers, officials
Pay for Gov. Jerry Brown, legislators and other top elected officials is going up, a state commission decided Wednesday.
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Bulger ex-enforcer grilled about varying stories
An ex-hit man who admitted killing 20 people insisted Wednesday that he told authorities the truth when he implicated James "Whitey" Bulger in 11 of the slayings, but he acknowledged lying in the past, including to his close friend just before he shot him in the head.
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Teen charged in Calif. couple's slayings saved dad
A 16-year-old Northern California boy once praised as a hero for saving his dad's life is facing charges that he stabbed an elderly couple to death at their home.
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Search suspended for missing Livermore kayaker
The search for a missing kayaker who disappeared in Lake Del Valle in Livermore is being suspended while crews seek more funding for additional resources.
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Men's Wearhouse ousts founder, pitchman Zimmer
Apparently, Men's Wearhouse Inc. doesn't like the way its founder looks anymore.
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Fire near Banning 80 percent contained
An 11-day-old wildfire burning in the San Bernardino National Forest north of Banning is now 80 percent contained.
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Capitol Alert: House transportation bill denies high-speed rail funding in 2014
Congressional skeptics of California's high-speed rail project make their feelings known in a draft transportation spending bill made public this week.




