• Dead harbor porpoise reported in Long Beach

  Animals on the loose on LI, in NY A dead harbor porpoise was discovered early Friday on the sand near Lafayette Boulevard in Long Beach, officials said. A spokesman for The Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation said the organization will attempt to recover the carcass and perform a necropsy -- to determine how the mammal died.A harbor porpoise is one of six species of ...

• How to lighten your backpack load while hiking and backpacking in Los Angeles

  Los Angeles and the surrounding areas offer beautiful places to hike. The Sierra Mountains are unsurpassed in beauty and the deserts are uniquely breathtaking. But enjoying a hike or backpacking trip depends on how heavy your backpack weighs. Here are some ways to lighten your ...

• Californias health insurance exchange releases first real information

  released information regarding which carriers will be participating in the individual plan offerings. Also shared were some rudimentary rates, with more information to ...

• Los Angeles Kings vs San Jose Sharks Live Stream Free Watch Online Stanley Cup Playoffs Game 5 Hockey

  San Jose Sharks' Logan Couture (39) reacts after scoring the game-winning goal against Los Angeles Kings in the overtime period during Game 3 of their NHL Western Conference semifinal playoff hockey game in San Jose, California, May 18, 2013. Los Angeles Kings vs San Jose Sharks takes place in the Stanley Cup Playoffs Game 5 on Thursday night with the series all square at 2-2 and everything ...

• 5.7-magnitude quake shakes Northern California no reports of injuries

  GREENVILLE, Calif. -- A magnitude 5.7 earthquake was widely felt as it rattled Northern California on Thursday night, breaking dishes and shaking mirrors off walls. But authorities said there were no immediate reports of injury or serious damage.The temblor struck at 8:47 p.m. and was centred near Greenville, about 40 kilometres southwest of Susanville in far northeastern California, said Rafael ...

• SoCal schools ex-PTA head charged with theft

  JURUPA VALLEY, Calif. (AP) -- The former president of a local Southern California PTA has been charged with grand theft for allegedly stealing $20,000 raised from children's candy bar ...

• Anchorman 2 Filming in San Diego

  Park officials confirmed that Will Ferrell and co. are filming at the popular San Diego tourist destination. No area of the park is closed off, so the likelihood of you seeing some of the cast is very ...

• Earthquake multiple aftershocks jolt Californians

  GREENVILLE, Calif. An earthquake in far northeastern California did not injure anyone but did cause moderate damage, including to a water tank that supplies hundreds of homes with drinking water, local authorities said Friday. Plumas County Sheriff Greg Hagwood said the magnitude-5.7 quake sent items tumbling from grocery store shelves and downed chimneys when it hit at 8:47 p.m. Thursday. The ...

• Graystar joining housing rush in Castro

  Graystar is fueling up on Castro apartments. The South Carolina-based developer, which has 200,000 rental housing units under management, has filed an application to build 87 units at 2198 Market St., a former Shell gas station. The project is being designed by HellerManus. The project site consists of a triangular shaped lot with frontage on Market and Sanchez Streets. The site was recently ...

• California lawmakers go after plastic producers for beach debris

  View results Two California lawmakers tired of seeing beaches littered with plastic bottles and bags are casting blame on private companies and bringing forth a bill that would make manufacturers responsible for the mess.The ';extended producer responsibility'; bill would mandate that manufacturers fix the plastic problem in California’s waterways and along its coastline. It ...

• Repairs begun on San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

  OAKLAND, Calif. -; Repairs have begun on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, where dozens of broken anchor rods could delay completion of a new ...

• Tavis Smiley marks 10th year on PBS

  In other words, he doesn't squander his opportunities on PBS' daily talk show "Tavis Smiley," which marks its 10th year this month, or on public radio's "The Tavis Smiley Show" and "Smiley & West," the latter a forum for commentary he shares with scholar and activist Cornel ...

• San Diego Gymnastics opens in Otay Ranch Town Center

  The new addition is just one of the many creative ways Otay Ranch Town Center has come up with to keep traffic coming to the mall during a difficult time for the retail ...

• Health Insurance At Good Prices Coming To Calif. Exchange

  Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, unveiled the plans and prices that will be offered by private insurers at a media briefing in Sacramento, Calif., ...

• Insurers Picked For California Health Exchange

  In a key test of the federal health law's ability to draw competitive bids from health insurance companies, California has unveiled plans and prices that will be available next year to millions of residents shopping for individual coverage on its new insurance ...

• Some damage reported from 5.7 quake in N. Calif.

  GREENVILLE, Calif. -- An earthquake in far northeastern California did not injure anyone but did cause moderate damage, including to a water tank that supplies hundreds of homes with drinking water, local authorities said Friday.Plumas County Sheriff Greg Hagwood said the magnitude-5.7 quake sent items tumbling from grocery store shelves and downed chimneys when it hit at 8:47 p.m. Thursday.The ...

• Les Miserables returns to Broadway Sacramento retooled

  May 24--Andrew Varela admits there have been times during "Les Miserables" when he wondered, "Who Am I?" The veteran Broadway actor knows how easy it is to stumble into the wrong lyrics -- and the wrong ...

• Four days of beats loops and synths at Sacramento Electronic Music Festival

  May 24--Clay Nutting and Adam Saake put in long hours at their bustling midtown restaurants LowBrau and the Golden Bear. Again they found the time and money to put on what Nutting calls their "passion project," the Sacramento Electronic Music Festival, a four-day celebration of beats, loops and synth ...

• How California Is Debunking The GOP’s Obamacare Talking Points

  revealed insurance companies’ opening bids for the state’s Obamacare marketplace in 2014. The numbers are great for consumers — and terrible for right-wing fear mongering over the health law. Covered California, the agency tasked with constructing and maintaining the Golden State’s insurance marketplace, announced in ...

• Suspect Wears Spiderman Mask During Robbery

  The suspect went to the AM-PM gas station at 201 Broadway in El Cajon around 1:30 a.m. and carried a semi-automatic handgun. The robber entered the store, then told the clerk to lie on the floor and began kicking him, according to ...

• Prius leads 2013 California car sales domestic brands make gains

  The Toyota Prius hybrid was the bestselling vehicle in California during the first quarter of this year, narrowly outpacing Honda’s redesigned Accord ...

• Oakland ordered to return millions in redevelopment funds

  OAKLAND -- State regulators have rejected Oakland's multi-million dollar accounting "gimmick" that helped balance its books two years ago, a move that severely cuts into the city's rainy day reserve.Faced with a $58 million deficit in 2011, Oakland sold eight properties -- most notably the shuttered Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center -- to its redevelopment agency.The ...

• Bay Area author on impact of dads CIA career

  While growing up, Scott C. Johnson often wondered what his father did for a living. The family moved a lot. Keith Johnson was absent for extended periods, and there were whole areas of his life that seemed to be secret.Johnson was 14 when he learned the truth. His father took him aside and said, "Scotty, I'm a spy."For the younger Johnson, now 39, the admission had far-reaching ...

• California earthquake rattles thousands in area near San Francisco

  An earthquake in far north-eastern was felt by thousands of people as far away as San Francisco and in two other states, but there have been no reports of injury or serious damage.The magnitude-5.7 quake broke dishes and shook mirrors when it struck at 8.47pm Thursday, officials said.It was centered near Greenville, about 25 miles south-west of Susanville in far north-eastern California, said ...

• Best Thing of the Day WikiLeaks Leaks Transcript of Hollywoods Doc on the Online Activists

  leaked the transcript of the new documentary, "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks," one night ahead of its worldwide release. The leaked transcript includes annotations that allege factual errors, misrepresentations and misguided framing in the film, directed by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney. An unnamed annotator disputes several over-arching conclusions drawn in ...

• US Czech slaying suspect killed relatives

  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- An American man accused of killing his uncle, aunt and cousins in the Czech Republic was arrested after fleeing to the United ...

• Ex-Googler Ben Ling joins friend Keith Rabois at Khosla

  Former Googler and active angel investor Ben Ling has joined Khosla Ventures. Khosla Ventures has landed another high profile Silicon Valley tech exec an angel investor with the addition of Ben Ling to the firm. Ling most recently Ben was chief operating officer at Badoo, the London-based social networking site that helps users meet new people in their area. Before that he was with Google, ...

• Photos Drew Barrymore lists in Montecito California for $7.5 million

  A year after walking down the aisle in the garden of her Montecito-area home in California, Drew Barrymore has listed the property for US7.5M. Located on a secluded two acres, the property is a spacious 6,000-square-feet with six bedrooms. The property also boasts a library, a sun room and a two-story ...

• Dothan board weighs officers Facebook posts

  DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) -- The Dothan Personnel Board expects to take a few weeks to decide what could be a landmark case involving the use of social media by ...

• Del Mar Racing Season Extended

  "It brings tons of people to the area, and I mean that's what we really need is a second meet, I mean we have the best track in the country, in most people's eyes, and we only have 7 weeks of racing...So we're very excited," said Del Mar restaurant owner Mason ...

• Video Calif. pols push for law to make reckless pay rescue fees

  CBS News' Carter Evans reports on a new push for a law that would saddle irresponsible victims -- instead of taxpayers -- with the bill for costly search-and-rescue ...

• East Bay school projects get $57 million in funding

  the Contra Costa Times . The awards were part of $520 million in funds approved for projects at 92 districts around the state. The 15 East Bay projects, for construction and modernization, had local matching funds for much of the ...

• Google Facebook may battle for Waze

  Bloomberg reports Waze is looking for bids of more than $1 billion for the company, but it may also stay independent and seek a new round of venture funding. Reports earlier this month said Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) was in talks for an acquisition in a deal worth as much as $1 billion. Apparently Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and other tech companies have also approached the ...

• Xbox found not to infringe Google patent

  Bloomberg reports . The ruling ends a case that was filed in November 2010 and an upholds a March ruling. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) obtained the patent when it bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in a deal that closed last year. The case is part of a global patent war between Google and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). Microsoft is seeking royalties on smart phones that use Google's Android ...

• Oakland Museum of California to reopen science wing after overhaul

  The Oakland Museum of California on May 31 will reopen its natural sciences gallery, the final part of a six-year, $63 million overhaul of the ...

• Google facing display ad probe by FTC

  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has started a probe into complaints that Google Inc. abused its power in the market for online display and video ...

• San Francisco Chronicle taps new management team

  San Francisco Chronicle owner Hearst Corp. has hired two senior executives to give a boost to the paper and its SFGate website. The company named newspaper veteran Jeffrey Johnson publisher, replacing Frank Vega, who announced his retirement Thursday. Johnson previously worked at the Chicago Tribune, the Orlando Sentinel and most recently the Los Angeles Times. Hearst also hired Joanne Bradford, ...

• Covered California again delays action on issue that upset VSP

  One item that was taken off the agenda Thursday by Covered California was action on supplemental benefits, including stand-alone vision and dental plans. This is the same issue that got Rancho Cordova-based VSP Global stirred up last August, threatening to grow elsewhere if the state kept the company out of the program. The big news out of Covered California this week was the 13 plans in the ...

• Target other retailers sue Visa MasterCard

  Target Corp. and 15 other retailers are suing Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. over credit- and debit-card fees after withdrawing from a settlement in another case, Bloomberg reports. The retailers claim Visa (NYSE: V) and MasterCard (NYSE: MA) restrained competition for interchange fees by imposing default rates and similar rules for accepting cards. In a previous antitrust case in federal court, ...

• Apple doubling lobbying spending this year

  Apple Inc. may have a much smaller presence in Washington than other companies of its size, but could double its lobbying spending in 2013. Apple Inc. may have a much smaller presence in Washington than other companies of its size, but could double its lobbying spending in 2013. Reuters reports that Apple spent about $2 million on lobbying in 2012, and is "on pace to nearly double last ...

• Yahoos design head Parsey leaving

  Yahoo Inc.'s SVP of User Experience Design Tim Parsey is leaving the company, but it has not been disclosed where he is going. Yahoo Inc.'s SVP of User Experience Design Tim Parsey is leaving the company, but it has not been disclosed where he is going. Parsey has been with Yahoo since early 2011 and "stabilized the design culture" at the company during that time, according to ...

• BART board votes to allow bikes on rush hour trains

  OAKLAND -- Another barrier to taking bicycles on board BART trains is falling with the removal of a ban on riders taking their bikes on trains during rush hour.The BART board decided Thursday that after July 1, riders can enter trains with bicycles during peak hours as long as they follow a rule restricting the two-wheelers from overcrowded train cars.The board vote was 6-3 to drop the ban, and ...

• Google is latest rumored to be mapping a Waze deal

  Google is the latest potential suitor reported to be considering making a big offer to buy Palo Alto crowd-sourced traffic app developer Waze, headed by CEO Noam Bardin. First Apple. Then Facebook. Now Google. Maybe somebody will finally find their Waze. But months of speculation has brought no deal yet for the Palo Alto crowd-sourced mobile traffic app developer. Bloomberg cited unnamed sources ...

• California Offers Glimpse Into Health Insurance Prices Under Obamacare

  California unveiled prices on Thursday that consumers will pay for a selection of health plans offered through the state under the Affordable Care Act, providing a glimpse into how health care reform may look as it is rolled out across the nation. Under the federal health care reform law, Californians who do not get or cannot afford health insurance through their jobs can buy coverage through ...

• Next week Space hacking Startup Conference Instagram unfiltered

  The calendar is a bit light next week after the three-day Memorial Day break, but there are a few good opportunities for founders and funders nonetheless. The big one is in Redwood City on Thursday when the annual Startup Conference is held in Redwood City. If your group is hosting something you think we should include in our daily and weekly TechFlash Silicon Valley calendar, send me a note at ...

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