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Obama-Xi meeting in Calif. sets low-key tone
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- Published on 06/06/2013 - 11:20 am
- Written by Gillian Flaccus, AP Writer
(AP) — A sprawling California desert estate built by billionaire philanthropists Walter and Leonore Annenberg is a place where political powerbrokers once discussed critical issues of the day and where royalty — real and Hollywood — soaked up sun and golfed on a private, nine-hole course.
UC Davis tests unmanned copters for crop spraying
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- Published on 06/06/2013 - 11:07 am
- Written by Associated Press
(AP) — Researchers at the University of California, Davis are testing the use of small unmanned helicopters for pesticide spraying at farms and vineyards.
Casinos ban gamblers from using Google Glass
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- Published on 06/05/2013 - 11:56 am
- Written by Wayne Perry, AP Writer
(AP) — Casinos in New Jersey and Nevada are among those forbidding gamblers from wearing Google Glass, the tiny eyeglasses-mounted device capable of shooting photos, filming video and surfing the Internet.
Court OKs $5.6M sale of indicted engineering firm
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- Published on 06/05/2013 - 11:42 am
- Written by Associated Press
(AP) — The assets of a New Jersey engineering company accused of circumventing the state's pay-to-play laws have been sold to a California firm.
Report: US hasn't seen expected 'Great Recovery'
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- Published on 06/05/2013 - 11:39 am
- Written by Associated Press
(AP) — An economic forecast says the country's expected "Great Recovery" hasn't materialized and the economy's fallen short of even normal growth.
Judge unlikely to let DWP keep salaries secret
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- Published on 06/05/2013 - 11:28 am
- Written by Associated Press
(AP) — A Los Angeles judge has indicated he is unlikely to comply with a request from the city Department of Water and Power to keep the names and salaries of hundreds of employees from the public.
Sean Parker to pay $2.5M in settlement
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- Published on 06/04/2013 - 1:57 pm
- Written by Jason Dearen, AP Writer
(AP) — Facebook billionaire Sean Parker's lavish, $10 million Big Sur wedding got even more expensive.
Audit: PG&E didn't spend $50M for safety
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- Published on 06/04/2013 - 1:47 pm
- Written by Associated Press
(AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric Co. did not use more than $50 million it collected from ratepayers that was meant to improve its gas pipeline network in the decade leading up to a deadly explosion in a San Francisco Bay Area suburb, an audit shows.
'Internship' film focuses on Google's good side
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- Published on 06/04/2013 - 1:26 pm
- Written by Associated Press
(AP) — This scene isn't in the movie, but it might have been fitting if "The Internship" had ended with stars Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson wearing ruby red shoes while clicking their heels and dreamily whispering, "There's no place like Google; there's no place like Google."
Ex-Calif. Rep. Cunningham finishes prison term
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- Published on 06/04/2013 - 1:16 pm
- Written by ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press
(AP) — Randy "Duke" Cunningham, whose feats as a Navy flying ace during the Vietnam War catapulted him to a U.S. House career that ended in disgrace when he was convicted of accepting $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors, on Tuesday completed one of the longest prison sentence ever given to a member of Congress.
