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When the head of one of the state's largest independent pension funds received an invitation recently for his staff to attend a conference in Hawaii, his response lacked the aloha spirit.
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School districts and taxpayers will have to pay huge balloon payments because districts desperate for cash entered long-term bonds.
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Some school districts will have to pay huge balloon payments because districts desperate for cash entered long-term payment bonds.
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The Oakland Unified School District failed to follow federal regulations in doling out taxpayer money to benefit local private schools and must pay some of it back, a state review has found.
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Newly released emails and documents show which current and former senior administrators at the College of the Desert were aware that the district's enrollment figures were inaccurate and the college was overbilling the state a deception that will cost the district $5.26 million in repayments.
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As executive director of the riends of the San Francisco Public Library, Scott Staub raises money to give to the city's libraries. In his spare time, he raises money to give to politicians.
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An estimated 1 in 4 jobs in San Diego County are tied to the military sector, and $32 billion in defense-related activities is linked to that area alone, more than the entire economic output of Panama.
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In the next year, many of California's local jails might limit federal immigration "holds" to detainees with felony convictions.
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Californians who sue licensed professionals, such as contractors or nurses, will no longer be subjected to legal settlements that ban them from talking to state officials investigating misconduct when a new law takes effect in January.
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The College of the Desert in Palm Desert will have to pay back $5.2 million because the district knowingly overstated its enrollment and overbilled the state for seven years, a pattern that the state Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team characterized as potential fraud.
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870,000 children who were covered by the Healthy Families program will be moved to Medi-Cal in phases starting Jan. 1.
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Eight out of 10 couches contain flame retardant chemicals that are linked to heightened cancer risk, developmental delays in children or are lacking adequate health information, according to a study released today by UC Berkeley and Duke University researchers.
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The Federal Aviation Administration will take back $2.1 million in stimulus funds that it gave to San Francisco International Airport because the money was used improperly, according to the Department of Transportation's inspector general.
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Two San Joaquin Valley lawmakers have been accused of laundering $40,000 in a scheme to dodge California's tough limits on political contributions.
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When the Department of Homeland Security trudged up to Capitol Hill this year and asked lawmakers for another 365 days worth of funding, as every federal agency does each year, officials ticked off a list of accomplishments they presented as evidence of the agency's ongoing success.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection last month received its latest unmanned aircraft, but it's a new sole-source contract that could approach a half-billion dollars that offers the latest insight into the agency's vision for its controversial eyes-in-the-sky drone program.
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For-profit college giant Career Education Corp. announced that it will close 23 of its 90 campuses and eliminate 900 jobs after the company reported a net loss this quarter of $33 million and a 23 percent drop in new student enrollment.
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After California regulators refused to allow the U.S. Air Force to label residue from radioactive aircraft instruments as "naturally occurring" declaring it unsuitable for a Bakersfield-area dump the military turned to Idaho with the same story.
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Multimillionaire activists, big labor unions and major corporations combined to pump more than $363 million into political fights over 11 propositions on Tuesday's state ballot, a California Watch analysis shows.
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The state medical board has investigated a mounting number people posing as doctors and offering risky treatments, including a San Francisco man who performed liposuction while smoking a cigar and a San Diego woman who sickened a patient with lengthy IV infusion treatments.
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Californians rank 10th in the country for having the longest commute times, taking an average of 26.9 minutes to travel to work.
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FBI investigators used a court order authorizing access to cellphone customer data to quietly deploy a powerful surveillance technology known as "stingrays," privacy groups contend in a new court filing [PDF] that claims the devices are overly invasive.
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While Gov. Jerry Brown cries foul over $11 million in unidentified money that recently infused the state ballot measure fight, federal races in California and around the country are awash in secret money, too.
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In a taste test of new lunch items last year at the Long Beach Unified School District, the "fiesta salad" received a nearly 73 percent approval rating.
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Since the start of the 2010 school year, thirsty students at Turlock High School can visit a "hydration station," a state-of-the-art drinking fountain that provides filtered and chilled water.
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Women might use emoticons more than men, but men have a broader emoticon vocabulary.
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California has made gains in the early stages of children's academic trajectory but has failed to sustain them, a new assessment of kids' well-being has shown.
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Cycling superstar Lance Armstrong earned his unprecedented seven victories in the Tour de France with the aid of a "sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program" on his racing team, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said today.
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California has made gains in the early stages of children's academic trajectory but has failed to sustain them, a new assessment of kids' well-being has shown.
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It's not just researchers who have noticed that people enjoy a nice glass of dark, red wine with their steaks.
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The debate over the state's responsibility for disabled prisoners has taken on increasing importance as the state shifts the burden of housing thousands of inmates.
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Those affected by Gov. Jerry Brown's recent passing and vetoing of hundreds of bills, are examining the successes and defeats.
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The Sierra Club is spending $625,000 to defeat a Republican lawmaker who has championed one of the environmental organization's most cherished goals draining the Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite National Park.
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Gov. Jerry Brown signed two bills yesterday to require California's developmental centers to alert outside police and a disability protection organization when patients die under suspicious circumstances, are abused or are seriously injured.
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A new survey is the second report in recent months indicating that what some have called an epidemic of prescription drug abuse is showing signs of tapering.
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The rate was startling: Nearly six in 10 teachers at California's lowest-performing schools were not properly credentialed for the classes they led. It's a rate California has worked to shrink for the past six years. It's also a rate that was wrong.
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Once a promising source of green energy, high-tech biofuel is being eclipsed by skin cream and food products as manufacturers shift to more lucrative products.
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As California's outdoor marijuana growing season nears its end for 2012, drug officials are reporting a sharp decline in crop seizures for the second year in a row.
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Some homeowners who lost their houses to foreclosure thought the worst was behind them, but they were wrong. Now they're in double jeopardy.
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Super-hot summers, explosive storms and melting ice caps are the usual images that spring up when discussing climate change.
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Airports in California could soon see the second generation of full-body scanners used to detect nonmetallic weapons and improvised explosive devices after earlier machines raised privacy and health concerns.
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Critics of political donations to school bond campaigns from companies that profit from the bonds are urging federal regulators to take bolder steps against what they call a "pay to play" practice.
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A state court today ordered the California Department of Public Health to disclose uncensored copies of dozens of patient abuse cases at institutions for the developmentally disabled.
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Tens of thousands of California schoolchildren ride aging school buses that emit harmful pollutants, an analysis of state data shows.
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When a change to federal law meant many immigrants would lose access to certain welfare benefits, Santa Clara County faced having to absorb thousands of residents in local safety net programs. So the county pursued a way to keep immigrants eligible for federal benefits: citizenship.
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Researchers have identified an antibody that not only prevents the flu virus from taking hold of its victims' cells, but also cures already infected animals.
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State corrections officials are moving forward with a plan for handling prison gangs and other violent groups.
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The Academy of Art University has sued the California Student Aid Commission, arguing the state agency should not have ruled the San Francisco college's students ineligible for Cal Grants in the 2012-13 academic year.
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The Oakland Unified School District is cutting off federal funds benefiting a private school accused of abuse.
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A proposal to study seismic safety improvements for public schools quietly died in an Assembly committee.
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