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Al Horford was unstoppable and the high-flying Atlanta Hawks remained unbeaten in the NBA.
Horford had a career-high 27 points, 17 rebounds and six blocks as the Hawks rolled to their sixth straight victory, 113-108 over the Chicago Bulls on Tuesday night.
"Everybody knows we're shorthanded with Josh Smith (ankle injury)...
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 When Sacramento Kings saw themselves leaded with one point in the last minutes of the game, they realized that the only chance to take the lead and win the game on Saturday night was to stop Kobe Bryant get anywhere close to their basket.Consequently, the Kings blocked Bryant, forcing him to throw a jumper from an uncomfortable position,...
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 Kobe Bryant managed to have 34 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Los Angeles Lakers past Sacramento Kings 117-105 on Tuesday night at the ARCO Arena.Pau Gasol added 31 points and hauled another ten rebounds, helping it team record the second victory in a row and the 12 in 13 matches this season. Also, Lamar Odom finished the game with...
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 Tracy McGrady and Yao Ming clearly weren't themselves. Neither were the San Antonio Spurs.
McGrady scored nine points in his return and the Houston Rockets
survived uncharacteristically poor free-throw shooting from Yao for an
83-81 home victory over San Antonio on Saturday night.
Yao had 21 points and 14 rebounds for the...
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 Brandon Roy and the Portland Trail Blazers basketball team continue to flourish while the Miami Heat remains in a free-fall.
Roy scored 16 of his 24 points in the decisive final quarter, and
the Trail Blazers handed the hapless Heat its season-high 12th
consecutive loss, 98-91 on Friday night.
"Brandon just did a nice job of...
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 Cold-shooting Ray Allen finally found his stroke and the Boston Celtics got back to their winning ways.
Allen scored 26 of his 35 points in the second half, and the
Celtics snapped their season-high two-game losing streak with a 100-90
victory over the visiting Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday night.
In his last five games,...
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 Thanks to Kobe Bryant's heroics, the Los Angeles Lakers turned a bad day into a good night.
Bryant scored six of his season-high 48 points in overtime,
including the game-winning jumper with 4.3 seconds remaining, to lift
the surging Lakers over the Seattle SuperSonics, 123-121, on Monday
night.
The Lakers' season-high seventh...
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 The NBA and its fans will be heading to the desert next winter, after
league commissioner David Stern announced on Thursday that Phoenix has
been selected to host the 2009 All-Star Game for the third time.
"Phoenix is one of the great sports and entertainment destinations,
so it is only natural that it will once again become...
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 The National Basketball Association suspended Stephen Jackson of the Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings Ron Artest for seven games without pay.Jackson’s suspension was caused by his plead of guiltiness to criminal recklessness in Indiana where he fired a gun outside a strip club. He was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine and perform...
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 After Billy Donovan agreed to coach Orlando and backed off returning to the Florida Gators, Magic acted quickly and hired Stan Van Gundy as head coach.Florida was eager to re-hire Donovan, who spurned a five-year, $27.5 million contract with Orlando.On Thursday, Donovan apologized to the Magic, his family and Florida. "I feel...
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 Coach Billy Donovan is trying to void the five-year, $27.5 million contract signed last week with the Orlando Magic as he is attempting to return to his previous team, the Florida Gators, a person familiar with the negotiations said Monday. He won with the University of Florida the last two national championships.''While Central Florida,...
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 Chi Cheng, 38, bassist for the California rock band Deftones, has suffered serious and critical injuries which have put him in a coma after he was part of a terrible car crash accident on Monday in Santa Clara, California. Frontman of the group, Chino Moreno, stated that Cheng is a “very serious state.” Either he refused to give more...
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 WYSP-FM’s Kidd Chris, who was the morning show’s host, along
with a radio station’s program director, John Cook, were fired due to a racy
song which aired for the first time on March 21, during Chris’ show. CBS Corp. found
it extremely inappropriate for the host, whose real name is Chris Foley, to
allow such a song to be performed....
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Although Kevin Garnett missed the game on Tuesday night, the Boston Celtics seemed to be just fine without their emotional leader.
Paul Pierce scored 23 points and fan favourite Brian Scalabrine, filling in for the suspended Garnett, fired in a game-sealing three- pointer with just over a minute left to play as the Celtics held off...
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Hours after losing Chauncey Billups and Antonio McDyess in a blockbuster trade, the Detroit Pistons went about their business as usual
Richard Hamilton scored 19 points and Rasheed Wallace had 15 to lead six teammates in double figures as the undefeated Pistons rolled to their third straight victory to start the season, by bashing the...
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Greg Oden made a successful NBA debut with 13 points and five rebounds, as the Portland Trail Blazers buried the visiting Sacramento Kings, 110-81 Tuesday night in the pre-season opener for both clubs.
The centre Oden was the top overall pick in the 2007 draft, but his rookie season was delayed by one year due to right knee...
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 California Highway Patrol has released a statement saying that seven people were killed and 30 others were wounded last night after a bus which was carrying casino-bound gamblers had got off the road near Colusa County town of Williams and rolled over. CHP Dispatcher Terry Troth said that "the (bus) was northbound on Lonestar Road...
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 The helicopter that crashed in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest on Tuesday killed nine men and injured four other. The chopper rose from the helipad and then crashed into trees. National Transportation and Safety Board managed to recover the helicopter’s cockpit voice recorder and sent it to Washington D.C. to be verified. The accident...
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 A helicopter crashed in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest on Tuesday. The helicopter was carrying firefighters back to base and nine of the them are missing and believed to be dead. Four others who were on board of the chopper were critically burned.Officials couldn’t identify all the passengeres until now. The Sikorksy S-61 helicopter...
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 According to authorities, a pickup truck crashed into a sport utility vehicle Tuesday. At least eight people plunged into Delta-Mendota Canal about 15 miles southwest of Modesto in Stanislaus County, on the east side of I-5. The irrigation canal is a main water provider for San Joaquin Valley agriculture. Based on reports from witnesses...
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California firefighters gained the upper hand
Monday on a rash of wildfires that have devastated the state for three
weeks. But the problems continued in the Golden State as the violent
thunderstorms that helped douse the flames also triggered mudslides.
'If it isn't fire, it's flood. If it isn't fire or flood, it's the
mud,' said...
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 While mudslides on fire-blemished territory in the eastern
Sierra Nevada constrained people to leave their properties, more gentle weather
in Northern California facilitated the
firefighters’ work in suppressing parts of the wildfires in the area and
permitted inhabitants of numerous communities to return home.
A massive mudslide...
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
ordered 2,000 more National Guard troops to the fire lines Friday as
the first fatality of the three weeks of wildfires was discovered.
The remains of the unidentified person were found in a house
destroyed when the Gap Fire swept through the town of Concow Wednesday,
said police in the...
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 Thousands of residents north of Sacramento have been ordered to evacuate
their homes after irregular airstreams blew embers across wildfire repression
lines, the most recent impediment for already pressured firefighters.
Authorities forced the residents of 3,200 homes in Paradise to abandon their houses on Tuesday after...
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A Sacramento
couple was threatened with a $746 fine after they hadn’t watered their lawn and
let it die, for saving the water.
Matt George and Anne
Hartridge told the press that they stopped watering their lawn after California
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared an emergency draught on June 4.
The citation they...
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 Same-sex couples who spent years hoping for the legal right to wed finally had that opportunity as the city opened a special office in a park auditorium in West Hollywood, California, on Tuesday to issue gender-neutral marriage licenses.
Actor George Takei and his partner were among the first Californian couples to get a wedding...
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 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared Wednesday
that California
is in a drought after two years of below-average rainfall and the largest
court-order restrictions of water transfers in state history. This is the first
statewide drought in 17 years.
Schwarzenegger called for a 20 percent
reduction in water use statewide, urging...
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A 10-year-old boy who last year managed to make his way onto
airline flights to Texas
tried another getaway Tuesday but was stopped at a boarding gate, authorities
said, quoted by the Associated Press.
Security tapes depicted how Semaj Booker passed through a metal detector and
other procedures before 5 a.m. at a checkpoint...
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 Politicians, religious and conservative
groups’ representatives are trying to get an initiative on the November ballot
to block a recent state Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage
in the Golden State. The initiative is expected to
qualify for the ballot after June 16, when the court’s decision is scheduled to
take...
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More than 20 people were riding the carnival raid, called the Yo-Yo, when it collapsed shortly after 6 p.m. Friday at the Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee in Angels Camp in the Gold Country, authorities said.24 people were injured, including three seriously. The three seriously inured were airlifted, one each to UC Davis...
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 Karen Bass will become the first African American woman to take
the helm of the Democratic-led Assembly, the first of several legislative
leaderships in Sacramento.
Former San Francisco Mayor and long time Assemblyman Willie
Brown was the first African American to lead the California State Assembly.
Brown led this position for...
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If this were a cartoon, the situation would quickly be solved
by using a hairdryer to resuscitate the poor cats. But this is the real world
and nothing comes back to life.
So many freaky things happen in the world, that it was only
a question of time until someone would actually pack a freezer with 300 dead
cats.
To be more...
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 The ex-Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
fugitive Sara Jane Olson was released from prison on Monday, officials said Thursday
quoted by the Associated Press.
Olson had hidden for years claiming she was just an ordinary
housewife, but she pleaded guilty in 2001 after attempting to bomb police cars
with the SLA. She was sentenced...
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 Police evacuated more than 450 students from the University of California Davis dormitories after explosive materials were found in one of the rooms on Thursday, police and school officials said. The evacuated students were forced to spend the night in a nearby cafeteria. No injuries were reported.The student arrested by police for...
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 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is considering the early
release of some 22,000 prisoners from state jails, the Sacramento Bee
reported Friday.
The move would be one of the largest ever prisoner releases in the
United States and would be among a string of measures designed to cope
with an expected 14-billion-dollar...
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The California Department of Water Resources plans to fire up its pumps near Tracy on Sunday at reduced flow. Lester Snow, director of the California Department of Water Resources, said that the pumps will operate at 10% of their capacity:"We will be pumping at bare minimum levels and tweaking our delivery system to meet the...
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 A team of scientist has discovered that people taking cholesterol-lowering statins are less likely to develop dementia and have memory loss than those who do not take statins. According to the Alzheimer's Research Trust, the findings of the research are "encouraging". The study, published in the July 29 edition of Neurology,...
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Almost 100 California
residents are being harmed in hospitals in adverse events thought to be
preventable.
Records reveal the astonishing fact that during a 10-month
period doctors performed a wrong surgical procedure, on the wrong part of the
body or on the wrong patient 41 times. Moreover, for 145 times foreign objects such...
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 The newspaper circulation in the United States has decreased, the latest survey shows, as more and more customers choose the Internet version over the printed one and as the publishers make strong efforts to streamline their businesses, cutting back from promotion in order to lower the costs.The Audit Bureau of Circulations released the...
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 This year is probably going to be the smallest ocean salmon harvest on record, as the West Coast fisheries agreed on Thursday to halt all commercial salmon fishing of the coasts of California and Oregon.The Pacific Fishery Management Council voted to cancel all commercial salmon fishing, but decided to allow limited recreational fishing...
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 Blame it on the bus! Well, if you are R. Kelly, it works,
although prosecutors are even more eager to get you arrested.
Here’s what happened. Kelly was due to appear in court in
the child pornography case and as he didn’t show up, he put the blame on the
touring bus, which was delayed because the driver didn’t get enough sleep...
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 A container ship has hit a span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge on Wednesday morning, damaging the 900-foot container carrier Cosco Busan, allowing 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel to spill into the bay. This was the largest oil spill in San Francisco Bay in the last decade.Even if the collision has not damaged the bridge, the oil spill has...
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 The Chicago Bulls’ general manager, John Paxson, has denied the fact that Kobe Bryant would be joining his team in the near future, saying that the two teams were not even close to signing a deal.Rumors about the fact that the Los Angeles Laker’s superstar might head towards Chicago had occurred all throughout this week, but Paxson has...
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 According to a recent study, it is possible to eat local
fish without risking your health even though mercury pollution in the vast
Sacramento Delta watershed remains a major public health threat.
Mercury, a potent neurotoxin that is particularly harmful to
fetuses and children, is pervasive throughout the Delta, but the ongoing...
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 For the past few years, California officials have been distributing
lunchboxes in a healthy eating campaign promotion. 300,000 of these lunchboxes
were sold and according to health representatives, each and every one of the lunchboxes
present a heath hazard in itself by containing high levels of lead.
The study was conducted on...
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