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  • NASA Opens Space Station for Biological Research From NIH Grants Thursday, September 9, 2010 @ 8:11AMWASHINGTON, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA is enabling biomedical research with National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants that take advantage of the unique microgravity environment aboard the International Space Station to explore fundamental questions about important health issues.(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO)(Logo: [[[SHIFTOUT ...
  • NASA Opens Space Station For Biological Research From NIH Grants Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 2:48PMNASA opens Space Station for biological research from NIH grants that take advantage of the unique microgravity environment aboard Station to explore fundamental questions about important health issues.
  • NASA Opens Space Station for Biological Research From NIH Grants Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 2:41PMWASHINGTON, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA is enabling biomedical research with National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants that take advantage of the unique microgravity environment aboard the International Space Station to explore fundamental questions about important health issues.
  • Annie Le’s Family Conducting Own Investigation Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 12:56PMAnnie Le’s family is conducting its own investigation into Yale’s actions in investigating the disappearance and murder of the 24-year-old graduate student. The investigator is... Yale University - Murder - Murder of Annie Le - Connecticut - United States
  • Reclusive heiress's attorney lashes out at family Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 6:35AMElderly heiress Huguette Clark's attorney has responded to an effort by her relatives to oust him by ridiculing them as Johnny-come-latelies. Msnbc.com's Bill Dedman reports.
  • Reclusive heiress's attorney lashes out at family Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 5:26AMElderly heiress Huguette Clark's attorney has responded to an effort by her relatives to oust him by ridiculing them as Johnny-come-latelies. Msnbc.com's Bill Dedman reports. Bill Dedman - United States - Msnbc.com - Huguette Clark - New York City
  • Television review: 'Terriers' Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 2:15AMDonal Logue stars in this well-made fall offering as a former cop paired with a former thief, played by Michael Raymond-James. "Terriers," which begins Wednesday on FX, is a wonderfully well-conceived, well-made and well-played series about a pair of soft-boiled downmarket private detectives in over their heads in San Diego. In a fall season overly populated with cops and criminals, there may be ...
  • Television review: 'Terriers' Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 11:46PMDonal Logue stars in this well-made fall offering as a former cop paired with a former thief, played by Michael Raymond-James.
  • Bobcat on power pole starts brush fire Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 1:03PMA bobcat climbing up a power pole resulted in a small brush fire near Piru that was contained in several hours Monday morning, according to Ventura County Fire Department officials.
  • Officials outline hundreds of incidents -- many very violent -- in seeking injunction against Ogden Trece Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 11:28PMOGDEN -- Tales of Trece. read more
  • BRIEFLY METRO Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 2:22AMGame day drinking times restricted Eugene police remind game-day drinkers that it’s OK to consume alcohol today in Autzen Stadium’s parking lots and in a number of private lots in the area from four hours before kickoff until the game ends. Before and after those times, public alcohol consumption in …
  • North State in Brief: Sept. 4, 2010 Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 1:46AMA 24-year-old Red Bluff man was killed in a wreck on I-5 early Friday morning in Tehama County.
  • Leslie Hatfield: This Labor Day, Will Trader Joe's Agree to Fair Food? Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 2:02PMOriginally published at Ecocentric. Two weeks ago, my coworker Karen and I left the office a little early and walked across Manhattan to the Trader...
  • Friday Must Read: PG&E’s SmartMeters Pass Flawed Test; Jerry Brown Awakens from Long Slumber Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 12:06PMStories you shouldn’t miss: 1. PG&E’s controversial SmartMeters don’t overbill customers, but the utility’s service reps are nasty and incompetent , the Chron reports, citing a newly released study by consulting firm hired by California regulators.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  • UC Merced's stem cell facility taking shape Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 3:45AMConstruction on the UC Merced Stem Cell Instrumentation Foundry is expected to be finished by late December, yet the university is still in the process of raising money for equipment.
  • General court martial on fort brings marijuana convictions Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 2:17AMBy Bill Hess Herald/Review FORT HUACHUCA — A Signal Corps soldier faces up to 60 years in prison now that he has been convicted of four drug-related charges. On Thursday, a military jury of five officers and four noncommissioned officers determined Spc. Treymane Jones, of the 40th Expeditionary Signal Battalion’s rear detachment was guilty of two charges of possession and distribution of ...
  • Ex-official wanted to fire FBI agent held in murder plot after 1992 standoff Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 10:52PMA former special agent in charge of the Dallas FBI office said he tried to fire Carlos Ortiz 18 years ago after the troubled agent was involved in a seven-hour armed standoff with SWAT team members. But Oliver "Buck" Revell said his recommendation was rejected by his FBI superiors in Washington because Ortiz, who is currently accused of plotting to kill his wife and his former boss, was deemed ...
  • Sutter Health's Market Power Is Questioned Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 10:43PMInsurers say the Northern California hospital chain uses its market clout to raise prices
  • CIA Chief Spices Up Agency's Image On Reality TV Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 3:45PMAround a long table in a windowless room, the CIA officials awaited the decision from their director, Leon Panetta. "A little too salty," the CIA chief finally said, giving thumbs down to the dish prepared by a warring team of cooks from the reality TV show "Top Chef."
  • CIA Chief Spices Up Agency's Image on Reality TV Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 12:00PMLeon Panetta Appears as Guest Judge on "Top Chef" as He Works to Protect CIA's Budget and Boost Staff's Morale
  • CIA chief spices up spy shop's image on reality TV Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 10:13AMAround a long table in a windowless room, the CIA officials awaited the decision from their director, Leon Panetta. Leon Panetta - Central Intelligence Agency - Television - United States - Barack Obama
  • Panetta spices up CIA image on reality TV Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 8:52AMWASHINGTON — Around a long table in a windowless room, the CIA officials awaited the decision from their director, Leon Panetta.
  • $20 million of pot up in smoke Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 5:39AMApproximately 7,000 mature marijuana plants, with an estimated street value of $20 million, were confiscated and destroyed by a flurry of law enforcement officials who combed 100 acres of ridge land near Kent Lake (west of Fairfax) Aug.18.
  • United Airlines pilot and accomplices arrested for flying drugs to Shelby Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 5:23PMSHELBY, N.C.-- A United Airlines pilot based in San Francisco is charged with flying 173 pounds of marijuana to the Shelby-Cleveland County Regional Airport. That flight on a private plane landed in the middle of the night earlier this month. Deputies and local police knew it was coming and surrounded the plane after it landed. Pilot James Hathaway, Andrea Vander and Brook Rogers were arrested ...
  • This Week in Science Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 10:40AMIn Science this week, researchers at the New York University School of Medicine and their colleagues compare the genome sequences of the ants Camponotus floridanus and Harpegnathos saltator . Both species' genomes, the authors write, "contained high amounts of CpG, despite the presence of DNA methylation."
  • NSF project at Carnegie Mellon will develop architecture that makes Internet secure, smart Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 10:18AM( Carnegie Mellon University ) Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University will lead a three-year, $7.1 million effort sponsored by the National Science Foundation to develop a next-generation network architecture that fixes security and reliability deficiencies now threatening the viability of the Internet.
  • Deep sea subs will likely find missing Air France jet: Expert Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 9:40AMFifteen months after an Air France jumbo jet inexplicably dropped out of the sky over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 people on board, underwater expert Mike Dessner says the world should not give up hope — the aircraft's two missing "black boxes" will almost certainly be found."
  • Oksana's Dentist Sticks With Original Story Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 3:03AMFiled under: Oksana Grigorieva , Mel Gibson , Dr. Ross Shelden , Celebrity Justice , Paparazzi Video Oksana Grigorieva 's dentist is talking on camera for the first time -- sticking with his first version of events on January 6 between Mel Gibson and Oksana  -- that she was struck in the mouth AND the head. As we first reported, Oksana went to Dr.… Read more
  • Oakland's fight over funds mires jobs effort Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 7:41AMOakland's job creation efforts are embroiled in a power struggle over how to dole out millions of dollars in federal job training funds, a fight that comes five months after a state auditor found a number of problems with how the city was using some of the... Oakland California - United States - Employment - Oakland - Business
  • North State in brief: Aug. 21, 2010 Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 12:46AMA red pickup reported carjacked in downtown Redding was recovered Friday in Trinity County, according the Redding Police Department.
  • Another armed grower killed by deputies in county pot wars Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 2:20PMOne man is dead and five Mendocino County deputies are on administrative leave following two near simultaneous shootouts in the remote wild area on private land near Cahto peak, about three miles west of Laytonville early Wednesday morning.
  • Terri Moulton Horman: Kyron Horman's stepmother is a profile in contradictions Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 12:34AMThe missing boy's stepmother, focus of the inquiry into his disappearance, is described as a giver and a taker, caring but controlling, sweet but manipulative.
  • Roger Clemens indicted: How much trouble is he in? Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 4:27PMBaseball star Roger Clemens was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges of lying to Congress during a 2008 hearing on steroid use. But proving perjury is difficult.
  • Roger Clemens indicted: How much trouble is he in? Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 3:53PMHow much trouble is Roger Clemens in?
  • Honored Fairfield U. alum admits sex abuse at Haitian charity Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 12:20PMNEW HAVEN -- The once-inspiring story of a Fairfield University graduate who gave up the good life to help clothe, feed and educate homeless Haitian boys came to a shattering end Wednesday when Douglas Perlitz , the founder of the humanitarian project and one-time commencement speaker at his Fairfield alma mater, acknowledged sexually abusing at least eight of his underage students.
  • Free of ‘sextortion?' Tuesday, August 17, 2010 @ 5:38AMOnline sexual extortion has targeted teens in other states.
  • Barclays, McKinsey, DLA Piper, Citigroup, Cerberus, Lehman in Court News Monday, August 16, 2010 @ 11:29PMBarclays Plc agreed to pay $298 million to settle claims it violated trade laws by facilitating transactions involving banks from countries under U.S. sanctions.
  • Aerial Images Being Used to Enforce Laws Monday, August 16, 2010 @ 8:54AMOn Long Island, it’s used to prevent drownings. In Greece, it’s a tool to help solve a financial crisis. Municipalities update property assessment rolls and other government data with it. Some in law enforcement use it to supplement reconnaissance of crime suspects. High-tech eyes in the sky — from satellite imagery to sophisticated aerial photography that [...]
  • Santa Clara Superior Court Rules In Favor Of PrediWave on All Counts Against Simpson, Thacher & Barlett, LLP Monday, August 16, 2010 @ 8:11AMSANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Judge Mary Jo Levinger of the Santa Clara Superior Court has rejected a request by Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, LLP to dismiss claims for malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty and unfair competition asserted against the law firm by its former client, PrediWave Corporation. In March, the California technology company filed an amended complaint alleging that ...
  • Santa Clara Superior Court Rules In Favor Of PrediWave on All Counts Against Simpson, Thacher & Barlett, LLP Monday, August 16, 2010 @ 8:00AMSANTA CLARA, Calif.----Judge Mary Jo Levinger of the Santa Clara Superior Court has rejected a request by Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, LLP to dismiss claims for malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty and unfair competition asserted against the law firm by its former client, PrediWave Corporation.
  • HP board's loss of trust sealed fate of Hurd Monday, August 16, 2010 @ 7:35AMHewlett-Packard Co.'s Mark Hurd surprised the board by settling a sexual-harassment claim before directors could learn more about the incident, a final breach of trust that contributed to his ouster as chief executive officer, two people familiar with the... Mark Hurd - Hewlett-Packard - Sexual harassment - Chief executive officer - Wall Street Journal
  • Ex-NASA head O'Keefe improving after Alaska crash Friday, August 13, 2010 @ 2:25AMFormer NASA chief Sean O'Keefe's condition is improving after he was injured in the Alaska plane crash that killed former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens and four others.
  • Sharon McCone: P.I. On The Pier Of San Francisco Bay Friday, August 13, 2010 @ 2:18AMMarcia Muller has written dozens of mystery novels set in San Francisco, her city of choice, starring no-nonsense Detective Sharon McCone -- one of contemporary fiction's first liberated female private detectives.
  • Threat of violence rises as Wisconsin marijuana farms grow Thursday, August 12, 2010 @ 10:47AMMarijuana producers appear to be becoming more ambitious about the size of their crops and planting them in public.
  • This Week in Nature Thursday, August 12, 2010 @ 10:09AMIn an advance, online publication of Nature this week, investigators at the University of Southern California and their colleagues report their use of homologous recombination to engineer genes and create p53-knockout rats . The team created a targeting vector to disrupt p53, enabling the "p53 gene-targeted mutation in the rat ES cell genome" to "transmit through the germ line via ES-cell rat ...
  • Cathedral High School Grads Who Died in Crash Remembered Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 9:16PMDozens join memorial run along Pacific Coast Highway. For the first time, we hear from one of the girl's father as he tries to cope with an overwhelming loss.
  • Dance Instructor Pleads Guilty To Child Sex Charges Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 4:33PMA dance instructor accused of having sex with a minor and molesting others changed his plea in court on Wednesday, entering a guilty plea.
  • Kingman residents upset. Weren’t told prison would house murderers Woman who helped prison escapees jailed in Globe Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 12:05PMGLOBE — The woman who operates the General Store and Service Station at Jake’s Corner on state Highway 188 north of Roosevelt Lake is in the Gila County Jail at Globe under $250,000 bail bond.
  • Drummond: A year later, no word on missing Fremont boy Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 10:01PMHasanni Campbell was never in Oakland on Aug. 10, 2009.The story that his foster parents, Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell, told police about the 5-year-old Fremont boy mysteriously disappearing from a storefront driveway in Rockridge?
  • Rep. Waters Asks Ethics Committee to Schedule Trial Before Elections Wednesday, August 4, 2010 @ 8:07PMDemocratic Rep. Maxine Waters has asked the House ethics committee to schedule her trial before the November elections and called on ethics investigators to make public the formal charges against her.