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  • Teenage Indian hacker gets paid by US organization for dropping off college

    An Indian immigrant is set to become the most accomplished hacker in US as he is being paid for dropping college studies and engaging himself in Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial environment. Diwank Singh Tomer, 19 has enrolled himself with the Facebook's first investor and the co-founder and former CEO of PayPal, Peter Thiel, who is paying 100,000 dollars to 20 teenagers to launch a business of ...

  • Chavez Scores As Earthquakes Draw With Rapids 1-1

    SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) Marvin Chavez scored his first goal of the season to help the San Jose Earthquakes pull out a 1-1 tie against the Colorado Rapids on Saturday ...

  • Bay Area firms idea to lift underwater homeowners to positive equity loses steam

    A year ago, with the real estate market still in a deep slump, a San Francisco firm caught the attention of officials in California and elsewhere with its novel idea of using eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages in order to reduce the amount that borrowers owe.Now, with home prices rising again and facing fierce opposition from the financial industry, Mortgage Resolution Partners has ...

  • $590 million Powerball jackpot 1 winning ticket sold in Florida

    A Powerball Lottery ticket is dispensed from a machine in Oklahoma City, Friday, May 17, 2013. Powerball officials say the jackpot has climbed to an estimated $600 million, making it the largest prize in the game's history and the world's second largest lottery prize.(AP Photo/Sue ...

  • Konig Wins 7th Stage Van Garderen Retains Tour Of California Lead

    DANVILLE (CBS/AP) -- Leopold Konig of the Czech Republic won the seventh stage of the Tour of California in a mountaintop finish Saturday, and American Tejay van Garderen finished third to keep the overall lead for the third straight day. Konig, riding for the German team NetApp-Endura team, quickly moved ahead of Janier Acevedo of Colombia with about 400 yards left and completed the 91.4-mile ...


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Movie Review

Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras

Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras, an ultra-low-budget horror comedy made by three friends and funded by a Louisiana psychiatrist, was released straight to video in 1999 and, from those who bothered to give a look, received some utterly awful reviews. Net critic James Berardinelli called it "the worst professionally produced film I have had the displeasure of sitting through," while Robert Firsch ... ...

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  • San Jose police arrest teacher for meeting minor for lewd behavior www.priateofficer.com

    San Jose police on Friday announced the arrest of an elementary school teacher who works in Campbell this week for illegally meeting a minor to engage in lewd or lascivious behavior, according to authorities. The department’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force arrested 41-year-old Cupertino resident Grant Blair on Wednesday. The suspect, who teaches 4th and 5th grade at ...

  • Crime Punishment Discrepancy Depends on County Line

    But Mark wasn’t even charged. The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office officially kicked off a new misdemeanor diversion program last July for petty theft, trespass, and vandalism charges. James Gibbons-Shapiro oversees the Misdemeanor Unit at the D.A.’s ...

  • Chatwood leads Rockies past Giants 10-2

    Tyler Chatwood threw into the sixth inning and Wilin Rosario hit a two-run homer off Tim Lincecum in the Colorado Rockies' 10-2 rout of the San Francisco Giants on Saturday ...

  • $600M Winning Powerball Numbers Announced

    DES MOINES, Iowa (CBS/AP) — Lottery officials: Winning numbers in $600M drawing are 22, 10, 13, 14, 52 and Powerball 11. The $600 million jackpot was the largest prize in the game's history and the world's second largest lottery ...

  • Fremont Silicon Valley-Area Hub Becomes Factory Town

    FREMONT (CBS/AP) — In a busy factory, machinists move sheets of aluminum roll in the back door to be molded, stamped, twisted and notched into high-tech electric cars that sell for more than $60,000 each. Down the road in another plant, crews slice solar cells, place them under glass sheets and create panels that ship by the boxful to Europe. Elsewhere in this town, industrial workshops ...

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