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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 ...

  • $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 ...

  • Homeless in Silicon Valley

    Investigative journalist Bill Moyers takes a look at poverty and the homeless in Silicon Valley despite the area's tremendous wealth creation over the past decade from Google, Facebook, Oracle and ...


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Movie Review

Solaris (2002) [DVD]

Solaris (2002) [DVD]

Steven Soderbergh's film of Polish novelist Stanislaw Lem's Solaris was advertised as a romance during its theatrical release, which is not entirely inaccurate, depending on what your definition is of a romantic movie. Solaris is a love story, but it's not exactly a date movie, unless your date is a graduate student in philosophy. Rather, it is a difficult and enigmatic exploration ... ...

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  • Pilot Killed When Plane Departing From Santa Clara Crashes In Truckee

    TRUCKEE (CBS/AP) — Federal investigators are trying to determine the cause of a small plane crash that killed a pilot near the Sierra town of Truckee. The Federal Aviation Administration says the pilot was flying alone when the twin-engine Cessna 421 crashed Thursday afternoon in the Tahoe National Forest about 15 miles northeast of Truckee. The pilot’s name wasn’t ...

  • Bomb Scare Prompts Evacuation After Amgen Tour Bike Race In Livermore

    LIVERMORE (CBS SF) — Festivities surrounding the Amgen Tour of California Race were brought to a temporary halt by a bomb scare in downtown Livermore Saturday afternoon, according to a police spokeswoman. The multi-city bicycle race had already passed through town around 2:30 p.m. but many people remained on the scene when a suspicious cardboard box with a postmark from Southern ...

  • Police San Jose man arrested for stabbing Fremont motorist in chest with screwdriver

    FREMONT -- A San Jose man was arrested Friday afternoon for allegedly stabbing a fellow motorist in the chest with a screwdriver at a Fremont gas station earlier this week following a road-rage incident.Fremont police arrested Bryant Salazar, 30, on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the stabbing at the 76 Gas station at 46840 Warm Springs Blvd. Tuesday at 5:55 p.m., ...

  • UC Berkeley commencement Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak gives graduates a happiness equation

    BERKELEY -- Apple-co-founder Steve Wozniak sent UC Berkeley graduates into the world Saturday with a freewheeling and informal commencement speech -- and two mathematical formulas a fifth-grader could understand:1) Happiness equals S minus F (smiles minus frowns).2) Happiness equals F cubed -- food, fun and friends."I said this once at my high school, and the kids started laughing," he ...

  • Netflix Soars on Earnings Report

    POSTED April 23, 2013 LOS GATOS -- Netflix reported stellar earnings for the first quarter sending its shares rocketing 25% to over $210. The company reported $1.02 billion in revenues and net income of $2.6 million. Revenues were up nearly 20% from a year ...

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