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Racially-Fueled Fight Leads to Arrest of San Jose SaberCats Coach

Alleged racial epithets led to some punches landed on a 68-year old football coach -- which landed a San Jose Sabercats assistant coach in jail in Florida, according to ...
SF Dog Walker Law Dragging Into Court

But before that time, a dog-walker named Phoenix Asher Featherstone -- who in 2007 "helped sink a similar proposal" -- is trying to undo the law, the newspaper ...
Man Begs For Mercy After Stealing Crucifix

A man walking across the 5200 block of Mission Street at 1:20 p.m. Thursday reported another man who "reached out and ripped the metal chain and copper crucifix from his neck," according to the ...
Yahoo Looks To Regain Its Cool With $1.1 Billion Tumblr Deal

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) –After falling woefully out of fashion, Yahoo wants to be cool again while catering to the capitalistic demands of its shareholders.That goal led CEO Marissa Mayer to make a $1.1 billion bet on online blogging forum Tumblr in a risky acquisition that revolves around the vision and instincts of a 26-year-old entrepreneur who dropped out of high school to pursue his ...
Newly Revamped Stone Temple Pilots Perform At Shoreline Amphitheatre

BFD 2013 on Sunday turned out to be the revamped ‘Stone Temple Pilots’ featuring Chester Bennington from Linkin Park on vocals. Bennington ...

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Michael Radford's "The Postman (Il Postino)" is the beautiful and moving story of an unlikely friendship between a simple man and a profound poet. The man, Mario Ruppolo (brought to life with wonderful charm and feeling by the late Massimo Troisi) is a postman on a small Italian island in the early 1950s. The island is so small and backward that everyone seems to be either an illiterate fisherman ... ...

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ATT Park Concession Workers Threaten Strike

SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- Withbaseball season is in full swing, 800 concession workers could go on strike at AT&T Park sometime in the next few weeks. Negotiations fell apart last Thursday, just days after members of UNITE HERE Local 2 voted to authorize a walkout. A union representative said fans can expect to see concession workers who sell beer, popcorn and other food at the ballpark to be ...
State Senate OKs New Regulations For Calif. Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

[…] in California by voters in 1996. The current law allowing the sale of medical cannabis has …State Senate OKs New Regulations For Calif. Medical Marijuana DispensariesCBS ...
Oakland Couple in car shot today two Sunday homicides investigated

OAKLAND -- The names of two men killed in shootings that happened 14 hours apart Sunday in West and East Oakland were released by police Monday.A man fatally shot about 6:30 p.m. Sunday inside a house in the 2900 block of West Street in West Oakland was identified as Darvel McGillberry, 19, of Oakland. It was not clear if he lived in the house or in the area.A man fatally shot about 4:36 a.m. ...
Piedmont Burglar confronts residents confines them to bedrooms

PIEDMONT -- Police are searching for a burglar who confronted two residents inside their home on St. James Drive, telling them to remain in bed and under the covers while he searched for valuables.The man, who pried a basement window to get inside the residence on May 16, made off with electronic items and a wallet containing credit cards and identification, police said. No one was hurt.The ...
Vacaville Brush Fire Reaches 6 Alarms Homes Threatened

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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 their own, ABC News reports.

Tomer, who is designing an interactive learning environment with funding from the Thiel Foundation, had dropped out from an Indian University after continuing only for less than a month when the computer science major realized that he can launch a startup to help people learn to code while learning coding basics himself.

Tomer said that he believes that dropping out is an important part of the growing up process, adding that instead of promoting students to ask questions, traditional Indian schools force the students to only appear smart.

The unconventional entrepreneur also said that people learn best when they have access to mentors and the ability to learn in a way that suits them.

The Thiel Foundation mentors the young entrepreneurs during the two year fellowship as they pursue advance studies and practices in everything from robotics to fashion but does not entitle them to join school or get employed during the period without special approval from the foundation. ...