Archive for November 6th, 2009

As concern spreads about H1N1 flu, a survey of California voters found that although most consider the vaccine safe, a majority had no plans to get vaccinated. The poll found that blacks and Latinos are far more likely than other groups to say they believe the vaccine could be unsafe. »

The Coast Guard is urging boaters and swimmers to stay away from the waters off the California coast this weekend when swells of up to 19 feet are expected. »

California prison officials have submitted a construction plan intended to expand medical and mental health treatment for inmates. »

A debt-ridden Riverside County man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing his wife in an effort to collect $1.3 million from life insurance policies. »

A former Brazilian police officer suspected of raping six women in Oakland and Emeryville has been charged. »

A liberal think tank, the Urban Land Institute, has issued a report on the cost to working people of living in the Bay Area. The report, Bay Area Burden, examines the impact on working people of high costs of housing and transportation, looks at how proximity to mass transit helps relieve the burden, and... »

A county bus has collided with another vehicle in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, injuring 19 people, one critically. »

A federal appeals court has ruled that Santa Cruz City Council members did not violate a man's rights when they ordered him removed from a council meeting after he made a one-armed Nazi salute. »

A space elevator may not be rocket science but it can be just as complicated - and rewarding. »

Nick Counter, the longtime negotiator for Hollywood producers who led the studios through two grueling writers' strikes last year and in 1988, has died. He was 69. »

A Seattle team has won $900,000 after its laser-powered robot climbed thousands of feet up a cable slung from a helicopter in a competition aimed at developing technology based on the science fiction concept of a space elevator. »

The San Diego family of a psychiatric nurse who was killed at Fort Hood says the "citizen soldier" was killed a day after arriving at the base on his way to Iraq. »

Authorities say preliminary autopsy results show drowning as the cause of death for three North Dakota college softball players found dead inside a sport utility vehicle that sunk in a rural farm pond. »

Two former city officials said a substantial increase in the projected deficit at Stockton Marina was caused by project revisions proposed by Revitalization Director Dave Harzoff and endorsed by the City Council, not by a year-old cost analysis Mayor Ann Johnston called a "wild guess" and Harzoff said was flawed. »

California prison officials have submitted a construction plan intended to expand medical and mental health treatment for inmates. »